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Firefly Released Footage of Blue Ghost’s Touch Down on the Moon

Blue Ghost made history on March 2 by becoming the second private spacecraft to ever soft-land on the moon. Built by the Texas-based Firefly...

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No One Likes Amazon’s Delivery Drones. They Also Don’t Work.

Amazon dreamed of a drone delivery program that would be so successful that it could achieve the true goal of every major corporation in America—to...

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The Fabled Original Version of ‘Star Wars’ Was Briefly Streaming Online

If you log on to Disney to watch the original Star Wars trilogy, you won’t be watching the versions that were originally released in theaters and...

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Suspected Thief Stole $800,000 in Tiffany Jewelry—Then Swallowed It

A thief in Orlando, Florida, allegedly swallowed nearly $800k worth of Tiffany diamond jewelry during a robbery attempt in which he was, apparently, a...

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You Might Have Inherited Trauma From Your Parents or Grandparents

Traumatic events can stick around in your mind for years. Researchers are finding that your trauma can even linger in your genes for generations. That...

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Wind Turbine Syndrome Was Bullshit the Whole Time

Whenever the subject of windmills comes up with Donald Trump, usually because he brought it up, entirely unprompted, he always brings up a bizarre...

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James Webb Telescope Found a Planet-Sized Object Roaming Through Space

NASA’s extremely powerful James Webb Space Telescope just spotted an enormous object freely floating in space and gave it an unintentionally...

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Narwhals Use Their Unicorn Tusks for All Sorts of Things, Drone Footage Reveals

There is a harsh truth about narwhals that we all must bravely stand and face: without the long, single tusk sticking out of their heads like a sea...

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1,500-Year-Old Skeleton of Woman Wrapped in Chains Found in Jerusalem

Archaeologists digging near Jerusalem have uncovered a Byzantine-era grave, the contents of which seem disturbing at first, but fear not, for it is...

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Scrolling Social Media Is Making You Sweaty

There are plenty of studies about the effects of social media on our brains. Some say apps like Instagram and TikTok are hurting our brains. Others...

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LA Times’ New AI Tool Defended the KKK One Day After Launch

The owner of The Los Angeles Times seems like a real dipshit. A sniveling little coward eager to bend the knee to a wannabe tyrant. His name is Dr....

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New Stem Cell Therapy Could Repair ‘Irreversible’ Eye Damage, Vision Loss

Mass Eye and Ear is a Boston-based hospital that specializes in, you guessed it, eyes and ears. Speaking to Gizmodo, a team from Mass Eye and Ear has...

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How Many Episodes of a TV Show Should You Watch Before Quitting?

Daniel Parris is a lover of data and pop culture. He combined his interests on his Substack, Stats Significant, where he uses cold hard numbers to...

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Spacecraft on the First-Ever Asteroid Mining Mission Lost Contact With Earth

A California-based space company called AstroForge recently launched what it described as the first “commercial deep space mission in history.”...

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Computer Error Named Baby ‘Unakite Thirteen Hotel’. Her Dad Still Can’t Change It.

A 49-year-old single father in Nebraska is having a really hard time trying to get an identification card for his two-year-old daughter after he found...

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22,000-Year-Old Tracks Found in US Could Be From World’s First Vehicle

Archaeologists excavating parts of White Sands National Park in New Mexico found evidence of extremely old vehicles, perhaps the oldest evidence of...

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Scientists Used Mammoth DNA to Make ‘Woolly Mice’

Colossal Biosciences may one day be mocked by tabloids as a “COLOSSAL Mistake” after one of their bioengineered sabretooth tigers rampages through...

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Texas Middle Schoolers Shared a Needle to Tattoo Themselves Mid-Class

How oblivious do you have to be as a teacher to not notice that several of your students are sharing a needle in the middle of class to give...

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Evolution Itself Might Be Evolving

We know evolution as the process by which living things adapt to their environments over time by making the necessary physiological changes required...

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Living in Extreme Heat Makes You Age Faster

Turns out that not only is climate change ruining our coastlines and making our weather more extreme, but that extreme heat it’s causing will age...

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This Nasal Spray Could Treat Brain Injuries

We commonly associate nasal sprays with allergies and stuffy noses, but there might soon be a nasal spray that can treat traumatic brain injuries like...

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Your Skin (and Lungs and Butt) Can Taste Things

Our tongues openly rebel against bitterness as a way of protecting us from things that could potentially cause us harm. Turns out our skin might have...

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Please Stop Having Measles Parties, Texas Government Begs

Amid a measles outbreak, people should be smart enough not to need health officials to tell them not to throw a “measles party,” but alas,...

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Cancer Researcher Jailed for Replacing Data With Insults After Being Fired

Naheed Mangi, 66, used to be a clinical research coordinator at Stanford University. Her current job status is a bit different. She was convicted of...

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Surgeons Just Put a Tooth in a Blind Patient’s Eye to Restore Their Sight

Well, this is disgusting. Wildly impressive, ingenious, creative, miraculous, even, but also gross. Doctors in Canada used a blind man’s tooth to...

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Is This ‘Nature’s Botox’ or Total Bullshit?

Social media is overrun with people desperate to find everyday things that, when smeared on your face, reduce your wrinkles, clear up your acne, and...

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Iron Age Skulls Shed Light on ‘Complex Nailed-Head Ritual’

A recent study of some skulls found on the southeast coast of the Iberian Peninsula unveiled a wild discovery. Conducted by archaeologist Rubén de la...

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The Volcano That Destroyed Pompeii Also Turned One Guy’s Brain Into Glass

The horrific eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the same one that engulfed the city of Pompeii, was so intense that it turned at least one poor person’s...

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A Teen Girl Got Pregnant From Oral Sex—But How?

The science news site Live Science occasionally shares bizarre, often astonishing medical cases that were previously lost to time. The one they’ve...

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Cleveland Area School Bus Carrying 15 Students Catches Fire

A school bus in the Cleveland area was carrying 15 students when it caught fire during its morning route to Monticello Middle School. No injuries were...

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Influencers Are Scaring Followers Into Unnecessary Medical Tests

No! That can’t be! Impossible! These are just some of the things I didn’t say when I read that a study from the University of Sydney in Australia...

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Mars Might Be Red for a Different Reason Than We Thought

We’ve been learning a lot about Mars recently, like how it used to have “vacation-style” beaches. In a similar vein, we’re also learning that...

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Legendary SS United States Is About to Sink—and Become the World’s Largest Artificial Reef

The SS United States was, at one point, the fastest ocean liner ever to cross the Atlantic. She won’t be doing that anymore as the legendary ship...

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There’s Lead in Your Water—But Brewing Tea Can Fix That

There’s lead in so much of what we consume—from our chocolates to our protein powders. That fact can make one want to give up eating entirely and...

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Wild Wolves Became Dogs for Easier Access to Snacks

Thousands of years ago, your precious little dog was a proud and fearsome wolf. Obviously, something happened along the way that turned them from wild...

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Kidney Transplant Left This Patient With a Deadly Tick Infection

A 24-year-old man from Wisconsin who underwent a kidney transplant received not only a new kidney but also Ehrlichia chaffeensis, a bacteria spread by...

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Dogs Are Trying to Talk to You With Their Blinks

An evolutionary biologist at the University of Parma in Italy found that your dog’s blinks could be a form of communication, kind of like how a...

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There’s a New Bat Coronavirus Capable of Infecting Humans

Scientists in China have discovered a new coronavirus in bats capable of infecting humans. It has not infected humans so far but is somewhat capable...

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AI Can (and Does) Cheat to Accomplish Its Goals

AI chatbots like ChatGPT aren’t as smart as their creators claim. That is, unless you define intelligence as resorting to cheating when you’re not...

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Starbucks Is Nixing Its Plastic Cups. Maybe They Were Never Recyclable After All.

Coffee giant Starbucks has quietly taken a big step toward sustainability by significantly reducing its use of plastic cups, instead switching to...

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3 Men on Trial for Stealing $6 Million Gold Toilet

Blenheim Palace is a very literal palace in England built between 1705 and 1722 and currently designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. It has been...

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DoorDash Ordered to Pay NYC Dashers $17M After Stealing Their Tips

Food delivery service DoorDash has been found guilty in the state of New York of withholding tips paid to its delivery drivers and then using those...

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Mice Perform ‘First Aid’ on Unconscious Mates, Just Like Humans

Our natural inclination toward helping others may be buried deep in our mammalian DNA, at least according to researchers who observed mice performing...

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Having ‘Null’ for a Last Name Kind of Sucks

In the world of computer science, the word “null” means “no value.” That’s not to be confused with zero which means zero, an actual...

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Turns Out Vikings Had Really Bad Teeth

Color me unsurprised by recent revelations from a team of archaeologists who found Vikings who lived between the 10th and 12th centuries. It turns...

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Idiot Tourists Are Skiing on an Erupting Volcano in Italy

One of Europe’s most active volcanoes started erupting on February 8. Like extremely stupid moths to a very deadly flame, tourists have been...

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Your Smartphone Is Making You Depressed

NPR ran an interesting story about how damaging smartphones can be to our mental health. It’s filled with all sorts of fascinating factoids stemming...

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That Asteroid Almost Certainly Won’t Hit Us Now

At one point, Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a one percent chance of hitting the Earth in December 2032. And then those chances got bigger and then...

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Aging AI Chatbots Are Showing Signs of Dementia

A team of neurologists and data scientists at Tel Aviv University found that generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini can eventually...

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Climate Change Is Taking Our Chocolate Too

The thing about climate change is it doesn’t care if you believe it exists or not. It’s going to happen regardless. We can pool our collective...

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