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This cute photo collection shows different cups of coffee that look like they have faces in their bubbles. This isn't human-made latte art, though. These coffee cups just happen to come with a personality. I'd consider it to be good luck if my ...

Psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, DMT, and ayahuasca have different chemical structures, different durations, different cultural histories -- and they all do the same thing to the brain. A mega-analysis published in Nature Medicine found a shared two-part ...

Michael Haskell, a 17-year-old high school senior from New Jersey, paid $450 for an abandoned Brooklyn storage unit that turned out to have belonged to Andrew Crispo, an art dealer prominent in the 1980s. Inside were works by Man Ray and Walt Kuhn. -

Starting April 20, 2026, Southwest Airlines passengers are limited to one portable charger per person. The charger can't go in the overhead bin or checked luggage. It has to stay in plain sight during the flight so flight attendants can spot ...

Turns out the problem with AI in science isn't just that it occasionally gets things wrong, it's that AI confidently invents sources that don't exist, and those fake citations are showing up in real, peer-reviewed research by the tens of thousands. -

Arkanoid, Taito's 1986 arcade game, brought sci-fi style to the classic Breakout formula. What music and audio it had was brief and distinctive, a fact highlighted by this performance, by the New Japan BGM Philharmonic Orchestra of a game of Arkanoid ...

In 1847, a doctor at Vienna General Hospital cut the maternity ward death rate from 18% to 2% by requiring handwashing in chlorinated lime solution. The medical establishment repaid him with years of ridicule and eventually committed him to an asylum ...

Wushan County in Chongqing now has the world's longest outdoor escalator system: 3,000 feet of moving stairs -- 21 escalators plus 8 elevators -- climbing from the county town up to a scenic mountain area above it. The whole ride takes 21 minutes. --

An artist named Amanda Meyer created an incredible dress out of autumn leaves. Meyer soaked the leaves in a glycerin solution to preserve them -- glycerin replaces the water inside each leaf, keeping it pliable and colorful rather than letting it dry ...

This small textile fragment in the British Museum comes from Peru and dates to between 900 and 1430 CE. It's only about five inches across, but it has a special, timeless image of a cat on it. The base is made of cotton, and the design is woven in ...