As 2018 winds down, it's time to take a quick look back at what happened this year before we ring in the new one...

Weird Things has returned, but because this hiatus was so different, so is the comeback. This site is changing in new and very important ways to tackle the year ahead.

Thanks to modern technology and streaming platforms, conspiracy theories are big business, meaning that you're quite literally paying to have people mess with your mind.

While rapidly accelerating automation should make it easier to modernize nations still mired in poverty, in the real world, it's upending the economic models on which development experts rely...

A massive collision seems to be the only plausible reason why Uranus is the oddball it is, and now we have an idea of what it might have looked like. So what do we do with this data?

As global temperatures and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, scientists are studying the Permian mass extinction for clues to our fate in a world warming out of control.

Hyperloop designers are dreaming big, which is admirable. What's less admirable is their failure to dream of practical solutions to real world problems.

A new study shows that people with hardline political views are more confident in their decisions, no matter how minor, than moderates. But we still don't know why...

According to researchers and experts, emojis aren't replacing the written word, they're just helping us understand the emotional context in which that written word was deployed.

Saturn's rings are young and might be gone almost as quickly as they appeared in planetary terms, according to the latest research by NASA.

In their fight against postmodernism, the so-called dark web intellectuals managed to create its regressive parallel universe clone.

What do sex workers, psychologists, and engineers think about futurists' and pundits' ideas of sci-fi style robot brothels to help angry celibate men?

When the internet really doesn't like you, there isn't much you can do but get better. Just don't tell that to angry aging lawmakers. They will refuse to believe you.

Evidence-based medicine, vaccination, and good science are out in Italy. Alt med scams, snake oil, and anti-vaccination propaganda are in.

InSight's recording of Martian winds isn't what you'd hear if you were on the planet yourself. And if you start asking why, you'll find out some bizarre and fascinating things about how winds work on alien worlds.