Do you taste something bitter when you hear the right word? Maybe you see a flash of a certain color instead. If so, you might have synesthesia. But it turns out, we're ALL capable of ha ...

(via Veritasium) LSD-fiend, surfer, maverick — Kary Mullis might be the weirdest person ever to win the Nobel Prize.

A recent investigation of human remains found in the UK’s Cheddar Gorge has once again brought a particularly unsavory aspect ...

Humans may think we have the market cornered on bizarre sexual acts, but the animal kingdom has come up with some mating rituals that put us to shame.

Google, Salesforce, H&M and other brands have turned to unlikely allies to help them clean up their carbon pollution: sewage treatment plants and paper mills. The companies joined an $80 million plan ...

What does a baby know about right and wrong? A foundational finding in moral psychology suggested that even infants have a moral sense, preferring “helpers” over “hinderers” before uttering their ...

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We finally know how a fault that gave rise to Denali, North America's highest mountain, first formed. According to new research, the Denali Fault is actually an ancient suture mark where two land ...

Antibiotic-like remedies date back millennia, with records of moldy bread and medicinal soil being used to treat wounds in ancient Egypt, Greece, and China. We now know they are likely to have ...

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Today's approach to parenting makes children less resilient, psychologist Line Marie Warholm reports in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. She has written an entire book on the topic. Parents ...