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- Study Shows Your Short-Term Memory Is Totally Lying, But For an Important Reason
- Our Sun Is Surprisingly Weak Compared to Other Stars, Study Shows
- Parents Warned to Be Vigilant as Rare Inflammatory Symptoms Strike Kids With COVID-19
- Scientists Report Terrifying Ice Lumps That Could Be The Largest Hailstones Recorded
- Astronomers Predict Astonishing Flare From Two Swirling Supermassive Black Holes
- Groundbreaking Spinosaurus Discovery Just Made It The First Known Swimming Dinosaur
- Here Are Simple Expert Tips For Staying Safe While You Shop For Groceries
- Remdesivir Just Became The First Drug to Show a 'Clear-Cut' Effect in Treating COVID-19
- Changing a Single Gene Lets Syphilis Lurk Hidden in The Body For Years
- Stunning Hubble Images Detect a Comet Shattered in The Inner Solar System
- Evidence Indicates That Severe Forms of COVID-19 Can Damage The Heart
- Biohazard Cleaner Warns We Often Miss This Critical Step in Disinfecting Surfaces
- What Is a Quasiparticle?
- Here Are 6 New Symptoms The CDC Just Added to COVID-19 Guidelines
- What Is a Fever?
- What Is a Supermoon?
- Pentagon Has Finally Declassified Those Grainy UFO Videos From The US Navy
- Strange 'Crazy Beast' Skeleton May Be Oldest Mammal Unearthed in Southern Hemisphere
- This Hungarian Village Welcomed Skull-Shaping Immigrants as The Roman Empire Crumbled
- The Pandemic Could Actually Be Good News For Future Flu Seasons. Here's How
- Bacterial Biofilms Have 'Memory' That Works in a Surprisingly Similar Way to Neurons
- Do We All Actually Need to Floss Our Teeth? Here's The Evidence
- Look at The Adorable Derpy Face of This Newly Discovered Mata Mata Turtle
- People Are Now Hoarding a Heartburn Drug Researched as Potential COVID-19 Treatment
- New Tests Suggest a Fundamental Constant of Physics Isn't The Same Across The Universe
- Palaeontologists Think They Have Found 'The Most Dangerous Place' in Earth's History
- Scientists Engineer Gorgeous Glowing Plants That Shine Bright Their Entire Life Cycle
- Is It Really Better to Run Barefoot? Another Major Study Just Weighed in
- Scientists Have Figured Out The Best Materials to Use if You're Making a Mask at Home
- Astronomers Have Found a Star That Survived Being Swallowed by a Black Hole
- Coronavirus Patients Are Reporting Neurological Symptoms. Here's What You Need to Know
- There's Still 'No Evidence' People Who've Had COVID-19 Can't Get It Again, Warns WHO
- Hurricanes Could Be Slowing Down Due to Rising CO2 Levels, And That's Not a Good Thing
- Ancient Australian Rocks Suggest Earth's Continents Were Shifting Earlier Than Thought
- Scientists Have Recreated Ancient Battles to Solve Debate Over Ancient Bronze Swords
- Becoming a Parent Makes You 25% Less Environmentally Friendly, New Research Finds
- Mesmerising Video Shows The View if You Could See Earth And The Moon at The Same Time
- Astronomers Have Watched a Nova Go From Start to Finish For The First Time
- A Key Pregnancy Hormone Seems to Act Differently in Humans, And Not in a Good Way
- 10 Catastrophic Threats Are Facing Humans Right Now, And Coronavirus Is Only One of Them
- Controversial Discovery Says Origins of Human Language Existed 25 Million Years Ago
- Spacecraft Snaps Haunting Images of Our Little Blue Planet on Its Way to Mercury
- Scientists Capture Incredibly Rare Video of Humpback Whales Nursing Their Calves
- We Need to Fight Climate Change Like The Coronavirus Pandemic, Warns UN
- Surreal Footage Shows 'Glowing' Dolphins Surf Through Bioluminescent Algae
- NASA Has Designed a Mass-Producible Ventilator For a Second Wave of COVID-19
- Astronomers Just Identified 19 More Asteroids They Think Are Interstellar
- We All Have Neanderthal DNA, But It May Not Account For Looks After All
- Creator of Wolfram Alpha Has a Bold Plan to Find a New Fundamental Theory of Physics
- We Have The First-Ever Credible Evidence of Someone Killed by a Falling Meteorite
- Here's Why News on The 'Insect Apocalypse' Has Been So Confusing
- Accidentally Released Results Suggest Potential COVID-19 Drug Failed a Human Trial
- Oxford University Just Injected The First Participants in a COVID-19 Vaccine Trial
- Bald Eagles Return to Nesting in Saguaro Cacti For The First Time in Decades
- Scientists Just Released The Most Complete Geologic Moon Map Yet, And It's Glorious
- Accidental Poisoning Is on The Rise in The US as People Try to Sanitise Their Homes
- Astronomers Took New Pics of 1998 OR2, The Asteroid About to Whoosh Past Earth
- Scientists May Have Found The Human Cell Types Most Vulnerable to The New Coronavirus
- Devastating Simulations Say Sea Ice Will Be Completely Gone in Arctic Summers by 2050
- New Species of Slithering Snake Has Been Named For Salazar Slytherin
- The Latest Conspiracy About The Coronavirus Pandemic Is as Dumb as The Rest of Them
- Top US Vaccine Expert Says He Was Demoted For Opposing Chloroquine For COVID-19
- Pandemic Side-Effects Show Us a Glimpse of an Alternative Future on Earth Day 2020
- An Extreme Weather Pattern May Have Triggered The Dramatic Kīlauea Eruption in Hawaii
- Scientists Discover a New Compound in Medieval Ink That Was Once Lost to Time
- There Are No 'Miracle' Foods or Supplements That Can Prevent COVID-19
- This Video of Bullets Hitting 'Unbreakable' Prince Rupert's Drops Will Blow Your Mind
- The Composition of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Is Much More Alien Than We Thought
- Here's How Renewable Energy Could Help Us Economically Recover From The Pandemic
- CDC Director Says a Winter Wave of Coronavirus Could Hit The US Harder Than Current Outbreak
- Why Do Some People With COVID-19 Get Symptoms While Others Don't?
- What Is The RNA World Hypothesis?
- What Is Magnetic Resonance Imaging?
- This Genius New Type of Solar Energy Cell Can Be Used in Windows
- Why More Men Are Dying From COVID-19 Than Women – a Geneticist Explains
- Air Pollution Is Increasing The Risk of COVID-19 Death, According to New Studies
- This Exoplanet Disappeared From Hubble Observations. Now, We Finally Know Why
- We Could Release Herds of Animals in The Arctic to Fight Climate Change, Says Study
- Here's How You Can Catch The Peak of The Lyrids Meteor Shower This Week
- Facebook Just Released an Interactive US Map Tracking COVID-19 Symptoms in Your Area
- Here's How NASA Staff Are Operating The Mars Curiosity Rover From Home
- Woman's Breast Implant Saved Her Life by Deflecting a Bullet, Case Study Shows
- Astronomers Find First-Ever Collision of Black Holes With a Strange Mass Discrepancy
- Parts of North America Are Currently Heading For a Megadrought, Study Finds
- Can Pets Get The Coronavirus, And Can We Catch It From Them? Here's The Science
- Scientists Are Tired of Explaining Why The COVID-19 Virus Was Not Made in a Lab
- Astronomers Find a Beautiful Six-Planet System in Almost Perfect Orbital Harmony
- How Norway Convinced Nearly Half of Their Drivers to Switch to Electric Cars
- Scientists Still Don't Know if Recovering From COVID-19 Confers Immunity or Not
- Specially Trained Dogs Are Being Tested For Sniffing Out Coronavirus Cases
- Satellites Capture Powerful Images of Indonesia's Anak Krakatau Erupting This Week
- Now More Than Ever You Need to Cover Phone And Laptop Cameras, Says Security Expert
- Earth's Atmosphere Is 4x Dustier Than We Thought, Which Could Change Climate Models
- Scientists Design Super-Light Carbon Nanostructure That's Stronger Than Diamond
- Solar Winds Hitting Earth Are Hotter Than They Should Be, And We May Finally Know Why
- Your Blood Pressure May Vary Significantly Depending on Where on Your Body It's Taken
- Can You Safely Jog While Social Distancing? Here's Some Expert Advice
- Earth's Core Could Be Leaking Heavy Iron Isotopes, New Study Reveals
- Doctors Have Reported The First Known Case of a Person Who Urinates Alcohol
- Gates Foundation Says We'll Need to Work Together to Vaccinate 7 Billion People
- While We've Been in Lockdown, Solar Cell Technology Has Smashed Three Big Records
- Achingly Beautiful Image Shows Us The Chaos And Wonder of Jupiter
- Google Engineers 'Mutate' AI to Make It Evolve Systems Faster Than We Can Code Them
- Ambitious 'Cloud Brightening' Experiment Was Just Carried Out Over Great Barrier Reef
- It's Official: SpaceX Will Carry Its First Humans to The Space Station Next Month
- Here's How to Tell if Your Cough Is a Sign of Coronavirus or Something Else
- Melting Ice Has Revealed Artefacts From a Lost Viking Highway in Norway
- A Mislabelled Space Object Just Turned Out to Be The Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Yet
- Physicists Successfully Use 'Hot' Qubits to Overcome a Huge Quantum Computing Problem
- Several Drugs Are Being Tested as COVID-19 Treatments. Here's What We Know So Far
- Paper Towels Could Remove Virus Missed by Poor Hand Washing, Study Indicates
- People Running Folding@Home Accidentally Created The World's Biggest Supercomputer
- We May Finally Know Why Early Humans Kept These Mysterious Stone Balls Around
- A Star Orbiting a Black Hole Just Confirmed a Prediction Made by General Relativity
- These 5 Decidedly Weird Animal Butts Are The Distraction We All Need Right Now
- A US Lab Just Launched an Antibody Test For Detecting if You've Had The Coronavirus
- One Decision on Social Distancing Could Have Prevented 90% of US Coronavirus Deaths
- Global Coronavirus Infections Just Passed 2 Million, According to Johns Hopkins
- A US City Cut Down on Coal Emissions, And Had 400 Fewer Hospital Visits Per Year
- Exclusive: How Scientists in Antarctica Are Living Untouched by The Global Pandemic
- Stunning Nile Shipwreck Is First Evidence Herodotus Wasn't Lying About Egyptian Boats
- Scientists Are Using The Measles Vaccine to Develop a 'Trojan Horse' Against COVID-19
- What Is Schrödinger's Cat?
- Physicists Caught Ghost-Like Particles Break Symmetry With Their Antimatter Twins
- A Safe Alternative to Opioid Painkillers Could Come From Tarantula Venom
- Trump Announces a Halt to US Funding For The World Health Organisation
- Harvard Study Says We Could Need Bouts of Social Distancing Until 2022
- Fauci Warned The Trump Administration of a Potential Epidemic Way Back in 2017
- Loss of Smell Should Be Listed as an Early COVID-19 Symptom, Study Finds
- New Study Could Explain How 'Oumuamua Got Its Bizarre Shape
- Alarming Simulation Shows How a Single Cough Could Spread Particles in a Store
- Astronomers Detect The Most Powerful Star Explosion We've Ever Observed
- Study of High-Dose Chloroquine For COVID-19 Stopped Early Due to Patient Deaths
- Researchers Discover The Oldest Handmade String, And It Wasn't Crafted by Humans
- At Least 70 Coronavirus Vaccines Are Already in Development, WHO Report Shows
- Fires in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Are Still Getting Closer to The Reactor
- Strange Forest Patches Littering The Amazon Point to Agriculture 10,000 Years Ago
- Housemate Chewing Too Loudly? Your Brain Could Be Producing Misophonia
- Over 370,000 People Have Survived COVID-19. Here's What We Know About Recovery
- Museum: Anne Frank's Diary More Relevant Than Ever After 75 Years
- Lose Yourself in a Breathtaking NASA Image of The 'Pillars of Creation'
- WHO Investigates Reports of Recovered COVID-19 Patients Testing Positive Again
- In Good News, Scientists Built a Device That Generates Electricity 'Out of Thin Air'
- For The First Time, Astronomers Photograph a Jet Spewing Out From Colliding Galaxies
- NASA's Offering Online Astronaut Training While You're Stuck in Lockdown
- More Evidence Suggests Pangolins May Have Passed Coronavirus From Bats to Humans
- Bizarre Exoplanets Orbiting Binary Stars May Have Strangely Misaligned Orbits
- What Does It Mean to 'Recover From Coronavirus'? Here's What You Need to Know
- Does The Amount of Coronavirus You're Exposed to Determine How Sick You'll Get?
- A Man Injected Himself With His Own Semen to 'Cure' His Back Pain
- What Did Hubble Capture on Your Birthday? New NASA Tool Lets You Find Out
- Epic 600-Page Math Proof Is About to Be Published, And Experts Aren't Impressed
- Epic Images Reveal Never-Before-Seen Plasma Threads Woven Through Sun's Atmosphere
- Homo Galacticus: How Space Will Shape The Humans of The Future
- Here's The Heartbreaking Wildlife Issue 'Tiger King' Didn't Talk About Enough
- Stunning Images Show The Rings of Uranus Are Like Nothing Else in The Solar System
- Stunning Satellite Images Reveal Pollution Plummeting Across Europe in Lockdown
- Feeling More Tired Than Usual During Lockdown? Psychologists Explain Why
- Glass in The Soil of a 13,000-Year-Old Settlement in Syria Points to Comet Impact
- What Is a Coronavirus Vaccine?
- Three Astronauts Just Docked With The Space Station, Leaving Behind an Uneasy Planet
- Tropical Oceans Headed For Collapse Within The Next 10 Years, Major Study Reveals
- A New Study Just Found Female 'Period Face' Is Not a Thing
- What Should People With Asthma Be Doing in The Coronavirus Pandemic?
- Physicists From The LHC Are Making a COVID-19 Ventilator That Runs on Batteries
- Should We All Be Wearing Face Masks? Here's Why Experts Are So Conflicted
- Mutant Bacterial Enzyme Can Break Down Plastic Waste in Just Hours
- NASA Reveals Wild Project For Turning a Moon Crater Into a Radio Telescope
- Giant Viruses Carry Genetic Code That May Control The Metabolism of Living Things
- What The Heck Is This Long, Hypnotic Stringy Thing Floating in The Ocean?
- A Brain Stimulation Experiment Relieved Depression in Nearly All of Its Participants
- Astronomers Just Released an Unprecedented Image of a Jet Shooting From a Black Hole
- No, 5G Radiation Doesn't Spread The Coronavirus. Here's How We Know
- An Unusually Large Hole Has Opened in The Ozone Layer Over The Arctic
- Our Exploitation of Wildlife Is Directly Causing More Viruses to Spread to Humans, Study Shows
- What Are Geomagnetic Storms?
- Pandas Kept Together For 10 Years Have Finally Mated During The Coronavirus Lockdown
- Updated: Forest Fires Are Raging Around Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone
- The US Has Reportedly Begun Blood Tests to Hunt Down Immunity to Coronavirus
- Love The Smell of Rain? There's an Ulterior Motive Behind The Lure of Petrichor
- The Results Are in From The Largest Study on Kids And COVID-19 to Date
- Ecologists Just Surveyed The Great Barrier Reef And Found an Utter Tragedy
- Need a Distraction? The Brightest Supermoon of 2020 Will Rise on Wednesday
- First Peer-Reviewed Coronavirus Vaccine Trial Shows Promising Results in Mice
- This Intense Binary White Dwarf Could Be a First-of-Its-Kind Gravitational Wave Source
- Researchers Map How Ancient Human Migrations Changed Europe's Landscape Forever
- Some Scientists Say Just Breathing or Talking May Spread COVID-19. Here's What We Know
- Should You Really Wear a Mask in Public? A Medical Researcher Weighs in
- Incredible Fossil Find Hints Homo Erectus Emerged 200,000 Years Earlier Than Thought
- A Tiger in New York Has Tested Positive For Coronavirus
- Small Trial Suggests Antimalarial Drugs Not Effective For Treating Coronavirus
- Virologist Explains What The Coronavirus Does to Your Body That Makes It So Deadly
- Spanish Conquerors Used Indigenous Technology to Build Their Weapons, Evidence Reveals
- People Can Experience Psychedelic Effects From Taking a Placebo, Study Shows
- Forget Your Troubles by Looking at These Weird But Totally Real Science Illustrations
- Scientists Just Discovered Penguins Actually 'Talk' Under Water
- An Ingredient in Some Medicinal Mouthwashes Could Put Teeth at Great Risk of Cavities
- This Prototype System Could Theoretically Transmit Data at 10 Terabits Per Second
- This Gorgeous Galaxy Is The Very Definition of 'Flocculent'
- Scientists Discover Two Mating Flies Trapped in Amber 40 Million Years Ago
- Earth Is Vibrating Substantially Less Because There's So Little Activity Right Now
- It's Estimated 1 in 4 Coronavirus Carriers Could Be Asymptomatic. Here's What We Know
- Scientists Discover Deep-Sea Bacteria Have a Metabolism Unlike Anything We've Seen Before
- Breathtaking Photo Shows The Majestic Peaks of Himalayas From Space
- Physicists Have Tested The Speed of Light at The Highest Energies Yet
- Scientists Just Laid Out a Detailed Plan to Replenish Marine Life by 2050
- Scientists Find a Half Male, Half Female Bee, Split Right Down The Middle
- Scientists Took Mentos And Coke to The Top of a Mountain, For Science
- Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Really Is Breaking Apart, According to New Data
- Experts Explain The Important Reasons Why COVID-19 Differs From a Flu Pandemic
- How to Boost Your Internet Speed While Everyone Is Working From Home
- It's Official: Over 1 Million Global Coronavirus Cases Have Been Detected
- A Genome Study Has Caught Humans And Neanderthals Having Lots of Sex All Over Eurasia
- Scientists Have Unearthed Traces of an Ancient Rainforest In… Antarctica
- Astronomers May Have Found a 'Missing Link' Black Hole Because It Ate a Star
- A Bunch of Utterly Adorable New Spiders Have Been Discovered in Australia
- Social Media Is Full of Bots Spreading COVID-19 Anxiety. Don't Fall For It
- Scientists Are Developing a Test to Find The New Coronavirus in Wastewater
- WHO: Number of Global COVID-19 Cases to Hit 1 Million in The Next Few Days
- Analysis Reveals Most US Jobs Simply Can't Be Done From Home
- New AI-Powered Blood Test Promises Easy Screening For Over 50 Types of Cancer
- By The Way, Antarctica Just Experienced an Unprecedented Summer Heatwave
- Some COVID-19 Symptoms Are Turning Out to Be Atypical. Here's What We Know So Far
- New Analysis of a Famous Hominin Fossil Might Change Human Ancestry Story, Again