Cracked Archive - Science
5 Mind-Blowing Ways Your Senses Lie to You Every Day
We're pretty sure the thing your brain does best is convince you that it works. But it doesn't take much to spot the bizarre little flaws in your gray matter.
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735 6 Unassuming Animals That Are Secretly Immortal
It turns out some animals living in our world seem to be kicking death in the ass just by hanging around and doing what they do.
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- By Karl Smallwood, Sharilee Foertch
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5 Terrifying Things Nobody Tells You About Health Care
Here is a handy manual for the unexpected shocks and nasty surprises you are likely to encounter during your time on the health care carousel.
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- By C. Coville
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5 Ways You Didn't Realize You're Making Your Pet Hate You
You may be unwittingly engaging in behaviors that are making your pet's life a living hell.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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5 Disturbing Ways Insects Can 'Hack' Nature
At this very instant they're out there, cracking the most primeval codes in existence.
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- By Monte Richard
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5 Mind-Blowing Ways Science Has Hacked the Human Body
Science fiction taught us that when science starts modifying the human body, it's going to involve robot parts and genetic modification gone terrifyingly wrong. But the reality is that the body modifications that are right around the corner are way less frightening and quite a bit more useful.
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- By Eddie Rodriguez
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5 Simple Ways to Trick Yourself into Not Feeling Pain
It turns out there unexpected ways to reduce pain, and we're not referring to your grandpa's preferred method.
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- By Elorm Kojo Ntumy
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6 Horrifying Animal Kills Science Didn't Think Were Possible
Nature is brutal and uncaring, and should be utterly destroyed.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Ridiculous Health Myths You Probably Believe
It's a thankless task, knocking down these myths, but one we believe is for the ultimate good of humanity.
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- By Aces M.
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8 Ordinary Things That Look Insanely Cool Under a Microscope
A really powerful microscope is the sort of thing nobody would buy for entertainment, yet we can't shake the feeling that if we had one, we'd use it all the time.
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- By Dustin Koski, Evan V. Symon , Kier Harris
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The 6 Coolest Survival Traits Designed by Evolution
It turns out that, occasionally, evolution will reach way the hell out of the box and come back with solar-powered lizards and Iron Man snails.
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- By Andrew Heaton
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5 Ways Your Brain Is Tricking You into Being Miserable
Everyone wants to be happy, but the biggest obstacle to that is the mushy thing inside your skull that you think with.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, Dieter Melsens
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The 7 Most Bizarre Natural Phenomena Caught on Camera
Here are a few natural phenomena that prove nature is probably just screwing around with us.
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- By Jayden McLeod
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8 Animals That Are Just Lazy Combinations of Other Animals
It turns out nature gets off on haphazardly stapling DNA together and calling it a day.
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- By Andrew Burch, Monte Richard, E. Reid Ross
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6 Animals That Prove Nature Has a Childish Sense of Humor
It's hard to believe these species didn't solely come about to keep middle-schoolers in stitches.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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