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Among exercise peptides, MOTS-c is one of the most popular out there, but what's actually going on inside your body when you take this peptide?
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The ancient past is remembered mostly for its diversity of dinosaurs, but before dinosaurs, insects ruled the world and they were terrifying.
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Although the black widow gets all the notoriety, its little-known cousin is much more widespread and enjoys living in the same places you do.
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There's a bit of received wisdom floating around the internet that spraying around your house will keep spiders away, but is there any truth to this?
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It's a commonly held belief that before artificial lighting, human sleep was 'naturally' divided into two distinct periods, but how true is that?
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If you're an arachnophobe and you have a particular distaste for black widows, then you need to head for this state where there are none to be found.
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All good things must come to an end, and so too must the world, but it turns out that astronomers think about it differently than most people.
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Things break, that's just a fact of life, and we may not have a general understanding of how things fragment, we may have figured out the results.
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Now that they're in smartphones, fingerprint scanners seem to be everywhere, but what's really going on behind the scenes when they're scanned?
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If you've ever had a car for more than a year, you've likely had to deal with foggy, yellow headlights, and to understand why, we can turn to science.
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While breakfast may not be the most important meal of the day, you're certainly better off taking some time out to eat it, or you may regret it.
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Given that woolly mammoths have been extinct for a thousands of years, there's a lot we don't know about them, but we might know how long they lived.
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Thanks to a viral social media post, 'exploding trees' have been a hot topic, but the phenomenon probably isn't exactly what you're thinking.
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The ability to use tools is one of the defining characteristics of humanity, but there are also lots of cases in the animal world, even in cows.
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The Joshua tree is one of the most iconic desert-dwelling plants in the United States, and the stunt they pulled last fall has some scientists shook.
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Nutrition is a vital part of getting enough sleep, and healthy food is a good start, but there are some foods that are better for sleep than others.
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Although we don't have to worry about it for a few billion years, the sun is inexorably dying, the only question is what's left after it's gone.
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Everyone tells you to eat your vegetables, but some veggies are better than others, especially when it comes to fighting diseases like cancer.
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Scientists, peering 7 billion years back into the past, have discovered something that may help us better understand the nature of the universe.
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X-rays are such a fundamental part of our modern technological landscape that it's kind of surprising to learn that their discovery was accidental.
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A bit over 100 years ago, 5 cows were left to fend for themselves on a windswept island in the southern Indian Ocean, but they beat all expectations.
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The idea behind Star Trek's phasers is mostly fiction, and modern science can't replicate everything a phaser can do, but some technology comes close.
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When people think about ways to reduce their blood pressure, medicine and exercise are the first things to come to mind, not a home appliance.
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"Superhuman smell" sounds like a phrase that belongs in a world of superheroes and villains, but it's real. And it might have some major medical ramifications.
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Life is tenacious and the universe is vast, so some are confident that extraterrestrial life is hiding out there. These worlds are the top contenders.
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