Science isn’t always serious. Sometimes researchers ask questions that seem silly at first, like why toast lands butter-side down or how ducks stay dry. But these quirky experiments often lead to ...

Space agencies tested bizarre things. A limbless torso measured radiation exposure while seeds from the Moon grew into trees scattered across Earth. The weirdest science projects of the space age.

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A new North Carolina study connected cooking with science, examining how fermented foods like kombucha and kimchi – which have had a huge surge in popularity in recent years – not only taste good but ...

She Loved Blossoms More is a stunningly strange trip into three brothers’ grief and the lengths to which they’ll go to alter their reality. Full of gauzy, gorgeous imagery, a kaleidoscopic palette, ...

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