US just approved a digital pill that knows whether or not you took it
Modern medicine can completely change someone’s life for the better, but only if they’re actually taking their prescriptions like they’re supposed to. Ensuring that a …
Articles by Mike Wehner
Very good boy who literally wagged his tail until it broke has found a new home
Dogs tend to be extremely upbeat creatures — that is, unless you raise them to be hostile, in which the dog is just a reflection …
Artificial climate intervention could completely destroy the planet, so we probably shouldn’t do that
That terrible Hollywood disaster movie Geostorm fell flat on its face at the box office and got so many things wrong when it comes to …
Scientists just used a brain implant to improve human memory, and it could change everything
The human brain is truly a wonder, and nature has honed it to be an incredibly efficient tool for processing information and hanging on to …
Archaeologists discover hundreds of human skeletons on horrifying ‘Murder Island’
Being shipwrecked on a tropical island might sound like an interesting (or even fun) adventure, but archaeologists are discovering that the reality was much different …
Parasite that turns ants into actual zombies is even more terrifying than scientists thought
An incredibly powerful type of fungal parasite that is known to turn ants into actual zombies is actually even more devious than was first thought. …
Watch a giant crab mercilessly attack a full-grown bird and fuel your nightmares
Crab and arthropods in general are often pretty creepy all on their own, but when you see one ruthlessly murdering (and eating!) a creature you …
Cruise passenger stages mutiny over cancelled stops, gets thrown off
Cruises can be a fun, relaxing experience and make a great vacation idea if you don’t feel like doing the traditional type of globetrotting, but …
Mysterious ‘dinosaur’ shark caught, called a ‘living fossil’ by researchers
When the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth many millions of years ago it spelled doom for countless species, while allowing many others (like mammals) the …
That self-driving bus ‘crash’ in Las Vegas was even less of a crash than we thought
When news began circulating some 48 hours ago that a self-driving bus in Las Vegas got into an accident mere hours after its maiden voyage, …
GoPro bravely sacrifices itself to capture first-person view of being devoured by lava
Not many people have been swallowed up by lava and survived — in fact, the number has to be somewhere around zero, if I had …
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs almost didn’t
If you think the emergence of man was an inevitability, think again. The massive asteroid that struck Earth and triggered the mass extinction of the …
The US military will test jets with frickin’ laser beams attached to them
We may not live in a Star Wars-esque age of light speed travel and Death Stars, but that isn’t stopping the US military from turning …
Razer Phone review: How to build a smartphone for gamers
Aside from the occasional tiny Chinese manufacturer, you really don’t see all that many new competitors in the smartphone space these days. There’s a couple …
Scientists implanted rodents with lab-grown human ‘mini brains,’ and that’s not even the scary part
Stem cell research has been a hotly debated issue for years already, but groundbreaking work utilizing stem-cell-grown human brain tissue is about to challenge even …
Self-driving bus launches in Las Vegas, gets into accident two hours later
The autonomous vehicles of the future are already (sorta) here, and it won’t be long before you start seeing them on a street near you. …
Astronomers struggle to explain ‘zombie star’ that keeps exploding but won’t die
We humans like to pretend we know a lot about space and the various objects that we’ve observed in it, but at the end of …
Something scorching hot is melting Antarctica from below, and NASA thinks they know what it is
Antarctica is a weird place. Scientists have long studied the behavior of its massive ice sheets and the land underneath them in the hopes of …
When AI rules, one rogue programmer could end the human race
The idea of small groups of humans having control over some of the most powerful weapons ever to be built is scary, but it’s the …
Astronomers just spotted a planet so huge they aren’t even sure it’s really a planet
Even if you have only cursory knowledge of the planets in our Solar System, you know that Earth is on the smaller end of the …
Someone erected a giant wooden penis in the Alps and nobody will claim responsibility
If you’re trekking in the Austrian Alps there’s a number of things you’d probably expect to see, including snow, rocks, and precious little vegetation. Hikers …
Stephen Hawking warns that AI could completely destroy mankind
AI is everywhere. It’s in search engines and chat bots, and even built right into your next smartphone, and it promises to help make your …
Saturn’s frosty ocean moon Enceladus might actually support life
Mankind has sent fancy robots and probes to a whole bunch of our nearest planetary neighbors and found nothing to suggest life exists (or ever …
Russian man says he lived on Mars in a past life, and that Martians are still there
There are lots of crazy people walking around on our planet, and even if they honestly believe some of the things they say — that …
Science may have just answered the question of how life began
Research into the conditions under which life originally formed has given scientists a lot of tantalizing clues in recent years, but a new discovery made …
The T Rex’s tiny baby arms might have been way more devastating than you can possibly imagine
When you see the skeleton of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex there are a number of things that pop out at you. The massive jaws lined …
An iPhone X hater’s review of the iPhone X
Apple’s iPhone X is here! I hate it! Okay, so I don’t really hate it all that much anymore, but I did hate it. Everything …
The iPhone X’s display is the best of any smartphone thanks in part to Samsung, of course
A new iPhone has been released into the wild and that means yet another exhaustive display rundown by the experts at DisplayMate. The quality of …
Astronomers spot oldest galaxy ever detected by looking back in time 11 billion years
You already know that humans are newbies when it comes to the age of the universe — in fact, “new” doesn’t adequately describe the incredibly …
Researchers develop method to completely fool AI image recognition, turn turtles into rifles
Advancements in AI are happening at a breakneck pace, and they have been for some time now, but computers aren’t infallible. Some very interesting new …
