Uber’s Drivers and Riders Are Locked in a Pine-Scented Battle
Many passengers can’t stand air fresheners. Drivers say they’re just trying to provide a pleasant ride.
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Junki / Getty There Is Too Much Stuff
The human brain can’t contend with the vastness of online shopping.
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Lipskiy / Mad Dog / Shutterstock / The ... Why Anti-vax Doctors Are Ordering 23andMe Tests
Naturopaths have long been obsessed with a gene called MTHFR. Now vaccine skeptics are testing for it too.
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Thibault Camus / AP Frigid Offices Might Be Killing Women’s Productivity
As their goosebumps have long suggested, women perform better on tests of cognitive function at toastier room temperatures.
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Jorge Lopez / Reuters Medicine’s First, Gruesome Window on Digestion
In 1822, a surgeon encountered a patient with a bullet hole in his stomach—and spent more than a decade looking through it.
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Timur Emek / Getty Why Celebrities Are So Susceptible to Grifters
The brutality of fame can change the basic way people evaluate others.
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Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters Why So Many Women Choose Abortion Over Adoption
Some American women see giving up their babies as more emotionally painful than terminating their pregnancies.
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Michaela Rehle / Reuters You Can’t ‘Starve’ Cancer, but You Might Help Treat It With Food
There is no single “cancer diet.”
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Sean Nel / Shutterstock A Waste of 1,000 Research Papers
Decades of early research on the genetics of depression were built on nonexistent foundations. How did that happen?
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Mario Castello / Corbis / VCG The Hair Puzzle No Product Can Solve
There’s a scientific reason hair can be so difficult to smooth.
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Peter Dejong / AP The Mushrooms Are Slowly Taking Effect
A vote to decriminalize psilocybin in Denver is fueling a national discourse on the health benefits of psychedelics.
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N. D. Mitrofanov / Natural Nidality of Transmissible ... Soviets Tried So, So Hard to Eliminate the Plague
“Literally tens of thousands of people were employed to just spoon poison into the burrows.”
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David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones
I decided to noise-cancel life.
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Gillian Flaccus / AP Why the Government Pays Billions to People Who Claim Injury by Vaccines
A little-known deal protects drug companies in the U.S. from being sued—and feeds conspiracy theories in the process.
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Matthew Roharik / Getty I Broke Breakfast
Americans eat a narrower variety of foods for breakfast than anyone else. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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Margoe Edwards / Shutterstock The Essential Ingredient That Makes Pudding, Pudding
The canonical British dish has lost some of its bloodier associations through the centuries, but some things have stayed consistent.
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What They Won’t Tell You About Being a New Mom
New mothers reveal how unprepared they felt for the severity of postpartum physical changes.
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Associated Press Has Trump Actually Done Anything About Drug Prices?
The administration has turned public anger at the pharmaceutical industry into real action—but has also left many meaningful opportunities on the table.
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ROMAIN LAFABREGUE / AFP / Getty A Dying Teenager’s Recovery Started in the Dirt
One of the viruses used to treat her infections came from the side of a rotting South African eggplant.
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Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion: On Both Sides of the ‘Heartbeat’ Bills
A new short documentary seeks to understand the viewpoints of those who support and oppose more restrictive abortion legislation.
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Ryan McVay / Getty Tech Is No Match for Human Grossness
Silver-infused linens may kill microbes, but there’s no way to avoid doing your laundry.
