Strange & Offbeat
'Impossible' mantle earthquakes actually occur all over the world, study finds
Earthquakes that jiggle Earth's middle layer may be more widespread than scientists thought.A new ma ...View More
There's 13 Great Lakes' worth of water hidden beneath the contiguous US, new map reveals
It's not easy to determine how much water there is across a landscape. A measly 1% of Earth's freshw ...View More
Science news this week: China turns a desert into a carbon sink, a Viking Age grave holds a giant who had brain surgery, real-life inception, and a last-minute Valentine's gift idea from nature
This week's science news was filled with astonishing stories about ecological transformations. Toppi ...View More
Trump is bringing car pollution and other greenhouse gases back to America's skies. Here are the health risks we all face from climate change.
The Trump administration took a major step in its efforts to unravel America's climate policies on F ...View More
MIT designs computing component that uses waste heat 'as a form of information'
Scientists at MIT have published a proof of concept for new analog computing components that could a ...View More
Newly visible, city-size 'green comet' will soon be ejected into interstellar space — just like 3I/ATLAS
A striking "green comet" about the size of a small city is lighting up the night sky as it nears Ear ...View More
‘Overwhelmed’ Preschool Teacher Gives Kids Laxatives So She Could Send Them Home
23-year-old Yizel J. J has been charged with attempted aggravated battery and endangering the ...View More
Did modern humans wipe out the Neanderthals? New evidence may finally provide answers.
About 37,000 years ago, Neanderthals clustered in small groups in what is now southern Spain. Their ...View More
Police Stop Homeless Person on Benefits Driving a $250,000 Ferrari
When the traffic police in France’s Vaucluse region stopped a motorist for speeding in his bright re ...View More
'It's telling us there's something big going on': Unprecedented spike in atmospheric methane during the COVID-19 pandemic has a troubling explanation
Methane is a greenhouse gas around 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide and has been increasing ...View More
