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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...
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...
The science news site Live Science occasionally shares bizarre, often astonishing medical cases that were previously lost to time. The one they’ve...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Coffee giant Starbucks has quietly taken a big step toward sustainability by significantly reducing its use of plastic cups, instead switching to...
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...
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...
Our natural inclination toward helping others may be buried deep in our mammalian DNA, at least according to researchers who observed mice performing...
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...
Color me unsurprised by recent revelations from a team of archaeologists who found Vikings who lived between the 10th and 12th centuries. It turns...
One of Europe’s most active volcanoes started erupting on February 8. Like extremely stupid moths to a very deadly flame, tourists have been...
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...
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...
A team of neurologists and data scientists at Tel Aviv University found that generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini can eventually...
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...
A TV show’s rating used to mean something. Sort of. Nielsen TV ratings were always an imperfect system. They were all based on relatively few...
Fish may not be so stupid after all. They’re still stupid enough to continue nibbling on a hook even after their friends got yanked out of the water...
Look at you, all smug as you scarf down a fistful of dietary supplements every day. You’re just like 75 percent of adults who take some kind of...
What a tease. Remember how we recently found out there was an asteroid that could possibly smash into the Earth? And while it wouldn’t cause an...
Are you in the mood for some extraordinarily bleak good news/bad news kind of news? Well, as COVID-19 turns five years old, we get a report from...
Mark Hoppus, the bassist for the California-based pop punk band Blink-182, is a long-time admirer of the enigmatic street artist Banksy. He’s such...
Humans have this nasty habit of filling themselves with either hubris or delusion and then building cities in places where cities should not be. A...
We tend to think of air pollution almost exclusively as an outdoor phenomenon. Unfortunately, however, a new study shows that indoor products like...
Gas-powered vehicles are extremely energy inefficient. Up to 75 percent of the energy created by combustion engines is wasted as it’s given off as...
Hanceville, Alabama is a small town just north of Birmingham that, as of the 2020 census, has a population of only 3,217. When it comes to cops,...
Motor Neuron Disease, or MND, is a condition that leads to the gradual loss of muscle control, including speech and mobility. South Floridian Joyce...
Do you ever feel like the United States is amid an inexorable backslide into an intellectual dark age from which there is no hope of escape? The head...
A pair of real go-getters from Colorado who think outside the box were arrested for trying to smuggle drugs and tobacco into a Louisiana prison using...
Scientists, drunk with power, changed the voices of mice by giving them a human version of a specific gene, suggesting that this gene plays a large...
There’s an island in Honduras called Roatan that’s home to a city started and funded by a bunch of freak libertarian billionaires who never...
I’m going to start this off by saying that the chances of the asteroid hitting the Earth in 2032 are still quite small. But still, according to new...
25 million years ago there was an ancient carnivore with sharp catlike teeth but with doglike bodies. Hyaenodonts, as it was called, once reigned as...
Scientists recently discovered that Earth’s inner core reversed the direction in which it spins. Now, they’re discovering Earth’s inner core is...
Every once in a while, I like to share with you a long-form article that will take you a while to get through but I promise is worthwhile. This...
In the summer of 2024, Britain became the first nation in Europe to approve the retail sale of lab-grown meat. Fast-forward to today and the first...
The world’s largest producer of farmed salmon, Norwegian company Mowi, is offering a reward of 500 kroner (around $44 US) for each escaped salmon...
Hey, so, remember how last week I wrote about how one astronomer thinks that we might have to nuke Asteroid 2024 YR4, the 100m x 40m rock out in space...
Are you trying to use AI chatbots to add a splash of efficiency to your daily perusal of the news? Well, you’ve already messed up. According to a...
This past October, I wrote about a man named James Howells. Howells is a UK resident who sued his local counsel while trying to recover a hard drive...
Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University joined forces to produce a study that looked into the effects of AI tools in the workplace. What they found...
There was a nationwide power outage in Sri Lanka this past Sunday that left millions of citizens without electricity. The blame is being put squarely...