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7 Scientific Reasons You'll Turn Out Just Like Your Parents

Science has some bad news for you: The behaviors of the elderly that you write off as old-person lameness, and your behavior that the elderly credit to dickish rebellion, are all based in biology. And no, you can't stop it.

Authors: By Michael Record
Published: March 13, 2012
Comments: 1662

6 Insect Predators That Go Out of Their Way to Be Evil

You might think of insects as gross or scary, but you probably don't think of them as evil. But, upon closer inspection, we actually think they are.

Authors: By Jonathan Wojcik
Published: March 09, 2012
Comments: 619

6 Terrifying New Creatures Science Just Discovered

While we at Cracked like to regularly terrify our readers with tales of all the frightening creatures we share the planet with, we should always keep one thing in mind: Nature is always finding ways to top itself.

Authors: By CRACKED Staff, Elsa Moriarty
Published: March 08, 2012
Comments: 1276

7 Deadly Things You Won't Believe Most People Survive

Sometimes the things that seem deadliest aren't so much deadly as they are inconvenient.

Authors: By Jacopo della Quercia
Published: March 06, 2012
Comments: 1370

6 Insane Attempts to Communicate With the Future

Time travel is probably not going to happen. But that's doesn't mean we can't at least communicate with the distant future. With nothing more than a message to send and a ludicrous amount of funding, there are all sorts of projects to preserve messages for your great-great-(great-great-great...) grandchildren.

Authors: By R. Jason Benson
Published: March 04, 2012
Comments: 964

7 Species That Got Screwed Over by Mother Nature

Evolution is the art of producing the deadliest, meanest, most efficient beasts possible. But it's not a perfect process: There's just a slew of animals rolling fatly around the reject pile, just waiting to be killed and eaten (and if you don't hurry, some of them will even do it themselves).

Authors: By Al and Bruce Paton
Published: February 22, 2012
Comments: 1006

The 5 Most Embarrassing Architectural Failures Ever

Even architects, foremen and chief engineers come in to work hungover once in a while, and that's when we get failures like these.

Authors: By Xavier Jackson
Published: February 20, 2012
Comments: 894

6 Surprisingly Advanced Ways Animals Use Medicine

We humans think we're so smart. Sure, animals are good for a laugh or two, but if one of them gets sick, who's going to take care of it? Either it's some sympathetic human or nobody. It's not like animals have doctors and medicine. Right?

Authors: By Dagmar Baer
Published: February 13, 2012
Comments: 352

6 Real Planets That Put Science Fiction to Shame

As space exploration advances and we start to learn what's really on the surface of those distant worlds, it becomes increasingly clear that our imagination has no chance of competing with the jaw-dropping, pants-peeing craziness outer space is capable of cooking up.

Authors: By Nick Dobkin
Published: February 12, 2012
Comments: 1238

7 Theories on Time That Would Make Doc Brown's Head Explode

There are a few things in this world that we can always rely on as constants: The sun will always rise and time will inevitably march forward. Except that the sun doesn't rise and time ... well, time is tricky, too.

Authors: By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
Published: February 11, 2012
Comments: 1946

6 Counterintuitive Tricks to Beating Popular Game Shows

Deal or No Deal went to great lengths to hide the fact there was a simple equation behind the whole thing.

Authors: By Matt Culkin, Michael Voll
Published: February 08, 2012
Comments: 1168

7 Reasons Ants Will Inherit the Earth

When the empires of men finally fall and the memory of our hubris has faded to dust, ants will still be here, running shit.

Authors: By Monte Richard
Published: February 08, 2012
Comments: 993

6 Real People With Mind-Blowing Mutant Superpowers: Update

We've all dreamed of having superpowers at some point (today), and these are the rare cases where people actually got them.

Authors: By Karl Smallwood, Kier Harris
Published: February 06, 2012
Comments: 1661

5 Reasons Rats Are Way Scarier Than You Think

Rats are kind of creepy and gross, but they're not all that bad, right? Wrong.

Authors: By Kathy Benjamin
Published: February 06, 2012
Comments: 1576

8 Humans Whose Eating Habits Would Make a Goat Puke

Lots of people have their own personal diet plans, and nutritionists don't always agree on which one is best. Nutritionists do agree that everything on this list is a bad idea.