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Study Finds Popular Music Really Does Feel Different Than It Used to

If modern music just isn’t tugging at your heartstrings the way the tunes of your youth used to, you might be an old fuddy-duddy who can’t find...

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Archaeologists Found a 3,300-Year-Old Sword at the Bottom of an Italian Lake (and It’s Still Sharp)

When the Lady of the Lake handed King Arthur the sword Excalibur, it’s like, come on—this myth really wants me to believe a piece of metal would...

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This Common Fruit Juice Could Be Great for Your Teeth, New Research Finds

For most Americans, cranberries are the fruit you think about only at Thanksgiving and when you get a UTI. But if you incorporate cranberries a bit...

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Scientists Discovered a 237-Million-Year-Old Sea Monster, and It’s Changing What We Know About Amphibians

If you’ve been combing through the archaeological record and found a startling lack of terrifying gigantic frogs that look like video game enemies,...

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If It Feels Like Someone Is Watching You When You’re Alone, Scientists Say This Might Be Why

If you had an imaginary friend keeping you company in your loneliest times, you may grow up to be an adult who no longer has one but still has a...

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The New ‘Dune: Part Three’ Popcorn Bucket Is Somehow Even More NSFW Than the Original

The third and final entry in the Dune film trilogy is slated for release on December 18, and of course it’ll have yet another accompanying popcorn...

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Archaeologists Just Found 226 Human Teeth in an Ancient Maya Burial Cave

A Maya woman who was buried in a cave in southern Belize sometime between 250 and 400 CE was so revered, according to researchers, that people have...

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Maryland Is Turning an Invasive Fish Problem Into School Lunch (And Kids Love It)

An invasive fish thought it was slick, rapidly increasing its population along Maryland’s eastern shores. But the dummy forgot to take something...

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Astronomers May Have Just Discovered a Mysterious New World Beyond Pluto. Here’s What We Know.

Pluto may no longer be a planet, and it may not even be that big, but it’s big enough to possibly, maybe, be hiding a dwarf planet that’s been...

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Your Daily Cup of Tea Could Be Exposing You to Thousands of Microplastics, Study Finds

Sorry to add a bit of stress to your relaxing nightly cup of tea, but research published in npj Science of Food suggests a plastic tea bag could be...

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Meet the ‘Picasso of Pumpkin Carving,’ Whose Halloween Creations Are Absolutely Insane

Warning: reading this Associated Press story about the guy who might be the world’s best pumpkin carver will either inspire you to carve a gorgeous...

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Archaeologists Just Discovered a 4,000-Year-Old Dog Paw Print Preserved in Ancient Brick

It’s such a treat to occasionally find a slab of sidewalk with a permanently imprinted dog paw. It tells a whole, adorable story. Now imagine that...

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Florida Cop Allegedly Stole a Dead Man’s Identity and Lived in His House for Years

It is the kind of story that can happen anywhere, but the second you find out it happened in Florida, it feels like it couldn’t have happened...

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Why This Seemingly Innocent Apple Ad Sparked an Unexpected NSFW Controversy

I don’t envy the people responsible for creating overseas ads. There’s so much to consider about social nuances in other countries that creating...

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Your Dog Might Be Carrying a Human Mouth Parasite. But Is It Dangerous?

If you let your dog lick your mouth, you’ll probably both swap plenty of nastiness, like bacteria and even parasites. But there is one particular...

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Doctor Found 11 Parasitic Worms Living in a Man’s Eye (And Some Were Pregnant)

Last year, I wrote about a 35-year-old man with worms swimming around in his eyeball. It sounds like the kind of thing that shouldn’t happen often,...

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Scientists Turned Toad Venom Into a Nasal Spray to Fight Depression. But Does It Work?

Maybe you’ve heard about psilocybin therapies wherein the psychedelic drug is prescribed to treat PTSD and severe depression. Well, researchers have...

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Do Women Experience More Intense Psychedelic Trips Than Men? Here’s What the Science Says.

Good news, ladies: your biological makeup makes you more prone to having your brain splattered across the expanse of the universe when you take...

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Scientists Just Discovered That Humans Accidentally Prevented Another Ice Age

Earth went through its famous Ice Age, the one adapted into those beloved animated films that captured the era’s kid-friendly hijinks. But what you...

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Scientists Tested an Experimental Baldness Pill on 536 Men. Here’s What Happened.

Bald dudes, you may want to cancel those tickets to Turkey, because an oral hair loss drug deep into clinical trials has generated positive results in...

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The 2026 Word of the Year Is Officially Here, and It’s Peak Internet Brain Rot

It never ceases to amaze how much influence moronic guys have on the world. The suffix “-maxxing,” popularized by Clavicular—a guy famous for...

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Humans Are Using Significantly Fewer Words Than They Did 20 Years Ago, Study Finds

We’re dealing with a loneliness epidemic and a literacy epidemic at the same time, so there is a bit of unfortunate logic to the news that,...

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Florida University Police Department Unveils Tiny Flying Cop Car

About once a year, some Florida-based police department likes to prove it’s more dystopian than any other in the state by unveiling some new,...

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Scientists Might Finally Know Why Older Guys Pee Multiple Times a Night

As you get older, your body gets weirder, malfunctioning in some awfully creative, uniquely torturous ways, like how those with a prostate will have...

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The First Corporate Psychopath Got Shipwrecked on an Island and Tried to Start a Pirate Empire

If you’ve intuited by now that the people at the very top of the corporate hierarchy are complete and utter wackos who have little regard for human...

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Adorable Venomous Primate Thought Extinct Discovered Hanging Out in People’s Backyards

As the world teeters on ecological collapse, it’s occasionally nice to hear that an animal that was once thought to have gone extinct was just...

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Researchers Discovered a Surprisingly Simple Way to Boost Your Creativity. But Does It Work?

Sometimes, when you’re working on a creative project, you feel like you have to spend every waking second chiseling at it to make real headway. But...

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Astronomers Just Figured Out When Van Gogh Painted ‘The Starry Night,’ and It’s Surprisingly Specific

If you spend too much time with a piece of art, your romantic sense of it might give way to a nerdy, analytical mindset that brings you dangerously...

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Why Spending Time With Your Cat Feels So Good, According to Science

When you hug, hold, squeeze, and pet your cat, you’re probably vaguely aware, maybe just in the back of your mind, that you’re actively trying to...

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This Breathing Exercise Could Make You Feel Like You’re Tripping on LSD. But Does It Actually Work?

Breathing is such an automatic function of our brains that we often take it for granted. We forget, or simply don’t know, how transformative it can...

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Airbnb Is Finally Banning Hosts From Making Guests Do Their Chores

Finally, Airbnb hosts can no longer force guests to do all their chores. Starting November 20, a new, long-needed policy bans property owners from...

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Scientists Just Discovered That Neanderthals Loved Eating Beaver

Paleontology has been on a real Neanderthal tear lately, with all sorts of discoveries about how our ancient ancestors lived. Today, we learned a new...

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Scammers Are Convincing People to Bury Their Gold in the Woods, and It’s Actually Working

A new scam is targeting Norwegians, and it sounds so successful that I can see it spreading to forested regions worldwide. Why forested? Because it...

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Scientists Just Found the Best Source of Protein on Earth (and It’s Not Meat)

The weird subsection of Americans who think eating soy-based products somehow makes you weaker is really not going like this: a researcher used a...

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This New Anti-Aging Beauty Treatment Is Made from Dead People’s Skin. Here’s How It Works.

South Korea is ground zero for a lot of the hottest, and flat-out craziest, beauty trends of the past decade. There is a new one out there that its...

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There’s a New Type of Depression, and It Could Explain Why You Can’t Sleep at Night

If your circadian rhythm is constantly being thrown off by your terrible, no good, absolutely miserable nights of sleep, congratulations, you might...

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America Just Got Its First New National Park in Six Years. Here’s What to Know.

One of America’s best ideas was the National Park system. Ulysses S. Grant gets credit for creating the first national park—Yellowstone—in 1872....

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Scientists Just Found a Disturbing Link Between ADHD and Early Death

ADHD can be bad enough on its own, and now we get news from a study published in JAMA Network Open by researchers at University College London and the...

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These Monkeys Survived a Deadly Outbreak, Then Started Acting a Lot Like Humans

Monkeys, they’re just like us! Yes, we share a ton of genes, but socially, researchers recently found monkeys from groups that lived through a...

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Scientists Found a Disturbing Pattern in Reincarnation Stories, and They Can’t Explain Why

Reincarnation doesn’t seem like it’s a supernatural phenomenon that’s going to be definitively proven anytime soon with scientific research or...

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People Are Jousting on Rental E-Bikes in London, and Lime Is Not Happy

E-bike rental company Lime has had enough. They’re sick of it. They’re not taking it anymore. They’re being loud and clear in their warning:...

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Nearly $1 Million in Pokémon and Sports Cards Stolen From FedEx Truck in California

Trading cards are hot right now. Both content creators who have found wildly creative ways to open card packs in hopes of unwrapping a rare card and...

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Christina Applegate Doesn’t Have Multiple Sclerosis After All, and Doctors Still Don’t Know What’s Wrong

Christina Applegate has been battling what she thought was multiple sclerosis since her diagnosis back in 2021. Now, she found out that she was...

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Woman Charged With Homicide After Allegedly Watching Porn While Driving Prior to Deadly Crash

The world has changed. Everything we know is backwards now that women are getting arrested for traditionally male crimes. According to local reporting...

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Older Americans Are Losing Billions to Scammers, and the Numbers Are Getting Worse

Modern tech like AI has made it easy, nearly effortless, to scam people. Some of the most vulnerable Americans who are 60 and older become easy prey...

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Scientists Discovered a Snake That Cartwheels Away From Danger, and It’s Hilarious

How can you not love an animal that does things a little differently? Like the dwarf reed snake, which doesn’t slither away from danger as quickly...

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Peter Jackson Bought a 600-Year-Old Egg That Could Help Bring an Extinct Bird Back to Life

Long before Polynesian hunters arrived in New Zealand around 1300 CE, up to 2.5 million giant, flightless moa birds ruled the islands, some towering...

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Did Scientists Just Discover a New Way to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease? Here’s Everything We Know.

We know probiotics, whether you get them from fermented foods or a supplement, do wonders for gut health, which can, in turn, drive positive changes...

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This Hotel Hosted a Five-Day Retreat Dedicated Entirely to Farting

We all need a place to ourselves where we can just let it all out. Usually, that means venting deep-seated emotional baggage, but let’s be honest:...

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A Gas Station Price War in Georgia Sent Prices Plummeting to Just 97 Cents a Gallon

Due to a series of unforced errors on the part of certain leaders in the federal government, gas prices have gone absolutely bonkers. Where about a...

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