Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns
Every year, we have a blast covering a fresh crop of winners of the Ig Nobel prizes. After 35 years in Boston, the annual prize ceremony will take place in…
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Shades of a Lunar Eclipse
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YouTube Premium Lite: Is it worth the $7.99/month?
If you ask YouTube users the most annoying part of their viewing experience, the majority would probably say the adverts. Ads pop up at the start, during, and after videos…
An unlikely set of clues helps reconstruct ancient Chinese disasters
Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, according to a recent study in which its authors link three wildly…
Flexible feline spines shed light on “falling cat” problem
Why do falling cats always seem to land on their feet? Scientists have been arguing about the precise mechanism for a very long time—since at least 1700, in fact—conducting all…
3I/ATLAS comet is bursting with alcohol, surprising astronomers
The comet 3I/ATLAS is well on its way back into deep space, but the famous cosmic visitor continues to fascinate astronomers. Since its discovery in July 2025, researchers have spent…
Man builds functional typewriter out of Legos
Lego kits have become impressively intricate over the years, but the company really outdid itself with a 2079-piece typewriter in 2021. Part of its Ideas series, the brickmakers released the…
Tiny, long-armed dinosaur leads to rethink of dinosaur miniaturization
Alvarezsaurids were mostly small-bodied theropods that paleontologists originally misinterpreted as early flightless birds, only to later recognize them as an ant-eating lineage of non-avian dinosaurs. For years, we suspected that…
Hunting for elusive “ghost elephants”
Deep in the Angolan Highlands lurks a rumored new species of elephant. Conservationist and ornithologist Steve Boyes has been searching for this elusive herd for years and the story of…
A unicorn-like Spinosaurus found in the Sahara
The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of taking down a T. rex in Jurassic Park 3. Then they changed their…