Strange News

No, that's not a real dragon purring in the background of "Game of Thrones"; it's just a giant male tortoise moaning.

Can you add three cubed numbers and get 33? A mathematician just did, and it took only a few quadrillion attempts.

'm a particle that really isn't; I vanish before I can even be detected, yet can be seen. I break your understanding of physics but don't overhaul your knowledge. Who am I?

Would you be willing to spend 60 days in bed for $19,000?

A nature walk near a reservoir in the U.K. recently took a gruesome turn.

Researchers now know what's going on inside mysterious particles called pentaquarks.

The dead sea is neither dead nor a sea. Discuss amongst yourselves.

Weird things happen when water droplets smash into each other.

An asymmetry between matter and antimatter has been observed in the charm quark.

A flat-Earthers conference promises a cruise to Antarctica.

Neutrinos are the changelings of the subatomic world, but physicists are getting closer to pinning down the particles' true identities.

Can two versions of reality exist at the same time? Physicists say they can — at the quantum level, that is.

The "arrow of time" went backward inside this tiny quantum computer.

Scientists have seen something magical happening inside graphite.

It features one of the late physicist's most iconic equations.

A whale accidentally ended up with a mouth full of snorkeler while hunting fish near South Africa.

Like a rainbow, the anus of a comb jelly is a fleeting thing.

If you shrank yourself down and entered a proton, you'd experience among the most intense pressures found anywhere in the universe.