Discover 20 science facts that sound completely fake but are 100% true. These surprising facts will change how you see the world.

Superluminous supernovas are the brightest stellar explosions in the universe. Astronomers may have found a mechanism that can trigger these events.

The discovery of ‘Oumuamua marked the first time astronomers observed an object passing through our Solar System that originated around another star. Its unusual shape and unexpected acceleration ...

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Clare Barron’s “You Got Older” is a rare play about a good dad. Wallace Shawn’s “What We Did Before Our Moth Days” is defiantly tender about a sleazy one.

If there’s one lesson history keeps trying to teach us, it’s this: Human beings are remarkably bad at recognizing important discoveries while they’re happening. Again and again, ideas that later ...

Some places make you feel like you’ve accidentally driven through a time portal, and Wagner’s Drive-In in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota is exactly that kind of magical accident. This isn’t just a ...

Everyone's talking about her "hot bod." Moya, a new lifelike robot from the Chinese company DroidUp, has skin that is warm to the touch. Despite online creeps flooding the YouTube comments, the ...

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...

I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. But whether you’re a skeptic like me or you diligently make one or more resolutions each year, getting on a streak can help you reach whatever goal you set.

A sweeping new study from Northwestern University reveals that scientific fraud is no longer just the work of a few rogue researchers—it has evolved into a global, organized enterprise. By analyzing ...

Some believe the Betz mystery sphere, a steel ball that a Florida family found on their property in 1974, is a piece of alien technology. Here’s the truth.