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At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of stories every week. And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across make it into our articles, there are lots of other weird facts that we just keep around the office. So we figured, why not share those with you? Welcome to The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week.
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How a new wave of fighter jets could transform aerial combat
A new fighter aircraft called the F-47 will be made by Boeing for the US.
A surprising number of medieval scribes were women
New research estimates around 8,000 of those manuscripts could still exist today.
Brain implant helps woman with paralysis speak with her own voice again
The new method decodes brain signals while simultaneously feeding them through a text-to-speech AI model.
Ancient alligator-sized amphibians died under mysterious circumstances
‘It probably spent most, if not all, of its life in the water eating… anything unfortunate enough to venture too far into the water.’
The brain remembers what gave you food poisoning
Grape Kool-Aid helps show how one meal can create lasting food avoidance in mice.
I made a video game of “The Artist Is Present.” Marina Abramović couldn’t sit through it.
What seemed at first like a simple game about waiting turned into a study in design focused on time, endurance, and audience experience.
Sacrificed teens discovered in ancient Mesopotamian burial site
The find may complicate our understanding of ancient societal hierarchies.
Actually, it’s not safe to crouch during a lightning storm
‘When thunder roars, go indoors.’
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