Utah Restocks Its Remote Lakes By Dropping Fish Out Of Airplanes

Around this time of a year you may come to witness an eye-opening process in parts of Utah: it’s known as aerial fish stocking. 

By |2024-12-02T10:53:12-05:00July 2, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

Here’s A Tiny Fish That Can Make Sounds As Loud As A Jet Engine

Danionella cerebrum is a completely transparent fish that's only 10-12 millimeters long. And researchers have just figured out how it can produce sounds that reach 140 dB or higher.

By |2024-12-02T09:37:01-05:00March 13, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

The CIA Once Created Robot Fish

It's National Go Fishing Day, though the fish in today’s story aren’t exactly the ones you’d expect to catch. They’re robotic fish called Charlie and Charlene, and they were developed by the Central Intelligence Agency.

By |2024-12-07T19:51:07-05:00June 18, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

Some Fish Pause For Effect When They Communicate

Sometimes it’s not just what you’re communicating, it’s how you communicate it. Pausing for effect can help get your point across. Humans know this, but according to researchers, so do some kinds of fish.

By |2024-12-07T19:52:16-05:00June 2, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Self-Directed Robot Fish May Point The Way Toward Roads Full Of Self-Driving Cars

Blueswarm is a school of autonomous robot fish who scan their surroundings and calculate how they can swim together without colliding, like a school of actual fish. And the technology modeled on "implicit coordination" may be useful for lots of other high-tech devices in the future.

By |2024-12-02T07:57:47-05:00March 11, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |

The “Vantafish” Is A Fish That Absorbs Light

Vantablack is a color that's so black it absorbs almost all of the light nearby. There's new research out about a "vantafish" that does almost the same thing to avoid its hungry bioluminescent neighbors.

By |2024-12-02T09:36:02-05:00July 17, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |
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