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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- ABC7 meteorologist Drew Tuma recently stood on a pile of broken glass and came face-to-face with a swinging bowling bowl, all for the love of science! In this spooky edition of ...

Freddy Krueger is good for your well-being — not despite his melted face and razor blade-embellished glove. Because of them. The "Nightmare on Elm Street" murderer, who debuted in 1984, joined an ...

The largest Arthropleura (depicted here) may have been the biggest bugs to ever live, according to scientists. AP WASHINGTON — As if the largest bug to ever live – a monster nearly 9 feet long with ...

ROCKFORD (WREX) — Kids had a chance to learn on Halloween in Rockford. The Burpee Museum held a scary science event on Sunday. People could learn about crafty bats, taxidermy and even got to dissect ...

(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.

Spooky season and Halloween are usually a time for fantasy, where witches, hobgoblins, and evil spirits roam. But while everyone is dressing up as their favorite characters from fantasies, some of us ...

Why is the science in Fringe so out-of-control and scary? Turns out it’s because science hasn’t had a real goal since the 1960s, according to Fringe writer/producers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and ...