The Chinese government is now doling out some of the best pieces of Ma's business to new "partners" of its choosing, including one of the most corrupt and financially shaky companies in all of China - the notorious and scandal-ridden Huarong Asset Management Co.... It seems like a dark joke.

(Image credit: NASA/ Q.D. Wang) Gaze up at the Sagittarius constellation, and you are looking at the center of the galaxy. It may not look like much to the naked eye (especially if a bunch of is blocking your view), but to the world's sharpest and telescopes, the archer hides a chaotic collage of black holes , exploding stars, magnetic fields and inexplicable bubbles of gas.

Scientists have composed DNA to carry the instructions for 3-D printing a plastic rabbit. It's an impressive feat on its own, but they have taken the idea of DNA storage a step further by embedding silica beads with that genetic blueprint into the bunny.

Some pesticides can be harmful to humans, but beer may be an organic solution to that problem, suggests a study published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. A team of researchers, led by Maite Gandariasbeitia from NEIKER-BRTA Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development in Spain, has investigated organic by-products of used beer grains (called bagasse) and canola (rapeseed oil) cakes, to find that they make a useful pesticide when mixed with cow manure.

Early in the morning on November 21, 1980, twelve men decided to abandon their oil drilling rig on the suspicion that it was beginning to collapse beneath them. They had been probing for oil under the floor of Lake Peigneur when their drill suddenly seized up at about 1,230 feet below the muddy surface, and they were unable to free it.

Mad honey is produced by bees who feed on specific species of rhododendron plants, which grow in mountainous regions like those surrounding the Black Sea. People have used mad honey for centuries for recreational, medicinal, and military purposes. Low doses cause euphoria and lightheadedness, while high doses cause hallucinations and, in rare cases, death.