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It’s not a good idea to just let your kids get chickenpox
Vaccines

It’s not a good idea to just let your kids get chickenpox

The disease can have serious complications.

How to keep raccoons and possums away from your house
Animals

How to keep raccoons and possums away from your house

Fuzzy pests don’t belong in your trash.

Southern California’s mountain lions might soon go extinct
Endangered Species

Southern California’s mountain lions might soon go extinct

It's also a warning for the many other isolated populations of big cats across the state

These blades can cut nearly anything
Weapons

These blades can cut nearly anything

The sharpest knives, scissors, and razors.

Psychosis is the last marijuana side effect you should be worried about
Mental Health

Psychosis is the last marijuana side effect you should be worried about

It’s far from reefer madness.

Riding Zero’s SR electric motorcycle
Electric Vehicles

Riding Zero’s SR electric motorcycle

Arm-stretching acceleration, and no need to shift.

Tree rings contain secrets from the forest
Climate Change

Tree rings contain secrets from the forest

These wooden cores could help us better understand climate change.

Hate the gym? Grow a garden instead.
Fitness & Exercise

Hate the gym? Grow a garden instead.

Even small amounts of light physical activity help reduce your mortality risk.

How fear affects your body
Health

How fear affects your body

Fright in the flesh.

Why public health officials have only ever eradicated one disease
Vaccines

Why public health officials have only ever eradicated one disease

'Eliminated' diseases can return. Eradicating one for good is a near impossible public health undertaking.

The weirdest things we learned this week: animals used to stand trial and apples kept doctors from killing you
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The weirdest things we learned this week: animals used to stand trial and apples kept doctors from killing you

Our editors scrounged up some truly bizarre facts.

Healthy food prescriptions could save billions in healthcare costs
Diabetes

Healthy food prescriptions could save billions in healthcare costs

A new study shows subsidized fruits and vegetables could also prevent millions of cases of cardiovascular disease.

You don’t need to drink alcohol for it to harm you
Health

You don’t need to drink alcohol for it to harm you

Quantifying how alcohol hurts non-drinkers is difficult, but a new paper shows the way.

Unscrambling the health effects of eggs
Food Safety

Unscrambling the health effects of eggs

Are eggs good or bad for you? Here's what the latest research means.

Royal Society of London England Isaac Newton Charles II king science
Science

There’s a reason England was able to harness geniuses like Isaac Newton

Excerpt: Loonshots

Trek’s new bike helmet mimics your brain’s protective fluid
Physics

Trek’s new bike helmet mimics your brain’s protective fluid

A better understanding of how concussions happen has led to more innovative helmet designs.

Adapting to melting ice trails isn’t easy, even for Arctic locals
Climate Change

Adapting to melting ice trails isn’t easy, even for Arctic locals

Climate scientists wanted to understand how their lives are changing.

A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with the energy of 10 atomic bombs
NASA

A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with the energy of 10 atomic bombs

And we never saw it coming.

The midwest is in the midst of record-breaking, deadly floods
Weather

The midwest is in the midst of record-breaking, deadly floods

It's the perfect storm.

igloo
Science

Want to build an igloo? Here’s how.

With help from an ice architect