Below is a magnificent video of a rare deep-sea hooked squid, Taningia danae, caught on camera at 1km down in the North Pacific's Samoan Passage. Researchers from the University of… Read the rest of the article: Rare and magnificent deep-sea squid caught on camera (video)

Harris Wolobah, a 10th grader from Worcester, Massachusetts, died in September after eating a Paqui Carolina Reaper ultra-spicy tortilla chip. He was participating in the company's "One Chip Challenge" marketing… Read the rest of the article: Teenager died from eating an absurdly spicy tortilla chip

"Has it been proved that the Earth is round?" Slovakian government official Lukáš Machala of the country's culture ministry asked a TV reporter. "Have you been into outer space? No,… Read the rest of the article: "Has it been proved that the Earth is round?" asks European government official

Superior Judge Craig J. Bobay of Allen County, Indiana has ruled that tacos and burritos "are Mexican-style sandwiches." The ruling follows a legal dispute at a Fort Wayne strip mall… Read the rest of the article: Indiana judge rules that tacos and burritos are sandwiches

A road construction crew working in the small town of Granville Township, Ohio spotted a full trash bag and set it aside to be brought to the dump. A few… Read the rest of the article: "Dismembered legs" found roadside identified as something else entirely

Early this month, someone found more than $20,000 stashed inside the bathroom of the Avalon Theater, a cultural arts center in the small town of Marysville, Ohio. Then, a week… Read the rest of the article: More than $30,000 found stashed in public toilets

In Kansas City Chiefs player Harrison Butker's commencement speech at Benedictine College, he attempted to discourage graduating women from pursuing a career and lean into homemaking. He congratulated those who are… Read the rest of the article: Women should be homemakers and other sexist, anti-LGBTQ, anti-choice stupidity in NFL dunce's commencement speech (video)

The Schreiberling Limited Edition 1969 is a very expensive fountain pen that film director Wes Anderson designed for Montblanc. The project was part of a promotional campaign Anderson and Roman Coppola… Read the rest of the article: Wes Anderson designed a very expensive fountain pen

Now you can dive into the event horizon—a black hole's point of no return—without, y'know, being spaghettified. (Seriously, that's what it's called!) NASA created a supercomputer visualization of the plunge… Read the rest of the article: Experience plunging into a black hole without being spaghettified (NASA video)

Why did the goblin cross the road? Because it was running away from the trolls. A security camera at a farm in Monterrey, Mexico captured this creepy creature running across… Read the rest of the article: Freaky goblin caught on video scurrying across road

Plants do whisper to one another, not through sound but through a delicate haze of airborne compounds. This invisible language of the leaves has intrigued scientists since the 1980s, leading… Read the rest of the article: Video of plant talking to its neighbor

Elephants are highly intelligent, almost as smart as dolphins. Now, animal behaviorists from the University of Vienna, the University of Portsmouth, Elephant CREW, Jafuta Reserve, and the University of St… Read the rest of the article: Elephants greet each other by "saying hello" and gesturing

Esteemed vernacular photography collector Robert E. Jackson curated a fantastical collection of vintage snapshots depicting people dreaming. Early trick photography is truly enchanting—the simple magic of the double exposure. See more of these… Read the rest of the article: Weird and fantastic vintage photos of people dreaming

Biologists at Portugal's Gulbenkian Science Institute were studying a particular gene involved in the formation of mice spines when they got a big surprise. Turning off the Tgfbr1 gene in… Read the rest of the article: Mouse embryo engineered to have six legs, could work on people too

Massive numbers of 17- and 13-year cicadas—likely the largest broods in centuries—are emerging in parts of the United States. Annoyed and confused by their loud high-pitched buzzing, some residents of… Read the rest of the article: Calling the cops about cicadas probably won't help you

In 1985, Mister Rogers was a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. An audience member asked an excellent question: "Do you ever just cut loose and lose control? Do you… Read the rest of the article: Mister Rogers answers if he ever lost his temper and flipped out (video)

This is inspired. Waldo Jaquith created a Mastodon bot in response to the cliché email opening sentence of "I hope this email finds you well." "Twice a day it proposes… Read the rest of the article: I hope this email finds you… (a very funny bot)

Residents of Grassy Park—a suburban neighborhood in Cape Town, South Africa—sheltered in place on Sunday while a hippopotamus roamed the quiet streets. The massive beast was on the lam from… Read the rest of the article: Suburban neighborhood on lockdown due to roaming hippopotamus (video)

No, not the US state, but I could imagine that too. Lawmakers in the Eastern European country of Georgia enjoyed an exciting session of Parliament when member Mamuka Mdinaradze of… Read the rest of the article: A Georgian legislator sucker-punched another lawmaker, triggering a big brawl (video)

PaintCam is an armed home/office security camera that uses AI to spot trespassers and fires paintballs or tear gas projectiles at them. The company's promotional video looks like a parody… Read the rest of the article: This armed security camera uses AI to fire paintballs or tear gas at trespassers