Science

Having bad dreams can be scary enough, but now there is news that should make all of us a little bit more anxious after we wake up from nightmares. A study in the journal eClinical Medicine from researchers at the University of Birmingham shows that older men who have a lot of bad dreams or...

By the title of this article alone, you might think that this woman is being a little bit harsh… But, as we do with all articles on Reddit’s “Am I the A**hole?” page, you have to get all the information before you can make up your mind about each individual story. So check this one...

If you’re a person of a certain age, you’ve probably realized by now that there are more than a few “facts” we learned in school that are now outdated. The order of the planets hasn’t changed (I’m pretty sure), though, so how could we be wrong in guessing that Venus is Earth’s closest neighbor? Well,...

They say you’re only as young as you feel, but I’m not sure that after a certain age that necessarily applies. People are looking younger for longer, they’re staying fit well past middle age, but if you ask most older folks when they started to feel old, I bet they would say “around 70.” Now scientists...

I think that most of us want to believe there’s life out there in the universe. It’s so vast, after all, that thinking we might be the only ones seems a bit lonely, don’t you think? That said, I don’t think this image – snapped by cosmonaut Sergey Korsakov – is going to end up...

I’m not gonna lie, I’ve often wondered what astronauts eat when they’re in outer space…and I’ve wondered about how they do some other things up there, too… But back to the food…it’s not like they can order DoorDash in outer space…yet… Well, I got one of my questions answered in a roundabout way because of...

It’s that time of year again filled with hot summer nights, backyard barbecues, and lots and lots of fireflies lighting up the night skies around us. But what are those little guys, exactly…? Today we’ll get our firefly questions answered with these 5 facts! 1. Say what? Believe it or not, fireflies are not actually...

Things are getting pretty scary out there when it comes to climate change, don’t you think? And now we have more alarming news when it comes to the state of the planet from a study in the journal Nature Climate Change. According to the study, researchers from the University of Leeds in the UK and...