Colorectal Cancer Is Killing More 20 to 30-Year-Olds. We Have Some Clues About Why

Colorectal Cancer Is Killing More 20 to 30-Year-Olds. We Have Some Clues About Why
The burden of the disease is shifting to younger generations — and puzzling researchers.

March 31, 2019 at 07:51PM
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The Worst Disease Ever Recorded

The Worst Disease Ever Recorded
A doomsday fungus known as Bd has condemned more species to extinction than any other pathogen.

March 29, 2019 at 06:23PM
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Check Out This Macro Footage Of Droplets Bouncing On A Water Repellent Surface

Check Out This Macro Footage Of Droplets Bouncing On A Water Repellent Surface
Like a basketball on a basketball court, water droplets have rebound, rebound that scientists figured out how to manipulate.

April 1, 2019 at 04:05AM
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The Share Of Americans Not Having Sex Has Reached A Record High

The Share Of Americans Not Having Sex Has Reached A Record High
Among the 23 percent of adults — or nearly one in four — who spent the year in a celibate state, a much larger than expected number of them were twentysomething men.

March 30, 2019 at 02:01AM
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What The Theranos Documentary Misses

What The Theranos Documentary Misses
Instead of examining Elizabeth Holmes's personality, look at the people and systems that aided the company's rise.

March 30, 2019 at 10:59PM
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The DMV Reviewed Thousands of Hilarious Vanity Plate Applications Last Year. These Are Our Favorites

The DMV Reviewed Thousands of Hilarious Vanity Plate Applications Last Year. These Are Our Favorites
Inside the important job of keeping poop puns, dick jokes and hate speech off California's roadways.

March 29, 2019 at 05:10PM
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Drowning The Culture In Sameness

Drowning The Culture In Sameness
Flooding (v.): Unleashing a mass torrent of the same stories by the same storytellers at the same time, making it almost impossible for anyone but the same select few to rise to the surface.

March 30, 2019 at 02:45AM
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Why Everyone Hates The Vessel

Why Everyone Hates The Vessel
The centerpiece of New York's massive new Hudson Yards development has drawn relentless criticism.

March 29, 2019 at 11:47PM
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Today's Hero Is A Turkish Shopkeeper Who Resuscitated A Suffocating Stray Puppy

Today's Hero Is A Turkish Shopkeeper Who Resuscitated A Suffocating Stray Puppy
Omer Yilmaz, a shop-keeper, revived a stray puppy who had a piece of food lodged in his throat. He first applied a cardiac massage and later used mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to revive the young one.

March 30, 2019 at 02:45AM
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This Week's Best Memes, Ranked

This Week's Best Memes, Ranked
It's an internet fight and only the funniest meme will emerge victorious. This week's challengers? St Louis Style, Pregnant Mom, #AvengeTheFallen and more.

March 30, 2019 at 02:01AM
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Activists Wear Swamp Creature Masks To Trump Nominee's Hearing, And The Pictures Are Priceless

Activists Wear Swamp Creature Masks To Trump Nominee's Hearing, And The Pictures Are Priceless
Regardless of your view of the politics, the pictures are... very good.

March 29, 2019 at 10:25PM
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The Day The Dinosaurs Died

The Day The Dinosaurs Died
A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.

March 29, 2019 at 07:36PM
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This Search Engine That Gives You The Cheapest Flights From Any Location Is A Super Cool Travel Hack

This Search Engine That Gives You The Cheapest Flights From Any Location Is A Super Cool Travel Hack
If you're having trouble deciding which city or country to visit for your next holiday, travel search engine Escape is a pretty nifty tool that will help you map out your best options.

March 29, 2019 at 05:10PM
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How A Couple Worked Charter School Regulations To Make Millions

How A Couple Worked Charter School Regulations To Make Millions
The warning signs appeared soon after Denise Kawamoto accepted a job at Today's Fresh Start Charter School in South Los Angeles.

March 29, 2019 at 01:27AM
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Activists Wear Swamp

Activists Wear Swamp
Regardless of your view of the politics, the pictures are... very good.

March 29, 2019 at 09:57PM
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This Is How You Kill A Profession

This Is How You Kill A Profession
How did we decide that professors don't deserve job security or a decent salary?

March 29, 2019 at 01:27AM
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Welcome To The Florida Factory Where They Build Synthetic Cadavers

Welcome To The Florida Factory Where They Build Synthetic Cadavers
Tucked away in an unassuming office park in Tampa, Florida, Syndaver cranks out fake human bodies that are reusable, sustainable and economical alternatives to real cadavers. They're also super gross.

March 29, 2019 at 07:27PM
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Agnès Varda, Leading Light Of French New Wave, Dies At 90

Agnès Varda, Leading Light Of French New Wave, Dies At 90
Agnès Varda, a leading light of the French New Wave who directed such films as "Cléo From 5 to 7," "Vagabond" and "Faces Places," has died of cancer at the age of 90.

March 29, 2019 at 06:36PM
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The World's Greatest Delivery Empire

The World's Greatest Delivery Empire
In Beijing, it's often cheaper to have food delivered than to get it yourself. Like, way cheaper. Illogically cheaper. How does Meituan do it?

March 28, 2019 at 07:31PM
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DeVos reverses course on Special Olympics cuts after Trump orders funding

DeVos reverses course on Special Olympics cuts after Trump orders funding
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos spent three days defending her plan to eliminate Special Olympics funding from next year's budget. That didn't stop her boss, President Donald Trump, from publicly undermining her on Thursday.

March 29, 2019 at 06:10AM
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Here's A Perfect Internet Video

Here's A Perfect Internet Video
We still don't entirely *get* TikTok, but we're thankful for this.

March 28, 2019 at 08:01PM
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Meet Lazarus Lake, The Man Behind The World's Hardest Running Race

Meet Lazarus Lake, The Man Behind The World's Hardest Running Race
What kind of sadist creates the hardest race in the world? We sent our writer to find out.

March 28, 2019 at 09:18PM
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Wow, What A Revelation To Have A Representative Give A Shit About Climate Change

Wow, What A Revelation To Have A Representative Give A Shit About Climate Change
To a scientist, "The global temperature has a 95 percent chance of increasing by 2.5 degrees over the next 100 years" is strongly preferable over "The temperature is going to go up and people are going to die."

March 28, 2019 at 10:18AM
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New York Sues Sackler Family Members And Drug Distributors

New York Sues Sackler Family Members And Drug Distributors
New York State laid out one of the most detailed and sweeping legal cases yet against the family that owns Purdue Pharma, maker of the opioid OxyContin, as well as the companies that distributed alarming amounts of prescription painkillers.

March 28, 2019 at 10:28PM
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The SR-71 Spy Plane Was So Fast, It Outran Every Missile Fired at It

The SR-71 Spy Plane Was So Fast, It Outran Every Missile Fired at It
The iconic SR-71 Blackbird, capable of flying three times the speed of sound, remains the fastest warplane ever flown operationally.

March 28, 2019 at 02:33AM
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Wow Air Ceases Operations, Leaving Passengers Stranded

Wow Air Ceases Operations, Leaving Passengers Stranded
Icelandic budget carrier Wow Air has ceased operations and canceled its flights, leaving passengers stranded on both sides of the Atlantic.

March 28, 2019 at 08:01PM
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Gymnast Malfunctions Midair, Instantly Creates Physical Comedy Gold

Gymnast Malfunctions Midair, Instantly Creates Physical Comedy Gold 
Halfway between taking off and coming down this woman's body froze in a Tetris-like shape, and we'll be darned if that's not the funniest thing we've seen all week.

March 28, 2019 at 02:33AM
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Why A Growing Glacier Isn't Good News For The Climate

Why A Growing Glacier Isn't Good News For The Climate
An iconic glacier in Greenland is growing again after two decades of shrinking. But that doesn't mean things are looking up, experts say — just the opposite. The icy behemoth remains a looming climate threat.

March 28, 2019 at 04:55PM
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Driver Shuts Down ICE Agents Trying To Arrest Immigrants In His Car Without The Required Warrant

Driver Shuts Down ICE Agents Trying To Arrest Immigrants In His Car Without The Required Warrant
​Bryan MacCormack works with the Columbia County Sanctuary Project in New York, and as such, he's well-versed in the laws surrounding ICE's legal powers.

March 28, 2019 at 02:32AM
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This City Bans Cars Every Sunday — And People Love It

This City Bans Cars Every Sunday — And People Love It
Spurred by environmental concerns, an experiment in Bogotá, Colombia, is spreading worldwide.

March 27, 2019 at 09:21PM
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The Untold Story Behind The Mysterious Disappearance of Fan Bingbing, The World's Biggest Movie Star

The Untold Story Behind The Mysterious Disappearance of Fan Bingbing, The World's Biggest Movie Star
She vanished without a trace last year. But it was what happened next that sent a shudder through the Chinese film industry.

March 27, 2019 at 04:50PM
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Why You're Likely Going To Hear More About Being "Sober Curious"

Why You're Likely Going To Hear More About Being "Sober Curious"
As more young people opt for wellness-oriented lifestyles, brands are offering more nonalcoholic products.

March 27, 2019 at 03:58AM
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Male Birth Control Could Actually Happen. But Do Men Want It?

Male Birth Control Could Actually Happen. But Do Men Want It?
Some 400 couples, in nine cities worldwide, have worked a contraceptive gel into their daily routines. It is one of the largest investigations into hormonal male contraception ever.

March 27, 2019 at 11:41PM
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This Camera Captures The Speed Of Light At 10 Trillion Frames Per Second

This Camera Captures The Speed Of Light At 10 Trillion Frames Per Second
The Slow Mo Guys have built their career on using slow-motion cameras to slow down the world around us and, yet, the cameras they use are still 20 million times slower than this one from Caltech.

March 27, 2019 at 11:41PM
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Mix This Chemical With Blood And Get A Gross And Surprising Reaction

Mix This Chemical With Blood And Get A Gross And Surprising Reaction
Is this gross demo as easy to do as its viral tweet suggests?

March 27, 2019 at 10:23PM
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Facebook Bans White Nationalism And White Separatism

Facebook Bans White Nationalism And White Separatism
After a civil rights backlash, Facebook will now treat white nationalism and separatism the same as white supremacy, and will direct users who try to post that content to a nonprofit that helps people leave hate groups.

March 27, 2019 at 09:21PM
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A Science Guy Shows Off Some Explosive Experiments On 'Kimmel'

A Science Guy Shows Off Some Explosive Experiments On 'Kimmel'
Bob Pflugfelder has an epic last name and an even more epic host of science tricks up his sleeve.

March 27, 2019 at 06:24PM
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50 Women Accuse Tech Giant Salesforce Of 'Facilitating' Their Sex Trafficking And Prostitution

50 Women Accuse Tech Giant Salesforce Of 'Facilitating' Their Sex Trafficking And Prostitution
The "Jane Does" accuse the customer relations management giant of helping the notorious website Backpage build a sex trafficking brand and manage a database of pimps and johns.

March 27, 2019 at 05:59PM
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Here's Why Young Blood Transfusions Are Overhyped

Here's Why Young Blood Transfusions Are Overhyped
One of the leading companies in young blood transfusion was "sketchy at best" about the science — to the point where the scientists whose work it drew on got concerned. Then, the FDA entered the picture.

March 27, 2019 at 04:50PM
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All The Times Science And Pop Culture Tried To Make The T. Rex Less Badass

All The Times Science And Pop Culture Tried To Make The T. Rex Less Badass
The Tyrannosaurus rex was officially discovered in 1902, and for the first 90 years of its known existence, the T. rex's stature as king would go pretty much unchallenged.

March 27, 2019 at 04:50PM
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Vice President Pence Gives NASA Five Years to Put Americans Back on the Moon—or Else

Vice President Pence Gives NASA Five Years to Put Americans Back on the Moon—or Else
Pence declared that current estimates, which say American astronauts would not walk on the Moon until 2028, were "not good enough." In language echoing Cold War sentiments, he said that we are once again in a space race against "adversaries" Russia and China.

March 27, 2019 at 04:50PM
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The Dreams Of A Man Asleep For Three Weeks

The Dreams Of A Man Asleep For Three Weeks
On March 22, 2018, I was rushed to the hospital for life-saving surgery. Due to complications with the procedure, I didn't regain full, coherent consciousness until the second week in April. For three weeks I was stuck inside my own mind, subject to a seemingly unending series of dreams.

March 26, 2019 at 11:13PM
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The True Dollar Cost Of The Anti-Vaccine Movement

The True Dollar Cost Of The Anti-Vaccine Movement
Every grave illness and death is an individual tragedy, but the cost of vaccine hesitancy also enforces a shared public toll.

March 27, 2019 at 03:58AM
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The Best $5,929.10 I Ever Spent: Moving Back To The Midwest

The Best $5,929.10 I Ever Spent: Moving Back To The Midwest
Moving from Seattle to Cedar Rapids cost nearly $6,000, and I'm so glad I did it.

March 26, 2019 at 07:08PM
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McDonald's Will Use AI To Automatically Tweak Drive-thru Menus

McDonald's Will Use AI To Automatically Tweak Drive-thru Menus
It might give McFlurrys more prominent placement on hot days, for instance.

March 27, 2019 at 12:37AM
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Formation of Dark Vortex on Neptune Captured For the Very First Time

Formation of Dark Vortex on Neptune Captured For the Very First Time
Late last year, astronomers detected the sixth known dark vortex on Neptune. This time, however, scientists were able to chronicle the formation of this swirling storm over the course of several years, offering new insights into these enigmatic and ephemeral weather features.

March 26, 2019 at 11:13PM
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A Battle Is Raging Over The Largest Solar Farm East Of The Rockies

A Battle Is Raging Over The Largest Solar Farm East Of The Rockies
The largest solar farm east of the Rocky Mountains could soon be built in Virginia and, depending on whom you ask, it would be either a dangerous eyesore that will destroy the area's rural character or a win-win, boosting the local economy and the environment.

March 26, 2019 at 09:24PM
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Cook County Prosecutors Drop All Charges Against 'Empire' Actor Jussie Smollett

Cook County Prosecutors Drop All Charges Against 'Empire' Actor Jussie Smollett
In a stunning move, Cook County prosecutors on Tuesday dropped all charges against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett on disorderly conduct charges for allegedly staging a phony attack and claiming he was the victim of a hate crime.

March 26, 2019 at 08:55PM
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NASA Cancels All-Female Spacewalk, Citing Lack Of Spacesuit In Right Size

NASA Cancels All-Female Spacewalk, Citing Lack Of Spacesuit In Right Size
"In this case, it's easier (and faster!) to change space-walkers than reconfigure the spacesuit," a NASA spokesperson said.

March 26, 2019 at 06:06PM
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This Drug Can Stop Mothers Bleeding To Death In Childbirth — So Why Can't More Women Get It?

This Drug Can Stop Mothers Bleeding To Death In Childbirth — So Why Can't More Women Get It?
We now know there's a cheap, safe treatment that could save thousands of lives each year. But those who need it can't always access it.

March 26, 2019 at 05:00PM
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