• Stretchable Fabric Battery Could Power Wearables with Sweat
• The Best Hearing Aid in the World Is Made of Spider Silk Dipped in Gold
• Weird Critter May Help Us to Heal Livers
• The Mud That Could Save the World
• Stuffed Animals Help Scientists Learn How Sea Lion Moms…
Washer & Fridge Tips
• How Often You Should Wash Everything in Your Home, According to Science
• How Often You Should Wash Your Bed Sheets, According to a Microbiologist
• How Often Should You Wash Your Bedsheets?
• Hang These Charts on Your Refrigerator and Never Waste Food Again
• Room Temp or Refrigerate?…
Exercise in Futility?
• Air Pollution Harm to Unborn Babies May Be Global Health Catastrophe, Warn Doctors
• Pollution Wipes out the Benefits of Exercise, Study Suggests
• Traffic Fumes in City Streets ‘Largely Wipe Out Exercise Benefits for Over-60s’
• Why Office Work Kills People’s Will to Exercise
• Is Your Core Strong Enough to Master the Invisible Box…
Future Food Fads
• In 2018, Kombucha Is Getting Big — And Craftier
• Silicon Valley Teens Are Trendsetting the Next Instagram-Famous Beverage
• Behold, the Latest Wait-In-Line, Instagram-Your-Purchase Status Food: Cheese Tea
• 2018 Food Trends: Here’s What Everyone Will Be Eating (and Instagramming)
• Quiz: Which Healthy Hot Win…
Peak Performance?
• This Tiny Bit of the Brain Helps You Stop Doing Things
• Smiling Could Improve Your Athletic Performance — But Your Grins Can’t Be Fake
• Let Your Mind Wander to Be Perform Better, Think More Creatively, and Manage Your Feelings
• The Best Brainstorming is Divergent
• What Even Are Those Pre-S…
Weight for Santa
• How Much Weight Would Santa Gain from Eating Milk and Cookies at Every House He Visits?
• Santa Claus, Indiana Gets 20,000 Letters a Year — and ‘Elves’ Reply to All of Them
• Here Lies Santa Claus? Researchers Zero In on Bones of St. Nick
• Finally, Proof That Christmas Songs Really Do Your Head I…
The Purple Color
• Eye Doctors Still Use This 100-Year-Old Test for Color Blindness
• Pantone Project: A Photographer’s Quest to Capture Colour
• The Vibrant Color Wheels Designed by Goethe, Newton & Other Theorists of Color (1665-1810)
• Pantone’s Color Of The Year Is Here, and It’s As Nebulous As 2018 Looks…
Zip, Clip, Crimp, & Crumple
• How Sexy Can a Paper Clip Get? (Study)
• Medical Uses for Paper Clips
• Why Does a Crumpled Paper Balloon Inflate When Batted Around?
• How to Make Any Shape Zippable (Research Study)
• Just Denting an Aluminum Can Makes People Less Likely to Recycle It
That Cat Could Hold His Whisky, It Could Hold Him
• Ernest Hemingway Taught One of His Many, Many Cats to Drink Whisky
• The Physics of Whisky’s Aesthetically Pleasing Residue
• The Question That Won Me the Ig Nobel Prize: Are Cats Liquid?
• Scientists Finally Answer the Important Question, Are Cats a Liquid?
• Is a Cat a Liquid…
Saves on Spills, at Least
• Nude Diners, Do Spare a Thought for Your Waiters
• Things You Should Never Say to Your Server
• Is That It? The Tourist Attractions That Are Far Smaller (and More Disappointing) Than You Think
• Why You Should Never Order the Daily Special in a Restaurant
• A Ingenious Nut Gathering Device That Can Easily Clean up…
Knee Jerks
• Move Over, Gentlemen: ‘Womanspreading’ Is Now a Thing
• Watch Out, Manspreaders: the Womanspreading Fightback Starts Now
• Why Do Left-Handers Excel at Certain Elite Sports But Not Others?
• Why Lefties Have a Competitive Edge in Certain Sports
• Why Are Some People…
Accounting for Taste
• Why Does Cilantro Taste Like Soap to Some People?
• Why Asparagus Makes Your Urine Smell
• What Makes Rain Smell So Good?
• Why You Like What You Like
• The Great Ginkgo Leaf Dump Is Here
• Think You Know How Ripe You Like Bananas? Think Again
• Bananapocalypse: Genetic …
Trees & Trimmings
• Trees in Some Cities Grow Faster Than in the Wild, and Here’s the Crazy Reason Why
• A Lovely Scientific Appreciation of Trees
• Giant Fungus Covering over 2,200 Acres Is the Largest Living Organism Ever Discovered
• 2,190 Miles on the Appalachian Trail
• Christmas Trees: Science Has Finally Found the Answ…
Body Oddities
• Women Less Likely to Receive CPR in Public, Study Finds
• Hemorrhoid Cream Has Weird Benefits for Under-Eye Area
• The Age Your Brain Matures at Everything — and It Isn’t Even Fully Developed until Age 25
• How the Human Brain Tracks a 100-Mph Fastball
• Leggo My Eggo! – Apparently Frozen Waffles Are Brain Food, Who Knew?…
Breathe & Sleep Deep
• Neuroscientists Have Identified How Exactly a Deep Breath Changes Your Mind
• Science Says Controlled Breathing May Help Alleviate Stress
• People with Certain Blood Types Appear to Be More at Risk from Air Pollution
• Napping on the Job May Turn out to Be a Very Good Idea for a Sleep-Deprived Natio…
All at Sea
• Range of Pinnipedia
• The Colossal Squid Is a Real-Life Sea Monster
• Is the Mysterious Sea Cucumber Slipping out of Our Grasp?
• 10 Juicy Facts about Sea Apples
• Even Scientists Were Blown Away by These Weird Sea Creatures They Found
• 8 Fascinating Facts about…
Learning from Nature
• The Physics of Champagne Bubbles Could Help Power the Future
• Wake Up and Smell the Traffic? London Tries Coffee to Power Buses
• Holy Smokes! Tobacco May Fuel Planes in the Future
• Full of Beans: Coffee Grounds to Help Power London’s Buses
• This Commuter Bus Runs on Poo…
Face Recognition
• Named-Cow Researcher Recognizes Merit in Research on Sheep Recognizing People
• How Do Animals Recognize Each Other?
• People Can Accurately Read Dogs’ Facial Expressions
• How to Have a Well-Behaved Puppy: Make Sure It Sees a Man with a Mustache Within Six Weeks of Birth
• Dog Ownership Is Linked t…
Worth the Weight?
• #WeirdThanks…itions Is the Holiday Hashtag You Never Knew You Needed
• The Most-Googled Thanksgiving Pies and Sides in Every State
• The Cranberry: America’s Founding Fruit
• The Pawpaw: The All-American Fruit the Country Forgot
• U.S. Pumpkin Growers Toast Nontraditional Demand for Frui…
Let It Go
• After the NYC Marathon, Where Does All the Poop Go?
• A Portable Kit Relies on Everyday Items to Bring Toilets to Disaster Zones
• Is It Dangerous to Hold Your Urine?
• There’s No Toilet Like Home
Science Miscellany
• The Science of Bodily Functions: Why We Yawn, Sneeze, Burp, and More
• Head-Shaking Research — Ejecting Water from the Ear Canals
• Struck by Cow, Contact with Dagger: The Oddest Medical Codes You’ll See
• Sing Happy Birthday Twice While Washing Your Hands, Say Pharmacist…
Getting Cold
• Can You Freeze Eggs to Keep Them Longer?
• New Study Could Explain the Elusive Reason Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold
• What Does the Cold Virus Get in Return for Making Its Host Feel Grotty?
• The Real Reasons We All Get Sick at This Time of Year
• Why Some People Can’t Sleep Without a Fa…
Inward Bound
• Illustrator Perfectly Captures How an Introvert Likes to Spend the Weekend
• Humorous Cartoons That Illustrate the Perplexing Social Life of an Introvert
• 16 Tweets about Being an Introvert That Will Make You LOL
• Dinner for One: The Truth about Why We’re All Eating out Alone
• Eating Alone Is Slowly Killing Yo…
Meals on Wheels, Wings, & Instagram
• A Japanese Convenience Store Used Drones to Deliver Fried Chicken to Fukushima
• Drone Delivers Food to Japan Town Hit by Nuclear Disaster
• How to Buy Milk at the Store in Japan, Even If You Don’t Read or Speak Any Japanese
• Meals on Wheels ‘Should Dish Out Keep-Fit Tips’ to Stave Off Infirmit…
Squirrel World News
• 10 Things You Don’t Know about Chipmunks
• How Does a Red Squirrel Cross the Road? French Local Authority Thinks It Has the Answer
• Fall Is for Squirrels
• Medieval Love of Squirrel Fur May Have Helped Spread Leprosy, Study Reveals
• Bolve Like a Stag
• Bison Comeback Story Has Bronx Accen…
Around Japan 5
• The Secret Lives of Japanese Families: 8 Unusual Household Rules Revealed
• Japanese Artist Reveals the Truth Behind All Those Happy Photos on Social Media
• Japanese Artist Illustrates the Right and Wrong Ways to Carry an Umbrella on Public Transport
• Why Do Japanese People Wear Medical Masks in Public?
• A Japanes Teenager is S…
Think Back
• This New Study Shows That People Who ‘Think Backwards’ Are More Successful
• Daydreaming During Meetings? It Might Just Mean Your Brain’s Too Big to Not Wander
• People Who Daydream Are More Intelligent: Study
• Daydreaming May, in Fact, Be a Sign of Greater Intelligence
• Is There Any Benefit to Daydream…
Food Findings
• The History of Five Uniquely American Sandwiches
• How ‘Citizen Housewives’ Made Food Cheaper and Safer
• The History and Rebirth of the American Automat
• This Automated Restaurant Was Supposed to Be the Future of Dining. Until Humanity Struck Back
• The Surprising Science Behind the World’s Most Popular Frui…
Dumber & Dumbest
• Some of the Strangest and Funniest ‘I Woke Up to This’ Moments
• The 25 Dumbest Ways You Managed to Injure Yourself
• The 25 Dumbest Ways You Managed to Injure Yourself
• 911 Dispatchers Share the Dumbest Calls They’ve Ever Received
• People on Twitter Are Sharing the Dumbest Things They’ve E…
Pet Tales
• Scientists Rated 25 Animals for Who Makes the Best Pet. The No. 1 Spot Is Surprising (It’s Not a Dog)
• Some Humans Seem to Care More about Pets Than People … But Why?
• Dogs Are Better Than People, and a New Study Says Everyone Feels the Same
• Dogs Smell Your Emotional State and It Affects Their Moo…
Licorice Sticking Point
• The FDA Just Flat-Out Called This Halloween Candy Dangerous
• The FDA Has a Warning for People Who Love Black Licorice
• Licorice Lovers Beware: FDA Warns Eating Too Much May Have Dangerous Side Effects
• Black Licorice Is Bad for Your Heart, FDA Warns
• Why Do So Many of Us Hate Black Licorice…
Tongues, Toes, & Videos
• Scientist Finally Figures Out Why Holes Feel Larger with Your Tongue Than with Your Finger
• Surprise, Your Pinky Toe Does Serve a Purpose
• How Long Can a Person Safely Hang Upside Down?
• How Long to Nap for the Biggest Benefits
• Does Self-Control Deplete over the Course of the Day? Maybe Not, Says New Stud…
Field of Drones
• Albatross Teaches Drones the Art of Marathon Flights
• Drones Are Keeping Watch on the Arctic’s Polar Bear Population
• Drones Save Fawns from Terrible Fates
• Defibrillator Drones Aim to Respond in 911 Calls
• Drones Help Discover Lost City with Ties to Alexander the Great
• Engineers Invent Folding Delivery Drone That Carries C…
The Power of a Nudge
• A Nobel Prize Winner Says Tech Companies Are Misusing Creativity in Their Quest to Change the World
• What’s a Urinal Fly, and What Does It Have to with Winning a Nobel Prize?
• People Like Government ‘Nudges,’ Study Says
• The Flaws a Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Wants You to Know about Yoursel…
Dust Off Your Didgeridoo and Snore No More
• Maru and the Aquarium
• Are Cats Solid or Liquid? And Other Award-Winning Absurd Scientific Research of 2017
• 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded
• Dining on Humans and Cat Fluidity Honored with Ig Nobels
• 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes Celebrate Research on How Crocodiles Affect Gambling and Other Odd Studie…
Physics and Physiology
• 10 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets of Hand Models
• How to Trick Your Brain into Thinking a Small Animal Is Hopping up Your Arm
• 7 Surprising Facts about the Chin
• Boys Are Better at Physics Because They Learn about ‘Projection’ While Going to the Toilet, Researchers Say
• Girls’ School Shoes Are …
Poo Corner
• How Poop Makes the World Go ‘Round
• Scientists Explain Why Coffee Makes You Poop
• The Secret Life of Burning Man’s 1,700 Porta Potties
• First Date Involves Human Poo and Firefighters
• Woman on Tinder Date Gets Stuck in Window Trying to Retrieve Her Own Poop
• Woman Rescued by Fire Bri…
Yaks, Yawns, and the Sandman
• The New Study Suggesting Sitting Will Kill You Is Kind of a Raging Dumpster Fire
• Letting Eyewitnesses Sleep Could Make for More Accurate Testimony
• The Scientific Reason Why Sleep Deprivation Might Make You Happier
• Should You Let Your Dog Sleep in Bed with You?
• Sleeping with Your Dog Ca…
Something in the Air
• A Cannery That Makes the Odiferous Swedish Delicacy Surströmming (Fermented Herring)
• Inside the World’s Smelliest Factory
• Step Inside the World’s Worst-Smelling Factory at Your Own Risk
• Air Pollution in Asia – Interactive Map
• Map Showing How Many Year…
Living Color
• The Color of Feeling Better
• A Nostalgic Look at Crayons
• Meet Crayola’s Newest Crayon Color: Bluetiful
• Why There Are so Few Words for Blue
• Dulux’s Colour of the Year, Heart Wood, Soothes Against the ‘Instability’ of the World
• The Real Difference Between Warm and Cool Colors