Science - Popular Mechanics

What seems like bending the laws of physics is actually just using them to our advantage.

He’s over 75 years old but said he “feels like a teenager.” Could his methods actually lead to extreme life extension?

They cooperate, make decisions, and even display a “primitive form of altruism,” scientists say.

In 1997, NOAA researchers recorded a mysterious ultra-low-frequency noise so powerful it registered on sensors thousands of miles apart.

A mummified fossil fish was forgotten in a university basement until a son's chance discovery brought it back to science.

The eerie “sailing stones” in Death Valley National Park simply refuse to stay in one place.

A routine nature reserve project in the Netherlands turned up over 3,000 artifacts spanning thousands of years.

Although it killed more people, the Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin was overshadowed by the Chicago Fire, which happened on the same day in 1871.

In 1934, a luxury cruise liner burned off the New Jersey coast. Ninety years later, no one can say for certain what—or who—started the fire.

Some experts think the cryptozoological legend is tied to an enigmatic owl. For others, the search is still on.

Newly revealed documents show that, while breaking Nazi codes, Turing was also building a device that almost changed military communication forever.

Surplus military explosives were once sold as fertilizer, with no thought spared for their flammability.

America's most futuristic luxury train hurtled into a Nevada canyon after someone pried the spikes out of a rail and shifted it four inches inward.