An Iceberg Didn’t Sink The Titanic
New photographs suggest an alternate theory. Ask anyone on the street why the Titanic sank and you’ll get the same answer: “It hit an iceberg.” As explanations for catastrophes go,…
Doctors In Weed-Legal States Baffled By All These Barfing Stoners
Ines Vuckovic/Dose Puff, puff, puke. Imagine if — after smoking weed regularly for many years — you suddenly started getting a violent stomach flu every time you blazed. That’s what’s happening to an increasing number…
Scientists Use This Movie To Make People Cry
Can you guess the saddest film of all time? Picture, for a moment, yourself as a neuroscientist. North Spring Healthcare Yeah, that’s perfect. You’ve got the idea. Ok, now, imagine that you…
Science Explains Why You See Faces In Everything
Think that’s Jesus in your toast? You’re not alone. Two hours northwest of Tokyo there’s a museum full of rocks. That may not seem terribly unusual — museums display all sorts of rocks,…
The Real-Life Fountain Of Youth Flows With The Blood Of Teens
Antonio Manaligod/ Dose Scientists have been channeling Edward Cullen. In the first “Harry Potter” book, Harry’s arch-nemesis Lord Voldemort resorts to drinking the blood of unicorns in order to keep himself…
These Iconic ‘Star Trek’ Technologies Aren’t Science Fiction Anymore
Sponsored by Geek Expo When the first episode of Gene Roddenberry’s groundbreaking sci-fi odyssey “Star Trek” aired way back in 1966, it wowed audiences with its optimistic vision of humanity’s future…
The Death-Obsessed Members Of This Secret Society Were OG Goths
It’s like Edgar Allen Poe meets ‘Dead Poets Society.’ It only takes a shallow dive into Chicago’s past to discover a history so indelibly stained with death that no amount…
The Untold Story Of How The United Nations Was Totally Afraid Of UFOs
They wanted to believe. The human race has a long and not-so-proud history of being utterly terrified of things that don’t exist. At the height of the 14th-century age of exploration, superstitious…
Holy Sh*t, This Anti-Aging Cream Gives You An Actual Second Skin
And MIT scientists created it, so you know it’s legit. Eventually, we all get old. It’s pretty much that simple, really. Despite telling ourselves, “No, no, no, that can’t be my gray…
A Haunting History Of How Horror Movie Cliches Got Their Start
Ines Vuckovic/Dose Creepy clowns scared the pants off audiences as far back as 1928. Any horror movie buff knows that, for a genre that relies on keeping the audience on the…
