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An Opened Prescription Medicine Bottle Among Many Other Sealed Bottles on Yellow Background High Angle View.
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How prescription drugs get their names

By Julia Craven

Once considered vestigial, the appendix may play an essential role in gut health.
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Which body parts do humans not need?

By Julia Craven

old man looking at sea
Health

What’s the maximum human life expectancy?

By Julia Craven

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How does science explain déjà vu? It’s a brain glitch with a purpose.

By Julia Craven

the sound of your own voice
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Why do people hate the sound of their own voice?

By Julia Craven

How pilots end up in a ‘death spiral’
Aviation

How pilots end up in a ‘death spiral’

By Julia Craven

A purple hand reaching to touch a green tongue of an orange person with their mouth open frowning because they're tasting something digsuting
Biology

Why food tastes wildly different to different people

By Julia Craven

A young child hiding behind a stack of pancakes with syrup and fruit on a background of old polaroids
Biology

Why childhood memories of smells are so powerful and emotional

By Julia Craven

Beech mushrooms growing on a substrate against a gold background
Agriculture

How to use the power of mushrooms to improve your life

By Julia Craven

Light reflecting sky into sand as water
Science

The secret to mirages has surprisingly little to do with your brain

By Julia Craven

Colorful fans with depictions of various sounds within them
Health

Why our brains hear words and songs in random noise

By Julia Craven

A colorful moon with craters.
Science

Why it’s hard to tell if moon craters are holes or bumps

By Julia Craven

illustration of person at computer with devil horns and cloven hooves
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Does playing devil’s advocate do more harm than good?

By Julia Craven

Woman vomiting a pastel rainbow upwards on a pink background
Biology

Why you want to barf when you see something gross

By Julia Craven

A surfer with black skin and long brown dreads and a surfer with white skin and long brown hair both in red rash guard UPF shirts high fiving in the waves
Cancer

Everything you need to know about UPF sun protection

By Julia Craven