Real research, accidental discoveries and the universe doing something unexpected.
A San Francisco robotics start-up advertised for people to walk its robot dogs for $20 an hour – with the small catch that walkers had to carry any robot that overheated or broke down back to the office.
A Norfolk writer dug up long-lost BBC footage about a haunted RAF squash court. The ghosts' names, it turns out, belonged to people who never existed.
In a terrible year for pumpkins, a Kent garden centre grew a 66-stone whopper – right next to where researchers dumped their spare microalgae.
The Lycurgus Cup is green in normal light and blood red when lit from behind. Sheffield researchers have now worked out how to make the trick glass themselves.
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