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Harvard’s Microrobotics Lab has developed a RoboBee, a miniature drone designed to mimic real insects like bees and flies. The Microrobotics Lab has...
A new study reports that global warming and extra CO2 are basically turning our worldwide rice supply into a huge sponge for inorganic arsenic, which...
If you thought Nicholas Cage buying a T. rex skull, expediting his inevitable bankruptcy, was just a one-off example of rich people unwisely spending...
Students love using AI. Teachers hate when students use AI. Yet, teachers love using AI to help grade papers, some of which were probably written by...
If you’re trying and trying and failing and failing to lose weight, it might not necessarily be your fault. Well, the fault lies in your body,...
Wildlife piracy sounds a lot cooler than it is. It’s a serious crime, a reality two Belgian teenagers are facing firsthand after trying to traffic...
Ah, nature. The crisp air, the towering peaks, the sense of existential dread as you realize your GPS just led you off a cliff. 2024 was the year we...
Cognitive neurobiologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, Andreas Nider, is making some lofty claims, and for good reason. He says that his...
If you’ve ever been bitten by an alligator, science has stated that it’s your fault. There’s a small chance that it wasn’t, but more likely...
Imagine a fridge the size of a walk-in closet filled with lungs, spleens, and tiny frozen mouse brains—priceless in scientific value, but rancid if...
The usual fixes for motion sickness may not work for everyone. Ginger, weird wristbands, and Dramamine that turns you into a zombie. But now, thanks...
For decades, fighter pilots—especially women—have been forced to either hold in their pee for eight hours until they touch ground again, or...
You’ve heard of bird strikes before, I’m sure. That’s when a plane engine is destroyed by a flying bird that gets sucked into its machinery,...
It’s so very American to hoard as much money as you possibly can and still not be able to squeeze as much value out of it as a poor person somewhere...
Tesla is being sued for allegedly altering the readings on its own cars’ odometers. A class-action lawsuit filed in California claims that Tesla has...
The purpose of cryotherapy is to alleviate pain and swelling, not kill you. Sadly, that’s what happened in Paris. A cryotherapy machine...
Thanks to a collaboration between Google and the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP), we might finally crack the code on dolphin language. Since 1985, WDP has...
In the South Atlantic, some 2,000 feet beneath the waves, scientists finally spotted something that’s eluded humanity for over a century: a colossal...
It feels like, while we’re making strides in battery life, the designs of batteries themselves have been stuck in the mud for a long time. That...
Back before college kids were snorting lines of Adderall, those same kids were on Ritalin, the ADHD drug of choice for hyperactive 90s kids. According...
Finally, FINALLY, men can eschew dick-measuring contests for a test of sperm mightiness. A new Silicon Valley startup called Sperm Racing will allow...
You’d be forgiven if you naturally assumed that the most bitter substance on earth was a citrus fruit. But scientists in Germany found what might be...
A group of devout travelers from Germany and the UK went on a spiritual pilgrimage that ended with them writhing on toilets as they were infected with...
Scientists have just resurrected algae that have not seen the light of day since humans were in full Hunter/Gatherer mode some 7,000 years ago. It was...
Where most trees live in fear of being struck by lightning, there exists one tree in the muggy jungles of Panama that embraces the lightning. It...
It’s a war out there. Companies in the AI game are starved for talent. Companies that already have some of that talent are hesitant to let them go,...
According to new research from Monash University and the University of Melbourne, sperm are essentially rocket-propelling themselves toward the...
If you’ve ever found yourself nodding along to a conversation you definitely didn’t hear because the environment was a cacophonous mess of sounds...
A Thai restaurant in Evansville, Indiana, faced off with a plumber in an absurd feud that ended in an act so petty it’s almost admirable. Thai...
As our inapt, corrupt leaders either fling shit at a wall to see what sticks or gleefully tear apart institutions it took a couple of centuries to...
South Africa, home to a recent animal-related story I reported on wherein orcas are single-handedly upending the food chain in the waters, is now home...
Poop is a problem in space. Specifically, what to do with it. That’s why NASA has launched the LunaRecycle Challenge, a plea for someone, anyone, to...
Yana is a 130,000-year-old baby Mammoth named after the Siberian river basin in which she was found. She was discovered by researchers last year and...
It’s never too late to save your species from extinction by pumping out a baby. And that’s especially true of a nearly 100-year-old Galápagos...
Uber has released its annual “Lost & Found Index,” a memorial to our collective absentmindedness. Based solely on this list alone, people only...
I’ve written quite a bit about 2024 YR4, the “City Killer” asteroid that was posing an ever-increasing threat to the Earth until it wasn’t...
Off the coast of Western Australia, in an area called Bremer Canyon, over 60 orcas took down an early 60-foot-long pygmy blue whale in a brutal...
The UK government is quietly developing a “murder prediction” system designed to identify potential killers before they commit a crime. Yes, it...
Space is vast, almost incalculably huge. And yet we’ve still found ways to pollute the area immediately surrounding our home planet, proving once...
Flemming Hansen and Mette Helbæk, a Danish couple behind the acclaimed Stedsans forest retreat in Sweden, became overburdened with debt. They decided...
Local middle-aged men, affectionately called ojisan, have become celebrities in the small rural Japanese town of Kawara, particularly among children....
After being hijacked by the FBI, a cybercrime ring was operated by federal agents for close to a year, and it’s exactly as sketchy as it sounds. As...
Magellan, a company that uses cutting-edge 3D mapping technology to create digital maps of the deep sea, sent two autonomous submersible vehicles...
In the village of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, a Harris’s hawk, a type of hawk, has been randomly attacking people for weeks. It has finally been...
Damn near every nation in the world is gearing up for the space resource race. The mere prospect of gathering space minerals from the moon has...
We all know that alcohol messes with our brains, but a recent study from Johns Hopkins reveals just how long-lasting those effects can be, even after...
Kawasaki has revealed a concept video for a four-legged robotic horse…thing that looks less like a vision of our future and more like test footage...
There are days when writing about silly stuff makes me feel jealous that I can’t participate, and can only write about it from afar. This is one of...
You’d think that breaking away from the weight of gravity here on Earth would be a nice little vacation for your bones. Nope! It’s really bad,...
In Catalonia, Spain, virtual reality is being used to fight a very real problem: domestic abuse. The “VRespectMe” program, developed by...