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Photo: nymphoenix / Getty Images What If Your Takeout Came in Shrimp Shell Plastic? No, It Really Could.
There’s still a ways to go before you can buy shrimp plastic cups from your local Pottery Barn.
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MirageC/Getty Images Is the Earth’s ‘Heartbeat’ Giving You Brain Fog?
The internet loves a creepy-sounding explanation for basic human misery. This week’s version is “Earth’s heartbeat.”
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Wikimedia Common A ‘Princess’ in Her Coffin Fell Off a Cliff Over 100 Years Ago, and Archaeologists Finally Know More About Her
In 1899, a cliff near Bagicz on Poland’s northwest coast gave up a secret it had been holding onto for a long time.
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George Pachantouris/Getty Images Wild Chimps Get Drunk on a Daily Basis, Scientists Find
A new study found that wild chimpanzees in Uganda are eating fermented fruit, and they’re metabolizing the alcohol.
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William Brune Trees Glow During Thunderstorms, and Scientists Finally Caught It on Camera
You can’t see it with your eyes. But a camera can.
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Lorenzo Marchetti The Oldest Butthole Ever Found Is a 290-Million-Year-Old Fossil
It’s a butthole. It’s functional. It’s unglamorous. It’s also a weirdly useful clue about how early reptiles were built.
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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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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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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.
