Prescription drugs keep popping up in dietary supplements
If you choose to take an over-the-counter supplement for weight loss, muscle building, or even sexual enhancement you probably trust what it says on the …
Articles by Mike Wehner
The world has a new fastest camera, and it shoots at 10 trillion frames per second
The “slow motion” modes on modern smartphones crank up the speed of video recording so that when it’s played back at regular speed the motion …
Study says over half of US citizens can be hunted down with a drop of their DNA
If you’ve ever succumbed to the temptation to have your DNA sequenced by a genealogy company you probably learned some pretty interesting things about your …
The failed Soyuz rocket looked like a giant needle and thread from space
Traveling to the International Space Station is a pretty special thing that only a very select group of people will ever have the opportunity to …
Astronomers now have the dumbest possible name for a moon that’s the moon of another moon
If you gaze up at the night sky there’s a good chance you’ll spot Earth’s only large natural satellite. We just called it “the Moon,” …
Japan forced to delay touchdown of asteroid probe because it’s too darn rough
Japan’s Hayabusa-2 asteroid probe has already completed a number of scientific firsts. It successfully entered orbit around the Ryugu asteroid, deployed a pair of rovers …
The volcano that destroyed Pompeii caused heads to literally explode
Being in proximity to a volcano as it unleashes hellfire upon the land is, well, not good. The residents of Pompeii and Herculaneum likely never …
Bees act really strange when there’s a solar eclipse and scientists can’t explain it
The much-hyped total solar eclipse that streaked across the United States in 2017 changed how a lot of us behaved for a very short period …
Astronauts headed for ISS forced to make emergency landing after in-flight rocket failure
It’s been an interesting couple of months for Russia’s space program. Everything had been going quite smoothly for Roscosmos ahead of the bizarre hole discovered …
More mysterious radio signals heard in deep space, and scientists are still baffled
Humans love staring at images of distant galaxies snapped from high-powered telescopes, but sometimes listening instead of looking can yield even more tantalizing hints at …
Catch-and-release fishing might actually be doing more harm than good
Catching fish for food is something that has been done for, well, pretty much since the dawn of mankind, but fishing as a hobby or …
Hurricane Michael has arrived, and it’s stronger than anyone expected
Hurricane Michael just made landfall along the Florida panhandle and it’s packing much more of a punch than most assumed it would when warnings about …
Scientists claim we haven’t found alien life because we haven’t been looking hard enough
If intelligent alien life exists somewhere in space it’s abundantly clear that we haven’t made meaningful contact with it yet. Various scientific bodies have devoted …
Scientists discover massive volcano graveyard hidden off the coast of Australia
It’s often said that we know less about what is hiding in Earth’s oceans than we do about what lurks in the depths of space. …
This bizarre electric bike can reach 50 miles per hour, and yes, you’re going to be able to buy it
The design of vehicles like cars and cycles has historically been limited by the fact that you have to cram a gas-burning engine somewhere inside …
Hand sanitizer might keep you safer than soap and water, study claims
Kids get sick. That’s just kinda what they do, and anyone who works with kids is forced to deal with the inevitable spread of minor …
NASA says it’s doing everything it can to keep Hubble alive as long as possible
It was just yesterday that news began to spread about NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope experiencing some downtime due to a gyroscope issue, and today NASA …
Google reveals Home Hub, a smart speaker with a smart screen
Google’s fall event is upon us and the company’s love affair with home tech is well represented by the all-new Home Hub. Following in the …
Bold beachgoers decide to dry off with the help of a few jet engines
A day at the beach is usually a pretty relaxing excursion, but tourists who find themselves at Maho Beach on the Caribbean island of Saint …
Jupiter’s Europa might be a spiky, dangerous place to land a ship
As telescope technology and other observational tools has improved over the decades we’ve learned more and more about the planets and moons in our Solar …
NASA’s Voyager 2 is about to break out of the Solar System
NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft have been cruising through space since 1977. For the past forty years or so they’ve been speeding along …
NASA wants to save humanity from death by supervolcano
We live with the knowledge that any number of end-of-the-world scenarios could be right around the corner. From drug-resistant disease outbreaks to impacts from large …
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch gave California residents another scare
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space Sunday evening, ferrying a satellite into orbit and then successfully landing its rocket back down on land …
There’s something wrong with the Hubble Space Telescope
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most reliable pieces of hardware ever launched into Earth orbit. It’s been peering into the depths of …
Artist envisions what a Martian mini-house might look like
Mankind isn’t ready to go to Mars… at least not yet. Space agencies and scientific groups from around the world are working hard towards the …
Scientists traced the genetic quirk that gives huskies blue eyes
Many dog species have specific features that give them away. Bull terriers have long, flat noses, dalmatians have their iconic spots, and pugs look like …
Overdose of erectile dysfunction drug turns man’s vision red
Erectile dysfunction medications are nothing new — you’re unlikely to make it through an evening of prime time television without seeing at least a couple …
Saturn’s iconic rings are raining thousands of pounds of material onto the planet every second
Some people love when it rains, but even the most devoted storm-lovers here on Earth would have a hard time dealing with the conditions on …
Michigan man’s doorstop rock turns out to be a $100,000 meteorite
You probably don’t have many incredibly valuable artifacts laying around your house, but if you did you almost certainly wouldn’t be using them as doorstops, …
A bunch of birds in Minnesota won’t stop getting drunk, and it’s becoming a problem
Most of us know what it’s like to have one too many adult beverages. We tend to mess things up, fall down, and cause problems …
