Gross Science

I ate a lot of bugs...and (mostly) liked them.

What should you do with the borax you have leftover from making slime? Use it to make crystals!

How does lead damage our brains—and what can we do to stop it?

Bees get more than just nectar from the flowers they visit. Sometimes they also get a sip of caffeine, nicotine, or alcohol.

These extinct frogs used to barf up their babies—and now scientists are trying to bring them back from the dead. Happy Mother’s Day!

Fear may be able to spread from person to person—just like a virus.

You swallow a ton of snot every single day. Welcome to the gross world of mucus.

You can help a special snail find a mate—while also helping scientists unravel a mystery.

How do you get rid of skunk odor? Don't use tomato juice... use chemistry!

It's called "coprophagia," and lots of dogs do it.

Inbreeding...It's hugely taboo for us, but lots of organisms do it.

Listeria turns your own cells against you, and can live where other types of food poisoning perish.