Hello everyone, It's mixed strange and I have your crazy Strange news Episode fifty six News bite for the Day. Scientists finally solve mystery of Japan's tiny mummified mermaid. For decades, the mummified remains of a creature resembling a small mermaid have been worshiped at a temple in Asakuchi. I think I got it Japan, but scientists have long suspected that the mermaid mummy was actually man made. Allegedly caught in the Pacific Ocean off the island of Chikko Kou between seventeen thirty six and seventeen forty one. The famous Mermaid Mummy has kept has been kept excuse me, on display at the Injuring temple in Asakuchi for over forty years, attracting visitors convinced that the remains would bring them good luck. It is said that these tiny spiritual creatures were immortal and that whoever consumed their flesh would also enjoy eternal life. Kind of gross, Hey, you know, do what you gotta do, right Somehow, no one actually tried, but a team of sciences did. Scientists did request a more thorough examination in order to confirm the many legends around the artifact. So last year, researchers from the kura Hiki University of Science and the Arts managed to obtain the mysterious mummified mermaid from the Induine Temple and began analyzing it using a variety of modern techniques including X ray and CT scans, radiocarbon dating, electron microscopy, and DNA analysis. The first thing noticed about the unique twelve inch specimen, which appeared to have the head and torso of a small primate and the bottom half of a fish, was the fact that it lacked a skeleton. So I will have this as usual links to this article. See you guys can see the photos of this little little critter. There'll be in the show notes, so have no fear you'll be able to check them out. The only skeleton remains were in the lower body of the mummy and appeared to be long to a fish. The rest of it seemed to be a strange combination of various animal remains, cloth, paper, and cotton. Some scientists had previously hypothesized that these worship mummy mermaid mummies had been been created by sowing the head and torso of a small monkey onto the lower body of a caught fish. Last year's tests proved that the warshiped remains had been put together by man, although the exact recipe was a little hard to guess. After filling the torso of the mermaid with cloth and paper, whoever created this mummy also painted it with a paste made from a mix of sand and charcoal. Its jaw and teeth were also most likely taken from a kind of predator fish, and its nails were made from Kuren'm not sure what that is. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the specimen dates back to the early eighteen hundreds. Although the true purpose of the mermaid remains a mystery, scientists believe it was meant to trick people into believing that the Ninga Yos, Japanese mythological creatures and their immortality were real. The team of Japanese scientists published its findings earlier this year. Researchers now hope to get their hands on a few of the other fourteen mummyfied mummified mermaids found across Japan for comparison purposes. That's a trip, so you guys can check them out. It looks like a little tiny monkey with a fishtail. It really does so pretty interesting. So up next, if you guys like the sciences, here we go some real science. I suppose dark matter may be a deformed mirror universe. Scientists say, you know, dark matter, the mysterious stuff that most physicists now believe makes up the bulk of the universe, even though it remains completely undetectable except for its gravitational effects on regular matter. There's no shortage of far out theories about the hypothetical material. That it's hiding inside an extra dimension, that it originated in a second bing bang, that it's information itself, or even that it doesn't exist at all. Now. As spotted by Flat Iron Institute astrophysicist in science journalist Paul Sutter or suitor, depending you're his pronunciation, I suppose I'm gonna call him Sutter, a new paper offers yet another exotic potential explanation that dark matter resides in a deformed mirror universe inside of its own where atoms failed to form. Interesting, as Sutter explains, the research builds off a pair of intriguing coincidences. First observations suggest that there's a roughly comparable amount of regular and dark matter out there, tipped a bit towards dark matter, which is believed to outweigh conventional matter by a factor of about five. And second, neutrons and protons have almost precisely the same mass, allowing them to form stable atoms, a fortuitous property because otherwise our universe wouldn't be able to host wouldn't be the host to any of the lovely atoms that make up stuff like stars, planets, and ourselves. And always remember, you are made of the stuff of stars, people, You're all stars, baby. So basically, the theory goes, maybe there's a shadow universe to our own in which neutrons and protons don't have that convenient symmetry in mass, meaning the whole thing is a sad soup of subatomic particles that don't interact much, explaining why dark matter doesn't seem to clump up much. That's kind of sad, right. Important to note the paper isn't yet peer reviewed, and it's just another theory among many jostling to crack them. In theory is the Mysteries of dark matter, a galling and lingering unknown in our understanding of the universe, but it does have an impressive author list, with researchers ranging from firm A Lab to the University of Chicago. So we'll be watching to see how it's received in the broader world of physics. Yeah, I will too. As soon as I start reviewing it and I get something, I'll let you people know. I'll let you know me. I'll keep you in the loop before I close the show out. I've been having some problems with audio, so bear with me. I'm trying to figure it out here in the studio. Hopefully I've got it right this time, because I can't stand when audio is low and I can't work, and you know, I have to put the earphones in and you know what I mean, So bad audio is a killer. Thanks for your patience, But I wanted to tell you if you are fans of the segment news with m which really doesn't jive with the rest of this podcast, the Crazy Strange Days podcast. 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