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Tech

Humans Retain ‘Ancestral’ Understanding of Ape Gestures, Study Says

01.24.23

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

Secret Government Info Confirms First Known Interstellar Object on Earth, Scientists Say

04.07.22

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

Record-Breaking Antimatter Beam in Deep Space Discovered by Scientists

03.17.22

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

Archeologists Discover Two Huge Sphinxes in Egyptian Ruins

01.21.22

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

Newly-Discovered ‘Borg’ DNA Is Unlike Anything Scientists Have Ever Seen

07.15.21

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

What Scientists Have Learned from Hidden Ripples in Spacetime

07.09.21

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

The First Ever Nuclear Bomb Produced a Bizarre Form of Matter

05.17.21

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

The Farthest Spacecraft from Earth Picks Up an Unexpected New Signal

05.12.21

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

NASA Probe Picks Up Faint Radio Signal in Venus’s Atmosphere

05.04.21

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

Unexplained X-Ray Blasts from Space Might Just Solve a Cosmic Mystery, Scientists Say

04.28.21

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

Ancient Biblical Texts Have Been Discovered In a ‘Cave of Horror’

03.16.21

By Becky Ferreira
Scientists Finally Observed the Source of a Mysterious Signal from Space

11.04.20

By Becky Ferreira

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News

Cult Members Who Forced Kids to Work 16-Hour Days Convicted in Kansas

Members of the former United Nation of Islam (UNOI) told children they would burn in “eternal hellfire” if they tried to escape their inhumane conditions.

09.18.24

By Sammi Caramela
Courtesy St. Bonaventure University.

Life

Woj’s Last Bomb: NBA Insider Trades Breaking News for College Hoops

Longtime NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski is leaving ESPN to manage college basketball at St. Bonaventure University.

09.18.24
Image Credit: Natalli Amato

Shopping

I Laid on 6,000 Plastic Spikes Every Day for a Week. Here’s What Happened.

TL;DR; absurdly vivid dreams, feeling all of my organs, and curing my mom’s insomnia.

09.18.24

By Natalli Amato
International Overdose Awareness Day 2023. Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Shutterstock.

Life

US Overdose Deaths Declined for the First Time in Decades

Provisional drug overdose death counts by the CDC show a 10.6 percent decline in overdose deaths in the 12-month ending period in April 2024.

09.18.24

By Luis Prada
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Tech

Meet DebunkBot, The AI Chatbot that Will Debunk Any Conspiracy You Believe

DebunkBot uses personalized evidence-based arguments to effectively reduce belief in conspiracies, according to a recent study in Science.

09.18.24

By Luis Prada