Theoretically, it is entirely possible to keep sound waves from escaping.  Working around the methodology which allows light waves to be bent, a professor at prestigious Duke University theorizes that it is possible to do the same to sound waves, thereby stopping them from ever being heard.

The really spooky thing is that sound waves trapped in such a manner, be it by invisible shield or technical contraption, will never escape.  That makes me think of being trapped in some sound shielding bubble with my own thoughts — and having to exist forever with my own sound waves as well, echoing forever with nowhere to go.

Wrong.  It terms out that one average strand of human hair could easily support approximately three and a half ounces of weight.  That means you could tie up two candy bars with a strand of your hair, and they would just dangle there, chillin’.  Insofar as that goes, dark hair tends to be thicker than fair hair, and that thickness makes dark hair stronger.

Rapunzel was, of course, a blond.  Blonds have somewhere around one hundred and forty thousand hairs, so Rapunzel could totally support the weight of her prince, scientifically speaking – but there’s more.  While the prince could theoretically climb up home girl’s hair, there is the question of whether or not he’d rip it out by the roots – plus, would she be strong enough to support the prince?  Actually, the answer to both questions is yes, as long as she tied her hair around a stable object first.  That way, the hair is protected by its knot, and the object supports the prince.  So fear not, girls – if you’re willing to let your hair grow a few (dozen) feet, then someday your prince will come.

Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer, two men from Georgia, USA claim that the above picture depicts the frozen corpse of the legendary Sasquatch, also known as Bigfoot.

The couple claim that they found the corpse in the woods in northern Georgia and kept it in a freezer for a month, after which they called a press conference and admitted that they wouldn’t mind making money off their “find”.

Later, and to no one’s surprise, the whole thing was proven a hoax.

Old story: Whale swims up alongside yacht.

New story: Baby whale swims up alongside yacht, without its mother.

Strangest Science News Blog story: Baby whale swims up alongside yacht and stays with it, mistaking it for its mother.

It all happened of the Sydney coast, and if a new pod isn’t found for the little guy, he or she is gonna get euthanized.

Numerologists, geomancers, feng shui practitioners and other soothsayer types were probably beside themselves with delight when the news came out Hailey Jo Hauer, a baby whose birth was loaded with the number eight.

Born at 8:08 a.m. on August 8, 2008 (8/8/08), Hauer weighed 8 pounds, eight ounces.

8 is considered a lucky number by many. And if it is, we can probably expect Hailey’s name to come up in the lottery winners’ list in the future.

RNL Bio is the Seoul-based company that has fired the opening shot in the race to profit from nutty pet owners.

This week, RNL Bio released five pit bull puppies cloned form the dead dog of an American woman named Bernann McKinney.

The deceased canine who provided the DNA for this historic achievement bore the appropriately dignified moniker, “Booger”.

The smallest snake in all the world has been found, and it wasn’t the one in my pants after all.

Meet Leptotyphlops carlae, indigenous to the easternmost Caribbean island of Barbados, less than 4 inches (10 cm) long when fully grown, and for about 15 minutes, internet star.

The little guy was discovered by an evolutionary biologist from Penn State University named Blair Hedges, who, after realizing he had found a new species of snake, did what any regular guy would do and named it after his wife Carla.

If you happen to have a little extra room in your life… you might want to make a lot of room for one not-so-little kitty who’s up for adoption.

Her name’s Princess Chunk: 44 pounds of feline tubbiness looking for a home. The current world record stands at a little over 46 pounds, though Guinness World Record officials have discontinued the category in fear of pet owners harming their cats in an attempt to break the record.

Princess was found wandering around Voorhees, New Jersey and is currently in a pet shelter awaiting adoption.

And yet it would seem to be an honest to goodness trend.

Fish pedicures, is what it is.

You dip your toes into a small fish-tank, where a school of small carp, called doctor fish (you don’t expect them to be called mortician fish or anything, do you?) nibble on the dry and unwanted little bits of flesh on your little piggies.

Yum.

A young adult black bear broke into a Circuit City electronics store in Colorado, USA yesterday. Explain.

• It was checking out the HD plasma TV sets.
• It was looking for a job as store mascot.
• It couldn’t wait for the iPhone 3G.
• It loves the taste of circuit board

It bear was later scared off by an alarm it had set off in a nearby restaurant.