Mattias Krantz is a YouTuber with a penchant for bonkers engineering and musical projects. A few months ago, he went into a ...

A 'crazy idea' hatched during a walk in the woods and first tested by a high school student is now an innovative research tool used by scientists worldwide to predict neurotransmitters in fruit fly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elizabeth Parrish, CEO of the biotech company BioViva, claims that her body's cells are 20 years younger after testing her company’s age-reversing gene therapy on herself. Though details of the ...

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 ...

If you’re a massive sci-fi fan, then you know of some crazy creative science fiction worlds in books. While many science fiction novels take place on a futuristic Earth, or even an Earth-like planet, ...

For decades, scientists have debated what caused the dinosaurs to go extinct 66 million years ago. Most sided with the idea that an asteroid had slammed into the oceans off Mexico, triggering tsunamis ...

Fiction writers are 10 times more likely to be bipolar. In poets it’s 40 times more likely. Via The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human: In studies of deceased writers— based on their ...

"Crazy Aunt Lindsey" said she has found a receptive audience and strong support for The Fab Lab in Portland. Murphy recently won more than $10,000 at Pitch Black ...

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 ...