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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...
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...
While some, like me, believe cockroaches are a vile menace that should be exterminated with extreme prejudice, others actually believe it’s their...
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...
We have a reading crisis in America. Young people aren’t reading anymore, with roughly 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide falling below basic...
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...
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...
It seems ethically dubious that anyone should have access to AI chatbots, considering how easily they can warp someone’s perception of reality to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
The more you learn about the world of scientific research, the more you begin to understand how many seemingly basic questions researchers have never...
Humans have been using pigeons to send messages across long distances for thousands of years, thanks to their remarkable sense of direction. According...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture office tasked with protecting the country from invasive pests like bed bugs is currently battling a bed bug...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Scientists spent 15 years observing a single whale feeding its family. Not human families, but entire communities of marine life. According to a new...
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...
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...
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...
For about half a century now, Utah has been getting hit with a series of earthquakes deep below its surface. Seismologists studying the phenomenon...
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...
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...
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...
I recently covered how scientists are finally piecing together the puzzle of why the Tyrannosaurus rex had such tiny, pathetic, laughably small arms....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
You might remember Avi Loeb from my breathless coverage of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS last year. He’s the conspiratorial Harvard astronomer...
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...
There’s a term you need to familiarize yourself with before continuing this article about a newly discovered animal near the Galapagos Islands:...
Obviously, women who give birth undergo some pretty extreme changes, both physically, hormonally, and mentally, during and after childbirth. Entire...
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....
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...