Podcaster Dan Schreiber reflects on his own inexplicable beliefs in a book, as well as the thin line between genius and ...

Despite our inability to find aliens (yet!) in our own extraterrestrial searches, our favorite movies, TV shows, games, and ...

(via SciShow) There are a lot of scary science stories that go around the Internet. It's easy for a single paper to get spun up into a media frenzy, and harder for the level-headed truth to prevail.

The Science Scare Project has developed a scoring system, making them able to rank the scariest movies of all time. A score of 1 means the movie is not scary at all. 100 means it’s the scariest ...

On the Friday, October 31, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: Fear fascinates us for a reason. Psychologist Coltan Scrivner joins USA TODAY's The Excerpt to explain how morbid curiosity helps us ...

In recent years, we've become painfully aware that microplastics are everywhere—in our oceans, food, and even the air we breathe. But now, scientists have made a fascinating and unsettling discovery: ...

We feel like this list will greatly appeal to enthusiasts of the extraterrestrial. They’ll no longer have to hunt far and wide for proof now that we’ve found some very alien creatures right here on ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. — Rockford's Burpee Museum swings into the spooky season with its upcoming "Haunted Burpee" event. Inviting thrill-seekers and science enthusiasts of all ages, Burpee plans for a day ...

Spiders are intriguing creepy crawlies, and now, scientists have discovered that some spiders lure prey in using a terrifyingly smart tactic that may give you nightmares. The researchers made this ...

Haunted houses. Skydiving. Scary movies. Why do these horrifying things make some people delighted, and others, well, horrified? In the book, Carter — a self-proclaimed lover of calm — gets into the ...