Science news memes
Page 2 of the best science news memes from Jester, made fresh daily from real science stories. Tap any meme to read the take and the story behind it.
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The only thing more extinct than the thylacine is the chance I'll ever find a deal like that.
A 17-year-old just made poaching a lot less lucrative, and the elephants didn't even have to ask twice.
Barn owls: proof that even nature has a tone-deaf friend who sings anyway.
Turns out the city's oyster habit is basically a marine restoration fund with a side of hot sauce.
Finally, a species that turns garbage into joy instead of turning joy into garbage.
The real Nobel committee is just jealous they can't hand out prizes for 'best excuse to skip a US conference'.
Guarding rice paddies from lemurs is now a full-time job — and the lemurs are winning the performance reviews.
Doris went from counting sheep to counting condors — the flock's up, the poison's down.
When your job title is literally 'turtle woman' and you still make it to 208 releases — that's a career mode we can all aspire to.
The okapi's been hiding from science since 1901, but it can't hide from poachers—good thing it's got 330 rangers and four decades on its side.
Nothing says 'keep out' like a fence that doubles as a fruit salad.
Saturn has a ten-sided storm at its south pole, proving the gas giant's weather is into geometric shapes.
Snake embryos have better instincts than my GPS, which still thinks I live at my ex's place.
Even in the universe's most exclusive club, 'we have detected something' still means 'we have no idea what this is.'
OM331: the only commuter who takes longer to commit to a shortcut than I do to replying to a text.
After 200 days of room service, Crush swims off like she's leaving a five-star resort—except the bill is 1,500 miles of ocean.
Only 70 bigfin squid sightings ever, but somehow they're still more discoverable than my purpose.
Who needs mountains when you've got cornfields and golf courses?
When your middle-school science project outperforms the government's billion-dollar equipment, it's time to update the lab's LinkedIn.
Finally, a way for researchers to annoy lab rats from the comfort of their own continent.
Wall Street's ideal cure: one that treats the stock price, not the disease.
The universe is eating itself while my landlord still raises rent because 'market demand.'
A 12-year-old's future family is already on ice — literally the coolest head start ever.
My superpower is holding my breath for 13 minutes, but only when the WiFi cuts out.
Wikie's out here learning 'hello' while my colleagues still can't manage a polite 'good morning' without it being a passive-aggressive email.
Metformin is the only drug that makes you live longer and costs less than your morning coffee.
The universe's most expensive doughnut finally finds a use for all that chaos.
The kākāpō recovery team must be the only people on Earth thrilled to be woken up at 3 a.m. by a parrot's booming love call.
In Malawi, the masuku plum is so loved that people eat it while bathing — now scientists are trying to bring it back.
When your power grid gets a 60% upgrade in one afternoon, you don't need a parade—just a light bulb that finally works.
Who knew the secret to bigger lungs was just banning cars?
The Swiss 'Underpants Index' is just a fancy way of saying: if your soil can't eat cotton, it's not the soil that's dead—it's your garden's will to live.
Six people went in blind, came out seeing — the only thing more miraculous is that it took scientists this long to try.
Loyiso Dunga went from 'ocean is sacred family' to 'ocean is my spreadsheet' — and that's conservation.
The Turing test is now just asking who hangs up first.
Finally, a face for the ancestor who definitely told his friends he could take a T-Rex in a fight.
Only in America do we solve an ecological crisis by turning it into a $30 appetizer.
We really sent a multi-billion dollar rover to Mars just to discover that even the aliens are catfishing us.
The Roman telescope's already seeing farther than NASA's career-planning advice.
Scientists discover wrinkles make graphene work better. My forehead has been making that discovery for years.
Finally, a pill that helps you forget the side effects it gives you.
Evolution's been out here playing a 400-million-year game of 'hold my beer' with a shrimp that thinks it's a crab.
Somewhere, a vaccine scientist just smiled at a spreadsheet.
Mars has a warm spot, and NASA's first thought is 'how do we charge rent?'
A Parkinson's test that's basically a 'draw a snail' quiz—your pen grip betrays you before you can even spell 'dyskinesia.'
The vultures waited a hundred years for this moment—their patience makes my Wi-Fi loading circle look like a tantrum.
175,000 faint echoes later, we've found six new 'mystery structures' — Earth's basement is more cluttered than we thought.
Turns out the best way to get a massive NASA budget is to tell Congress it's actually an old spy satellite you forgot to throw away.
A common sugar substitute, once seen as a healthy choice, now carries a hidden cardiovascular warning.
Scientists spent decades decoding Earth's hum while my upstairs neighbor's 3am treadmill remains an unsolved quantum mystery.
The British Museum will charge £15 to see it, with a gift shop selling volcano-ash tea towels.
New fear unlocked for cancer cells: a jab that actually fights back. Let's go science!
There are now so many humpbacks off Brazil that they're forming traffic jams.
Joel's been at it two decades, but the real boss of the Photo Ark is that porch moth.
Finally, a use for Australia's giant roaches that doesn't involve screaming.
Apex predator gets bit and survives, yet my group chat still hasn't recovered from last Tuesday.
The universe is finally opening up, and we're still just using billions of dollars to look for someone else who might be as miserable as we are.
Australia's the only country that can say 'we beat cancer' and mean a vaccine did it, not a cure.
Somewhere, a physicist is using a Ouija board to look for a leak in a cooling pool.
Science spent 40 years calling a 24-legged insect 'a baby shrimp'—which is basically how I got my biology degree.