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Savage river fish viciously attack my bait on mini boat outing. House lawmakers unveil bipartisan health care plan proposal Taylor Swift cried offstage at her first concert after 3 fans were killed ...

A routine stop at a local bait store turned wild when a mantis shrimp—nicknamed the “alien of the ocean”—decided to fight ...

Bournemouth University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. “Rage bait” has been named the word of the year by the Oxford University Press. It means social media content that is ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

Is there an Outer SpaceX? With 3I/ATLAS set to fly by Earth in just over a week, experts continue to speculate over its origins. Harvard Scientist Avi Loeb believes that if aliens, the comet wouldn’t ...

Something very significant has been happening in plain sight, and almost no one seems to be noticing. Over the past few years, there have been televised congressional hearings, repeated news segments ...

You’re scrolling through Instagram when you see it: someone mixing entire bottles of bleach, Pine-Sol and dish soap into a toxic stew to “clean” their sink. Or maybe it’s a recipe video where the ...

Yet another musician has joined the choir of voices refuting the White House’s latest string of ICE advertisements. SZA torched the Trump administration for using her music in a pro-ICE ad, claiming ...

We were overwhelmed by the response to our annual Letters to Santa feature, with more than 1,250 letters submitted this year. Due ...