29 Minor Marvels of Modern Science That Would Have Made Your Ancestors’ Heads Pop Like a Balloon

Witchcraft! It’s witchcraft, we tells ya!

We all say we’d love a time machine, but are we sure that we’d be prepared for whatever future craziness we’d plop ourselves into? Think about it. If a Medieval peasant plopped right into today, and you plopped an iPhone into their hand, would their head not explode? 

What would 500 years from now look like? What kind of A.I.-soaked dystopia would we plop into? 

Man, we use the word “plop” way too much. Here, we’ll consult a thesaurus while you guys check out some discoveries that change the way we think about the world — and might honestly break your brain here in the present day.

Warp Drive

Stress Causing Grey Hair

Neanderthal Genes

Soy Helps Hot Flashes

The Dragon Man

The Black Plague

Oldest Shark Attack Victim

Frog Pandemic

The Death of Billions of Sea Creatures

Decreasing Sex Crimes

Rats Helping Rats

Teenage Empathy

How Animals Are Adapting to Climate Change

Brain Development and Gut Bacteria

Mammals’ Dreams

Oldest Known Cavities

Potty-Training Cows

The Connection Between Our Brain and Guts

Butterflies Eat Caterpillars

Bats and the Speed of Sound

Monkeys Socially Distance

Dingoes

A Narwal’s Tusk

The Milky Way

The Big Bang

Lizards Can Scuba-Dive

There Were Likely Billions of T. Rexes

Narcissism

Storytelling Reduces Pain

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