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Australian Guy Opened a Bag of Lettuce and Found Something Alive Hiding Inside

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...

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Why These Rare Monk Seals Invented Secret Underwater Panic Rooms

According to reporting from Science.org, based on a study published in the journal Oryx, scientists studying Mediterranean monk seals near the Greek...

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Scientists Finally Figured Out Why 90% of Humans Are Right-Handed

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...

yesterday 10

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Spam Dogs Are a Thing Now. May God Have Mercy On Us All.

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...

yesterday 10

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The Odd Plan Scientists Have to Prevent Birds From Exploding Mid-Flight

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...

yesterday 10

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People Are Asking Plastic Surgeons to Make Them Look Less Human

It was only a matter of time. First, the surreal, cosmetically enhanced faces of celebrities and influencers convinced millions of people they, too,...

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Why This Company Grew 26 Live Chickens in 3D-Printed Artificial Eggs

Remember Colossal Biosciences? They’re the company trying very hard to convince the public they’re basically the real-life version of John...

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Scientists Discovered a Fish So Cute and Fuzzy, They Named It After a Sesame Street Character

You might better know Mr. Snuffleupagus as the gigantic puppet elephant from Sesame Street with absolutely gorgeous eyelashes. His iconic, thick,...

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Scientists Have New Sympathy for Crickets. Reptiles Disagree.

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...

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Scientists Discovered a Deadly New Creature Near ‘the Island Behind Which Lies Death’

The box jellyfish is already one of the deadliest creatures on Earth. Mother Nature decided we needed another one. According to research published in...

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Something Ate the Dinosaurs After the Asteroid Killed Them, Scientists Say

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...

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Scientists Think Viagra Could Help Treat More Than Erectile Dysfunction

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...

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Scientists Made a Phone Game That Can Detect Depression in About 3 Minutes, but Does It Actually Work?

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...

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Denver’s New Clean Energy Plan Runs on Water, Geothermal Heat, and Technically Poop

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...

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The ‘Tarps Off’ Trend Is Bringing Beautiful Idiocy Back to the MLB

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...

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Your Next Psychic Reading Might Secretly Come From a Clanker

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...

21.05.2026 3

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Archaeologists Made a Disturbing Discovery Inside These Massive Stone Jars

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...

21.05.2026 3

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Students Keep Booing AI During Commencement Speeches, and Honestly, They Might Be Right

It’s commencement speech season, and colleges across the country have trotted out one miserable, AI brain-rotted business loser after another so...

20.05.2026 6

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Two Americans Were Arrested After a Memecoin Stunt Terrified Japan’s Favorite Internet Monkey

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...

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Everything We Know About Asteroid JH2, the Washington Monument-Sized Space Rock That Just Flew Between Earth and the Moon

Last week, researchers discovered an asteroid roughly the size of the Washington Monument rapidly approaching Earth. And now it’s gone. It whipped...

19.05.2026 8

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Scientists Found a Way to Make Mammals Heal More Like Salamanders, Which Is Extremely Weird (And Promising)

Evolutionarily speaking, we’ve done pretty well for ourselves, but there’s still room for improvement. There are amphibians living in nasty waters...

18.05.2026 8

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Two People Were Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Smuggle Baby Monkeys in Their Underwear

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...

18.05.2026 8

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Scientists Accidentally Found a Weird New Way to Stop Mosquitoes From Mating

Since at least 2005, researchers have known that garlic works just okay as a mosquito repellent. Last year, The Washington Post quoted a mosquito...

18.05.2026 8

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Someone Stole the Skull of an 800-Year-Old Saint From a Church in the Czech Republic

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...

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Someone Made a Fake Wikipedia for AI Hallucinations, and It’s Basically the Internet Eating Itself

When Wikipedia first launched, there was an understandable fear that its open-source nature would turn humanity’s largest repository of knowledge...

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Scientists May Have Been Wrong About Earth’s Oldest Animal This Whole Time

A 2017 archaeological discovery was small in stature but massive in significance. Researchers found fossilized worm-like creatures more than 500...

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Scientists Finally Found the Truth Behind the ‘Corkscrew’ Killings of Hundreds of Gray Seal Pups

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...

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A Neanderthal Tooth Proved Ancient Dentistry Existed, and It Was Absolutely Brutal

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...

17.05.2026 20

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Your Pregnancy Diet May Affect Your Baby in Unexpected Ways, Scientists Say

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....

17.05.2026 10

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A Chance Fossil Discovery Led Scientists to ‘the Last Titan’

According to researchers publishing their enormous findings this week in the journal Scientific Reports, paleontologists in Thailand have identified a...

17.05.2026 20

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What Your Brain Is Actually Doing While You Doomscroll, According to Science

If you find yourself endlessly scrolling as you maneuver through the various landmines intent on detonating your attention span, it could mean that...

17.05.2026 10

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Why Older People Are Flocking to Adult Band Camps

While I am a big believer in the concept of toxic nostalgia — the way people willingly romanticize the past into some glowing fantasy while...

16.05.2026 7

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Heavy Cannabis Use May Be Doing the Opposite of What You Want, Scientists Say

Now that cannabis has become widely available across much of the United States, the scientific community is finally getting a clearer picture of what...

16.05.2026 20

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The Jellyfish Fishermen Throw Away Might Soon Be on Your Face

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...

16.05.2026 10

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Archaeologists Found Hundreds of Mass Graves So Large They Can Be Seen From Space

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...

16.05.2026 20

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Scientists Found an Unexpected New Use for Ultrasound Waves

Antibacterial soaps and disinfectant sprays may one day become less important in the fight against viruses like COVID-19 and the flu. Not because...

16.05.2026 10

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Meet the Fish That Are Ramming Themselves Up Manta Ray Butts

According to reporting from The New York Times based on a new study published in Ecology and Evolution, scientists have officially documented one of...

16.05.2026 20

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Scientists Discovered a Brazilian Tree With an Unexpected Superpower

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...

16.05.2026 10

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Are Humans Really Born With Empty Brains? Science Has an Answer.

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...

16.05.2026 10

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Everything We Know About Chud the Builder, the Streamer Charged With Attempted Murder After a Courthouse Shooting

“Chud the Builder,” the unambiguously racist 28-year-old streamer who looks like a 40-year-old MLB benchwarmer, has been charged with attempted...

15.05.2026 7

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A Massive Volcano Erupted, Then Something Strange Happened in the Sky

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...

15.05.2026 20

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An OnlyFans BDSM Shoot Ended With a Man Suffocating to Death While the Cameras Still Rolled

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...

13.05.2026 8

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WATCH: This Deer Got So Drunk on Fermented Plants That Police Had to Warn Drivers to Be Careful Nearby

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...

13.05.2026 7

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Babies Might Copy Their Mothers Before They’re Even Born

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...

12.05.2026 10

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Scientists Just Realized We’ve Been Wrong About Penguins for Decades

Penguins cannot self-replicate, but thanks to researchers developing a clearer understanding of penguin genetics, scientists now believe they’ve...

12.05.2026 10

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Colorful Plastic Piggy Banks Are Invading Texas Beaches

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...

12.05.2026 9

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New Theory Suggests That Alternate Universe Versions Of You Are Determining Your Fate

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...

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Here’s How Long You Can Use AI Before Your Brain Starts Rotting, According to Scientists

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...

12.05.2026 7

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Everything We Know About the Monster El Niño That Could Make the Whole World Even Hotter in 2026

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...

11.05.2026 7

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An Antelope So Rare It’s Called the ‘Ghost of the Forest’ Is Being Saved From Extinction. Here’s How.

A once critically endangered antelope has been reintroduced to Kenya’s forests, though now that it’s there, good luck actually finding it. Its...

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