The controversial substance played a significant role in early 20th century spirit communication.
A UFO researcher in Russia has found what he believes to be a UFO in Antarctica using Google Earth.
The map studied by Columbus before his trans-Atlantic voyage has been cleaned up using computer software.
Scientists have calculated how much genetic material there is on Earth and how much space it takes up.
People who have lost an eye to illness sometimes report strange visual sensations and phantom images.
A new quantum physics experiment has confirmed the idea that reality doesn't exist until it is measured.
The Earth appears to be surrounded by giant, invisible tubes of plasma that fill the sky above our heads.
Dashcam footage shows a creepy figure walk out on to the road and lunge at a car as it passes by.
Anthropologists have unearthed the fossil remains of a human ancestor dating back 3.2 million years.
Over half of the world's remaining saiga antelope population has dropped dead within the last few weeks.
A total of 139 weird and wonderful new plant and animal species have been discovered in South East Asia.
The 13th Floor Haunted House in San Antonio has become home to more than just actors and ghost props.
Despite spending most of their time eating it, bamboo gives pandas a bad case of indigestion.
Leigh Erceg was left a changed woman after surviving terrible injuries sustained in a fall down a ravine.
Archaeologists have uncovered the intact wreck of a Spanish merchant ship that sank back in 1681.
Scientists have succeeded in reverting the beaks of chicken ambryos in to dinosaur-like snouts.
Media reports of a close shave with a mile-wide asteroid have thankfully turned out to be exaggerated.
New photographs have provided important new clues to help solve the riddle of the mystery bright spots.
A snapshot of the past has been found in the form of a bubble frozen in the Antarctic ice.
Anthropologists believe that they have identified the oldest samples of human skin ever discovered.