Mysteries Archive
17 May 2013, 05:58 PM ET
Using a divining rod, usually a forked twig, to find anything — water, money or people — is no better than chance.
16 May 2013, 04:15 PM ET
Self described 'extreme angler' and host of Animal Planet's River Monsters shares a few hair-raising fish stories from far flung bodies of water. LiveScience's Rich Bonaduce interviewed Wade.
08 May 2013, 11:45 AM ET
A team of Japanese and Brazilian scientists say they may have discovered part of the earth's original continent off the coast of Brazil before the land masses drifted apart. Jessica Gray reports.
06 May 2013, 05:26 PM ET
Amelia Earhart's disappearance during an attempt to fly around the world remains a mystery, but recent expeditions may have found clues to her fate.
02 May 2013, 06:47 PM ET
Worshipers at Fátima believed that the Virgin Mary spoke to three children and that they all saw the sun "dancing in the sky."
02 May 2013, 12:28 PM ET
Tests of the mysterious skeleton, believed by some to be an alien, have so far revealed only human DNA.
26 April 2013, 06:18 PM ET
Homo floresiensis, dubbed the hobbit, lived about 18,000 years ago on the remote Indonesian island. Here's what we know about the tiny species.
09 April 2013, 07:02 PM ET
Dream interpretation, numerology, palmistry, phrenology — and other methods of predicting the future — don't work.
03 April 2013, 09:23 AM ET
Take an animated look inside the machine and science of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and its search for dark matter, antimatter and the unknown; It was launch on Space Shuttle Endeavor's final mission.
28 March 2013, 11:43 AM ET
Carnivorous Humboldt squid flash skin-color changing rhythms when they encounter others of their species. Scientists don't yet know what these 'conversations' mean. Video-cams strapped to squid show arm-waving, fighting and mating behaviors.
25 March 2013, 04:57 PM ET
Jersey Devil sightings go back to the 1700s.
22 March 2013, 03:59 PM ET
The telltale Chicxulub crater might have been carved by a smaller object than thought.
22 March 2013, 12:04 PM ET
Scientific evidence for the psychic ability to move objects or bend spoons remains elusive.
13 March 2013, 11:53 AM ET
Most attempts to define it come up short, scientists say.
06 March 2013, 02:36 PM ET
Scientists discover how sweet, bitter and umami tastes signal the brain.
12 February 2013, 12:28 PM ET
Find out what took down Vienna's blackbirds
08 February 2013, 11:24 AM ET
Curiosity drilled about 0.8 inches (2 centimeters) into a Martian rock called John Klein.
30 January 2013, 01:00 PM ET
Chinese state media reports that a sinkhole has engulfed an entire building complex in China's southern Guangdong Province. This raw video shows part of the event in progress.
16 January 2013, 08:52 PM ET
NASA's deal for a private inflatable space station room could catapult the technology beyond low-Earth orbit.
09 January 2013, 01:48 AM ET
Hairdresser Janet Stephens uses ancient tools to recreate the oldest hairstyle in Rome, the seven-braid look of the Vestal Virgin priesthood.
11 December 2012, 02:13 PM ET
A visit from extraterrestrials – or ordinary floating lanterns?
06 December 2012, 10:41 AM ET
Researchers on a scientific quest to understand 'the God particle' used the largest atom smasher in the world to discover what they believe is the Higgs Boson, the mysterious particle that in theory gives all other particles mass.
01 November 2012, 11:26 AM ET
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME - Physicists have figured out why the bottom of a water-filled glass bottle shatters when you slap the top of the bottle.
10 October 2012, 01:45 PM ET
When you crack an egg underwater the water pressure assumes the role of the eggshell, exerting an inward force that keeps the egg yolk and whites intact.
26 September 2012, 03:53 PM ET
Time travel capabilities fall into the Mob's hands in the upcoming thriller. Includes MIT professor Max Tegmark and senior SETI astronomer Seth Shostak talking about the feasibility of time travel.
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