Luna Blackwood
Science & Oddities ReporterGrew up reading medical encyclopedias for fun. Now she writes about the beautiful, disgusting, terrifying machinery of the natural world.
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Articles by Luna Blackwood
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Your Body Ages in Sudden Jumps, Not Slowly
Aging isn't a gradual decline—it happens in dramatic leaps around ages 44 and 60, with multiple biological systems shifting simultaneously.
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Your Eyelashes Are Home to Tiny Mites, and That's Probably Fine
About 4 in 10 people have microscopic mites living in their eyelash follicles right now. They're usually harmless, and you'll never notice.