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Scientists have found parasites that 'drive' fish from inside their eyeballs
Well, this is just horrible.Scientists have discovered parasites can drive fish from inside their eyeballs – to their own death.In fact, the parasites, eye fluke Diplostomum pseudospathaceum, control...
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Human beings can't smell themselves, even when they stink — here's why
Shannon D. asks: How come people who smell really bad can never seem to smell their own stench?Have you ever sat next to a person who lost their sense of smell? Or, at least, you assume so as the...
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These are the worst stings in the world, according to a guy who's experienced...
Early in his career, Justin Schmidt realized he had a problem. There was no scale that measured the pain of insect stings.Schmidt, a budding entomologist, had just returned to the University of Georgia...
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This revolting video of a spurting clam is going viral
In an article adroitly headlined "F*cked Up Video of a Clam," Kelly Faircloth of Jezebel introduced the Twitterverse to an unnerving video of a geoduck wriggling its way into a mound of sand.The video,...
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3 scientific reasons why you shouldn't wake up at 5am every day
I recently came across an article by a fellow Inc. contributor that claimed waking up at 5 AM increases productivity. It sounds like solid advice. After all, Benjamin Franklin said, "Early to bed,...
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Here's how often Americans really die from shark attacks
Imagine being one of the paddle-boarders shown in a video released May 10 by the Orange County Sheriff's Department.It's a clear, sunny day as you plod along on the water, when suddenly a police...
View ArticleHere's what narwhals' mysterious tusks are used for
Narwhals are an endangered species, with most of them residing in remote areas of Canada. Not much is known about the species of whale but new drone footage reveals at least one purpose for their...
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The 200,000-year history of how bedbugs infested our minds and homes
Recently, I spent a nasty several days cleaning out an apartment infested with bedbugs.The bedbugs landed in my partner's former apartment (which she shared with her cousin) just weeks before she was...
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A treasure trove of sabre-tooth tiger and dire wolf bones show how...
In the late Pleistocene period, approximately 11,500 years ago, the area near what's now downtown Los Angeles was a dangerous place.Dire wolves — not a "Game of Thrones" invention, but now-extinct...
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Scientists grew a working 'prosthetic ovary' for a mouse — and it could be a...
It's common for children who go through radiation or chemotherapy to end up with damaged ovaries, incapable of supporting a healthy hormone balance or functional reproductive system. If you want to fix...
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Scientists just figured out how much crushing force a T. rex could deliver...
The strongest bite force on Earth today belongs to the biggest reptile on the planet. The massive saltwater crocodile — which grows to 17 feet and can weigh more than ton — that lives on the coasts of...
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Why people kiss
This post from Natalie Engelbrecht, psychotherapist, naturopathic doctor, and researcher, originally appeared on Quora as an answer to the question, "Why do we kiss?" The scientific study of kissing is...
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Larval fish are the freakiest baby animals on the planet
Fish are weird, beautiful, alien things.They move through Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, displaying an astonishing range of colorations, forms, and lifestyles.They also share some striking...
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Here's how flamingos balance on one skinny leg
A question flamingo researchers get asked all the time — why the birds stand on one leg — may need rethinking. The bigger puzzle may be why flamingos bother standing on two.Balance aids built into the...
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Why you wake up with a crick in your neck — and how to avoid it
If you've never woken up unable to turn your head without pain, those of us with an intimate understanding of the term "crick in the neck" are extremely jealous.But why does that neck tweak happen? Why...
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300,000-year-old skulls that look shockingly like ours could rewrite the...
Precisely when and where did our species emerge? Anthropologists have struggled with that question for decades, and scattered clues had suggested the answer lay somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa about...
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How to figure out how much sleep you really need
In theory, sleep takes up about 8 out of every 24 hours, one-third of our lives. But many of us don't actually sleep that much and are tired all the time — more than a third of Americans don't get the...
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Scientists have found a baby bird trapped in 100-million-year-old amber
Scientists have uncovered an incredible specimen in Myanmar that has given us a glimpse of life from 100 million years ago — a piece of amber containing the remarkably preserved remains of an ancient...
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These mysterious black pods at the beach hide amazing sea creatures — here's...
Black pods with tendrils that wash up on beaches are not kelp — they're typically the egg cases of fish called skates.Some of these egg cases contain live embryos.Holding a light up to a fresh,...
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Scientists filmed DNA replication for the first time, and the results could...
Here's proof of how far we've come in science - in a world-first, researchers have recorded up-close footage of a single DNA molecule replicating itself, and it's raising questions about how we assumed...
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