World’s Strangest

Flowers have long been a popular subject of artists and photographers, but when so many people have already portrayed the natural beauty of plants in so many different ways, it’s hard to create something original with the subjects. But photographer Robert Buelteman found a way—he created a special apparatus that shocks plants with 80,000 volts of [...]

A new robotic device that uses lasers shot through fiber-optic cable has been developed by scientsts. The device is a step forward in the future explo…

carrier pigeon painting by Christina Lovering Who’s faster at transferring data: a carrier pigeon or an internet service provider in South Africa? In an experiment arranged by a frustrated IT company, an 11-month-old carrier pigeon named Winston delivered data 25 percent faster than South Africa’s leading internet service provider, named Telkom. Winston, with a data card strapped to [...]