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The Amazingly Creepy Way Mars Will Kill Its Moon It was a rough month for Phobos, as astronomers decreed—yet again—that Mars is ripping its lumpy… Read more The researchers also looked at Martian meteorites to understand more about the planet’s geographical oddities. Obviously, they found even more questions. The meteorites were chock full of rare…

Image courtesy Sea-Mer Association Late last week, strange sponge-like clumps began washing ashore in northern France. By the weekend, thousands of the foamy yellow balls were seen along nearly 20 miles of the coastline. Local authorities aren’t sure where the unsightly stuff is coming from, and an investigation is currently underway. As reported in The…

Artist’s depiction of a red dwarf sprouting a solar flare. This could very well be the source of what the UPR astronomers detected at Aricebo. (Image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger) Astronomers at the Arecibo Observatory have picked up some strange signals coming from Ross 128, a red dwarf star located 11 light-years from…

Photo: NASA We just realized it’s the 20th anniversary of Smash Mouth’s “Walkin’ on the Sun,” a song about not being a normie or giving into ephemeral fads like soul patches. Smash Mouth never did that. “Walkin’ on the Sun” is also the title of the official Smash Mouth biography, which is very good according…

Image: Brocken Inaglory/Wikimedia Commons You are very lucky that you ended up about the size that you are today, somewhere between one and ten feet tall and weighing somewhere between one and one thousand pounds. This is a very good size. Not to body shame, but if you were, say, a quadrillion times shorter and…

Image: Ewen Roberts/Flickr Creative Commons Aardvarks (Orycteropus afer) are probably the most endearingly doofy-looking animals ever to grace the African continent. These Seussian snufflers look like someone threw an anteater, a rabbit, a pig, and an armadillo into a smelter. Aardvarks have entered the consciousness of millions of children as both the first animal in…

In America, we regularly endure news reports about some sort of War on Christmas, so don’t feel too smug. But in Russia, there’s currently an effort to paint fidget spinners as a devious plot by the opposition to “zombify” kids using “political technologies.” We Regret to Inform You That Fidget Spinners Are Now Exploding After…

Photo: AP Could future iPhones come with a built-in panic button to discreetly summon the cops? It’s certainly a possibility, judging by Apple’s recent patent filings. According to a patent granted to Apple on Tuesday for “Biometric Initiated Communication,” the panic button could operate from a number of inputs including “a particular finger or finger…

WASHINGTON – The Republicans in the U.s. Senate once again failed the social services of the former president Barack Obama to dismantle. Several senators from the ruling party made Tuesday is clearly not going to be the repeal of ’Obamacare’ to support without an alternative. The repeal and replace of the so-called Affordable Care Act…

WARSAW – The Polish president Andrzej Duda threatens his signature to a controversial reform of the supreme court to remember. Reforms are needed, because the Poles are not satisfied with the way the law works, “but the reforms must be wise”, the president said Tuesday. So want to Duda for the election of a college,…