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Ancient Dinosaur Discovery Connects Extinction and Environmental Change
When visitors step into the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History this holiday season, they will encounter more than a striking fossil behind glass. They will come face to face with a fragment of deep time, a survivor of processes that shaped Earth long before humans existed. The near-complete skull of a Pachycephalosaurus, a dome-headed…
Japan Introduces a Toilet That Tracks Your Health Through Poop
For decades, Japanese toilets have been treated as a cultural marvel. Travelers return home telling stories about heated seats, gentle bidet sprays, and buttons that play calming sounds to preserve bathroom dignity. These features once felt futuristic. Now they are almost expected. But this summer, Japan may have taken its biggest leap yet, transforming the…
A World-First Gene Therapy Lets a Baby Beat a Rare Disease and Take His First Steps
For many families, a rare genetic diagnosis feels like a map with no exit, leaving parents to navigate a medical landscape that often lacks specific solutions. When KJ Muldoon was born with a condition that turned a basic diet into a source of internal toxicity, the standard path offered little hope for long-term stability. Yet,…
Rocco the Parrot Secretly Used Alexa to Order Snacks and Toys While No One Was Home
It sounds like a joke you might expect to read online, but for Marion Wischnewski it quickly became an unexpected reality inside her own home. After returning from work in Didcot, Oxfordshire, she would sometimes open the door to hear music already playing, filling the house with sound despite no one else being there. At…
Pins, Felt, and Fear: An ICE Voodoo Doll Appears in New Orleans
Someone in Uptown New Orleans wanted to send a message. Near Magazine Street, in a residential neighborhood where oak trees line the sidewalks and historic homes sit behind wrought-iron gates, passersby spotted something unusual tied to a tree. A small figure, handmade from felt, hung from the trunk. Dozens of pins pierced its body. A…
High-Fat Cheese and Cream Linked to Lower Dementia Risk
For years, health-conscious eaters have been told to put down the brie and step away from the cream. Saturated fat, after all, has long been cast as the villain in our dietary narratives. But what if everything we thought we knew about fat and brain health was wrong? What if that wheel of Gouda in…
Cave Living Baby Dragons Are Emerging Into The Light, And Scientists Are Stunned
Deep beneath the rocky landscapes of Europe exists a world that feels almost mythical. It is a realm without sunlight where strange pale creatures glide silently through underground rivers. For centuries, these animals inspired legends of dragons hiding below villages and mountains. Now modern science is revealing that those ancient myths may not have been…
The Real Reason Coca-Cola Bottles Sometimes Have Yellow Caps
Walk down a supermarket soda aisle and you will see one of the most recognizable designs in the world. Red labels. White script. A bottle shape that has barely changed in generations. Coca-Cola has built a brand so consistent that even the smallest deviation can spark confusion, curiosity, and sometimes a viral internet moment. That…
Police Remove “Free Weed” Christmas Display Found Near Auburn School Fundraiser
Auburn’s holiday season took an unexpected turn when a small sidewalk display appeared to offer something far removed from hot cocoa and string lights. Set up with a cheery message and a wink of wordplay, it looked designed to stop passersby in their tracks, especially with its placement near a familiar seasonal tradition. But what…
How NDAs Are Keeping AI Data Center Plans Hidden From the Public
On a March afternoon in Mason County, Kentucky, Dr. Timothy Grosser sat at a table on the same land he had worked for nearly four decades and listened as three unfamiliar men laid out an offer most people would never refuse. They were willing to pay millions of dollars for his 250-acre farm, a stretch…