Stories by BANG Bizarre

A scientist at the University of Glasgow has created a device that will help dogs call their owners and ease separation anxiety. The new invention, which is believed to be the first of its kind, is the brainchild of Dr Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, her...

Boardgame enthusiasts will be able to immortalise their family name on to their new board as well as waving goodbye to any rows about the dog or hat token – with players able to hand-pick a selection of tokens for each set to get the perfect...

New scientific research, which involved 100 adult volunteers wearing continuously recording ECG devices that monitored caffeine intake, movement, sleep and health over the course of two weeks, has found both beneficial and harmful short-term...

Previous studies have suggested that light alcohol consumption is actually beneficial for a person's health, but a new study from German academics has debunked the claims. Researchers at University Medicine Greifswald examined data from more...

A new study has found that men in heterosexual relationships feel more pain than females after a break-up, and are also more likely to discuss heartbreak. The Lancaster University study looked at more than 184,000 people and discovered that males...

A 70-year-old woman was clearing out her home in Northumberland when she spotted the diamond and took it to be valued. The gem is now set to go under the hammer next month after analysis revealed that it is a 34-carat diamond. Auctioneer Mark Lane...

Dentists began recommending two minutes as the standard brushing time back in the 1970s but new evidence suggests people should spend up to four minutes cleaning their teeth. Dr Josefine Hirschfield, a lecturer in restorative dentistry at the...

Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos'  are descendants of the hippos owned by the infamous Colombian drug lord, and a Cincinnati federal court order has granted them legal rights, as they are "interested persons". The case...

Astronauts can grow three inches during space missions.Weightlessness allows their spines to straighten and makes people who have travelled into space 'grow', but the spine is soon crunched back to normal by gravity on Earth and leaves...

Jiveben Valabhai Rabari, who resides in Gujarat, and her husband Valjibhai Rabari welcomed a son named Lalo last month. Rabari had been told by doctors not to risk going through a pregnancy at her age, but she was desperate to have a child after 45...

Officers from Sussex Police were called out to a house in Haywards Heath to deal with a disturbance but found the home full of sharks swimming around a festive decoration in an eight-foot pool set up in the front room. Mid Sussex Neighbourhood...

Laura Tranter went to use the toilet in the early hours one Saturday morning when she saw the large python trapped in the bowl at her home in the West Midlands. Tranter was so surprised by the sight of the reptile that she called a friend, who...