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Photo: Maskot / Getty Images This Is the Exact Age Being Single Starts to Tank Your Mental Health
Being lonely lowers your overall well-being. The longer you stay lonely, the worse your well-being becomes.
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Photo: thethomsn / Getty Images Plants Can Talk to Each Other When They Touch, and It Makes Them Stronger
Loner plants don’t fare as well, which is probably a good takeaway for us humans.
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Photo: Ирина Мещерякова / Getty Images Your Dog’s Poop Has an Unexpected Effect on the Insects That Eat It
Maybe your dog’s meds are doing too good a job?
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Photo: urbazon / Getty Images Be Careful Around Your Friends (and Your Phone), Stress Is Contagious
Researchers call it emotional contagion.
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Photo: milorad kravic / Getty Images Your Dog Might Be Learning New Words Just by Overhearing Your Conversations
If you think your dog can understand you, you’re probably right.
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The mummified hand of the Siberian Ice Maiden, a suspected high-ranking shaman. Not the mummy in question. Photo: Charles O'Rear / Getty Images Ancient Siberian Mummy Was an Inbred Shaman, DNA Reveals
This burial wasn’t modest. It announced her importance.
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Photo: Olena Malik / Getty Images Just Turned 30? Time Is About to Speed Up, Here’s Why.
Brain-wise, time doesn’t live in a single control room.
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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: Sharamand / Getty Images Are Aliens Communicating in Space Like Fireflies?
Maybe the aliens are talking, we’re just looking right past it.
