Every generation finds a new way to test boundaries, but few have decided that sprinting into highly controversial organizations for internet clout is the move. Enter the latest viral trend, where “speedrunning” has escaped video games and landed squarely in real...
Evictions are already the kind of situation where everyone’s blood pressure is one bad sentence away from boiling over—but most people don’t escalate things by cracking open a live-action nature documentary. Yet here we are, in a story where law enforcement showed up...
Every so often, nature produces something so strange it feels like it was designed during a late-night brainstorming session. Off Cape Cod, fishermen recently hauled in a lobster split perfectly down the middle in two different colors. Instead of ending up on a dinner...
Forget popping pills or booking that hip replacement surgery — scientists just created a single-shot wonder drug that tells your crumbling joints, “Hey, fix yourselves!” In animal tests, this slow-release miracle basically yelled at cartilage and bone cells to get...
Birthday parties are supposed to be predictable: cake, awkward singing, maybe a slightly passive-aggressive gift if someone forgot your actual interests. What they’re not supposed to include is a complete breakdown of human reason triggered by frosting. Yet in a story...
For years, tech companies have tried to “get inside your head,” mostly by guessing what ads you’ll click after you Google something embarrassing at 2 a.m. Now, one startup is skipping the guessing entirely and going straight to the source—your brain. Yes, the same...
