Posts in category Shocking Science + Tech

The theory more than likely stemmed from the fact that many companies used to label their gum as “indigestible.” Which is technically true.

Sure, it’s probably just as easy — maybe even easier — to make the pizza yourself, but simplicity is far from why this father-son duo builds the things they do.

Have your kids ever dreamed up an invention or object that seemed far out of reach? Perhaps, a doorbell that shoots popcorn or a three-story bathtub? Now’s your chance to bring their ideas to life!

Remember when you sat through science class and learned about the basic states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas? Well, it turns out there’s way more, including the sci-fi–sounding “time crystals.”

Ötzi the Iceman is one of the oldest and greatest mummy specimens in the world. So well preserved, perhaps, that he is still making his mark on the lives of those trying to tell his story…

Visitors at Arizona’s Wupatki National Monument were in for a spooky surprise this week when torrential rain summoned hundreds of creepy three-eyed critters from the great beyond.

To effectively test the coaster’s capabilities, researchers made a 3D model of a kidney and filled it with urine and real kidney stones.

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.