Freeze it, boil it, or expose it to radiation. The water bear shrugs it off. Now we know why.  The tardigrade, also known as the moss piglet or water bear, is a bizarre, microscopic creature that looks like something out of a Disney nightmare scene: strange but not particularly threatening. The pudgy, eight-legged, water-borne creature appears... Continue Reading →

There are two rules in the beauty world that basically everyone breaks: 1. wash your makeup brushes on the regs, and 2. don't pop your pimples. Katie Wright, a 21-year-old from Austin, TX, broke both rules and could have died because of it. It all started when Wright felt what she "thought was a giant... Continue Reading →

Not happy. Not sad. Just nothing. I never realized how little I knew about depression until I became depressed. I didn't know, for instance, how depression can snatch away your sex drive, leaving you feeling newly—and involuntarily—asexual. I didn't know that depression attacks your attention span, your energy, and your ability to finish things. During... Continue Reading →