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- We're Now a Step Closer to Using MDMA to Treat Post-Traumatic Stress
- Females in This Dragonfly Species Play Dead to Shake Off Persistent Suitors
- US Yellow Fever Vaccine Supply Will Be Gone by This Summer, But The CDC Has a Plan
- Cassini Just Sent Back Images From Its First-Ever Dive Through Saturn's Rings, And They're Incredible
- NASA Is Running Out of Spacesuits – And Can't Make New Ones Fast Enough
- This Cheap, Old Drug Can Save Thousands of New Mothers From Bleeding to Death
- WATCH: No, Methane Bubbles Don't Sink Ships in The Bermuda Triangle
- 15 Albert Einstein Quotes That Show The Mind of a True Genius
- 'Anumeric' People: What Happens When a Language Has No Words For Numbers?
- An Astrophysicist Reveals What Sci-Fi Gets Wrong (And Right) About Science
- The Mystery Path of Antarctica's Blood Falls Has Finally Been Revealed
- This Weird AF Hercules Beetle Pupa Is Our New Favourite Alien Baby
- Here's What Happens When Your Foot Falls Asleep
- Martian Soil Can Be Compressed Into Bricks Stronger Than Concrete
- We Just Got More New Evidence That Parkinson's Starts in The Gut – Not The Brain
- No More Procrastinating: Get a 1-Year Subscription to The Ultimate Business Planning Tool
- ScienceAlert Offer: Check Out These Adorable SKEYE Pico Drones
- Huge Amounts of Mercury Have Vanished From Utah's Great Salt Lake
- NASA Astronauts Are Close to Identifying Unknown Microbe Colonies That Grow in Space
- Another Study Just Linked Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to Gut Bacteria
- There's a New Clash Over Saturated Fat And Health: Here's What You Need to Know
- Sir David Attenborough Has Admitted He's "Coming to Terms" With Memory Loss
- NASA's $3.26 Billion Saturn Mission Is in a Death Spiral – Here's What It Could Find
- Scientists Think They've Finally Identified The Trigger For Solar Eruptions
- Bone Discovery Suggests Humans Were in North America 100,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought
- 6 Scientific Benefits of Playing Videogames
- This New Material Replicates Photosynthesis to Generate Clean Energy And Suck Up CO2
- Astronomers Say The Largest Void in The Universe Could Reveal Alternate Realities
- ScienceAlert Offer: 5 Online Course Bundles to Diversify Your Computer Skillset
- Microbes Have Been Found Growing "Out of Nowhere" After a Volcanic Eruption
- The World's Oldest Fungus Might Have Just Been Found Buried Under South Africa
- Researchers Have Successfully Grown Premature Lambs in an Artificial Womb
- China Is Set to Build This Smog-Eating 'Forest City' Filled With Tree-Covered Skyscrapers
- The First Mars Astronauts Could Be Trapped Inside a Tube For Years With No Chance of Escape
- Guardians of The Galaxy, Volume 2: a Scientist's Review
- New Hydrogel That Mimics Cartilage Could Make Knee Repairs Easier
- This Photo of Earth Peeking Through Saturn's Rings Is Giving Us All The Feels
- Scientists Think We Could Reach The Brightest Star in The Sky in 69 Years
- 107 Studies Published in a Cancer Journal Have Just Been Retracted
- Introducing Steve – a Newly Discovered Astronomical Phenomenon
- Asteroid Shock Waves Could Have Provided The Building Blocks For RNA
- 70 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg Fossils Have Been Discovered in China
- Here's The Science Behind Why You're Always Tired, Even if You Get Enough Sleep
- It's The Mathematics Tool We Use Every Day, But What Exactly Is Bayes' Theorem?
- Study Finds a Link Between Diet Drinks And Strokes That Cause Dementia
- Ancient Carvings in Turkey Show a Comet Swarm Hitting Earth Right Around The Time Civilisation Changed Forever
- Turn Out The Lights And Head Outside: The Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight
- Indonesia's 'Hobbits' Are Far Older Relatives Than We Originally Thought
- Scientists Have Discovered a New Quantum State of Matter
- Brain Scans of One-Handed People Are Completely Changing Our Understanding of The Brain
- Physicists Say They've Found a Way to Detect Naked Singularities… if They Exist
- This New Browser Plug-in Lets You Access Millions of Scientific Papers For Free
- You Should Probably Let a Stranger Pick Your Next Profile Picture
- The Company Behind The Dakota Access Pipeline Just Had 2 Major Spills
- WATCH: The Tactics Massive Blue Whales Use to Catch Krill
- Neil deGrasse Tyson Says His New Video May Contain His "Most Important Words" Yet
- Sorry Guys: Largest Sky Survey of Its Kind Finds No Evidence Aliens Are Out There
- We Finally Know How Naked Mole Rats Survive Without Oxygen, And It's Really Freaking Weird
- Human Umbilical Blood Has Regenerated The Brains of Elderly Mice
- Study Finds The Birth Control Pill Has a Pretty Terrible Impact on Women's Wellbeing
- Facebook Is Working on Tech to Let You Type With Your Brain And 'Hear With Your Skin'
- This Dingo Has Won The Title of The World's Most Interesting Genome
- Meltwater Is Now Streaming Across Antarctica
- First Evidence That Psychedelics Cause a 'Higher' State of Consciousness Found by Scientists
- BREAKING: Newly Discovered Planet Could Be The Best Hope For Life Outside Our Solar System
- What Science Says About Getting The Most Out of Your Tea
- Hold Onto Your Brain: There Might Be Twice as Many Supermassive Black Holes in The Universe
- Nationwide Study Reveals Just How Broken The US Mental Health System Is
- Early Clinical Trial Shows 'Cancer Vaccines' Can Protect Humans From Tumours
- At Last, Video Confirmation That Snowflakes Aren't Always Perfectly Unique
- New LHC Data Hint at Deviations in The Standard Model of Physics
- Experimental Nasal Spray Could Deliver Drugs Across The Blood-Brain Barrier
- Course Offer: Prepare For Your Project Management Certification With This Online Course
- Scientists Have Finally Found a Live Giant Shipworm, And It's Seriously Nightmare Fuel
- A Huge Asteroid Is Set to Hurtle Past Earth This Wednesday
- Images Reveal a Crack in One of Greenland's Largest Glaciers, And Scientists Are Worried
- An Entire River in Canada Has Vanished in The Space of Just 4 Days
- Scientists Just Created Two Brand-New Magnetic Materials
- You're Probably Showering Way Too Often For Your Microbiome
- Watch The Incredible Moment a Colour-Blind Grandpa Sees Colour For The First Time
- Why Do We Have Blood Types?
- Scientists Once Nuked Beer to See if It'd Still Be Drinkable After an Atomic Blast
- California's Poppy Superbloom Is So Epic It Can Be Seen From Space
- Meet The Scientists Trying to Find Jesus's DNA
- The World's Largest Pork Producer Is Exploring Ways to Grow Human Organs From Pig Parts
- These Breathtaking Photos Are NASA's First Images of Our World at Night in 5 Years
- NASA: Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has All The Basic Ingredients For Life
- Scientists Have Created a Device That Sucks Water Out of Thin Air, Even in The Desert
- These Are The First Images of The Web of Ghostly Dark Matter That Holds Galaxies Together
- Learn How to Make Professional Apps With The Ultimate Android Development Bundle
- Here's What's Really Stopping People From Buying an Electric Car
- Astronomers Have Discovered a Sizeable Object Lurking at The Edge of Our Solar System
- Calculations Suggest We Could One Day Build a Rocket That Travels 99.999% The Speed of Light
- Gravity Might Destroy The Possibility of Electromagnetic Symmetry in The Universe
- Engineers Just Submitted an Incredible Proposal to Turn The US Border Wall Into a Hyperloop
- Physics Explained: Here's Why The Speed of Light Is The Speed of Light
- The Weird Science That Makes Your Shoelaces Come Undone Has Finally Been Solved
- How Close Are We Really to Connecting Human Minds to Artificial Intelligence?
- OPINION: Why Apple Should Buy Tesla And Make Elon Musk CEO
- Does Coffee Actually Make You Dehydrated?
- Rumours The US Military Is Testing an EM Drive on The X-37B Space Plane Just Won't Die
- NASA Just Put Earth Up For Adoption, Because We've Really Messed It Up
- Physicists Say They've Created a Fluid With 'Negative Mass'
- The FDA Just Struck a Deal That Could Replace Animal Testing With a Tiny Chip
- These Are The World's 5 Deadliest Volcanoes
- Australian Scientists Discover More Than 50 New Spider Species on a Single Expedition
- Astronomers Might Have Just Captured The First Ever Photo of a Black Hole's Event Horizon
- Scientists Have Finally Pinpointed The Brain's "Hot Zone" That Lights Up When We Dream
- Scientists Think Earth Is Spewing Up The Deepest Traces of Life Ever Found
- ScienceAlert Offer: Find Out Why Everyone's So Excited About Dino Spheres
- Physicists Discover an Unexpected Force Acting on Nanoparticles in a Vacuum
- New Study Says We Were Wrong About Sea Sponges Being The World's First Animals
- WATCH LIVE: NASA's about to Reveal New 'Ocean World Discoveries'
- SpaceX Has Released Incredible New Footage of Its Historic Rocket Landing
- Norway Is Building The World's Biggest Tunnel For Ships, And It's Absolutely Massive
- Get Excited: NASA Has Agreed to Fund 22 Wild Ideas For Space Exploration
- Heartbroken Scientist Admits the Great Barrier Reef is Now 'Terminal'
- Hawaiian Health Officials Issue Warning Over an Outbreak of Brain-Invading Parasites
- Scientists Discover a Hidden Network of 'Mini Brains' That Could be Responsible for Pain
- Sperm Are Being Turned Into Tiny Weapons to Attack Gynaecological Cancer
- Data From 14 Million Papers Is Now Available Online For Free
- The American Flags on The Moon Are Disintegrating
- Long-Term Memories Aren't Just Short-Term Memories Transferred Into Storage
- Discovery of Giant Viruses Adds an Unexpected Twist to The Debate: Are Viruses Alive?
- The FDA Just Made History: You Can Now Have Your Genes Screened For 10 Different Diseases
- An Australian Mechanic Just Discovered 4 New Planets Thanks to a TV Show
- Evidence Suggests Early Exposure to Antibiotics Might Lead to Long-Term Behavioural Changes
- Scientists Have Created an Artificial Organ That Can Pump Out Cancer-Fighting T-Cells
- Having a Pet in The Family Could Help Prevent Obesity And Allergies in Children
- Brace Yourselves: Severe Turbulence on Planes Will Increase Thanks to Climate Change
- Learn How to Actually Use Excel With This Online Course
- This Small Lake in Africa Once Killed 1,700 People Overnight, And We Still Don't Know Why
- A Massive Dead Galaxy Existed Just 1.7 Billion Years After The Big Bang, But No One Knows How
- People Aren't Nutritious, So Ancient Cannibals Probably Devoured Humans For Other Reasons
- This Morbid Physicist Just Described The 5 Most Gruesome Ways to Die
- Here's How And When NASA Will Finally Destroy Cassini
- An Atmosphere Has Been Detected Around an Earth-Like Exoplanet For The First Time
- Scientists Have Pinpointed The Annoying Genetic Mutation That Turns Us Into Night Owls
- How Ancient Literature Could Help Predict The Next Massive Solar Storm
- This Unseen Form of Radioactive Decay Could Help Explain Where All The Antimatter Is
- This New Type of Male Contraceptive Not Only Prevents Babies; It's Completely Reversible
- Reptiles Born in Warmer Weather Struggle to Learn
- Evidence Emerges That Celiac Disease Could Be Triggered by a Seemingly Harmless Virus
- Scientists Have Created an Artificial Synapse That Can Learn Autonomously
- This Paper Could Be The Key to Solving a 160-Year-Old, Million-Dollar Maths Problem
- Apes Can Tell When We Believe Something That Isn't True, And Take Pity on Us
- The Things Every Child With Autism Wishes You Knew
- The Psychology Behind Why Some People Are Chronically Late
- Scientists Have a Crazy Plan to Cool The Computers of The Future With Jumping Water Droplets
- If CO2 Emissions Keep Up, Earth Is Headed Back to The Triassic Period – or Worse
- August's Total Solar Eclipse Is Going to Be Streamed From 100,000 Feet
- The Alzheimer's Treatment That Repairs Brain Cells in Mice Just Got More Promising
- These Indigenous Alaskan Groups Are Linked to The First Humans to Settle in Northwest America
- A Brand New Type of Insulin-Producing Cell Has Been Discovered Hiding in The Pancreas
- The Original Brexit: How an Ancient Deluge Tore Britain From Europe
- Bad News, Humans: TRAPPIST-1 Is Not The Alien Paradise We Were Hoping For
- Volunteers Wanted: Experience Space Flight by Lying in Bed For 60 Days
- Meditation And The Psychedelic Drug Ayahuasca Seem to Change The Brain in Surprisingly Similar Ways
- This New Smartphone Screen Material Can Repair Its Own Scratches
- Scientists Have Identified The Oldest Cosmic Dust in The Known Universe
- This Ancient Tick Is Engorged on The Oldest Mammal Blood Ever Discovered
- ScienceAlert Deal: TigerVPN Can Help Protect Your Browsing History From ISPs
- WATCH LIVE: NASA's Previewing The 'Grand Finale' of Its Remarkable Saturn Mission
- Confirmed: Those Mysterious Radio Bursts Really Are Coming From Outer Space
- Medieval Villagers Warded Off 'Zombies' By Mutilating Human Remains, Study Finds
- Scientists Have Invented a Graphene-Based Sieve That Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water
- This German Retiree Solved One of World's Most Complex Maths Problems – And No One Noticed
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson Just Revealed When He Thinks We'll Find Aliens
- Astronomers Have Officially Found A Candidate For Planet Nine
- Bacteria Linked to Human Disease Have Been Found in Orca Blowholes
- Here's Why The SpaceX Launch Means We've Entered a New Era of Spaceflight
- This New Graphene-Based Electrode Could Boost Solar Storage by 3,000%
- Stowaway Bacteria Could Be Even More Contagious in Space Than We Thought
- These Mysterious Mosaics Reveal The Existence of a Long-Lost Roman City Called Ucetia
- A Japanese Man Just Got Another Person's Stem Cells Transplanted in His Eye
- It's Not Just You – Scientific Research Is Now Harder to Read Than Ever Before
- The World Just Got a SECOND Doomsday Vault, Because of Course We Did
- Scientists Think They've Pinpointed The Group of Brain Cells That Respond to Meditation
- We Finally Have Some New Insight Into How PTSD Occurs in The Brain
- This Strange Little Badger Stole a Cow And Buried Its Entire Body Underground
- New Simulations Suggest Dark Energy Might Not Exist
- Greenland's Coastal Ice Caps Passed an Unprecedented Tipping Point, And None of Us Even Noticed
- There's Now a Brain Scan to Tell if You're Depressed – And What Treatment Is Needed