Mind & Brain Frank Force wins Best Illusion of 2019 award with a simple, but effective shape December 17, 2019
History Blank paper on ninja history wins top grades — it was written in invisible ink October 10, 2019
News Over 1 million people join Facebook event to ‘storm area 51’ and ‘see them aliens’ July 15, 2019
Offbeat Supermarkets in Thailand start using leaves as packaging instead of plastic May 22, 2019 - Updated on May 5, 2020
Offbeat These “Night-Sky” petunias look like they hold galaxies in their petals April 3, 2019 - Updated on April 5, 2019
Offbeat Japanese hotel fires robots to replace them with humans January 31, 2019 - Updated on August 23, 2023
Offbeat Germany’s word of the year is a climate change pun December 18, 2018 - Updated on April 25, 2019
Animals Young Hawaiian seals are showing up with eels stuck in their noses — and we’re not really sure why December 7, 2018
Offbeat This stunning medieval book has 6 bindings — and is essentially 6 different books November 15, 2018
Great Pics No Photoshop involved: this iceberg really is almost perfectly rectangular October 22, 2018 - Updated on February 12, 2024
Offbeat Canada’s Pied Piper Province — How Alberta Became Rat-less October 16, 2018 - Updated on October 26, 2018
News Fishermen find 10,000-year-old skull and antlers belonging to extinct giant elk September 10, 2018
Offbeat Flat-earthers apparently believe in climate change — and nothing makes sense anymore September 7, 2018
News Calling the shot: New study shows the best way to practice football penalty-taking August 30, 2018
Offbeat Travels in Geology — Arkansas: A geologic diamond in the rough August 29, 2018 - Updated on April 25, 2019
Offbeat You Instagram photos may look cool — but they’re almost certainly not original August 14, 2018
News It’s getting harder and harder to come up with new ideas in science, paper reports August 2, 2018
Green Living Help win the war (for our planet) by planting a Climate Victory Garden May 23, 2018 - Updated on May 4, 2023