Physicists Search for Monstrous Higgs Particle. It Could Seal the Fate of the Universe. By Paul Sutter Without the Higgs, the Standard Model of particle physics comes crashing down.
Einstein's Quest to 'Know God's Thoughts' Could Take Millennia By Don Lincoln Unifying all the forces and particles would require a particle accelerator far more powerful than humans have ever built.
Godzilla Grew 30 Times Faster Than Any Organism on Earth. Here's Why. By Laura Geggel If Godzilla were a real creature, his incredibly rapid growth spurt on the big screen would be off the charts, even setting evolutionary records, a new report finds.
UFOs Are Real, But Don't Assume They're Alien Spaceships By Mike Wall Aliens shouldn't be the default explanation for weird stuff in the sky.
Little Green Men? Nope, Extraterrestrial Life May Look More Like Pasta. By Stephanie Pappas Noodle-looking rocks could be humanity's first hint that life once existed on far-flung planets.
Former Head of Pentagon's Secret UFO Program Has Some (Strange) Stories to Tell By Mindy Weisberger The UFO-investigating initiative hid in plain sight for years.
'Fleet of UFOs' Followed US Aircraft, Navy Pilot Says By Mindy Weisberger The mysterious objects first appeared after an aircraft radar upgrade.
Could Dead Aliens Help Save Humanity? By Mike Wall It might take a dramatic extinction example to put us on the right path.
Zombie Science: Could We Ever Resurrect the Dead? By Kimberly Hickok Zombies aren't real. Death is permanent. Some scientists seem to have ignored those facts.
Scientists Have Created a Sound So Loud It Can Vaporize Water on Contact By Brandon Specktor Scientists have used an X-ray laser to create the loudest possible underwater sound on Earth.
The Casebooks of Elizabethan Astrologer Reveal Sketchy Cures for Cheating Spouses, Devils By Stephanie Pappas Simon Forman, who lived between 1552 and 1611 in England, was a shady astrologist and healer.
Why Is the Pentagon Interested in UFOs? By Iain Boyd New rules encourage U.S. Navy pilots and sailors to report UFO sightings. Here's why.
Internet's Famous Grumpy Cat Dies at Age 7 By Yasemin Saplakoglu Her permanent "frowning" face became an internet sensation.
Do Zombies Decay the Same Way As Humans? By Kimberly Hickok Do the zombies in AMC's "Fear the Walking Dead" look like real, decaying human corpses?
A 230-Year-Old Secret Code Is Inscribed on a Rock in France. Can You Decipher It? By Brandon Specktor Can you solve the riddle of the rock?
Spider Spins Web in Man's Ear (Cue the Nightmares) By Mindy Weisberger An itchy feeling had an eight-legged source.
5 Weird Things You Didn't Know About Chernobyl By Laura Geggel Here are five weird facts you probably didn't know about Chernobyl.
Antimatter Is Both a Particle and a Wave, New Experiment Confirms By Rafi Letzter Antimatter is made of waves, and physicists have proven it at the level of a single antimatter particle.
Why Mathematicians Are Obsessed with (and Hoarding) This Chalk By Mindy Weisberger It's considered the Rolls-Royce of chalk. Here's why.
Navy Plans to Document UFO Sightings, But Keep Them Confidential By Laura Geggel Extraterrestrials, take note: The U.S. Navy plans to set up an official reporting and investigative system that will monitor reports from its pilots about unidentified flying objects.