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Breadcrumb Disables Large Hadron Collider – A breadcrumb dropped by a bird onto an outdoor segment caused the $8 billion Large Hadron Collider to shut down, again, this week.
“A bit of baguette on the busbars,” as one staffer told reporters, caused several sections of the 17-mile-long particle collider to overheat.
Had it been in use, the [...]
Toxic Office Fridge – A hazmat team was called in to clean up a toxic fridge in an AT&T office that sent seven people to the hospital and sickened 28 more.
The toxic office fridge incident began Tuesday when an office worker decided to clean out a refrigerator full of rotten food and ended up creating [...]
Smiley Face Spider – A rare spider found only in the Hawaiian islands uses its smiley face markings to momentarily confuse predators and make its escape.
The patterns on the “smiley face spiders” apparently developed as a protective camouflage because it takes a predator extra time to work out whether the spider is prey or not, [...]