‘Relationship Hitmen’: Your Mom Has a Talent for Subtly Killing Friendships She Doesn’t Like, Scientists Say

Moms seem to have a sixth sense about your friends. They’re good at sniffing out the bad influences from the genuinely chill hangs long before you figure it out yourself. According to a new study published in Child Development by researchers from Florida Atlantic University and Mykolas Romeris University, when moms disapprove of one of […]

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Scientists Discovered a New Tiny Blue Octopus That’s So Cute You’ll Want to Squish It Into Oblivion

There’s a term you need to familiarize yourself with before continuing this article about a newly discovered animal near the Galapagos Islands: “cute aggression.” As defined by Wikipedia, it’s the “the urge to squeeze, bite, or otherwise act aggressively toward things perceived as being cute without the desire to cause any harm.” The image example on the […]

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Weird News, Dads: Your Brain Physically Changes When You Become a Father

Obviously, women who give birth undergo some pretty extreme changes, both physically, hormonally, and mentally, during and after childbirth. Entire organs shift around, hormones go bonkers, and the brain itself restructures in preparation for parenthood. But dads aren’t just chilling in the hospital parking lot enjoying a fine cigar. According to new research from RWTH […]

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Scientists Just Discovered Half-a-Billion-Year-Old Evidence of Animals Having Sex

You must’ve been having some great sex in your life if scientists can still find fossilized evidence of it more than half a billion years later. That’s exactly what happened after researchers studying ancient fossils in Canada’s Northwest Territories uncovered the oldest known evidence of animals reproducing sexually, pushing the origins of animal sex back […]

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Sleeping Too Much Might Be Bad for You Now, Because Apparently Nothing Is Safe

Science has all but confirmed at this point that getting too little sleep will eventually damage your brain in the long term. Years of poor sleep have been linked to everything from memory decline to Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. So naturally, the obvious solution would seem to be to go hard in the opposite direction […]

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