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A new study proposes a slightly scary idea: what if “extinct” volcanoes aren’t actually extinct, but just waiting? Slowly building a magma...
In space, you’d think there would be no shortcuts. It’s space. It’s defined by its vastness, its emptiness, and, you’d imagine, its...
The official state bird of Ohio is the Cardinal. The official flower is the red carnation. The official tree is the buckeye. Now, if a new bill makes...
We’ve all wondered what our homes looked like 10 years before we got there, or 50 years, 1000 years, or millions of years. Just a century ago, it...
Bees can count. They’re not going to be doing your taxes anytime soon, though after a little bit of evolution and a reading of the tax code, it’s...
Not too long ago, I wrote about an op-ed in the New York Times by a Georgetown professor arguing that “junk food” (a term he used for the...
As the owner of an air purifier, I’ll admit the common suspicion of them has crossed my mind: is this thing actually doing anything, or is it just a...
There’s always a fraction of every generation who insist they were born in the wrong era, romanticizing some mostly imagined past where everything...
Scorpions are already pretty metal. In the metaphorical sense, at least. They are hardcore, cool as heck, and super rad, like spiders if spiders...
After weeks of having shows postponed and cancelled, Kanye West has scheduled a big concert in Albania. To pull it off, the country is building Ye his...
Texas A&M University is going to blow stuff up in the name of science. At worst, they’re definitely proving that you’re a sucker if you choose any...
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is having all sorts of troubles right now. AI enthusiasm is waning; people are turning against the technology as...
We know that the nose is the tool we primarily rely on to take in smells, but the process our nose undergoes from there, in conjunction with our...
Well-being is one of those overused buzzwords in health culture. It’s something everyone claims to understand, but few can clearly define. It floats...
Mindfulness took off in recent years as a way to draw your attention away from the anxieties of the future and all the various doom spirals therein,...
I don’t want to live in a comic book world where everyone has superpowers they can unleash on each other. But every now and then, it’s nice to...
Chimpanzees may not have access to weather apps or breaking news alerts about incoming storms. Still, they have a firm grasp on changing conditions,...
For all of the terrible uses for AI we constantly encounter out there in this fresh new hellscape of the internet, there are some positive uses out...
It’s strange that I feel like we live in a time where a small but loud group of people might feel personally offended by this: a study published in...
As a daily fish oil supplement taker (partly for brain health, mostly for lowering triglycerides), the findings of a new study are making me hope I...
People with severe chronic pain that has proven to be resistant to treatment may have a new bad guy to blame for their worsening condition:...
Arthur C. Clarke once said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Does plumbing count? It should, at least...
Spanish archaeologists have identified 134 shipwreck remains dating back centuries along the coastal stretch between the Bay of Algeciras and the Rock...
You were probably delighted when you saw an orangutan shimmying across a rope bridge at the zoo, but not as delighted as a team of researchers who saw...
Hollywood’s lack of originality is starting to bleed into real life. According to a BBC report, a South Korean man was arrested for his 2020s AI...
According to a preprint study led by researchers at the University of Tübingen’s Autonomous Vision Group, today’s self-driving cars may be...
Between IVF and advancements in sex toys that rival the technological leaps produced by the Manhattan Project, the role of men in the baby-making...
When the human brain sees an emoji face, it does the stupidest thing it could possibly do in that moment: it interprets it as a real human face....
This story is a good-news, bad-news situation. According to a study published in Nature Communications, the bad news is that part of eastern Africa is...
I often like to remind readers that correlation does not equal causation. Just because scientists find a link between X and Y doesn’t mean X causes...
Our old pal, Comet 3I/ATLAS, is back in the news. The comet we breathlessly covered last year as scientists were mystified by this interstellar...
Given enough time, our collective day-to-day activities may one day directly influence the course of human evolution. Who knows what sitting on our...
It’s sometimes difficult to imagine what childhood was like for someone in another country who lived within a completely different cultural context...
The Kraken was not real. It’s a piece of fiction dreamed up thousands of years ago to terrify sailors and entertain Norse mythology fans. Like an...
Human junk food is so bad for you that some monkeys living on Gibraltar who have been eating our junk food have turned to eating soil to cope with it....
People are understandably a little jumpy when you bring up bats and viruses these days. And yet, some people were not jumpy enough. Researchers are...
Scientists are tracking a massive dark patch slowly spreading across the surface of Mars, specifically within a huge basin called Utopia Planitia....
It is every pilot’s duty, at some point in their career, to safely and securely—without putting anyone at risk—use flight tracking systems to...
It’s been a while since scientists began to reach a consensus that whatever’s going on in your gut microbiome is vital, as it plays a major role...
It’s always a small delight when an animated movie gives its talking animals actual names, like they’re tiny, feathered friends whose squawks...
Do you remember the “Gondor calls for aid” scene from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King? The beacons are lighting up one by one across...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the rise of AI-generated slop videos showing impossibly crisp footage of meteorites hitting the Moon that, we are being...
There was a romanticism to hot air balloons back in the late 1800s, when futurists like Jules Verne wrote grand adventures about floating across...
The same machines used to diagnose a broken rib are helping researchers peer inside the dusty remains of a 2000-year-old Egyptian mummy. That’s...
Who knew the future of virus eradication would take inspiration from those spike strips cops use to blow out the tires of a fleeing car? That’s...
Bruce, a disabled kea parrot in New Zealand, became the big boss of his flock. He did this despite missing his entire upper beak, which forced him to...
Researchers are trying to figure out if there are any medications at all that can be linked to autism. Turns out, according to at least one study,...
You’ve got to admire the consistency of science: proving lobsters might be tortured when we cook them by, in part, torturing them first. It’s...
Just about a month ago, I wrote about sharks in the Caribbean turning up with human substances in their systems, cocaine included. Now it turns out...
It’s a little bleak that every non-tech company now seems convinced the only way to stay relevant, both culturally and to an increasingly...
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