Is Blue Light Really What's Keeping You Awake?

Is Blue Light Really What's Keeping You Awake?
It's a convenient scapegoat, but there are other reasons that devices mess with your sleep.

August 31, 2018 at 10:26PM
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A Debate Over ‘Rational Suicide’

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The Surprising Ways Humans Are Still Mutating

The Surprising Ways Humans Are Still Mutating
From stronger resistance to HIV to the simple ability to drink milk, there are many ways humans are still evolving.

August 31, 2018 at 06:14PM
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From 0 to 10 Million: Vaping Takes Off in the U.S.

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You’ll Never Guess Which Company Is Reinventing Health Benefits

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The Secret Lives Of HIV-Positive Men In Iran

The Secret Lives Of HIV-Positive Men In Iran
The theocrats say they want to help, but those in the Iranian LGBTQ community worry that's just a way of outing them. And so, they turn to black markets for drugs and foreign social networks for community.

August 31, 2018 at 05:51AM
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You Cannot Escape Jet Lag, Only Embrace It

You Cannot Escape Jet Lag, Only Embrace It
Learn to roll with the inevitable consequences, and the ways we will fail to adjust. You're getting on a roller coaster, except this one wasn't planned by anyone.

August 30, 2018 at 07:45PM
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98.6 Degrees Is A Normal Body Temperature, Right? Not Quite

98.6 Degrees Is A Normal Body Temperature, Right? Not Quite
Forget everything you thought you knew about normal body temperature and fever, starting with 98.6. That's an antiquated number based on a flawed study from 1868 (yes, 150 years ago). The facts about fever are a lot more complicated.

August 30, 2018 at 03:12PM
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Will Anyone Be Held At Fault Over Flint?

Will Anyone Be Held At Fault Over Flint?
As the Michigan city's water crisis drags on, the state's highest-ranking health official faces criminal charges. But he's still on the job.

August 30, 2018 at 01:58PM
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Saying No To Drugs Isn’t An Answer To Addiction

Saying No To Drugs Isn’t An Answer To Addiction
Why one Ottawa doctor believes harm reduction is the most effective treatment for drug use.

August 29, 2018 at 10:36PM
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A Few Words About Fake Breasts

A Few Words About Fake Breasts
The prospect of getting a do-over, however, brought your friends who love you enough to be honest with you to the fore in the spirit of making you feel better while also forcing you to realize that these loving critics have secretly long-pitied your god-given cup size.

August 29, 2018 at 09:33PM
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Is One Drink Per Day Really Unsafe? That New Alcohol Study, Explained

Is One Drink Per Day Really Unsafe? That New Alcohol Study, Explained
A Lancet study shows everything that's wrong with nutritional epidemiology, and the way we talk about it.

August 29, 2018 at 08:25PM
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What It's Like To Be A Regular Person Who Delivers a Baby

What It's Like To Be A Regular Person Who Delivers a Baby
A secretary in an office bathroom, an off-duty cop in a Walmart parking lot and a dad on a busy highway  —  they all found themselves face to (tiny) face with destiny.

August 29, 2018 at 05:08PM
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Inside The Slimy Underground Hunt For Humanity's Antibiotic Savior

Inside The Slimy Underground Hunt For Humanity's Antibiotic Savior
Spelunking in search of extremophiles is no mere hobby, but a last-ditch attempt to find a solution to one of the biggest global threats facing humanity today: antibiotic resistance.

August 29, 2018 at 05:06AM
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The Meat Cleanse

The Meat Cleanse
Restriction dieting can provide a sense of order in a world of chaos. At what point does restriction become a disorder?

August 29, 2018 at 01:42AM
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S.T.D. Diagnoses Reach Record 2.3 Million New Cases in U.S.

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The Perilous, Secret World Of Steroids For Female Bodybuilders

The Perilous, Secret World Of Steroids For Female Bodybuilders
"Women who rely on steroids to sell the sports nutrition products they endorse have to pass themselves off as 'fake naturals' in a way that men don't."

August 28, 2018 at 08:04PM
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How Treating People With Brain Injuries Helped Me Forgive My Mother

How Treating People With Brain Injuries Helped Me Forgive My Mother
After a lifetime of resentment, working with other patients with traumatic brain injury finally helped me understand the riddle that is my mother's mind.

August 28, 2018 at 06:07PM
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All It Took for Me to Learn Empathy Was Repeated Agonizing Electric Shocks From a Simulated Labor Machine

All It Took for Me to Learn Empathy Was Repeated Agonizing Electric Shocks From a Simulated Labor Machine
A world-first simulation being carried out in a small clinic in a shopping mall.

August 28, 2018 at 10:06AM
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The Pesticides on Your Produce Are Potentially Dangerous. Why Won't the EPA Ban Them?

The Pesticides on Your Produce Are Potentially Dangerous. Why Won't the EPA Ban Them?
Spoiler: it involves lobbyists.

August 28, 2018 at 02:38AM
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Breast-Feeding Mothers Should Avoid Marijuana, Pediatricians Say

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How Much Alcohol Is Safe? None, Say These Researchers

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China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus

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What's A Regular Guy To Do About His Own Butthole Eyes?

What's A Regular Guy To Do About His Own Butthole Eyes?
We asked a doctor and a beauty expert about that viral Pete Davidson story.

August 27, 2018 at 08:06PM
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A Jolt To The Jugular! You're Insured But Still Owe $109,000 For Your Heart Attack

A Jolt To The Jugular! You're Insured But Still Owe $109,000 For Your Heart Attack
"They're going to give me another heart attack stressing over this bill," Drew Calver said. "I can't pay this bill on my teacher salary, and I don't want this to go to a debt collector."

August 27, 2018 at 07:03PM
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Stop Peeing In The Swimming Pool, You Absolute Monster

Stop Peeing In The Swimming Pool, You Absolute Monster
When you relieve yourself in the pool, you're actually putting other people's health at risk.

August 27, 2018 at 05:10PM
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Did Juul Lure Teenagers and Get ‘Customers for Life’?

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Quitting Smoking Makes You Gain Weight. It’s Still Healthier

Quitting Smoking Makes You Gain Weight. It’s Still Healthier
People who quit smoking cigarettes often gain weight. That's not necessarily because ex-smokers need a new habit and they enjoy eating. It's because the nicotine in cigarettes suppresses appetite to some degree.

August 26, 2018 at 07:55PM
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What's The Most Painful Place To Get Stung By A Bee?

What's The Most Painful Place To Get Stung By A Bee?
Turns out that the most painful location for being stung by a bee is on the nostril, followed by the lip and the penis. Yup, the penis.

August 25, 2018 at 06:32PM
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Ranking Every Type of Cheese By How (Un)Healthy They Are

Ranking Every Type of Cheese By How (Un)Healthy They Are
Blue cheese? Soft cheese? … human cheese? Here's which are least likely to mess you up.

August 25, 2018 at 11:06AM
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Big Tobacco’s Global Reach on Social Media

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Horrific Deaths, Brutal Treatment: Mental Illness In America's Jails

Horrific Deaths, Brutal Treatment: Mental Illness In America's Jails
These deaths are symptomatic of a bigger problem — how the country's criminal justice system treats some of its most vulnerable citizens, those with a mental illness.

August 24, 2018 at 08:50PM
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How To Get A Good Night's Sleep

How To Get A Good Night's Sleep
A science journalist spent months researching sleep. Here's what he found.

August 24, 2018 at 05:32PM
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Microdosing Is Touted By Shroomers And Reddit Users. Science Is Starting To Test Their Claims — And Finding Some Truth

Microdosing Is Touted By Shroomers And Reddit Users. Science Is Starting To Test Their Claims — And Finding Some Truth
"It sharpens all the senses, as if the frequencies of all of your atoms and energy field are raised a little bit and are being slightly more conscious.”

August 24, 2018 at 01:22PM
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Russian Trolls Used Vaccine Debate to Sow Discord, Study Finds

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How Social Media Helped Chinese Parents Hold Healthcare Companies Accountable For Ineffective Vaccines

How Social Media Helped Chinese Parents Hold Healthcare Companies Accountable For Ineffective Vaccines
After a company produced 250,000 low-quality vaccines for babies, China's government couldn't ignore the public outcry.

August 23, 2018 at 10:25PM
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Purveyors of Juice-Box Style, Nicotine-Filled E-Liquids Quit Selling the Products

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A Walk In The Woods With California's Forest Bathers

A Walk In The Woods With California's Forest Bathers
Shinrin-yoku, a form of nature therapy that originated in Japan, has finally caught on stateside – but what is this outdoor business all about?

August 23, 2018 at 07:00PM
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Safe Injection Sites Were Thought To Reduce Drug Overdoses. The Research Isn't So Clear

Safe Injection Sites Were Thought To Reduce Drug Overdoses. The Research Isn't So Clear
A new meta-analysis reviewed the evidence on safe injection sites. There's bad news.

August 23, 2018 at 01:46PM
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This Danish 'Self-Help' Guru Wants You To Focus On The Negative, Stop Trying To Find Yourself And Say 'No' More

This Danish 'Self-Help' Guru Wants You To Focus On The Negative, Stop Trying To Find Yourself And Say 'No' More
Svend Brinkmann is critical of self-optimization movements that purport that life is supposed to be "super okay" all of the time.

August 23, 2018 at 12:11AM
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The Story Of Peggy Claude-Pierre, The Eating Disorder Healer Who Promised Everything

The Story Of Peggy Claude-Pierre, The Eating Disorder Healer Who Promised Everything
I was beset with longing: to be sick enough to be worthy of Claude-Pierre's affection, to be in a place where all one's problems could be cuddled away.

August 22, 2018 at 11:46PM
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Immunotherapy Drugs Slow Skin Cancer That Has Spread to the Brain

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This Is The Suicide Story You're Not Hearing

This Is The Suicide Story You're Not Hearing
For every person who goes through with it, there are 280 who decide not to. Listening to them could be life-saving.

August 22, 2018 at 08:36PM
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In Arkansas, 'Digital Redlining' Could Leave Thousands Without Health Care

In Arkansas, 'Digital Redlining' Could Leave Thousands Without Health Care
One of America's poorest and least connected states says Medicaid recipients must find work and an internet connection to keep receiving benefits.

August 22, 2018 at 07:28PM
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Fainting Is A Pretty Weird Thing For A Body To Do

Fainting Is A Pretty Weird Thing For A Body To Do
We are all walking around with a spontaneous off button hidden somewhere inside, and yet have no idea what triggers it.

August 22, 2018 at 06:29PM
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Why Don’t We All Workout Outdoors?

Why Don’t We All Workout Outdoors?
You can substitute pretty much everything you do in the gym (especially fucking around on your phone).

August 22, 2018 at 12:43AM
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Real-Life Surgeon Attempts A Heart Transplant In 'Surgeon Simulator'

Real-Life Surgeon Attempts A Heart Transplant In 'Surgeon Simulator'
"Okay, I accidentally just ripped his lung out, so I'm just going to place it over here..."

August 21, 2018 at 11:47PM
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Do Men Enter Bathtubs On Hands And Knees So Their Balls Hit The Water Last?

Do Men Enter Bathtubs On Hands And Knees So Their Balls Hit The Water Last?
In an August 13 post on the motherhood message board BabyCenter, one commenter posited they do just that, in a posting under the subject "Testicles in warm water?" It piqued my curiosity. First, about the logistics of the balls entering last.

August 21, 2018 at 07:42PM
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Why Is The Process Of Buying Sperm So Terrible?

Why Is The Process Of Buying Sperm So Terrible?
Smart Design's Stephanie Yung shares some ideas for injecting humanity into the deeply impersonal process of bringing a life into the world.

August 21, 2018 at 03:58PM
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The Hidden Epidemic Of Compulsive Hair Pulling

The Hidden Epidemic Of Compulsive Hair Pulling
Whether hair pulling, skin picking or cheek biting, body-focused repetitive behaviors blight many people's lives. How can science help us understand and treat these distressing conditions better?

August 21, 2018 at 01:53PM
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