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

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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

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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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These 3 Habits Will Get You Labeled ‘Antisocial’, But They’re Actually Signs of Intelligence

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There’s a person at every party who always does the Irish goodbye, never follows through on “we should grab drinks,” and has never lingered at a water cooler in their life. Most people call this antisocial. Psychology has been building a pretty different case. A growing body of research suggests that several behaviors routinely labeled […]

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

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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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The Surprisingly Powerful Benefits of Adding a Little Whimsy to Your Life, According to Science

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If you’re chronically online like the rest of us, you’ve likely heard of the “whimsy” trend. Essentially, more people are adding whimsical elements—think: flowy skirts, candlelit dinners, evening walks at sunset—to their homes and lives in an attempt to cultivate greater comfort and peace. In today’s world, I think we’re all a little desperate for […]

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

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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

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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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The ‘Chalance’ Dating Trend Is Going Viral for Calling Out the Death of Effort in Modern Romance

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We’ve all been there: falling head over heels for a person who seems interested enough, but can’t be bothered to put in any actual effort. Unfortunately, this is a common pattern in modern dating. It seems there are more nonchalant partners than there are ones who genuinely care enough to express it. Whatever happened to […]

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Researchers Found a Weirdly Effective Way People Bond Faster, and It’s Not Through Shared Interests

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If your favorite part of any social event is the debrief afterward—finding a corner with your best friend to talk sh*t about everything everyone said or did—science has some validating news for you. Research has found that bonding over a shared dislike of a person or topic generates a stronger sense of connection and trust […]

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The 4 Phrases That Can Quietly Destroy a Relationship Over Time, According to an Expert

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Most relationships don’t collapse all at once. They die by a thousand small cuts—the phrases that get normalized over months and years until trust has quietly bled out. The words that do the most damage aren’t the big, ugly ones. They’re the ones that sound almost harmless. The ones thrown out without giving a second […]

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‘Can’t Believe That I’m Sitting Here’: Paraglider Nearly Falls to Her Death After Plane Hits Her in Wild Video

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A nausea-inducing video captured a small plane colliding with a paraglider over the Austrian Alps, nearly ripping her out of the sky. The video, posted to Instagram by Sabrina, username @sab-thi, begins with the paraglider enjoying a clear, beautiful Saturday soaring over the Piesendorf area of Salzburg. According to Salzburg State Police, the pilot of […]

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