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So When Will A COVID-19 Vaccine Be Available?

Guy Attempts To Make A Rube Goldberg Machine And Fails Miserably

A Satellite Lets Scientists See Antarctica's Melting Like Never Before

Everything Terrace House Taught Me About Spending Way Too Much Time Indoors

The Case For Reopening America's Parks

Extremely Talented Girl Plays The Who's 'My Generation' With Both The Guitar And Bass At The Same Time

Amsterdam Is Now Using The 'Doughnut' Model Of Economics. What Does That Mean?

Guy Makes The Very Bad Decision To Throw A Knife Into A Spray Paint Can

The Mean Girl Of Morehouse Returns

Inside The Nightmare Voyage Of The Diamond Princess

Guy Builds A Tensegrity Structure So Sturdy He Can Just Sit On It

Georgia's Experiment In Human Sacrifice

Here's An Unusual Camera Lens That Allows You To See Behind Objects

After One Tweet To President Trump, This Man Got $69 Million From New York For Ventilators

Elon Musk Takes Over Tesla Earnings Call To Go On Angry Tangent About Lockdowns 'Forcibly Imprisoning' People

How To Quarantine In A Ghost Town

How Long Will A Vaccine Really Take?

Exam Anxiety: How Remote Test-Proctoring Is Creeping Students Out

This Sun Eruption Photo Was Shot From A Backyard

The Malaysian Job

How The Race To Build The World's First Hyperloop Is Heating Up

Skin Hunger Helps Explain Your Desperate Longing For Human Touch

The Economy Shrunk At The Fastest Pace Since The Great Recession

The Surface Pro 7 Is A Marvelous Machine For Creatives

Half of States Don’t Meet Benchmarks to Reopen Amid #Coronavirus #Pandemic, Analysis Shows

U.S. Close to Becoming First Country With 1M Coronavirus Cases

Russia's Coronavirus Outbreak Is Getting Bad. Even Putin Admits It

Watching An Alligator Get Brushed Is Oddly Satisfying

This MIT App Makes Self-Care As Addictive As A Video Game

This Is How The Gap Dies

Worker Tries To Take Two Full Garbage Bins Up An Escalator, Really Regrets It

How The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Shattered The Myth Of College In America

The 'Terrible Moral Choice' Of Reopening

How These Five Countries Were Able To Reopen

Too Much Efficiency Is Hazardous To Society

Japanese Convenience Store Comes Up With Brilliant Design To Reduce Hand Contact

Watch This Guy Absolutely Crush 'Guitar Hero' Song At 165% Speed Without Breaking A Sweat

Inside The Growing Community Of Families On The Road, Full Time

Why Navigation Apps Actually Make Traffic Worse

Why Do Rolls-Royce Cars Cost So Much?

Why Remote Work Sucks, According To Science

Who Doesn't Want Saturn V Sitting On Their Desk?

The Enduring Appeal Of The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Processed Snack

Kermit The Frog Gives A Beautiful, Heartwarming Rendition Of 'Rainbow Connection'

Blue Angels and Thunderbirds flyovers honor coronavirus responders

Blue Angels and Thunderbirds flyovers honor coronavirus responders

How Viruses Move Through Airplanes — And How To Stop Them

Why This Insect Isn't Actually A Bee, And Other Things In Nature That Aren't What They Seem

How Recording Studios Keep Finding Ways To Release Posthumous Music From Dead Artists

In Search Of Inigo Philbrick, The Disappearing Art Dealer

Everyone Is Giving Away Cash On Instagram

The Surprising Controversy Surrounding Rain Ownership In The United States, Explained

How Do You Build A City For A Pandemic?

'Nothing But Death': Inside the Nursing Home Where NYC's Most Vulnerable Struggle To Survive COVID-19

U.S. Close to Becoming First Country With 1M Coronavirus Cases

Why Drake's Mattress Costs $390,000

No Testing, No Treatment, No Herd Immunity, No Easy Way Out

Boob Job: How The Chive Built An Empire Out Of Bro-Bait

What Is A Mask Valve, And Why Are Cities Banning Them?

Lone Crocodile Defends Itself Against A Pride Of Lions

Striking A Blow For Humanity, Guy Builds A Coronavirus Out Of 300,000 Matches And Lights It On Fire

Why Is Video Conferencing So Exhausting?

The World Is Running Out Of Yeast For Literally No Good Reason

Lock Picker Picks A Lock That Has To Be Picked 15 Times To Be Opened — And Does It In 30 Seconds

John Mulaney Shares A Very Bizarre Quarantine Dream He Had About Rob Reiner With Stephen Colbert

How The COVID-19 Pandemic Could End

Life On Jakarta's Trash Mountain

Car Tries To Squeeze Into Gap Between Trucks, Immediately Regrets It

Dating A Billionaire Seemed Like Fun Until I Tried It

The Secret Group Of Scientists And Billionaires Pushing A Manhattan Project For COVID-19

Here's What Disinfectants And UV Light Really Do To Your Body

The Scary Thing That Happened To A TikToker's Brain When He Drank A Whole Bottle Of Nutmeg Spice

Why Government Websites Fail

The Color Psychology Behind A Relaxing And Soothing Home

Sunday's Virtual Sondheim Concert Was The Most Cathartic Experience Of Quarantine So Far

Secret Museums

'Jeopardy' Contestant Embarrassingly Confuses Chaka Khan With A 1800s War Leader

This Well-Reviewed Ultrawide Monitor Is Only $279

U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Nears 55,000 as More States Start Reopening Economies This Week

U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Nears 55,000 as More States Start Reopening Economies This Week

'This Is So Exciting And Stupid': YouTubers Fire A Pneumatic Hammer Into A Punching Bag To See What Happens

What Happened When I Bought A Hotel By Mistake

The Story Of The Sunburst Mirror, The World's Most Omnipresent Wall Decor

The Man Who Thought Too Fast

Meryl Streep Making A Cocktail While Singing Is The Perfect Encapsulation Of Our Quarantine Mood

Many States Fall Short of Mandate to Track Virus Exposure

The Explosive Power Of An Airbag, Demonstrated By Launching A Bowling Ball Sky-High

The Reason Americans Buy Refrigerated Milk And Europeans Don't

People Are Future-Proofing Their Homes With... Straw

What The Diamond Princess Taught The World About COVID-19

Driver Races A McLaren Speedtail Against And F35 Fighter Jet

The Eruption Of Instagram Island

An Innocent Man Spent 46 Years In Prison — And Made A Plan To Kill The Man Who Framed Him

Missouri Nurse Who Raised Concerns About Lack Of Protective Gear Dies Of Coronavirus A Week Before Her Retirement

Watch This Australian Shepherd Make A Matrix-Like Leap Through A Gate

She's Been Falsely Accused Of Starting The Coronavirus. Her Life Has Been Turned Upside Down

Should I Tell My Wife I've Never Been Attracted To Her, And Other Advice Column Questions

How The Pandemic Will Change American Streets

Why Are These Maps Filled With Geographic Features That Don't Actually Exist?

We Still Don't Know How The Coronavirus Is Killing Us

Excavator Tips Over And Falls Straight Into The River

Will COVID-19 Change The Parking Business?

What Does It Really Mean To Live Beyond Your Means?

Trump Owes Tens Of Millions To The Bank Of China — And The Loan Is Due Soon

Now You Can Watch All The Star Wars Movies Playing Simultaneously, On A Single Nine-Panel Screen

How I Threw A Dinner Party In Isolation

For The First Time In Six Weeks, Millions Of Children In Spain Can Play Outside Again

Here's A Trailer For A 'Mandalorian' Roundtable Documentary Series That's Remarkably Similar To Jon Favreau's Old 'Dinner For Five' Talk Show

As Rumor Mill Goes Into Overdrive, South Korea Insists Kim Jong Un Is 'Alive And Well'

The Psychological Effects Of Quarantine

Artist Creates Creepily Realistic Dice With Blinking Eye

This Hospital Has Only 8 Nurses. They Are Also The Janitors

My Childhood Spent Preparing For The Apocalypse

The Doctor, The Disease And 'The Division'

This Gamer Made A Stop Motion Tribute To Super Mario Bros. Using 500 Rubik's Cubes

Those Damn Denominators

Stop Looking On The Bright Side: We'll Be Screwed By The Pandemic For Years To Come

How 'Better Call Saul' Broke The Prequel Curse

There Is No Anti-Lockdown Protest Movement

Many States Fall Short of Mandate to Track Virus Exposure

Watch Some Free Shakespeare Performances, Courtesy Of The Globe Theatre

The Joy Of Spying On Celebrity Homes Over Zoom And Instagram Live

At The Limits Of Thought

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Played By Brad Pitt, Dispels Coronavirus Myths In 'SNL' Cold Open

Here's What Scientists Still Wish They Knew About The Coronavirus

Barbara DeDrew Just Wants You To Adopt A Cat From Whiskers-R-Us On 'SNL'

Mother's Day Is Two Weeks Away — Have You Found The Right Gift?

This Time Lapse Shows Everything That Goes Into Building A Pool From Scratch

Georgia Poised to Partially Reopen From Coronavirus Lockdown as U.S. Death Toll Nears 50,000

This Video Of A Cat Snowskating Is The X Games Event We All Deserve

How A Photo Of A Protesting Nurse In Phoenix Went Viral

Biden's Accuser Says Mother Called Into 'Larry King Live' In 1993 For Advice After Alleged Sexual Assault

Some Amazon Sellers Are Paying $10,000 A Month To Trick Their Way To The Top

I Work At Smithfield Foods. I'm Suing Them Over Putting Our Lives At Risk For Your Dinner

March, April, May: New York City's Mood Darkens as Crisis Feels Endless

This 1,000-Year-Old Mill Has Resumed Production Due To Demand For Flour

Celebrities Shouldn't Ask Average People to Donate Now

Restaurants Are Turning Their Parking Lots Into Drive-In Theaters

China Sent Team Including Medical Experts To Advise On North Korea's Kim

Hollywood Makes Elevators Look Like Death Traps But They're Among The Safest Modes Of Transportation

The Offspring Did A Cover Of Joe Exotic's 'Here Kitty Kitty' From 'Tiger King'

Tens Of Thousands Flock To Orange County Beaches As Heat Wave Lingers Over SoCal

He Signed Up For A Coronavirus Vaccine Trial Using A Method That's Never Been Used In Humans. Here's Why

How 'La Di Da Di' Became One Of The Most Sampled Songs In History

How Overly Optimistic Modeling Distorted Trump Team's Coronavirus Response

Band Recreates Every Classic 1980s Music Video And Their Commitment To Detail Is Impeccable

Nature Is Healing: A Seal Now Lives On My Lawn

How A Media-Distracted Trump Ended Up Derailing His Own Briefing

A Supercut Of Celebrities Getting Ripped Off After Going Sneaker Shopping With Complex

Young And Middle-Aged People, Barely Sick With COVID-19, Are Dying From Strokes

'A Goofy Movie' At 25: An Oral History Of 'I2I' And The Powerline Concert Scene

My Restaurant Was My Life For 20 Years. Does The World Need It Anymore?

Georgia Poised to Partially Reopen From Coronavirus Lockdown as U.S. Death Toll Nears 50,000

U.S. Official: Sunlight, Heat, Humidity Could Help Kill #Coronavirus

I Probed My Nasal Cavity For The New Coronavirus — Here's What I Found

YouTuber Attempts To Scientifically Test A Fringe Orthodontic Technique Meant To Improve Your Jawline

How A Small, Historic Southern Town Became The Center Of South Carolina's Coronavirus Outbreak

The Ghost Airline That Has Linked Cairo And Tel Aviv For Decades

The Dawn Of Quarcore

Deer Rockets Across Empty Parking Lot, Smashes Directly Into Lone Cyclist

The Week's Best Quarantine Memes, Ranked

Inside The Dystopian, Post-Lockdown World Of Wuhan

Big Poppa's Owner Explained How She Snapped That Heartbreaking Photo Of Him In Quarantine

How A Dying River Came Roaring Back To Life

They Lived In A Factory For 28 Days To Make Millions Of Pounds Of Raw PPE Materials To Help Fight Coronavirus

The Time Hoover Made The Most Terrible Marketing Mistake To Sell Their Vacuum Cleaners

My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore? – The New York Times

How Far Will This Cat Reach For A Piece Of Meat?

Where Have All The Insects Gone?

U.S. Official: Sunlight, Heat, Humidity Could Help Kill #Coronavirus

Harvard Caves to Trump Demand to Return Coronavirus Stimulus Money

Why Farmers Are Dumping Milk, Even As People Go Hungry

States That Helped Trump Win See Biggest Job Losses

Why Are Dumbbells So Damn Expensive?

This TikToker Did The Math On This Lockdown Protester's Claim About Her Hair, And Things Didn't Add Up

MLB's Sign-Stealing Scandal Ends Not With A Bang, But A Whimper

While Visitors Are In Quarantine, Museums Are Sharing Their Creepiest Objects On Twitter

Dog Tries To Hide Between The Sofa Cushions, Adorably Fails

Denis Villeneuve, 'Dune' And The Future Of Dude Cinema

How Do You Politely End A Zoom Or FaceTime Call In Quarantine?

Would You Sacrifice Your Privacy To Get Out Of Quarantine?

How Alison Roman Became The Reluctant, Pasta-Loving 'Prom Queen Of The Pandemic'

How Coke And Pepsi Make Millions From Bottling Tap Water, As Residents Face Shutoffs

The Ugly Truth Behind Netflix's Record Quarter

The Stockbrokers Of 'Magic: The Gathering' Play For Keeps

A Mysterious Blood-Clotting Complication Is Killing Coronavirus Patients

Two Mental Errors That Make The Pandemic Harder To Bear

The Pirates Of The Interstate Highway System

TV Reporter Amazingly Keeps Her Cool While Ducking The Lighting Rig Falling Around Her

The iPad Pro Is Helping Channel Our Anxious Energy

Hidden Outbreaks Spread Through US Cities Far Earlier Than Americans Knew, Estimates Say

What Life Is Like After Being Taken Off A Ventilator

Want To Find A Misinformed Public? Facebook's Already Done It

Chasing The Leading Lady Who Escaped The Nazis And Helped Build Our Self-Driving Future

The Future Of The Great Barrier Reef Depends On Us

The Coronavirus Recession Will Rival The Great Depression

Man Builds An Electric Bike From Scratch Using A Drone Motor

The Body Collectors Of The Coronavirus Pandemic

Americans Are Buying More Alcohol During The Coronavirus Pandemic, But Craft Brewers Are Struggling To Stay In Business

What Is Happening Inside People's Bodies Who Are Asymptomatic With The Coronavirus?

The Meat We Eat Is A Pandemic Risk, Too

Why Are We So Obsessed With Making Famous Men Our #InternetBoyfriends?

Harvard Caves to Trump Demand to Return Coronavirus Stimulus Money

‘Furious’ Small #Business Owners Fuel Feelings of Unfairness in #Coronavirus Stimulus

‘Furious’ Small #Business Owners Fuel Feelings of Unfairness in #Coronavirus Stimulus

You Might Like - You’re Likely to Get the #Coronavirus

The Video Of A Bear Chilling Out On A Swing Is Our Goal In Life

I Read Woody Allen's Memoir So You Don't Have To

This F-15's Vertical Takeoff Maneuver Is Wild

State By State: Comparing Coronavirus Death Rates Across US

The Bigamist's Daughter

Man Tests Out How Many Rubber Bands Can Make A Watermelon Explode And The Result Is Glorious

It's Time To Appreciate The Greatness Of Michael Jordan's Awful Style

The Worst Rebrand In The History Of Orange Juice

Feeling Guilty For Not Doing Enough? You Are

Loneliness Is Other People

50 Years Of Earth Day: What's Better Today, And What's Worse

Why A Particular Combination In This Puzzle Is Mathematically Impossible

A Lot Of People Are Ordering Way Too Much Food Online

How Seasonal Allergies Became A Phenomenon Of Our Own Making

At-Home COVID-19 Tests Have Arrived. Here's What That Means

Do Your Garden A Solid And Start Composting Now

The President And The Plague: Tracking The Toll Of Trump's Failure

Here's A Rare And Adorable Sighting Of A Leopard Mama Teaching Her Cubs How To Cross A Road

A New Study Reveals The Horniest Cities In Lockdown

Guy Couldn't Have His Bachelor Party Because Of COVID-19, So His Friends Built Him An Amazing Real-Life RBG Game To Celebrate

Comedian Has Hilarious Response To People Who Say They Don't Know What Day It Is

With Salons Closed, An 89-Year-Old Houston Woman Washes Her Own Hair For The First Time In Decades

Senate Passes $484 Billion Coronavirus Bill For Small Business And Hospital Relief, Testing

You Might Like - You’re Likely to Get the #Coronavirus

Trump Says He Will Suspend #Immigration as U.S. #Coronavirus Deaths Pass 42,000

This Cat, Staring Longingly Outside A Fence, Is Clearly Plotting Something

A Deep-Diving Sub. A Deadly Fire. And Russia's Secret Undersea Agenda

Val Kilmer: My Wild Time Shooting 'Top Gun,' From Drunken Run-Ins With The Cops To Pranking Tom Cruise

The Narrator Of 'Too Hot To Handle' Knows This Is A Ridiculous Show

We Have No Idea How This Dog Fended Off An Attack By A Leopard

The World's Most Comforting Foods Of Grief

There Are Not Enough COVID-19 Tests. There Are Also Too Many COVID-19 Tests

28,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Crisis

The Crash Of The $8.5 Billion Global Flower Trade

Teens Are Completed Flabbergasted By The Challenge To Dial A Rotary Phone

The Entire US Box Office This Weekend Came From A Single Florida Drive-In Theater

Don't Let Mom Use Busted Tech, Keep Her Up To Date For Mother's Day

It's No Coincidence That Various TV News Shows Sound The Same — They All Have Identical Scripts

President Trump Announces Suspension Of Immigration To 'Protect Jobs' Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

Where You're Out Of Work Makes All The Difference In The World

US Monitoring Intelligence That North Korean Leader Is In Grave Danger After Surgery

#WHO: ‘Worst is Yet Ahead of Us’ in #Coronavirus #Pandemic

Death Toll Surpasses 40,000 as Governors Take On Trump Over Coronavirus Testing

The Photographer Who Took The Viral Photos Of People In Scrubs Blocking Anti-Lockdown Protesters In Denver Described What Happened

Man Almost Gets Run Over By A Truck, Casually Walks On As If Nothing's Happened

A Woman's Breast Implants Saved Her Life From A Gunshot

Students From A Stunt Double School Take Turns 'Punching' Each Other In Ingenious Video

NASA Telescope Sees A Massive Planet Vanish From View

What It's Like to Be Followed By A KGB Agent In The 1990s

Meet The Rent Strikers Of The Pandemic Recession

How Does Coronavirus Kill? Clinicians Trace A Ferocious Rampage Through The Body, From Brain To Toes

Here's A Perfect Encapsulation Of What Every Facebook Video Looks Like These Days

Man Provides Hilarious Commentary Of Video Of A Cow Being Rescued From A Pool

The White House Has Erected A Blockade Stopping States and Hospitals From Getting Coronavirus PPE

Guy Notices A Fun Coincidence With The Super Mario Bros. Flagpole Fanfare Music And The Power-Up Sound Effect

The Decline Of Usability

The Problem With Heroizing Healthcare Workers Like Me

The Forgotten Tiger King Of Harlem

What We Can Learn From The 'Second Wave' Of Coronavirus Cases In Asia

I Bought Everything I Saw In Instagram Ads For A Month

New Zealand's Prime Minister May Be The Most Effective Leader On The Planet

Where Does Scottie Pippen Rank Among The NBA's All-Time Greats?

Man Forced To Isolate Alone In Ghost Town With Murderous Past After Being Snowed In

70 Died At A Nursing Home As Body Bags Piled Up. This Is What Went Wrong

Shake Shack Returning $10 Million Government Loan Meant For Small Businesses

Was It Wrong For Me To Move In With My Ex's Dad And Clean Out His Childhood Bedroom, And Other Advice Column Questions

Death Toll Surpasses 40,000 as Governors Take On Trump Over Coronavirus Testing

Trump Challenges China, Iran Reporting on the Coronavirus