Science

Since people’s names and faces flow right in one side of my brain and out the other, I don’t think I’m a “super-recognizer” of faces (or anything else), but according to scientists who study this phenomenon, around 1% of the population can honestly say that they never forget a face. In 2009, a team of...

Family drama alert…and this one is kind of heartbreaking if you ask me. A person asked readers on the “Am I the *sshole?” page on Reddit if they were wrong for being very direct (and maybe cruel) when dealing with their autistic brother. Read on to see what happened… AITA for telling my autistic brother...

I have strong feelings about this topic and I’m gonna lay it out there for you. When I was young, I absolutely LOVED the cold weather and the snow. I couldn’t wait for November to roll around and January and February were total bliss to me. And I lived in cold places (Illinois and Kansas)....

I don’t know about you, but the gym is one of those love/hate things for me. Yes, I know that being healthy is good for me, and I would like to be around for a long time so that I can see my kids grow up etc etc. But the actual, you know, working out?...

For some people, getting out of bed in the morning is one of the best parts of their day. For the rest of us, it’s snooze buttons and dragging to the coffeepot while we try to clear our bleary eyes and muddled brains, to get them ready for a new day. Whichever kind of person...

The race to find cleaner, more accessible, and less damaging forms of energy has been accelerating in recent years, and now China has taken a giant step forward as far as their nuclear power research capabilities. They’ve been developing the HL-2M Tokamak reactor, the country’s largest and most advanced nuclear fusion experimental research device, and...

There are surely plenty of medical conditions in the world that are more serious and life threatening than tinnitus, which causes a constant, high-pitched ringing in the ears, but I imagine there aren’t that many that would be more consistently annoying. It affects millions of people around the world – maybe as many as 1...

Climate change is catching up with us. Though scientists have warned for decades that human activity is taking a toll on our blue planet, we’re now starting to see the more palpable effects come to fruition. According to NASA, 2020 tied for the warmest year on record. This year’s counterpart? 2016. The two warmest years...