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- US on Track For 'Staggering' Flood Damage by 2050, Scientists Predict
- Being a Super-Friendly Dog Has One Potential Drawback, Study Finds
- What Would Happen if Rich Countries Gave Away Half Their COVID-19 Vaccines?
- The Atmosphere of This Extreme Exoplanet Has an Intriguing Similarity to Earth
- The Lost City of Cahokia Was Mysteriously Abandoned, And We Still Don't Know Why
- Methane Pollution Just Reached New Heights, And The Sources May Not Be What You Think
- Data From Over 350,000 People Have Really Bad News About 'Moderate' Drinking
- This Stupendous Crater on Mars Looks Eerily Like a Tree Stump
- What Actually Is a 'Bomb Cyclone'? An Atmospheric Scientist Explains
- Orcas Documented Killing Blue Whales And Eating Their Tongues in a World First
- How The Venom of The King Baboon Spider Could Help Us Better Understand Chronic Pain
- Birds Use Earth's Magnetic Field For 'Stop Signs' When They Migrate
- Scientists Spent 4 Years Identifying a New Wasp That Only Leaves Its Home For 2 Days
- Our Brains Keep Us 15 Seconds 'in The Past' to Help Us See a Stable World, Says Study
- How Gut Microbe Symbiosis Helps Squirrels Keep Their Muscles During Hibernation
- Scientists Solve The Century-Old Mystery of Why This Special Insect Can Float in Water
- This Extremely Toxic Lake Could Show Us How Life May Have Survived on Mars
- Teeny Tiny 500-Million-Year-Old Fossils Could Help Explain The Evolution of Spiders
- New Models Let Us Dive Into One of The Brightest Star Explosions We've Ever Seen
- New Treatment Helps Frogs Regenerate Limbs With Functioning Nerves in Just 18 Months
- Most COVID-19 ICU Survivors Still Experience Symptoms a Year After Admission
- Signs of an Unknown Solar 'Tsunami' Have Been Discovered Deep Inside Earth's Ice
- 800-Year-Old Chronicle Turns Out to Be Earliest Report of Ball Lightning in England
- The Latest Verdict on The Future of Coffee Is Here, And The News Is Not Good
- Cancer Drug Flushes Out Latent HIV, Exciting New Study Finds
- The Source of Ghostly Shadows in The Sun's Atmosphere Could Finally Be Identified
- Just Two Words on a Cookie Label Can Mess Up How It Tastes, Study Finds
- Wolves Already Had The Genetic Mutation to Turn Into Tiny Dogs 54,000 Years Ago
- Glacier Lakes Make Permanent Ice Disappear Over Twice as Fast, Study Reveals
- A Hidden Pattern in Your Retina May Reveal if You're at Risk of a Future Heart Attack
- We May Finally Understand Why Clouds Are Different Between Earth's Hemispheres
- 'Killer Lake' in Africa Looks Like Paradise, But It's Hiding a Deadly Secret
- Jaw-Dropping View of The Milky Way Reveals Mysterious Structures Dangling in Space
- Record-Breaking Nuclear Fusion Experiment Achieves Historic Plasma Milestone
- Abandoned SpaceX Rocket Will Crash Into The Moon Within Weeks, Scientists Say
- Study Confirms Suspicions That Cat Brains Are Smaller Than They Used to Be
- Astronomers Detect Strange Signals We've Never Seen Before in Our Cosmic Vicinity
- Wild New Paper Suggests Earth's Tectonic Activity Has an Unseen Source
- Hippos Will Aggressively Spray Poop at The Mere Sound of a Stranger's Wheeze Honk
- What's The Deal With 5G And Plane Safety? Here's What You Need to Know
- Tonga Eruption Was Equivalent to '100s of Hiroshima Bombs', Says NASA
- A Harvard Mathematician Has Basically Solved an Epic, 150-Year-Old Chess Problem
- Astronomers Detect Rare 'Missing Link' Black Hole in Our Closest Galactic Neighbor
- Lots of People Die Every Year During or After Having Sex. A Pathologist Explains Why
- Landmark Poverty Experiment Shows Extra Money Changes Babies' Brains
- Mysterious Signal of Hidden Lakes on Mars May Not Be What We Thought
- Two Colossal Sphinx Statues Discovered Inside Ancient Egyptian Temple
- James Webb Space Telescope Reaches Its Destination in Huge Mission Milestone
- New Immunotherapy Study Gives Encouraging News For Children With Peanut Allergy
- Mysterious Effects of Smoking May Surface Even 3 Generations Later, Study Finds
- Physicists Detect Mysterious X Particles in 'Primordial Soup' For The First Time
- A Fetus Was Preserved Within an Egyptian Mummy Because It 'Pickled', Scientists Say
- Waiting Over 5 Hours in ER Is Linked to Higher Death Rates, New Data Show
- The 3rd Leading Global Cause of Death Is Likely Not What You Think, New Study Reveals
- 6 Evidence-Based Ways to Reduce Feeling Anxious Before Going to The Gym
- Vets Race to Save Endangered Birds Caught in Oil Spill Off The Coast of Peru
- Climate Change Could Open Up 'Rivers in The Sky' Over East Asia
- Bioengineers Have Modeled The Workings of The World's Most Basic Synthetic Life Form
- We Have a 'Sixth Sense' That Is Key to Our Wellbeing, But Only if We Listen to It
- This Adorable Jumping Spider Can't Actually See Its Own Most Vivid Color
- This New Record in Laser Beam Stability Could Help Answer Physics' Biggest Questions
- Dive Into a Writhing Swarm of Sardines With This Astounding Penguin Footage
- These Ornate 3-Foot-Long Tubes May Be The Oldest Known Straws
- Antarctic 'Megaberg' Released 152 Billion Tons of Freshwater Just Before Melting
- Even in The Depths of Sleep, Our Brains Are Alert to Stranger Danger, Says New Study
- Watch an Orca Pod Free a Humpback Whale From a Coil of Rope, Possibly Saving Its Life
- Special Phage Therapy Clears a Patient's Resistant Infection After 798 Days
- The World's Massive Need For More Solar Panels Has One Shiny Catch
- This Is How Toddlers Know if People Share a Special Bond, And It's Gross
- We May Finally Know Why Whales Don't Drown When They Gulp Down Krill
- Two Solar Flares Just Erupted on The Sun, Bringing Coronal Mass Ejections
- This Cheap, Effective, Patent-Free COVID Vaccine Could Be a Global Game-Changer
- A 'Pristine' Reef of Rose-Shaped Corals Was Just Found Off The Coast of Tahiti
- The Moon That Resembles The Death Star Has Been Hiding Another Epic Secret
- Clinical-Grade Pig Kidney Transplanted Into Human Patient in Scientific First
- Physicists Just Smashed a Record by Keeping a Bubble Intact For Over a Year
- The Tonga Volcanic Eruption Was So Powerful It Sent Ripples Out Into Space
- Astronomers Have Identified a New Kind of Supernova We Never Knew Existed
- The Doomsday Clock Is About to Tick, And We've Never Been So Close to Midnight
- We're Facing a Myopia 'Epidemic', Scientists Say. Here's Why
- In a Historic Milestone, Silicon Quantum Computing Just Exceeded 99% Accuracy
- We Have Breached The Safe Planetary Limit For Synthetic Chemicals, Scientists Warn
- Something in Your Eyes May Reveal if You're at Risk of Early Death, Study Shows
- A New Study Calculates The Number of Black Holes in The Universe. It's a Lot
- SpaceX Satellites Have Invaded Astronomers' Views of The Sky, And It's Getting Worse
- Huge Project Is Now Underway to Sequence The Genome of Every Complex Species on Earth
- World's Deepest Squid Discovered at Staggering Depth Under The Sea
- Study Finds Protein Structures That Could Be Responsible For The Origins of Life
- NASA's Curiosity Rover Drilled Holes Into Mars, And Found Something Very Strange
- Over 60% of Adverse Reactions to COVID-19 Vaccines May Just Be The Nocebo Effect
- The 6th Mass Extinction Really Has Begun, Scientists Warn in Newly Published Study
- The Flame Nebula Blazes Like a Cosmic Bonfire in This Stunning New Image
- Beetle Larvae on US University Campus Found to Jump in a Completely Unknown Way
- It's Time to Upgrade Your Mask, Experts Say. Here's Why
- You've Got a Rare Chance to See a Huge Asteroid Fly by Earth This Week. Here's How
- Dimming The Sun Is a Dangerous Gamble And Should Be Banned, Scientists Warn
- This Medieval Italian Man Replaced His Amputated Hand With a Knife
- Many People Seem Disgusted by The Thought of Eating Cultured Meat
- Spectacular Lost Highways of Ancient Arabia Discovered By Archaeologists
- Earth's Insides Are Cooling Faster Than We Thought, And It Will Mess Things Up
- Scientists Identify Specific Gene Variant That Protects Against Severe COVID-19
- We Finally Know The True Extent of Space Destroying Astronauts' Red Blood Cells
- For The First Time, Astronomers Detect Rugby-Ball Shape of a Deformed Exoplanet
- Why You Should Never Quit Fruit During a Low-Carb Diet, According to Science
- 'Once-in-a-Lifetime Encounter' With Rare Octopus Filmed at Great Barrier Reef
- Why Was The Volcano Explosion in Tonga So Violent, And What to Expect Now?
- A Newly Discovered Fossil Could Be The Answer to Darwin's 'Abominable' Mystery
- What Is The 'Lunar Effect,' And What Does It Have to Do With Shark Attacks?
- Here's How The Sound of Mosquitoes' Mating Rituals Could Help Us Control Malaria
- Strong, Sporadic Magnetic Fields Could Explain One of The Moon's Enduring Mysteries
- Fossil Analysis Reveals This Well-Armored Dinosaur Was Probably Sluggish And Deaf
- Satellite Captures Dramatic Tsunami-Triggering Volcanic Eruption in South Pacific
- Where Did Earth's Oxygen Come From?
- Pavlovian Experiments on Locusts Provide New Clues on How Smell Works in The Brain
- These Ancient 'War Donkeys' Were Likely The 1st Human-Bred Hybrid Animals
- This Ancient Peruvian Empire Put Hallucinogenics in Beer For Political Reasons
- Take a Look at The Largest And Most Detailed 3D Map of The Universe Ever Made
- Perseverance Has Run Into a Problem on Mars: Pebbles
- Scientists Found a Healthier Way to Cook Broccoli, But There's a Catch
- Astronomers Detect Water Vapor in The Atmosphere of a 'Super Neptune' Exoplanet
- Fascinating Mouse Study Hints We May One Day Have mRNA Vaccine for Skin Cancer
- A Common Virus Can Trigger Multiple Sclerosis, According to Huge New Study
- 60 Million Fish Nests in Antarctica Found in Single Largest Breeding Colony to Date
- It's Official: Last 9 Years Are Now Among 10 Hottest Ever Recorded
- Latest Study Finds No Trace of Aliens in 4-Billion-Year-Old Martian Meteorite
- We May Have Just Detected a Supermoon Outside The Solar System
- New Evidence Challenges The Idea That Mutations Are Entirely Random
- New Breakthrough Lets Scientists Track Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts in Real-Time
- Scientists Have Detected a Faint Hint of The Background Hum of The Universe
- Scientists Taught a Goldfish How to Drive Its Tank Around, And It's Adorable
- Thawing Permafrost Is Poised to Unleash Havoc in The Arctic, Scientists Warn
- There's a Hidden Mathematical 'Law' in The Sand Megaripples Found All Over Earth
- The Solar System Exists Inside a Giant, Mysterious Void, And We Finally Know Why
- The Earliest Unequivocal Evidence of Our Species May Be Even Older Than We Realized
- A Rare, Isolated Script Invented From Scratch Holds Clues to The Evolution of Writing
- Ocean Temperatures Just Smashed a New Record For The Sixth Year in a Row
- Ketamine Infusions Seem to Help People Quit Alcohol, Scientists Find
- Infamous 'Gates of Hell' Crater, Blazing For Decades, Set To Be Extinguished
- COVID-19 Vaccines Saved Over 240,000 American Lives in Just 6 Months, Study Finds
- Scientists Built The World's Tiniest Antenna, And It's Made Out of DNA
- We Thought This Cell Death Phenomenon Was Irreversible, But We Were Wrong
- Microbes in The Ocean Depths Can Make Oxygen Without Sun. This Discovery Could Be Huge
- Newly Discovered 'Mini' Supermassive Black Hole Is Among The Smallest Ever Found
- A Hungry Badger Discovered a Roman-Era Treasure Trove, Archaeologists Say
- Giant 'Sea Dragon' Unearthed From Mud Is The Largest Ever Found in The UK
- Chinese Lunar Lander Makes The First Ever On-Site Detection of Water on The Moon
- 'Deltacron' Hybrid Virus Almost Certainly Doesn't Exist, Scientists Say
- Surgeons Implant Pig Heart Into Human Patient in World-First Case
- This Eerie Similarity With Earth Has Finally Solved The Mystery of Jupiter's Cyclones
- Remember That Weird 'Cube' on The Moon? Yutu-2 Finally Took Closer Pictures
- This Study on Teenager Sleep Impacts Has Once Again Proven School Should Start Later
- The Dolphin Clitoris Is Full of Surprises, Scientists Discover
- Sucking DNA Out of The Sky Could Help Us to Identify And Save Endangered Species
- The Same N95 Mask Can Be Decontaminated at Least 25 Times, New Study Indicates
- In a Truly Historic Milestone, JWST Has Been Successfully Deployed! Now What?
- Heating Up Testicles With Nanoparticles Can Work as Male Contraception. Here's How
- Startling Video From Yellowstone Shows Freeloading Grizzly Steal Prey From Wolves
- What We Learned From a Dead Star Erupting With The Fire And Fury of 100,000 Suns
- Why Discovering 'Nothing' in Science Can Be So Incredibly Important
- Risk of Death For Female Patients Is Much Higher if Surgeon Is a Man, Study Reveals
- Astronomers Discover a Brand New Type of Nebula, And It's Very Cool
- We May Have Seriously Underestimated How Hostile Conditions on Early Earth Were
- When Should You Take an at-Home COVID Test? An Infectious Disease Expert Explains
- For The First Time, We've Seen a Red Giant Star Transition Into a Supernova
- How 'Flower Power' Quite Literally Transformed Earth Millions of Years Ago
- The Sun Used to Have Saturn-Like Rings That Stopped Earth From Being a 'Super-Earth'
- What if Humans Had Kept Their Tails?
- This Robotic Hand Is Precise Enough to Move a Microchip With Tweezers
- Gorgeous HD Footage Shows Humanity's Final View of The James Webb Space Telescope
- Mind-Blowing New Fossil Site Found in The 'Dead' Heart of Australia
- Don't Freak Out if a COVID Vaccine Slightly Changes Your Period Cycle, Says Study
- Scientists Spot Eerily Sophisticated Patterns in 'Simple' Bacteria Colonies
- Endometriosis Drug Shows Promise in Preliminary Phase 3 Trial Results
- Dogs Can Differentiate Between Familiar And Foreign Human Languages, Brain Scans Reveal
- Swab Your Throat First? Rapid Tests May Need Saliva to Detect Omicron, Early Data Find
- Physicists Observe Incredible 'Quantum Tornados' Formed From Ultra-Cold Atoms
- Astronomers Discover One of The Biggest Structures Ever Seen in The Milky Way
- China's 'Artificial Sun' Just Broke a Major World Record For Plasma Fusion
- Origins of Drug-Resistant Superbug Weren't What We Thought, Surprise Discovery Shows
- PSA: Hangover Cures Aren't Supported by Scientific Evidence, Scientists Say
- Biological Activity on Earth Really Is Affected by The Gravity of The Sun And Moon
- These Ants Can 'Heal' Wounded Trees in a Fascinating Symbiotic Relationship
- A Giant Asteroid Bigger Than The Empire State Building Is About To Zip Past Earth
- Ancient Toilet Reveals Dangerous Parasites Once Plagued Jerusalem's Elite
- The Science of 'Flow States', Explained by a Cognitive Science Researcher
- NASA's New Flagship Telescope Fully Deploys Sunshield in Critical Mission Milestone
- Mysterious Anomalies Deep Within Our Planet May Have Lingered Since Earth's Creation
- Stunning, Otherworldly Images of Mars Captured by China's Mars Orbiter
- How Did The Big Bang Arise Out of Nothing?
- Astronomers Have Detected a Mysterious, Dusty Object Erratically Dimming Its Star
- 'Icemageddon' Strikes Alaska in Record Bout of Extreme Weather
- Mysterious Footprints Suggest Neanderthals Climbed a Volcano Right After It Erupted
- What Antarctica's 'Doomsday' Glacier Could Mean For The World
- This 19th Century 'Eco-Villain' Made Space Art That Was Truly Ahead of Its Time
- The Weirdest Eyes in The Animal Kingdom See a World We Can't Imagine
- The Tiny Dots in This Image Aren't Stars or Galaxies. They're Black Holes
- What if Math Is a Fundamental Part of Nature, Not Something Humans Came Up With?
- Why Aren't All Calories Created Equal? A Dietitian Explains
- This Mysterious Fire in Australia Has Been Burning For at Least 6,000 Years