aging A 45-year-old tech mogul spends $2M a year to make his body 18 again Thom Dunn

simone giertz Simone Giertz tries to crush various things in an artificial uterus she made Mark Frauenfelder

Science A new book, Poking the Squid, tells the scandalous, salacious truth about animal sex, in comics form Ruben Bolling

History Japanese officers cannibalized four American POWs on a Pacific island in 1944 Ellsworth Toohey

Science Eating kimchi might help clear nanoplastics out of your gut! Jennifer Sandlin

Games Hideo Kojima joins the dark side; creates AI short film Grant St. Clair

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genocide The silence around alleged Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians is deafening Jason Weisberger

canada Canadian doctors won't treat American trans patients — and here's why Séamus Bellamy

Science Mice that ate artificial sweeteners passed metabolic changes to their grandchildren Ellsworth Toohey

crowdfunding An artist painted a monster, an occult poet conjured it to life, and now it wants to kill your Mörk Borg character Gareth Branwyn

Science More research links artificial sweetener erythritol to stroke risk Rob Beschizza

Face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman Ellsworth Toohey

Technology BMW brings humanoid robots to its German factory Ellsworth Toohey

books Why every reading position eventually becomes painful Ellsworth Toohey

politics Florida Cubans targeted for deportation Rob Beschizza

health Corpse fat injections cost $100,000 for the wealthy Séamus Bellamy

books American Tiger finds wonder where suburbia insists there is none Jason Weisberger

law Hundreds of human skulls and "decomposing torsos" found in Pennsylvania man's basement Rob Beschizza