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Harvard RoboBee’s New Crane Fly Legs Are the Landing Gear It Was Missing

Harvard’s Microrobotics Lab has developed a RoboBee, a miniature drone designed to mimic real insects like bees and flies. The Microrobotics Lab has...

22.04.2025 2

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The ‘King of Poisons’ Is Growing in the World’s Rice Supply

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...

21.04.2025 3

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Rich People Are Buying So Many T. Rex Skeletons There Aren’t Enough Left for Scientists

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...

21.04.2025 3

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Teachers Are Using AI to Grade Papers—While Banning Students From It

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...

21.04.2025 3

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Your Body ‘Remembers’ Being Fat—and That Makes Weight Loss Harder

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,...

19.04.2025 10

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Teens Busted With 5,000 Ants Plead Guilty to Trafficking

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...

18.04.2025 2

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Map Apps Blamed for Record Numbers of Mountain Rescues

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...

18.04.2025 2

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Crows Can Understand Geometry

Cognitive neurobiologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, Andreas Nider, is making some lofty claims, and for good reason. He says that his...

18.04.2025 2

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If an Alligator Bites You, There’s a 96% Chance It’s Your Fault

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...

18.04.2025 2

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Thousands of Urine and Organ Samples Could Rot After CDC Staff Cuts

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...

18.04.2025 9

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Listen to ‘Sound Spice’ for Drug-Free Motion Sickness Relief

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...

18.04.2025 4

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US Air Force Created a New Way for Pilots to Pee in the Sky

For decades, fighter pilots—especially women—have been forced to either hold in their pee for eight hours until they touch ground again, or...

18.04.2025 5

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United Airlines Flight Forced to Land After Rabbit Gets Sucked Into Engine

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,...

17.04.2025 10

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Money Can’t Buy Life: The Richest Americans Die Earlier Than the Poorest Europeans

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...

17.04.2025 5

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Tesla Accused of Hacking Customers’ Odometers to Avoid Warranty Repairs

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...

17.04.2025 7

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Cryotherapy Session Gone Wrong Leaves One Dead, One Hospitalized

The purpose of cryotherapy is to alleviate pain and swelling, not kill you. Sadly, that’s what happened in Paris. A cryotherapy machine...

16.04.2025 2

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Google AI Could One Day Let You Talk to Dolphins

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...

16.04.2025 3

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Live Colossal Squid Filmed in Deep Sea for the First Time—and It’s a Baby

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...

16.04.2025 9

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Scientists Create ‘Toothpaste-Like Battery’ That Can Take Any Shape

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...

16.04.2025 20

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ADHD Drugs Might Shrink Your Kid

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...

15.04.2025 2

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Millionaires Are Hosting Sperm Races—With Spectators and Betting Slips

Finally, FINALLY, men can eschew dick-measuring contests for a test of sperm mightiness. A new Silicon Valley startup called Sperm Racing will allow...

15.04.2025 3

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This Mushroom Is the Most Bitter-Tasting Thing Ever Found

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...

15.04.2025 4

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Tainted Holy Water Caused a Cholera Outbreak in Europe

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...

14.04.2025 5

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Ancient Organism Found at the Bottom of the Sea Resurrected After 7,000 Years

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...

14.04.2025 2

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The Tonka Bean Tree Can Wield Lightning to Defeat Enemies

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...

14.04.2025 4

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Google Is Allegedly Paying Former AI Researchers to Do Nothing

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,...

14.04.2025 3

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Sperm Propel Themselves With the Power of Self-Generated Tornados

According to new research from Monash University and the University of Melbourne, sperm are essentially rocket-propelling themselves toward the...

14.04.2025 3

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Using Your Fingers Can Make You a Better Listener. Here’s How.

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...

14.04.2025 2

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Plumber Returned to Re-Clog a Drain After Restaurant Refused to Pay Him

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...

13.04.2025 7

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Is the US Really About to Make Daylight Saving Permanent?

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...

11.04.2025 5

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Helicopter Crash Blamed on ‘Unsecured’ Penguin in a Box

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...

11.04.2025 3

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NASA Offering $3 Million for Answer to Astronaut Poop Problem

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...

11.04.2025 3

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130,000-Year-Old Baby Mammoth Dissected by Scientists

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...

11.04.2025 6

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92-Year-Old Galápagos Tortoise Becomes a Mother for the First Time

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...

11.04.2025 5

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The Uber Lost & Found Index Pays Tribute to America’s Forgetfulness

Uber has released its annual “Lost & Found Index,” a memorial to our collective absentmindedness. Based solely on this list alone, people only...

11.04.2025 6

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‘City Killer’ Asteroid Heading Toward Earth Came From an Unlikely Source

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...

10.04.2025 5

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Pod of Orcas Photographed Hunting and Killing Endangered Blue Whale

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...

10.04.2025 4

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The UK Is Testing a ‘Murder Prediction’ Tool to Identify Potential Killers

The UK government is quietly developing a “murder prediction” system designed to identify potential killers before they commit a crime. Yes, it...

10.04.2025 9

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Earth’s Space Junk Problem Is Getting Out of Control

Space is vast, almost incalculably huge. And yet we’ve still found ways to pollute the area immediately surrounding our home planet, proving once...

09.04.2025 5

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Couple Accused of Abandoning Swedish Eco-Resort, Leaving 158 Barrels of Human Waste

Flemming Hansen and Mette Helbæk, a Danish couple behind the acclaimed Stedsans forest retreat in Sweden, became overburdened with debt. They decided...

09.04.2025 3

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Kids in This Japanese Town Collect Pokemon-Style Cards Featuring Local Middle-Aged Men

Local middle-aged men, affectionately called ojisan, have become celebrities in the small rural Japanese town of Kawara, particularly among children....

09.04.2025 4

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The FBI Ran an ‘Elon Musk’ Crypto Money Laundering Operation for Almost a Year

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...

09.04.2025 5

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3D Scan of the Titanic Reveals More Details of the Ship’s Final Hours

Magellan, a company that uses cutting-edge 3D mapping technology to create digital maps of the deep sea, sent two autonomous submersible vehicles...

09.04.2025 9

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Hawk Captured After Terrorizing British Village for Weeks

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...

08.04.2025 3

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South Korea Is Using Abandoned Coal Mines for Mock-Moon Exploration

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...

08.04.2025 5

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Drinking Too Much Alcohol Could Cause Long-Term Brain Damage

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...

08.04.2025 3

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Kawasaki Just Unveiled a Ridable Headless Horse Robot

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...

08.04.2025 3

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‘Robobear’ Is Training People to Fight Off an Actual Bear

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...

08.04.2025 3

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NASA Sent Mice to Space—and It Really Messed Up Their Bones

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,...

07.04.2025 10

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Domestic Abusers Are Experiencing Their Own Abuse With Virtual Reality

In Catalonia, Spain, virtual reality is being used to fight a very real problem: domestic abuse. The “VRespectMe” program, developed by...

07.04.2025 4

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