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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...

27.02.2025 2

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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...

27.02.2025 1

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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...

27.02.2025 1

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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...

27.02.2025 2

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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...

27.02.2025 2

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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...

26.02.2025 10

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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...

26.02.2025 3

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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...

24.02.2025 6

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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...

24.02.2025 3

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We Have No Idea How Many People Are Watching TV Anymore

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...

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Wild Fish Can Tell Humans Apart Depending On What They’re Wearing

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...

22.02.2025 1

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Those Supplements You’re Taking Might Be Ruining Your Liver

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...

22.02.2025 5

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That Asteroid Threatening to Hit Us Probably Won’t Anymore

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...

21.02.2025 2

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COVID Killed So Many Americans That Social Security Shot Up $205 Billion

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...

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Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus Is Selling a Banksy Original at Auction

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...

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Desert Cities Could One Day Pull Water From the Air With Fog Harvesting

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...

21.02.2025 3

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Air Fresheners Are Kind of Like Spraying Exhaust Fumes in Your House

We tend to think of air pollution almost exclusively as an outdoor phenomenon. Unfortunately, however, a new study shows that indoor products like...

21.02.2025 4

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This Device Could Turn Your Car’s Exhaust Into Electricity

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...

21.02.2025 4

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Alabama Police Force Is So Corrupt a Grand Jury Said It Should Be ‘Immediately Abolished’

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,...

21.02.2025 6

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Disabled Woman Banned From AI Voice Clone for Making It Say ‘Arse’

Motor Neuron Disease, or MND, is a condition that leads to the gradual loss of muscle control, including speech and mobility. South Floridian Joyce...

20.02.2025 3

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A Measles Outbreak Is Ravaging Texas

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...

20.02.2025 2

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2 Teens Busted Trying to Launch Meth Into Louisiana Prison With a Cannon

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...

20.02.2025 7

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Scientists Gave Mice a Human Gene to Change Their Voices

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...

20.02.2025 3

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Libertarian Island Utopia is Now A Legal Boondoggle  

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...

19.02.2025 2

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The Odds of That ‘City-Killer’ Asteroid Hitting Earth Keep Getting Worse

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...

19.02.2025 3

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Skull of 30-Million-Year-Old Apex Predator Found in Egypt

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...

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Earth’s Inner Core Is Changing Shape and Scientists Don’t Know Why

Scientists recently discovered that Earth’s inner core reversed the direction in which it spins. Now, they’re discovering Earth’s inner core is...

17.02.2025 5

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Alien Abduction Conspiracies And Antigravity Scams: The Joseph Firmage Story

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...

17.02.2025 4

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Yum! Lab-Grown Meat Products for Pets Have Arrived in the UK.

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...

13.02.2025 4

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Norwegian Company Just Put a Bounty on 27,000 Escaped Salmon

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...

13.02.2025 5

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Um, the Odds of That Asteroid Hitting Us in 2032 Have Doubled

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...

12.02.2025 4

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You Can Ask AI Chatbots to Summarize News Stories—But They Will Be Wrong

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...

12.02.2025 6

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Guy Who Accidentally Threw Away $700 Million in Bitcoin Wants to Buy a Landfill to Find It

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...

12.02.2025 3

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AI Is Making Us Dumber. Shocker.

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...

11.02.2025 5

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How a Monkey Cut the Power to the Entire Country of Sri Lanka

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...

11.02.2025 4

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