Weird Science

With the advent of genetic engineering technology like CRISPR, the topic of designer babies has come back with a vengeance, along with...

El Chupacabra? Zuul? An image circulating on the internet of a dog-like creature from hell that was allegedly spotted in Argentina...

In today's "Elon Musk has a crazy idea but he might be serious" news, SpaceX could soon be using balloons to land their next Falcon 9...

Good news if you wear contacts and also want to look like an alien posing as a human, or if you've ever felt like you're missing out...

Sure, pirates had peg legs and hooks, but a thousand years before they sailed the sea, there were the Longobardi, a culture of...

Doomsday prophets are nothing if not persistent, we'll give them that--almost two years ago to the day, Outer Places called the last...

This isn't the craziest conspiracy theory we've covered (that goes to the claim that reptilian aliens helped the Nazis during World...

In case you missed it, a DIY rocket scientist named Mike Hughes recently launched a homemade rocket over the California desert as part...

Out of all the scientific discoveries made recently, "puffins have glowing beaks" would be a tough one to guess.But when...

Youngstown, Ohio, has a serious pest problem.Not only is there a sizeable raccoon population in the small town, but they're being...

Poor NASA scientists.You work your hardest on a brand new piece of scientific research, wait patiently for the scheduled launch date...

Nothing lasts forever, not even the universe itself. Whether its sentient evil AI that comes to destroy us or a giant Higgs-Boson...

Alien researchers are chasing a surprising new conspiracy theory this week: Is the Great Pyramid of Giza a giant secret clue about...

Will Smith, who's killed robots in at least a few of his films (his fight scenes from I, Robot will come into play a little later),...

When you look at the evolutionary tree of life, it's comforting to follow the one strand that starts at "bacteria," passes through...

When it comes to military secrets, it's often said that loose lips sink ships. Now, the phrase must evolve: if the US military has its...

For every 10 blurry photos of a "crashed alien craft" near Antarctica or Mylar party balloons mistakenly identified as flying...

A little over two weeks ago, Twitter user @strayedaway (real name Ty) received a strange voicemail on his phone: a robotic voice...

The Milky Way galaxy is a big place.With well over a hundred billion stars and plenty of planets in orbit around them, it makes sense...

Christian sects have been predicting the end of the world for millennia, continuing all the way up to the present day. It's...