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We are in a nightmarish AI-based recursive capitalistic loop, an ouroboros fake people trying to sell stuff to other fake people. The Dead Internet...
Good news! Moon dust won’t shred your lungs apart! Granted, if you tried to breathe it in as it exists in its natural habitat, you’ll have greater...
By the time your baby starts staring blankly at a ball or babbling incoherently, their brain might already be dropping clues about the kind of adult...
Have you visited any British tabloid sites, such as The Sun or The Daily Mail, that all suspiciously run the same story, again and again, about a...
In a fjord somewhere north of Tromsø, Norway, two orcas were spotted French kissing, or so it seemed. Scientists have never observed this behavior in...
Your image, your voice, and your essence as a human being could be gobbled up and regurgitated by AI. The clock is ticking on when you’re control...
Now this is journalism. This is investigative reporting. As Liam Quigley of Gothamist reported, New York City’s public pools were inadvertently...
Trudging through a war-torn, rat-infested medieval hellscape might be much more soothing than it sounds. That is, of course, if that rat-infested...
Somewhere between salad and an alien lies the lettuce sea slug, or Elysia crispata, a creature that eats algae and steals its powers. This odd...
There was, for a brief moment, a hotel in Chongqing, China, that let you the gently awakened by the presence of a bear in your room. It wasn’t a...
Thanks to a freakish combo of intense wind conditions, bad timing, and unsecured beach equipment, a lifeguard in Asbury Park, New Jersey, wound up in...
After six years of delays, instruction setbacks, and a global pandemic, North Korea, the nation that builds propaganda directly into its smartphones,...
It’s a battle that pits two of the most pathetic forces the United States has allowed to rise to prominence against one another. Brian “Liver...
In San Pedro Sula, Honduras, doctors recently found themselves gawking up the nose of a 57-year-old woman named Reina Avila. Avila had writhing...
If you haven’t heard—or been outside at all for the past week—much of the U.S. is currently trapped under a Heat Dome. This occurs when high...
Originally designed to treat type 2 diabetes, GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy quickly made it into the hands of every now-formerly hefty...
The Axolotl looks like a Pokémon (and in fact has several clearly designed in its image). It’s almost too cute to be able to also do something as...
Generative AI feeds on mountains of books, articles, video scripts, and magazines and remixes them all into something that feels new. It can’t get...
If you take a peek at any of the convenience store junk food across Europe and Central and South America, you’ll quickly notice a running theme:...
It’s not every day that a satellite from the Vietnam War era decides to scream back to life, but that’s what happened in June 2024. Relay-2, a...
Since the dawn of humanity, biology has followed a strict and elegant rule: you need chromosomes from mom and some from dad if you want to make a kid....
It’s always fun to take a gander at the odd collection of “health supplements” being sold at your local gas station, either by the counter or...
Michigan wildlife officials recently freed a black bear who had spent two full years wearing a plastic barrel lid around his neck. The bear is somehow...
According to new research, the real sign of high intelligence isn’t how many facts you can recall; it’s how well your brain syncs up with itself...
Type I diabetes is an exhausting full-time job. Having it means living a life full of constant care and maintenance. You’re always checking in on...
Every year, France throws a massive party: Fête de la Musique, a nationwide street festival where millions flood the streets to celebrate with...
A study presented at the European Academy of Neurology Congress 2025 has found that frequent nightmares aren’t just a terrifying nuisance that...
Kassel, Germany, has a raccoon problem. They’re overrun. Raccoons on rooftops, raccoons stealing bananas; raccoons, seemingly as organized as the...
Take a long soak in the bath, and your fingers transform into little elderly folk. Draw on some eyes and thick corrective lenses, and you’ve got a...
Chatbot use has quickly skyrocketed. It’s already having major effects across a range of sectors and even on our minds in some of the worst ways...
For years, tree planting has been the feel-good fix for climate change. It’s fun believing the idea that we can offset the tons of carbon we’re...
As a former cigarette smoker who turned to vaping, and then spent years trying to get off vaping, I can tell you exactly how it all works. In theory,...
It seems like at least a couple of times a week, Elon Musk announces that he’s going to make sweeping changes to his AI chatbot, Grok, because the...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT got absolutely steamrolled by Atari Chess, a relic from 1979 running on a system that predates most of the people reading this....
Every winter, thousands flock to Queensland, Australia’s Sunshine Coast, to gawk at humpback whales leaping, slapping their tails around, and just...
There’s a reason your body begs for a donut after you only got a few hours of sleep—and it’s not because you’re weak or lack willpower. It’s...
According to a new CDC report, death rates from unintentional falls among seniors are rising fast, and it’s become one of the deadliest parts of the...
Over a trillion fish a year are yanked from the water and killed, often without the consideration of a humane death that we (sporadically) extend to...
Just last month, I wrote about a study that showed how switching your method of cannabis intake may not be saving you from future heart problems like...
If you’re unfamiliar, the Enhanced Games are what happens when someone who got caught cheating tries to convince everybody that cheating is actually...
Hypothetically speaking, if today’s artificial intelligence boom eventually leads to an AI becoming sentient, and perhaps vengeful, a YouTuber and...
Environmental news publication Grist spoke to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caroline Fraser about her new book, Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust In The...
Tourism is usually a good thing. Sure, the tourists themselves can be annoying, but the money they bring can be a lifesaver for a lot of countries....
McDonald’s stock took a 1.7% hit recently, and not because the company made some kind of misstep that made investors lose confidence. There is no...
A 47-year-old Texas man wasn’t just killed in his Cybertruck after a crash, he was cremated in it. Now his widow and parents are suing Tesla. By the...
Remember when we all made fun of Trump after he used the incredible power of the presidency to turn the White House into a giant QVC segment hocking...
Nestled on a man-made island off the coast of Miami, Indian Creek is a village that the likes of Jeff Bezos, Tom Brady, and Jared Kushner call home....
A billionaire died after swallowing a bee, and the bee stung him internally. In what sounds like a lower-tier Final Destination death, Indian auto...
Where you live could determine how quickly your brain deteriorates as you age. A new study published in JAMA Neurology by researchers at UC San...
A team of Stanford researchers has unveiled a new specialized surgical tool called the milli-spinner, a miniaturized rotor that might finally make...