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Be fortunate that you more than likely do not have to be tackled by a 300-pound lineman at full speed to earn your paycheck; otherwise, it would be...
Austrian construction workers found a Roman-era mass grave under a soccer field filled with bodies that had their pelvises severely beaten up....
The Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Northwestern Los Angeles was a decades-old testing facility home to rocket tests and nuclear reactors. The site...
Wi-Fi is the magical, invisible air internet that your phone breathes so you can watch TikTok in bed. It’s also a shockingly good way of pinpointing...
Scromiting is when you smoke so much weed that you start violently vomiting, sometimes retching so intensely that it sounds like you’re screaming...
The influencers who shape your life, who make you feel bad about yourself for not having achieved anything, often have not achieved much themselves,...
In 2015, an ancient Japanese castle was moved to repair a vital stone wall. With that repair finally completed, it needed to be moved back, so Japan...
If you’ve ever visited a tourist hotspot abroad and wondered whether the legend attached to it might be a lie, Italy has a cautionary tale that will...
Ah, the old tried-and-true adage remains true: “Never let a donkey into your van lest you be kicked and bitten.” If that wasn’t a saying before,...
Technology has gotten so good, spoiled us so thoroughly, that we now need to use that technology to make our lives a little bit more challenging so we...
You’ve got to love a little melodrama mixed in with your scientific research. For instance, researchers recently warned of a “real mummy’s...
Today, if you want to seem fancy, you drape yourself in gold and diamonds. Back in ancient Iron Age societies, Mediterranean elites covered themselves...
Humans seem preternaturally drawn to stories of animals surviving long journeys across a city, state, or country. Those Homeward Bound movies probably...
Our organs are kind of hard to miss. But researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, publishing their findings in Nature,...
Scientists have managed to keep tiny lab-grown brains alive for nearly six years, and these little brains have shown signs that they age just like our...
Crocodiles are the prototypical cold-blooded creature. Both figuratively and literally. According to new research published in Paleobiology and...
As someone who makes choking, dying-hog sounds in my sleep thanks to sleep apnea, I am especially interested in the mechanics of snoring. What is it...
Narwhals seem like magical creatures, the unicorns of the sea. Unfortunately, in real life, there is no magic, but there’s still an air of wonder...
There were small dinosaurs. Microraptor is a good example. It was about the size of a crow, weighed roughly 1 to 3 pounds, and was only about 2½ feet...
Our galactic home, the Milky Way galaxy, was a hungry fella several eons ago. Scientists observing clusters of stars hanging out near the Milky...
Whale sharks, as the name implies, are huge, and aren’t particularly elusive creatures. So why is it that it’s historically been so difficult to...
If your concept of eradicating a potential “city killer” asteroid begins and ends with the plot of Armageddon, well, you’re actually not that...
It sounds like something out of a utopian vision of the future from a 1970s science-fiction movie: What if you could reap all the benefits of exercise...
It used to be that if you were flipping through cable channels, the thought of eating didn’t even cross your mind until you landed on the Food...
In the wetlands of prehistoric Colombia, there was once a fearsome 4,000-pound, 23-foot-long relative of the crocodile with a bite that could probably...
For as devastating as a direct hit from a trebuchet seems like it would be, archaeological evidence has never provided much proof that any one person...
Supercentenarians, a.k.a. people who live beyond 100, might have their superpowered, anti-cancer-fighting immune systems to thank. According to...
An otter in New York. It sounds like the title of a direct-to-VHS children’s movie starring Jason Alexander as both the voice of the otter and his...
Meta’s AI glasses —the so-called smart glasses with a camera embedded in the frame—have quickly (and predictably) become a tool for harassment....
There are some questions about the modern obsession with “low T,” or low testosterone, as replacement therapies have exploded in popularity....
I hate to do this to you. I hate to tell you that your parents and nagging teachers were right. But they might’ve been. Recently published...
A headline recently published by Fast Company suggests that I might be surprised to find out which generation is most comfortable with AI, and I can...
Not to make light—or lightning, I guess—of a man’s death, but when an active volcano known for spewing molten rock and ash and occasionally...
The glory of spaceflight does a good job of masking the smaller, less magnificent details of space travel. For instance, did you know astronauts have...
If any lesson can be taken from the extremely, laughably ugly animated film Niu Lai, as it dominates the Chinese box office, blowing Christopher...
A lot of guys out there are freaking out over their testosterone levels, which can lead to things that make men feel less masculine, like erectile...
When we think about data collection and the potential for some all-powerful entity to amass a comprehensive dossier of our behaviors, we tend to think...
Dogs have been our closest companions for several millennia now, but they’ve been around for a lot longer. Millions of years longer, in fact. As...
Wondering whether acupuncture can right your body’s wrongs or if it’s just a bunch of woo-woo nonsense is a distinctly human question that...
Here’s a little-known fact about that highly expensive condiment you put on your Chipotle burrito: avocado trees are constantly changing their sex....
Dolphins are the kind of smart that’s a little unsettling for an animal. The more we observe their behavior, the freakier they become. As...
There’s a reason dogs are trusted as emotional companions. If it seems like they have a nearly supernatural ability to sense human emotion, it’s...
The “protein in everything” trend is rapidly approaching its logically ludicrous endgame. Recently, I wrote about how scientists are using a...
The tiny microbes in your gut play a big role in who you are, how healthy you are, and, apparently, according to new research published in...
AI is threatening to replace human workers in some fields, and rightfully, many people are furious that they’re going to be replaced by lines of...
In 1987, the descendants of Boston-area blacksmith Thomas Wells donated a label belonging to a chest of Chinese tea recovered from the Boston Tea...
As I’ve gotten older, standing on one leg when I, say, put on pants has become a trickier athletic feat than it used to be. It probably means I have...
Seemingly for the first time, a shark has invaded another shark’s privacy by filming them without consent. I don’t think the shark doing the...
Almost exactly a year after I wrote about how one of the biggest nuclear power plants in Europe was shut down by a swarm of jellyfish that clogged its...
Pro athletes always hold some degree of cultural significance, not just now but in civilizations long past. Archaeologists excavating an ancient town...
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