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- Crazy Tests Reveal if Stoners Really Have More Chill Than The Rest of Us
- We're Finally Understanding How We Can Repair Spinal Cord Injuries
- There Is a Right Way to Use Your Phone in Bed Without Screwing Up Your Sleep
- Crispy Jellyfish Are The Next Weird Food Source Proposed by Danish Scientists
- Fungi Harness The Power of Physics to Hurl Their Spores Into The World
- Does Sugar Make You Sad? New Study Finds a Link
- The FDA Changes Its Mind on Vaping, Cracks Down on Nicotine Instead
- Roomba CEO Is Totally Not Going to Sell a Map of Your House to The Highest Bidder
- 5 Futuristic Technologies Set to Change Our Lives Really Soon
- The Next Pharmaceutical Revolution Could Be 3D Bioprinted
- Flatworms Can Still Detect Light Even After They've Been Decapitated
- This Cool Chemical Found in Titan's Atmosphere Could Make Actual Cell Membranes
- Regular Alcohol Drinkers Have a Lower Risk of Diabetes
- Memories of Alzheimer's Patients May Not Be Lost Forever
- The Newest Dinosaur to Be Discovered Looks Just Like a Modern-Day Bird
- Astronomers May Have Spotted The First Moon Outside of Our Solar System
- Learn All The Tricks With This Complete Guide to Ethical Hacking
- Listen to What Space Sounds Like: an Eerie Chorus of 'Alien Birds'
- How a YouTube Video of Bouncy Balls on a Hot Pan Led to a Weird Physics Discovery
- Trying to Conceive? Think About What You're Eating
- DNA Analysis Has Solved The Mystery of Whether Canaanite Descendants Live on
- Scientists Just Made Food From Electricity
- New Study Shows The First Galaxies Underwent a Huge Galactic Recession
- A Drill Ship Is Setting Off to Investigate a Sunken Lost Continent East of Australia
- Ultrathin Device Generates Power From Even The Most Subtle Human Movement
- Slug Slime Inspires The Perfect Glue to Hold Together a Broken Heart
- Counterpoint: Why You Probably Should Still Take Your Full Course of Antibiotics
- Scientists Have Used CRISPR to Edit a Human Embryo in The US For The First Time
- Scientists Have Positive New Results For Using Ketamine to Treat Severe Depression
- Talking to Yourself in The Third Person Can Reduce Stress And Negative Emotions
- Half Our Body's Atoms Could Have Come From Outside The Galaxy
- Near Death Experience Study Explores The Common Ground in What Is Felt And Seen
- Implanting Stem Cells Into The Brain Might Extend Human Lifespan
- Why Looking For Aliens Is Good For Society (Even if There Aren't Any)
- New Tardigrade Study Reveals Where These Freakish Beasties Came From
- Two Babies Have Been Cancer-Free After Receiving Treatment Created With Gene Editing
- The Most Intense Cosmic Explosion Out There Has Been Captured as It Happened
- 9 Diabetes Breakthroughs You Need to Know About
- Here's What That Sperm Concentration Study Actually Means For Humans
- That Age-Old Advice to Finish Your Antibiotics Might Do More Harm Than Good
- WATCH: David Attenborough Explains How These Weird Australian Octopuses Hunt On Land
- NASA Is Building a Prototype Deep Space Habitat – From an Old Cargo Container
- How Nanoparticles And a Common Spice Are Killing Cancer Cells
- Google Has Started Adding Imagination to Its DeepMind AI
- Scientists Are Pushing Wild Climate Hacking Scenarios to Save The Planet
- Physicists Make a Glowing Fireball From a Magnet And a Plasma Chamber
- Here's How to Make Batteries That Last (Almost) Forever
- ScienceAlert Deal: This Meditation App Uses Machine Learning to Help You De-Stress
- Brain Trauma Discovered in 99% of Deceased NFL Players in Post-Mortem Study
- There Are Seven Times More Massive Comets in Our Solar System Than We Thought
- Researchers Are Competing to See Who Can Make The Best Household Robot
- Religious Leaders Are Dropping Psilocybin Because Science Asked Them to
- Alcohol Helps You Remember What You Learned Earlier, Study Shows
- Study Shows Money Really Can Buy Happiness – if You Buy Free Time
- Just a Few Anti-Vaxxers Can Triple Annual Disease Rates, New Study Shows
- A Child Born With HIV Has Been Virus-Free For Almost 9 Years Without Drugs
- For The First Time, a US Company Is Implanting Microchips in Its Employees
- The Moon Is Seriously Loaded With Water, More Than We Ever Expected
- 10 Farming Myths to Think About on Your Next Grocery Run
- Depression Could Change The Wiring Inside Your Brain, New Study Shows
- There's Another Huge Plastic Garbage Patch in The Pacific Ocean
- The UK's National Health Service Will Stop Funding Homeopathic Prescriptions
- Struggling to Ditch Meat? Here Are 5 Science-Backed Ways to Resist The Temptation
- NASA Wants Your Origami Skills to Help It Design a Spacecraft Radiation Shield
- 6 Valuable Data-Based Tips on How to Succeed at Online Dating
- Physicists Just Generated a Particle That Acts as Its Own Antiparticle
- A Neuroscientist Just Tricked 4 Dodgy Journals Into Accepting a Fake Paper on 'Midi-Chlorians'
- Here's Why We Shouldn't Be Worried at All About That Morphing 'UFO'
- A Vaccine For Type 1 Diabetes Begins Human Trials in 2018
- Sign of a Mysterious Human Ancestor Has Been Found in Our Spit
- Nutrition Science Isn't Broken, It's Just Wicked Hard
- That Weird Signal From Space Is No Longer All That Weird
- Here's How Cows Are Helping Researchers Fight HIV
- Our Minds Appear to Sync With Others When We're Holding a Conversation
- Laser Blasts Could Finally Remove Those Annoying Squiggles in Your Vision
- Is This Bizarre Tubeworm The Longest-Living Animal in The World?
- This New Material Could Let Phones And Electric Cars Charge in Seconds
- Microscopic Silk Cocoons Provide a Safe Haven For Sensitive Molecules
- When Will The First Human Leave The Solar System?
- 9 Amazing Things We've Achieved in 2017 With Help From CRISPR
- Diet Drinks Really Are Associated With Weight Gain, Says New Research
- Schizophrenia Found to Be Caused by Faulty Helper Cells in The Brain
- PET Scans Show Many Alzheimer's Patients May Not Actually Have The Disease
- Elon Musk Claims He Has Verbal Approval to Build a 29-Minute Hyperloop From NY to DC
- These Boys Thought They'd Found a 'Big, Fat, Rotten Cow'. It Was a 1 Million-Year-Old Stegomastodon
- We're Closer Than Ever to Saving Lives With Livers Made in The Lab
- An Interstellar Internet Network Could Take 300,000 Years to Build
- This Strange Creature Is The First Sunfish Species to Be Discovered in 130 Years
- Spectacular Findings in Australia Push Back Human Settlement by at Least 10,000 Years
- This Growing, Twisting Snake Robot Could One Day Save Your Life
- Latest Quantum Weirdness Says Particles Can Suddenly Go Backwards Even When Pushed
- What Caffeine Does to Your Body And Brain
- Dogs Are Insanely Friendly Thanks to Their Genes, Say Researchers
- There's Literally a Ton of Plastic Garbage For Every Person on Earth
- World's Youngest Double Hand Transplant Declared a Success
- Elon Musk Admits There's a "Lot of Risk" in Debut Launch of SpaceX's Mars Rocket
- A Melting Swiss Glacier Has Revealed a Missing Couple Buried 75 Years Ago
- New Forecast Models Could Give You an Extra Hour to Hide From a Tornado
- NASA Will Use Converted Bombers to Chase The Totality of The Great American Eclipse
- Hong Kong Has Virtually No Land Left to Stash Its Massive Garbage Output
- WATCH: The BBC Uploaded 40 Hours of Breathtaking Planet Earth II Video to YouTube
- New Research Topples a 100-Year-Old Law on How Fluids Move in Rocks
- Scientists Have Reversed Brain Damage in a 2-Year-Old Girl Who Drowned in a Swimming Pool
- Running Would Have Broken an Adult Tyrannosaurus Rex's Legs
- Brains With Alzheimer's Have More Bacteria Than Healthy Ones, Says New Study
- Scientists Just Learned How to Lock Away Carbon a Whole Lot Faster
- Japan's Ridiculously Cute Floating Camera Bot Is Now Operational on The ISS
- We Now Have More Evidence For The Existence of Planet Nine
- How Maryam Mirzakhani Was a Role Model For More Than Just Her Mathematics
- Low-Carb vs Low-Fat: New Research Says It Doesn't Really Matter
- Why Do Human Beings Speak So Many Languages?
- New Research Suggests at Least 75% of The Human Genome Is Junk DNA After All
- Elon Musk: Unregulated AI Could Be The "Biggest Risk We Face as a Civilisation"
- Doctors Have Found 27 Contact Lenses Lost in a Woman's Eye
- Here's How Helping Your Brain Can Actually Help Your Gut
- 12 Science-Backed Reasons You Should Spend More Time Outside
- This Flat Microscope Implant Could Beam Sensory Input Directly to The Brain
- Scientists Are Digging Up 'Ghost Ponds' And Bringing Zombie Plants Back to Life
- What an Artificial Intelligence Researcher Fears About AI
- A Google Company Is Unleashing 20 Million Mosquitoes in California to Fight Zika
- Here's Five Things to Eat or Avoid to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
- Curiosity Is Taking a Martian Vacation While The Sun Blocks Out Our Communications
- This Self-Fuelling Boat Just Set Off on an Epic 6-Year Global Voyage
- A Mysterious Underwater Forest Warns of Earth's Rapidly Changing Climate
- These Adorable Little Animals Will Survive Nearly Any Global Apocalypse
- Here's The Real Reason Why We Still Haven't Found Alien Life
- New Research Suggests Earth Started Its Days as a Giant Ball of Mud
- Climate Change Could Make The Earth "Practically Ungovernable"
- Astronomers Have Detected Strange Signals Coming From a Star 11 Light Years Away
- This 3D-Printed, Soft Artificial Heart Beats Just Like a Real One
- New TRAPPIST-1 Research Questions How We Think About That Habitable Zone We're Searching For
- Earth Is on Its Way to The Biggest Mass Extinction Since The Dinosaurs, Scientists Warn
- Climate Change Could Make Flying a Lot More Frustrating
- Moon Express Is on Track to Start Harvesting The Moon by 2020
- Bad Sleep Found to Increase Alzheimer's Related Brain Proteins
- Physicists Just Found a Way to Spin Teeny Tiny Robot Motors With Bacteria
- Researchers Now Know How Cancers Force Other Cells to Make Fake Viruses
- Scientists Can Now Clone Thousands of Genes in a Single Reaction
- NASA Just Announced It Can't Afford to Get Humans to Mars
- Ravens Can Plan For The Future Like Humans And Apes
- Scarily Realistic AI Video Software Puts Words in Obama's Mouth
- Is Your Country Lazy or What? "Activity Inequality" May Be The Best Measure
- These 4 Myths About Water Fluoridation Are Totally Wrong
- Neurologists Have Made an Instrument You Can Play With Your Mind
- For The First Time, Scientists Have Encoded a Movie Into The DNA of Living Bacteria
- OPINION: I've Studied Larsen C For Years – It's Not a Simple Story of Climate Change
- PHOTOS: NASA's Juno Mission Just Stared Right Into Jupiter's Angry Red Eye
- An Exciting New Cancer Treatment Has Just Been Endorsed by FDA
- New Archaeological Analysis Is Rewriting The History of Easter Island
- PTSD May Be Physical as Well as Psychological, Scientists Say
- A Massive 1 Trillion-Ton Iceberg Just Broke Off Antarctica
- These Energy-Recycling Stairs Will Save Your Poor Old Joints
- For The First Time, Scientists Have Captured 'Alien Ice' Crystallising on Earth
- Astronomers Just Discovered The Smallest Star Ever Known to Science
- Drinking More Coffee Is Associated With a Longer Life, New Studies Show
- Scientists Just Teleported a Photon From Earth to Orbit For The First Time
- We've Just Got Closer Than Ever to Making Perfectly Cubic Ice
- We're Another Step Closer to Growing Replacement Body Organs
- People With Autism Are Better at Avoiding Sneaky Marketing Tricks
- Sea Spiders Stay Alive by Pumping Their Guts, Not Their Heart, to Circulate Oxygen
- The Meningococcal B Vaccine Also Increases Protection From Gonorrhoea
- Scientists Have Mapped The Heart of an Exploded Star in 3D
- These 100 Companies Are to Blame For 71% of The World's Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Why Can't Monkeys Talk?
- Nikola Tesla, The Genius Who Electrified The World And Dreamed Up Death Rays
- Titan Has Enough Energy to Power a Colony The Size of The US
- Why Having a Sense of Purpose Could Help You Sleep Better
- A Smart Home Speaker May Have Saved a Life by Calling Cops to a Domestic Dispute
- The Ancient Remains of 5,000-Year-Old 'Giants' Discovered in China
- Corals Found Deep in The Ocean Produce Their Own Sunlight to Survive
- Learn How to Read Faster And Comprehend More With This Award-Winning Speed Reading Bundle
- Praying Mantises Are Killing Birds And Devouring Their Brains All Over The World
- A Common Epilepsy Drug Can Fix Abnormal Brain Activity in Alzheimer's Disease
- Get Lifetime Access to Over 1,000 Courses With The Virtual Training Company
- Tesla Set to Build The World's Biggest Lithium-Ion Battery Storage Facility in Australia
- Learn How to Grow a Business Online With The Complete Digital Marketing Course
- The UN Passes The First-Ever Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Worldwide
- ScienceAlert Deal: Be Prepared For an Emergency With This Tactical Military Flashlight
- Could Human Hair Be Used to Clean Up Oil Spills?
- This New Ceramic Coating Gets Us Closer to Reliable Hypersonic Air Travel
- Threatened Animals Could Be Taught to Avoid Their Predators, New Research Shows
- Clinics Are Still Peddling Unproven And Unethical Stem Cell Treatments
- Study That Claims CRISPR Causes Unwanted Mutations Is Probably Wrong
- These Are The Biggest Scientific Discoveries in Every US State
- Researchers Have Only Just Discovered That Frogs Have Tiny Knee Caps
- Scientists Have Recreated an Extinct Poxvirus in The Lab
- We're Sending Another Probe to Mercury to Work Out Why The Planet's Shrinking
- Archaeologists Find a Secret Tunnel Hidden Beneath Mexico's Pyramid of The Moon
- Untreatable Antibiotic-Resistant Strains of Gonorrhoea Are Going Global
- This Scientist Thinks That Life Could Be a Guide to The Evolution of The Cosmos
- This Cheap Sugar-Based Filter Could Help Clean Up Toxic Waterways
- Chocolate Boosts Your Brain Power, New Study Finds
- Our Galaxy Could Have 100 Billion Failed Stars Lurking in The Darkness
- Mars Surface Is Looking Much Deadlier Than We Previously Thought
- These Genius Fruit Labels Tell Us Why 'Chemical-Free' Is a Useless Term
- Get The Skills You Want in IT With The Ultimate CompTIA+ Certification Bundle
- The Large Hadron Collider Detected a Beautiful New Particle
- France Is About to Make 11 Vaccines Mandatory
- China Just Built a 250-Acre Solar Farm Shaped Like a Giant Panda
- How You Smell Food Could Change How You Gain Weight
- Children Who Get Less Sleep May Be Ageing Faster on a Cellular Level
- Scientists Have Uncovered The Atomic Structure of a Key Alzheimer's Protein For The First Time
- There Are X-Rays Coming From Pluto And We Still Don't Know What's Causing It
- Scientists Have Measured The Waves on Titan's Methane Lakes, And It's Good News
- This Is What Cancer Looks Like Attacking The Insides of a Mouse
- 5 Things You Should Bring to a Total Solar Eclipse
- This Battery-Free Cellphone Works by Harvesting Power From Ambient Radio Signals
- India Is About to Be The Second Country to Ever Use This New Nuclear Technology
- Owl Wings Could Teach Us to Make Quieter Turbines And Aircraft
- The Fastest Stars in Our Milky Way Are High-Speed Runaways From Another Galaxy
- Do Cats Purr When Humans Aren't Around?
- New Calculations Show The Proton Is Lighter Than We Previously Thought
- Self-Driving Cars Could Make Moral Decisions Like Humans With a Simple Algorithm
- NASA Is Planning an Asteroid Deflection Test Mission in Case The Unthinkable Happens
- If We Stopped Emitting Greenhouse Gases Right Now, Would We Stop Climate Change?
- Research Shows Magic Mushrooms Can Offer Real Benefits in Depression Therapy
- New DNA From a Neanderthal Bone Holds Evidence of a Lost Tribe of Humans
- This Giant Croc of The Jurassic Era Could "Outcompete" Apex Dinosaurs
- You Can Now Snort Chocolate – But Should You?
- 10,900 Year-Old Mashed Potatoes Found in Utah by Archaeologists
- Bee Brains Could Help Your Camera Take Better Photos
- The Mutation That Helped Ancient Humans Survive Frostbite Probably Gave Us Arthritis
- We Now Know Why Some Diabetes Drugs Work in Mice But Totally Fail in People
- Why 2,000 Year-Old Roman Concrete Is So Much Better Than What We Produce Today
- This Amazing Light Shield Could Protect Astronauts From Radiation In Space
- Keep Yourself Protected Online With This Windscribe VPN Package
- The Tesla Model 3 Goes on Sale This Week
- Programmers Are Secretly Automating Their Jobs And Only Working a Few Hours a Week
- How a Creepy Tower of Skulls Is Changing What We Think We Know About The Aztecs
- Proteins Found in Tick Spit Could Save You From Heart Disease
- Men Experience Their Own Biological Clock, IVF Study Shows
- Stephen Hawking Says Trump's Climate Policy Could "Push Earth Over The Brink"
- WATCH: After 1,000 Days in Orbit, Here Are NASA's Top 10 Discoveries From MAVEN
- There's Now Very Strong Evidence We Really Are Killing Our Bees
- Human Emotions Really Are Affected by Gut Bacteria, New Study Suggests
- Do You Actually Have What It Takes To Live On Mars?
- This Pain-Free 'Microneedle' Patch Could One Day Replace Flu Shots
- Scientists Are About to Officially Change What a Kilogram Is
- An Astronomer Has a Plan to Use The Sun's Gravity to Channel Video From The Stars
- Scientists Want to Genetically Engineer Heat-Resistant Cows to Survive Climate Change
- Eating Placenta May Put Your Newborn Baby at Risk, Says CDC
- Meet The Newest Recruits of Dubai's Police Force: Robo-Cars With Facial-Recognition Tech
- Want to Train to Go to Space? The UK Is Building a $150 Million Training Facility