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Imstepf Studios Llc/Getty Images Scientists Found a Strange Link Between Junk Food and Cigarettes
Researchers say ultra-processed foods are engineered to hijack the brain’s reward system, much like cigarettes.
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Peter Dazeley/Getty Images Americans Are Giving Their Hookups STIs, and Admitting to It
45% of respondents who had tested positive for an STI said they had sex at least once without disclosing.
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Woman Arrested After Tying Her Dog to an Airport Bag Sizer and Walking to Her Gate
A woman was arrested at Harry Reid International Airport in Nevada after allegedly abandoning her dog at a JetBlue ticket counter.
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Bloomberg/Contributor/Getty Images Why People Won’t Stop Destroying Flock Surveillance Cameras
The anti-surveillance folks are taking matters into their own hands, smashing Flock cameras whenever they pop up in a new city.
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NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Roman Tkachenko What Built the Dusty Red ‘Snowman’ Floating in Space?
When NASA’s New Horizons flew past Arrokoth on New Year’s Day 2019, it captured humanity’s most distant close-up of a primordial object.
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Guenterguni/Getty Images Lion Trafficker Convicted Using DNA Evidence in World First: Everything We Know
Those involved in the crime were sentenced to 24 months in prison, making this the world’s first conviction based on forensic evidence tied to a single lion.
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Peter Dazeley/Getty Images The 3 Most Common Reasons Open Relationships Fail
Plenty of couples try something new, learn what it costs, then pick the version of commitment they can actually live with.
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Yaorusheng/Getty Images Scientists Have a New Plan to Save the Oceans: Set Them on Fire
But what if we harnessed the awesome power of fire tornadoes… for good?
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3I/ATLAS Why Did Comet 3I/ATLAS Get So Much Brighter After Flying Past the Sun?
3I/ATLAS will soon fade from view as it exits the solar system, but not before bowing out with one final display of its classic weird-o behavior.
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AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/ Contributor/Getty Images This Freaky 350-Million-Year-Old ‘Smiling’ Fossil Isn’t What It Seems
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.
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Three Lions/Stringer/Getty Images CT Scans Reveal the Horrors of Being an Incan Child Sacrifice
Researchers found that children who were sacrificed to appease the gods were drunk and drugged for up to a year before they died.
