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A person with a beard and reddish hair sits in bed, illuminated by the glow of a laptop on their lap. They are looking at the screen and hold a slice of pizza in their right hand, about to take a bite. The room is dimly lit, suggesting it's nighttime.
Nutrition

Does eating late at night really cause weight gain? A nutritionist explains.

The answer depends on what—and when—you’re eating.

Grilled sirloin steak
Diseases

A red meat allergy from tick bites is spreading

The lone star tick isn’t the only alpha-gal carrier to worry about.

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Evolution

Apple snails can regrow their eyeballs

Even without this genetic superpower, human eyes and genes are very similar.

Robot fiddler crab waving claw at actual male fiddler crab on beach
Wildlife

‘Wavy Dave’ is a beefy-armed robot crab on a mating mission

‘The females realized he was a bit odd, and some of the males tried to fight him.’

Australian major skink
Wildlife

Australian lizard mutated to resist snake venom

Skinks and honey badgers 'hit the same molecular bullseye.' Toxicologists are taking note.

waves crash by a giant lighthouse
Physics

Enormous rogue waves don’t come out of nowhere

We finally know the forces behind an 80-foot-tall wall of water that rocked the North Sea in 1995.

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Home

Clean your air and derrière with Coway purifiers and bidets up to 27% off at Amazon

Time to stop marinating in murk and time to start breathing better. For less.

Bow of the USS Preston shipwreck sunk in WWII
Navy

13 World War II shipwrecks captured in stunning detail

From the towering 440-foot-long Japanese destroyer Teruzuki to the shattered bow of the USS New Orleans.

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Endangered Species

How to stop rhino poaching: make their horns radioactive

Researchers suggest the experimental technique makes the animals less desirable, and traceable by detectors.

A woman sitting up in bed at night, looking frustrated and rubbing her neck while a man next to her sleeps with his mouth open. A warm lamp hangs on the wall behind them. The woman appears disturbed by the man's snoring or sleep talking.
Psychology

Why do we talk in our sleep? ‘It’s a glitch.’

From bizarre food rants to midnight cursing fits, sleep talk reveals the strange ways our brains short-circuit while we rest.

Single light in a residential apartment
Environment

If everyone in the world turned on the lights at the same time, what would happen?

A big spike in lighting would dramatically increase sky glow.

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Land

Remote Norwegian cave is an ice age animal jackpot

Humans only discovered Arne Ovamgrotta in 1991, but it was a haven for at least 46 species over 75,000 years ago.

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Robots

Researchers have developed a really clunky version of Rosey from ‘The Jetsons’

The future is here, and it’s...eh.

Black tarantula with pixelated rectangle over back thorax
Spiders

These tarantulas’ genitals are so long, it required a new genus

‘Satyrex’ combines a well-endowed Greek mythological character with the Latin for ‘king.’

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Earbuds

Flex color while you flex your muscles with AceFit open-air earbuds for 26% off at Amazon

If you want ultra‑light, open‑ear comfort and a bold aesthetic plus sweat-resistance for athletics, the AceFit Pro offers futuristic flair and a solid, time‑limited bargain.

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Dinosaurs

Paleontologists discover ‘unusual’ long-necked plesiosaur in Germany

Nearly half of Plesionectes longicollum was just its head and neck.

a brown, white, and black guinea pig sits in a cage
Pets

Zoo calls for small pet donations to feed its carnivores

Denmark’s Aalborg Zoo says it is trying to mimic the natural food chain.

a hammerhead shark swimming in blue water
Ocean

Hammerhead sharks eat other sharks—and it’s worth the risk

Apparently, sharks are food, not friends.

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Tech Hacks

How to properly (and safely) clean your laptop

It's a job that's more important than you might think—so don't put it off.

woman gives her dog a good spa massage while she lies down on the master's bed
Psychology

Dogs are helping people regulate stress even more than expected, research shows

Dog owners have been shown to have a 24% lower risk of death.