Nearly 200K People Have Signed Up to Steal Alien Secrets from Area 51 in Late-Summer Raid By Brandon Specktor More than 200,000 Facebook users say they're interested in joining a raid on Nevada's infamous Area 51 air base this summer.
A Pair of Shipwrecked, WWII-Era Submarines Just Vanished from the Sea Near Malaysia By Brandon Specktor Scavengers can make millions of dollars by selling the scrap metal from old shipwrecks — no matter how many human remains are desecrated in the process.
These Odd 'Quasiparticles' Could Finally Unmask Dark Matter By Paul Sutter Tiny ripples called magnons could lure even a fleeting, lightweight dark matter particle out of hiding.
Photo of Sea Star's 'Butt' Goes Viral. Spoiler: That's No Butt. By Mindy Weisberger Oh. My. God. Look at its butt.
'What Would You Do If We Found Aliens?' Survey Asks By Jeanna Bryner If you find out we are not alone in the universe, how would you respond?
Handlers Thought This Owl Was Male for 23 Years —Then He Laid an Egg By Rafi Letzter Everyone, possibly even the owl, was surprised.
Whoa! Enormous 'Cotton Candy' Explosion in Kids' Chemistry Lab By Stephanie Pappas A classic chemistry demonstration gets supersized in a recent Twitter video.
Flushed Goldfish Grew to Be Kitten-Size in Niagara River By Mindy Weisberger Tens of millions of "freed" goldfish are thought to inhabit the Great Lakes.
Huntsman Spider Devours Possum in Viral (and Terrifying) Photos By Mindy Weisberger For this arachnid, mammals are on the menu.
No Signs of Aliens in the Closest 1,300 Stars, Hunt Funded by Billionaire Reveals By Adam Mann E.T. is still not phoning Earth.
The Tree That Might Have Inspired Dr. Seuss' 'The Lorax' Has Died By Yasemin Saplakoglu A Monterey cypress that is thought to have inspired the Truffula trees in Dr. Seuss' book "The Lorax" has died.
Terrifying 'Fly-Pocalypse' Descends Upon Russian Village By Mindy Weisberger Swarms worthy of a horror movie may have emerged from illegal fertilizer.
Woman Who Requested Mariah Carey Cake Got Marie Curie Instead By Mindy Weisberger The birthday girl was probably feeling emotions when she saw what the baker had done.
The Carnivorous Plant Named 'Turtle Socks' Has Been Eating Baby Salamanders for Lunch By Brandon Specktor These carnivorous Canadian plants don't just eat bugs — they eat vertebrates, too.
Breaks in the Perfect Symmetry of the Universe Could Be a Window Into Completely New Physics By Paul Sutter If this fundamental symmetry of the universe doesn’t hold, it could break open new physics.
For Sale: 'Haunted' Medieval Prison That Held Accused Witches By Mindy Weisberger The former jail is known by the ominous nickname "The Cage."
Stephen Hawking Was Right: Black Holes Can Evaporate, Weird New Study Shows By Meredith Fore Researchers used a sonic black hole to confirm one of Stephen Hawking's theories.
Can Physicists Really Save Schrödinger’s Cat? By Isobel Whitcomb Whether the cat lives or dies isn't as unpredictable as scientists assumed.
Bigfoot's FBI File Reveals Strange Story of a Monster Hunter and 15 Mysterious Hairs By Rafi Letzter The U.S. government released Bigfoot's FBI file yesterday ... and it's pretty weird.
