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 ...

During a routine shift, a hospital worker glanced out the window and was stunned after he saw a rather unexpected sight that ...

A researcher who studied fingernail growth and a group that explored whether painting zebralike stripes on cows reduced fly ...

Weird Science gets it title and premise from an obscure comics anthology, which certainly explains a lot about the movie.

For nearly 90 years, American Science and Surplus has been shipping out weird and wonderful stuff to customers far and wide. In the pre-Internet days, getting their latest catalog in the mail ...

Ambrosia Sky could easily be mistaken for an FPS twist on The Thing or Alien, but as Tremblay and Soft Rains art director ...

Science writer Mary Roach chronicles both the history and the latest science of body part replacement in her new book. She ...