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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.
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OsakaWayne Studios/Getty Images Your Brain Doesn’t Stop Developing at 25, It Keeps Changing Until This Age
It’s one of those commonly accepted “facts” that isn’t really a fact at all.
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Elena Panfilo/NSU Press Service Mummified Skull Reveals Iron Age Woman Survived Brutal Jaw Surgery
The scans showed the woman’s right temporomandibular joint, your TMJ hinge near the ear, had been destroyed.
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RA-Photos/Getty Images Climber Found Guilty of Manslaughter After Leaving Girlfriend to Die on Austria’s Tallest Mountain
An Austrian man is facing criminal charges after allegedly leaving his girlfriend to die during a winter ascent of Grossglockner.
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Laurent Emmanuel/Contributor/Getty Images The Moon Is Shrinking. Here’s What That Means for the Future.
The moon, it seems, is most definitely shrinking. And that means it’s going to be experiencing a lot more tectonic activity in its future.
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Deep Sea Research Centre/inkfish/Kelpie Geoscience A Shark Was Filmed in Antarctic Waters for the First Time Ever
Now that researchers know this shark is there, they have a slightly better idea as to where to place their cameras.
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Natalia Lebedinskaia/Getty Images This Is Your Biggest Turn-Off, According to Your Zodiac Sign
Astrology isn’t a court ruling. It’s more like a language for taste.
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Katarzyna Bialasiewicz/Getty Images 10 Strange Sex Habits That Are Actually Pretty Normal
Don’t fret… you’re human, and very normal.
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You Have to Watch This Very Good Dog Try to Win an Olympic Ski Race
Maybe the best part is that the dog was captured by the high-speed photo finish cameras.
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Adult Swim ‘Ha Ha You Clowns’ Is Extremely Cringe, and Exactly What We Need
Loving Ha Ha You Clowns is accepting that sweetly stupid things have real value. They’re necessary if we’re to survive life’s hardships.
