Science

The restaurant industry sure has changed since the invention of online reviews like Yelp, don’t you think? Back in the day, you had to rely on word of mouth and recommendations from people if you wanted to try a new place. But the whole game has changed and now anyone can get online and write...

We all know by now that skin cancer is a real threat to our health and well-being; we all realize that those days of lying out in the sun for hours to get that perfect, sun-kissed tan are over. That said, choosing a sunscreen and applying that sunscreen seem to still be presenting some challenges. These...

Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody has those days. But not all mistakes are made equal, especially when you’re talking about the space industry. In a major faux pas, this Israeli lunar spilled tardigrades on the Moon after crash landing on the surface. While it’s definitely a plus that no human lives were lost, a crashed lander...

If you tend to be a hypochondriac, these answers might freak you out a little bit…I thought I should probably throw that out there. Are you ready to learn way more about diseases than you ever wanted to? Doctors shared stories on AskReddit about the rarest diseases they’ve encountered. Take a look. 1. Wow. “Rare...

It’s no secret that environmentalists and politicians and scientists and even regular citizens are constantly on the hunt for new and innovative ways to be more efficient and help the environment in its time of great need. We know that solar panels are the energy source of the future (or really of the now), but...

The thing about rare medical conditions is that sometimes, doctors don’t diagnose them because they’re not actually looking for what you’ve got. Which has to be extremely frustrating in some situations – and totally shocking in others. I would guess that Brittany Jacobs felt both of those emotions after discovering during childbirth that she has two...

Listen, if you’re not someone who is interested in physics, or who could name the sorts of physics we’ve currently agreed exist, this article is not for you – but I’m assuming if that’s the case, you didn’t click on it. So welcome, physics nerds. When the Large Hadron Collider lit up ten years ago,...

Pretty much everyone struggles with mental health at one point or another. It’s easy to think that certain issues, like depression, only affect women and not men, or only affect white people and not people of color, but that just isn’t true. There’s more that unites us than divides us, and mental health is one...