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 ...

Liam Thompson buys 200 hash browns for a strange and unexpected science experiment.

Science is advancing our understanding of the human body (photo taken at the Wellcome Centre, London) —Image by © Tim Sandle From mini-brains to spider-inspired ...

A team of Japanese researchers accepts the Ig Nobel Prize for biology. In their experiments, they found that painting cows with stripes roughly halved the number of fly bites the animals received. AP ...