Strangest Science News

 It all began with a curious champion. World boomerang champion Yasuhiro Togai wanted to know if boomerangs worked in outer space, so he gave a bunch of paper boomerangs to Takao Doi, an astronaut with the Japanese equivalent of NASA. Doi took the paper boomerangs with him on his next trip to the International Space [...]

  Rare-animal researchers seem to be working extra-hard lately. First there was that mythical Vietnamese turtle a couple of weeks ago, and now a team of US and Filipino biologists have found a specimen of a dwarf cloud rat (it was dead when they found it, though) in the northern mountain territories of the Philippines. [...]