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Air Pollution Is Doing Something Strange to Our Brains

Environmental pollution isn’t just damaging lungs and rivers. According to a new report, it may also be quietly eroding Europe’s mental health....

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These ‘Smart’ Police Stations Have No Cops

Some people are taking the phrase “abolish the police” quite literally. Ethiopia, for instance, is currently testing unmanned “smart” police...

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Rich People Are Spending a Fortune to Buy Museum Dinosaur Bones

Examples of how the world is catering exclusively to the wealthy are everywhere you look. From trips to Disney to new cars, only the wealthy can...

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When Delivery Drivers Lose Their Jobs to Robots, Some Become Robot Wranglers

If you’ve seen one of those little delivery robots roaming around town that looks like an autonomous cooler on wheels, you probably wondered what...

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Scientists Finally Found Something That Can Kill a Tardigrade

According to reporting on a new study in the International Journal of Astrobiology, even the most indestructible microscopic animals in existence,...

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Everything We Know About the Jim Carrey Clone Conspiracy

When Jim Carrey showed up at the 2026 César Awards in Paris to accept an honorary prize, the internet responded by deciding he had been replaced with...

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Is Gen Alpha Learning Anything in School, or Just Using AI for Everything?

If in the next decade or two you notice that everyone around you is significantly less intelligent and even worse at critical thinking than they are...

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Is Eating Eggs Really Bad for Your Heart?

The world is a consistently disappointing place, but if there is one thing you can count on, it’s finding out about the existence of an extremely...

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Did Human Breasts Evolve to Keep Babies Warm?

Newborn human babies probably should be left in the womb for a little longer to cook some more, but alas, they’re born in nine months, coming out...

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Humans Are Causing Ant Colony Civil Wars

Ants rely heavily on smell, particularly smelly hydrocarbons. It’s a chemical ID card of sorts that tells every member of the colony who belongs and...

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Magnesium Is Sold as a Miracle Supplement, But What Does It Actually Do?

If you’ve spent any time on the wellness side of the internet lately, you’ve probably seen magnesium hailed as a miracle mineral, the latest in a...

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People Get in Way More Fatal Car Crashes on Days Hot New Music Drops

It seems that when a major music artist releases a new album of certified bangers, one of those bangers is your car banging into a tree, or a light...

02.03.2026 6

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NASA Scrapped Its Plan to Put Astronauts on the Moon With Artemis III

NASA official Jared Isaacman confirmed that the 2027 Artemis III mission, which was slated to put people back on the moon for the first time in...

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Gen Alpha Is Sick of Superheroes. They Want Father Figures Instead.

For more than a decade, Hollywood has operated on a simple theory that young dudes want to see stuff get blowed up real good by tortured superpowered...

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Neanderthal Men Were Banging Human Women for Hundreds of Thousands of Years

Many tens of thousands of years ago, when modern humans migrated into areas populated by our genetic ancestors, Neanderthals, Neanderthal men and...

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This Is How Much Extra Productivity You Actually Get at Your Mental Peak

If you’re into hyper-optimization, the findings of a new study published in Science Advances will probably be a revelation. If you’re a little...

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People Really Are More Likely to Commit Crimes After a Cancer Diagnosis

You can draw a straight line between the cancer diagnosis and Walter White becoming the American Southwest’s preeminent meth kingpin. It’s a...

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Japanese Students Can Now Go to a Virtual ‘Cram School’ Where Every Teacher Is a Waifu

Japan’s cram school industry is now using teachers posing as anime avatars to teach children. Surely, this is going to go well, and those kids are...

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Woman Accused of Using ChatGPT to Plot Murders of Two Men

A 21-year-old woman in Seoul has been charged with murdering two men after investigators say she used prescription sedatives mixed with alcohol. She...

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Gen Z Is Taking Over America’s Retirement Home

MovingPlace, from what I can tell, is to finding a moving company to haul your junk from one home to another, as Kayak.com is to plane tickets, which...

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Burger King Finds Exciting New Way to Annoy Employees: AI Headsets to Rate Their Friendliness

The sci-fi dystopia is here. It is now. It’s not some distant, far-off future with flying cars and megacities. It’s the boring now. You need no...

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How Many Times Have Earth’s Magnetic Poles Flipped?

Earth’s magnetic poles have flipped dozens of times since the planet formed, with north and south changing places after they get tired of the old...

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The 3 U.S. States With the Most Liars

New analysis on American dishonesty, detailed by Study Finds, claims Americans tell an average of 11 lies per week, and that more than half have been...

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Alcohol Makes Your Brain Forget How to Communicate With Itself

In a new study published in the scientific journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, researchers led by the University of Minnesota found that moderate...

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Why Is Everyone Suddenly Nearsighted? New Study Has Answers.

There’s been a global spike in nearsightedness that everyone just assumed had something to do with heavy smartphone use. There’s a logic to it,...

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What If Your Takeout Came in Shrimp Shell Plastic? No, It Really Could.

A big problem with biodegradable material is that moisture almost instantly destroys it. Biodegradable paper cups, for instance, will dissolve into a...

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Measles Can Tear Your Brain Apart, and Scientists Are Showing the End Result

As the United States is swarmed with measles, helped along by the dangerous irresponsibility of anti-vaxxers, some people need a reminder that while...

28.02.2026 10

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Video Games Are Losing a Brain Rot Race to Gambling and Porn

Video games, once considered the brain-rotting ruiner ruin of our children’s brains and of civilization itself, are, according to a new games...

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Wild Chimps Get Drunk on a Daily Basis, Scientists Find

Getting wasted on booze seems like a uniquely human trait, but a study published in Biology Letters found that wild chimpanzees in Uganda are eating...

27.02.2026 7

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These Baby Butterflies Speak Ant—and Use It to Trick the Colony Into Taking Care of Them

A new study published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences suggests that some butterfly caterpillars infiltrate ant colonies by mimicking...

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This App Can Tell You When Someone Is Creeping on You With Smart Glasses

There seems to be little to no regard for, or even a broader conversation about, personal privacy, as the market is flooded with smart glasses. The...

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D4vd Has Reportedly Been Named as the Target of a Grand Jury Investigation

D4vd has reportedly been named as the target of a Los Angeles County grand jury investigation. This revolved around the death of Celeste Rivas...

27.02.2026 5

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NYC Blizzard Led to a Massive Snowball Fight, and an Arrest

In what may be the softest “assault” case of the year, the New York City Police Department is investigating after officers were hit by snowballs...

26.02.2026 4

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An Obituary for Mr. Clean

After nearly seven decades of steady employment, Mr. Clean, the famously (and proudly) bald mascot for cleaning products, is doing something that is...

26.02.2026 9

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Teen Cannabis Use May Double Your Risk of Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder

As marijuana legalization spreads, a new study says that teenage marijuana use can lead to some devastating consequences down the line. Published in...

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Please Ring the Fish Doorbell So Dutch Catfish Can Have Sex

Last March, I wrote about the Dutch doorbell you can ring from anywhere in the world that makes sure fish have sex. Now it’s back. The “fish...

26.02.2026 5

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How a Guy Accidentally Became the Supreme Ruler of an Army of 7,000 Robot Vacuums

When a security researcher named Sammy Azdoufal was trying to build a DIY joystick controller for his robot vacuum, he accidentally discovered a...

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Fur-Covered Kentucky Man Arrested After Allegedly Having Sex With a Deer

A man in Daviess County in Kentucky who was clearly striking out on the dating apps is behind bars after police say he was allegedly found, ahem,...

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Florida Man Games Crowns Its Champion: ‘Naked Rampage’

If you’re going to be mocked mercilessly for the shenanigans going on in your state, you might as well embrace it. That’s the idea behind The...

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Why People Won’t Stop Destroying Flock Surveillance Cameras

The United States has long been a nation caught between two extremes: not wanting to be monitored 24/7 and totally fine with near-constant...

24.02.2026 6

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Lion Trafficker Convicted Using DNA Evidence in World First: Everything We Know

In a legal first that could reshape the fight against wildlife trafficking, a court in Zimbabwe has secured a conviction for lion poaching using DNA...

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What Built the Dusty Red ‘Snowman’ Floating in Space?

When NASA’s New Horizons flew past Arrokoth on New Year’s Day 2019, it captured humanity’s most distant close-up of a primordial object. The...

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Remember When Regular Americans Could Afford New Cars?

Kelly Blue Book is the gold standard for figuring out how much—or more realistically, how little—you can get for the piece of junk you’ve been...

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Scientists Have a New Plan to Save the Oceans: Set Them on Fire

But what if we harnessed the awesome power of fire tornadoes… for good? This is likely the thought process that went into a real-life scientific...

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Why Did Comet 3I/ATLAS Get So Much Brighter After Flying Past the Sun?

Ah, good ol’ 3I/ATLAS. How I miss writing about you a few days a week. You were a fun comet. You were a bit of a freak. You came from beyond our...

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This Freaky 350-Million-Year-Old ‘Smiling’ Fossil Isn’t What It Seems

Britain’s Christine Clark was out on a fossil hunt on Boxing Day when the 64-year-old found a pebble that was smiling at her from the sand. The BBC...

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CT Scans Reveal the Horrors of Being an Incan Child Sacrifice

Unsurprisingly, being an Incan child sacrifice was not a pleasant experience. Back in 2013, researchers found that children who were sacrificed to...

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Your Brain Doesn’t Stop Developing at 25, It Keeps Changing Until This Age

It’s one of those commonly accepted “facts” that isn’t really a fact at all. Your frontal lobe hasn’t fully developed until the age of 25....

23.02.2026 10

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Could This 5,000-Year-Old Bacteria Trapped in Ice Be the End of Us?

One of the more frightening prospects in a future filled with them is antibiotic resistance, the idea that there may be superbugs impervious to the...

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Is DMT the Key to Lasting Depression Relief?

Psychedelic drugs, once the domain of counterculture rebellion, have been steadily gaining legitimacy in the medical world. Now, DMT, the hallucinogen...

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