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How You Instagram Can Reveal Whether or Not You’re Depressed, Study Says

Mentally healthy people love Valencia, apparently.

Insomniacs Are Swearing By This "Sleepy" Body Lotion

Lush's body lotion is popular, but can it really help you catch some z's?

6 Little-Known Facts About Ceres

Did you know Ceres may be the key to mining on the asteroid belt?

New Study Shows It's Surprisingly Easy to Make People Have Auditory Hallucinations

But people who report regularly hearing voices are even more susceptible to suggestion.

Balloon Cams Will Offer Unparalleled Views of the Total Solar Eclipse

"From the air, you can see it coming and going. I think that perspective is really profound."

Jim Forest, Flickr Creative Commons // CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Scientists Devise Clever Way to Test Old Manuscripts’ DNA

Barred from taking parchment samples, researchers resorted to analyzing the crumbs left behind after archivists cleaned the paper.

13 Facts About the Sciatic Nerve

At its largest point, the sciatic nerve is about as big around as a man's thumb—plenty big enough to be an important part of the nervous system.

Scientists Fold Organ-based 'Tissue Paper' Into Origami

Surgeons may be able to use the flexible organic material to patch wounds and regrow damaged hearts.

Having Kids Leads to More Fights With Your In-Laws, Study Finds

The researchers call this the "kinship penalty." In other words, the closer you are, the more you fight.

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Sign Up for Free Livestreams from Space Telescopes Just in Time for the Solar Eclipse

Members willing to pay extra will have the power to control telescopes around the world.

Thinking of Disinfecting Your Sponge? It’ll Do More Harm Than Good

Research has found that when you stick your sponge in the microwave, you're only giving its worst bacteria a leg up.

5 Times Kids Corrected Museums

Museums are bastions of knowledge, but they're occasionally no match for eagle-eyed kids. Here are five times that kids corrected their mistakes.

Oblique cuts in the bottom third of the legs of a medieval skeleton found in Portugal.

Archaeologists Make Rare, Gruesome Find in Portugal

A team recently excavated three graves located at the edge of a medieval cemetery.

8 Amazing Things Uncovered by Melting Glaciers and Ice

Global warming has revealed some fascinating bodies, objects, and landscapes, as well as a few deadly pathogens.

This Interactive Periodic Table Features a Haiku for Each Element

Chemistry makes for some great poetic inspiration.

6 Memorable Letters From Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong, who would have turned 87 years old today, is remembered as both a "reluctant American hero" and "the spiritual repository of spacefaring dreams and ambitions."

All That Meat in Pet Food Has a Big Environmental Impact

If Americans' 163 million dogs and cats constituted their own country, they'd rank fifth in global meat consumption.

How Do Solar Panels Work?

They power everything from off-grid rural facilities to your neighbor's home. Here's how they do it.

Scientists Remove Disease-Causing Mutations from Human Embryos

Researchers used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to successfully repair mutations that could otherwise lead to a deadly heart condition.

PiccoloNamek, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0

How Just One Nasty Winter Forced This Lizard to Evolve

"Selection always comes at a cost, which is death, basically."

Archaeologists Uncover 'Little Pompeii' Buried Beneath Ash in France

A whole neighborhood has been preserved in a pristine state for nearly 2000 years.

Courtesy of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Canada

The Exquisitely Preserved ‘Mona Lisa of Dinosaurs’ Has Been Named

The name Borealopelta markmitchelli honors the man who spent more than five years revealing, bit by bit, the amazing creature encased in stone.

Mesobuthus martensii, also known as the Chinese golden scorpion.

Scorpions Use Acid and Protons to Make Their Stings More Painful

Scorpions in the Buthidae family make more than 100 different toxins, most of which we still don't understand.

Debasish Ghosh, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Heat Waves Could Make South Asia Unlivable by 2100

Scientists say that unless we do something, increasing greenhouse gas emissions could push temperatures past the "upper limit on human survivability."

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