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Tech

This Microscopic Beam Splitter Could Enable Light-Based Computers

05.18.15

By Rachel Pick
Tech

A New Test Can Tell from Your Fingerprints if You’ve Done Cocaine

05.18.15

By Joe Bish
Tech

Here’s What This Satellite Found Mapping Latin America’s Agricultural Decline

05.15.15

By Amanda Panacci
Tech

Did That Fruit Fly You Just Killed Feel Something Like Fear?

05.14.15

By Amanda Panacci
Tech

Watch This Ant Use Its Powerful Jaws to Catapult Away From Danger

05.13.15

By Katie Rook
Tech

A Massive Antarctic Ice Shelf Is Thinning From Two Sides and Now We Know Why

05.12.15

By Jacqueline Ronson
Tech

Study: Really For Reals, There Is No Link Between Autism and Vaccines

04.21.15

By Michael Byrne
Tech

This Digital Camera Doesn’t Need a Battery Because It Powers Itself

04.15.15

By Jason Koebler
Tech

The Parts of Speech

04.09.15

By Ben Richmond
Money

You’re Going to Live for Ages and it’s Going to be Really Expensive

01.21.15

By Wendy Syfret
Tech

Squirting Is Just Peeing, Say Scientists

01.08.15

By Allie Conti
Tech

How Facebook Can Be Used to Predict a Manic Episode

12.12.14

By Roisin Kiberd

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Music

Remember When Rick Rubin Held a Surprisingly Star-Studded Fake Funeral Connected to His Pioneering Hip Hop Label?

From Reverend Al Sharpton officiating, to a New Orleans-style procession, to a repast at a bowling alley, no one holds a fake funeral like Rick Rubin.

05.19.26

By Lauren Boisvert
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Music

3 Psych-Rock Albums That Sound Just as Good Today as They Did in Their Prime

These wildly underrated psych-rock albums still hold up decades later.

05.19.26

By Lauren Boisvert
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Life

‘Uniboob’ Is an Actual Medical Condition. Here’s How It Happens.

Doctors call it “bread-loafing.” Make of that what you will.

05.19.26

By Ashley Fike
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Life

The 37% Rule Says This Is How Many People You Should Date Before Choosing One

Get enough experience to know what you actually want

05.19.26

By Ashley Fike
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Life

If You Feel Guilty All the Time, You Probably Have a High IQ. Here’s Why.

Of course Freud is involved.

05.19.26

By Ashley Fike