Rather than being the year of the U.S. presidential election or the London Olympics, 2012 has been hijacked by a small group of strange people who seem hellbent on insisting that the world is ending.
As 1911 ended in Antarctica, the fates of Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen continued to diverge.
Scotland's Loch Ness tilts back and forth according to the movement of the ground beneath it.
Harbor porpoises are returning to San Francisco Bay in increasing numbers after having evacuated the area during Word War II.
Christmas came with a record-breaking temperature at the South Pole this year.
You might not think that a collaboration to study the chemical and physical properties of ancient Attic pottery would have anything to do with space missions, but, well, you'd be mistaken.
Do you know which is the funniest joke in the world? It might involve New Jersey.
The centuries-old pipe mouthpiece may have been used for hashish and bears the words, "love is language for the lovers."
HB3Labs has retrofitted the ubiquitous hoodie with earbuds on the end of drawstrings.
A cache of 385 pounds of caviar was found in a St. Petersburg morgue in the refrigerated space where human corpses are kept.
