Strange News Archive
08 February 2013, 10:11 AM ET
In a chilling case report, doctors in Turkey have described what they claim to be a real-life vampire.
07 February 2013, 07:43 PM ET
It's clear that a human brain knows a good tune when it hears one.
07 February 2013, 02:01 PM ET
The impact would've released as much energy as 100 trillion tons of TNT, a deathblow to dinos.
07 February 2013, 10:26 AM ET
The zoo escape drills involve a staff member wearing animal costume.
06 February 2013, 12:25 PM ET
The caged cells could be used in research and for growing tissues.
05 February 2013, 07:23 PM ET
Simon and Garfunkel have nothing on this baby driver.
05 February 2013, 01:20 PM ET
Researchers used fluorescent tags in mice to identify the neurons.
05 February 2013, 10:57 AM ET
Insanely huge but finite numbers play an important role in physics, probability and pure math, but are impossible for the human mind to really grasp
05 February 2013, 10:36 AM ET
Some numbers are so awesomely big they are hard to even wrap your mind around.
05 February 2013, 10:15 AM ET
The gigantic number has more than 17 million digits and trounces the last discovered prime of its kind
04 February 2013, 02:51 PM ET
This isn't the first time a lake monster has been reported in the area.
04 February 2013, 01:37 PM ET
Laura Ingalls Wilder's sister likely went blind from brain inflammation, not scarlet fever as the books suggest.
04 February 2013, 12:16 PM ET
Some of the tracks may have come from a baby nodosaur trying to catch up to its parent.
04 February 2013, 09:57 AM ET
State fairs are great places to throw ping-pong balls at goldfish or see a rodeo or buy cheap peaches or maybe marvel at the latest corn harvesters.
04 February 2013, 09:35 AM ET
When you pop the top, the pressure inside the can decreases, causing the CO2 to convert to gas and escape in bubbles.
03 February 2013, 07:45 PM ET
These brain tricks and illusions show how our brains work in fast- and slow-thinking methods.
02 February 2013, 11:38 PM ET
Swat-Bot can pierce vehicles and move them out of the way.
01 February 2013, 11:21 PM ET
The little piggy was born with a defect that prevents him from using his hind legs.
01 February 2013, 03:15 PM ET
Hint: Movie special-effects are not involved.
01 February 2013, 11:43 AM ET
The rare stuff is an important ingredient in perfumes like Chanel No. 5.
01 February 2013, 01:51 AM ET
The pacemaker was implanted last October at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
31 January 2013, 06:07 PM ET
A brain on alcohol is a noggin' that's conducive to a fight.
31 January 2013, 05:08 PM ET
Kids, don't try these tricks at home.
31 January 2013, 02:01 PM ET
A single gene mutation is responsible for pigeons' funky head crests.
31 January 2013, 02:00 PM ET
From a trippy photo of a living clam to a computer simulation of a beating heart, here are some of the most amazing science images of 2012