Weird Science

The M7 Build Team from the hit TV show MythBusters is getting ready for an onscreen comeback in a very big way. It was officially...

In an ancient Mayan text called the Dresden Codex, stargazers created a "Venus chart," which maps a type of "leap year" in the Mayan...

Did you enjoy Jurassic Park, but wished it was grounded in something a little more....realistic? Do you like your big screen...

In today's installment of "truth is stranger than fiction," Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter may have been the victim of "genetic larceny."...

The cyborg revolution is upon us, although maybe in a different form than we imagined. Scientists have just built a robotic...

You would think that NASA would keep their rare, priceless historical artifacts under lock and key, and usually they do....

Researchers have just found a mysterious purple blob at the bottom of the ocean (or, more accurately, a crab found it), and they have...

What would happen if you decapitated Deadpool? In the movie, we saw that he can re-grow entire body parts with his regeneration...

When the Rosetta spacecraft explored comet 67P, it found traces of gases like hydrogen sulphide, ammonia and hydrogen cyanide, which...

Since it was discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of Crete in 1901, the sophisticated-beyond-its time Antikythera Mechanism has...

Daleks aren't known for their magnanimity towards the human race, but it looks like one of them just unwittingly helped us save some...

By now you've probably seen Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. You may even have seen those crazy, trippy image...

Scientists in the U.S. have injected human stem cells into pig embryos in an attempt to see if working human organs are able to be...

We've all heard the Matrix argument before. As computing and augmented reality technology continues to advance, we can't help but...

What happens when you cut Schrodinger's cat in half? Apparently, you get two halves of a cat that are both alive and dead, as...

It's a running joke that Google, Facebook, and Apple are turning us all into cyborgs, since our constant usage of convenient...

Could we regenerate brains in clinically dead patients? A health watchdog organization has approved a new trial that will attempt to...

The most powerful particle collider in the world has been shut down--by a weasel. According to internal documents posted online...

Currently, disposal of corpses is not a major concern for space travelers, since missions are so short and relatively safe that death...

Could our entire universe be nothing more than a simulation? That's the subject of this fascinating panel at the 2016 Isaac Asimov...