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61The recipe begins with egg white, but what enters the water is a black carbon aerogel—not breakfast floating in a pitcher.
62Address a letter with the right floating ZIP Code, and a 45-foot boat can chase down the freighter carrying its recipient.
63When Wikie produced a rough, breathy version of “hello,” the remarkable part was not conversation.
64The styling product is spring water, the salon is Arctic air, and the finished hairdo can stand straight out like a white coral reef.
66Researchers are slipping electrodes into fungal threads beneath a forest—not to eavesdrop on tree gossip, but to learn what the signals actually mean.
67A paper wasp's face is not generic yellow-and-black decoration.
69An archerfish turned its natural water cannon into an answer button for a face-recognition test.
70A fungus spent months quietly removing material from violin wood.
The Weird Please editorial desk collects true stories about curious inventions, peculiar history, strange science, and the gloriously unexpected.
