Brown Rats Filmed Snatching Bats Out of the Air Before Eating Them
It’s been a wild week for bat news. First, we learned that some European giant bats eat birds in mid-air, but not before brutally tearing their wings off. Then, we ...
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Snakes Filmed ‘Wiping’ Poison Off Frogs Before Eating Them Alive
In the Colombian Amazon, ten snakes were given a meal that could kill them. Researchers offered royal ground snakes a lineup of three-striped poison dart frogs, each one coated in ...
Is Bubble Tea Safe to Drink? The Hidden Health Risks Behind the Boba Craze.
It seems like everything we eat, drink, and breathe these days contains microplastics, toxic chemicals, or whatever else we shouldn’t be consuming. Welp. I hate to break it to you, ...
This Is Why It Feels Like Time Speeds up as We Get Older
Remember when a year in high school felt like an eternity, and now a year feels like it was just yesterday? Scientists say there’s a reason for that. A new ...
The Music You Listen to Affects You Most at This Age
Ever notice how some people swear the best music stopped the year they got their driver’s license? Science might actually agree with them. A new study from the University of ...
King Tut’s Tomb Is Crumbling—and Archaeologists Might Have to Move a Mountain to Save It
The tomb of King Tutankhamun, the 3,300-year-old burial site that defined modern Egyptology, is falling apart. Cracks are spreading through its ceiling, fungi are eating away at the walls, and ...
Pickleball Is Exploding in Popularity—and Wrecking Players’ Faces
Pickleball is like if you played ping-pong on the table itself. I realize I just described tennis but I feel like my description is actually quite good. It’s a speedier, ...
Forget Prunes. Eat These 3 Things to Cure Your Constipation.
If you are constipated, you can reach for a bottle of laxative to either smoothly or explosively get things moving, depending on the strength level of the medication you’ve imbibed. ...
Americans Got Fatter Overnight Thanks to the New Definition of Obesity
A massive coalition of health organizations run by some of the brightest minds in the American medical world conspired recently to define you and me and so many millions of ...
5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Compliment Your Friend’s Weight Loss
“You look amazing! Have you lost weight?” sounds like kindness when making small talk. It’s meant to flatter, to say you noticed. But compliments like this can hit harder than ...
