Mathematician Wins $3 Million Breakthrough Prize for 'Magic Wand Theorem' By Rafi Letzter Their research answered many questions. Among them: What happens if you put a candle in a room full of perfect mirrors?
Here's Why DARPA Wants to Borrow a Labyrinth of Underground Urban Tunnels By Rafi Letzter DARPA would like to enter your labyrinthine network of underground, urban tunnels.
Quantum Gravity Could Reverse Cause and Effect By Stephanie Pappas Any theory of quantum gravity is going to have to grapple with some weird time stuff.
Venomous Brown Recluse Spider Crawls into Woman's Ear By Isobel Whitcomb Susie Torres didn't expect that the strange 'swishing noise' she was hearing would turn out to have eight legs.
'Terminator' Android Preaches Buddhist Wisdom at Ancient Japanese Temple By Tom Metcalfe This android preaches Buddhist wisdom from the heart.
Dark 'Half-Magnets' from the Sun Could Be Streaming Through Us Every Day By Yasemin Saplakoglu Two theoretical physicists propose a novel idea to find dark matter — and it might actually be testable.
How a Silent Cosmos Led Humans to Fear the Worst By Thomas Moynihan If all aliens have gone extinct, what does the future hold for humanity?
'Evil-Genius' Neutrino Gun Could Finally Unmask the Tiniest Particles in the Universe By Paul Sutter Several giant experiments are hunting for neutrinos, the tiniest, most-elusive particles in the universe.
Too Much Karaoke Sent a Man to the Hospital with a Collapsed Lung By Mindy Weisberger A man in China sang karaoke for so long and with such intensity that he suffered a collapsed lung.
Bernie Sanders Pledges to Release Any Info About Aliens If He's Elected in 2020 By Elizabeth Howell Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (D-VT) says he's prepared to disclose government information about UFOs if he wins in 2020.
A Woman Placed an Octopus on Her Face for a Photo. Then It Bit Her. By Mindy Weisberger Sometimes people have to learn the hard way that octopuses belong in the ocean — not on your face.
Underwater Temple Revealed by Thailand's Extreme Drought By Isobel Whitcomb Thousands are flocking to the temple to pray and take pictures.
No E.T. Life Yet? Here's Why That's Important. By Kelsey Johnson The search for intelligent aliens has time and again come up empty. Perhaps that means they aren't out there.
Doctors Remove 526 Teeth from Boy's Cheek. How'd They Get There? By Rafi Letzter Doctors who extracted the teeth claimed that radiation from mobile towers, as well as genetics, may have played a role in causing the growth. But there's good reason to be skeptical.
Frogs, Toads, Lizards and Bats ... Were Found in Bagged Salads By Mindy Weisberger Eat more salad, they said. It's good for you, they said.
John Dillinger's Corpse to Be Dug Up and DNA-Tested to Settle Conspiracy Theory By Brandon Specktor The men who shot Dillinger may not have shot Dillinger, the gangster's relatives now say.
Mysterious Connecticut 'Vampire' Finally Identified 200 Years After Burial By Mindy Weisberger The unfortunate man was likely a poor farmer who died of tuberculosis.
Mysterious Radiation Cloud Over Europe Traced to Secret Russian Nuclear Accident By Tom Metcalfe The cloud held up to 100 times the level of radiation released after the Fukushima accident in Japan in 2011.
NASA Fed Apollo 11 Moon Rocks to Cockroaches (And Then Things Got Even Weirder) By Meghan Bartels The rocks were also dumped into fishbowls. And injected into mice. No, really.
Strange Forest 'Superorganism' Is Keeping This Vampire Tree Alive By Brandon Specktor By grafting their roots together in a hidden underground network, trees could be forming giant "superorganisms" that span entire forests.
