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Don’t Want to Use AI at Work? Tell Your Boss It Goes Against Your Religion.

If you’re taking a firm stance against using AI in the workplace, the pope, of all people, might just have given you the perfect cover in the form...

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DWI Suspect Ran From the Cops, Got Attacked by an Alligator and Kept on Running

Some days, things just don’t go your way. One minute you’re on the run from the cops, wanted on suspicion of driving recklessly; the next you’re...

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Officials in Australia Just Seized 100,000 Illegal Live Cockroaches Worth $142,000

While some, like me, believe cockroaches are a vile menace that should be exterminated with extreme prejudice, others actually believe it’s their...

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NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Jet Just Broke the Sound Barrier. The Video Is Incredible.

For years now, NASA has been working on the X-59, a supersonic jet that’s also super quiet, reaching ludicrous speeds without sounding like it’s...

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Pro Wrestlers Are Fighting in Libraries Now, and It’s Actually for a Good Cause

We have a reading crisis in America. Young people aren’t reading anymore, with roughly 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide falling below basic...

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The Little-Known Condition That Traps People in Their Own Imaginations

As a lifelong daydreamer, I find staring at a wall or at the floor for a bit while the gears are turning in my head to be a nice little reprieve from...

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An Unusually Clever Bear Is Currently Winning a Battle Against Humans in Japan

If you haven’t heard, Japan has been dealing with a massive bear problem. Bears, pushed out of shrinking habitats and food chains disrupted by...

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AI-Powered Teddy Bears for Kids Are Here, and Experts Say They Could Do More Harm Than Good

It seems ethically dubious that anyone should have access to AI chatbots, considering how easily they can warp someone’s perception of reality to...

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Why Scientists Used a 5,000-Year-Old Mummy to Bake Freaky Sourdough Bread

I recently wrote about Ötzi the Iceman, a guy who died 5,300 years ago and was so well preserved in a glacier in northern Italy that scientists can...

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Millions of People Report Hearing a Mysterious Low-Frequency Hum. Scientists Think They Know Why.

If you have tinnitus, then you probably have some idea of what it must be like to hear a constant, inexplicable sound that no one else hears. That’s...

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A Brain ‘Pacemaker’ Could Be in Your Future If You Have This Common Condition

Pacemakers are little gizmos that are implanted under the skin in the chest that deliver small electrical pulses to keep your heart beating. But what...

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Scientists Discovered Ice Age Cave Lions Never Fully Disappeared

If you time-traveled back to the Ice Age, one of the many megafauna you’d probably want to avoid was the formidable cat known as the cave lion, a...

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He Went Missing on Everest for Six Days. Then They Found Him Crawling Back to Camp.

A Sherpa guide everyone thought was dead on Mount Everest has been found alive after surviving nearly a week alone in the frighteningly and unsubtly...

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Scientists Discovered an Unexpected Side Effect of Working the Night Shift

Working the night shift sounds pretty chill. Sure, you have to keep an eye out for night creeps and thieves, but the world is quieter, calmer. It’s...

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There’s a New Definition of Obesity, and a Good Chance It Now Includes You

According to a new study, some of you reading this who had a perfectly normal BMI might now be considered overweight or even obese, and you didn’t...

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Scientists Discovered Something Unsettling About Your Brain Under Anesthesia

It sounds like a nightmare. The idea of anesthesia wearing off in the middle of a procedure and suddenly getting an eyeful of your own insides....

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Scientists Think They’ve Solved a Long-Standing Mystery Around Nicotine

The more you learn about the world of scientific research, the more you begin to understand how many seemingly basic questions researchers have never...

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Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out How Pigeons Are So Good at Directions

Humans have been using pigeons to send messages across long distances for thousands of years, thanks to their remarkable sense of direction. According...

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Endangered Gorilla Mom and Her Baby Saved by Zoo Veterinarians With Rare Emergency Surgery

C-sections are fairly common for humans, but not so common at all for gorillas. That’s what makes the birth of a baby western lowland gorilla at...

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Why This Biotech Company Is Keeping Bodiless Human Brains Alive in a Lab

If you ever dreamed of having your brain hooked up to a collection of tubes, pumps, and laboratory gadgets within hours of your death, you’re in...

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Humanoid Robot Kicks Small Child in the Stomach During Public Demonstration

I’m not sure what’s inevitably going to spark the great human-robot war that we’ve all seen coming for decades, but one thing is for sure: a...

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Scientists Just Discovered Something Still Alive Inside Ötzi the Iceman 5,300 Years Later

Have you met our ancient, dead caveman friend Ötzi the Iceman? He died 5,300 years ago, but his body was shockingly well preserved by the glacier in...

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Scientists Created a New Biological Clock That Reveals How Much Time You Have Left

For anyone interested in knowing exactly when they’re going to die, good news! A team of researchers has come up with a set of tools that can give...

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Nearly 60 People in Idaho Sick After Drinking Raw Milk, and That’s Just the Past 2 Weeks

By now, you should know not to drink raw milk. It is disgusting and dangerous. And yet, we apparently live in medieval times, as for reasons that will...

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The Government Office Tasked With Fighting Bugs Is Currently Battling Bed Bugs. Seriously.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture office tasked with protecting the country from invasive pests like bed bugs is currently battling a bed bug...

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Japan Sent a Probe to Collect Samples From an Asteroid. That Asteroid Might Actually Be a Derelict Soviet Spacecraft.

Japan sent a spacecraft to a small asteroid in hopes of collecting samples that scientists will eventually study back on Earth. Only, according to a...

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Everything We Know About the Mysterious Sewer People Emerging From Manholes Around NYC

Typically, when dozens of mysterious people are pouring out of a sewer, they’re either running from or hunting for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles....

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Everything We Know About the Cop Who Allegedly Pulled a Gun Because Someone Microwaved Fish at Work

If you’ve ever wanted to inflict extreme physical violence upon a coworker who had the audacity, the gall, to microwave fish in the office...

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Just in Case You Were Wondering, Scientists Say Bird Masturbation Is Totally Normal

Hey, just FYI, in case you were wondering, scientists say that bird masturbation is totally healthy and normal. I know it probably wasn’t at the top...

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Scientists Have Been Watching One Dead Whale Feed the Ocean for 15 Years. Here’s What They’ve Learned.

Scientists spent 15 years observing a single whale feeding its family. Not human families, but entire communities of marine life. According to a new...

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Astronomers Finally Found a Clue Behind One of Space’s Strangest Radio Signal Mysteries

You hear a lot about mysterious bursts of radio signals coming from distant parts of the universe. In our more fanciful moments, it’s easy to...

02.06.2026 7

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Researchers Put AI Chatbots in Charge of a Simulated World. This One Destroyed Everything in Just 4 Days.

Giving an AI chatbot control over society sounds like the plot of a bad sci-fi movie. Naturally, researchers decided to try it anyway, giving several...

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A Meteor Exploded Above New England With the Force of 300 Tons of TNT. Here’s What It Looked Like.

If you were in Massachusetts this past Saturday afternoon and briefly thought the world was coming to an end, don’t worry; it was just the sonic...

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Scientists Finally Figured Out Why Strange Earthquakes Have Been Hitting Utah for Decades

For about half a century now, Utah has been getting hit with a series of earthquakes deep below its surface. Seismologists studying the phenomenon...

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PSA: Eating Chicken Nuggets on a Roller Coaster Will Get You Banned From Six Flags

We can officially add another name to the growing list of people who inevitably treat lifetime bans as badges of honor. YouTuber Allen Ferrell has...

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Scientists Found That Bean Plants Can Summon Wasps to Fight Their Battles

You have to be careful who you mess with in life. Someone might seem easy to take advantage of, but you never know who they’re connected to or what...

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Scientists Say Cows Might Recognize Human Faces, Which Is Bad News for Grilling Season

I know, I know. It’s grilling season. You’ve got a freezer full of 80-20 chuck burger patties ready to kiss with flame. You’ve got a very...

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Scientists Identified a ‘T. Rex of the Ocean’ That Was Hiding in Museum Collections for Decades

I recently covered how scientists are finally piecing together the puzzle of why the Tyrannosaurus rex had such tiny, pathetic, laughably small arms....

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Sorry, Coffee Drinkers: Caffeine Has an Even Greater Affect on Your Sleep Than We Thought

That cup of coffee you had in the morning to jolt yourself into a semi-functioning state might be powering your brain for way longer than you...

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This Common Bug Spray Ingredient Might Actually Make You More Delicious to Mosquitoes

I knew it. I called it years ago, and I didn’t need to conduct any scientific research. I always knew deep down, just below my mosquito bite-laden...

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Scientists May Have Found the Key to Ancient Life Hiding at the Bottom of an Asteroid Crater

We take oxygen for granted, just like we take breathing for granted. Breathing is such an automatic function of the brain that most of us never stop...

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Snorers Rejoice! There May Soon Be a Sleep Apnea Remedy That Doesn’t Involve Strapping a CPAP to Your Face

As someone who’s spent the past decade using a CPAP machine to fend off the sleep apnea that makes me sound like a dying hog as I rest at night, I...

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Why Scientists Just Launched Artificial Human Embryos Into Space

If the goal is to colonize space one day, then we’ve got to step up our game on figuring out whether humans can even have babies up there in the...

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A 200,000-Year-Old Cave Discovery Is Changing What Scientists Know About Early Humans

Beds feel distinctly modern. Probably because every bed nowadays unfurls from a compact cube like a rehydrated food from a sci-fi movie. Or comes...

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A Harvard Astronomer Has a New Theory About 3I/ATLAS, and Yes, It Involves Aliens Again

You might remember Avi Loeb from my breathless coverage of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS last year. He’s the conspiratorial Harvard astronomer...

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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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