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A German study tested pain tolerance in metal fans at the Wacken Open Air festival, and found it rose over the show.

The pomato is a plant that grows cherry tomatoes on its vine and potatoes in the soil. Tomatoes and potatoes both belong to the genus Solanum, so you can graft them together. You can make one by cutting the stem of each plant, strapping the two ...

Remember that Chinese mushroom that can cause you to hallucinate tiny people? The best guess for this bizarre effect is that the mushrooms contain some kind of psychoactive substance unknown to science, rather than cultural conditioning, because the ...

NASA posted before-and-after images showing a crater dug by a Falcon 9 rocket hitting the Moon's surface on August 5, 2026. The Luna Reconnaissance Orbiter took the shots after the spectacular coda to the Firefly Blue Ghost mission. To capture ...

I took a home blood test today, and it included a reusable heat pack. These things have been around since the 1970s, but this was the first time I've used one. It's a plastic pouch with liquid inside and a small metal disc stamped with many dents. --

The US Bureau of Reclamation is resorting to moving water between reservoirs so that Glen Canyon Dam can continue to generate electricity. Darren Orf reported in Popular Mechanics on August 10, 2026, that a long drought has pulled Lake Powell and ...

Researchers at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon ran a test to measure how often chatbots flatter users. In a paper on social sycophancy in AI advice, they ran OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral through thousands of personal ...

On May 14, 1945, doctors at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco injected Albert Stevens, an Ohio-born house painter, with plutonium without telling him. Stevens had checked in with what doctors diagnosed as terminal stomach cancer.

Paleontology already gives us giant carnivorous lizards, five-eyed sea creatures, and enough weird fossils to make science fiction seem boring. So, obviously, fringe paleontology has to start off the rails and then dive deep. This entertaining first ...

F. D. C. Willard was a Siamese cat named Chester, who lived from 1968 to 1982. In 1975, his owner, the physicist Jack H. Hetherington of Michigan State University, wrote a paper on low-temperature physics and used the word "we" throughout, according ...