Cracked Archive - Science
10 Real Sea Creatures Lifted Directly from Your Nightmares
By now, you should know that our mission statement is 'Nature is terrifying and you should only leave the house if it's an emergency.'
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- By Chris Rio
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965 9 Normal Things That Look Trippy Under a Microscope
The world is full of magic, it's just that a lot of it isn't visible without special tools. Fortunately, microscopes exist.
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- By Dustin Koski, Evan V. Symon , Kier Harris
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5 Scientific Reasons You're Better Off Being Unattractive
t's easy to spend the rest of your life thinking that your bad luck with the ladies is just evolution trying to filter your weird face and frail physique out of the gene pool. But that's not entirely true.
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- By XJ Selman
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11 Everyday Things That Are Terrifying Under a Microscope
As human beings, we go about our day-to-day lives, completely oblivious to the microscopic world around us. And that ignorance is great, because most of that microscopic world is scary as hell.
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- By Kier Harris
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6 Terrifying Bats You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
The only reason you're not more afraid of bats than you are now is because you've never seen one up close. Allow us to change that.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Ways to Trick Your Body Into Being More Awesome
The human body is a miracle. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't always be finding ways to game the system to gain a little bit more of an advantage.
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- By Sam Irwin
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The 6 Most Popular Crime Fighting Tactics (That Don't Work)
t's hard to talk people out of laws that sound like they're tough on crime, because damn it, those criminals have to pay, and the people arguing on the other side are probably just a bunch of bleeding hearts anyway. Who cares what the statistics say.
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- By Robert Evans
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8 Ridiculous Animal Myths You Probably Believe
When it comes to myths about our neighbors in the animal kingdom, people tend to buy into even the most far-fetched ideas with nary a second thought.
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- By Jonathan Wojcik, J.C Breen, Nathan R. Carlsen, Kristina Dillon
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5 Disturbing Ways Food Will Be Different in the Future
Expect the future to take a turn for the weird when they implement these babies in our everyday lives.
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- By XJ Selman, Nadia Lopez
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The 5 Most Terrifying Ways Your Brain Can Turn on You
Here are five ways your brain can suddenly turn the world into a bizarre carnival of the absurd.
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- By Ben Smith
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The 5 Most Insane Modern Medical Procedures That Work
Medicine is unique in that every radical advance is simultaneously exciting and terrifying. Very, very terrifying.
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- By John Dubensky
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8 Mind-Blowing Realities of Our Future Full of Old People
Allow us to take a moment to imagine a planet where 'old' is the new 'everybody.'
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- By Kristi Harrison
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8 Species That Are Threatening to Swarm the Globe
It's paradoxical that there are some species out there that we just can't exterminate, and not for want of trying. These creatures breed out of control and march steadily forth, taking human territory miles at a time.
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- By E. Reid Ross, Meg Anastasia
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5 Insanely Frivolous Uses of DNA Technology
Sure, science fiction is full of horrifying genetic experiments gone wrong, but in the real world, things are much worse.
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- By Erik Germ, Tracy V.
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5 Insane Explanations for Stuff Your Body Does Every Day
It's weird: Much of what is going on inside our own bodies is still a complete mystery to us. And the theories as to why we do some of these things are downright bizarre.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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