Grocery stores are like the theaters of everyday life, where the mundane meets the bizarre. From aisle to aisle, you're likely to witness an array of peculiar behaviors unique to this setting. While ...

A Burning Man tribute to the last remnants of humanity, a buried Statue of Liberty, depicted in the 1967 science fiction film, Planet of the Apes. Courtesy of Flickr user Brian J. Matis Poof! The ...

This is one of the weirdest mysteries of human evolution: Why do we have grandmas? From menopause to our slow maturation and super-long lifespans, humans are quite unique in the animal kingdom. Could ...

(via SciShow) There are a lot of places, conditions, and situations that just don't seem all that survivable for most people. But for certain populations of humans, conditions that would be fatal for ...

Engineering researchers have demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) can design complex wireless chips in hours, a ...

"This is a ' kimon yoke ,' a protective ward against demons, evil, and misfortune. Japanese superstition holds that the northeast direction is unlucky. These stones are placed on the northeast corner ...

Democrats may have finally found their magical talisman: One word (with apologies to J.R.R. Tolkien) to rule them all, one word to find them, one word to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

It sounds like teasing on an elementary-school playground, but it’s emerged as the choice weapon in the war of words for the presidency of the United States. “Weird” has become an official line of ...

The acronym "WEIRD," which stands for Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic, was introduced by Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine, and Ara Norenzayan in 2010 to highlight the fact that ...