There’s a lot of madcap stuff going down in the climactic party scene of John Hughes ’ classic sci-fi comedy Weird Science, ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

Science fiction as a genre started out as a cult classic. Every mainstream show we know today, like Doctor Who and Star Trek, was once only seen and loved by sm ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

An unusual double-ring structure spotted in space with the help of citizen scientists has turned out to be a cosmic rarity. The celestial anomaly, captured by a radio telescope, is an odd radio circle ...

The markings, which appear on the outside of the fruit, are the result of a virus. They are safe to eat, even if they do look pretty weird.

All sorts of critters and creatures scurry along the pathways, across the lawns, and through the brush and bramble of The Huntington, each and every night. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, ...

Scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of strange metals -- materials that defy conventional rules of electricity and magnetism. Now, a team of physicists has made a breakthrough in this ...

Some of the weird wildlife may even be previously undiscovered. " [We've collected] a really large diversity of a broad suite of marine life, and likely some new species to science," Jan Strugnell, a ...

Every kitchen has that one knife you reach for without thinking. It might not be the newest, the sharpest, or the one that came in the fancy boxed set. But somehow, when dinner rolls around, your hand ...

Researchers at KRISS observed water’s rapid freeze–melt cycles under ultrahigh pressure and discovered Ice XXI, the first new ice phase found in decades. Using advanced high-pressure tech and ...

Foreword / Dame Gillian Beer -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett -- Part I. Strange plants : new frontiers in the natural world. 1. Victorian orchids and the forms ...