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Why Did Comet 3I/ATLAS Get So Much Brighter After Flying Past the Sun?
1+ hour, 42+ min ago (387+ words) Ah, good ol" 3I/ATLAS. How I miss writing about you a few days a week. You were a fun comet. You were a bit of a freak. You came from beyond our solar system, exhibiting all sorts of weird-o behaviors…...
Scientists Have a New Plan to Save the Oceans: Set Them on Fire
6+ hour, 34+ min ago (339+ words) But what if we harnessed the awesome power of fire tornadoes" for good? But what if we harnessed the awesome power of fire tornadoes" for good? This is likely the thought process that went into a real-life scientific innovation that…...
This Freaky 350-Million-Year-Old 'Smiling' Fossil Isn't What It Seems
12+ hour, 54+ min ago (196+ words) Britain's Christine Clark was out on a fossil hunt on Boxing Day when the 64-year-old found a pebble that was smiling at her from the sand. Crinoids first appeared in the Cambrian period and are part of the echinoderm family,…...
A Shark Was Filmed in Antarctic Waters for the First Time Ever
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (435+ words) Luis is a Topical Writer for VICE. He was a Weekly Columnist and a Senior Columns Editor for the comedy site'Cracked.com, and a Staff Writer and Editor for the celebrity lifestyle and wellness satire site'BunnyEars.com. He is a…...
Arkansas Once Had So Many Sharks It's Now a Shark Skeleton Hot Spot
1+ week, 1+ day ago (411+ words) Luis is a Topical Writer for VICE. He was a Weekly Columnist and a Senior Columns Editor for the comedy site'Cracked.com, and a Staff Writer and Editor for the celebrity lifestyle and wellness satire site'BunnyEars.com. He is a…...
Why Do Humans Have Chins? We're the Only Species That Does.
1+ week, 1+ day ago (221+ words) Chins are useless but they can make us look ridiculous if we have too much or not enough. According to new research, that knobby slab of bone jutting from our lower jaw is more than just a bit of angular…...
Is Venus Full of Giant Lava Tubes? Scientists Say There's at Least One.
1+ week, 1+ day ago (292+ words) Planetary scientists have long suspected Venus was hiding something beneath its battered, sulfuric surface, namely, a vast underground network of lava tubes carved by ancient lava flows. Now, for the first time, researchers say they've found one. Using radar data…...
AI-Powered Tools in the Operating Room Is Probably a Bad Idea
1+ week, 1+ day ago (196+ words) Its record has been mixed at best since. An exhaustively researched feature in Reuters details the tool's track record, which thus far has a few successes but is also littered with reports of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts. The…...
Astronomers Found an 'Inside-Out' Solar System That Shouldn't Exist
1+ week, 1+ day ago (272+ words) Every time humans get comfortable with our understanding of space, a distant star throws a new curveball. Astronomers just found a planetary system that blows up the simple version of how planets "should" line up. The star is called LHS…...
7 Space Objects That Could Wipe Us Out and How Close They’ve Come to Earth
1+ week, 2+ day ago (549+ words) Never forget we're on a spinning rock in a sea of nothingness. Earth is constantly getting hit with space debris. Most of it burns up and becomes a nice little streak for someone's camera roll. Every so often, though, something…...