The Frankenstein story is about the possibilities, limits and dangers of science. Mel Brooks inherited the outline from author Mary Shelley, who was inspired by early 19th-century experiments.

Those rumors about strange experiments being conducted in the Technological Institute are true — sort of. Screams and spooky music drifted through Tech on Thursday as chemistry lecturer Eberhard ...

Spooky Science has experiments, animals for kids to check out pre-Halloween Molly Melendez demonstrates how to make slime at the Maryland Science Center.

Do you like being stared at? Neither does anyone else. We know that for sure, because psychologists have done many experiments on the subject — many, many creepy experiments. When Psychologists ...

Think you’ve seen the worst that mad science has to offer? How about an experiment in which scientists rendered kittens essentially sightless? And that’s not the worst of it. Learn about ...

SpaceX's ninth commercial cargo mission, launching early Monday (July 18), is lugging a selection of strange science to the International Space Station — living, beating heart cells, microbes ...

When something feels off, but isn't exactly life-threatening and not entirely weird, what is it? Creepy. Researchers at Knox College — in the first empirical study of creepiness — have now ...

Share some thrilling sports science with your favorite baseball fan Maybe you love sports—that’s cool. In that case, you should just dive into this story on Major League Baseball’s strange ...

But unexpectedly, their investigations and the procedure they performed led her to experience the creepy illusion of a person standing behind her, where nobody was actually present.

Let’s face it, some people are just creepy. You can’t quite put your finger on why that guy is giving you the heebie jeebies, but you know he is. (And yes, it’s usually a he.) Enter ...