Pluto is a bit of a loner. The dwarf planet is no longer considered a regular planet; it does not orbit on the same plane as ...

Everyone is a little weird. Believe it or not, there are several perks to being weird, according to science. Studies show ...

Wouldn’t it be fun if the research that won the Ig Nobel prize for weird science were all that it seems? The latest award – ...

The 2025 ceremony, held at Boston University, showcased a range of peculiar studies — from whether Teflon can curb hunger to ...

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Roach tells the host Gilbert Cruz how she comes up with her ideas and what keeps drawing her back to the bizarre, hilarious bits of trivia that the human body ...

The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...

In a recent study published in the Astrophysical Journalletters, scientists confirmed something both exhilarating and unsettling: the universe is expanding in a way that defies our most trusted models ...

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...