What Does the Effect of a Bullet Fired From an AR-15 Look Like?
Photographs shared widely on social media offer an incomplete explanation of the kinds of damage done by gunshots.
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Are Teenagers Using Adhesives to Avoid Resorting to Condoms?
A Hong Kong company garnered global headlines with its "Jiftip" product, but it's not clear who's actually buying it.
Can This Stone Dissolve Iron?
A viral video claims to document a mysterious and unexplained phenomenon, but in reality it shows a neat science experiment.
Idaho Teacher Investigated for Alleged Animal Mistreatment During Class
A junior high instructor was accused of feeding a puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students.
Did Immigrants Dominate the U.S. Nobel Prize Tally in 2016 and 2017?
Foreign-born, U.S.-based scientists and economists won a remarkable number of Nobel prizes in the last two years, but they didn't get them all.
Ten Things Science Did Not Say in 2017
Science denialism, clickbait headlines, and absurd pseudoscience: Our favorite science debunkings from 2017.
The Remarkable Sabrina Pasterski
A viral meme about a Harvard University graduate student gets most (but not all) of the facts right.
How Unprecedented Is President Trump’s Politicization of Science?
Political interference in science is nothing new, but experts agree that what is happening to scientific integrity under Trump is unusual.
White House Releases Report Contradicting Its Own Position on Climate Change
There is no "convincing alternative explanation" for recent warming besides human activity, a congressionally mandated study reports.
Scientists Spot Rare, Endangered Whales in the Bering Sea
One of the North Pacific right whales had not been seen in a decade.
Physicists Discover a New Subatomic Particle Called “Xi cc”
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have found the long-theorized particle, which is a type of baryon.
Does a New Tattoo Ink Allow People With Diabetes to Monitor Their Blood Sugar Levels?
A viral meme describes a promising research project at MIT and Harvard, but so far it has only been tested on the skin of a dead pig.
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Did Ruth Bader Ginsburg Say that Pedophilia Was Good for Children?
A 1974 report co-authored by Ruth Bader Ginsburg about sex bias in U.S. law has been grossly misinterpreted.
Did Kamala Harris Support Abortion Until the Time of Giving Birth?
The Democratic vice-presidential candidate's pro-abortion-rights record has come under scrutiny from conservatives.
Does Texting ‘RBG’ to 50409 Send a Letter to Your Senators?
The automated political advocacy service Resistbot ran another campaign following the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September 2020.
Did Hitler Invent the Inflatable Sex Doll?
Nothing attracts curiosity like a lurid combination of Nazis and sex.
Does Texting ‘USPS’ to 50409 Send a Letter to Your Political Representatives?
A political crisis surrounding the Postal Service inspired some novel campaigning techniques in August 2020.