Awaken ‘sleeping’ eggs to boost fertility

Let sleeping dogs lie, but not sleeping eggs. Dormant eggs in mouse ovaries have been awoken and used to create healthy pups.

If the approach works in women it could be used to boost fertility or help those who froze ovarian tissue prior to chemotherapy.

Mysterious ball lightning may be a hallucination

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Seen something pale and round floating in the midst of a thunderstorm? If it lasted for a few seconds or less, it might be all in your head. Fluctuating magnetic fields, created by a nearby lightning bolt, could trick the brain into “seeing” round glowing objects, explaining at least some observations of mysterious ‘ball lightning’.

Strange Animal Meditates for 20 Years

“It’s been 20 years since the world lost Jim Henson, and I still can’t think about it without tearing up a bit. His death at age 53 was sudden and catastrophic, like being hit by lightning on a cloudless day. Along with countless others around the world who had never met him, I felt like a close friend was gone.”