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‘Relationship Hitmen’: Your Mom Has a Talent for Subtly Killing Friendships She Doesn’t Like, Scientists Say

Moms seem to have a sixth sense about your friends. They’re good at sniffing out the bad influences from the genuinely chill hangs long before you...

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Scientists Discovered a New Tiny Blue Octopus That’s So Cute You’ll Want to Squish It Into Oblivion

There’s a term you need to familiarize yourself with before continuing this article about a newly discovered animal near the Galapagos Islands:...

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Weird News, Dads: Your Brain Physically Changes When You Become a Father

Obviously, women who give birth undergo some pretty extreme changes, both physically, hormonally, and mentally, during and after childbirth. Entire...

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Scientists Just Discovered Half-a-Billion-Year-Old Evidence of Animals Having Sex

You must’ve been having some great sex in your life if scientists can still find fossilized evidence of it more than half a billion years later....

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Sleeping Too Much Might Be Bad for You Now, Because Apparently Nothing Is Safe

Science has all but confirmed at this point that getting too little sleep will eventually damage your brain in the long term. Years of poor sleep have...

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Eating Sugar Does Something Strange to Your Memory, and It Lasts Long After You Change Your Diet

Contrary to the weight you gained when you demolished your kid’s Halloween candy, sugar actually used to be useful. Our early ancestors depended on...

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Scientists Found a 121-Million-Year-Old Bird That Was Basically Peacocking Before Peacocking Existed

The term “peacocking” caught on over the last couple of decades as one of those pickup-artist concepts that’s just as embarrassing to explain as...

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Milan Bull Is Getting New Testicles After Tourists Rubbed Them Completely Off

Humans have a long, rich history of destroying the private parts of great works of art. Famously, the statue of the fictional Irish folk-song...

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Police Are Hunting a Mystery Graffiti Artist Who Keeps Writing ‘I Fart3d in Yoga’ Around London

Say what you will about Banksy, but at least he (or whoever) has spent years trying to elevate street art. The guy turned spray paint into political...

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5 Gold Miners Found Alive in Laos Cave, But Getting Them Out Will Be Easier Said Than Done

Five villagers trapped for more than a week inside a flooded cave in Laos have been found alive, according to CNN. Now begins the more dangerous part...

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A Dog Shot Someone Again, Which Is Somehow a Real Sentence We Keep Having to Write

It happened again. Another tragic shooting. Another shooting that could’ve been prevented if only dogs weren’t so trigger-happy. Yes, another dog...

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Everything We Know About the 2,300-Year-Old Beer Found Inside an Ancient Tomb

When archaeologists raid ancient tombs, they usually uncover the trinkets and tchotchkes people hoped to carry with them into the afterlife. According...

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Ancient Doctors Used Poison as Anesthesia, and Scientists Found the Proof on 600-Year-Old Surgical Tools

Times might be tough in the world right now, but you should always be happy that you live today and not thousands of years ago. You know, back when...

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Scientists Figured Out How to Make Body Armor Out of Silkworm Silk

When you think of silk, you think of that incredibly soft, hyper-slick material that, when used as a fancy pillowcase to keep your hairdo intact, can...

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Scientists Discovered the Brutal Reason T. Rex Had Those Tiny Shrimp Arms

For as ferocious as the Tyrannosaurus rex is usually depicted in movies and pop culture, there’s one unfortunate fact preventing this massive...

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Australian Guy Opened a Bag of Lettuce and Found Something Alive Hiding Inside

While I would be personally mortified to find a frog in the bag of lettuce I picked up from the grocery store, I wouldn’t be mad. To that frog, that...

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Why These Rare Monk Seals Invented Secret Underwater Panic Rooms

According to reporting from Science.org, based on a study published in the journal Oryx, scientists studying Mediterranean monk seals near the Greek...

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Scientists Finally Figured Out Why 90% of Humans Are Right-Handed

Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I can extend my empathy beyond myself just enough to imagine someone else’s perspective, fully knowing...

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Spam Dogs Are a Thing Now. May God Have Mercy On Us All.

Just in time for beach bod season, Hormel Foods, the purveyors of fine pulverized and canned meat products of unknown but still delicious origins, has...

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The Odd Plan Scientists Have to Prevent Birds From Exploding Mid-Flight

Wind turbines play an important dual role in humanity’s present and future. One, they are a symbol of our continued effort to save the planet...

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People Are Asking Plastic Surgeons to Make Them Look Less Human

It was only a matter of time. First, the surreal, cosmetically enhanced faces of celebrities and influencers convinced millions of people they, too,...

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Why This Company Grew 26 Live Chickens in 3D-Printed Artificial Eggs

Remember Colossal Biosciences? They’re the company trying very hard to convince the public they’re basically the real-life version of John...

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Scientists Discovered a Fish So Cute and Fuzzy, They Named It After a Sesame Street Character

You might better know Mr. Snuffleupagus as the gigantic puppet elephant from Sesame Street with absolutely gorgeous eyelashes. His iconic, thick,...

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Scientists Have New Sympathy for Crickets. Reptiles Disagree.

Maybe you’re like me, and every time you crush an insect, you tell yourself Fine, it probably can’t feel pain anyway. Science has now swooped in...

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Scientists Discovered a Deadly New Creature Near ‘the Island Behind Which Lies Death’

The box jellyfish is already one of the deadliest creatures on Earth. Mother Nature decided we needed another one. According to research published in...

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Something Ate the Dinosaurs After the Asteroid Killed Them, Scientists Say

The dinosaurs had a good run and a brutal end that, according to new research, somehow got even more brutal after they died. Because while the...

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Scientists Think Viagra Could Help Treat More Than Erectile Dysfunction

The subject of this article sounds inherently funny, but it is apparently a rather serious and painful issue for men around the world. As first...

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Scientists Made a Phone Game That Can Detect Depression in About 3 Minutes, but Does It Actually Work?

What if a video game could tell you if you were depressed? Technically, they already can if you spend 14 consecutive hours playing them while ignoring...

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Denver’s New Clean Energy Plan Runs on Water, Geothermal Heat, and Technically Poop

One day soon, the citizens of Denver might be heating and cooling the buildings they work and live in through the power of their own poop. According...

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The ‘Tarps Off’ Trend Is Bringing Beautiful Idiocy Back to the MLB

Look: it’s hot as hell out there. Days are routinely in the 90s, the “feels like” temperatures are already pushing triple digits here in South...

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Your Next Psychic Reading Might Secretly Come From a Clanker

AI is coming for your job. No career is safe. Entry-level jobs are disappearing, coders are thinking about burning their resumes and moving into a...

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Archaeologists Made a Disturbing Discovery Inside These Massive Stone Jars

A thousand years ago, in northern Laos, someone tossed 37 people into a massive stone “jar” measuring more than two meters across in what appears...

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Students Keep Booing AI During Commencement Speeches, and Honestly, They Might Be Right

It’s commencement speech season, and colleges across the country have trotted out one miserable, AI brain-rotted business loser after another so...

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Two Americans Were Arrested After a Memecoin Stunt Terrified Japan’s Favorite Internet Monkey

Remember back in the summer of 2025 when there was a string of dildo-tossing incidents at WNBA games? A parade of misogynistic, greedy jerks hurled...

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Everything We Know About Asteroid JH2, the Washington Monument-Sized Space Rock That Just Flew Between Earth and the Moon

Last week, researchers discovered an asteroid roughly the size of the Washington Monument rapidly approaching Earth. And now it’s gone. It whipped...

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Scientists Found a Way to Make Mammals Heal More Like Salamanders, Which Is Extremely Weird (And Promising)

Evolutionarily speaking, we’ve done pretty well for ourselves, but there’s still room for improvement. There are amphibians living in nasty waters...

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Two People Were Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Smuggle Baby Monkeys in Their Underwear

Owning a monkey sounds like a good idea right up until it starts flinging poop around and trying to rip your face off. And yet, there are still people...

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Scientists Accidentally Found a Weird New Way to Stop Mosquitoes From Mating

Since at least 2005, researchers have known that garlic works just okay as a mosquito repellent. Last year, The Washington Post quoted a mosquito...

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Someone Stole the Skull of an 800-Year-Old Saint From a Church in the Czech Republic

Stealing the 800-year-old skull of a beloved saint from a basilica in broad daylight really raises questions about whether your priorities are in...

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Someone Made a Fake Wikipedia for AI Hallucinations, and It’s Basically the Internet Eating Itself

When Wikipedia first launched, there was an understandable fear that its open-source nature would turn humanity’s largest repository of knowledge...

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Scientists May Have Been Wrong About Earth’s Oldest Animal This Whole Time

A 2017 archaeological discovery was small in stature but massive in significance. Researchers found fossilized worm-like creatures more than 500...

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Scientists Finally Found the Truth Behind the ‘Corkscrew’ Killings of Hundreds of Gray Seal Pups

Many decades ago, someone first noticed the grisly remains of a gray seal pup along the sands of Sable Island, a thin sliver of land along Canada’s...

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A Neanderthal Tooth Proved Ancient Dentistry Existed, and It Was Absolutely Brutal

We’ve been learning a lot about Neanderthals lately. In just the past few months, researchers have argued that they were much smarter than we...

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Your Pregnancy Diet May Affect Your Baby in Unexpected Ways, Scientists Say

If you were a fussy eater as a child, refusing vegetables because you thought they tasted gross, you now have one more thing to blame on your parents....

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A Chance Fossil Discovery Led Scientists to ‘the Last Titan’

According to researchers publishing their enormous findings this week in the journal Scientific Reports, paleontologists in Thailand have identified a...

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What Your Brain Is Actually Doing While You Doomscroll, According to Science

If you find yourself endlessly scrolling as you maneuver through the various landmines intent on detonating your attention span, it could mean that...

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Why Older People Are Flocking to Adult Band Camps

While I am a big believer in the concept of toxic nostalgia — the way people willingly romanticize the past into some glowing fantasy while...

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Heavy Cannabis Use May Be Doing the Opposite of What You Want, Scientists Say

Now that cannabis has become widely available across much of the United States, the scientific community is finally getting a clearer picture of what...

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The Jellyfish Fishermen Throw Away Might Soon Be on Your Face

Whenever I think of jellyfish, I think of the story I read years ago about how they are a recurring nightmare for Japanese fishermen. These guys just...

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Archaeologists Found Hundreds of Mass Graves So Large They Can Be Seen From Space

Sometimes a civilization builds monuments to its own obliteration so grandiose that they can be viewed from space. That’s basically the premise of a...

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