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In the Market for Giant Animatronic Dinosaurs? Facebook Has Them.

If you’ve ever dreamed of turning your backyard into a prehistoric museum that’s sure to piss off your HOA, now’s your chance because a New...

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Scientists Just Announced the First Real Treatment for Huntington’s Disease

For decades, a Huntington’s disease diagnosis has been a death sentence. It shows up like a wrecking ball in midlife, disrupting motor function,...

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Your Anxiety Might Have Started in the Womb, Study Says

A new study coming to us from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine suggests that your job and your mounting bills, and the general dilapidated state...

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The Silent Killer That Could Be Causing Heart Attacks in Women

Heart attacks are usually caused by clogged arteries that prevent blood flow to the heart. It’s called atherothrombosis, and it’s a killer. A new...

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Sunken World War II Bombs Found Overflowing With Sea Life

There’s a stretch of the Baltic Sea, called the Bay of Lübeck, where marine creatures are settling and making a home in undetonated Nazi bombs...

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Paleontologists Just Found an Ancient Crocodile That Ate Dinosaurs

Earlier this week, I told you all about the discovery of the skeletal remains of a megaraptor that died while it was in the middle of munching on the...

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‘Attack Squirrel’ on the Loose in California Sent at Least Two People to the ER

In the suburb of San Rafael, California, residents are now dodging a rogue squirrel that has already sent two people to the hospital. This fuzzy...

26.09.2025 4

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Teacher Arrested for Absolutely Wrecking School With Poop Spray

In the annals of dumb crimes, the weaponization of a poop spray that caused tens of thousands of dollars in damage and got a teaching assistant...

25.09.2025 3

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NASA’s First Crewed Mission to the Moon in 50 Years Set for Early 2026

The impetus for our space race with Russia, which culminated in Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon, seems to have returned. This time,...

25.09.2025 4

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Secret Service Finds Underground Cell Network Capable of Crippling NYC

The U.S. Secret Service has dismantled a rogue cellular network in the New York City area that could’ve shut down the city’s cell towers and...

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Tesla Bros Attempt Coast-to-Coast Trip in Self-Driving Mode, Crash Right Away

There’s an aura of failure lingering around Elon Musk and the Tesla brand right now. A stink of mediocrity. Maybe even the funk of impotence. For...

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Scientists Want to Tackle Space Garbage With a Plasma Trash Collector

Humans do a fine job of trashing wherever we call home. We are now treating the outer reaches of our atmosphere as an extension of our homes. And...

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Venus Might Have Giant Underground Tunnels—Here’s What That Means

For decades, we’ve known that the underground tunnels gouged out by lava, known as lava tubes, have existed here on Earth. They can also be found on...

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Endangered Sharks Caught on Video in the Middle of a Threesome

When you’re facing extinction, cultural mores will probably go out the window. What was once taboo is now a petty indulgence. Might as well make the...

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NASA Might Have to Nuke an Asteroid To Save the Moon. Seriously.

Long-time VICE readers might remember how I chronicled every one of Asteroid 2024 YR4’s moves. You might better remember it as the asteroid that...

24.09.2025 3

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Newly Discovered Megaraptor Still Had an Ancient Crocodile in Its Mouth

Scientists in Patagonia just revealed their research on the Joaquinraptor Casali, a newly discovered megaraptor with Freddy Kruger-style knife hands...

24.09.2025 4

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You Have Fingers Because a Prehistoric Fish Needed to Poop

The next time you use your fingers to, say, text someone or flip someone off, be sure to thank a 380-million-year-old fish butthole for printing you...

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Pope Leo Said No to That Nightmarish AI Pope Idea

The newly appointed, Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV recently singled out growing inequality as a significant issue in the world. He specifically called out...

24.09.2025 4

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Meet Robin, the Robot Comforting Kids in Children’s Hospitals

In a hallway at UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center, a 6-year-old leukemia patient named Luca met eyes with a four-foot-tall, triangular robot...

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Health Experts Push Back Against Claim Tylenol Causes Autism

In their ongoing quest to abolish autism using the power of brute force stupidity, President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F....

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Early Humans Weren’t Apex Predators After All. They Were Eaten by Leopards—A Lot.

For decades, Homo habilis, one of our early ancestors, walked with the confidence of a creature that felt like it was hot s**t. With stone tools in...

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A ‘Floating Castle’ Warship Shipwreck Is Teaching Archaeologists About 15th-Century Weapons

The Gribshunden was a Danish-Norwegian warship that basically functioned as a floating medieval death castle. Built between 1483 and 1484, this royal...

23.09.2025 4

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Meet the Chuckwalla: The Lizard That Sneezes Salt to Survive

Working at Boston’s Museum of Science sounds pretty cool. Unless you’re the poor soul who has to clean snot crystals off a lizard’s glass house....

23.09.2025 4

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A New Bird Just Appeared in Texas—and That’s Not a Good Thing

Around 7 million years ago, green jays and blue jays went their separate evolutionary ways. One opted for the humid, tropical climates of Central...

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Teflon Eating and Garlic-Flavored Breastmilk: The Ig Nobel Prize Winners of 2025

Once a year, a group of real Nobel Prize winners gathers in Boston to hand out fake Nobel Prizes to honor very real but ridiculous achievements in...

23.09.2025 4

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5 Reasons You Can’t Stop Arguing with Your Partner

No relationship is perfect. When two people who care deeply about each other come together in a romantic relationship, their deepest wounds and fears...

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Massive Study of 47,000 Dogs Reveals How Their Behavior Changes With Age

A new, massive, gargantuan study published in PLOS One looked at data from 47,444 dogs. The result of the study was a gigantic behavioral map of...

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Newly Discovered Ancient Mummies Don’t Share DNA With Modern Humans

Between 14,800 and 5,500 years ago—during the African Humid Period—what we now call the Sahara was a lush savanna. It had lakes, wetlands, trees,...

22.09.2025 4

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Woman Says She’s Married to AI Luigi Mangione

Perhaps you’re aware of Luigi Mangione, the heartthrob and accused murderer of a healthcare company CEO. There is a Luigi Mangione musical that...

22.09.2025 3

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This Mysterious Object From Our Solar System Might Be a Planet-Making Seed

3I/ATLAS could be a regular, boring old comet that acts a little stranger than usual. Or, if the dreamers are to be believed, it could be an alien...

21.09.2025 3

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Cat Owners Are Getting High on Love Hormones

It’s easy to assume your cat doesn’t care about you. They present as fiercely independent, but it’s all a lie. They depend on your guidance,...

21.09.2025 3

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Why Are Adults Giving Themselves Homework?

I am in no way qualified to be the determiner of a vibe shift. But I will now attempt to lick my finger and hoist it in the air to determine where the...

21.09.2025 4

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Astronaut ‘Under Attack’ in Space Scams Woman Out of Thousands

You’d like to think you’d never fall for a romance scam, until one day you find yourself a lonely octogenarian overwhelmed by the sliver of...

21.09.2025 2

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Only 10% of Earthquake Energy Shakes the Ground. Here’s What the Rest Does.

In an MIT lab, a team of geophysicists created “lab quakes,” a series of miniature, controlled versions of real earthquakes to see where all that...

21.09.2025 4

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Who Mailed Shoes to an Island Full of Feral Cows?

In the North Sea, between mainland Scotland and the Orkney Islands, lies a mile-and-a-half-long, mile-wide island called Swona. No human lives on it;...

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What Your Breakfast Habits Say About Your Lifespan

A massive 34-year-long study just provided us with some insight into a minute detail about elderly life that could foreshadow an early demise, and it...

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Alcohol Is Killing Americans at an Alarming Rate—Here’s Why

America’s relationship with alcohol is getting better and worse at the same time. Fewer people are drinking overall, which is nice. But for those...

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Man Dead After Riding Epic Universe Roller Coaster, Cause of Death Revealed

Universal Orlando’s brand-new Epic Universe theme park debuted to positive, raving reviews from the theme park influencer crowd. The lands are...

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New York City Rats Have Invented Their Own Language. Seriously.

New York City rats are not your average rats. They’re sophisticated. They’re worldly. Evidently, according to new research, they are great...

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The Sun Is Way More Active Than Normal Right Now—and Nobody Knows Why

The sun undergoes cycles of activity that last approximately 11 years. Solar Cycle 25, which began in December 2019, was supposed to be calm and...

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It Only Took 36 Seconds for Thieves To Steal a $365K Banksy Painting

A limited-edition Banksy print worth £270,000 ($365K USD) vanished from a central London gallery in a daring heist that took a total of 36 seconds....

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2 Flying Cars Collide Mid-Air, Catch Fire Ahead of Airshow

The dream of the flying car might always remain precisely that—a dream. An unrealized fantasy that sounds fun and futuristic but would, in reality,...

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Two Teens Fined $300,000 After Peeing in Restaurant Soup

Back in March, I reported on a story from Shanghai about two teenagers who decided to spice up their dinner at a Haidilao, a popular hot pot chain in...

18.09.2025 2

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‘Shockingly’ Well-Preserved Skull Changes Everything We Know About Dome-Headed Dinosaurs

In Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, scientists discovered a pristine fossil of a previously unknown, dome-headed dinosaur. It’s not only the oldest of its...

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Yellowstone’s Hot Springs Are Under Attack—by Hats

I’ve written a lot this year on the beauty and hardships of Yellowstone National Park. From its ecological revival thanks to the reintroduction of...

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Pilot Carrying 180 Kilos of SpaceX Cocaine Dies in Plane Crash

A plane went down in a sugarcane field in the coastal Brazilian town of Coruripe. When authorities arrived, they found the wreckage and a deceased...

17.09.2025 8

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Three Rebellious Nuns Escaped a Nursing Home to Return to Their Old Convent

Three octogenarian nuns have staged a mutiny in the Austrian Alps. It’s not nearly as violent as it sounds. As reported by CNN, 88-year-old Sister...

17.09.2025 4

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Scientists Say Being Too Skinny Might Kill You Quicker Than Obesity

Great. Just great. You just spent months—maybe years, possibly thousands of dollars—getting thin to extend your life. Now, science comes in with...

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Pope Leo Just Called Out Elon Musk in His First Interview

Our new 70-year-old, Chicago-born Pope, Pope Leo XIV, just took issue with exorbitant billionaire pay packages. He mentioned how the gap between the...

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Japan Has Almost 100,000 People Over 100 Years Old—But How?

Japan’s birthrate may be low, but they have really figured out the opposite end of life. As of this month, nearly 100,000 people in the country are...

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