Moviegoers ran for their lives from the Colonial Theatre as part of Blobfest, the annual festival commemorating an iconic ...

I’m leading with this because it seems like it’s all anybody wants to talk about this week, and while I might not want to ...

Just south of Greenland, in the northern Atlantic Ocean, a strange area of water has been confounding scientists for years. While the rest of the ocean warms, that patch has been mysteriously cooling.

A mysterious blob sits on a lab table in Tulane University’s Stern Hall. It’s slimy, squishy and a little bigger than a ...

It's the 50th Anniversary of The Blob, one of a series of low-budget horror/sci-fi films that proliferated in the wake of the Cold War. The themes that made The Blob a hit in 1958 are still the ...

The Blob is incredibly fun, but it’s also a rebuke of the Eisenhower-era nostalgia for a nuclear family and a notion of “normalcy” and law-and-order being pushed by conservative leadership.

Another blob has also formed off the eastern coast of New Zealand. This blob is so big it’s detectable from space – it’s about a million square kilometers (400,000 sq miles), an area larger ...

Dr. Fiona Fraser set out for a seaside habitat near Hobart, Australia, in search of a tiny endangered animal. Dr. Fraser, who ...

The mass, known as the great Atlantic Sargassum belt, is drifting toward the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists say seaweed is likely to come ashore by summer to create a rotting, stinking, scourge.

Maggie Su’s debut novel, “Blob,” is a semi-surreal exploration of love, loneliness and coming of age. Vi, a 24-year-old half-Asian college dropout in a Midwestern town, struggles with ...