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Photo: Institute of Marine Research/Ægir6000 A Sunken Nuclear Submarine Is Leaking Radiation Into the Ocean. How Worried Should We Be?
Repairs or just outright cleanup would be expensive, extremely difficult, slow, and, of course, quite dangerous.
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A meteor shower. Photo: forplayday; NASA / Getty Images A Fireball Dropped Meteorites Over Texas, and One Punched Through Someone’s Roof
The fallen meteorites sparked a city-wide trasure hunt.
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Photo: jroballo / Getty Images The Exact Number of Times You Can Clone a Clone Before Things Go Horribly Wrong
For all of its sci-fi promise, cloning, whether it be for agricultural or biotech, may have a ceiling.
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Silaphop Pongsai/Getty Images 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.
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Wildestanimal/Getty Images Whales Were Filmed Headbutting Each Other for the First Time. Why Are They Doing It?
Scientists have, for the first time, captured clear footage of sperm whales repeatedly ramming each other headfirst.
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OsakaWayne Studios/Getty Images The 10 Most Stressed States in America Right Now, Ranked
The biggest stressors for people in America lately include the country’s future, the state of the economy, and work.
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Olga Pankova/Getty Images The Moon Got a New Crater in 2024, and Nobody Noticed Until Now
As scientists were combing through reams of data, they spotted something incredibly rare: fresh moon craters.
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The Not The Photo Issue. Cover photographer unknown. VICE Magazine Presents: ‘The Not The Photo Issue’
The Epstein files. Live-streamed war. Generative AI. Our spring 2026 issue asks, which images are most messing with our heads today, and why?


