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Orcas Are Hunting Great White Sharks and Throwing the Ecosystem Into Chaos

Port and Starboard are rather cutesy names for two of the murderous orcas slaughtering great white sharks off the coast of South Africa at an alarming...

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Florida Theme Park Raided, Accused of Dolphin Abuse After 4 Deaths

Law enforcement officials raided the Gulf World Marine Park in Panama City Beach, Florida, after four dolphins died under mysterious circumstances....

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Can Microdosing LSD Treat ADHD?

There’s some good news and bad news for people who microdose LSD as a treatment for ADHD. First, the bad news. According to a study published in the...

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Octopus Hitched a Ride on a Shark’s Back—and Scientists Got It on Video

A research team in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland, New Zealand, caught a glimpse of something I bet they had never thought they would ever see: an...

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Beard Transplants Are Expensive, Risky, and Booming in Popularity

As men fork over thousands to fly to Turkey to get hair transplants to repopulate their thinning hairlines, the trend seems to be extending southward...

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Botanists Found a New Species of Enormous Ancient Trees—And They’re Going Extinct

Trees shouldn’t be elusive. They don’t move a whole lot. Yet, we’re still identifying new types of trees, even gigantic ones so big you’d...

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Beer Bottle Found on the Ocean Floor With Tiny Creatures Hiding Inside

Marine biologist Hanna Koch found a beer bottle while snorkeling in the Florida Keys. Big deal, right? It’s the keys. There are probably thousands...

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Clearing Brain Waste Could Prevent Dementia in the Future

A team of researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may have found a new treatment for memory loss and cognitive decline....

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Police Chief Pooped on the Floor and Stabbed an Officer’s Penis, Cops Claim

Robert Farley was just appointed chief of the North Bergen Police Department in February 2024. However, he’s already being accused of several...

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Your Future Home Could Be 3D-Printed

We don’t have enough homes for everybody. And the available homes are too expensive. Makes sense, considering the United States is building more...

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Would You Try Breast Milk Flavored Ice Cream? Now You Can.

Frida is a popular maker of products for pregnant women and the subsequent babies they fire out. They make a wide range of products—from Perineal...

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Get Ready, Colorado. Medicinal Psychedelic Mushrooms Are on the Way.

Colorado is on the brink of launching state-regulated psychedelic mushroom programs, with licenses for “healing centers” expected to be issued by...

27.03.2025 3

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This Drug Can Make Your Blood Toxic to Mosquitoes

Nitisinone is a medication that has been around for years. It’s used to fight genetic disorders like hereditary tyrosinemia type 1. But, according...

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RFK Jr Said Cod Liver Oil Could Treat Measles. Now, Kids Are Turning Yellow.

Hey, real quick: since our Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a known anti-vaxxer who has a long history of holding some fairly insane...

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There’s a Strong Link Between Sugary Drinks and Cancer

In news that is not at all shocking and feels as though we’ve all known it in our hearts for our entire lives, a study from the University of...

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Hidden Manuscript of King Arthur and Merlin Legend Found After 400 Years

Some highly advanced imaging technology that Merlin himself would have considered pure wizardry has helped researchers read a long-lost, centuries-old...

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Sharks Aren’t Silent Killers After All. Here’s What They Sound Like.

Sharks are known to move in silence. The fact that they live underwater probably helps. For years, the only sound we associated with sharks was John...

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A Star Could Explode This Week—Here’s How to See It

If you’ve ever wanted to look to the sky and watch a star explode you’re in luck. T Coronae Borealis is a binary star system around 3,000...

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The Creatine You’re Taking to Get Big Might Be Useless

If you’ve been taking creatine to get big at the gym, a study from the University of New South Wales found that you have probably been wasting your...

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If You’re Really Into Running, Your Brain Might Be Eating Itself

If you’re into really strenuous endurance exercises that push your body and mind to the limits, like running marathons, just know that at some point...

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How to Sneeze Quieter So You Stop Alarming People in Public

If you’re the type of sneezer whose achoos can pierce an eardrum, it’s important to know that you don’t have to live this way. You don’t have...

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Woman Got an Unnecessary Full-Body Scan and Found Out She Had a Deadly Condition

Two things can be true at once: Influencers can be using scare tactics to convince you that you need unnecessary medical tests and some of those...

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Tick Bite-Induced Meat Allergy Linked to More Species

Alpha-gal is a lot more than a perfect name for a female superhero. It’s also a syndrome that makes people allergic to red meat. It’s usually...

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Maryland Is Working to Exonerate Its Witches Hundreds of Years Later

You may not have noticed amidst the wide variety of anti-social justice horrors taking place at the moment but there has been a global movement to...

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This Satellite Could One Day Be Used to Eat Other Satellites

Space junk left over from the tens of thousands of satellites we’ve launched into orbit is a real problem. It not only affects researchers on the...

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AI Chatbots Making Computer Programming Jobs Disappear

Computer programming was once a foolproof field—one of those career paths that was always going to need workers, like accounting and nursing. The...

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Why Can’t We Remember Being Babies?

So many of us try to recall our earliest memories yet can’t seem to conjure up anything beyond a certain point. Our baby lives are completely...

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Do Tattoos Cause Cancer?

There was a time when tattoos were so taboo that having one made you an outsider. Now it’s difficult to find anyone who doesn’t have a...

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College Students Are Harnessing the Power of Plants to Grow Ozempic at Home

Students from the University of Ottawa have come up with a brilliant way to essentially make copies of pharmaceutical drugs using plants. Their...

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ChatGPT Hit With Complaint After Accusing User of Murdering His Kids

You probably know by now that OpenAI’s ChatGPT makes shit up. The technical term for it is a “hallucination.” But that feels a little too...

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Wildlife Experts Ask for Help Identifying Mystery Animal Spotted in South Florida

An animal captured on a trail camera by the South Florida Wildlands Association has left experts puzzled. The creature, spotted roaming public lands,...

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Astronauts Will Not Get Overtime Pay for the Nine Months Spent Stranded in Space

Some people expect to get a little extra cash if they get a stay at work late. But does that same logic apply to master astronauts Suni Williams and...

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Florida Man Hospitalized With Rare Infection After Eating Feral Pig Meat

If you kill a feral pig, you probably shouldn’t eat it. This life lesson comes to us from yet another CDC case study. These studies occasionally...

21.03.2025 4

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Anti-Elon Musk Vandalism Could Soon Cost Tesla Drivers

Who would’ve thought that being a billionaire who the American public did not elect yet is for some reason in charge of ripping apart the federal...

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Pirate’s Booty Founder Declared Himself Mayor—and Then Lost in a Landslide

We live in an era where rich people’s wealth has ruined their brains. Everywhere you look there’s some new extraordinarily wealthy person who...

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AI Still Can’t Tell Time or Read a Calendar

If you’re in an industry being impacted by the rise of AI, take heart in knowing that these stupid algorithms still can’t figure out how to read...

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Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Used to Be Scented

Earlier today I wrote about a statue in Dublin that perverts keep groping. Now we get word that statues used to be even more alluring. New research...

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What Your Poop Schedule Says About Your Health

Data from over 1,400 healthy adults can’t be wrong: pooping once or twice a day means you’re doing pretty well, healthwise. Researchers from the...

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Dublin’s Molly Malone Statue Might Be Moved Because People Won’t Stop Groping It

Pervs have been so frequently sexually molesting a statue of a woman in Dublin that the bronze woman’s boobs are a different color from the rest of...

19.03.2025 4

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Out of Any IP That They Own, I Wish Rare Could Take Another Shot at ‘Viva Pinata’

When someone thinks about the developer Rare, their first thought may quickly shoot to the bird and the bear. But not me. While I have some nostalgic...

19.03.2025 4

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Man Had the Hiccups for 2 Years Before Doctors Finally Cured Him

If I have hiccups for more than a minute, I start to wonder if being alive is all it’s cracked up to be. And then I hold my breath for a bit, the...

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Most Back Pain Treatments Are Useless. Here’s What Actually Helps.

You’ve been through a thousand different treatments for your lower back pain and nothing seems to work. In your darkest moments, you think maybe...

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Transplant Patient Survived Over 100 Days With a Titanium Heart

An Australian man in his 40s with severe heart failure just made medical history by being the first person to live for over 100 days with an...

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Harvard Announces Free Tuition for Students Whose Families Make Under $200,000

The costs of higher education can be daunting. The mere prospect of being saddled with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt by the time you...

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Iguanas Traveled 5,000 Miles of Ocean to Get to Fiji—Here’s How

The extremely remote island of Fiji, which is hanging out way out in the ass end of the Pacific, is home to a species of iguana. That species of...

19.03.2025 4

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Antarctic Scientists Beg for Rescue After ‘Assault and Death Threats’ From Colleague

A member of a South African-run research base in Antarctica has been rocked by allegations of inappropriate behavior and physical assault. This...

18.03.2025 3

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This AI Device ‘Remembers’ Your Life—But Gets Most of It Wrong

Sometimes a product review is so well-written that you feel like you were the one who experienced the abject misery of interfacing with a thing that...

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Virginians Panic After Gorilla Broke Out of a Zoo—With No Gorillas

The news broke out and went on a rampage through social media: a gorilla had escaped from the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk. People were scared. Was it safe...

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Hot Pot Chain Compensates Thousands After 2 Teens Peed in the Broth

Haidilao is the biggest hot pot chain in China, with over 1,300 locations around the world, including a handful in North America. The chain recently...

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Humans Are Getting Dumber

If you’ve had an inkling that everyone on Earth seems significantly dumber than they once were, you might not be wrong. Some smart people from the...

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