Image: Wikimedia A lone brown bear is being blamed for a horrifying incident in which 209 panicked sheep plunged off a cliff in the Pyrenees near the border between France and Spain. It’s not the first time this has happened, and local farmers are pissed that brown bears are being reintroduced to the pastoral, mountain…

Image: AP Is that an especially sickly hue in the smog clouds? A faint smell of ammonia in the air? Maybe this morning feels particularly dystopian because Wisconsin-based Three Two Market plans to become the first US company—and one of the first companies period—to offer microchip implants to its employees. The implants are totally voluntary.…

Art carefully created by Mario Aguilar. This morning, Windows users woke to terrible news: Microsoft was reportedly axing its beloved Microsoft Paint. The program, which has been annotating our memes, creating our webcomics, and teaching us how to art since 1985, is on Microsoft’s list of Windows features to be removed or deprecated in the…

Image: Hennie Otto/Marine Dynamics/Dyer Island Conservation Trust A South African shark-watching hotspot has recently turned into the scene of a seaside horror movie. For several months, enormous great white shark corpses have been washing up on the Gansbaai beaches, often missing their livers as if feasted upon by cetacean Hannibal Lecters. But this is no…

Florida Republican Who Teamed Up With Guccifer 2.0 Says Secretly Working With Russia Is NBD The WSJ revealed today that a GOP operative named Aaron Nevins requested and received… Read more Guccifer 2.0 is known to have conspired with Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant and political operative who appeared to have foreknowledge about leaked…

This Roomba Maps Your House So It Won't Keep Ramming Into Your Couch It’s not going to mow your lawn, but the freshly revealed, wifi-friendly Roomba 980 can be… Read more While it may seem like the information that a Roomba could gather is minimal, there’s a lot to be gleaned from the maps it’s…

Image: Getty Modest reductions in measles vaccination rates among US children are poised to produce an inordinate number of new cases of the disease, while increasing annual public health expenditures by at least $2.1 million, according to new research. “I think our study is a wake-up call for what we can expect in the coming…