weird science

The winners of the 2020 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced, and the honored experiments include frozen knives made…

Imagine the grossest home you’ve ever been to. Your beer-can littered college dorm room? The apartment of an…

Have you ever wondered what an ancient Egyptian mummy would sound like if it could talk? A wild new scientific…

The winners of the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize—an annual contest that satirizes ridiculous science—have been announced.

Imagine a world where you can only move forwards and backwards along a line. You’d see nothing but single points in…

Ten hut, Gizmodo readers! Do you have a New Year’s Resolution you should be working on? Do not answer that…

In the future, cyborg birds may help monitor ocean currents and help ground-truth satellite data. It may sound like…

As if getting shot weren’t bad enough, a bullet that stayed lodged in a man’s knee gave him lead poisoning and a…

From workplace voodoo dolls and self-inflicted colonoscopies to cannibalistic diets and using roller coasters to pass…

Indole, an organic chemical compound that’s found in our gut and contributes to the smell of poop, increases the…

The late Bill Paxton’s career was incredibly varied—he earned widespread critical acclaim for HBO polygamy drama Big…

Time now for a very cute video about a rather terrible prospect—the very grim possibility of the universe spawning a…

An Italian neuroscientist who wants to perform the world’s first human head transplant next year is claiming to have…

It’s a well-known fact that the cadavers of adult men were utilized in medical research and for educational purposes…

A couple of years ago, scientists in Japan watched in amazement as three male sand martins tried to have sex with a…

For one obsessed suitor, death and decaying flesh couldn’t keep him from his one true sweetheart. America has long…

Some species of moth can produce ultrasonic emissions that confuse echolocating bats, and they do it by rubbing…

Archer's sixth season is almost over, with the first of a two-part finale seeing the blundering super spies and…

"When the going gets weird," Hunter S. Thompson once wrote, "the weird turn pro." As we cast our gazes back at 2014,…

After attending a lecture on "out of body experiences," a 24-year-old student from the University of Ottawa…