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(Photo by Xavier ROSSI/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Neanderthal Men Were Banging Human Women for Hundreds of Thousands of Years
Neanderthal men had a thing for human women and/or vice versa.
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Photo: nymphoenix / Getty Images What If Your Takeout Came in Shrimp Shell Plastic? No, It Really Could.
There’s still a ways to go before you can buy shrimp plastic cups from your local Pottery Barn.
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MirageC/Getty Images Is the Earth’s ‘Heartbeat’ Giving You Brain Fog?
The internet loves a creepy-sounding explanation for basic human misery. This week’s version is “Earth’s heartbeat.”
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Wikimedia Common A ‘Princess’ in Her Coffin Fell Off a Cliff Over 100 Years Ago, and Archaeologists Finally Know More About Her
In 1899, a cliff near Bagicz on Poland’s northwest coast gave up a secret it had been holding onto for a long time.
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George Pachantouris/Getty Images Wild Chimps Get Drunk on a Daily Basis, Scientists Find
A new study found that wild chimpanzees in Uganda are eating fermented fruit, and they’re metabolizing the alcohol.
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William Brune Trees Glow During Thunderstorms, and Scientists Finally Caught It on Camera
You can’t see it with your eyes. But a camera can.
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Lorenzo Marchetti The Oldest Butthole Ever Found Is a 290-Million-Year-Old Fossil
It’s a butthole. It’s functional. It’s unglamorous. It’s also a weirdly useful clue about how early reptiles were built.
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Imstepf Studios Llc/Getty Images Scientists Found a Strange Link Between Junk Food and Cigarettes
Researchers say ultra-processed foods are engineered to hijack the brain’s reward system, much like cigarettes.
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NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Roman Tkachenko What Built the Dusty Red ‘Snowman’ Floating in Space?
When NASA’s New Horizons flew past Arrokoth on New Year’s Day 2019, it captured humanity’s most distant close-up of a primordial object.
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Yaorusheng/Getty Images Scientists Have a New Plan to Save the Oceans: Set Them on Fire
But what if we harnessed the awesome power of fire tornadoes… for good?
