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This common toothpaste ingredient could be wreaking havoc on your gut
Health

This common toothpaste ingredient could be wreaking havoc on your gut

Triclosan is everywhere, but its days seem to be numbered.

What’s hiding in the outer solar system?
Solar System

What’s hiding in the outer solar system?

Is there a planet—or even planets—waiting to be discovered out there?

Spiders are secretly great roommates
Spiders

Spiders are secretly great roommates

So please stop killing them

Carbon emissions are sucking the nutrition out of our food
Nutrition

Carbon emissions are sucking the nutrition out of our food

As CO2 rises, the nutrient content of many plants goes down.

Exploring the complicated link between volcanoes and religion
Environment

Exploring the complicated link between volcanoes and religion

Did an eruption turn Icelandic vikings into Christians?

You could be eating a side of e-waste with your takeout
Health

You could be eating a side of e-waste with your takeout

For once, recycling isn't the best idea.

Burial is becoming the most boring thing to do with your dead body
Technology

Burial is becoming the most boring thing to do with your dead body

Death is more personal(ized) than ever.

sleep bed feet
Health

These are the actual side effects of Ambien

Sleep isn't technically one of them.

There are only 13 actual vitamins, and you’ll die without them
Nutrition

There are only 13 actual vitamins, and you’ll die without them

But do you need supplements?

Pro basketball players’ synchronous movements might help us predict the next NBA champ
Psychology

Pro basketball players’ synchronous movements might help us predict the next NBA champ

On court body positioning is far from accidental.

Scientists just discovered 125 million-year-old dinosaur dandruff
Dinosaurs

Scientists just discovered 125 million-year-old dinosaur dandruff

Dinos got dandruff, too.

Here’s what kind of data genetics testing companies can share
Security

Here’s what kind of data genetics testing companies can share

And how to delete your account if you want.

The EPA has a new plan that’s good for business and bad for bodies
Pollution

The EPA has a new plan that’s good for business and bad for bodies

Faster isn’t always better.

Stop popping your pimples
Health

Stop popping your pimples

Dermatologists warn against it, even if it’s super duper satisfying.

Versions of Han Solo’s blaster already exist
Science Fiction

Versions of Han Solo’s blaster already exist

And they’re way more powerful than real lightsabers would be.

Lab-grown meat might not be the answer to our protein problem
Environment

Lab-grown meat might not be the answer to our protein problem

It’ll be more efficient than the real thing, but that’s not saying much.

New science books to read this weekend
Science

New science books to read this weekend

Disasters, kindness, oceans and more.

Planet
Pluto

Pluto may be made up of a billion comets

But we won't know until we get there.

Artificial intelligence can take your bad whistling and make it sound like Mozart
AI

Artificial intelligence can take your bad whistling and make it sound like Mozart

Facebook researchers used AI to create a universal music translator.

Lava is creating more Hawai’i. It’s also forming corrosive acid mist.
Environment

Lava is creating more Hawai’i. It’s also forming corrosive acid mist.

What happens when lava from the Kilauea eruption enters the ocean.