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Bacteria-Killing Viruses Appear to Get Stronger in Space

The International Space Station is more than a symbolic setting aside of our nationalistic differences as we band together, as a single species, to...

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Luis Prada

Mars Wasn’t Always a Red Planet, It Used to Be Blue

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...

yesterday 6

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Your Dog’s Poop Has an Unexpected Effect on the Insects That Eat It

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...

yesterday 6

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Take Care of Your Teeth, or Else You’ll Die Sooner

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...

yesterday 7

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Plants Can Talk to Each Other When They Touch, and It Makes Them Stronger

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....

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This Is the Exact Age Being Single Starts to Tank Your Mental Health

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...

yesterday 6

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T. Rex Took Way Longer Than We Thought to Get Gigantic

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...

yesterday 10

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Adorable Tiny Deer Filmed Trying to Fight a Rhino at Polish Zoo

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...

yesterday 6

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Your Dog Might Be Learning New Words Just by Overhearing Your Conversations

I was absolutely one of those owners who believed my dog could perfectly understand the English language, particularly the parts that pertained to the...

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Young People Are Ditching Screens to Find Happiness, and It’s Working

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...

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Glowing Green Skin Could Be the Future of Disease Detection

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...

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Some People Can Get Drunk Without Drinking, and We Finally Know Why

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...

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Meme Time Machine: Remember Bad Luck Brian?

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...

friday 6

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NASA’s Pandora Mission Will Help the James Webb Telescope Find New Habitable Planets

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...

15.01.2026 4

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Rich People Are Getting Dead People’s Fat Injected Into Their Lips and Butts

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....

15.01.2026 4

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Meet the Man Who Wants to Raise a Family With His AI Girlfriend

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...

15.01.2026 7

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Everything We Know About the Strange New Species Discovered in the Great Salt Lake

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...

14.01.2026 7

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Luis Prada

Everything We Know About the Record-Spinning Asteroid Scientists Just Discovered

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...

14.01.2026 6

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AI Hoaxes Are Really Screwing With the Monkey Search in St. Louis

St. Louis is currently suffering through an embarrassingly modern problem: several monkeys are loose somewhere in the city, and AI is making it much...

14.01.2026 4

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Everything We Know About the ‘Bizarre’ Ancient Snake Found in a London Museum

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...

13.01.2026 6

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Is the Hubble Telescope Going to Die Soon?

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....

13.01.2026 7

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Grave Robber Arrested After Police Found Over 100 Human Skulls in His Basement

A 34-year-old Pennsylvania man named Jonathan Gerlach has been charged with multiple crimes after investigators found hundreds of human skulls, along...

13.01.2026 20

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Your Brain Uses Less Energy When You’re Looking at Something Beautiful, Study Finds

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,...

12.01.2026 7

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These Countries Have the Most Narcissists, According to a Global Study

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...

11.01.2026 10

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U.S. Death Rate Expected to Surpass Birth Rate by 2030, Report Claims

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...

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Poisoned Weapons Are Way Older Than We Thought

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...

11.01.2026 10

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Betelgeuse Has a Massive Secret Astronomers Just Discovered

Betelgeuse (not Beetlejuice) is a red supergiant in space whose brightness fluctuates. It does this because one set of rhythms made sense to...

11.01.2026 10

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When Did Self-Care Become a Full-Time Job?

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....

11.01.2026 10

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Will Astronauts One Day Be Sent to Space to Mine Asteroids?

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....

10.01.2026 10

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Scientists Kept an Inner Ear Alive Outside the Body—But Why?

Inside that cramped real estate of our inner ears live the cochlea, which turns vibrations into electrical signals, and the vestibular system, which...

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Jellyfish Sleep Kind of Like Humans. Here’s What That Tells Us

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...

10.01.2026 20

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Does Running Marathons Wreck Your Heart? A New Study Has Answers.

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...

10.01.2026 10

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Is Hope Impossible? This Philosopher Might Change Your Mind.

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...

10.01.2026 10

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Luis Prada

Would You Work Harder If You Were Barefoot? These Companies Hope So.

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...

10.01.2026 10

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Luis Prada

An AI-Generated NWS Map Hallucinated Fake Towns in Idaho

The National Weather Service’s weekend wind forecast for rural Idaho looked normal. Some mild gusts and a caption reminding folks to “hold onto...

10.01.2026 4

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Fossils Discovered in Morocco Could Reveal Humanity’s True Origins

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...

09.01.2026 6

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New Jersey Cheesesteak Joint Just Wants Its Stolen Antique Walrus Penis Back

Donkey’s Place is a famous cheesesteak spot in New Jersey that once got the Anthony Bourdain seal of approval. Despite that prestigious accolade,...

09.01.2026 10

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Dead Whale Found on Container Ship in New Jersey Sparks Investigation

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...

09.01.2026 4

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Astronomers Just Found a Galaxy That Never Formed. Here’s What They Learned.

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....

08.01.2026 5

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These 2 Traits Make You More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories

We live in a conspiracy theory culture now. Nobody trusts institutions; everything from online communities to political debates to public policy is...

08.01.2026 5

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Astronomers Found an Impossibly Hot Object Near the Big Bang

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...

08.01.2026 4

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Did MTV Really Shut Down? Here’s What Actually Happened.

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...

08.01.2026 6

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Deepfake AI Pastors Are Scamming Churchgoers

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...

07.01.2026 8

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Everything We Know About the Neon Orange Shark Discovered in Costa Rica

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....

07.01.2026 6

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Extremely Silly AI Bartender Debuts At CES 2026

CES 2026 is going on right now. For those unaware, that’s the Consumer Electronics Showcase, where massive tech companies and small plucky...

07.01.2026 8

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Disney Worker Hit by 400-Pound Prop Boulder at ‘Indiana Jones’ Stunt Show

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...

06.01.2026 4

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Scientists Searched 3I/ATLAS for Signs of Aliens. Did They Find Anything?

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...

06.01.2026 2

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A ‘Super Flu’ Is Spiking in the U.S. — and Hitting Kids the Hardest

Multiple states have reported child flu deaths in recent days, as cases and hospitalizations rise sharply across the country. Health officials say...

06.01.2026 6

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Nepal Tried to Clean Up the Trash on Mount Everest. It Did Not Go Well.

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...

05.01.2026 5

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An AI-Generated Police Report Claimed a Cop Transformed Into a Frog

An AI system meant to streamline police paperwork ended up making things much more difficult. The AI allegedly believed in the magical, as it...

05.01.2026 5

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