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Weekly Horoscope: June 21-June 27

Cancer season opens Sunday, stargazer, and the shift is immediate — from Gemini’s fast-moving mental energy into something slower, more...

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‘Bum-Maxxing’ Encourages Men to Be Their Worst Selves. Experts Say That’s Obviously a Problem.

The internet’s “maxxing” era has given us sleep-maxxing, looks-maxxing, and enough wellness optimization content to make a person want to lie...

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The 6 Most Common Sex Dreams and What They Probably Don’t Mean

You wake up, momentarily confused, a little guilty, and then fully aware of what just happened in your dream. The person involved was not your...

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Daily Horoscope: June 19, 2026

The Sun sextiling the Moon gives Friday a cooperative start. Most people will feel it as a welcome exhale after a heavy few days.

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3 Ways to Instantly Build Chemistry With Someone, According to Neuroscience

“We just have chemistry” is one of those phrases that sounds profound and means almost nothing. Nobody can explain it, nobody knows where it comes...

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The 2 Personality Traits Long-Term Couples Actually Have in Common

If you and your partner disagree on how to load a dishwasher, whether 9 p.m. is a reasonable bedtime, or what constitutes a real emergency, don’t...

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How to Know if Your Relationship Can Handle a Threesome Without Ruining Everything

The threesome has spent millennia at the top of the sexual fantasy charts, immortalized in movies, half-joked about at dinner tables, and held onto by...

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Daily Horoscope: June 18, 2026

Pluto opposing Venus pulls the real story out from under the polished one. Most people will feel it before the day is out.

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Woman Hospitalized After Her Weekly ‘Cheat Day’ Diet Gave Her Pancreatitis

Diet culture has spent years making extreme restriction sound like discipline. A young woman in China just ended up in the hospital because of it....

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Americans Let Their Dreams Make Decisions for Them More Often Than You Think

There’s a reason you woke up convinced you needed to quit your job, cut off an ex, or text someone you haven’t spoken to in years. A Talker...

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Researchers Discovered People Are Weirdly Chill About Eating Bugs

If you’ve been raised in a Western culture, the thought of eating insects probably makes your stomach curdle. Researchers from Portugal think a free...

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This Robot Toilet Comes to You When You Need to Go (It’s Absurdly Expensive, Though)

Have you ever been lying in bed peacefully, only to be rudely awakened by your bladder? The trek to the bathroom feels a million miles away. Well, now...

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Americans Were Asked About Their Earliest Memories, and the Answers Are Kind of Concerning

Think back to your earliest memory. How old were you? For me, anything before kindergarten is basically a void with occasional flashes of weird...

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Mercury Retrograde Is Coming, and the Chaos It Brings May Be More Real Than You Think

I feel like I just got my bearings back from the last Mercury retrograde, and here we are: it’s coming back for another round starting June 29....

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3 Reasons Scientists Think Aliens Stay Away from Earth

Between government document dumps and a Spielberg movie about extraterrestrial life, it’s a good week to believe in aliens. It’s also a good week...

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The Summer Solstice Is Approaching. These 5 Zodiac Signs Will Feel Its Pull Strongest.

June 21 is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, and, according to astrologers, the moment the entire vibe of the solar calendar flips....

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Daily Horoscope: June 16, 2026

Jupiter conjuncting Mercury means what you put out today has more reach than usual. Say the thing. Tonight's a good night for it.

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Lying to Your Doctor About These 3 Things Could Kill You, Expert Says

Be honest: you’ve lied about your weekly drink count at a doctor’s appointment. Probably more than once. According to Dr. Ronald Epstein, a...

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Scientists Discovered 31 New Deep-Sea Species, and They’re All Extremely Weird

The deep ocean keeps producing creatures that look like they were designed by someone who’d never seen an animal before, and scientists just added...

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Welcome to the Praise Kink Era: Why Gen Z Prefers Compliments Over Dirty Talk in the Bedroom

Sweet little Gen Z just wants to be told they’re doing a good job. In bed. New data from erotic audio platform Bloom Stories surveyed hundreds of...

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Former UAP Task Force Member Allegedly Claims She May Have Encountered Two ‘Extraterrestrials’ in Public

The Capitol Hill UFO briefing last week made headlines, but Joshua Golembeske says the most jaw-dropping moment never made it to air. Golembeske, lead...

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These Fake Online Stores Are Letting People Shop Without Spending Money. Here’s Why.

South Korea gave the world K-pop, 12-step skincare routines, and parasocial relationships with virtual boyfriends. Its latest export is a fake online...

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Daily Horoscope: June 15, 2026

Something unresolved is sitting in the path of growth this week. You already know what it is, stargazer. Time to deal with it.

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A 100-Year-Old Man’s Dance Video Went Viral, but His Origin Story Is Even Better

Bernard Gilbert has been dancing for 84 years and has no intention of stopping. The 100-year-old from Worcester recently went viral for the third or...

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Weekly Horoscope: June 14-June 20

Something is resetting this week, and you’ll feel it before you can name it. A New Moon in Gemini kicks things off with fresh mental energy —...

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5 Signs You’re More Self-Disciplined Than You Think, According to a Psychologist

The self-discipline archetype is exhausting. Plain chicken, 5 a.m. alarms, cold plunges, some looks-maxxing guy telling you his morning routine...

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The 2 Zodiac Signs Most Likely to Disappoint You Between the Sheets

Astrology has wormed its way into dating, compatibility, and now, sexual performance reviews. Redditors have been sharing their bedroom experiences...

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Scientists Finally Determined the Correct Number of Daily Farts

There are certain questions people Google with the moral posture of a raccoon digging through trash. “How much farting is normal?” is absolutely...

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A Man Who Donated His Body to Science Shocked Medical Students With His ‘Triple Penis’

A man donated his body to science after death and managed to leave medical students with one final anatomical curveball: three penises. According to...

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6 Reasons You Keep Waking Up at 3 AM

The body has many annoying habits, and waking up at 3 a.m. for no clear reason ranks near the top. You’re tired. You know you’re tired. Your body...

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Americans Say They’ve Had 9 Sexual Partners. The Real Number Is Much Different.

“What’s your number?” has always been one of dating’s worst little trap doors. It sounds casual. It sounds adult. It sounds like two people...

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Daily Horoscope: June 12, 2026

The energy is there, and it's ready today. Don't talk yourself out of using it. This Friday's got your back.

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Kool-Aid Pineapples Look Toxic and Taste Amazing. Here’s How to Make Them.

Pineapple has joined the long list of foods the internet couldn’t leave alone. Kool-Aid pineapples are the internet’s current summer snack...

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These Are the World’s 10 Best Hotels for 2026 (America Made the List. Barely.)

Every year, someone ranks the world’s best hotels, and every year, the results are a little reminder that the rest of the world isn’t exactly...

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The 5 Cheapest (and 3 Most Expensive) Places to Travel in 2026

Picking the right destination in 2026 can be the difference between a trip that feels like a rejuvenating treat and one that takes six months to...

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Drinking a Ton of Hard Seltzer Can Land You in the Hospital With This Newly Identified Disorder

Hard seltzer convinced a generation of drinkers that pounding six cans was basically fine. Low-calorie, low alcohol, it’s practically a health...

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Daily Horoscope: June 11, 2026

Emotions have a way of showing up uninvited today and expecting to be dealt with. Let what's true have some air, stargazer.

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Swarm of Parasite-Carrying Mosquitoes Traps Tourists in Their Cars in Horrifying Video

Russia’s Lake Shchuchye is, by all accounts, a beautiful destination. A group of tourists who drove there recently wouldn’t know—they never made...

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Introducing Fraysexuality, the Sexual Orientation That Could Explain Why You Get ‘Bored’ So Fast

There’s a reason that hot stranger is so intriguing. The mystery, the projection, the total absence of knowing how they load a dishwasher. For...

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Do Orgasms Really Help Boost Your Immune System? Here’s What Scientists Have to Say.

Every cold and flu season, you’ll stand in the supplement aisle staring at a $40 bottle of something that promises to support your immune health,...

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Daily Horoscope: June 10, 2026

Mercury squares Saturn today, putting a wall between what you mean and what comes out. Say less than you think you need to.

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The Truth About Whether We’ve Actually Discovered Alien Life, According to Astrobiologists

Every few months, someone announces we’re on the verge of finding alien life, and the headlines go predictably insane. What rarely makes it into...

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Venus and Jupiter Will Almost Touch in the Sky Tonight. Here’s How to See It.

Tonight, June 9, Venus and Jupiter will appear just 1.6 degrees apart in the western sky during twilight, about three times the width of a full moon,...

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One Woman’s ‘Sad Nipple Syndrome’ Experience Caused Thousands to Admit They Have the Same Condition

Some women accidentally have a nipple grazed and are hit with a wave of inexplicable sadness, guilt, or dread so sudden and heavy that it stops them...

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Psychologists Say This Simple Habit Can Make You a Much Happier Person

Before the overthinking kicks in, there’s usually a knowing. A job offer, a relationship, a move—the gut feels something almost immediately, and...

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What’s Your Spirit Animal? Here’s What Your Birth Month Reveals.

Astrology gets most of the attention when it comes to mapping personality to the cosmos, but animal spirit guides have been doing the same work across...

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Daily Horoscope: June 9, 2026

Venus conjuncts Jupiter today, making this one of the warmer, more generous days of the month. Let yourself actually feel it for once.

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Gen Z Is Dating People They’re Not Attracted to On Purpose. Psychologists Have Thoughts.

Gen Z has rebranded going on dates with people they’re not attracted to as a wellness practice, and to be honest, the logic holds up better than it...

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4 Signs Your Leftovers Should Be Thrown in the Trash Immediately, According to Science

Most people have stood in front of the fridge holding something questionable, doing a quick mental cost-benefit analysis between food poisoning and...

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Woman Claims Neighbors Built 10-Foot ‘Poop Walls’ Around Her Home, and Now She Can’t Sell It

A woman in rural Australia can’t sell her home because her neighbors built 10-foot poop walls around it. The whistling at 3 a.m. is somehow worse....

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