Cracked Archive - Science

Some people know cancer is coming, thanks to a certain gene mutation they can get tested for. Rather than take this sitting down, Eden Dranger opted to have her boobs removed before they could make her sick.

• By Eden Dranger
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• April 12, 2015

Behold: a tiny taster of humanity's most recent mind-expanding observations.

• By Luke McKinney
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• April 11, 2015

The public unraveling of Mars One is actually great news for anyone who is serious about the future of humanity.

• By Kristi Harrison
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• March 27, 2015

When the idea of visiting the Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp to chat with a few of the more prominent dead people in my life came up during a recent trip to Florida, I was all for it.

• By Adam Tod Brown
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• March 26, 2015

Next time someone sarcastically asks you if you turned your brain off, you'll have an actual answer.

• By Natso Baatarkhuu, E.M. Caris
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• March 25, 2015

We sat down with several high-functioning autistic people and asked them what our readers should know about their condition. Here's what they said ...

• By Robert Evans, Nina, Chris , Carson
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• March 22, 2015

It turns out that many of the simple pearls of wisdom we take for granted as universal truths just don't stand up to the cold, hard scrutiny of scientists.

• By Cracked Writers, Federico Cruz
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• March 15, 2015

Behold, eight math-free ways to work out which numbers to ignore.

• By Luke McKinney
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• March 14, 2015

Superheroes are totally real, you guys! Or, at least, some scientists have come up with some pretty neat explanations for how their powers would work.

• By J.F. Sargent
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• March 10, 2015

Even the most reasonable-sounding brain facts everyone keeps repeating can be complete bullshit.

• By Enrique Fuerte
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• March 03, 2015

Here are the decidedly non-scientific and mostly disastrous results of body hacking experiments, documented for posterity.

• By Pauli Poisuo
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• February 28, 2015

There are still several major events in history that today's scientists, after years of extensive research, know precisely dick about.

• By Evan Accardi, Alex Marie
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• February 17, 2015

I've learned that, while excessive self-pity is terrible for you in the long term, it's dangerously comfortable in the short term.

• By Mark Hill
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• February 12, 2015

The placebo effect has to be one of the all-time most baffling scientific phenomena we've run across.

• By Davian Venture
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• February 05, 2015

Here are a few things I learned when I finally got sober (for a day).

• By Adam Tod Brown
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• January 29, 2015