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(Photo by Xavier ROSSI/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Neanderthal Men Were Banging Human Women for Hundreds of Thousands of Years
Neanderthal men had a thing for human women and/or vice versa.
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Photo: Dusan Stankovic / Getty Images This Is How Much Extra Productivity You Actually Get at Your Mental Peak
Turns out everybody has off days. Who woulda thought.
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Photo: Dragon Claws / Getty Images Alcohol Makes Your Brain Forget How to Communicate With Itself
Shame the study doesn’t capture how alcohol affects the brain during active tasks like streaking or getting into a barroom brawl.
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Photo: nymphoenix / Getty Images What If Your Takeout Came in Shrimp Shell Plastic? No, It Really Could.
There’s still a ways to go before you can buy shrimp plastic cups from your local Pottery Barn.
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Photo: taviphoto / Getty Images Could This 5,000-Year-Old Bacteria Trapped in Ice Be the End of Us?
It could help us invent new medications, but also…
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Photo: svetolk / Getty Images Is DMT the Key to Lasting Depression Relief?
Two doses didn’t appear more effective than one, but I guess if you’re down to party, then why not?
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A Canadian boreal forest. Photo: ED JONESED JONES/AFP via Getty Images Forests Are Steadily Creeping North, and That’s Not a Good Thing
The thing that’s pushing forests north is also destabilizing them.
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Photo: YakobchukOlena / Getty Images Why Do Humans Have Chins? We’re the Only Species That Does.
Chins are useless but they can make us look ridiculous if we have too much or not enough.
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