Humans Don’t Eat 8 Spiders Per Year in Their Sleep — Here’s How We’d Know If We Did

Do you really eat spiders in your sleep? Thankfully, no. Researchers explain why and how we’d know if we were swallowing spiders.

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Tanning Beds Are Mutating Your DNA and Tripling the Risk of Deadly Skin Cancer

For the first time, scientists have proven tanning beds are more dangerous than the sun and cause widespread DNA damage.

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Why Being “Hangry” May Start in the Brain, Not the Belly

Learn how hunger affects mood only when people consciously feel it — not simply when energy levels drop.

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Raccoons Have Hidden Rules to Navigate Cities, and Refuse to Cross Roads, Even for Easy Meals

Learn how motion sensors and GPS tracking uncovered how raccoons weigh risk against reward.

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From DNA to the Fossil Record, Here's Why We Have a Good Idea of What Neanderthals Looked Like

Learn more about how researchers can take evidence from the past to better shape our idea of what Neanderthals looked like.

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A Marine Predator the Size of a Bus Patrolled Ancient Rivers 66 Million Years Ago

Learn how chemical clues reveal a mosasaur was hunting in freshwater rivers as the Cretaceous seaway receded.

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As an Ancient Cow Species Foraged For Seagrass, it Shaped Its Surroundings Around 21 Million Years Ago

Meet Salwasiren qatarensis, a small, ancient sea cow species whose fossils were found in Qatar, in one of the world’s biggest marine mammal bonebeds.

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