Even the best behaved children can turn into monsters when Mom’s in the room. Except, apparently, French children, who are always well-behaved for these reasons. But it took a fake study (originally published in Mom News Daily) to get people talking about why. The faux study, supposedly out of the University of Washington’s Department of …

The news can be a damper sometimes, and in 2017, it seemed to be a heavy weight a lot. But there were sparks of hope in some places, especially in medicine, where the next frontier of health technology made what we formerly thought impossible pretty damn possible. Between gene editing, mind control, and viruses carrying …

Near the end of the year, it’s like the Internet is flooded with opinions (even more so than usual). Everywhere you look, there are year-end “Best of 2017” lists on the best beauty products, best movies, best everything. And while we love a list, Pinterest decided to do something different and look ahead. Pulling from …

Cold weather is all very well and good over Christmas – as we bundle up by the fire, drinking mulled wine and relaxing in the thick new socks we were gifted – but what about the rest of the time? Well though we moan about the freezing temperatures it turns out that it is doing …

Whether it’s from a breakup or disappointment about losing a job, we already know that broken heart syndrome is real. That’s one of the reasons that C. Nathan Dewall, a social psychologist at the University of Kentucky, explored what happens when physical and emotional pain overlap. Dewall had previously studied Vicodin and its effects on …