Beyond Science

20 million men in China will never find a wife! That’s how many more men than women there are and in a few decades that number could be 40 million. It’s gotten so bad that some places have revived the tradition of Ghost Weddings—marrying deceased men and women to other corpses. It’s just one solution to the leftover men problem left behind by the One Child Policy and decades of sex selective abortions.

Annabel Beam, who had two life-threatening diseases, fell from a tree and claims she saw heaven. Now, both diseases are gone.

An elaborate crop circle that reportedly appeared overnight is baffling locals and the property owner. A balloonist discovered the circular design last week.

Weather control has been the dream of authors and farmers for hundreds if not thousands of years. But, in the past few decades, technology has come into use that may actually make weather control a reality.

The topic of mermaids goes back into the deep reaches of human history and mythology—perhaps there is more to the mystery of mermaids than modern hype.

Florida’s Coral Castle continues to amaze both tourists and scientists alike as the mystery of how one modern man could carve, transport, and set huge coral blocks with fine precision using only hand tools.

The pineal gland in the human brain has the structure of an eye. Scientists are still learning much about the pineal body, known in both Eastern spiritualism and Western philosophy as the seat of human consciousness.

The swollen carcass of a hairless as yet unidentified animal was discovered under the Brooklyn Bridge last weekend.

Plain-tailed wrens, Pheugopedius euophrys, are excellent duet singers, alternating singing syllables so rapidly that a pair sounds like a single bird, and new research suggests that females may lead repartees.