Something strange is happening with Google News. Those of you who are avid checkers of the science and technology home page may notice that an unexpected item has made its way into the listings.

Alongside the masses of IT news and the occasional science story the mysterious and top-secret Google algorithms seem to think horoscopes now count as science.

Yesterday UPI’s ‘Your Daily Horoscope’ was the second science story at a little after nine (image). Today the LA Times’ horoscope nestled neatly between news of Microsoft R&D spending and cheap DNA sequencing (image).

Is someone at Google having a laugh?