Weird News
Diagnostic device inspired by Star Trek’s tricorder is now a reality
Reseachers say that the handheld device, based on a silicon chip, could help make rapid, sophisticated medical diagnostics more accessible
Police mock motorist’s laughable attempts at fake registration plates
Traffic cops took to social media to make fun of the vehicle's owner after he was caught driving around with the homemade plate in the West Midlands
Watch – Video shows two rats having a ‘boxing match’
Bizarre moment when two rats broke out in a fight in a kitchen store of an Indian home - 4ft above the ground.
The notoriously antisocial octopus has been made to mingle…after being given ecstasy
They ended up socialising and hugging their cage in an experiment that explored human social behaviour.
Watch – Magpie & whippet have formed an unlikely friendship
Mike the magpie and Boo Radley the whippet's unusual friendship first blossomed after distressed Mike was found four months ago floundering on his own at just two weeks old
Watch – Footage shows waterfall blowing UPHILL as Storm Ali hits UK
The waterfall, in the Campsie Fells, appeared to defy gravity as the water was blown against the rolling hills
Space rocks from 60-million-year-old meteor smash were stolen and sold on EBAY
The minerals were discovered on the Isle of Skye last year, and had never previously been found on Earth
This Fish and Chip boss renames premises to get one over on his landlord
Mark Nicol, 48, was furious after his "heartless" landlord wouldn't give him a payment relief after his wife left him with nothing
Worm found in rubbish tip will be blasted into space
Hundreds of one millimetre long roundworms will be launched into the cosmos by scientists