Is 'PigeonBot' The Future Of Drones?
Scientists at Stanford University's Lentink Lab have developed a so-called 'PigeonBot,' the unmanned aerial vehicle modeled after nature's favorite cowboy hat-wearing avians.
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Akon Is Building A 'Crypto City' With Its Own 'Akoin' Currency
Hold on, wait a second. Building cities and inventing currencies named after himself? Is ... is Akon planning to start a new career as a supervillain?
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Why Did People Live So Long In The Bible?
Theologians have been wrestling with this biblical mystery for millennia: why did Old Testament folks live so gosh dang long while we, with all of our scientific advances, struggle to hit the single century mark?
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Here's The Age Where You're Most Likely To Be Miserable
Hey, wouldn't it be cool if there was some way to find out just which particular age is the most miserable? Fortunately, Fox 4 News suggests that a recent study might have discovered the answer to this eternal dilemma.
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Canada Accidentally Sent A Nuke Alert To Millions Of Citizens
Imagine just going about your lazy Sunday morning when suddenly, your phone receives a message. Not just any message, mind you -- a cell phone alert from your country's officials, warning about an "incident" at a nearby nuclear plant. Well, that just happened in Canada.
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The Truth About Witness Protection In The United States
The Federal Witness Protection Program has been a controversial entity, but it's also protected the lives of numerous individuals. So if you want to know more about this secret organization (without ticking off a mob boss), read on for the truth about the US Witness Protection Program.
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What Does The Bible Say About Dinosaurs?
"In the beginning," the Bible says, "God created the heavens and the Earth." Six days later, we got people, and things mostly got worse. But hold your prehistoric horse ancestors. What about dinosaurs? Where do they fit into the grand design?
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Vantablack: The Truth About The Darkest Color On Earth
Vantablack --an artificial material blacker than black could ever be, and one of the unsung greatest inventions of the past decade. It reflects so little light that if you wore a Vantablack dress, it would be like your arms and legs were sticking out of a Lovecraftian abyss. How is this possible?
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The Craziest Stories That Didn't Make It Into The Bible
Finalizing the biblical canon took a long time, and quite a few books were left on the cutting room floor. Why? Well, a lot of those books were absolutely bonkers. From talking animals to a murderous Jesus, here are the craziest stories that didn’t make it into the Bible.
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The Toughest Animal On Earth Has A Surprising Weakness
A study published by Scientific Reports now claims that tardigrades, while survivalist little-engines-that-could in most situations, have a real glass jaw when it comes to taking a warm shower.
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'Solid Stardust' Is Oldest Material Found On Earth
In 1969, a meteorite came roaring over the town of Murchison, Australia.Riding atop it was ancient stardust. In a 2020 study, scientists dated one of these grains as being around seven billion years old -- making it the most ancient solid material on the planet.
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The Real Reason There Are Bibles In Hotel Rooms
Consider, for a moment, the Gideon Bible. It's the closest you'll get to something you can find in every hotel room without the use of a blacklight. Here is its story.
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Oceans Warming As If Five Atomic Bombs Were Dropped In Per Second
According to a study published in the February 2020 edition of Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2019 was a big year for warming up the oceans, with their temperatures reaching record highs.
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Physicists Can't Explain Strange Particles Found In Antarctica
In an announcement presumably presided over by a mysterious husky whose sudden appearance nobody could properly explain, scientists are wrestling with the presence of mysterious, physics-defying particles that have been discovered busting up out of the ice in Antarctica.
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A Cosmonaut Made 'Space Beef' With A 3D Printer
Wouldn't it be awesome if they could make space food practically from scratch using a few cells as ingredients? Well, in 2019, a Russian cosmonaut on the ISS provided the first semblance of an answer to that question by making 'space beef.'
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Did Columbus Really See Mermaids?
Christopher Columbus, as you might have heard, is sort of a big deal in most history books because of the whole "discovered North America thing" -- even if his discovery of the "new" continent was one of those famous events that never actually happened. But you know what did? He saw mermaids.
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Why This Fire Has Been Burning Under Centralia, PA For Over 50 Years
This Pennsylvania town was once an ordinary slice of Americana, but these days, the ghostly ruins of the so-called 'real Silent Hill' has no zip code, no stores, and almost no people. Here is the story of Centralia, the town that sits atop an underground inferno that could rage for centuries.
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Why Is Saturn Losing Its Rings?
If our Solar System's planets were people on a bus, Saturn would be the guy in a purple cape, smelling of patchouli and smoking a corn husk pipe. With its distinctive rings, Saturn is the eccentric bus-guy of our cosmic neighborhood. Sadly, Saturn is slowly losing its ring-bedazzled mojo. But why?
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First 'Space Cookies' Return To Earth
One of the pinnacles of space science came in December 26, 2019, when NASA astronaut Christina Koch reported on Twitter that the ISS team had successfully baked cookies in space.
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How Much Food Is Actually Consumed On Super Bowl Sunday?
On Super Bowl Sunday, jubilant humans cheer like chimps and shovel ungodly quantities of calorie-rich deliciousness into their banana holes while watching two NFL teams try to eat each other alive on the gridiron. Here's how much food is consumed.
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Horror Movie Scenarios That Became A Disturbing Reality
The idea that viewers would copy horror movies is terrifying. People have copied what they see on screen since the beginning of cinema, but when a criminal brings a horror movie to life, it makes the world just a little scarier. These are horror movie scenarios that became a disturbing reality.
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The Troubled History Of Crazy Town
You might remember the rap-rock band Crazy Town thanks to their chart-topping hit single "Butterfly" and ... well, probably not all that much else. It's a shame, really, because their history is as rock 'n' roll as it gets -- and not always in a good way. This is the troubled history of Crazy Town.
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Snoop Dogg Made A 'Beyond Sausage' Donut Sandwich For Dunkin'
There are commercial collaborations that make sense, and there are ones that sound like a desperate ad executive brainstormed the whole campaign with Mad Libs five minutes before deadline. Who knows which end of the spectrum the team-up between Dunkin' and Snoop Dogg will end up, but here it is.
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Scientists Turned Their Own Frozen Poop Into Knives
After hearing a story of an Inuit man who fashioned his poop into a frozen blade, scientists wanted to see for themselves whether it would cut. So they turned their own frozen poop into knives.
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Thousands Of Alien Stars Discovered In Our Galaxy
Our actual galaxy has "thousands" of alien stars, just hanging around like it isn't even a thing. The reason behind this is as fascinating as it is weird.
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Australian Wildfires Incinerate Over 1 Billion Animals
According to the University of Sydney, those Australian wildfires have now claimed the lives of a billion or more native animals.
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We Now Understand Why The Inca Empire Crumbled
The Inca were one of the great civilizations but they're pretty mysterious, too. because they didn't develop a system of writing. That has modern historians scratching their heads, but archaeologists have made major strides in putting together a picture of just how and why the Inca Empire crumbled.
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