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Comedian Jon Stewart ripped Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday over a flat joke. Stewart played a clip ...

When you’re at work, sitting in front of a computer screen, there’s really nothing better than the moment a friend sends you a YouTube video. For a few minutes, life is good again. Charlie’s biting ...

Occasionally, mysterious events arise that capture the public's attention. Whether it's a UFO sighting, strange tracks in the ...

Theories about the sound's origins included an undiscovered sea creature. By 2011, NOAA scientists concluded the sound was the cracking of an ice shelf during an icequake. In the summer of 1997, ...

YouTube is the world’s largest video repository but, while it is in a league of its own, the Google-owned service hasn’t embraced the short clip style of Instagram, Vine and other popular video apps.

Back in the late 1990s, NOAA’s Acoustic Monitoring Project recorded a series of haunting, creepy noises from deep beneath the ocean’s surface (you can hear it in the audio above). When this recording ...

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn (In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming) H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu This unpronounceable phrase is familiar to all readers of ...

Was the infamous “bloop” a sea monster? Learn why this noise was a good reminder that we should keep an eye on the South Pole. Avery Hurt is a freelance science journalist who frequently writes for ...

A new restaurant on Chicago's North Side offers sushi in a new shape at an unbeatable price. Bloop Bloop, located at 2205 West Montrose in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood, brought a new concept ...