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Is Going Commando Bad for Your Health?
Is going commando, a.k.a. living your life with your balls out, good or bad for your health? We finally have some answers.
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Tuul & Bruno Morandi/Getty Images How Bird Poop Helped Make Ancient Peru a Superpower
Researchers have long suspected that bird droppings may have helped nations like Peru dominate their regions in ancient times.
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Nazarii Neshcherenskyi/Getty Images Did Volcanoes on Mars Erupt During the Last Days of the Dinosaurs?
While Earth was still in its dinosaur era and edging into mammal history, Mars still had volcanic activity in the Tharsis region.
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Anastassiya Bezhekeneva/Getty Images Brazil Passed a New Law Inspired by a Dog’s 10-Year Grave Vigil. Here’s What It Does.
In the southeastern state of São Paulo, a hyper-loyal dog has helped rewrite local laws.
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Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák This Comet Suddenly Started Spinning Backward Near the Sun, and Scientists Don’t Know Why
As Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák barreled toward the sun, it appeared to have stopped entirely… and then it flipped.
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Image credit: Trung Chenh Everything We Know About the Giant Fireball That Just Lit Up the Midwest Sky
If you were in the Midwest late Tuesday night and saw a bright streak tear across the sky, your eyes were working just fine.
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Flavio Coelho/Getty Images How Scientists Hacked People’s Dreams to Help Them Solve Real-Life Puzzles
A new study in Neuroscience of Consciousness tested whether researchers could steer dream content during REM sleep using audio cues.
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Space Frontier/Stringer/Getty Images Did NASA Find Life on Mars 50 Years Ago and Accidentally Kill It?
Back in 1976, NASA’s Viking Landers looked for life on Mars and came up empty. Today, a group of scientists thinks we accidentally killed it.



