Cracked Archive - Science

It's hard to believe these species didn't solely come about to keep middle-schoolers in stitches.

• By E. Reid Ross
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• March 31, 2013

e don't guarantee that these will work for you -- all we can say is that smarter people than us have gotten them to work under scientifically controlled conditions.

• By Paul K Pickett, Erik Carrera, David Rose
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• March 27, 2013

We've documented six everyday annoyances that exist for wholly legitimate yet completely infuriating business reasons.

• By Chris Bucholz
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• March 26, 2013

These hacks come with various degrees of difficulty, but no risk or potential for injury. And actual scientists say that all of them work.

• By Agneeth Mazumdar, Jamie Flexman
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• March 25, 2013

Extreme weather has become a sort of boogeyman for humanity. And like any boogeyman, the urban legends and old wives' tales have completely outpaced the original threat.

• By Jesse Clark
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• March 22, 2013

'It's glowing! The time shifter! It's spinning out of control!' 'Stop stabbing it!'

• By Chris Bucholz
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• March 19, 2013

There are some basics that everyone should know. Each of them sounds incredibly simple when it's explained, yet each of them will fool you again within days of reading this article.

• By Nathaniel Cope, James Spedding
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• March 19, 2013

Scientists are only human, and some humans are just plain crazy. Which is why, on occasion, those serious old men in their fine white coats up and throw sense straight out the window.

• By Ricardo Rivera
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• March 17, 2013

Black holes are what happens when the universe divides by zero and eats anything that tries to notice.

• By Luke McKinney
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• March 15, 2013

Not a day goes by without someone here at Cracked fantasizing about punching an animal for humanity's sake.

• By Chris Bucholz
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• March 11, 2013

We're not saying that willpower and mental fortitude don't play a role. We're just saying that even if your mind is in the right place, the deck is still stacked against you in a bunch of different ways.

• By XJ Selman
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• March 08, 2013

It's impossible to believe so much inconvenience could be anything other than intentional, and I like to take a minute to let myself believe that maybe it is.

• By Soren Bowie
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• February 26, 2013

Seeking, as always, to provide dangerously underresearched advice to our readers, Cracked set to work dangerously underresearching this.

• By Chris Bucholz
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• February 24, 2013

There are two kinds of scientists in this world -- those whose discoveries will lead the planet into a new era of enlightenment, and those whose research will inevitably be stolen by terrorists who enjoy dressing up as snakes. This article is dedicated to this second group.

• By Monte Richard
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• February 24, 2013

We follow the advice of self-help books or motivational guides -- sure, a lot of those things are probably BS, but it can't hurt to give them a try, right? (Hint: Wrong.)

• By XJ Selman
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• February 22, 2013