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- A Giant Tortoise Thought Extinct For Over 100 Years Has Been Found in Galapagos
- Exercise Affects Us All Differently. A New Study Could Finally Explain Why
- Mysterious Shining Clouds Seen Above Mars Are Both Beautiful And Unusual
- Colossal Flare Could Be First Evidence Energy Can Be Extracted From Black Holes
- Cities Have Unique Microbial 'Fingerprints', First Study of Its Kind Reveals
- Look at This Newly Discovered, Utterly Adorable 'Chocolate' Frog Species
- Was COVID-19 Made in a Lab? An Epidemiologist Reviews The Evidence
- Space Debris Has Hit And Damaged The International Space Station
- Here Are 12 Signs of Long COVID You Should Discuss With Your Doctor
- Innocent-Looking Jar From 2,300 Years Ago Holds 'Curse' Against 55 People in Athens
- Detoxifying Enzymes Encased in Microparticles Could Protect Bees From Pesticides
- Here's How The Brain Reboots Itself After The Deep Sleep of Anesthesia
- Weird Electromagnetic Bursts Appear Before Earthquakes – And We May Finally Know Why
- COVID Long Haulers' Brain Fog Similar to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome's Cognitive Symptoms
- Most Detailed Map of The Universe's Dark Matter Reveals Physics-Defying Cosmic Voids
- Immediate Skin-to-Skin Touch Could Save The Lives of Many Preterm Babies, Study Shows
- New Dark Matter Map Shows The Bridges Between The Milky Way And Nearby Galaxies
- Radical Discovery Suggests The Maximum Human Lifespan Is 150 Years of Age
- This Startling Image of Our Galaxy's Center Hints at a New Cosmic Phenomenon
- What Is The 14-Day Limit in Embryo Research? Here's Why You Need to Know About This
- Surprise Discovery in The Human Spleen Could 'Redefine' What We Know About Malaria
- Climate Change Likely Contributed to One of The Oldest Examples of Human Warfare
- Ingenuity Just Survived an Unexpected in-Flight Anomaly on Mars!
- Monkeys Pick Up 'Accents' When They Want to Blend in With Neighboring Kin
- NASA Is Launching Glowing Baby Squid And 5,000 Tardigrades Into Space
- Made From Bird Bones, These Could Be The Oldest Known Tattooing Tools
- A Literal Mouse Plague Is Terrorizing Towns in Eastern Australia Right Now
- Hints of Hidden Volcanoes Deep Inside Europa Boost Its Chances of Hosting Alien Life
- Lab or Nature? The Current Evidence For Each of The SARS-CoV-2 Origin Theories
- 'Unbelievable' Video Shows Two Bees Work Together to Unscrew a Soda Bottle
- Scientists Trace The Intricate Oscillations Our Brains Use to 'Save' Memories in Sleep
- Letter With E=mc2 Written in Einstein's Hand Was Just Sold For $1.2 Million
- Astonishing Pics From Around The World Showcase The Total Lunar Eclipse
- A Scientist Explains How a Hot Bath Delivers Some of The Same Effects as Exercise
- New Diagnostic Tool Predicts The Risk of Alzheimer's With Astonishing Accuracy of 90%
- These Adorable Lizards Figured Out a Genius Way to Breathe Underwater
- Enigmatic Designs Found in India May Be The Largest Images Ever Made by Human Hands
- Newly Released US Navy Footage Shows Spherical UFO Plunge Into The Ocean
- Russia Is Scheduling a Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft to Travel to Jupiter
- Greenland's Melting Glaciers Are Polluting Coasts With Shocking Amounts of Mercury
- New Measurements Reveal The Full Danger of The World's Largest Volcano
- Can't Stand Some Sounds? An 'Abnormal' Brain Connection Could Be to Blame
- We May Finally Know How Plasma Blasts Through Insane Magnetic Fields of Neutron Stars
- Even Random, Sporadic Bursts of Walking Are Linked to Living Longer, Scientists Find
- Weird Discovery Shows 'Supertasters' Could Be Better at Fighting Off SARS-CoV-2
- Is This Incredible Photo of Earth or Mars?
- Only Have Your First Vaccine Dose So Far? Here's The Data on How Protected You Are
- A Total Lunar Eclipse Is Coming Tomorrow, And It's a Really Special One
- The 'Replication Crisis' Could Be Worse Than We Thought, New Analysis Reveals
- Here Are 6 Reasons Why Potatoes Are Actually Good For Us
- Gene Therapy Partially Restores Vision in Blind Patient in First Case of Its Kind
- The Formation Story of Our Galaxy Just Got Less Violent, But More Interesting
- The Mystery Formation of Extremely Rich Gold Veins Might Finally Be Solved
- The Most Common Bacterial Cause of Food Poisoning Could Also Be an STI
- Highly Pathogenic Bird Flu Outbreak Already Reported in 46 Countries, Scientists Warn
- Soil Particles in Australia Could Be Leaking Radioactive Plutonium. Here's Why
- Dogs Can Detect Over 90% of COVID-19 Cases, Even Asymptomatic Ones
- This Unique Flower Smells Like Dead Insects to Attract And Trap Coffin Flies
- This Beating Sesame Seed-Sized 'Human Heart' Grew Itself in a Lab
- Do Pharmaceuticals Pose a Threat to Aquatic Life? Experts Weigh in
- We've Tracked 5 Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts to The Arms of Distant Spiral Galaxies
- Here's The Reason Why We Roll Up Our Sleeves And Get Shots in The Arm
- This Clever Game 'Microdoses' People With The Manipulation Used to Spread Fake Facts
- Scientists Discover a New Type of Biochemical That Could Be in All Life on Earth
- Super-Secure Processor Thwarts Hackers by Turning a Computer Into a Puzzle
- Giant, Now Sunken Islands Could Explain Ancient Migration in The Americas
- The Oldest Known Spiral Galaxy Was Just Detected, And It Has Some Surprises For Us
- The Incoming Hurricane Season Is Shaping to Break More Records, Scientists Warn
- These Little Creatures Have The 'Weirdest Sex Chromosome System Known to Science'
- This Ancient Memory Technique Could Be Better Than The 'Memory Palace', Study Finds
- The Hottest Surface Temperature on Earth Is Not Actually in Death Valley
- Physicists Have Broken The Speed of Light With Pulses Inside Hot Plasma
- How Much Daily Movement Do You Need to Counteract Sitting? New Research Explains
- The Largest Iceberg in The World Just Broke Off From Antarctica, And Is Floating Away
- Here's What Happened to People's Brains After Receiving a Robotic 'Third Thumb'
- 2020 Was a Deadly Year, But in One Country The Pandemic Spared Thousands of Lives
- See Those Colorful Balls? Yeah, They're All Actually Beige
- What if The Heart of The Milky Way Isn't Actually a Black Hole Like We Thought?
- The First Clinical Trial For Cannabis as a Migraine Treatment Is Underway
- The Very First Pictures Have Arrived From China's Mars Rover Zhurong
- The Iconic Darwin's Arch in The Galapagos Is Gone Forever After a Collapse
- Strange Discovery Reveals Prematurely Born Male Babies 'Age' Slightly Faster
- The Global Death Toll From Working Too Much Has Been Calculated, And It's Awful
- This Jaw-Dropping Simulation Gives Us Our Best Look Yet at Baby Stars Being Born
- In Major Find, Scientists Catch Nerve Cells Send Information in The 'Wrong' Direction
- Just 20 Companies Produce Over 55% of All Single-Use Plastic Waste in The World
- Scientists Fired Tardigrades Out of a Gun to See if They Can Survive Space Impacts
- A Spacecraft Captured a Massive Eruption on The Sun's Surface For The First Time
- Feel Guilty About Climate Change? There's Something You Need to Know About ExxonMobil
- In Unprecedented Feat, Scientists Figure Out How Many Wild Birds Live on The Planet
- More Accurate Clocks Unleash More Disorder in The Universe, Physicists Say
- Mysterious Pattern Suggests Exoplanets Could Actually Be Shrinking in Space
- Experimental Asthma Vaccine Works in Mice, And Could Be Trialed in Humans Soon
- An 'Impossible' Quasicrystal Was Forged in The World's First Nuclear Bomb Test
- Neuroscientists Have Followed a Thought as It Moves Through The Human Brain
- Bizarre Deep-Sea Fish Washes Up on a California Beach in Extremely Rare Case
- If Space Junk Falls on Your House, Are There Laws to Protect You?
- Huge Study Finds Inflammation Could Be a Core Feature of Depression
- Over 60 Genetic Links to Bipolar Disorder Identified in Largest Study to Date
- Climate Change Is Destroying The World's Oldest Rock Art. We Need to Talk About It
- The Oldest Stars in Our Galaxy Predate The Gaia Sausage, Astronomers Find
- Most Anti-Vaccine Conspiracies Online Come From The Same 12 People, Study Shows
- Earth's Core May Have Trapped Noble Gases From Ancient Solar Wind Blasts
- A Dead Man Was Cremated in Arizona Without Anyone Knowing He Was Radioactive
- Why You Need to Beware of Sun-Induced DNA Damage After So Much Time in Lockdown
- A Common Earth Molecule Is Detected For The First Time in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere
- The Mediterranean's Largest Ever Earthquake Wasn't What We Thought, Scientists Say
- Ghost Tree 'Farts' Are a Silent Contributor to Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Scientists Discover How Hidden Underwater Forces Can Increase Hurricane Intensity
- Take a Tour of The Tiny, Wonderful World of Microfluidics
- Human Impact on Earth Is Shrinking an Entire Layer of The Atmosphere, Scientists Warn
- 'Titanium Bubbles' May Explain Why Stars Explode Despite Running Out of Fuel
- Our Weird Dreams May Help Us Make Sense of Reality, AI-Inspired Theory Suggests
- Is It Possible to Get Too Much Sleep? Here's What Scientists Think
- Breaking: China's Zhurong Rover Has Successfully Landed on Mars
- Gazing Into a Diamond's Flaws Has Revealed Hidden Clues About How Our Planet Formed
- New Survey Reveals a Way to Appeal to Even The Most Vaccine Hesitant People
- Astronomers Witnessed a Star Being Violently 'Spaghettified' by a Black Hole
- Here's How Quickly We Become 'Unfit' if We Drop Our Exercise Routines
- Pigs And Rodents Can Breathe Through Their Butts, And This Could Be a Vital Discovery
- Scientists Just Discovered a Hidden Pattern in Soil's Carbon Emissions
- Australia Just Broke a Major Record For New Solar Panel Roof Installations
- China's Mars Orbiter Is About to Attempt a Risky Landing on The Red Planet
- Astronomers Discover What Could Be One of The Oldest Stars in The Known Universe
- Rare 'Alien' Isotopes in Earth's Crust Point to Recent Brush With a Cataclysmic Event
- Ancient Necropolis of 40 Tombs With Humans Buried in Pots Discovered in Corsica
- If You're Fully Vaccinated, The CDC Has Some Delightful News For You
- Mysterious Wobbles in Saturn's Rings Reveal Clues About Its 'Fuzzy' Interior
- Bizarre Discovery Suggests Pink Drinks Make People Run Faster, But Why?
- Here's How Many Years in Advance We'd Need to Stop a Killer Asteroid Coming For Earth
- Long-Lost Letter Reveals Einstein Predicted The Discovery of Animal Super Senses
- Mass Extinction in The Human Gut Revealed by Fossil Remains of 2,000-Year-Old Feces
- Your Immune System Could Be Hurting You as a Way of Signalling to Others
- In Huge Breakthrough, The Largest Offshore Wind Farm in US History Was Just Approved
- Historians Find Genius System That Kept Ancient World's Longest Water Channels Clean
- Humans Have Transformed Nearly One-Fifth of Earth's Land in Just 60 Years
- Chernobyl's Molten Guts Are Warming Up, And Scientists Don't Know Why
- First-of-Its-Kind Video Shows Giant Squid Hunt Their Prey Deep in The Ocean
- Strongest Evidence Yet Shows SARS-CoV-2 May Insert Itself Into The Human Genome
- Ultra-Fast Air And Space Travel Just Got Closer With a Hypersonic Detonation Test
- NASA's Probe With Its Precious Bennu Sample Is Finally Returning to Earth!
- Your Relationship With Your Dog Has a Curious Link to Their Long-Term Stress
- Incredible Images Reveal a Single Moment on Jupiter in Different Wavelengths of Light
- MDMA-Assisted Therapy Shows Clear Benefits in Latest Clinical Trials
- What Does 'Net Zero' Actually Mean? Here's Why Some People Are Upset
- Scientists Just Identified a New Kind of Stress Response Triggered by Driving
- Fantastical Jurassic Fossil Shows Crustacean Eaten by Squid Eaten by Shark
- These 5 Tatooine-Style Star Systems Might Actually Be Able to Support Life
- In Huge Development, US Teens Just Became Eligible For an mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine
- Potentially Deadly 'Black Fungus' Keeps Showing Up in COVID-19 Patients in India
- What Are Vitamins And Do We Really Need to Take Them?
- There's a Weird Correlation Between Brain Size And Yawning, Study Reveals
- Voyager 1 Is Detecting a 'Hum' of Plasma Waves in The Void of Interstellar Space
- Ancient Roman 'Gate to Hell' Killed Victims With Its Deadly Lake
- 'Living Fossil' Thought Extinct For 273 Million Years Found Thriving on Ocean Floor
- Scientists Discover New Auroral Phenomenon Hidden in 19-Year-Old Video Footage
- 'Dracula's Castle' Swaps Fangs For Jabs in Pivot to COVID Vaccination Hub
- Grisly Lair in Italy Was Where Ancient Hyenas Feasted on Their Neanderthal Prey
- ADHD Presents in Different Forms Which Scientists Still Can't Fully Explain
- Uncontrolled Rocket Segment Finally Re-Entered Earth's Atmosphere
- We're Getting Buried in Browser Tabs And Scientists Want to Fix It
- It May Be Possible to Improve Your IQ Score With Practice, Experts Suggest
- Even 85,000 Years Later, We Can Still See How Early Humans Shaped The Land With Fire
- Hospital Food Is Never Great, But For Some Patients It Means Death
- How Does Caffeine Wake You Up?
- Newly Identified Species of Saber-Toothed Cat Was So Big It Hunted Rhinos in America
- Subtle Brain Thinning During Teen Years Linked to Increased Risk of Psychosis
- Have a Listen to The Historic Sound of Ingenuity Flying on Mars
- Scientists Identify New Tsunami Hazard With Devastating Potential For Coastal Cities
- Powerful Magnetic Fields in Space Have Been Seen Bending Black Hole Jets
- Young Adults Who've Had COVID-19 Show Signs of Lasting Cardiovascular Damage
- This Tiny, Odd-Looking Dinosaur Ambushed Its Prey by Moonlight
- Quantum Entanglement Has Now Been Directly Observed at a Larger Macroscopic Scale
- There's Evidence Volcanoes Are Active on Mars, Raising Chances of Recent Habitability
- Mexico City Is Sinking at an Alarming And Largely Unstoppable Rate, New Data Finds
- Bees Have Been Trained to Smell COVID-19 And Identify a Case Within Seconds
- Even Fewer People Reproduced in The US Last Year, And Who Can Blame Them?
- What Is ADHD?
- One Tree Is Still Smoldering After Last Year's Californian Wildfires
- US Space Command Has an ETA For When That Uncontrolled Rocket Will Crash Down
- 'River Piracy' Phenomenon Set to Steal Alaskan River, Scientists Predict
- Sharks Navigate Using Earth's Magnetic Fields Like a Compass, New Research Shows
- Scientists Create 'Flat-Pack' Pasta That Morphs Into Shape Like Moving Organisms
- The Speed of Sound Is Innately Encoded in The Brains of Bats, Scientists Discover
- IQ Test Scores Are Getting Higher, But Are Humans Actually Getting Smarter?
- Saturn Has a Weirdly Neat, Symmetrical Magnetic Field. We May Finally Know Why
- Experimental Booster Protects Against New Coronavirus Variants, Early Trial Suggests
- The First Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Have Just Been Released in The US
- Touchdown! SpaceX Safely Lands Gigantic Starship Rocket After 4 Fiery Failures
- Oldest Known Deliberate Human Burial Uncovered in African Cave
- Groundbreaking Cat Science Shows They Love to Sit in Illusory Boxes, Too
- Mystery of Deadly 'Last Resort' Antibiotic Finally Solved After 70 Years
- 'Herd Immunity' in The US? Here's What The Experts Really Think About That
- Meet The World's Most 'Instagrammable' Bird, According to Science
- A Giant Piece of Space Junk Is Hurtling Towards Earth Right Now. Should You Worry?
- Lose Yourself in This Majestic New Hubble Picture of an Entire Cluster of Galaxies
- Venus Flyby Reveals Low-Frequency Radio Signal Detected in The Planet's Atmosphere
- Human Brain Limit of '150 Friends' Doesn't Check Out, New Study Claims
- Some Viruses Have a Completely Different Genome to The Rest of Life on Earth
- The Mystery of White Dwarfs With Intense Magnetic Fields Could Finally Be Solved
- A World-First Multinode Network Just Took Us Closer to The Elusive Quantum Internet
- A Strange Effect of Aspirin May Help Protect Against Air Pollution, Scientists Say
- Is Pollution Shrinking Penises And Depleting Sperm Counts? Here Are The Facts
- Physicists Just Found The Lightest Known Form of Uranium, And It Has Unique Behaviors
- Lightning Has Powerful Air Cleaning Properties, Surprising Analysis Reveals
- The Worst Year to Be Alive in Human History Is Probably Not The One You Think
- This Bizarre Sea Worm Branches Like a Tree, And Each Segment Has Its Own Butt
- Map Maker Accidentally Finds 2,500-Year-Old Bronze Age Treasure Trove in a Forest
- Sea Level Rise From Antarctic Melt Could Be 30% Higher Than We Thought
- Bonding With Your Dog Involves Lots of Mutual Gazing. Not All Breeds Find It So Easy
- Shocking Discovery Reveals The Amazon Has 'Flipped' to Become a Major Emitter
- Hypothetical Asteroid Devastates Europe in Doomsday NASA Simulation
- SpaceX Safely Returns Astronauts to Earth in US's Longest Human Spaceflight Ever
- Want to Know if Your Kid Will Have Allergies? Check Their Very First Poo
- The First People in Australia May Have Followed 'Superhighways' When Arriving There
- Scientists Have Identified Four Distinct Types of Alzheimer's And What They Do to Us
- The Same Handful of Websites Are Dominating The Web And That Could Be a Problem
- Laser-Heated Lava Balls Give a Glimpse Into Earth's Early Atmosphere
- Is COVID-19 Here to Stay For Good? Here's What Experts Think
- Fish May Actually Feel Pain After All, Argues a New Paper
- 'Wolf Packs' of Predatory Bacteria Lurk in Our Soil, And They Play a Crucial Role
- Ingenuity Completes Its Fourth Flight And Gets an Exciting New Mission
- Medieval Skeletons Might Be Hiding a Cancer Rate Far Higher Than Expected