microbiome

Tech

Your Showerhead Is Crammed Full of Bacteria That Scientists Want to Study

08.01.16

By Kate Lunau
Tech

Letters to the Editor: Warcraft, Skipping Showers, and Pilot Week

06.26.16

By Emanuel Maiberg
Tech

I Skipped Showering for Two Weeks and Bathed in Bacteria Instead

06.17.16

By Kate Lunau
Food

Stuff Your Face with Chocolate and Wine Because It’s Good for Your Gut

05.02.16

By Wyatt Marshall
Pulse

You’re Home to Trillions of Microbes That Affect Everything From Digestion to Depression

04.19.16

By Sydney Lupkin
Health

We’re About to Start Seeing More Early Deaths from Diabetes

03.25.16

By Kristin Wartman
Tech

Your ‘Microbial Cloud’ Is Like a Floating, Invisible Fingerprint

09.22.15

By Emiko Jozuka
Tech

How Bioengineered Bacteria Could Give Robots a Living Brain

07.16.15

By Emiko Jozuka
Tech

How Your Gut Controls Your Brain

06.11.15

By Ian Chant
Tech

Forget Fingerprints—in the Future We’ll Be Identified by Gut Bacteria

05.12.15

By Steph Yin
Tech

That Vagina Yogurt Probably Wasn’t Really Vagina Yogurt, Says Expert

04.06.15

By Ben Richmond
Tech

Fecal Transplants Now Come in Pill Form

10.13.14

By Fruzsina Eordogh

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Music

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From Reverend Al Sharpton officiating, to a New Orleans-style procession, to a repast at a bowling alley, no one holds a fake funeral like Rick Rubin.

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By Lauren Boisvert
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Music

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These wildly underrated psych-rock albums still hold up decades later.

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By Lauren Boisvert
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Life

‘Uniboob’ Is an Actual Medical Condition. Here’s How It Happens.

Doctors call it “bread-loafing.” Make of that what you will.

1 day ago

By Ashley Fike
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Life

The 37% Rule Says This Is How Many People You Should Date Before Choosing One

Get enough experience to know what you actually want

1 day ago

By Ashley Fike
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Life

If You Feel Guilty All the Time, You Probably Have a High IQ. Here’s Why.

Of course Freud is involved.

1 day ago

By Ashley Fike