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Photo: NASA / Shutterstock The Big Bang Theory Is Wrong, and the New Theory Is Somehow Even Stranger
Maybe our universe wasn’t born from nothing after all.
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Photo: Ryan J Lane / Getty Images You May Want to Rethink Your Gum Chewing Habit. It’s Essentially Plastic.
You might as well be chewing on car tires.
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(Photo via Lorado / Getty Images) We Need to Try a Little Harder to Keep Our Pets Away From Our Cocaine
And it’s not just cocaine.
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(Photo By BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images) Scientists Made a Tiny ‘Hand’ to Snatch Viruses From Your Body
The NanoGripper is made of a single folded strand of DNA.
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(Photo by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images) We’re All Completely Wrong About What Others Find Physically Attractive
The researchers theorize that a lot of these misperceptions are based on what boils down to self-loathing.
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(Photo by James R.D. Scott / Getty Images) Turns Out Manatees Are Transplants Just Like Everyone Else in Florida
New research suggests Florida manatees aren’t true Floridians.
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(Illustration via ChrisChrisW / Getty Images) Parkinson’s Disease Could Have a Simple Treatment, Study Finds
The simple fix? Vitamin B supplementation.
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(Photo by Beatrice Britton/Adam Clancy) Scientists Create World’s Thinnest Spaghetti—But You’re Not Supposed to Eat It
It measures just 372 nanometers in diameter—around 200 times thinner than a strand of human hair.

