(Edsel Querini/iStock/Getty Images) For thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on drinking water that would make most people deathly ill. There, naturally ...

Museum of Science to open Science Stadium exhibit ...

What if Austin briefly shifted its focus from the weird to the strange and extraordinary? A new paranormal festival, Strange & Extraordinary Fest, is landing Saturday, March 28, at KMFA Studios — yes, ...

As expansive as the sci-fi genre is within cinema, too many great movies are completely forgotten by audiences, like Moon and The Quiet Earth.

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You’ve got to admit, our planet is pretty weird, so maybe it’s no surprise that people are endlessly fascinated by its mysteries. After all, this is the same place where Wi-Fi and Bluetooth somehow ...

One of the hottest classes of drugs in the world owes part of its origin story to a weird desert lizard with a venomous bite ...

It’s time to dress up in your best fungi-inspired costume and visit a fascinating world of fungi, when Fungi Fest returns to Tauranga this month with a mix of science, creativity, food and ...

Sci-fi stories ask “what if,” and they answer “then what.” Whether the film is an exciting blockbuster, a tiny and ambitious ...

Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself ...

A bizarre, ultra-light planet is cloaked in such a thick haze that even JWST can’t reveal its composition. Its unusual size and orbit are forcing scientists to rethink how planets form.

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability ...