Paper airplanes flew, scientists sang about stomach bugs and one person dressed as a giant ball of mozzarella: Last Thursday, the 35th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony honored strange scientific pursuits with ...

Physicists have uncovered the fascinating world of “rotating crystals” — solids made of spinning particles that behave in ...

The Northern Hemisphere is absorbing more sunlight than the Southern Hemisphere, and clouds can no longer keep the balance.

Surprising science stories, from the secrets within bird poop to a new dino discovery. Why scientists are studying bird poop, the world’s fastest backflip and all about the microbes living in your ...

Poisoning by lead is usually thought of as a disease of relatively modern civilisations. Yet in a paper just published in ...

An ancient myth about moonlight and madness might trace back to something far more ordinary: our restless, moonlit sleep.

The 1986 film, which saw two teenage boys use the magic of computer science to bring their dream girl to life, celebrated its 40th anniversary on Saturday, Aug. 2 — four decades after first being ...

An unusual stone circle that's likely a tomb is providing archaeologists with more information about life in Roman Bavaria.