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Photo: Thierry Hubin / Institute of Natural Sciences New ‘Spiny Dragon’ Dinosaur Species Identified With 125-Million-Year-Old Skin
Was this basically a giant porcupine?
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Photo: Phattana / Getty Images Japan’s Cherry Blossom Festival Canceled Because Tourists Suck
Who takes a dump in a random stranger’s house?
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Anand Purohit/Getty Images Something ‘Impossible’ Slammed Into Earth in 2023, and Scientists Have a Wild New Theory About It
The truth will depend on whether future detectors catch more neutrinos like this one.
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Avalon/Contributor/Getty Images Why Scientists Just Shot Lasers at Charles Darwin’s Priceless Specimens
Museums around the world hold more than 100 million fluid-preserved specimens, many of which are too fragile or dangerous to open.
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Xinhua News Agency/Contributor/Getty Images Everything We Know About the Butterfly Scientists Just Grew in Space
The butterfly hatched while aboard the station and then lived in orbit, adapting to microgravity with seemingly no trouble.
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We Are/Getty Images Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents, Neuroscientist Claims
Welp, this is awkward.
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Manuel Augusto Moreno/Getty Images Philly Bar Bans Anyone Under 25 After Kid Gives ID With Ben Franklin’s Photo
You have to admire the creativity.
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Running State/Facebook How Does This 82-Year-Old Runner Have the Health of a Man in His 20s?
The idea of retirement is to slow down and take things slow. Juan López García thought it would be the perfect time to ramp things up.
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D3sign/Getty Images College Students Can’t Put Their Phones Down—Not Even During Sex
According to a new study, more than one in three U.S. college students admit they’ve checked their phone during sex.
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Picture Alliance/Contributor/Getty Images Why Germany Is Giving Away So Many Free Potatoes, Explained
After the largest potato harvest in 25 years, farmers found themselves buried under a surplus so massive it earned a nickname.
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Tim Parker/Getty Images How Scientists Are Using Old Mattresses to Help Save Lives
Your old, filthy mattress could one day be turned into a fire-resistant building installation grown with fungus.
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MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES Everything We Know About the Asteroid That Might Hit the Moon in 2032
A strike would release around eight megatons of energy, more than enough to make it the most energetic lunar impact ever observed by humans.
