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While I would be personally mortified to find a frog in the bag of lettuce I picked up from the grocery store, I wouldn’t be mad. To that frog, that...
According to reporting from Science.org, based on a study published in the journal Oryx, scientists studying Mediterranean monk seals near the Greek...
Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I can extend my empathy beyond myself just enough to imagine someone else’s perspective, fully knowing...
Just in time for beach bod season, Hormel Foods, the purveyors of fine pulverized and canned meat products of unknown but still delicious origins, has...
Wind turbines play an important dual role in humanity’s present and future. One, they are a symbol of our continued effort to save the planet...
It was only a matter of time. First, the surreal, cosmetically enhanced faces of celebrities and influencers convinced millions of people they, too,...
Remember Colossal Biosciences? They’re the company trying very hard to convince the public they’re basically the real-life version of John...
You might better know Mr. Snuffleupagus as the gigantic puppet elephant from Sesame Street with absolutely gorgeous eyelashes. His iconic, thick,...
Maybe you’re like me, and every time you crush an insect, you tell yourself Fine, it probably can’t feel pain anyway. Science has now swooped in...
The box jellyfish is already one of the deadliest creatures on Earth. Mother Nature decided we needed another one. According to research published in...
The dinosaurs had a good run and a brutal end that, according to new research, somehow got even more brutal after they died. Because while the...
The subject of this article sounds inherently funny, but it is apparently a rather serious and painful issue for men around the world. As first...
What if a video game could tell you if you were depressed? Technically, they already can if you spend 14 consecutive hours playing them while ignoring...
One day soon, the citizens of Denver might be heating and cooling the buildings they work and live in through the power of their own poop. According...
Look: it’s hot as hell out there. Days are routinely in the 90s, the “feels like” temperatures are already pushing triple digits here in South...
AI is coming for your job. No career is safe. Entry-level jobs are disappearing, coders are thinking about burning their resumes and moving into a...
A thousand years ago, in northern Laos, someone tossed 37 people into a massive stone “jar” measuring more than two meters across in what appears...
It’s commencement speech season, and colleges across the country have trotted out one miserable, AI brain-rotted business loser after another so...
Remember back in the summer of 2025 when there was a string of dildo-tossing incidents at WNBA games? A parade of misogynistic, greedy jerks hurled...
Last week, researchers discovered an asteroid roughly the size of the Washington Monument rapidly approaching Earth. And now it’s gone. It whipped...
Evolutionarily speaking, we’ve done pretty well for ourselves, but there’s still room for improvement. There are amphibians living in nasty waters...
Owning a monkey sounds like a good idea right up until it starts flinging poop around and trying to rip your face off. And yet, there are still people...
Since at least 2005, researchers have known that garlic works just okay as a mosquito repellent. Last year, The Washington Post quoted a mosquito...
Stealing the 800-year-old skull of a beloved saint from a basilica in broad daylight really raises questions about whether your priorities are in...
When Wikipedia first launched, there was an understandable fear that its open-source nature would turn humanity’s largest repository of knowledge...
A 2017 archaeological discovery was small in stature but massive in significance. Researchers found fossilized worm-like creatures more than 500...
Many decades ago, someone first noticed the grisly remains of a gray seal pup along the sands of Sable Island, a thin sliver of land along Canada’s...
We’ve been learning a lot about Neanderthals lately. In just the past few months, researchers have argued that they were much smarter than we...
If you were a fussy eater as a child, refusing vegetables because you thought they tasted gross, you now have one more thing to blame on your parents....
According to researchers publishing their enormous findings this week in the journal Scientific Reports, paleontologists in Thailand have identified a...
If you find yourself endlessly scrolling as you maneuver through the various landmines intent on detonating your attention span, it could mean that...
While I am a big believer in the concept of toxic nostalgia — the way people willingly romanticize the past into some glowing fantasy while...
Now that cannabis has become widely available across much of the United States, the scientific community is finally getting a clearer picture of what...
Whenever I think of jellyfish, I think of the story I read years ago about how they are a recurring nightmare for Japanese fishermen. These guys just...
Sometimes a civilization builds monuments to its own obliteration so grandiose that they can be viewed from space. That’s basically the premise of a...
Antibacterial soaps and disinfectant sprays may one day become less important in the fight against viruses like COVID-19 and the flu. Not because...
According to reporting from The New York Times based on a new study published in Ecology and Evolution, scientists have officially documented one of...
A team of researchers has found a tree in Brazil that can absolutely wreck COVID-19. Like, completely beat the tar out of it from every possible...
Sometimes we tend to think of our brains like a very complicated computer hard drive. When you first buy one, it’s a clean slate waiting for data to...
“Chud the Builder,” the unambiguously racist 28-year-old streamer who looks like a 40-year-old MLB benchwarmer, has been charged with attempted...
It would be pretty amazing if, say, an oil spill cleaned itself up or if a car somehow removed carbon dioxide from the air while driving down the...
Contrary to what most people probably assume (and the story you’re about to read), the world of BDSM is usually a lot safer than it looks from the...
Somewhere in rural eastern France, a deer recently discovered the joys of fermentation. It’s good for your gut. It provides a wide range of...
Yawns have to be one of the most powerful forces in the universe. They’re just as contagious when you’re face-to-face with someone yawning as they...
Penguins cannot self-replicate, but thanks to researchers developing a clearer understanding of penguin genetics, scientists now believe they’ve...
It’s never good when a bunch of junk spills into the ocean and washes onto shore. It ultimately means that we humans have failed at some point along...
What if you aren’t actually in control of your own destiny? What if another version of you from some parallel universe is steering the wheel of your...
Sure, by now we all know that overusing AI can rot your brain. If you stop doing the critical thinking needed to solve your own problems and start...
It’s mid-spring here in my home of South Florida, and it’s already punishingly hot. It’s only May, but the temperatures are already routinely...
A once critically endangered antelope has been reintroduced to Kenya’s forests, though now that it’s there, good luck actually finding it. Its...