Can Any Animal Breathe Fire Like the Mythical Dragon? By Laura Geggel Drogon, Viserion and Rhaegal in HBO's "Game of Thrones" can breathe fire. But can any real animal pull off this fiery defense?
What If Winter Lasted for Years Like It Does on 'Game of Thrones'? By Yasemin Saplakoglu It'd be cold, very cold
Why Giant Tortoise Sex Became the Basis of a Key 'Game of Thrones' Sound Effect By Brandon Specktor No, that's not a real dragon purring in the background of "Game of Thrones"; it's just a giant male tortoise moaning.
A Mathematician Just Solved a Deceptively Simple Puzzle That Has Boggled Minds for 64 Years By Brandon Specktor Can you add three cubed numbers and get 33? A mathematician just did, and it took only a few quadrillion attempts.
Mosquitoes Sucked Less Blood (and Had Less Sex) While Listening to Skrillex, Study Finds By Brandon Specktor
Physicists Just Detected a Very Odd Particle That Isn't a Particle at All By Paul Sutter '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?
Space Agency Seeks Women to Stay in Bed for 2 Months. Pancakes Will Be Provided. By Mindy Weisberger Would you be willing to spend 60 days in bed for $19,000?
Gory Photo Shows How a Mystery Predator Turned a Toad Inside Out By Mindy Weisberger A nature walk near a reservoir in the U.K. recently took a gruesome turn.
Dash of Meson, Pinch of Baryon: Scientists Find Recipe for Ultrarare Pentaquarks By Stephanie Pappas Researchers now know what's going on inside mysterious particles called pentaquarks.
Ancient Microbes Ate Each Other's Corpses to Survive Beneath the Dead Sea By Brandon Specktor The dead sea is neither dead nor a sea. Discuss amongst yourselves.
Supercomputers Solve a Mystery Hidden Inside Merging Water Droplets By Rafi Letzter Weird things happen when water droplets smash into each other.
World's Largest Atom Smasher May Have Just Found Evidence for Why Our Universe Exists By Stephanie Pappas An asymmetry between matter and antimatter has been observed in the charm quark.
Flat-Earthers' Cruise Will Sail to Antarctica 'Ice Wall' at the Planet's Edge. Right. By Mindy Weisberger A flat-Earthers conference promises a cruise to Antarctica.
The 'True' Neutrino Has Hidden from Physicists for Decades. Could They Find It in Antarctica? By Paul M. Sutter Neutrinos are the changelings of the subatomic world, but physicists are getting closer to pinning down the particles' true identities.
More Than One Reality Exists (in Quantum Physics) By Mindy Weisberger Can two versions of reality exist at the same time? Physicists say they can — at the quantum level, that is.
Physicists Reverse Time for Tiny Particles Inside a Quantum Computer By Meredith Fore The "arrow of time" went backward inside this tiny quantum computer.
Scientists Watch As Heat Moves Through 'Pencil Lead' at the Speed of Sound By Jeanna Bryner Scientists have seen something magical happening inside graphite.
Put a Black Hole in Your Pocket with This New Stephen Hawking 50-Pence Coin By Brandon Specktor It features one of the late physicist's most iconic equations.
What a Fluke! Man Ends Up in Whale's Mouth By Stephanie Pappas A whale accidentally ended up with a mouth full of snorkeler while hunting fish near South Africa.
