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How Well Can Sharks Hear? This Recent Experiment Offers a Surprising Answer.

It’s never really been a question of whether sharks can hear well. They can. But measuring how well is difficult. If hearing is somewhat subjective...

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Scientists Tried to Breed a ‘Super-Dog.’ It Did Not Go Well.

Humans have taken the mighty wolf and turned it into the pug, a dog so malformed it struggles to breathe. That, of course, is not our only attempt at...

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Scientists Found Two Birds as Loud as Chainsaws. Here’s How They Make So Much Noise.

Two birds in Brazil are, scientifically speaking, loud as heck, So loud that these relatively small birds rival the earsplitting obnoxiousness of...

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The Real Reason Why Cats Bring You Dead Animals, According to Science

According to a comprehensive analysis compiled by StudyFinds, at some point or another, a cat owner will have to choke down their disgust and thank...

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What Is ‘Beaver Fever,’ and Why Are Researchers Finding It in Cats?

Let’s get it out in the open early: Beaver Fever sounds like the title of a 1970s porn flick, but that’s not what it is. Beaver Fever is the...

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California’s Alleged ‘Serial Butt Sniffer’ Is Heading Back to Jail After Another Parole Violation

Southern California’s alleged “serial butt sniffer” is heading back to jail and, all told, has been arrested more than 40 times for this very...

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A Massive New Moon Crater Is Raising Questions About Future Lunar Bases

A newly discovered, massive lunar crater complicates plans to set up human colonies on the Moon. According to a study published in Science Advances,...

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Anthropic Is Banning ‘Cruel’ Treatment of Claude. Yes, the Chatbot.

Anthropic, the company behind the AI chatbot Claude, is rushing to the aid of its poor, defenseless, glorified autofill. Like the AI’s proud mama,...

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Everything We Know About the Free Adobe Clones Built With AI. Do They Actually Work?

One of the few things AI and vibe coding have done that I find genuinely hysterical is quickly rendering meaningless, paywalled, highly restrictive...

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Your Sleep Schedule May Be Costing You More Than a Rough Morning, New Study Finds

As a night owl, I get the appeal of blowing past any suggested bedtime so you can work or play while everyone else sleeps. It’s great until you...

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Does Cannabis Really Make You More Violent? Here’s What a New Study Found.

There’s science, and then there’s what we know from day-to-day observation, no scientific method needed. From personal experience, many of us can...

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Scientists Identify a New Crocodile Genus From the Rocks That Gave Us the Sphinx

A newly discovered 45 million-year-old fossilized crocodile skull has been classified by paleontologists as a whole new kind of crocodile genus that...

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Man Arrested at Miami Airport After ‘Unexplained Bulge’ Turned Out to Be 10 Live Birds

“Is that 10 live birds in your pocket or are you happy to see me?” is not a line anyone involved in this story actually said, but it would’ve...

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Parents Are Using AI to Fake Their Kids’ School Photos (And Bragging About It)

It’s extraordinarily depressing to hear about parents choosing to create AI school pictures of their kids rather than paying the relatively small...

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Two Men Arrested in NYC’s Sewer Mystery Say They Were Looking for Gold. Seriously.

Earlier this year, I wrote about the mysterious emergence of dozens of people from New York City manholes. Various security cameras caught the act,...

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Chewing Tobacco’s Biggest Health Burden Isn’t What You Might Expect

Chewing tobacco kills a whole lot of people around the world, but how it kills them is a little more surprising than you’d expect given the process...

07.10.2026 5

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Health Influencer Brags About Drinking Radioactive Water for 250 Days (Maybe Don’t Do That)

It’s hard to tell what’s parody from genuine, hard-earned stupidity nowadays. When I hear a story about a health influencer who claims to have...

06.10.2026 4

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A Dead Man’s AI Doppelgänger Spoke in Court. It Went About as Well as You’d Expect.

In May 2025, I wrote about a woman in Arizona who used AI to resurrect her brother (in a sense) to speak on his own behalf (in a weird, cryptic way)...

06.10.2026 5

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35-Year-Old Man Couldn’t Pee Without Pain, Turns Out He Had a Sewing Needle in His Heart

A 35-year-old man’s bloody urine turned out to have an explanation no one could have seen coming: sewing needles jammed into his body. According to...

24.09.2026 10

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Why Streaming Services Keep Canceling Popular TV Shows (And What It Means for TV’s Future)

Being a good TV show with a solid number of viewers isn’t good enough to keep a show alive anymore, not in the fickle streaming age. According to a...

24.09.2026 10

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WATCH: A TikTok Influencer Fought a Robot in an Octagon. It Did Not Go Well.

Who knows where the future’s headed, but with AI suddenly rising to prominence, we may be on the brink of destroying everything. Or maybe things...

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How Snail Shells Could Help Scientists Track Storms From Prehistoric Times

Some of the best keepers of the past’s weather events might be the brainless mollusks crawling through the dirt, occasionally getting crunched with...

24.09.2026 10

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Scientists Discover That Money Can Literally Make You Age Slower. Here’s How.

They say money can’t buy happiness, but money strategically given to low-income parents might actually buy longevity. According to a landmark study...

24.09.2026 10

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Scientists Just Found an ADHD Clue Hiding in Kids’ Pupils. Here’s What It Means for the Future.

I can’t help but think of the human lie detector test Larry David tried to use at various points throughout the run of Curb Your Enthusiasm. He’d...

24.09.2026 10

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Everything We Know About Mark Hamill’s ‘Darkwing Duck’ Revival on Disney+

Millennial nostalgia bait resources are running low. I half expect a full Doug reboot any day now. Not that it’s necessarily a bad thing, but...

23.09.2026 10

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Inside the ‘Boot Camp’ Teaching Orphaned Raccoons How to Survive

When you think of zoos and aquariums as places where injured wild animals are rehabilitated, sometimes taught basic survival tactics, before being...

23.09.2026 10

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Everything We Know About the Rape Charges Against ‘Looksmaxxing’ Influencer Clavicular

Braden Peters, aka Clavicular, the influencer who popularized the obnoxious terms looksmaxxing and mogging, has been charged with raping a 17-year-old...

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A Deadly Mosquito-Borne Virus Is Surging in Florida. Here’s What to Know.

Dengue fever, transmitted by mosquitoes, is spreading across the United States. Cases are particularly high in Florida, where 152 locally acquired...

22.09.2026 10

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Scientists Just Found Something Unexpected in the Pages of Medieval Books

You don’t often hear about sheep pox. According to Wikipedia, it’s “the most severe of all the animal pox diseases.” Luckily, it was...

22.09.2026 10

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Man Arrested After Allegedly Pepper-Spraying Cellphone User in Movie Theater

Every once in a while in my job covering the news for VICE, I come across a new story about someone taking the pursuit of petty social vengeance too...

22.09.2026 10

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New York City’s New High-Tech Toilets Will Kick You Out After 10 Minutes. Seriously.

For as fun as it can be navigating New York City’s streets, it’s long had one major problem: not enough public toilets. The city aims to fix that...

22.09.2026 10

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Scientists May Have Found a Secret Tomb Hidden Behind King Tut’s Burial Chamber

If you have even a passing knowledge of ancient Egyptian royalty, you’ve probably heard of Tutankhamun, aka King Tut, the face of what may be the...

22.09.2026 20

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WATCH: Rescuers Save Seagull With a Bamboo Skewer Stuck in Its Butt

It’s not often that you see a seagull with a bamboo skewer rammed up its combination butthole/vagina, but such an event occurred this past August....

22.09.2026 20

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AI ‘Actress’ Tilly Norwood Suddenly Starts Speaking Cantonese During Bizarre Interview

If a real-life, flesh-and-blood Hollywood actress suddenly started speaking an entirely different language mid-sentence during a TV interview, the...

21.09.2026 20

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Singing Halloween Pumpkin Goes Viral After People Notice Its Surprisingly Dirty Lyrics

As immortalized by Mean Girls, Halloween is the time of year when people use the costume-centric holiday as an excuse to dress as scantily as possible...

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The Internet Has Invented Fake Online Shopping, and There’s a Wild Reason Why People Love It

In July 2025, I wrote about how a former Google and Facebook marketing executive wanted to help people wean themselves off phone addiction and the...

21.09.2026 20

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Hungry Dogs Are More Likely to Make This Crucial Mistake, New Study Finds

Humans have been using a dog’s keen sense of smell to our advantage for thousands of years — whether it be hunting prey for dinner or having them...

21.09.2026 10

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Scientists Just Found Evidence That Ancient Egypt Had a Female King 5,000 Years Ago

Over 5,000 years ago, a royal named Meretneith was the big boss of ancient Egypt. She was long known as a major player during the First Dynasty, which...

21.09.2026 20

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Chihuahuas Have a Little Wild Coyote in Them, New Study Finds

Chihuahuas are weird, nervous little dudes who can be crushed by an errant step yet think they are as innately imposing as a Tyrannosaurus rex. Yet...

21.09.2026 10

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Scientists Calculated How Long a Moon City Could Survive. The Results Aren’t Great.

As tech billionaires try to sell us on the idea of human colonies on the moon and beyond, a new research paper published in Frontiers in Space...

21.09.2026 10

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All Those Antidepressants You’re Peeing Out Are Messing With Fish, New Study Finds

The antidepressants that make you a stable, tolerable human being may be working wonders for you, but when you pee them out, they wind up in water...

21.09.2026 20

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9-Year-Old YouTuber Allegedly Spent $118,000 Promoting His Gaming Videos With Dad’s Company Card

A kid who got in way over his head with his gaming YouTube channel wound up spending $118,000 on ads using his dad’s corporate credit card. David...

19.09.2026 30

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The 2032 Olympics Will Hold Rowing Events in a River Home to 500 Crocodiles

When you’re scouting locations to hold Olympic events, there are probably dozens of factors to take into account. Can we fit some bleachers in here...

19.09.2026 10

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The Surprising Mental Health Benefit of Coffee That Has Nothing to Do With Caffeine

You’re probably used to jump-starting your day with a mug full of coffee, so the caffeine lying in wait within can provide you with the energy boost...

19.09.2026 20

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Scientists Just Discovered a New Cat Species, and It’s Ridiculously Cute

A new kind of cat just dropped, and it’s adorable. It’s smaller than a common house cat, yet looks as ferocious as a jungle cat. Researchers who...

18.09.2026 20

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Americans Are Absolutely Exhausted, According to New CDC Report

If you’re living in a state of perpetual exhaustion, congrats! You’re part of the overwhelming majority of Americans—71.5 percent of adults...

18.09.2026 20

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The ‘Street Fighter’ Popcorn Bucket Might Be the Dumbest One Yet. I Need It ASAP.

There’s a new Street Fighter movie on the horizon. Based on the trailers and what little advertising I’ve seen of it, it looks like it’s going...

18.09.2026 20

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Japan Has More Centenarians Than Ever Before, and the Numbers Are Staggering

By now, it’s well publicized that Japan has a bit of an age discrepancy. The population is aging, and it isn’t getting steadily replaced by an...

18.09.2026 10

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Zoo Forced to Apologize After Accidentally Advertising a ‘Child Predator Tour’

There are some things in life so obviously inappropriate, so poorly worded, that the moment a specific set of words are crammed together to promote...

18.09.2026 20

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Why You Keep Waking Up at 3 AM, According to Science

If you’ve been noticing people around the internet talking a bit more about how they’re constantly waking up at 3 AM no matter what they do, no...

18.09.2026 20

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