What's the Smartest Plant?
Compared to even the dumbest human being, your average tulip is a moron. But you’d have to be dumber than a tulip to…
Ivanka Trump Also Did the Dumb Email Thing That the Whole White House Was Warned Not to Do
A White House “examination” of Donald Trump’s daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump’s online habits has concluded…
Catastrophically Stupid Plot to Smear Robert Mueller Exposed by Trail of Online Evidence
Conspiracy theories are almost always bullshit, but actual conspiracies are often easy to identify because one of the…
Ecuador Tried to Get Julian Assange Out of Their Embassy By Making Him a Diplomat to Russia
The government of Ecuador, whose embassy in London has served as a refuge from UK authorities for Wikileaks founder…
Julian Assange's Options to Get Out of Ecuadorian Embassy Are Rapidly Narrowing
The government of the U.K. has denied a motion to grant Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the…
Here's How to Watch SpaceX Launch the U.S. Government's Mysterious Zuma Spacecraft Tonight
On Sunday night, Elon Musk’s SpaceX will launch “Zuma,” a mysterious government spacecraft of unknown purpose, on one…
The US Claims It Doesn't Need a Court Order to Ask Tech Companies to Build Encryption Backdoors
Federal authorities say they can request a U.S. tech company build surveillance backdoors into their products without…
Twitter Hasn’t Done Enough to Fix Its Propaganda Problem
Twitter couldn’t drop the ball any harder this year if it tried. Death threats, continual harassment, and now this.
Mensa, an Association of Ostensible Geniuses, Takes Donald Trump's Bait
The ongoing feud between President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reached absolutely bizarre,…
How Aliens We’ve Never Met Could Help Humanity Escape Self-Destruction
Humans have had such a dramatic impact on Earth that some scientists say we’ve kickstarted a new geological era known…
More Evidence That Ravens Are Ridiculously Intelligent Birds
New research shows that ravens can plan ahead for different types of events, and even resist the urge to take an…
Did a Russian Photographer Smuggle a Surveillance Device Into the White House?
Trump thumbed his nose at the American people on Wednesday by meeting with Russian officials as suspicions about his…
A Deceptively Simple Test Just Taught Us Something New About Elephant Intelligence
It’s hard to know how smart animals are for the simple reason that they’re not able to come right out and tell us.…
WikiLeaks Just Dumped a Ton of Alleged CIA Hacking Documents
Here we go again, gumshoes. WikiLeaks (read: Julian Assange) says it acquired a massive cache of CIA documents related…
James Clapper Decides to Skip Trump Regime, Submits Resignation
The Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, submitted a letter of resignation on Wednesday to the House…
New Study Could Be the Death Knell of Brain-Training Games
Brain-training programs like the ones offered by Luminosity and LearningRx claim to boost intelligence and even offset…
British Defense Giant Offers Tactical Spy Trash Cans to American Cops
While most of us eventually stop playing spies, American police departments have found it increasingly tough to grow…
The Intelligence Spectrum Explained, From Jellyfish to Mozart
Apparently, some elephants are as intelligent as an eight-year-old child. This and other sometimes-depressing,…
Guantanamo Bay Is Just Buckets of Fun, Says Leaked NSA Newsletter
In the latest edition of scraping the barrel of the Snowden leak, The Intercept has released a trove of National…
Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong
It was hailed as the most significant test of machine intelligence since Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in chess…