Weird Science

On January 8, 1943, inventor Nikola Tesla was found dead in room 3327 in Manhattan's New Yorker Hotel where he spent the last years...

What if we told you that long ago, millions of years in the past, giant penguins ruled the land?Sure, everyone's always eager to talk...

Death is such a pain. There's no opt-out, and decomposing is a hassle.Not for long, though. According to scientist Dr. Ian Pearson,...

An unidentified flying object has been spotted in a photo of Mount Everest taken by professional mountaineer and photographer David...

Andrew Basiago is a trial lawyer who ran as an independent candidate for US President in 2016. He is also, he claims, a...

Somewhere out among the stars, not that far from home, is a planet named 55 Cancri e, otherwise known as Janssen (which makes it sound...

If there's one thing missing from The Mummy, it's a good dash of scientific analysis.Thankfully, the real world has this covered:...

It's no secret that the Nazis were into some strange, occult stuff, but some of the weirdest rumors about the Third Reich come from...

Neural networks are amazing, artificially intelligent systems that can be used for some amazing things. They can also be used for some...

One of the hallmarks of a UFO is uncanny aerodynamics--the ability to hover, accelerate to high speeds, suddenly stop, and pull off...

Praying mantises have a talent that no other insect with compound eyes can perform. While bees and ants and flies are all able to see...

We previously reported on the Genesis II church encouraging its members to drink bleach in order to cure autism, but televangelist...

As cloning technology develops, many people are getting increasingly invested in the idea of bringing prehistoric animals back to...

Thanks to powerful skywatchers like the Hubble Space Telescope and similar devices, we've managed to discover a lot of extremely...

Next time your mom makes you put a dollar in the swear jar, just let her know that you're practicing self-therapy. Psychologist and...

A couple of decades ago, there were some things that science knew it simply couldn't cure--terminal disease and death itself chief...

The shame that comes with ordering a whole pizza for yourself can only be countered by spacing the pie out into at least two meals....

Every so often, new research comes out that makes us fear the direction that our collective, ever-accelerating patterns of media...

There has already been a bunch of stories about how naked mole rats are almost immune to cancer (despite those two zoo specimens...

At this point, we're pretty sure that Elon Musk has shown his hand: his entire business plan is based around people telling him "Elon,...