Experiments

World’s rarest textile is made from the silk of one million spiders

The golden cape, made from the silk of more than a million female Golden Orb Weaver spiders collected in the highlands of Madagascar exhibited at London's Victoria and Albert Museum.

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⬝ Mar18,2024 11:39pm

Project Rainbow: What really happened in the Philadelphia experiment?

A man named Al Bielek, who claimed to be a test subject of various secret U.S. Military Experiments, said that on August 12, 1943, the U.S. Navy carried out an…

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⬝ Feb4,2024 4:29am

Homunculi: Did the “little men” of ancient alchemy exist?

The practice of alchemy stretches back to ancient times, but the word itself dates only from the early 17th century. It comes from the Arabic kimiya and an earlier Persian…

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⬝ Jan7,2024 10:53am

Ancient Siberian worm came back to life after 46,000 years, and began reproducing!

A novel nematode species from the Siberian permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival.

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⬝ Dec26,2023 7:49am

Teleportation: The vanishing gun inventor William Cantelo and his uncanny resemblance to Sir Hiram Maxim

William Cantelo was a British inventor born in 1839, who mysteriously disappeared in the 1880s. His sons developed a theory that he had re-emerged under the name “Hiram Maxim” – the famous gun inventor.

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⬝ Dec23,2023 1:33pm

A victim of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment has his blood drawn by Dr. John Charles Cutler. c. 1953 © Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Syphilis in Tuskegee and Guatemala: The cruelest human experiments in history

This is the story of an American medical research project that lasted from 1946 to 1948 and is known for its unethical experimentation on vulnerable human populations in Guatemala. Scientists who infected Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhoea as part of the study knew very well they were violating ethical rules.

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⬝ Dec3,2023 8:06pm

The Die Glocke UFO conspiracy: What inspired Nazis to create the bell-shaped anti gravity machine?

Alternative theory writer and researcher Joseph Farrell has speculated that "the Nazi Bell" bears a striking resemblance to a UFO that crashed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, in 1965.

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⬝ Dec2,2023 8:42pm

Chupacabra: The truth behind the legendary vampire beast

Chupacabra is arguably America's strangest and most famous enigmatic beast that sucks animal blood.

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⬝ Nov19,2023 8:49pm

Genie Wiley, the feral child: Abused, isolated, researched and forgotten!

"Feral Child" Genie Wiley was shackled to a chair in a makeshift strait-jacket for a long 13 years. Her extreme neglect allowed researchers to conduct a rare study on human development and behaviors, though perhaps at her price.

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⬝ Oct28,2023 11:57am

Carmine Mirabelli: Physical medium who was a mystery for scientists

In some instances up to 60 witnesses were present including 72 doctors, 12 engineers, 36 lawyers, and 25 military men. The President of Brazil once witnessed Carmine Mirabelli's talents and immediately ordered an investigation.

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⬝ Oct22,2023 11:37am

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