Cracked Archive - Science

We've already pointed out that animals are capable of building pretty impressive cities, but at least they're not driving around the streets in little beaver sedans and amassing armies of spider war-jets, right? Horribly, we're not too far from that reality, either.

• By Jonathan Wojcik
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• June 03, 2011

Your weird quirks don't make you a quirky snowflake. They make you a medical textbook entry.

• By Andrew Martin
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• June 02, 2011

The Scoville hotness scale ain't got shit on us.

• By John Larwood
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• May 28, 2011

The brain can fool the body into thinking it's sick, complete with physical symptoms. And we're not talking about bullshit symptoms like headaches, either.

• By Eric Yosomono
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• May 27, 2011

In science fiction, there's no problem a good giant robot suit can't solve. And yet, in reality, we all commute to work in dumb ol' cars, fight our wars with boring guns, and make bland love with our decidedly non-mechanical genitals. Where are our mechs, science? Where are our god damn mechs?! Oh wait, here they are. Sorry about that, Science.

• By Robert Brockway
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• May 18, 2011

f you or someone you know refuses to believe that organisms change over time without proof on a monkey-man level, here are some animals in the middle of getting their evolve on.

• By Kristi Harrison
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• May 18, 2011

Experts say you can tell a whole lot of intimate details about a person just by looking at them. It's not magic and it's not 100 percent. But it is science.

• By Kathy Benjamin, Simon Bower
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• May 16, 2011

Mother Nature: Finding ways to give us nightmares since whenever.

• By Ezekiel Buchheit, Crystal Beran
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• May 11, 2011

If each site is, in fact, capable of uniting perfect matches, then solving the epic love triangle between Cyclops, Wolverine and Jean shouldn't be too much to ask. My research, flawless. My findings, staggering. The study, below.

• By Soren Bowie
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• May 09, 2011

Science: Ruining campfire stories since 1625.

• By Pauli Poisuo, M. Asher Cantrell
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• May 09, 2011

Hate pictures of yourself? That's your brain telling you lies.

• By Kathy Benjamin
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• May 08, 2011

You know that phrase, 'Ignorance is bliss'? There's a reason it's stuck around all these years.

• By Eddie Rodriguez
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• May 06, 2011

Apparently there are some things even the commercials don't tell you. Not necessarily because the side effects are too terrifying (though some are), but simply because some of them sound more like ironic gypsy curses than anything science is capable of.

• By Brian Thompson
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• May 03, 2011

One advantage of living in the information age is learning new things every day. Even more interesting is when we learn stuff that we thought we already knew but apparently didn't, like the fact that the sun is a sphere. Yep, science just found that out in February 2011. Next they're going to tell us that they just figured out whether the chicken o

• By Kristi Harrison
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• May 01, 2011

It turns out that some of the greatest discoveries in modern medicine didn't come about as a consequence of hundreds of dedicated doctors slaving away for hours in a lab. They occurred because people are often stupid, lazy, incompetent, unlucky or accident-prone.

• By Tom Lagana
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• April 29, 2011