Here is an unusual prescription: drink a lot of soda. Doctors in Massachusetts recently reported treating a 63-year-old woman with a large mass in her stomach by having her drink Diet Coke. Writing in ...

A Nepalese man has lost four family members to the same wild elephant over the span of more than a decade. In 2012, Shanichara Bote lost both his mother and father in a brutal elephant attack in the M ...

A superstitious man in China ended up with a detached retina after slapping his own twitching eye to chase away bad luck. In Chinese folklore, a twitching left eye is said to bring wealth, while a twi ...

An England soccer fan who set off an international search after vanishing on his way to the World Cup was found safe in a Barcelona pub, completely unaware that anyone was looking for him. Michael Hew ...

Science is hard. Once you’ve created cyborg cockroaches, you have to think about if they can swim. No worries…scientists have built a tiny 3D-printed scuba suit for cyborg cockroaches, letting them su ...

A 79-year-old great-grandmother in England says she was left feeling like a criminal after being banned for life from every Sainsbury's and Argos store in the UK. Rita Seymour, from Hook, Hampshire, s ...

Japan now has a virtual AI police chief, and she is on a mission to stop scammers. Osaka Prefecture introduced "AIko," whose name blends "AI" with a common ending for Japanese female names, after a ri ...

A YouTuber set out to build the holy grail of spud guns: a fully automatic, belt-fed potato cannon, and against the odds, he mostly pulled it off. He started by repurposing an old air-powered salad ca ...

There is a mushroom that makes people see hundreds of tiny people, and scientists are stumped about why. Researchers have been studying a wild mushroom called Lanmaoa asiatica, sold in markets across ...