Stress Can Physically Change the Color of Your Hair – It Works Like This
Image credits: Pexels Most people have heard someone joke that their kids, their boss, or a particularly awful year turned ...
Your Reflex That Most People Don't Realize They're Using
Your body is running quiet programs in the background every moment of the day. You don’t sign off on them. ...
Why Some Astronomers Think We're Measuring the Universe's Age Wrong
Image credits: Unsplash The universe is generally accepted to be about 13.8 billion years old. That figure sits at the ...
Why Some Scars Never Tan the Same Way Twice, Even Years Later
Image credits: Unsplash Pull up your sleeve on a sunny day and you might notice something peculiar. The rest of ...
Some Physicists Think Gravity Might Not Work the Same Everywhere
Gravity is the force we trust most. It keeps us on the ground, holds the Moon in orbit, and shapes ...
Scientists Tried to Teach an AI to Lie. It Got Disturbingly Good at It.
Image credits: Unsplash There’s a certain assumption baked into how most people think about AI: that it does what it’s ...
The "Fawn Response" Psychologists Say Is a Lesser-Known Trauma Reaction
Image credits: Pixabay Most people have heard of fight, flight, and freeze. Those three responses have made their way into ...
The Real Reason Octopuses Can Change Both Color and Texture in an Instant
Image credits: Flickr Few animals stop scientists in their tracks quite like the octopus. Not because it has three hearts ...
Why Brain Freeze Has Nothing to Do With Your Brain Actually Getting Cold
Image credits: Pexels Few sensations are as instantly recognizable as brain freeze. You take a big gulp of a slushy ...
The Reason Cicadas in Some Species Only Emerge Once Every 17 Years
Image credits: Pixabay Few events in the natural world feel quite as surreal as the sudden emergence of billions of ...