You’re Running on Autopilot Way More Often Than You Think
Think about what you did this morning. You woke up, brushed your teeth, made coffee, maybe scrolled your phone, maybe drove the same route to work that you do every ...
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Only 10% of Earthquake Energy Shakes the Ground. Here’s What the Rest Does.
In an MIT lab, a team of geophysicists created “lab quakes,” a series of miniature, controlled versions of real earthquakes to see where all that destructive energy actually goes and ...
What Your Breakfast Habits Say About Your Lifespan
A massive 34-year-long study just provided us with some insight into a minute detail about elderly life that could foreshadow an early demise, and it all has to do with ...
Has Human Life Expectancy Already Peaked?
For most of the 20th century, human life expectancy skyrocketed. Advancements in hygiene science, a wide variety of medical innovations and discoveries, and, frankly, not living in the wilderness where ...
Are Marathon Runners More Likely to Get Cancer?
We’re used to thinking of long-distance runners as the embodiment of health: lean warriors soaking head to toe in endorphins as they run 100-mile trails for fun, their heart rates ...
Is Your Dog Judging You? Science Has an Answer.
It’s a comforting thought. Your dog doesn’t bark at bad people because they’re loud or wear hats—they bark because they know. They can sense a bad person. They’ve got a ...
Scientists Used Gene Editing to Make Baby Mice From Two Males
Since the dawn of humanity, biology has followed a strict and elegant rule: you need chromosomes from mom and some from dad if you want to make a kid. But ...
Axolotls Can Regenerate Limbs, and Scientists Are Finally Learning How
The Axolotl looks like a Pokémon (and in fact has several clearly designed in its image). It’s almost too cute to be able to also do something as astounding as ...
A Cat Poop Parasite Might Be Decapitating Your Sperm
The worry isn’t just that global birth rates are plummeting, it’s that fertility rates are plummeting along with them. Especially male fertility rates. Sperm counts and quality have been on ...
Sitting Is Quietly Killing Your Brain, Even If You Exercise
You might think your daily workout gives you a free pass to lounge around because you’re safe from the cataclysmic effects that sitting all day has on your body and ...
