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Robot Crime Could Be Rampant by 2035, Law Enforcement Warns

Europol wants everyone to calm down with their visceral hatred of the humanoid robots poised to take over a variety of industries, including law...

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Pompeii Clothing Suggests We’re Wrong About When Vesuvius Erupted

We’ve known for certain, for quite some time, that the day Mount Vesuvius famously erupted, blanketing the Roman city of Pompeii in ash, killing...

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Foreign-Made Drones Are Now Banned in the US

As is often the case with today’s US government, the FCC has decided that the safest drone is a domestic drone. As of Monday, the FCC announced a...

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Someone Stole $400,000 Worth of Live Lobsters en Route to Costco

Somewhere between Massachusetts and the Midwest, $400,000 worth of lobsters vanished. The boosted shipments, destined for Costco stores in Illinois...

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Spider Plants Might Have Their Own Version of a Placenta and Umbilical Cord, Study Finds

Spider plants are one of those common household plants you probably have in your home right now. They are demarcated by their long green arms that...

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The Decade-Long Mystery of the ‘Beachy Head Woman’ Has Been Solved by DNA

For more than a decade, the “Beachy Head Woman” was treated like a cultural Rorschach test. Found in a box in southern England and dated to...

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Pirates Have Duplicated Most of Spotify’s Music Catalog. Here’s Why They Say They Did It.

A collective of pirate activists seeking to preserve music history has announced that it has backed up a gigantic portion of Spotify’s music...

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Aspartame Might Be Bad for Your Brain and Heart, Study Finds

Ah, the dream of aspartame. Imagine an artificial sweetener, one of the most widely used in the world, that can turn your bitter coffee into a...

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Scientists Just Found a Dangerous Virus in Arctic Whales Using Drones

It can be difficult to routinely give Arctic whales a medical check-up to see how they’re doing. They live underwater, for one. They migrate across...

23.12.2025 7

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Heavy Rains Could Send Rats Crawling Out of Toilets in Washington State

Historic rains have drenched Washington State this month. They’ve caused flooding that’s gotten so bad that it’s pushing rats out of the sewers...

23.12.2025 10

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Astronomers Just Watched Asteroids Slam Into Each Other. This Is What They Saw.

Fomalhaut is a young, nearby star. It’s only 25 light-years away and 440 million years old. As a celestial youngin’, it’s still surrounded by...

23.12.2025 20

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Australia’s Ocean Glitch Is a Weird Wave Vortex Nobody Can Fully Explain

Australia’s oceans are doing something that seems either apocalyptic or magical: waves are repeatedly spiraling into a circular vortex before...

22.12.2025 30

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Scientists Found Something Strange Beneath the Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda triangle. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Look, all that mysteriousness is more than likely due to that part of the world being heavily...

19.12.2025 4

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This Is the Most Common Argument Kids Have With Their Parents

According to a new survey of 2,000 U.S. parents and their children, technology has officially replaced chores and homework as the number-one source of...

19.12.2025 20

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Funeral Home Accused of Giving a Father His Son’s Brain in a Bag

A Santa Clara County family is suing two South Bay mortuaries and a licensed funeral director after an alleged mistake—a horrifying, disgusting...

19.12.2025 4

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Wild Polar Bear Photographed With Rare ‘Adopted’ Cub

Researchers with Polar Bears International were tracking a female polar bear in Western Hudson Bay this spring. They fitted her with a GPS collar and...

19.12.2025 8

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Trucker Found $16 Million in Cocaine Mysteriously Stashed in His Semi

A truck driver in Indiana pulled into a truck stop and stepped away from his vehicle. He came back later to find it had been loaded with $16 million...

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How ‘Zootopia 2’ Accidentally Sparked a Pet Snake Craze in China

Zootopia 2 has crossed an all-important milestone. It broke some Chinese box office records, becoming something of a cultural phenomenon. Like Harry...

18.12.2025 3

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Psychedelics Might Fix Your Depression by Rewiring Your Brain, Study Finds

Using psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, to treat depression is not a new idea. What is new is some research, published in the...

18.12.2025 4

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An Enormous Shark Ruled the Seas Before the Megalodon, Fossils Reveal

Tens of millions of years before the megalodon, a massive shark was running the oceans. According to new research, a previously overlooked set of...

18.12.2025 2

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Kids Are Using AI Chatbots for Violence

Boy, things get dark real fast when kids start talking to AI companions. And violent, according to Aura, a digital security company that conducts an...

18.12.2025 4

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Study Reveals the Actual Percentage of Toxic Social Media Users

The Internet can seem like a real s—thole sometimes. But that’s just a perception. A relative handful of loud, toxic a—holes really poisons the...

18.12.2025 10

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Why Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Moving So Strangely, According to Scientists

We’ve been aware that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is up to some weird stuff again. Well, the crowd that usually thinks every one of its oddball...

18.12.2025 6

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Incredible Footage Shows a Squid Pretending to Be Deep-Sea Plant Life

Scientists have documented a behavior in the deep-sea squid that they’ve never seen before. 4000 meters below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, they...

17.12.2025 5

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This Woman Is Suing the IRS to Claim Her Dog as a Dependent

Birth rates are low. And younger people of childbearing age are opting to treat their pets like their children. So, it’s safe to assume that more...

17.12.2025 4

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Mom Orders a Waymo for Her Daughter, Finds Man Hiding in the Trunk Claiming ‘The People’ Trapped Him

Earlier this week in Los Angeles, a mother ordering a Waymo autonomous cab for her daughter did a little act of kindness that most people probably...

17.12.2025 4

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NASA Just Lost Contact With a Mars Spacecraft After 10 Years

NASA is experiencing quite a problem. One of its most important Mars orbiters, the MAVEN spacecraft, has gone silent. MAVEN, short for Mars Atmosphere...

17.12.2025 3

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Stressed Out Rats Use Cannabis to Relax, Study Finds

Ever since weed started becoming legal across the country, and more and more people started indulging in what was once taboo, scientists have been...

16.12.2025 4

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50-Million-Light-Year-Long Spinning Space Object Is the Largest Ever Found

Astronomers have spotted a massive, gargantuan structure out in the distant universe, and it’s spinning. The word “structure” here can be a bit...

16.12.2025 2

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Teen Boys Are Losing Everything at Crypto Casinos

Each passing day makes it abundantly clear that legalizing gambling to a degree that every person essentially is carrying around a casino in their...

16.12.2025 3

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Man Racks Up $75,000 in Debt in Wild Night at Vegas Casino—Or Did He?

Michael Duke Thomson remembers leaving the high-limit blackjack room at the Aria Resort & Casino around midnight with a few thousand dollars in chips....

16.12.2025 10

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‘Wet Lava Ball’ Planet Might Actually Have an Atmosphere, NASA Says

There was a common wisdom among scientists regarding extremely hot rocky planets that orbit their sun closely. Some wisdom that makes a ton of sense:...

16.12.2025 5

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What’s That Spider-Shaped Thing on Jupiter’s Moon Europa?

On Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons, scientists have identified a feature that looks like a gigantic spider. It is not, of course. Instead, this...

16.12.2025 4

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Killer Whales and Dolphins Filmed Hunting Together for the First Time

In the waters off British Columbia, scientists have documented what appears to be the first case of killer whales and dolphins teaming up to hunt...

15.12.2025 3

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Scientists Find Youngest Mammoth Bones on Record—Except They Were Whales

For seventy years, two sets of bones in a University of Alaska museum were believed to be the last remains of the woolly mammoth. And not just any...

15.12.2025 3

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Why Your Cat Meows More at Men Than Women

Researchers from Turkey have conducted a study confirming that cats meow more to men than to women. I could have told you that myself, as, when given...

15.12.2025 10

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Ancient Roman Concrete Is Still Strong 2,000 Years Later. Now We Know Why.

Archaeologists digging through Pompeii’s remains have stumbled onto a fully intact 2,000-year-old construction site, complete with the ingredients...

13.12.2025 30

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Words That Don’t Sound Nice Are Harder to Remember, Study Says

Swear words are loaded with those satisfying crunchy consonants like Ks and Ts and Gs that add a harsh, stabbing sound to words whose definitions are...

13.12.2025 10

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Garlic Works Just as Well as Regular Mouthwash, Scientists Say. Would You Use It?

It sounds counterintuitive on the surface, but when you break down the science of it, it makes some sense. Garlic, the ingredient that makes your...

12.12.2025 3

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California Is Begging People to Buy Grocery Store Mushrooms Instead of Poisoning Themselves

California health officials are begging residents to stop treating the woods like an all-you-can-eat salad bar. After 21 confirmed cases of toxic...

12.12.2025 10

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Florida Man Told Cops He ‘Teleported’ Into Stolen BMW Before High-Speed Crash

Volusia County deputies have seen some s—t, man. It’s the county home to the drunken redneck mecca that is Daytona Beach. But even they didn’t...

12.12.2025 3

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A Drone Dropped Crab Legs and Weed Into a South Carolina Prison—But the Guards Got It First

Guards at South Carolina’s Lee Correctional Institution stumbled onto a deeply illegal holiday miracle. Sitting in the prison yard was something...

11.12.2025 5

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This Underwater Robot Survived a Voyage to a ‘Never-Accessed’ Region of the Planet

In 2020, Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, tossed an Argo float into the waters off East Antarctica, hoping for routine ocean data. It...

11.12.2025 4

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GameStop’s ‘Trade Anything Day’ Got Pretty Weird. Who Didn’t See That Coming?

GameStop, the once mighty brick-and-mortar video game retailer, just pulled off a silly marketing stunt that is both desperate and a tiny bit funny....

10.12.2025 4

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3I/ATLAS Is Releasing ‘Key’ Ingredients for Life as It Approaches Earth, NASA Says

3I/ATLAS—the mysterious interstellar object that some believed was an alien artifact, but others knew was just a comet—is still being weird....

10.12.2025 4

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Hundreds of Robot Wolves Are Protecting Japan From Bear Attacks

Japan’s ever-escalating war against encroaching bears has led to an almost comical sense of desperation, resulting in hilarious displays of...

10.12.2025 6

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McDonald’s Just Found Out Everyone Really, Really Hates AI Ads

Coke recently lazily posted an AI advertisement, which was promptly met with boos online. Having learned nothing from all that, McDonald’s decided...

10.12.2025 5

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Detroit Finally Got Its RoboCop Statue

Detroit’s long-promised RoboCop statue finally has a home in the city that it protects on screen. The 11-foot, 3,500-pound bronze statue now stands...

10.12.2025 3

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Tesla’s Optimus Robot Collapses, Reenacts Horrifying Robocop 2 Scene

At Tesla’s latest “Autopilot technology and Optimus” event in Miami, one of the droids stood behind a table of water bottles, doing its best...

10.12.2025 4

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Study Claiming This Weedkiller Is Safe Was Just Retracted—25 Years Later

A quarter-century ago, a study hit the scientific journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, claiming glyphosate, a.k.a. the weedkiller Roundup,...

10.12.2025 20

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