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11 Of The Weirdest News Stories That Made Headlines In 2022

From mushrooms that talk to each other using a vocabulary of 50 words to a mummified "goatelope" pulled from a melting glacier, these are the most bizarre news stories of 2022.

By Austin Harvey • Dec 28, 2022

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11 Of The Weirdest News Stories That Made Headlines In 2022

From mushrooms that talk to each other using a vocabulary of 50 words to a mummified "goatelope" pulled from a melting glacier, these are the most bizarre news stories of 2022.

By Austin Harvey • December 28, 2022

Could Jack Have Survived At The End Of ‘Titanic’? A Study Led By James Cameron Says No

Titanic director James Cameron commissioned a special study to put the matter to rest — and noted that Jack had to die.

By Kaleena Fraga • Dec 21, 2022

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Could Jack Have Survived At The End Of ‘Titanic’? A Study Led By James Cameron Says No

Titanic director James Cameron commissioned a special study to put the matter to rest — and noted that Jack had to die.

By Kaleena Fraga • December 21, 2022

Inside Project A119, America’s Top-Secret Plot To Detonate A Nuclear Bomb On The Moon During The Cold War

In an effort to show up Soviet Russia in the Space Race, the United States considered exploding an H-bomb on the moon so that the mushroom cloud be seen around the world.

By Genevieve Carlton • Dec 20, 2022

Inside Project A119, America’s Top-Secret Plot To Detonate A Nuclear Bomb On The Moon During The Cold War

In an effort to show up Soviet Russia in the Space Race, the United States considered exploding an H-bomb on the moon so that the mushroom cloud be seen around the world.

By Genevieve Carlton • December 20, 2022

Archaeologists Just Discovered A 3,500-Year-Old Jewelry Collection In An Egyptian Necropolis

The collection of jewelry was discovered at the Tell El-Amarna necropolis by a team of Egyptian and English archaeologists.

By Austin Harvey • Dec 16, 2022

Archaeologists Just Discovered A 3,500-Year-Old Jewelry Collection In An Egyptian Necropolis

The collection of jewelry was discovered at the Tell El-Amarna necropolis by a team of Egyptian and English archaeologists.

By Austin Harvey • December 16, 2022

Study Suggests Early Humans May Have Developed The Ability To Walk On Two Legs While Still Swinging Through The Trees

A surprising new study based on chimpanzee behavior suggests trees played an "essential" role in the evolution of bipedalism.

By Kaleena Fraga • Dec 16, 2022

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Study Suggests Early Humans May Have Developed The Ability To Walk On Two Legs While Still Swinging Through The Trees

A surprising new study based on chimpanzee behavior suggests trees played an "essential" role in the evolution of bipedalism.

By Kaleena Fraga • December 16, 2022

This Translucent Clam Was Thought To Have Gone Extinct 30,000 Years Ago — Researchers Just Found One Alive In California

The tiny 10-millimeter mollusk was found by marine ecologists looking for sea slugs near Santa Barbara.

By Austin Harvey • Dec 15, 2022

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This Translucent Clam Was Thought To Have Gone Extinct 30,000 Years Ago — Researchers Just Found One Alive In California

The tiny 10-millimeter mollusk was found by marine ecologists looking for sea slugs near Santa Barbara.

By Austin Harvey • December 15, 2022

Inside The Body Farms Where Human Corpses Are Left Out To Decay

First devised at the University of Tennessee, body farms have become invaluable research facilities for everyone from scientists to law enforcement officials.

By John Kuroski • Dec 15, 2022

Inside The Body Farms Where Human Corpses Are Left Out To Decay

First devised at the University of Tennessee, body farms have become invaluable research facilities for everyone from scientists to law enforcement officials.

By John Kuroski • December 15, 2022

The Story Of The ‘Demon Core,’ The 14-Pound Plutonium Sphere That Killed Two Scientists

Physicists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin both suffered agonizing deaths after making minor slips of the hand while working on the plutonium orb known as the "demon core" at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.

By Kaleena Fraga • Dec 10, 2022

The Story Of The ‘Demon Core,’ The 14-Pound Plutonium Sphere That Killed Two Scientists

Physicists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin both suffered agonizing deaths after making minor slips of the hand while working on the plutonium orb known as the "demon core" at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.

By Kaleena Fraga • December 10, 2022

The Long-Lost Remains Of The Last Known Tasmanian Tiger Were Just Found In A Museum Cupboard

The thylacine died in 1936 at the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Tasmania, but zoo records failed to document the whereabouts of the tiger's remains, leading many experts to fear they had been lost forever.

By Austin Harvey • Dec 7, 2022

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The Long-Lost Remains Of The Last Known Tasmanian Tiger Were Just Found In A Museum Cupboard

The thylacine died in 1936 at the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Tasmania, but zoo records failed to document the whereabouts of the tiger's remains, leading many experts to fear they had been lost forever.

By Austin Harvey • December 7, 2022

A Hoard Of Ancient Roman Coins Was Just Authenticated — And Potentially Proves The Existence Of A Lost Emperor

For centuries, the only evidence historians had of the Roman Emperor Sponsian was this hoard of coins bearing his visage that were found in 1713, and many believed them to be fakes.

By Kaleena Fraga • Dec 6, 2022

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A Hoard Of Ancient Roman Coins Was Just Authenticated — And Potentially Proves The Existence Of A Lost Emperor

For centuries, the only evidence historians had of the Roman Emperor Sponsian was this hoard of coins bearing his visage that were found in 1713, and many believed them to be fakes.

By Kaleena Fraga • December 6, 2022