Katherine Ellen Foley

Somewhere off the coast of Australia, there’s a tiny fish trying to swim through a jellyfish.

We’ve all stared up at the ceiling as congestion makes it impossible to fall asleep at night. Or felt like we were drowning in piles of tissues during a cold. In these moments of misery, we find ourselves wondering: why do we have mucus anyway?

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At first, skipping meals, may sound like just another celebrity fad diet. Indeed, Jimmy Kimmel swears by a version of it.

King Tut, the ancient teenage Egyptian king, was buried with many ceremonial objects, including an iron-blade dagger complete with a gold handle and sheathe. As if the golden fixtures weren’t impressive enough, it turns out the blade was made with metal that came from outer space.

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It’s finally starting to feel like summer in the northern hemisphere, which means more opportunities to venture outside for a run instead of hitting the gym.

Memorial Day in the US kicks off the unofficial start of summer. To celebrate the sun and warm weather, Americans will open their pools and fire up their backyard grills. Quartz caught up with Jack Bischop, the creative director at America’s Test Kitchen, a food lab in Boston, to talk about the easiest ways to ensure your summer barbecue is as good as it can be.

The idea of a hybrid polar and grizzly bear may sound cool or terrifying, depending on your opinion. But their appearances in the wild may mean that polar bears are quickly running out of room.

The wildfire that forced more than 88,000 evacuations from Fort McMurray and a few surrounding communities in northern Canada has reached over 2,000 square miles (3,218 square kilometers), and is still not under control.

If you can’t get your dog to behave, it may be your tone of voice that’s to blame.

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Brits are, in fact, taller than they used to be. More of them are able to digest milk, and more have blue eyes.

When you need a therapist the most, you’re probably not willing to spend a lot of time to find one.

Most of us like to think that we have moral standards, and there may be a psychological reason why.

Any kind of surgery involves risks and over the years, the medical profession has worked to mitigate these dangers.

Video games are hardly just for fun anymore: Science has shown that some games can be tools that improve learning abilities (paywall) and problem solving (pdf). Now, researchers from the University College London and Alzheimers Research UK have created a game that collects data about players’ cognitive abilities. They hope this will lead to a better understanding of dementia, an umbrella term for general cognitive decline that includes diseases like Alzheimer’s.

There is nothing I love more than a BBQ bacon cheeseburger. Except, maybe, pizza. And tacos, Korean BBQ, meatball subs, chocolate cake, and milkshakes.

Zika is now being actively transmitted in 49 countries around the world and expected to infect 4 million people by the end of 2016. So far, doctors have only been able to definitively detect the virus when they can send blood samples to a specialized lab for difficult genetic testing.

Today (May 9), you can spot Mercury’s tiny shadow over the sun as it passes between Earth and our star between 7:12 am and 2:42 pm ET—if you’ve got the right equipment.

Earlier this week, we learned that the morning Prince died, he was supposed to meet with and opioid addiction expert. The number of deaths that have involved prescription opioids in the US has increased almost fourfold over the past 15 years as a result of accidental overdose.

Lisa Sanders is an internal medicine specialist who realizes that sometimes, even doctors don’t have all the answers. “When medicine looks to you and says, ‘I’ve got nothing,’ then you should feel free to look for yourself,” she said.

Prince was actively seeking the help of opioid addiction specialists in the days leading up to his death, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The morning his body was found, on April 21, he was scheduled to meet with Andrew Kornfeld, a staff member from Recovery Without Walls, a rehabilitation facility in California, according to a lawyer representing Kornfeld.

When the writer and artist Margarita Gokun Silver had her first migraine after she turned 40, the pain was so bad she vomited before lying in bed, completely incapacitated for the rest of the day.