By Dr Joe Milton, the Australian Science Media Centre

Hold on to your hats (or sea sponge wigs if you're a dolphin), it's time for the AusSMC's top 10 WEIRD science stories of 2025!

These stories are guaranteed NOT to turn your brain into glass, but we recommend you don't read them on your phone on the loo.

It was a cracking year for strange science as we witnessed a billionaire bridal blowout - in space, recoiled from a spider web big enough to snag a whale, had a 'finwag' with dolphins using AI, didn't see a brand new colour, and learned Barbie's career options only really blossomed when she got flat feet.

And that was just for starters - we also channelled our inner Moana to tackle sleep apnoea, and wondered why a Wisconsin man had deliberately injected himself with deadly snake venom 856 times.

Head over to Scimex to read our pick of the weirdest science yarns of 2025.

This article originally appeared in Science Deadline, a weekly newsletter from the AusSMC. You are free to republish this story, in full, with appropriate credit.

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