Posts in category Shocking Science + Tech

A car park in Thailand is in full bloom after a taxi company transformed its fleet into a community garden to help feed drivers put out of work by the COVID-19 pandemic.

There are no cell phones, cordless phones, Wi-Fi, microwaves, or even wireless speakers allowed in West Virginia’s National Radio Quiet Zone, home to the largest fully steerable radio telescope on Earth.

This year’s Ig Nobel Prize Awards winners include upside-down rhinos, beards taking a hit, and just how germy sidewalk gum really is.

For some celebs, a star on the Walk of Fame isn’t close enough to the cosmos; they’d rather experience the real thing — space!

When it comes to these mysterious signals, they need a lot of energy to reach us. NASA has estimated that for some of them it would be equivalent to the energy that our Sun produces in a year.

Now more than ever, scientists and engineers are looking to nature for inspiration when it comes to building better robots.

For this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, join Ripley’s Believe It or Not! and a panel of professors, disaster experts, paranormal celebs as they take a deep dive into the science behind your favorite sci-fi fandom.

Now at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Orlando, visitors can virtually unravel and explore beneath the wrappings of a mummified priest, as well as an Ibis bird mummy thanks to advanced technology from Interspectral.

With just the right conditions, a corpse can turn into soap!

He wore a $50,000 NASA-built suit to explore life as a “normal” kid.