It’s safe to say, there are odd people in the military, regardless of which country they serve. After the jump are several quirky shots,
 

The Masdar HQ in Abu Dhabi has big ambitions; the site is planned to be the world’s first positive energy building, meaning it will create more energy than it consumes. Checkout some more fantastic images by clicking through the gallery.

Workplace bullying, such as belittling comments, persistent criticism of work and withholding resources, appears to inflict more harm on employees than sexual harassment, say researchers who presented their findings at a conference today.

A group of researchers has developed a novel way to view the world through the eyes of a common fly and partially decode the insect’s reactions to changes in the world around it. The research fundamentally alters earlier beliefs about how neural networks function and could provide the basis for intelligent computers that mimic biological […]

 
For the first time at any airport, the biometric checks will apply to all domestic passengers leaving the terminal, which will handle all British Airways flights to and from Heathrow.
Millions of British airline passengers face mandatory fingerprinting before being allowed to board flights […]

Balancing risk and reward
 
A new paper in Medical Hypotheses suggests that very big cash prizes could specifically be targeted to stimulate ‘revolutionary’ science. Usually, prizes tend to stimulate ‘applied’ science — as in the most famous example of Harrison’s improved clock solving the ‘longitude’ problem. But for prizes successfully to stimulate revolutionary science the prizes […]

Homes today are filled with increasing numbers of high-tech gadgets, from smart phones and computers to state-of-the-art TV and audio systems. But a new study has found that these have actually become bedroom battlegrounds.

A team of researchers in Britain has found that the high-tech gadgets are forcing millions of couples to […]

This hungry cat resorts to increasingly desperate measures to get indoors. Perfect entertainment for Caturday.
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For the first time, researchers have created solar cells made of different-sized quantum dots, each tuned to a specific wavelength of light. By arranging these quantum dots in an ordered pattern, the scientists hope that they can one day fabricate “rainbow” solar cells, which can efficiently harvest a large part of the useful spectrum of […]

 
A review of the controversial scientific research conducted by Japan and its whalers has uncovered a list of “bizarre” and useless experiments, including how to cross breed cows with whales.
Scientists have analyzed 43 research papers produced by Japan over 18 years, finding most were useless or esoteric.

The crime rate in Oslo has been growing at an alarming rate and recent statistics show the Norwegian capital had 20 percent more robberies last year than in 2006.
While crime in the rest of Norway has been going down, it has been quite another situation in Oslo, where personal and automobile thefts increased markedly last […]