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robots

This Robotic Hand Can Shift Gears to Catch a Beer Can and Crush It

By creating a lightweight, 3D-printed “transmission,” engineers were able to build a hand that is strong when it needs to be and fast when it needs to be.
Kaleigh Rogers
10.17.18
The VICE Guide to Right Now

RIP 'Nathan for You'

Comedy Central says the show will not return, but maybe this is all just another elaborate hoax.
River Donaghey
10.17.18
butterflies

These Butterflies Can Hear With Their Wings

For a century, nobody knew why Satyrini butterflies had inflated veins on their forewings. Turns out the structures are hearing aids.
Becky Ferreira
10.17.18
NHL

Connor McDavid Is Here to Remind You He's the World's Best Hockey Player

You'd have to be high to think otherwise.
Kyle Cantlon
10.17.18
LGBTQ rights

New York City Adds Gender-Neutral Option X to Birth Certificates

The new law, titled Intro 954, makes it easier for transgender and non-binary people to change their legal gender.
Leila Ettachfini
10.17.18
The Stanley Parable

The Only Way to Get This Video Game Achievement Is to Not Play It for 5 Years

A special achievement in ‘The Stanley Parable’ has lain dormant for five years, just waiting for players to finally earn it.
Matthew Gault
10.17.18
microplastics

Beauty Industry-Funded Study Suggests Microplastics ‘Are Not Causing Harm to the Environment'

A meta-analysis of 320 research papers on microplastics concludes that "the available data...suggest that these materials are not causing harm to the environment.”
Daniel Oberhaus
10.17.18
Canadian Cannabis Legalization

Here’s the Dumbest Stuff We’ve Seen About Legal Weed

Everything in the media from earnest rolling instructions to “C-Day” to whether or not a politician will “blaze that good good dank sticky icky.”
Mack Lamoureux
10.17.18
Crime

Feminist Activists Fear Misandry Could Become a Hate Crime in the UK

Prejudice against men could be outlawed under proposed changes to the law, but some women fear that men's rights activists could abuse the protections to silence them.
Sirin Kale
10.17.18
hurricane florence

“You can feel the spray”: Poop lagoons are making life hell for African-Americans in North Carolina

Hurricane Florence flooded many hog waste pits, but the problem has plagued the community for decades.
Sarah Sax
10.17.18
Cultură

Menor Menor Has Secretly Had Latin Trap's Best Summer

With a boost from Carbon Fiber labelhead Farruko, the Afro-Honduran rapper stands poised to smash the genre's color barrier.
Gary Suarez
10.17.18
Scene Reports

You Need to Check Out Kansas City's Madcap Queer Party Scene

Young artists are building an inclusive oasis deep in conservative "flyover country."
Blair Schulman
10.17.18
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