13 Scientific Findings We Had To Share

Luckily for us, every day scientists are writing papers about their findings and we get to just read them instead of having to do any of the work ourselves. It’s wild when people dismiss a whole field of experts’ tedious work for their own “research.” When ordinary people say they “researched” a topic, it often means they googled what they wanted to hear and read the top sponsored results. It certainly doesn’t mean they used the scientific method and submitted their findings to a peer-reviewed journal.
Of course, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be critical of studies -- it’s important to see who is funding the study and if other experts are criticizing it. But more often than not, even if a biased study is more based on science than a random opinion we come to and want to support.
Here are thirteen interesting studies we read, and we encourage you to look at the original study if you’re suspicious about the findings.
Having money is good for your heart.

Source: JAMA Cardiology
Blue-eyed people are all related via a single ancestor

Source: ScienceDaily
Unreliable research is cited more

Source: ScienceAdvances
Women are just as competitive, when they can share the winnings

Source: ScienceDaily
Bigger cities mean bigger difference in incomes

Source: The Royal Society
Male dolphin's offspring is based on popularity

Source: ScienceDaily
Millionaires are more likely to be risky

Source: Nature
Beware of Octopuses

Source: Scientific American
Spiders can hear you with their webs

Source: PNAS
T. rexes might have had silly arms for a reason

Source: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Smelling is a universal language

Source: Current Biology
We can now hear what Mars sounds like

Source: NPR
Fish can do basic math
