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Wackiest Science Experiments2026-06-29

Poop physics, zombie tissue, and junk-food God

Physicists derived a universal law of poop coiling and proposed a second poop emoji, while a windshield bug-splat study was retracted over duplicated data. Also inside: impossible plant “picoparticles,” a hammer-head urology limerick challenge, religious cues linked to junk-food cravings, gossip tied to fertility, and sea cucumber tissue that lived for years without a body.

Wackiest Science Experiments2026-06-22

Bedtime orgasms, killer hair, and bones that became tools — wackiest science, June 15–22

Masturbation helps sleep, killer hair amputates body parts, 47% of women orgasm more alone, and Iron Age bones turned into tools then buried back.

Wackiest Science Experiments2026-06-15

Tiny marching people, sound-wave espresso, and a space-rock band-aid — wackiest science, June 8–15

A Yunnan mushroom puts 96% of eaters into Gulliver hallucinations — its genome contains zero known psychedelic genes, so nobody knows how. Ultrasonic espresso brewed with sound waves at room temperature fooled 100 blind tasters. Scientists discover humans everywhere drift counterclockwise when wandering aimlessly, and eliminating handedness, eye-dominance, and Coriolis force still leaves the cause unexplained. Meteorite powder outperformed surgical gauze on pig liver wounds. And a procrastinating professor took down a decade of fraudulent EMDR citations.

Wackiest Science Experiments2026-06-08

Bird surgery, mummy bread, and a glowing danger-bird — wackiest science, June 1–8

A parrot researcher learns vets have been operating on birds to stop masturbation (it's actually fine in the wild). Plus: sourdough baked from Ötzi the Iceman's 5,300-year-old yeast, a cassowary skull that glows electric blue under UV, infrasound that spikes cortisol invisibly, GPT-4o failing a kindergarten color test, a retraction ordered under lawsuit threat, and Antarctic krill quietly solving climate change one pellet at a time.

Wackiest Science Experiments2026-06-01

Pigeon livers, ghost eyes, and academia this week

Eighteen homing pigeons got lost when researchers chemically wiped the magnetic compasses from their livers — a Science paper proposes those compasses are iron-loaded immune cells, though Caltech's Joe Kirschvink says he's not convinced. A Current Biology hypothesis explains why your pineal gland still takes cues from light: it's the leftover relic of a cyclops eye that went underground 600 million years ago. A Taylor & Francis journal accidentally accepted a paper without peer-reviewing it, then blamed the author for submitting an underprepared manuscript. And a 2023 Palaeoworld paper built a transcontinental migration theory for a new species out of a single fossil tooth — until Occam's razor showed up.

Wackiest Science Experiments2026-05-25

Stallone the stroke patient, and other things academia got up to this week

A Kaggle dataset of celebrity faces secretly trained 124 clinical AI models; a remora fish hid inside a manta ray's cloaca for 15 years before anyone wrote it up; the keto-diet cardiac paper was retracted — and one author is "over-the-moon happy" about it. Plus: a nettle-eating man's grapefruit-sized stomach stone, 29% of college students having in-car sex (most loved it), and fraudsters who say fraud-detection software wasn't peer-reviewed.

Wackiest Science Experiments2026-05-17

Radioactive cancer cures, scrambled rulers, and spinach eyeballs: bizarre science, May 10–17

Ig Nobel flees to Zürich, six wild retractions, and five outlandish new papers from the week of May 10–17.

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