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- Brutal Case Study Shows Why You Need to Lay Off Cotton Buds For Ear Cleaning
- For The First Time, Astronomers Have Detected an Exoplanet Using Radio Waves
- How Should You Prepare For a Pandemic?
- Microbiologist Says Most of Us Wash Our Hands Wrong. Here's How to Do It Properly
- There's a Peculiar Link Between Whales Beaching Themselves And Solar Storms
- China's Rover Finds Layer of Dust Almost 12 Metres Deep on The Far Side of The Moon
- Australian Team Claims They're 5 Year From Fusion Energy. Here's Where We're Really at
- Some People Can Make a Roaring Sound in Their Ears Just by Tensing a Muscle
- Physicists Have Filmed The Moment an Atom Undergoes a Quantum Measurement
- This Worm That Lost Its Legs Is The Earliest Known Example of Evolutionary Reversion
- Watch as Dust Devils Leave Eerie Streaks Across This Martian Crater
- We Now Have a Beautiful Colour Image of Earth's Minimoon
- The CDC Releases Predictions For How COVID-19 Will Spread in The US
- Brain Scans Reveal a New Schizophrenia Type That Almost Looks Like a 'Healthy' Brain
- Astronomers Just Witnessed The Biggest Explosion in The Universe Ever Recorded
- Science Is Already Being Disrupted by Climate Change, And We're Woefully Unprepared
- Astounding Images of Antarctica's Blood-Red Ice Are Really an Ominous Climate Sign
- Here's The Difference Between 'Panic Buying' And Reasonably Preparing For a Crisis
- Obesity Is a Form of Premature Aging, Scientists Say, And We Need to Rethink It
- No, The CDC Is Not Telling People to Shave to Avoid The Coronavirus
- Earth Seems to Have Captured an Additional Moon, And We Didn't Notice For 3 Years
- You're Not Imagining It. Science Confirms Seagulls Really Do Prefer Your Food
- Feeling Anxious Over The Coronavirus? Here's What You Can Do
- COVID-19 Is Spreading Faster Outside China Than Within For The First Time
- Many Young Women Face a Seriously Underreported Issue When It Comes to Their Sex Lives
- Cloud Seeding Really Does Work – But Only Makes Enough Snow to Dust Your Eyelashes
- Amazing Video Footage Reveals The Moment Two Separate Droplets Coalesce Into One
- New Experiment With Human Stem Cells Ends Up Rapidly Curing Diabetes in Mice
- This Exoplanet Could Actually Be Habitable After All, And It's Not Even That Far
- CDC Has Travel Advice For Places Hit by COVID-19. Here's What You Need to Know
- What Is a Pandemic?
- There's a Simple Way to Store Renewable Energy, And We Already Have The Technology
- The Arctic 'Doomsday' Seed Vault Just Stashed Away 60,000 More Seed Samples
- Health Authorities Are Now Expecting COVID-19 to Spread in The US
- What Is Climate Change?
- Stone Tools Show How Humans in India Survived a Supervolcano Eruption 74,000 Years Ago
- Look at These Mind-Blowing Fossils of 1 Billion-Year-Old Seaweed
- Archaeologists in Turkey Discover a Mysterious Ancient Kingdom Lost in History
- Engineers Propose a New 'Detonating' Rocket Engine, And It's as Wild as It Sounds
- Scientists Find The First-Ever Animal That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive
- A Woman Accidentally Took 550 Times The Normal LSD Dose, Case Report Details
- Those Horrific Wildfires in Australia Destroyed a Fifth of The Continent's Forests
- Famous NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson Has Died Aged 101
- First Direct Evidence of Marsquakes Was Just Revealed Amongst New InSight Discoveries
- Doctors Report The First Known Case of a Person Who Urinates Alcohol
- No Signs of Alien Tech Found by SETI Scans of Our Interstellar Visitor 2I/Borisov
- There's One Factor That Can Tell Us if The Coronavirus Outbreak Is Slowing Down
- Oh Well, Betelgeuse Has Officially Stopped Dimming For Now
- A Person Can Carry And Transmit COVID-19 Without Showing Symptoms, Scientists Confirm
- New NASA Photos From Antarctica Reveal Shocking Levels of Ice Melt
- Infamous Daredevil 'Mad' Mike Hughes Has Died in Homemade Rocket Crash in California
- Helix of an Elusive Rare Earth Metal Could Help Push Moore's Law to The Next Level
- Scientists Have Created Bionic Jellyfish And Successfully Controlled Their Movements
- Study Reveals The Mechanics of The Body's 'Steering Wheel' For The First Time
- Scientists Have Discovered a Brand New Electronic State of Matter
- All Those Low-Cost Satellites in Orbit Could Be Weaponized by Hackers, Warns Expert
- Heart-Wrenching Study Shows Why You Really Shouldn't Yell at Your Dog
- WHO Warns: We're Losing The Window to Contain The Coronavirus Outbreak
- Humans Bred With a Mysterious Archaic Population in Earliest Known Interbreeding Event
- Japan Is Sending a Lander to a Martian Moon, And It'll Be Back by 2030
- AI Has Uncovered Surprising Potential New Antibiotics to Combat Drug Resistance
- Antidepressants Can Cause Intense Withdrawal-Like Symptoms That Can Trigger Dependence
- Nuclear Fusion Startup Claims It's on The Way to Providing 'Unlimited' Energy
- A Short Meditation Could Help With Pain Management Even if You've Never Tried It Before
- This Tree Is So Toxic, You Can't Even Stand Under It When It Rains
- This Strange Binary Star Is Acting Out of Character, And It's Not The Only One
- Tiny Microbe May Be The Perfect Time Capsule For Messaging Far Future Civilisations
- Astronomers Detect a Doomed 'Hot Jupiter' With an Insane 18-Hour-Short Orbit
- New Isotope Analysis Just Changed The Very Timeline of How Earth Was Born
- In a Huge First, Physicists Have Captured Individual Atoms And Watched Them Merge
- Scientists Warn That We Must Prepare For The Next Global Viral Outbreak Now
- US Is Dramatically Lagging Behind Other Countries in a New 'Child Flourishing Index'
- The Earliest Sex Between Different Human Ancestors May Have Occurred 700,000 Years Ago
- New Claims Have Emerged About The Location of Nefertiti's Secret Burial Chamber
- Curious Fossil Discovery Points to Dog Domestication as Early as 28,500 Years Ago
- MIT Team Claims to Have Found The Best Way to Deflect Scary Earth-Bound Asteroids
- Crystals Have Been Used to Generate Truly Random Numbers For The Very First Time
- Scientists Find a Wild Salamander That Hasn't Moved From Its Spot For 7 Years
- World's First Baby Has Been Born From a Cancer Survivor's Frozen, Lab-Matured Egg
- Eerily Beautiful Photo From a Desert Shows a Rare Glimpse of Jupiter's Halo
- This Legend of a Volcano Erupting 37,000 Years Ago May Be The Oldest Story on Earth
- Rare And Fleeting 'Volcanoes' Have Been Erupting at Lake Michigan
- The Coronavirus Outbreak Is Having an Unexpected Effect on The Environment, Too
- Watch a Violinist Play While Surgeons Remove Tumour From Her Brain
- Certain Junk Foods Could Be Messing With Your Brain's Appetite Control, Study Finds
- 'Throat of Fire' Volcano in Ecuador Shows Early Signs of Collapse, Scientists Warn
- Astronomers Have Detected Molecular Oxygen in Another Galaxy For The First Time
- What Is Betelgeuse?
- Strange Neuron-Like Bursts Have Been Detected in Skin Cells For The First Time
- Vast Majority of Coronavirus Infections Are Mild, Huge Study Has Revealed
- This Is What It Looks Like When a Colossal Bird Migration Obscures a Rain Radar
- Photos: A Breathtaking Pompeii Restoration Was Just Revealed, With New Treasures
- SpaceX Just Announced They'll Send Space Tourists Deeper Into Orbit Than Ever Before
- We've Vastly Underestimated How Much Methane Humans Are Spewing Into The Atmosphere
- There's a Simple Sustainability Hack Anyone Can Use in Their Shower
- That Excruciatingly Cute Viral 'Baby Platypus' Is Actually… Plastic
- A Stunning Neanderthal Skeleton Was Just Unearthed at a Famous Burial Site
- Scientists Built a Genius Device That Generates Electricity 'Out of Thin Air'
- The Moon Will Occult Mars Tomorrow Morning. Here's How You Can See It
- Startling New Photos Reveal The World's Only Known Pink Manta Ray
- The World's Richest Man Just Pledged $10 Billion to Fight Climate Change
- NASA Has Detected Millions of Methane Hotspots Littering The Arctic
- We Just Got Closer to Producing Painkillers From Rattlesnake Venom
- Scientists Are Deeply Concerned These 5 Cascading Crises Threaten Future Generations
- The Real 'Paleo Diet' Contained Some Pretty Toxic Heavy Metals, Study Reveals
- Dinosaur Eggshells Just Added Curious Evidence to a Debate About Their Blood
- Astronomers Detect Strange Gas Movements Near The Centre of Our Galaxy
- A Common Cough Syrup Drug Just Passed Another Trial as Parkinson's Treatment
- Here's Why It's Taking So Long to Develop a Vaccine For The New Coronavirus
- New Telescope Images of Betelgeuse Reveal Details of Its Mysterious Dimming
- Half a Million Mussels Appear to Have Cooked Alive on a New Zealand Beach
- The Repeating Signals From Deep Space Are Extremely Unlikely to Be Aliens. Here's Why
- Psychologist Explains a Common Reason Relationships Fail That No One Likes to Discuss
- After 40 Years of Hunting, Scientists Identify a Key Flaw in Solar Panel Efficiency
- Video of NASA Astronaut And Her Dog Reuniting After 328 Days in Space Has Us Teary
- This Is What The COVID-19 Virus Looks Like Under The Microscope
- A Bizarre Jellyfish Species Can Sting You Without Touch by Hurling 'Mucus Grenades'
- Monkeys Wake From Anaesthetic When Brain Region Linked to Consciousness Is Stimulated
- Satellite Footage Shows The Moment a Las Vegas-Sized Iceberg Broke Off Antarctica
- Antarctica Just Cracked a Disturbing New Temperature Record of 20 Degrees Celsius
- China's Death Toll Just Went Up. Here's What We Do And Don't Know About COVID-19
- The Most Distant World We've Ever Explored Just Shed Light on How Planets Are Born
- A Small Change in Airplane Altitude Could Reduce Climate Impact of Contrails by 59%
- We Just Got Our Closest Look Yet at a Strange 'Golf Ball Asteroid'
- Scientists Discover Giant Viruses With Features Only Seen Before in Living Cells
- Just Before Our Sun Dies, Its Light Will Shatter The Asteroid Belt to Dust
- NASA Just Updated Earth's Most Iconic Portrait, And We Are as Lonely as Ever
- New Study Indicates How Long Coronaviruses Can Survive on a Surface
- These Are The Early Symptoms of The New Coronavirus, According to The Latest Research
- Growing Evidence Says People on Easter Island Were Still Okay When Europeans Landed
- The 'Ghost' of an Unknown Extinct Human Has Been Found in DNA of Modern West Africans
- Chinese Scientists Just Entangled Quantum Memories Over 50 km
- Your Laptop Charger Is More Powerful Than Apollo 11's Computer, Says Apple Developer
- Who Were The First CRISPR-Edited Babies?
- Who Is Greta Thunberg?
- What Are Fast Radio Bursts?
- Astronomers Have Aired Concerns About Musk's Starlink in a Paper, And It's Intense
- A Rare Human Disease Found Hidden in an Ancient Dinosaur Tail Still Plagues Us Today
- Weird Video of Scientists Dropping Ice Down a Super Deep Hole Is Totally Mesmerising
- Newly Discovered Older Cousin of T. Rex Is So Badass It's Been Named After Death Itself
- Here Are The Qualifications You Need to Be Among NASA's Next Intake of Astronauts
- NASA Captures Rare Photo of a Dust Devil Swirling on The Surface of Mars
- NASA Explains Why The Viral Standing Broom Trick Is a Hoax
- UK Scientists Have Started Testing a New Coronavirus Vaccine on Mice
- WHO Has Finally Named The New Coronavirus
- New Evidence Links Migraines to a Hyper-Excitable Visual Brain
- There's Something Special About Bat Immunity That Makes Them Ideal Viral Incubators
- Cherokee Nation Will Become First US Tribe to Protect Their Seeds in 'Doomsday' Vault
- An Asteroid Totally Just Mooned Earth
- Early Infections Don't Seem to Prevent Allergies – But Getting Dirty in Nature Might
- First Papers on The Black Hole-Neutron Star Merger Are in. Here's What We Didn't See
- If You've Ever Charged With a Public USB Port, You Could Have Been 'Juice Jacked'
- Engineers Just Built an Impressively Stable Quantum Silicon Chip From Artificial Atoms
- Face Mask Sales Are Surging, But Doctors Say It Isn't The Best Coronavirus Protection
- These 5 Online Tools Provide Up-to-Date Tracking of The New Coronavirus Spread
- Two Russian Spacecraft Are Trailing a US Spy Satellite. Space Force Is Unimpressed
- 'Warning to Humanity': Stop Killing Insects Now Before It's Too Late, Say Scientists
- New Way to Generate Electricity From Rain Can Power 100 LED Bulbs Per Drop
- Study Shows The Huge Impact Our Gross Airport Hygiene Has on The Spread of Pandemics
- Ancient Genes Reveal The Last Mammoths on Earth Were a Sickly Mess
- Mouse Experiment Shows Common Immune Cells in The Brain May Play Key Role in Memory
- Scientists Discover Mysterious Virus in Brazil With No Known Genes They Can Identify
- Here Are Five Myths About The Moon You Can Easily Disprove Yourself
- Powerful Radio Signal From Deep Space Appears to Be Repeating in a 16-Day Cycle
- Stolen Painting Found in Wall of The Museum It Was Taken From 23 Years Ago
- Watch Live Right Now as ESA Launches Its Ambitious New Mission to The Sun
- The Pangolin Is Now a Potential Suspect in Spreading The Wuhan Coronavirus to Humans
- US Trial Shows 3 Cancer Patients Had Their Genomes Altered Safely by CRISPR
- This Weekend We Might See a 'Snow Supermoon'. Here's What That Means
- Scientists Have Found a Way to Extract Information From a Single Grain of Moon Dust
- This Incredibly Rare Board Game Piece Dates Back to The First Viking Raids on England
- Astronomers Find Ultramassive Galaxy From The Early Universe That Suddenly Died
- The World's Only Venomous Primate Could Explain Why Humans Are Allergic to Cats
- These 8 Things That Humans Do Really Confuse Our Dogs
- Here's The Real Deal With That Heartwarming Coyote-Badger Video
- Bumblebees Are in Trouble, as Rising Temperatures Drive Their Decline
- Geologists Finally Reveal The Forces That Forged Earth's Sunken Continent Zealandia
- Chinese Doctor Who Raised Alert on Coronavirus Has Died, While The Outbreak Continues
- NASA Astronaut Christina Koch Just Officially Shattered a New Spaceflight Record
- An Extremely Rare 'Double Nucleus' Has Been Imaged in a Nearby Galaxy
- Scientists Unlock a New Method That Can Actually Bend Diamonds
- A Long-Lost Legendary Roman Fruit Tree Has Been Grown From 2,000-Year-Old Seeds
- Massive New Genome Study Unlocks The Mysterious Secrets of How Cancers Form
- A Device That 'Prints' New Skin Right Onto Burns Just Passed Another Animal Trial
- Amazing New Footage Reveals Grey Seals Clapping Underwater to Communicate
- Mysterious Signals Hint That Fast Radio Bursts Are More Active Than We Thought
- Coronavirus Mystery: Children Seem Less Susceptible, And Scientists Don't Know Why
- Scientists Warn Multiple Overlapping Crises Could Trigger 'Global Systemic Collapse'
- Sand Dunes Interact And 'Communicate' With One Another, Physicists Say
- Physicists Have Finally Figured Out The Secret of How Soap Bubbles Get So Giant
- Landmark Relic of Silent Film Hauntingly Upscaled to 4K by Artificial Intelligence
- We May Finally Have a Way to Detect Hawking Radiation Leaking From Black Holes
- Water Seems to Have Not One, But Two Distinct Structures in Its Liquid State
- 2020 Has Barely Started And We've Already Broken Another Global Heat Record
- Woman Grows Hairs Out of Her Gums In Extremely Rare Medical Case
- Sea Levels Around The US Aren't Just Rising, They're Accelerating Year on Year
- Eerie Drone Video Shows Wuhan Is a Ghost City Amid The Largest Quarantine in History
- Rapid Permafrost Collapse Is Underway, Disintegrating Landscapes And Our Predictions
- Scientists Grow 'Yarn' Out of Human Skin Cells So They Can Literally Stitch People Up
- Intriguing Small Study Suggests Smelling Rose While Sleeping Could Help Kids Learn
- There's a Cancer Treatment That Gives People 'Night Vision', And We Finally Know Why
- Cuttlefish Can Refrain From Eating if They Know a Better Meal Is on The Way
- The Beautiful Glow of Fireflies Is Going Dark, And It's All Because of Us
- The History of Quarantines to Isolate The Sick Dates Back Thousands of Years
- Incredible Image Shows The Extraordinary Aftermath of One Star Engulfing Another
- Scientists Grab First Glimpse Deep Underneath Antarctica's Unstable Thwaites Glacier
- Cigarettes Produce Invisible Chemical Emissions Even After They've Been Extinguished
- Virologists Find Coronavirus Is 80% The Same as SARS, Which May Help Us Neutralise It
- Wuhan Coronavirus Likely to Soon Be Declared a Pandemic, Scientists Warn
- High-Tempo Music Can Enhance Performance During Exercise, Study Suggests
- New Research Explains How Solar Panels Could Soon Be Generating Power at Night
- Ancient Crate-Like Object May Be World's Oldest Known Wooden Structure
- There's a Vaccine For Climate Disinformation. Here's How to Use It
- Astronomers Discover 'Invisible' Stars So Dim That We Can't See Them At All
- Incredible NASA Simulation Reveals How Earth Would Look if The Oceans Drained Away
- How Do Woodpeckers Survive Repeated High-Impact Shocks Without Brain Injury?
- US Life Expectancy Just Increased For The First Time in 4 Years
- The FDA Just Approved Its First Drug to Treat Peanut Allergies in Kids