Your Dryer Is an Energy Vampire—And It’s Bleeding You Dry
Americans have a strange addiction to clothes dryers. More than 80% of U.S. homes have one, a number that dwarfs ownership rates in countries like South Korea (under 30%) and Germany (around 40%). The result? A national energy tab that burns over $7 billion annually,...
US Navy’s ‘Doomsday Plane’ Just Spent Hours Circling a Nuclear War Command—Why?
The Boeing E-6B Mercury took off from Oklahoma on Monday, carved eerie loops over Nebraska, and then returned home like nothing ever happened. Seven hours in the sky. Three full circles over Omaha. A flight path that looked less like routine training and more like...
The Galactic Mystery That Could Rewrite Everything We Know About Dark Matter
The universe is bad at keeping secrets, but dark matter? It’s been playing the long con. Supposedly making up 85% of the cosmos’s mass, this shadowy substance refuses to interact with light, sound, or human curiosity. Scientists have been chasing it for decades, armed...
Enjoy Watching People Suffer? Science Says You Might Be a Psychopath
If watching others squirm gives a little thrill, science has some bad news. A new study suggests that enjoying the suffering of others—whether through trolling, video games, or even squashing insects—might be a red flag for psychopathy. Turns out, sadism isn’t just...
The Quantum Rule That Stops the Universe from Imploding
What stops matter from collapsing into a chaotic soup of electrons and nuclei? Why do atoms behave as they do, forming everything from diamonds to DNA? And why hasn’t reality disintegrated into a shimmering haze of undifferentiated energy? Physicists in the late 19th...Recent News
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