The Loch Ness monster has captivated our imaginations for decades now; the few people who claim to have captured it on film have gone down in history as an elite group lucky enough...
An Alaska volcano which has been slowly erupting for the past several weeks found new vigor on Tuesday, throwing ash and glowing cinders 5 miles into the sky.
Pavlof Volcano--l...
The Manchester Museum in England can't explain why a small statue made as an offering to Osiris--the Egyptian god of death--has suddenly started spinning on its own.
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The so-called "poodle-cat" has now been declared its own breed after spawning nine generations of felines.
The Selkirk Rex breed first began in 1987 after a rare genetic mutati...
The so-called "supermoon" will be visible this Sunday, meaning the moon will be at its closest point to the Earth for the year, and will be brighter than usual. But at least one sc...
An albino gorilla who lived for 40 years at a Barcelona zoo is the subject of a new study that traced his origins, and the results are surprising.
Snowflake was famous up until...
An infant girl is alive and doing well after doctors had to think quickly in order to save her life...by using superglue.
3-week old Ashlyn Julian of Kansas was born with no com...
Awaking with a massive hangover is one of life's greatest leveling moments. Everyone (who drinks) knows the feeling, and it reduces nearly everyone to a slow, miserable, couch-boun...
Dreams are a lot of things - scary, funny, bizarre, sexy, and even occasionally important. One thing they are not is easily documented and recorded. AsapSCIENCE takes a quick (and...
Giant pink slugs have been found on a mountainside in Australia, and park rangers say that on a good day, you can see hundreds of them clustered on the rocks, creating an odd juxta...
You can thank Julius Richard Petri for a lot of your high school biology fun. The inventor of the Petri dish is being honored by Google today with an awesome animated doodle.
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Google is running a homepage doodle honoring German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri in parts of the world where the date has already changed to May 31st.
The date marks the...