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Our bodies crave more food if we haven’t had enough protein, and this can lead to a vicious cycle.
“What am I missing?” is a question that journalist Mónica Guzmán thinks more people should start asking.
The mad dog’s bite caused a hideous metamorphosis, which transformed its human victim into a nefarious monster.
Cow cuddling is getting ever more popular, but what’s the science behind using animals for relaxation?
Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.
Someday, presumably, we’ll go back to our lives. Our furry buddies will wonder where we went.
Admit it, caring for your pet can make you happy too. Science is working on why.
By taking Satan out of the religious context, storytellers explored the nature of sin in new ways.
Quantum physics isn’t quite magic, but it requires an entirely novel set of rules to make sense of the quantum universe.
Once numbering just 27 birds, the global population of California condors is now in the hundreds.
Ancient corridors below the French capital have served as its ossuary, playground, brewery, and perhaps soon, air conditioning.
Neuroscience explains terrifying ordeals, from out-of-body experiences to alien abductions.
Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
For the fewer than 50 people with this blood type, finding a blood transfusion could be extremely difficult.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
The evidence for a link between time spent using technology and mental health is fatally flawed.
The power of play: our forgotten lifehack.
A new study calls the technique “location spoofing.”
A new study finds surprising evidence of the self-domestication of urban foxes.
On the list of animals at risk are several endangered species.
A new study finds that dogs fed fresh human-grade food don’t need to eat—or do their business—as much.
The Earth is not flat. Here’s how you can prove it.
Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.
Even physicists sometimes fall for these. For centuries, the laws of physics seemed completely deterministic. If you knew where every particle was, how fast it was moving, and what the forces […]
50% of stars are in Sun-like ‘singlet’ systems. The planetary nebulae we see just don’t line up. Around 7 billion years from now, our Sun’s life will end. As the Sun […]
It’s a very human behavior—arguably one of the fundamentals that makes us us.
Your cat thinks your taste stinks. Also that you’re mingy with the laser pointer.
If you go young, blue, and massive, you top out at 50,000 K. That’s peanuts! Surprise! The biggest, most massive stars aren’t always the hottest. Although its neighbor, Messier 42, […]