Cracked Archive - Science
5 Insane Realities Of A Deadly Heat Wave
We spoke with Taha Anis in Karachi, Pakistan, where over 1,000 people died there this past June during a heat wave that saw temperatures topping 113 degrees Fahrenheit.
- By Taha Anis, Jim Kovpak
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- August 30, 2015
5 Animal Myths Everyone Believes (That Are Total B.S.)
We're here to break what we call the 'Circle Of Dumbass,' wherein one dumbass passes down bunk knowledge to another and then it passes again, and again ...
- By Sean Curtis
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- August 25, 2015
5 Scientific Reasons Body Swapping Might Be Possible
Here for your new-life-starting pleasure, are the most scientifically promising ways that we might one day be able to swap bodies with some rube.
- By Chris Bucholz
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- August 23, 2015
5 Ways The Grieving Process Turns Us Selfish
Sometimes we act more selfishly than we should when dealing with the illness of a loved one.
- By Dennis Hong
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- August 22, 2015
The 6 Most Ridiculous F***-Ups In The History Of Science
Guess what: scientists are just normal people who get up every morning, drive to work, and occasionally screw up in excruciatingly highfalutin' ways.
- By Chris Radomile
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- August 18, 2015
6 Insane Discoveries Straight Out Of A Sci-Fi 'Frozen'
Science is the coolest thing in the Universe, and it can prove it.
- By Luke McKinney
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- August 15, 2015
6 Reasons You Can't Trust Science Anymore
Publication is an important way for scientists to share research and advance their careers. Here's how it's destroying science.
- By Matt J. Michel
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- August 13, 2015
5 Amazing Superpowers We'd Be Bored With After A Week
Can humanity ruin this awesome science stuff? Spoiler alert: Yes.
- By Pauli Poisuo
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- August 08, 2015
Awake During Brain Surgery: 5 Bizarre Things You Experience
We spoke to Christie, Emily and Kevin about the strange things you experience when medical professionals cut your skull open and start playing around inside.
- By Emily Leighty, Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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- August 04, 2015
Rat Boners And Drunk Birds: 5 Hilarious Animal Experiments
Remember that for every guy in a lab coat torturing red pandas, there are plenty of hilariously lighthearted experiments.
- By Ivan Farkas
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- August 02, 2015
5 Awful Truths About Surviving Flesh-Eating Bacteria
We sat down with a woman whose father contracted Fournier's Gangrene, an aggressive brand of flesh-eating bacteria famed for attacking its victims crotch-first.
- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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- July 27, 2015
Everyone Assumes You're Violent: Realities Of Being Bipolar
We sat down with Wren Williams, a woman who suffers from bipolar disorder, and here's what she told us about living with one of the most stigmatized illnesses in the modern world.
- By Robert Evans, Wren Williams
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- July 21, 2015
Why Everything You Know About Sleep Is A Lie
It's possible to murder someone while you're asleep SO WATCH THIS VIDEO OR YOU WILL LEARN NOTHING AND KILL AGAIN.
- By Alex Schmidt
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- July 17, 2015
4 Ways Plasma Technology Will Change The World
We've already seen some amazing plasma technologies, but the thing about the future is that there's always more of it.
- By Luke McKinney
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- July 12, 2015
I Diagnose Your Diseases: 7 Horrifying Realities
I'm a microbiology technologist. Every day I look at a series of disgusting samples of bodily waste and diseased flesh to figure out why a patient is sick.
- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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- July 10, 2015
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