The ancient mammal Adalatherium hui is so weird that it eluded classification for over a decade. A roughly 70-million-year-old skeleton of the species, uncovered in Madagascar in 1999, was clearly a ...

About 130 million years ago, two stars measuring 12 miles across but containing more mass than held in our Sun were locked together. They were spiralling together, in a relatively rare event that ...

This week on io9, we celebrate all the ways that science runs right up to the edge of the possible and laughs maniacally. What today seems like insanity, could tomorrow be the medicine that saves your ...

The yellow crazy ant, or Anoplolepis gracilipes, has the infamous distinction of being among the worst invasive species in the world. However, this is not the reason for which this particular ant is ...

Evolution was considered a "crazy idea" 150 years ago—and still is by some people—but within 50 years of its introduction, it was accepted by most scientists. Today a handful of scientists believe ...

Stanley Schmidt, longtime editor of Analog Science Fiction And Fact, just published a new futurist work, predicting huge technological shifts “not in some hazy future… but tomorrow, next year, and the ...

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Did we really land on the moon? Is there such a thing as time travel? Does HIV cause AIDS? Join us in this hour of Science Friday for a look at some of the more controversial scientific—-and not so ...

Have you ever wondered how your iPhone knows up from down, or when you’re shaking it? It’s all because of the tiny accelerometer chip inside the device, but how does it work? It’s not like the ...

Host David Kestenbaum talks with physicist Robert Ehrlich about his book, Nine Crazy Ideas in Science: A Few Might Even Be True. Ehrlich goes to the edge of science in his book, considering the ...

A viral post about a lucrative job offer from Google has ignited discussions on social media, particularly around the compensation and experience required to secure such roles. The post, shared by ...

If you're still mourning the loss of Clone Club, we've got good news -- IGN can exclusively reveal that IDW Publishing is launching a new Orphan Black sequel comic, "Crazy Science," that picks up ...