Oolite Bulletins

April 1st: traditionally the one day of the year where people critically evaluate things they read online before accepting them as true.

Archaeologists investigating human bones excavated from the deserted mediaeval village of Wharram Percy in North Yorkshire have suggested that the villagers burned and mutilated corpses to prevent the dead from rising from their graves to terrorise the living.

A batch of homeopathic remedies have been recalled in the US after it was discovered that they contained real medicine.

The secret behind cephalopod intelligence: biscuits

Cassini’s chemistry analysis strongly suggests the Enceladean seafloor has hot fluid vents - places that on Earth are known to teem with life.

Turkey's referendum process was held on an "unlevel playing field", with campaigning restrictions and late procedural changes, monitors say. Opposition events were obstructed and state resources misused, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said.

It takes some balls to announce a general election whilst you're still under investigation for fraud in the last one.

Physicists have created a fluid with "negative mass", which accelerates backwards when pushed.

<scratches head>

We are not calling for genocide, says the Daily Mail

Pear Technology, which produces digital mapping software and services, applied for the pear logo in 2014 and was almost immediately challenged by Apple, which claimed it was confusingly similar to its own apple-with-a-bite-out-of-it silhouette logo.

France has banned the breeding in captivity of dolphins and killer whales, in a move hailed by campaigners as a major victory.