In proof that we are inching ever closer to a Robocop scenario, the New York Police Department have been filmed using a robot dog at…
In weird science news: scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been experimenting with spinach plants and engineering them to send e mails. And the…
If you’ve ever been caught in a dust storm you’ll know how scary it can be and how it can feel like you are going…
Joy Milne has a unique gift – she can smell when someone is sick. She says Parkinson’s disease is a musky smell, Cancer is earthy…
In reality, the sun is blue/green.
The sun emits more green light than any other color.
Scientists have been giving octopuses the love drug MDMA and observing the results to better understand how the drug works and how it can be…
Optical illusions are designed to deliberately mess with our minds. Optical illusions are defined as visual images that differ from reality – the eyes &…
This is likely to blow your mind – but colour doesn’t really exist. Glenn Barden, one of the “brains”, excuse the pun, behind the PBS/BBC…
After over 4 years of trying, scientists recently created a human-pig hybrid. And not just one but over 100 of them. An international team of…
A team of Canadian students have managed to recycle human waste into bioplastics that can be 3D printed, in a major breakthrough which, if the…
Ever wondered why your farts smell? Well when a child asked this question, The Freaky felt compelled to investigate and discovered its all to do…
Crabs on Prozac are becoming aggressive, engaging in fights, and even killing each other while on the drug, scientists have discovered. Prozac is a pharmaceutical…
Seaweed cow farts could be the key to saving the planet according to new research. A staggering 14.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from…
Weird science news: Scientists have discovered that trees sleep at night. In a beautiful experiment that helps us appreciate how all life moves to the…
News from the frontiers of weird science: Scientists have managed to print mouse ovaries using 3D print technology implant them into infertile mice so they…
A new milestone in the evolution of weaponry has been reached with the invention of self-steering, self-guided bullets. Watch this incredible, freaky and scary…
Check out this weird video of a strange dancing alien-like substance.. This is corn starch placed on a speaker cone. It moves in this…
This is one of the freakiest and most beautiful reactions in chemistry. It’s known as the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. And it shows chemicals left in a…
Anybody who says chemistry is boring needs to think again as this amazing video captures the beauty of chemical reactions. The video is…
They might look like antique egg whisks but these kitchen implements are in fact vibrators, designed to enhance female pleasure. It was the Victorians who…
Sometimes something simple can make us gasp at how freaky and amazing the world around us is. Like this simple experiment with arrows and a…
This amazing video is of a human heart beating. This portable perfusion and monitoring system is made by TransMedics® and was designed as an alternative…
A frog levitating thanks to the power of molecular magnetism. This frog is hovering inside a magnet (not on board a spacecraft). This is the…
Three biologists have come up with a radical idea to light our city streets – use glow-in-the-dark trees! Antony Evans and his colleagues Omri Amirav-Drory…
This is one of the freakiest science experiments ever. Watch as powdered Mercury(II) thiocyanate is set on fire and turns into a bizarre alien snake like substance.…
Thai women have a unique way of reacting to cheating husbands – they cut off their penises and feed them to ducks. So popular is…
Japanese scientists have produced a genetically-engineered mouse that tweets like a bird, it was revealed today. The ‘tweeting’ mouse, that sings like a bird, was…
Is this Croatian six-year-old boy a real life Magneto? When Ivan Stoiljkovic takes off his shirt the youngster is able to stick metallic objects such…
Scientists in America have taken the DNA of a spider and implanted it into a goat to produce large quantities of a spider silk that is…
Super-ants with huge heads and jaws have been created by Canadian genetic scientists. These freaky ‘supersoldier’ ants are man-made, and were created in the laboratory by…