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Photo: ChrisHepburn / Getty Images Jellyfish Sleep Kind of Like Humans. Here’s What That Tells Us
Interesting, because they don’t have brains, or spinal cords, or even an anus like us.
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Photo: iLexx / Getty Images Scientists Kept an Inner Ear Alive Outside the Body—But Why?
A bunch of gerbils are now deaf in the hopes that deaf humans will one day hear.
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Photo: VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images Will Astronauts One Day Be Sent to Space to Mine Asteroids?
These boys may make great astronauts, but they don’t know jack about drilling.
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Photo: Tero Vesalainen / Getty Images Would You Work Harder If You Were Barefoot? These Companies Hope So.
We’re at work having a silly goofy time!
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Photo: Ildar Abulkhanov / Getty Images Is Hope Impossible? This Philosopher Might Change Your Mind.
The problem isn’t hope itself; it’s that some philosophers have been playing by rules that give hope a weird definition.
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Paul Campbell/Getty Images 9 Ways Space Can Kill You
Here are nine very specific, very horrifying ways space can kill you that we pulled straight from NASA’s risk pages and reports.
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Photo: OllyKava / Getty Images The PMS Personality Shift: Why You Become a Different Person for a Week
The monthly change can go way beyond “cranky and bloated.”
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Photo: Dima Berlin / Getty Images The Friendship Hangover: Why Some Hangouts Leave You Physically Wrecked
Your body keeps a running tab on stimulation, sleep, stress, and effort. Sometimes the bill comes due the next morning.
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Photo: Sharamand / Getty Images Are Aliens Communicating in Space Like Fireflies?
Maybe the aliens are talking, we’re just looking right past it.
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Kai Schwabe/Getty Images 5 BookTok Books That Are Actually Worth the Hype
When it comes to the wild world of BookTok, it’s pretty much a hit or miss—but I certainly have my personal favorites.
