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- This Shop in Amsterdam Just Proved More Than 700 Groceries Can Be Sold Plastic-Free
- ScienceAlert Deal: 5 Ways To Learn Python Without Leaving Your House
- We Just Detected Signals From The Very First Stars in Our Universe – And It's Not What We Expected
- Depression Can Actually Leave Long-Term Changes in Your Brain, Study Shows
- A Totally New Species of Tardigrade Was Just Discovered in a Japanese Carpark
- New Study Suggests The Pill Doesn't Increase Risk of Depression After All
- Scientists Have Found The Reason Why Magic Mushrooms Evolved to Be So 'Magical'
- Scientists Discover a Self-Replicating Protein Structure, And It Could Have Built The First Life on Earth
- These Viruses Found in Brazil Are So Huge They're Challenging What We Think a 'Virus' Is
- A Lioness Living in a Zoo Has Suddenly Grown a Mane, Confusing Her Caretakers
- The North Pole Has Gone Above Freezing in The Dead of Winter, Stunning Scientists
- Drop Everything And Watch This Shaolin Monk Puncture Glass by Throwing a Needle
- Enceladus Has Everything It Needs to Host Alien Life, And We're So Excited
- The World Just Got a New Species of Elephant. It Was Hiding in Plain Sight
- Death-Bringing 'Brain Tsunamis' Have Been Observed in Humans For The First Time
- 5 Reasons Why Being Kind Is Great For Your Brain, According to a Psychologist
- Evidence Is Mounting on Just How Bad Loneliness Really Is For You
- The Closest Star to Our Solar System Has Suffered an Insane Eruption
- A Certain Level of Anxiety Can Actually Boost Your Memory, Study Shows
- Humans Will Hear From Aliens This Century, Says Renowned Physicist
- There's a Place on Earth Eerily Similar to Mars, And Scientists Have Confirmed It Has Life
- Our Best Hope For Surviving The Apocalypse Just Hit a Stunning Milestone
- Physicists Just Stuffed an Atom Full of Atoms And Created a Brand New State of Matter
- This Horrifying Fungus Hijacks Cicadas Before Exploding From Their Butts
- China's New Hypersonic Plane Could Take Us From Beijing to New York in 2 Hours
- MIT Engineers Have Built a Device That Pulls Electricity Out of Thin Air
- Experts Are Warning That Children Can't Properly Hold Pens Anymore
- World's Deadliest Treasure Hunt Has Claimed Another Life in The Rocky Mountains
- This Strange Species That Lives Off Nuclear Energy Is Like Alien Life on Earth
- SpaceX's Biggest Rival Is Working on Its Own Reusable Rocket, And It Sounds Amazing
- These 11 Psychological Traits Reveal Striking Differences Between Conservatives And Liberals
- A Series of Hidden Tombs Were Just Found in Egypt, And Archaeologists Are Excited
- ScienceAlert Deal: Learn Any New Language On Your Own Time With UTalk
- A Stanford Climate Scientist Just Dropped a Major Lawsuit Against His Critics
- Water on The Moon Has a Surprising Quality, According to This New Study
- Measles Is on The Loose in NYC Thanks to an Australian Tourist
- The Woman Who Looked at Faces And Saw Dragons
- Science Reveals There Are Surprising Benefits of Being a Pessimist
- Here's Scientific Evidence Humans Aren't All Garbage
- Video Showing The Acceleration of Tesla's Electric Truck Is Breathtaking
- Scientifically Speaking Which Is Better, Male or Female Orgasms?
- The Physics of Why Olympic Curlers Sweep The Ice
- New Study Shows Just How Close The Amazon Rainforest Is to The Brink of Collapse
- Physicists Have Confirmed a Pear-Shaped Nucleus, And It Could Ruin Time Travel Forever
- Elon Musk Has Successfully Launched His First 2 Space Internet Satellites
- Europe Is Bracing For The Most Severe Cold Snap in Years
- NASA's Very Expensive Rocket Launch Tower Is Leaning at a Precarious Angle
- The FCC's Vote Repealing Its Net Neutrality Rules Is Finally Official – Here's What Happens Now
- Apple Devices Are Accidentally Dialing Emergency And No One Can Figure Out Why
- We Could Have Two Space Hotels as Early as 2021
- There's a 'Doorway to The Underworld' in Siberia So Big It's Uncovered Ancient Forests
- These Are The Top 15 Deadliest Animals on Earth
- A Prominent Biohacker Is Now Saying It's a Bad Idea to Hack Your Body
- CDC Warns About Salmonella Infections Tracked Back to This Popular Supplement
- Something Disturbing Happens After You Wipe Down Your Kitchen Countertops
- Toxic Heavy Metals Are Leaking From E-Cigarettes Into The Vapours, Study Shows
- This Woman Had Surgical Sponges Left in Her Abdomen For at Least 6 Years
- Latest Estimate on The Universe's Expansion Shows We Need New Physics to Explain It
- Antidepressants Do Actually Work, Says Huge Review of Over 500 Studies
- Archaeologists Think They've Found First-Ever Evidence of a Legendary Biblical Prophet
- Indian Surgeons Have Successfully Removed The 'Largest Brain Tumor in The World'
- New Research Says Neanderthals Were Actually The First Artists on Earth
- Here's Why Jeff Bezos Is Building a Giant Mechanical Clock Designed to Last 10,000 Years
- A Drug to Treat Peanut Allergies Is on Its Way to Being Approved by The FDA
- Physicists Are Planning to Take Antimatter Out of The Lab For The First Time
- SpaceX Is Launching The First 2 Satellites to Bring High-Speed Internet For All of Earth
- New Study Reveals How Our Brains Evolved to Be So Amazingly Huge
- This Is The Most Toxic Town in The United States
- We Might Finally Know Why The Blood of Young People Can Rejuvenate Old Brains
- An Amateur Astronomer Accidentally Caught The First-Ever Photo of an Exploding Star
- Here's Why Matching Your Diet to Your DNA Is a Waste of Time
- Boston Dynamics New Video Is Just Another Reason Robots Will Hate Us One Day
- Scientists Think They've Finally Discovered The Bones of The Richest Pirate in History
- US Intelligence Issues a Warning About Russian, Chinese Space And Counterspace Weapons
- What We Do in The Next 5 Years Will Affect Sea Levels For Several Centuries
- Budget Cuts Could Force NASA to Scrap Its Dark Energy Mission
- Cape Town Just Got a Few More Weeks Before It Runs Out of Water on 'Day Zero'
- The World's Largest Underwater Cave Is Already Yielding Sacred Maya Relics
- Scientists Just Discovered a Never-Before-Seen Structure in Human Sperm
- How Many Glasses of Water a Day You Really Need, According to Science
- Star Wars Actor Mark Hamill Wants You to Elect This Scientist to Congress
- Swarm of Over 200 Earthquakes Detected at Yellowstone Supervolcano
- This Cambridge University Game Wants You to Build a Fake News Empire For Science
- Astronomers Just Found Some of The Most Massive Black Holes Discovered in Our Universe
- A Review of 6,000 Studies Across Two Decades Delivers Its Verdict on GMO Corn
- The World's Loneliest Tree Could Tell Us The Exact Moment We Started The Anthropocene
- A Man Stole The Thumb of a 2,000-Year-Old Terracotta Warrior Just to Take a Selfie
- There Are 4 Types of Alcohol Drinker – Which One Are You?
- Scientists Are Revealing The Brain Difference That Turns Some People Into 'Superagers'
- Your Perfume And Shampoo Could Be Rivalling Cars as a Source of Air Pollution
- An Archaeologist Says He's Figured Out The Secret of The Pyramids' Peculiar Alignment
- Ancient Skeleton Reveals 'Extinct' Caribbean Islanders Were Never Really Wiped Out
- We Finally Know How Vampire Bats Are Able to Drink Blood And Survive
- First-Ever Video of Baby 'Dumbo' Octopus Is So Adorable We Can't Deal
- The Greatest Storm in Our Solar System Has Shockingly Few Years Left
- Here's How You Can Debunk 7 Most Common Anti-Vaxxer Arguments With Science
- ScienceAlert Deal: Why You Should Be Crunching Data With MATLAB
- Just How Bad Is Sugar For Your Heart And Body?
- A Mysterious Radioactive Particle Has Been Detected Above Alaska
- Lost City in Mexico May Have Had as Many Buildings as Manhattan
- Doctors Release Details on The Illness US Diplomats Suffered in Cuba, And It Gets Weirder
- The Bizarre Story of How This Woman Ended Up in an X-Ray Machine
- Review of More Than 130 Studies Provides Powerful Evidence That Gun Control Saves Lives
- Scientists Just Made Sheep-Human Hybrids. Here's What You Need to Know
- Ancient Roman "Gate to Hell" Killed Victims With This Deadly Lake
- This Breathtaking Photo of Earth Really Puts Everything Into Perspective
- Where in Space Is Elon Musk's Roadster Right Now?
- This 6-Year-Old Is So Sure Pluto Should Be a Planet, She Sent an Adorable Letter to NASA
- Here's How Witnessing Violence Harms Children's Mental Health
- This Is Where Body Fat Actually Goes When You Lose Weight
- We Need to Talk About What Happens When You Get Your Period in Space
- According to Science Our Perfect Partners Are Probably Not What You Think
- Elon Musk Is Arguing With Spaceflight CEOs on Twitter. Again.
- A Mysterious Syndrome in Which Marijuana Users Become Violently Ill Is Worrying Researchers
- US Police Arrested a Mother For Treating Her Daughter's Autism With Bleach
- This Common Medication Can Actually Prevent Type 1 Diabetes
- Surgical Tools Could Be Spreading Proteins Linked to Alzheimer's
- NASA Is Finally Removing This Creepy And Broken Robot Astronaut From The ISS
- This Alzheimer's Drug Repairs Alcohol-Induced Brain Damage in Rats
- This New Graphene Invention Makes Filthy Seawater Drinkable in One Simple Step
- 11 Scientific Tips That Will Help You Learn Anything Faster – And Actually Remember It
- Alzheimer's Has Been Reversed in Mice With This Single Enzyme Treatment
- Mysterious Pulsating Auroras Exist, And Scientists Might Have Figured Out What Causes Them
- Scientists Think They Know Where Female Ejaculation Comes From, And What It's Made of
- Footprints From Children 700,000 Years Ago Reveal Just How Much Parenting Has Changed
- MIT Physicists Have Constructed a Bizarre Form of 'Molecular' Light With 3 Photons
- Researchers Find More Than 100,000 of Borneo's Orangutans Have Been Wiped Out
- A Solar Storm Is About to Strike Earth, So Here's What You Need to Know
- Here's Why Paper Cuts Hurt So Damn Much, According to Science
- Scientists Are Annoyed by This Pretty Big Flaw in The New DNA Emoji
- We Just Measured The World's Heaviest Atom, And It's Even Weirder Than Expected
- There's an 11% Chance Elon Musk's Tesla Is on a Collision Course With Earth
- BREAKING: Nearly 100 New Exoplanets Have Been Found in K2 Mission Data
- Here's How Chocolate And Sugary Treats Feed The Addictive Cycle in Your Brain
- This Weird Brain Change Found in Foxes Shows How Dogs Became Our Best Friends
- 5 Weight Loss Supplements That Science Shows Are a Waste of Money
- ScienceAlert Deal: 6 Great Resources to Get You Started With DIY Electronics
- This Rare Book Shows How Insane Medicine Really Was in The 16th Century
- A Person's Genes Can Reveal The Time of Their Death, Says Study
- We Now Know Why SpaceX Falcon Heavy's Core Booster Failed to Land Last Week
- Fierce Warrior Ants Are The First Insects Ever Observed to Treat Their Wounded Soldiers
- An Incredible New Type of Brain Implant Can Boost Memory by 15%
- The #AcademicValentines Hashtag Is Probably The Best Thing We've Read in a Long Time
- Mind-Bending New Paper Could Explain The Strange 'Patterns' Within Our Solar System
- A Lock of George Washington's Hair Has Been Discovered Hidden in an Old Book
- Surprise Discovery Shows We Have Been Totally Wrong About The Size of Andromeda Galaxy
- A Transgender Woman Was Able to Breast-Feed Her Baby in First Documented Case
- This Pacific Island Was Expected to Disappear, But It's Actually Growing Larger
- Here's What You Need to Do to Eradicate The Flu Virus From Your House
- This Is How Much Money You Need to Be Happy, According to Science
- 8,000-Year-Old Smashed Skulls on Spikes Found in Sweden, And Nobody Knows Why
- Biologist Gets a Fake Star Trek Paper Accepted by 4 Dodgy Science Journals
- An American Says She Suddenly Woke Up With a British Accent – Here's How That Could Happen
- This Photo of a Single Trapped Atom Is Absolutely Breathtaking
- A Woman Had 14 Worms in Her Eye And Doctors Didn't Even Know It Was Possible
- Scientists Just Found a Super-Powerful New Class of Antibiotics in Dirt
- This Study Shows Alcohol Could Be More Damaging to The Brain Than Marijuana
- 25 Years of Data Shows We Missed Something Important About Sea Level Rise
- This Rare Video of a Tiny Baby Octopus Hatching Is Breaking The Internet
- Japanese Company Claims Experimental Drug Kills Flu Virus in a Single Day
- The WHO Warns We're Officially on The Path to a Global Pandemic
- These Are The Factors That Can Help Predict if Your Spouse Might Cheat on You
- If We Receive a Message From Aliens, Should We Delete It Without Reading?
- Scientists Are About to Explore a Hidden World Trapped Under Ice For 120,000 Years
- For The First Time, a Portable Atomic Clock Has Been Used to Measure Gravity
- The Mini Robodog From Boston Dynamics Can Now Open Doors to Get Out
- Lions Have Killed And Eaten a Suspected Poacher in South Africa
- Over 600 US Schools Are Already Using This Simple Smartphone Addiction Fix
- There Could Be a Link Between Antibiotics And The Crazy Rise in Allergies
- Scientists Discover Hundreds of 2D Materials That Could Be The Next Graphene
- There's an Absolutely Massive Lava Dome Lurking Underneath Japan
- Don't Let The Internet Scare You With That Hand Dryer Petri Dish
- These 15 Questions Can Help You Determine if Your Relationship Is Worth Keeping
- A Sea Snail Was Found Living in a Boy's Skin After a Trip to The Beach
- Scientists Can Now Read The Whole Genome of a Baby Still in The Womb
- SpaceX Hid a Second, Secret Payload Aboard Falcon Heavy, And It Sounds Amazing
- Our First Interstellar Visitor Crashed Into Something Mysterious Before It Got Here
- People Keep Thinking These Eerie Atmospheric Light Beams Are UFOs
- 8 Evidence-Based Things You Can Do to Help Beat a Cold or The Flu
- Here's Why It's Better to Be Single, According to Science
- 11 Health And Fitness Myths That Really Need to Stop
- Scientists Rank 9 Recreational Drugs From Safest to Most Dangerous
- For The First Time Human Eggs Have Been Developed to Maturity in a Lab
- A New Study Links Asparagus to Cancer And The Internet Is Freaking Out
- IOS Source Code Has Been Leaked, And This Is Great News For Hackers
- 3 Reasons Why Governments Ignore Scientific Advice on Drug Use
- A Strange Link Between Parasitic Wasp Venom And Parkinson's Could Lead to New Treatments
- These Record Breaking Pics Were Snapped Further Out in Space Than Any Picture Ever Taken
- Scientists Have Found a Lake Under The Sea – Those Who Swim There Won't Come Back Alive
- Scientists Have Found Out Why You're Chronically Late
- The Asteroid That Killed Dinosaurs Also Triggered Huge Volcanoes Under The Oceans
- This Vantablack Pavilion Is The Blackest Building on Earth
- For The First Time, Physicists Have Slowed High-Speed Electrons Using a 'Sheet of Light'
- No, McDonald's Fries Will Not Cure Your Baldness
- An Entirely New Form of 3D Vision Was Just Discovered in Praying Mantises
- These Major Mental Illnesses Share Unexpected Levels of Gene Activity
- 4 Myths About GMOs And Organic Food Everybody Needs to Stop Believing
- The Museum of London Just Put a Fatberg on Display And It Sounds Horrifying
- The First Fish to Evolve The Ability to Walk Never Even Left The Ocean
- Scientists Have Developed a Way to Make Wood as Strong as Steel
- 8 Awesomely Simple Science Experiments You Can Do at Home
- Cockroaches Were There When The Continents Split Up, And Will Probably Outlive Us All
- Thinning Ozone May Have Contributed to a Mass Extinction 252 Million Years Ago
- Your Mobile Phone Can Give Away Your Location, Even if You Tell It Not to
- Scientists Have Found a New, Healthier Way to Cook Broccoli
- This New Autism Genetics Study Could Help Explain Why It's Such a Huge Spectrum
- Here's Why Car Horns, Planes And Sirens Might Be Really Bad For Your Heart
- Scientists Have Discovered How Traumatic Experiences Actually Rewire The Brain
- DNA Analysis Reveals Britain's Oldest Known Modern Man Had Dark Skin
- A Popular, Widely Available Supplement Was Just Officially Declared an Opioid by The FDA
- 5 Essential Resources You Need For Big Data Analysis
- We Can Now Harvest Electricity From Earth's Heat Using Quantum Tunnelling
- We Just Got More Details on How The Moon Left Earth 4 Billion Years Ago
- A Previously Unknown Language Has Just Been Discovered in Southeast Asia
- We Can't Stop Watching This Epic Video of a Marble Travelling Through a Chain Reaction
- This Hilarious Flu Chart Tells You Whether You Have a Simple Cold or Actual Flu
- Astronomers Just Measured The Strongest Magnetic Field Ever Seen on The Sun
- These 6 Easy Steps Can Debunk Any Climate Science Denier
- Insane Numbers of Viruses Are Constantly Falling on Us From The Sky, Study Shows
- This Optical Illusion of Two Identical Photos Is Freaking Out The Internet
- These Huge Crayfish Mutated to Clone Themselves And Are Now Taking Over The World
- Elon Musk's SpaceX Just Successfully Launched The Most Powerful Rocket on Earth
- Scientists Just Made 'Superionic Ice' That's Solid And Liquid at The Same Time
- There Might Be No Way to Live Comfortably Without Also Ruining The Planet
- 7 Things You Can Do Right Now to Reduce Your Risk of High Blood Pressure
- This Simple Dye Is Our Best Bet to Finally Stopping Malaria
- Scary Amounts of Mercury Have Been Found Lurking in The Permafrost
- An Engineering Journal Retracted 3 Papers Because They Were Cited Too Much
- New Data Shows TRAPPIST-1 Planets Are More Habitable Than We Ever Thought
- This Flat-Earther Has Failed to Launch His Rocket Again And Now We're Almost Sorry For Him
- SpaceX's Biggest Rocket Ever Is About to Launch Elon Musk's Red Tesla to Mars
- Computers Can Now Tell What Songs You've Listened to Just by Using Brain Scans
- CERN May Have Evidence of a Quasiparticle We've Been Hunting For Decades
- How a Person Uses Language Can Be a Clear Sign of Depression Symptoms
- Spider-Like Creature With a Tail Was Just Found in 100 Million-Year-Old Amber
- These Bacteria Digest Toxic Metals And Poop Out Tiny Gold Nuggets
- Tesla Is Hooking Up 50,000 Australian Homes to Become World's Biggest Virtual Power Plant
- Massive Study on Health Effects of Cellphone Radiation Has Left Scientists Confused
- For The First Time Ever, Astronomers Have Detected Planets Outside Our Galaxy
- Russian Cosmonauts Just Set an Accidental Spacewalk Record While Wrestling an ISS Antenna
- NASA Has Immortalised Curiosity's 5-Year Mars Journey in One Stunning Panorama
- A Mysterious Circle of Intertwined Human Skeletons Has Been Found in Mexico
- The World's Loneliest Gannet Has Died by The Side of His Only Love
- Watch: Humanity's Biggest Discovery Could Herald The Beginning of The End
- Brain Damage Could Explain Violent Crimes, But It's Not Always a Simple Defence
- Quantum Chemistry Solves The Question of Why Life Needs So Many Amino Acids
- A Recent Ice Age Was Triggered by a Firestorm Bigger Than The One That Killed The Dinosaurs
- These Nomads Spend Nearly Their Entire Lives at Sea, But They Might Be The Last Group to Do So
- This Huge Galaxy Has Tiny Galaxies Orbiting It, Like Planets Around a Star
- Years After Losing Weight, Your Hormones Could Still Trick You Into Overeating
- Astrophysicists Have Built The Most Detailed Simulation of The Universe Ever Created
- A Truck Driver Has Damaged Several 2,000-Year-Old Nazca Lines
- Laser Survey Has Revealed Vast Network of Hidden Maya Structures in Guatemalan Jungle
- An Amateur Just Found The Signal of a Satellite NASA Lost 12 Years Ago
- Amazon Has Patented Wristbands to Constantly Track The Hands of Warehouse Staff
- New Blood Test For Alzheimer's Is So Precise It Could Predict It 30 Years Ahead
- Here's The Simple Science of Why Some Dogs Have Floppy Ears
- California Might Soon Put a Cancer Warning On… Coffee
- India Could Be Trialling a Universal Basic Income Before 2020
- Humans Have Already Left More Than 400,000 Pounds of Junk on The Moon
- Sweetening Your Vape With Flavouring Could Be Damaging Your Immune System
- ScienceAlert Deal: Here Are Our Top 10 Tech Offers Of January
- This Parasite Wasp Uses Saw-Like Spikes to Cut Its Host Open From The Inside
- One of World's Finest Dinosaur Footprint Discoveries Uncovered in NASA's Parking Lot
- Physicists Just Found a New Way to Bend a Fundamental Rule of Light Waves