People in many parts of the world claim that they involuntarily, and usually spontaneously, cause street lamps to go out.
— Mysterious Universe

People with what is now known as hoarding disorder hang on to items, because they fear they will need them at some point in the future.
— LiveScience

Jimmy Shao believes he’s being watched by shadowy government authorities.
— CBS Sacramento

Virtually everyone who has any political beliefs at all believes in at least one conspiracy theory, writes Jesse Walker.
— Reason.com

Kaufman, whose abrupt cancer death in May of 1984 left fans wondering if it were all an act, would be 64-years old if alive today.
— Mail Online

Cold fusion is a technique that generates energy through low temperature.
— Forbes.com

An extreme solar storm aimed at the Earth could put interconnected electrical grids around the world at serious risk.
— Space.com

How do you protect yourself from a tornado that reaches 2 miles wide with wind gusts above 200 miles per hour?
— TechNewsDaily

Systems & Materials Research Corporation just got a six month, $125,000 grant from NASA to create a prototype of the universal food synthesizer.
— Quartz

About 12,800 years ago when the Earth was emerging from the last ice age, a dramatic event occurred that abruptly reversed climatic conditions back to near-glacial state.

— Phys.Org

High-tech weapons may be screaming through the skies at five times the speed of sound by the middle of the next decade.
— Space.com

Preachers used to rhapsodize about celestial streets of gold, but the most passionate accounts of heaven now come from people outside the church or on its margins.
— CNN

Neuropsychologist Brenda Milner detailed observations of an amnesia patient in the 1950s showing how memory is rooted in specific regions of the brain.
— NY Times

The phenomenon of 'foxfire' occasionally covers entire forest glades.
— io9.com

POPE Francis has been embroiled in a scandal after footage emerged today appearing to show him giving a man an exorcism in St Peter's Square. \
— The Sun

Pondering whether the fragility and rarity of Earth will become more apparent as private citizens begin seeing it from space.
— Space.com

Nick Redfern shares the bizarre tale of a potential UK 'wild man.'
— Mania.com

United Nations issues license to various companies to mine the sea bed for precious minerals.
— BBC News

A look at how feral pigs have wreaked havoc on a Louisiana's Barataria Preserve.
— National Geographic News

Latest diagnostic manual creates controversy with some changes in classifications.
— LiveScience

Lethal remote vessel belongs to the world’s first fleet of remote-controlled ‘robo-boats’ designed to take on dangerous covert missions without endangering the lives of crew.
— Mail Online

Nearly 1 in 5 children in the U.S. suffers from a mental disorder, and this number has been rising for more than a decade.
— CBS Atlanta

In a world first, an exploration team has proved that it's possible to drive from Russia to Canada.
— Phys.Org

A British manufacturing firm is trying to make robots that share more human characteristics, to make interaction with them more natural and intuitive than ever before.
— BBC News

Mourners attending a funeral in central Zimbabwe were shocked when the man they had come to bury "returned from the dead."
— The Telegraph

Luckily, the giant space rock will get no closer than 3.6 million miles, or 15 times the distance between the Earth and the moon.
— The Telegraph

The Large Hadron Collider has recreated the world's tiniest droplets of a primordial state of matter that last existed moments after the Big Bang.
— Discovery News

Aimee Copeland appeared in video trying out her new hands on everyday activities like hanging clothes, wiping a table
— CBS News

Electric propulsion technology has matured to the point that NASA may consider it as part of a scheme to send people to Mars.
— Space.com

A gentle electrical stimulation to the brain improved university students' abilities at performing simple arithmetic calculations.
— Nature