Science

I have to believe that every single sane person in the world would prefer a hot shower to a cold one. Now, I know that there are times when a cooler shower is necessary – after a workout, if you’re trying to wake up or sober up – but mostly, it’s not very pleasant. Are...

There are some bad associations with the word ‘drugs,’ but the fact is, some of them have changed the course of history for the better. Imagine, for instance, still living without penicillin! These drugs were all absolute game changers, but that said, not all of them worked out the way we had hoped.   Nitroglycerin...

Pain don’t hurt. Those words of wisdom were uttered by none other than Patrick Swayze’s character Dalton in the classic film Road House. But, judging by the painful stories you’re about to read from AskReddit users, Dalton might have been wrong about this one… These stories are gonna make you say OUCH! Take a look. Ouch....

I know some of us were raised on the idea that the “truth is out there,” and would like to imagine every strange flying object might have come from the stars. Maybe some of them have, but in the case of the mysterious metal orb that landed in Mexico recently, that’s probably not true. Meteorologist...

There’s nowhere on Earth you can go to escape microplastics – not even places like Antarctica, where no human beings actually live, is safe. We know because scientists have tested the rainwater and come up with – you guessed it – plastics. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals,” have spread across...

It can be pretty scary to think about the future. Especially because it seems like there is so much turmoil in the world right now. But what are the problems that we’re ignoring right now that are going to be BIG problems in 20 years? Here’s what folks had to say about this on AskReddit....

You’re about to hear a cautionary tale, folks… I had a friend when I was younger who got heavily into psychedelic drugs and he was never the same after he did them. Something changed in his brain chemistry and he sadly went off the deep end. And I never, ever touched that stuff because I...

Mother Nature never ceases to amaze, right? You would think that, with all of the technology we have these days and the number of people we have out there using it, there would be few surprises still lurking in the natural world. Obviously we know that’s not true, and this discovery inside some old caves...