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3D printing has come a long way. No longer solely the realm of printing figures and props for D&D campaigns, 3D printing is finding itself expanding...
Xylitol, the popular sugar substitute used in all sorts of foods, from gum to jelly and even toothpaste, might be helping you keep off the pounds. But...
If you’ve ever seen ancient Egyptian art or pottery that somehow, all these thousands of years later, still looks vibrant, like it was painted...
Some high-tech engineering might one day be the reason all of the literally coolest people under the sun are wearing purple clothes. According to...
For as many ancient ancestors of humanity as we know, some remain a mystery, with only faint traces of DNA in our genes today as evidence of their...
What’s the best way to test the quality and vitality of the soil we depend on to grow crops, grow the trees we need to filter impurities from the...
Six Flags Magic Mountain has long been home to X2, an infamously intense roller coaster that has been injuring people for years. You’d think...
So much of the scientific research I write about for VICE is unrelated to me, personally. I’m not going to be mailing any mummified remains anytime...
A study that collected 11 years’ worth of data from 183,000 adults, with findings published in npj Mental Health Research, found something studies...
You may have already met Zosia. She’s been dead for over 400 years, but you’ve probably even seen her face. In late 2024, researchers used her...
Gucci. McDonald’s. Disney. Apple. All brands known the world over whose names alone seem to be the engine that fuels the self-perpetuating machine...
The North Sea has spent about a century being a battleship graveyard, with warships from World War I and World War II turning into involuntary...
Remember that screenshot you took to keep track of vital information while filling out a form, or to save a recipe for later? You don’t? That’s...
There was once a point when even Earth’s most notoriously dry spots were submerged beneath the sea. Going all the way back to the Cretaceous period,...
For as much of a dark, inky void the universe is, the countless stars in it keep shining directly into the telescopes of researchers hunting for...
Be fortunate that you more than likely do not have to be tackled by a 300-pound lineman at full speed to earn your paycheck; otherwise, it would be...
Austrian construction workers found a Roman-era mass grave under a soccer field filled with bodies that had their pelvises severely beaten up....
The Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Northwestern Los Angeles was a decades-old testing facility home to rocket tests and nuclear reactors. The site...
Wi-Fi is the magical, invisible air internet that your phone breathes so you can watch TikTok in bed. It’s also a shockingly good way of pinpointing...
Scromiting is when you smoke so much weed that you start violently vomiting, sometimes retching so intensely that it sounds like you’re screaming...
The influencers who shape your life, who make you feel bad about yourself for not having achieved anything, often have not achieved much themselves,...
In 2015, an ancient Japanese castle was moved to repair a vital stone wall. With that repair finally completed, it needed to be moved back, so Japan...
If you’ve ever visited a tourist hotspot abroad and wondered whether the legend attached to it might be a lie, Italy has a cautionary tale that will...
Ah, the old tried-and-true adage remains true: “Never let a donkey into your van lest you be kicked and bitten.” If that wasn’t a saying before,...
Technology has gotten so good, spoiled us so thoroughly, that we now need to use that technology to make our lives a little bit more challenging so we...
You’ve got to love a little melodrama mixed in with your scientific research. For instance, researchers recently warned of a “real mummy’s...
Today, if you want to seem fancy, you drape yourself in gold and diamonds. Back in ancient Iron Age societies, Mediterranean elites covered themselves...
Humans seem preternaturally drawn to stories of animals surviving long journeys across a city, state, or country. Those Homeward Bound movies probably...
Our organs are kind of hard to miss. But researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, publishing their findings in Nature,...
Scientists have managed to keep tiny lab-grown brains alive for nearly six years, and these little brains have shown signs that they age just like our...
Crocodiles are the prototypical cold-blooded creature. Both figuratively and literally. According to new research published in Paleobiology and...
As someone who makes choking, dying-hog sounds in my sleep thanks to sleep apnea, I am especially interested in the mechanics of snoring. What is it...
Narwhals seem like magical creatures, the unicorns of the sea. Unfortunately, in real life, there is no magic, but there’s still an air of wonder...
There were small dinosaurs. Microraptor is a good example. It was about the size of a crow, weighed roughly 1 to 3 pounds, and was only about 2½ feet...
Our galactic home, the Milky Way galaxy, was a hungry fella several eons ago. Scientists observing clusters of stars hanging out near the Milky...
Whale sharks, as the name implies, are huge, and aren’t particularly elusive creatures. So why is it that it’s historically been so difficult to...
If your concept of eradicating a potential “city killer” asteroid begins and ends with the plot of Armageddon, well, you’re actually not that...
It sounds like something out of a utopian vision of the future from a 1970s science-fiction movie: What if you could reap all the benefits of exercise...
It used to be that if you were flipping through cable channels, the thought of eating didn’t even cross your mind until you landed on the Food...
In the wetlands of prehistoric Colombia, there was once a fearsome 4,000-pound, 23-foot-long relative of the crocodile with a bite that could probably...
For as devastating as a direct hit from a trebuchet seems like it would be, archaeological evidence has never provided much proof that any one person...
Supercentenarians, a.k.a. people who live beyond 100, might have their superpowered, anti-cancer-fighting immune systems to thank. According to...
An otter in New York. It sounds like the title of a direct-to-VHS children’s movie starring Jason Alexander as both the voice of the otter and his...
Meta’s AI glasses —the so-called smart glasses with a camera embedded in the frame—have quickly (and predictably) become a tool for harassment....
There are some questions about the modern obsession with “low T,” or low testosterone, as replacement therapies have exploded in popularity....
I hate to do this to you. I hate to tell you that your parents and nagging teachers were right. But they might’ve been. Recently published...
A headline recently published by Fast Company suggests that I might be surprised to find out which generation is most comfortable with AI, and I can...
Not to make light—or lightning, I guess—of a man’s death, but when an active volcano known for spewing molten rock and ash and occasionally...
The glory of spaceflight does a good job of masking the smaller, less magnificent details of space travel. For instance, did you know astronauts have...
If any lesson can be taken from the extremely, laughably ugly animated film Niu Lai, as it dominates the Chinese box office, blowing Christopher...
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