Since we now have our first experiment demonstrating that time is an emergent quantum phenomenon , it's about time we rounded up some in...

From 2008 to 2010, a pet octopus named "Paul" was given the rather burdensome chore of predicting the outcome of World Cup socc...

I know this isn't the first time this has been done, but the town of Rjukan, Norway, is installing mirrors on top of local mountains...

A NASA / DARPA plan is underway to launch a "100-year" spaceship for deep space exploration. But while that's interesting of i...

Well, actually, there is an apparent reason: To attract tourist dollars. At least that's the plan according to the propaganda . Whic...

That's Jan Svankmajer - stop-motion animator who was one of the inspirations to Terry Gilliam of Monty Python fame - in case you ...

Two years ago , real estate agent Ashley Okland was working in this model house in Des Moines Iowa: ...when someone came into the house ...

Every now and then I like to touch base with the robotics field just to see if their inventions are getting either any more useful or any le...

OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) publishes weekly industrial accident reports on their site. A handful of some mind--...

I don't usually post stuff of this nature here, but this is an exception just for the bizarre psychology of all three participants. It...

Meet Macon Carrington, who has his own YouTube channel and would like to have a word with you about the secret, horrific rituals that Scie...

Manhattanhenge is what happens when the sun lines up perfectly with the concrete-canyon streets of New York City. Due to the angle of ...

Scientists discover a group of quasars out there lurking in the universe that defies all laws of physics as we know them so far, simply be...

All this just to say "Don't do stupid things around trains!" More about it here. Watch it over a few times and catch new de...

The Hole Pictured above: "The Hole", a private prison run by the members of Scientology. This facility in Riverside, Ca...

If the 400-pound guy in the photo gives you the creepers, you don't know the half of it yet. This is James Julius Beaudrie, now in cou...

Well, anything for vanity, right? There's been a number of stories about women getting extreme cosmetic foot surgery over the pas...

RIP Larry Hagman, the TV actor memorable for his iconic roles as "J.R. Ewing" in Dallas and "Tony Nelson" in I Dream o...

So I was browsing Wikipedia looking for creepy United States government intelligence agencies. Hey, they're a dime a dozen! Such as the...

How arty can you get? The club is in Paris, and it really is modeled after the "Silencio" set from David Lynch's Mulholland ...