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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Introduction by Elise Andrew
CHAPTER ONE TECHNOLOGY
1) “Suicide Machine” That Lets You Experience Death Is Now Available for the Public to Try
2) Pornhub’s Data Shows Something Hilarious Happened during the Royal Wedding
3) Scientists Have Created AI Inspired by HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey
4) The US Has Lost Five Nuclear Weapons. So Where the Hell Are They?
5) People Who Use Someone Else’s Netflix Password, We’ve Got Bad News
6) Scientists Say They Can Turn Human Poop into Fuel
7) Facebook Has a “Secret File” on You. Here’s How You Can View It
8) Self-Driving Tesla Mows Down and “Kills” AI Robot at CES Tech Show
9) Thousands of Missing Children in India Identified through Facial Recognition Pilot Experiment
10) Scientists Have Created a Star Trek–Like Plane That Flies Using “Ion Thrusters” and No Fuel
11) Your Dream of Being Able to Breathe Underwater May Soon Be a Reality
12) IBM Has Built the “World’s Smallest Computer” That Can Be Put “Anywhere and Everywhere”
13) This Is What Happens When a Drone Slams into a Plane’s Wing at High Speed.
14) If You Use Your Web Browser’s Incognito Mode, We’ve Got Bad News
15) Amazon’s Alexa Told a Customer to Kill His Foster Parents. Er, What?.
16) Here’s Why You Should Probably Wrap Your Car Keys in Tinfoil
17) New Fluoride Battery Could Be Charged Just Once a Week.
CHAPTER TWO SPACE
18) Why Are Mars’s Sunsets Blue?
19) Colossal Drawing of a Penis That Can Be Seen from Space Proves Humanity Will Never Change
20) Astronomers Have Found Another Puzzling “Alien Megastructure” Star
21) Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster Could Crash Back into Earth
22) Voyager 2 Has Just Entered Interstellar Space, NASA Confirms
23) Uranus Has Experienced a Colossal Pounding
24) First Results from NASA’s Twins Experiment Surprise Scientists
25) A Super-Earth Has Been Discovered Just Six Light-Years Away, the Second-Closest Planet to Our Solar System
26) A Huge Lake of Liquid Water Has Been Found on Mars
27) A NASA Spacecraft May Have Detected a Giant Wall at the Edge of the Solar System
28) Earth Is Passing through a Dark Matter “Hurricane” Right Now
29) A Physicist Claims He’s Figured Out Why We Haven’t Met Aliens Yet, and It’s Pretty Worrying
30) Study Reveals That Uranus Smells of Farts
31) Biblical City of Sin Destroyed by “Sulfur and Fire” May Have Been Flattened by Asteroid
32) Astronomers Have Spotted a Mysterious “Ghost” Galaxy Next to the Milky Way
33) Declassified Military Report Reveals Extreme Solar Storm Likely Detonated Mines during Vietnam War
CHAPTER THREE HEALTH AND MEDICINE
34) Somebody Literally Coughed Up a Lung
35) This Is What’s Actually Happening When a Woman “Squirts” During Sex
36) Genetic Analysis Finally Solves the Mystery of the “Atacama Alien”
37) How Long Does It Take to Poop Lego?
38) Doctor Issues Warning over Dangerous and Deadly Masturbation—But Don’t Worry, It’s Safe If You Don’t Do This!
39) A Man Took Waaaaaaay Too Much Viagra. Here’s What Happened to Him
40) One Joint May Be All It Takes to Change the Structure of the Teenage Brain
41) Apparently Penis Whitening Is a Thing
42) Woman Who Received Lung Transplant Developed Peanut Allergy from Her Donor.
43) Weed or Booze? Scientists Finally Settle Which Is Worse for Your Brain
44) Study Finds Spanked Children Are More Likely to Have Developmental Delays.
45) Woman Develops Rare Condition That Leaves Her Unable to Hear Men
46) There’s Something You Need to Know about the McDonald’s Touchscreens
47) A Cancer “Kill Switch” Has Been Found in the Body—And Researchers Are Already Hard at Work to Harness It
48) First-Ever Baby Born Following a Uterus Transplant from a Deceased Donor
49) Hand Dryers Spread Bacteria So Dramatically That Scientists Think They’re a Public Health Threat
CHAPTER FOUR PLANTS AND ANIMALS
50) Brutal Chimpanzee War Was Likely Driven by Power, Ambition, and Jealousy
51) Evolution Could Destroy Our Ability to Tolerate Alcohol
52) Don’t Think Arachnids Are Loving? This Spider Nurses Its Young with Milky Liquid
53) A Scientist Has Been Eaten Alive by a Crocodile
54) GM Crops Found to Increase Yields and Reduce Harmful Toxins in 21 Years of Data.
55) The “Reverse Zombie” Tick Is Spreading around America, Causing a Strange Condition As It Goes
56) This Is What Eating People Does to the Human Body
57) Mountain Gorillas Are No Longer “Critically Endangered” after a Successful Conservation Effort
58) Zoo Creates World’s First Reptile Swim-Gym to Fight Snake Obesity.
59) Why Do Men Have Nipples?
60) Whales Became Really Stressed during World War II, Study Shows
61) Majority of Coffee Species Threatened with Extinction
62) Cats Are Not Inherently Antisocial Creatures. It’s Just You
63) World’s Smallest Dinosaur Footprints Found, Measuring Less Than Half an Inch
64) Very Good Puppy Digs Up 13,000-Year-Old Mammoth Fossil in Its Owner’s Backyard
65) We Now Know How Wombats Produce Their Unique Cubic Poos
66) Step Aside Knickers, There’s an Even Bigger Cow in Town Called Dozer
CHAPTER FIVE ENVIRONMENT
67) Man Who Fell into Yellowstone Hot Spring Completely Dissolved within a Day
68) Pompeii Skeleton Reveals the “Unluckiest Guy in History”
69) Photographer Captures Amazing Images of Weirdly Alien “Light Pillars” Floating in the Sky
70) Antarctica Is Now Melting Six Times Faster Than It Was in 1979
71) When Was the Worst Time to Be Alive in Human History?
72) Organic Food Is Worse for the Climate Than Non-Organic Food
73) Scientists Have Spotted a “Lost Continent” Using Satellites
74) Huge 210-Foot (64-Meter) Fatberg Discovered beneath Quaint English Seaside Town
75) Microplastics Found in 100 Percent of Sea Turtles Tested
76) Something Living at the Bottom of the Sea Is Absorbing Large Amounts of the CO2
77) A Mystery about Easter Island’s Statues Might Finally Be Solved
78) An Island off the Coast of Japan Has Gone Missing
79) The Map You Grew Up with Is a Lie. This Is What the World Really Looks Like
80) 2015–2018 Have Been the Hottest Years on Record, UN Report Reveals
81) Mass Grave of Child Human Sacrifice Victims Found in Peru
82) Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Up to Some Seriously Weird Stuff and No One Knows Why
83) New Research Suggests Italian Supervolcano Is Filling Up with Magma
CHAPTER SIX BRAIN
84) We Just Found the Part of the Brain Responsible for Free Will
85) Artificial Intelligence Re-creates Images from inside the Human Brain
86) Here’s a US Army Trick for Falling Asleep Anywhere in 120 Seconds
87) Growing Up Poor Physically Changes the Structure of a Child’s Brain
88) People Would Rather Save a Cat Than a Criminal in Worldwide Trolley Problem Study
89) A Technique to Control Your Dreams Has Been Verified for the First Time
90) Here’s What Happens to Alcoholics’ Brains When They Quit Drinking
91) Pink Isn’t Real
92) The Key to a Happy Sex Life Sounds Pretty Unsexy, According to This Study
93) Microdosing Magic Mushrooms Could Spark Creativity and Boost Cognitive Skills
94) Whether You’re a Go-Getter or a Procrastinator Depends on This
95) How and Why Orgasm Faces Differ around the World
96) Scientists Can Read Rats’ Minds and Predict Where They Will Go Next
97) You Can Spot a Narcissist from This Facial Feature, According to New Study
98) Why Do You Lose Your Memory When You Get Really Drunk?
99) This Type of Man Gives the Best Orgasms
100) These Personality Traits Could Dictate How Often Men Have Sex, Study Claims
CHAPTER SEVEN PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY
101) China Just Set a New Nuclear Fusion Record By Reaching Temperatures of 180 Million Degrees
102) These Scientists Say They’ve Invented Something That Can Create Water Out of Desert Air
103) World War II Bombing Raids Were Felt Even at the Edge of Space
104) Amateur Scientists Just Proved Einstein Wrong
105) Residents of UK Town Forced to Evacuate after Cleaning Accident Goes Very Wrong
106) New Form of Lab-Made Gold Is Better and Golder Than Nature’s Pathetic Version
107) Why Does the Sound of Your Own Recorded Voice Bother You So Much?
108) Scientists Say They’ve Created a Strange New State of Matter That Doesn’t Play by the Rules
109) People Secretly Believe That the Eyes Send Out Force-Carrying Beams
110) Chinese and Russian Scientists Have Been Heating Huge Portions of the Atmosphere (on Purpose)
111) Scientists Have Invented a Fourth Type of Chocolate
112) Study Claims That the Great Pyramid of Giza Could Focus Some Electromagnetic Waves
113) Why Do You Get More Static Electric Shocks When It’s Cold?
114) Hurricane Patricia’s Lightning Fired a Beam of Antimatter Down to Earth
115) Quantum Uncertainty Suggests That an Object Can Be Multiple Temperatures at Once
116) CERN Announces Concept Design for Its 62-Mile (100-Km) Future Collider
117) Why 117 things?
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