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The Average Person Holds Nine 'Moderately Significant' Secrets, And They're Roughly What You'd Expect Worrying about a secret you hold? A new study finds you aren't the only one, and doing so can have consequences for your well-being.

The Average Person Holds Nine 'Moderately Significant' Secrets, And They're Roughly What You'd Expect

Drinking Water Fed By 12,000-Year-Old Glacial Aquifers Deep Beneath The US Could Protect Against Parkinson’s Disease A new study can’t prove causation, but suggests these ancient water sources may be shielded from harmful environmental pollutants that cause disease.

Drinking Water Fed By 12,000-Year-Old Glacial Aquifers Deep Beneath The US Could Protect Against Parkinson’s Disease

Extreme Microbes Could Planet-Hop Using Asteroids: 'We Were Interested In What The Limits Of Life Are' New experiments showed how a bacterium could survive being thrown into space by an impact.

Extreme Microbes Could Planet-Hop Using Asteroids: 'We Were Interested In What The Limits Of Life Are'

'It Occurred On The Nightside': NASA's MAVEN Orbiter Detects Potential Lightning Strike On Mars Sifting through 180,000 observations, the team found a single event. We may have detected a whistler wave on the Red Planet.

'It Occurred On The Nightside': NASA's MAVEN Orbiter Detects Potential Lightning Strike On Mars

This Is The Face Of ‘Little Foot’, The Oldest Hominin From Southern Africa Weirdly, it doesn't look like its relatives from the same region.

This Is The Face Of ‘Little Foot’, The Oldest Hominin From Southern Africa

Measuring The Mass Of A Potentially Hazardous Asteroid During A High-Speed Flyby, According To Astrophysicists While such a mission would be nerve-wracking, it would still be pretty darn cool.

Measuring The Mass Of A Potentially Hazardous Asteroid During A High-Speed Flyby, According To Astrophysicists

“These Kinds Of Systems Are Very Rare”: The Most Compact Known 3+1 Quadruple Star System Has Been Discovered Extreme, but apparently very stable.

“These Kinds Of Systems Are Very Rare”: The Most Compact Known 3+1 Quadruple Star System Has Been Discovered

Scared Of Spiders? Your Eye Movements Reveal You'd Rather Focus On Other Insects 'We found that when people received a paired image of an arachnid versus another arthropod, they strongly prefer looking at the non-spider arthropods.'

Scared Of Spiders? Your Eye Movements Reveal You'd Rather Focus On Other Insects

What's It Like To Take Lanmaoa Asiatica? The Mushrooms That Make You Hallucinate 'Xiao Ren Ren' One man began searching for them with no luck, until he looked under the tablecloth and found them 'marching and grinning' back at him.

What's It Like To Take Lanmaoa Asiatica? The Mushrooms That Make You Hallucinate 'Xiao Ren Ren'

The World's Longest Non-Stop Bird Migration Covered Over 13,000 Kilometers From Alaska To Tasmania In Just 11 Days Bar-tailed godwit B6 was only 4 months old at the time.

The World's Longest Non-Stop Bird Migration Covered Over 13,000 Kilometers From Alaska To Tasmania In Just 11 Days

Neanderthals' Nifty Tailoring Skills May Have Helped Them Survive The Ice Age Sewing may have saved their asses.

Neanderthals' Nifty Tailoring Skills May Have Helped Them Survive The Ice Age

Henrietta Lacks' Family Gets Undisclosed Settlement In 'Immortal Cells' Case On October 4, 1951, Henrietta Lacks died. But her cells didn't. Over 50,000,000 tons have since been produced worldwide.

Henrietta Lacks' Family Gets Undisclosed Settlement In 'Immortal Cells' Case

Dissolving The Dead: Scotland Becomes First UK Country To Allow Aquamation, A Green Alternative To Cremation Alkaline hydrolysis could reduce the carbon footprint of cremation by over 75 percent.

Dissolving The Dead: Scotland Becomes First UK Country To Allow Aquamation, A Green Alternative To Cremation

A Football Pitch-Sized Coral Colony Is The Great Barrier Reef – And Probably The World’s – Largest It’s more than three times the size of a colony hailed recently hailed as the world champion.

A Football Pitch-Sized Coral Colony Is The Great Barrier Reef – And Probably The World’s – Largest

The 'Great Unconformity' And Earth's Missing Billion Years May Have A New Explanation In 1869, John Wesley Powell was studying layers of rock in the Grand Canyon when he noticed an unconformity in the layers. Around a billion years were missing, and the problem turned out to be global.

The 'Great Unconformity' And Earth's Missing Billion Years May Have A New Explanation

The Rise And Fall Of The Turnspit Dog, The Extinct Breed That Ran The Kitchen For Centuries If you like dogs, you may not want to read this one.

The Rise And Fall Of The Turnspit Dog, The Extinct Breed That Ran The Kitchen For Centuries

Bacteria That Literally Eat Tumors May Be The Future Of Cancer Treatment, Enormous Prehistoric Bird With A Toothed Beak Was Horrifying, And Much More This Week All the biggest science news stories of the week.

Bacteria That Literally Eat Tumors May Be The Future Of Cancer Treatment, Enormous Prehistoric Bird With A Toothed Beak Was Horrifying, And Much More This Week

The World's Deepest Land Animal Lives 1.9 Kilometers Underground In One Of Earth's Deepest Caves No light, no problem.

The World's Deepest Land Animal Lives 1.9 Kilometers Underground In One Of Earth's Deepest Caves

Are We Really More Microbe Than Human? Find Out More In Issue 44 Of CURIOUS – Out Now The dangers of toxic positivity? Did AI inspire a royal assassination attempt? All this and more exclusively in the latest issue of our e-magazine.

Are We Really More Microbe Than Human? Find Out More In Issue 44 Of CURIOUS – Out Now

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is About To Have A Potentially Course-Altering Encounter, Before Heading Towards The Gemini Constellation Before we say goodbye to our interstellar visitor, another close encounter is on its way. This one could be course-altering.

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is About To Have A Potentially Course-Altering Encounter, Before Heading Towards The Gemini Constellation

Ancient Underground Rivers Still Run Beneath London's Bustling City Streets Listen closely, and you might be able to hear them trickle by.

Ancient Underground Rivers Still Run Beneath London's Bustling City Streets

A Blood Moon, A Conjunction, And Six Planets Parading In The Night Sky Look up, look up, and look up!

A Blood Moon, A Conjunction, And Six Planets Parading In The Night Sky

'Forever Chemicals' Are Speeding Up Our Aging – And One Demographic Is More Vulnerable Than Others PFAS are generally thought to be pretty bad for us, and now it seems they accelerate signs of aging in our cells.

'Forever Chemicals' Are Speeding Up Our Aging – And One Demographic Is More Vulnerable Than Others

How Do We Find Planets That Are Too Faint To See Directly? We’ve published hundreds of articles about exotic exoplanets, but how do scientists even know they’re there?

How Do We Find Planets That Are Too Faint To See Directly?

Conspiracy Beliefs May Be Linked To A Love Of Rules And Order – Not A Lack Of Critical Thinking People who prefer a structured, rule-based way of explaining the world and events may find conspiracy theories more comforting.

Conspiracy Beliefs May Be Linked To A Love Of Rules And Order – Not A Lack Of Critical Thinking

Most Dark Matter Dominated Galaxy Ever? New Object CDG-2 Could Be 99.9 Percent Dark Matter Tracing groups of stars tells the story of a massive but invisible object.

Most Dark Matter Dominated Galaxy Ever? New Object CDG-2 Could Be 99.9 Percent Dark Matter

Sea Turtles Are Now Nesting In 'Plastic Rocks' On A Remote Volcanic Island Sea turtles can’t catch a break.

Sea Turtles Are Now Nesting In 'Plastic Rocks' On A Remote Volcanic Island

After Nearly 144 Years, Construction Of World's Tallest Church Reaches Big Milestone – What's Taken So Long? When will Sagrada Família be completed?

After Nearly 144 Years, Construction Of World's Tallest Church Reaches Big Milestone – What's Taken So Long?

People Are Asking Why They Have Never Heard Of Heart Cancer 'Since cancer happens where there are cells in your body, why have I never seen such thing as heart/muscles cancer?'

People Are Asking Why They Have Never Heard Of Heart Cancer

'Maybe We Never Really Had That Many Of Their X Chromosomes': Prehistoric Human Women Had The Hots For Neanderthal Dudes Imagine what they would have made of Homo erectus!

'Maybe We Never Really Had That Many Of Their X Chromosomes': Prehistoric Human Women Had The Hots For Neanderthal Dudes