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How One Man Lowered the Price of Guinness by Using AI to Call 3,000 Pubs

There are some genuinely great uses for AI outside of the weird fascination of replacing artists with a machine that can’t feel or think on its own...

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Why Scientists Think This Asteroid Is the Core of a Dead Planet (and Extremely Valuable)

16 Psyche is a gigantic space rock roughly the size of Massachusetts. Initial analysis reveals that it might be unusually rich in a variety of metals,...

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Remembering Sugar the Surfing Dog, World Champion Dog Surfer

The surfing dog, a stupid pet trick that has delighted us for decades because dogs don’t belong on surfboards, is a timeless classic of nightly news...

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This ‘Healthy’ Ingredient You’re Probably Eating Might Give You a Stroke

If you’ve had a protein bar that wasn’t inedible, it’s probably because of erythritol. Erythritol is a low-calorie sweetener that has found its...

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A Woman Got Pregnant After Sex With Identical Twins. Now No One Can Figure Out Who the Dad Is.

A UK Court of Appeals announced that it cannot genetically determine the identity of a baby’s father, because the mother slept with two men who were...

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The Cold, Hard Truth About Those Viral Videos of Meteors Slamming Into the Moon

If you’ve spent more than five minutes on social media lately, especially that AI cesspool we collectively refer to as Facebook, you’ve probably...

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The Male G-Spot Isn’t Where You Think It Is

There’s so much myth built around the mythical G-spot, mostly by ignorant men. Yet, all this time, men have had their own version of the G-spot, a...

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Scientists Made an Extremely Detailed Roadmap of the Clitoris

While the clitoris has been weirdly shrouded in mystery for years, mostly among men who classify men as alphas and betas, it really hasn’t been much...

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Why It Looked Like the Apocalypse Came to Australia Last Week

The world feels like a nightmare. So, of course, Australia, a country with a nearly cartoonish association with the horrors of Mother Nature, would...

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How an Astronaut Almost Drowned While Floating in Space

Space travel is often compared to deep-sea exploration. The crew is trapped in a cramped capsule with its thick, well-sealed walls all that separate...

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Why Future Humans Will Struggle to Get Pregnant in Space

Sperm cells have been taking a beating lately. I just recently wrote about how sperm cells are getting absolutely hammered by diets high in...

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Artemis II Astronauts Are Getting a Major Space Toilet Upgrade (Crews of the Past Pooped in Bags)

Humans are going to be heading back to the moon for the first time in decades. Thankfully, they won’t be doing it with Apollo-era restroom...

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Cancer Patients Could Soon Be Prescribed Pig Semen Eye Drops

I take no pleasure in reporting that those of you suffering from eye cancer may have a treatment to look forward to that can slow tumor growth in the...

30.03.2026 4

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413,793 KitKat Bars Stolen in Bizarre Candy Heist

Somewhere between Italy and Poland, a truck carrying more than 12 tons of KitKat bars seemingly vanished into thin air. That’s 413,793 individual...

30.03.2026 4

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This Country Just Banned Social Media for Kids and Teens. Is Yours Next?

Social media bans for preteens and children are a craze sweeping the world. Indonesia is the latest to join the wave, as it has begun enforcing a...

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Bad News About That Corgi Leading a Pack of Stolen Dogs Home

Last week, when I wrote about the story of those dogs in China that had supposedly run away from some form of peril and walked a great distance in...

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The Exact Amount of Coffee That Lowers Stress (It’s More Than You Think)

Coffee has built itself a reputation for being the go-to fuel for muscling through a long workday or for sleep-deprived nights. It gives us the...

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Eye Floaters Might Be a Warning Sign You Shouldn’t Ignore

Those squiggly transparent lines that drift across your eyesight, appearing like amoebas under a microscope, look harmless enough. They even seem like...

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Your Doctor May Soon Give You a Depression Prescription Straight Out of the 1800s

Every year, more than half a billion people meander through botanical gardens, unaware they are performing an act that may one day be prescribed by...

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Male Fruit Flies Flirt With Each Other for a Very Important Reason

In most animal species, disputes between males over the right to mate with a female are usually settled with fisticuffs. This is also true of male...

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Ejaculating More Frequently Has a Surprising Effect on Your Sperm

People come up with all sorts of weird pet theories for increasing sperm count. One of those is that abstinence amps up sperm count. There is a logic...

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$300,000 Robot Dogs Are Guarding AI Data Centers. Are We Doomed, Chat?

Remember when you first saw those robotic dog things several years ago and immediately knew they would one day be used aggressively in some kind of...

27.03.2026 6

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Anyone Want a 145,000-Pound Dinosaur? The World’s Largest T. Rex Needs a New Home.

The world’s largest Tyrannosaurus rex statue needs a new home. Tyra, located in the Canadian Badlands, is a gigantic kitschy roadside attraction...

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Hummingbirds Drink a Ton of Alcoholic Nectar, But Do They Get Drunk?

Humans have spent centuries wondering if we were alone in the universe. So much so that we like to ask that question in different ways across...

27.03.2026 3

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OpenAI Is Pulling Back on Its Erotic Chatbot. Here’s Why.

For a brief, fleeting moment, one of the biggest names in AI thought they were going to revolutionize the industry with a new, wholly original idea:...

26.03.2026 3

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Everything We Know About the Highly Mutated New COVID Variant ‘Cicada’

What a joyous time of year. It’s that magical time when we gather round and unveil the year’s new COVID-19 variant. What new terrifying mutation...

26.03.2026 4

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Little Corgi Leads 7 Stolen Dogs 10 Miles Back Home, and People Are Obsessed

In the age of AI-generated videos that go viral before one person in the comments even bothers to question if the video of an alien ship hovering over...

26.03.2026 5

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This Common Habit Is Ruining Your Sperm

I imagine the center part of the Venn diagram between men who are just housing junk food and men who are deeply concerned about their sperm count so...

26.03.2026 4

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A Fireball Dropped Meteorites Over Texas, and One Punched Through Someone’s Roof

A flaming space rock tore through the skies over Texas this past weekend, and a chunk of it may have dinged a Houston home. According to NASA and...

25.03.2026 4

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A Sunken Nuclear Submarine Is Leaking Radiation Into the Ocean. How Worried Should We Be?

According to new research published in PNAS, a Cold War-era nuclear submarine sitting at the bottom of the Norwegian Sea is still leaking radioactive...

25.03.2026 8

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The Exact Number of Times You Can Clone a Clone Before Things Go Horribly Wrong

According to a long-running study published in Nature Communications, scientists in Japan have found that you can’t just keep cloning clones of...

25.03.2026 4

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This Engineer Wants to Rebuild the Twin Towers, But With Lasers This Time

It’s been over two decades since the September 11 attacks and a little over 10 years since the World Trade Center, its replacement, officially...

25.03.2026 3

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Whales Were Filmed Headbutting Each Other for the First Time. Why Are They Doing It?

According to research from the University of St Andrews, scientists have, for the first time ever, captured clear footage of sperm whales repeatedly...

25.03.2026 5

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Freaky New Spider Disguises Itself as Zombie Fungus to Hunt Prey

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, researchers have identified a spider species that survives by playing dead. It might also be infected by the kind of...

25.03.2026 3

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Florida Woman Accused of Peeing All Over Airbnbs, Then Posting the Videos Online

A 31-year-old woman from Pensacola, Florida, is facing criminal charges after allegedly causing thousands of dollars in damage to Airbnb properties....

24.03.2026 5

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The Moon Got a New Crater in 2024, and Nobody Noticed Until Now

As scientists were combing through reams of data collected by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, they spotted something incredibly rare. Or,...

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Everything We Know About the Quadruple-Amputee Cornhole Player Charged With Murder

Dayton James Webber, 27, a professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee, is now facing first and second-degree murder charges after police say...

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Humans in the Andes Are Immune to Something That Would Kill Most People

According to a 2015 study published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, and a more recent 2022 study in Chemosphere, some populations in the high...

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Why This College Kid Sacrificed Himself to a Massive Swarm of Mosquitoes

Sometimes science requires you to put yourself in the line of fire. You know, to put your body on the line in the name of science. Or, you can get an...

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Why Scientists Want to Kidnap Asteroids and Drag Them Closer to Earth

Space rocks are the new frontier in mineral mining. Whoever figures out how to do it first will make a fortune beyond all earthly compare. Entities in...

23.03.2026 6

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Volcanic Lightning Is a Real Thing, and Scientists Finally Figured Out How It Happens

Volcanic lightning is the lightning that crackles out of the dark, apocalyptic clouds billowing out of volcanic eruptions. It looks like a surefire...

23.03.2026 6

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The Most Likely Reason You’re Unhappy, According to the 2026 World Happiness Report

The 2026 edition of the annual World Happiness Report has arrived. It is as advertised: a multi-metric survey of human happiness, roughly split by...

23.03.2026 6

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Why Are Birds So Obsessed With Cigarettes?

Humans aren’t doing a great job of cleaning up the environmental mess we’ve created. So, some birds are adapting to our pollution in ways that are...

23.03.2026 6

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The Massive Radioactive Tomb in the Pacific Ocean Is Leaking. What Happens Now?

In 1958, the United States detonated an 18-kiloton nuclear device known as the “Cactus” test on Runit Island in the Marshall Islands. It left...

23.03.2026 3

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Over 19 Million Americans Have Had This Violent Thought, Scientists Say

If anything is to be done about the shockingly high gun violence statistics in the United States, we should probably start by not focusing on the act...

22.03.2026 10

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Drinking This While Gaming Could Make You a Better Player

The modern world is deceptively exhausting. Anyone who’s moved very little yet has felt physically and psychologically drained at the end of the day...

22.03.2026 10

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Scientists Discovered a New Dinosaur Species in South Korea, and It’s Named After a Cartoon

According to a study published in the Fossil Record, paleontologists in South Korea have identified a new dinosaur species, the first of its kind ever...

20.03.2026 10

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NASA’s Hubble Caught a Comet Breaking Up in Real Time, and the Images Are Wild

Have you ever turned to look at something at the exact moment something unbelievably cool happened? Imagine if you did that, but in the wide-open...

20.03.2026 8

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Norovirus Turns Cruise Ship Into a Poop-and-Vomit Wonderland. Here’s How This Keeps Happening.

Cruise ships may be one of the more affordable and accessible types of vacations for most people, but the trade-off is that you are essentially living...

20.03.2026 4

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Sharks in the Bahamas Are Full of Cocaine, Caffeine, and Painkillers

The crystal clear waters of the Bahamas are filled with enough traces of human pharmaceuticals and illegal drugs that it’s showing up in shark...

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