Weird Science

Princeton researchers have discovered a method for crystallizing light, which could be a breakthrough in the fundamental study of...

Remember on Orphan Black, when (spoiler!) Cosima discovered that the big bad corporation had patented the clones' genomes? Although we...

The existence or non-existence of God is likely one of life's great unanswerable questions, but that hasn't stopped philosophers from...

Science channel Kurzgesagt, German for "in a nutshell," explained the nature of neutron stars, which they call "some of the strangest...

According to Alan Turing's test for artificial intelligence, an AI can be considered truly intelligent when it has the ability to pass...

Meet Neil Harbisson, the world's first legally recognized cybernetic organism. The colorblind artist has an antenna implanted into his...

Can robots truly "feel" emotions? This is a complex question with no easy answer, but an adorable Japanese robot certainly does a good...

Do we live in a two-dimensional hologram? Scientists may discover that we live in a Matrix-like illusion during an upcoming experiment...

When you're flying over a remote part of our planet's largest ocean, the last thing you expect to see is a vast expanse of red/orange...

The zombie apocalypse is already underway, if you're an ant. A certain type of fungus, nicknamed "zombie ant fungi," attaches itself...

Urban legend dictates that Albert Einstein's brain was pickled in a jar to preserve it for further study. Now, Max More, the president...

Can we remotely control living things? Researchers from North Carolina State University aim to control the movement of moths by...

Krista Jane Heflin became notorious for her Youtube video advocating "International Castration Day," in which all men are...

Hello Kitty's newest mission is in space! A miniature Hello Kitty figure is now orbiting around Earth in a satellite.   The figure...

Could removing part of the brain afford a person emotional telepathy? A French woman who underwent brain surgery to treat epileptic...

A melding of a human and the Brooklyn Bridge has become a new kind of instrument, called a "Movician." In a collaboration with Centre...

For perhaps as long as 70 years, individuals have heard a persistent, low-frequency sound that others cannot hear and that refuses to...

We may now be on our way to a real-life brain transplant, as researchers from the University of Luxembourg have neural stem cells...

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have re-created the body horror of the television show Fringe, but with mice. ...

The Sims has always been a slightly existential experience, considering that you are essentially creating little people who conform to...