Experts are mighty puzzled after discovering teens are abstaining from drugs more than ever before. In the latest update from the University of Michigan's half-century-long Monitoring the Future study, the school announced that its researchers found

Forget the cautionary tale of Icarus. NASA's daring Parker Solar Probe is gearing up to fly into the Sun to glean the secrets of our star's megahot winds, Ars Technica reports. Ever since it launched in 2018, the tiny spacecraft, which weighs less

  Future space travelers will have to get creative to build structures on the surface of Mars. Sending all the necessary construction materials across over 140 million miles of outer space wouldn't just be a gargantuan undertaking, it could be

We need to be thinking big picture. What better time when a mind-boggling first quarter century of the millenium has passed, and we dive headfirst into what will inevitably be a defining period for the future of humanity? Here is my distillation of

Remember that huge panic around black plastic spatulas? It turns out that the whole thing may have just been a crock of crap. A study published in October contended that kitchenware made of black plastics, and especially utensils like spatulas,

Truth Bob-omb As more and more rich people rush to buy and build bomb shelters, experts suggest they're a bandaid on top of a nuclear blast. As the Associated Press reports, the bunker business was worth $137 million last year and is slated to grow

Flavor Discovery The company behind Oreo cookies has, by its own admission, been quietly creating new flavors using machine learning. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Mondelez — the company that manufactures Oreos, Chips Ahoy, Clif Bars and

Buzz Off Lest we forget that going insane about suspicious unmanned aircraft was an American tradition before this current spate of drone hysteria, a Florida man has been ordered to pay $5,000 to Walmart after shooting one of the retail giant's