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Of all the useless projects undertaken by humanity, few have been more difficult, futile, and unpleasant than artificially creating...

Sometimes the smallest, most esoteric discoveries can lead to groundbreaking changes in science and technology--like Percy Spencer's...

This past August, we reported on a study conducted by the AP (and backed up by Princeton University) that revealed that Google's...

They may not have had WiFi or indoor plumbing, but our cave dwelling ancestors were smarter and much more advanced than some people...

Outer Places was recently contacted by the folks over at UFO Today, a YouTube channel devoted to videos of supposed alien sightings....

Get ready to see this little piece of tech in the next Mission Impossible movie: AI-generated thumb prints capable of fooling a...

After years of warnings and debate over genetically modifying humans, a Chinese scientist named He Jiankui has posted a video on...

What happens to the body after death? We've all heard the stories about how some animals – namely snakes – can still bite after...

When most people imagine disasters wiping out astronauts in space, it usually looks like Alien or Apollo 13. According to a new...

Despite millions of light-years between us and most exoplanets, we're not only getting better at spotting them, we're now able to...

After shooting dozens of satellites into space, landing astronauts on the Moon, and landing not one, but two rovers on the Red...

When you're talking about large space rocks hurdling towards your home, how much of a percentage does it take before you start to...

Director Robert Rodriguez has an eclectic film catalog to say the least, ranging from the goofy, violent cult classic Dusk 'Til...

Omnidirectional VR treadmills are so 2015. Apart from being as big as a piece of home gym equipment and suspiciously similar in design...

If you have to go out, go out with a bang! In a new study published in the journal Nature, astronomers share the discovery of a...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis partnered with the Shanghai-based company United Imaging Healthcare (UIH) to develop...

Bill Nye is many things – beloved educational figure, science celebrity, and the original Science Guy – but now he has a new...

The ISS recently released an adorable little cubesat to help harpoon space junk orbiting Earth, but it's small potatoes compared to...

Some people like to look at clouds and point out which ones look like a face. Sometimes NASA does the same thing – on a much bigger...

We're pretty sure this is how the prequel to The Thing started... And that did not end well for the humans (or dogs) involved. IFL...