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The International Space Station is more than a symbolic setting aside of our nationalistic differences as we band together, as a single species, to...
Back in early December, I reported that NASA’s Perseverance Rover found evidence that Mars might have been home to big tropical storms. If Mars had...
Flea and tick medications are a great way to keep your pet and home free of little dark jumping bugs. A new study out of France suggests that the...
Just as we can tell a tree’s age by cutting it in half and counting its rings, researchers may be able to get a sense of when you’re going to bite...
For a plant on the forest floor, sudden exposure to light can be like someone opening the curtains in the morning when you’re trying to sleep....
For years, the advice to single young adults has been some version of “relax, you’re fine.” According to new research, that’s mostly true at...
According to a new study published in PeerJ, the Tyrannosaurus rex, the largest land predator to ever live, may have needed 35 to 40 years to reach...
A 28-pound deer squared up against a 1.7-ton rhino and didn’t end up as a pasty reddish-brown smear in the Polish snow. Thankfully, the encounter...
I was absolutely one of those owners who believed my dog could perfectly understand the English language, particularly the parts that pertained to the...
It’s a common refrain spat out on social media by people with more aspirations than intentions. Every once in a while, someone will declare, as if...
One of the downfalls of modern medicine is that by the time symptoms show up, the illness causing them is already well underway. If only there were a...
There are people out there who can get drunk without even so much as a sip of alcohol. It’s called auto brewery syndrome, or ABS. And new research...
Welcome to The Meme Time Machine, the first in a series of articles that look back on the long, illustrious history of silly, unimportant things that...
The James Webb space telescope is one of humanity’s greatest and priciest creations. Designed to give us an even better look at our universe in any...
It’s such a spot-on allegory for the problems of the modern world that it feels almost too on the nose. A little too perfect. A little overwrought....
A man in Atlanta is planning a family that sounds like something straight out of a dystopian science fiction movie. But we are living in dystopian...
Shrimp and flies, shrimp and flies. That’s all researchers ever find at Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Well, after decades of noting its unremarkable...
2025 may be over, but it gave us one last gift: another weird asteroid to obsess over. Fittingly, it’s got 2025 in its name. Asteroid 2025 MN45 is a...
St. Louis is currently suffering through an embarrassingly modern problem: several monkeys are loose somewhere in the city, and AI is making it much...
Researchers have identified a new, super-weird species of ancient snake. The crazy part? They didn’t find it in the jungle or in a remote cave. They...
The Hubble Space Telescope has been our most reliable eye in the sky, allowing us to peer deep into the inky cosmic void like never before....
A 34-year-old Pennsylvania man named Jonathan Gerlach has been charged with multiple crimes after investigators found hundreds of human skulls, along...
A new study in PNAS Nexus suggests that humans tend to prefer images that are easier for the brain to process. Why? Because they require less energy,...
A massive new study from the University of Michigan set out to answer a question humanity has been asking since we first caught a glimpse of that sexy...
Birthrates have been plummeting in the United States, as they have all over the world. While some debate why, many of us agree that if you just made...
The poison-tipped arrow is a trusty tool in the arsenal of any bow-based videogame protagonist. Whether it’s Link in the Zelda series or Alloy in...
Betelgeuse (not Beetlejuice) is a red supergiant in space whose brightness fluctuates. It does this because one set of rhythms made sense to...
Self-care is supposed to be a part of life where you stop doing stuff, unplug, and finally relax for the first time since your last panic attack....
The idea of mining an asteroid is simultaneously plausible and so out there that it feels like it should only exist in the realm of science fiction....
Inside that cramped real estate of our inner ears live the cochlea, which turns vibrations into electrical signals, and the vestibular system, which...
Jellyfish get tired, too. They may look like living grocery bags, but they’re just like us in at least one very specific way. According to the...
Running a marathon sounds impressive, but it always carries with it an underlying threat: could it be slowly wrecking your heart? A decade-long study...
There’s a certain sect of philosophers who believe that hope, the one thing to which we all cling to provide a little bit of light at the end of the...
The tug-of-war between workers and employees has been intense in the past decade, with pandemic and post-pandemic conditions helping to redefine what...
The National Weather Service’s weekend wind forecast for rural Idaho looked normal. Some mild gusts and a caption reminding folks to “hold onto...
A new study published in Nature reinforces the idea that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. This is based on a set of fossils unearthed in a Moroccan...
Donkey’s Place is a famous cheesesteak spot in New Jersey that once got the Anthony Bourdain seal of approval. Despite that prestigious accolade,...
A container ship docking in New Jersey arrived with a grim and disgusting slab of cargo: a dead whale draped across its bow. How an endangered animal...
Astronomers might have found the closest thing yet to a galaxy that, like your slacker sibling, simply refused to get its s—t together and grow up....
We live in a conspiracy theory culture now. Nobody trusts institutions; everything from online communities to political debates to public policy is...
I recently covered the story of how researchers have discovered the remnants of a galaxy that didn’t couldn’t quite get its act together, never...
No, the rumors aren’t true. MTV did not go off the air for the final time on New Year’s Eve 2025. What actually happened? Paramount shut down a...
Churches across the United States are dealing with a new kind of grift. It’s one that targets those of faith: AI-generated Deepfakes of pastors...
In August 2024, sports fishers off the coast of Costa Rica hauled up what looked like some kind of ungodly hybrid between a shark and a traffic cone....
CES 2026 is going on right now. For those unaware, that’s the Consumer Electronics Showcase, where massive tech companies and small plucky...
The allure of a theme park like Disney World is the controlled fantasy of it all. You’re in for thrills, chills, and wild times you couldn’t...
The mysterious interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS may not be an alien, or even an alien artifact, as was once popularly theorized. That doesn’t...
Multiple states have reported child flu deaths in recent days, as cases and hospitalizations rise sharply across the country. Health officials say...
Maybe you’ve heard that the top of Mount Everest is garbage. Hopefully not metaphorically, especially since it’s pretty tricky to get up there...
An AI system meant to streamline police paperwork ended up making things much more difficult. The AI allegedly believed in the magical, as it...