Cracked Archive - Science
5 Tiny Wording Tricks That Can Totally Change Someone's Mind
Would you like to buy a vowel? According to science, maybe.
- By C. Coville, David Rose
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- August 13, 2013
The 6 Most Intriguing Stupid Questions Answered by Science
Does science waste time on frivolous experiments? Yep, but sometimes they pay off.
- By Elorm Kojo Ntumy, Elsa Moriarty, Josh Hrala
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- August 12, 2013
5 Myths About Illegal Drugs You Probably Believe
As with many things on which opinions vary so widely, much of what you've been told is utter horseshit.
- By James G.
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- August 08, 2013
6 Horrifying Dark Sides of Creatures You Think Are Adorable
It's always the pretty ones who hurt you the most.
- By Jonathan Wojcik
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- August 03, 2013
6 Half-Assed Ways Scientists Made Mind Blowing Discoveries
Looking to discover a new animal species? Have you tried eBay?
- By Kathy Benjamin, Ivan Farkas, Alan Boyle
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- July 26, 2013
5 Math Equations That Change the Way You See the World
Making math cool is like trying to make
- By Luke McKinney
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- July 25, 2013
6 Ways to Beat the Heat Without Air Conditioning (Or Money)
The wealthy can afford to fight the heat, with their central air conditioning, and seaside villas, and chilled top hats, but for the rest of us, this is just something we have to put up with. Right?
- By Chris Bucholz
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- July 23, 2013
The 5 Luckiest Accidents That Scientists Passed Off as Skill
This might come as some surprise, given everything Cracked has written about them, but it turns out that not every scientist is evil. In fact, most are just lucky idiots.
- By Chris Bucholz
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- July 16, 2013
The 5 Most Impressively Convoluted Traps Set by Animals
Some animals refuse to play by the rules.
- By Monte Richard, Andrew Heaton
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- July 06, 2013
5 Shockingly Crazy Ideas Behind Huge Scientific Discoveries
Some of the most important innovators in history were just as interested in voodoo as they were in science, and often stumbled across their greatest works by accident.
- By Salla Maaria
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- July 05, 2013
The 6 Most WTF Medical Procedures That Inexplicably Exist
For all the awesomeness medicine provides, it also has its disinfected fingers in a few weird pies that you never even knew existed.
- By Felix Clay
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- July 03, 2013
5 Popular Medications You Won't Believe Mess With Your Brain
If you want to terrify yourself, go into your medicine cabinet and read all of the really weird side effects at the bottom of the label.
- By J.F. Sargent
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- July 03, 2013
The 6 Most WTF Scientific Theories About Existence
We're not saying that any of these mind-blowing theories about the nature of everything are accurate, we're just saying that they were proposed by people smarter than us.
- By Chris Fox
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- June 27, 2013
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