Strange & Offbeat
Young Woman Suffers Burns While Trying to Turn Hot Water into Ice
A young Chinese woman suffered second-degree burns on her head by splashing herself with hot water t ...View More
NASA's Hubble and Chandra telescopes discover a strange 'sideways' black hole in a cosmic crime scene
Probing a distant galaxy like a "cosmic crime scene" with the Hubble Space Telescope after a "t ...View More
The fabric of the universe is 'lopsided', huge gravitational wave mapping study finds
Using the largest gravitational wave detector ever made, we have confirmed earlier reports that ...View More
Astronomers spot an enormous explosion from the 1st black hole ever photographed
The first black hole ever photographed is still surprising researchers. Immortalized by the Eve ...View More
Venomous pit viper devouring a frog as it takes its final breath captured in gruesome photo
A striking photo captures the moment a venomous green pit viper devours a brown tree frog in a ...View More
'Vulva stone' and coin jewelry among remarkable treasures discovered at Viking burial site in Norway
Three Viking graves excavated in Norway contain coins from distant lands and an oddly symbolic ...View More
From 'the last Neanderthal' to sacrifices in Peru: Our biggest archaeology stories of 2024
This past year was an exciting one for archaeology, with scientists using cutting-edge technolo ...View More
Auroras could light up the skies on Christmas, thanks to a powerful solar flare heading toward Earth
This Christmas Day, the skies may add to the festive cheer with a display of auroras, thanks to ...View More
The World’s Largest Combustion Engine Uses 250 Tons of Fuel a Day
Designed to power giant container ships, the 14-cylinder Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C two-stroke turbocha ...View More
These insects keep evolving to look like sticks. Why?
Stick insects keep evolving to have the same strange body plans over and over again, scientists ...View More
