Fossilized Butthole Answers Long-standing Questions about Dinosaur Sex Life

If you haven’t caught our last week’s article about the world’s first robot to operate inside a living butthole, you should go check it out. Then you can return here for some more butthole-related news! Well, we suppose technically it’s not about buttholes. That particular piece of anatomy is really more of a mammalian thing, …

The Ultimate Challenge: World’s First Microrobot to Operate Inside Living Butthole

Have you ever heard of a band called Butthole Surfers? They’re an offbeat alternative rock group, perhaps best known for their 1996 song Pepper, in addition to their… Shall we say, imaginative name. But why are we bringing up inappropriately named 30-year-old rock bands, you might be wondering. The answer is – for science! It …

Cheating or Not? – Students Figure Out How to Fool the AI Grading their Exams

If you’re getting sick of hearing about how the coronavirus has disrupted normal life, well, we’re in the same boat. Still, there’s no way around it, many things we took for granted have changed. One of the most severely impacted facets of everyday life is something as simple as going to school. There’s a whole …

Mummified Twinkie Stumps Scientists Trying to Coax Life out of It

We’ve covered a lot of science lately. From paradox-free time travel to uncovering the reasons behind sexy birdsong, it seems science has been advancing with great strides. Every now and then, though, research hits a setback. Maybe our technology isn’t quite there yet, or scientists discover some new phenomenon we’ve never seen before, but sometimes …

Missouri Man Sells Discontinued Taco Bell Tacos from His Freezer for $70 Each

Getting passionately attached to strange things is surprisingly common. People form emotional ties to anything from bands to sports teams, certain makes of car to a brand of beer. One of the things that some folks get gung-ho over, despite its fairly objectively awful nature, is Taco Bell. Even some of this author’s best friends …