Weird News

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Gypsy (Roma) teens near Prague learn hip hop as a means of communicating their frustrations with Czech society.

October 18, 2007
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A warmer climate in Greenland has opened up new possibilities for economic development, but it may have negative effects on the island's native people, WWF says.

October 17, 2007
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Tiny squid, red jellyfish, and lantern fish are among the hundred exotic sea creatures pulled from the depths off the Philippines.

October 16, 2007
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Che remembered, rare animals pelts destroyed, and more.

October 12, 2007
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The popular saying about insincere weeping is based in reality, new research shows, although the behavior is more likely for biological than emotional reasons.

October 10, 2007
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Beehives—or even recordings of furious bees—may help African farmers defend their crops against marauding pachyderms, new research shows.

October 9, 2007
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Moon shuttles, rocket racers, and Mars bases are just some of the space highlights historians will commemorate 50 years from now, experts say.

October 5, 2007
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Typhoon lashes Vietnam, Russia remembers Sputnik, volcano blows in Yemen, and more.

October 5, 2007
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From a permanent lunar outpost to a literal space race involving suborbital rockets, find out what experts think human space travel will be like on Sputnik's hundredth anniversary.

Photo Gallery: Space Travel in 50 Years

October 5, 2007
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Also received honors: an "aphrodisiac bomb" to divert enemy soldiers with thoughts of love, not war, and studies of sword-swallowing injuries and hamsters on Viagra.

October 5, 2007
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"Living fossil" plants known as cycads use sophisticated chemical tricks to ensure tiny insects carry pollen from male cones to female cones.

October 4, 2007
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Dozens gathered this week in Beijing to continue an ancient Chinese tradition of cricket breeding and fighting.

October 04, 2007
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In a bizarre mishap, 10,000 wildebeest have drowned while crossing Kenya's Mara River during an annual migration, wiping out one percent of the total species population.

Photo Gallery: Mass Wildebeest Drowning

October 1, 2007
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There is a "high probability" that recently found remains are those of the two missing children of Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, says a Russian forensics expert.

October 01, 2007
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Newly bred transparent frogs don't need to be dissected to see their internal organs and blood vessels.

October 01, 2007

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