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- Giant 10-Million-Year-Old Fossil Tree in Peru Reveals Surprises About Ancient Past
- This Is What Our Sky Would Look Like If We Could See The Giant Halo Around Andromeda
- Here's How Extreme Wildfires Can Unleash Thunderstorms And 'Fire Tornadoes'
- A Teenager Didn't Realise He'd Swallowed a Sewing Pin Until It Pierced His Heart
- A Galaxy Far, Far Away Looks Like a TIE Fighter, Astronomers Discover Unexpectedly
- NASA Rover Glimpses a Ghostly Martian Dust Devil Whirling Across The Red Planet
- Early US COVID-19 Vaccine Is Possible, FDA Head Says, Even Before Safety Trials End
- Patient in Nevada Marks The First US Case of Coronavirus Reinfection, Study Says
- We Just Found Another Obstacle For Quantum Computers to Overcome – And It's Everywhere
- Lupus, Arthritis Patients Aren't Necessarily High Risk For Severe COVID-19 After All
- This Weird Creature Is The First We Know of That Hibernated – 250 Million Years Ago
- Double-Blind Clinical Trial Suggests Microdose of LSD Can Decrease Pain Perception
- SpaceX May Attempt 3 Rocket Launches This Sunday
- Scientists Think They've Figured Out a Main Culprit of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Tropical Songbirds Have an Extreme Drought Survival Tactic: They Stop Breeding
- This Is The Most Exciting Crisis in Cosmology
- In Canada, People Are Fighting to Save a Majestic Tree That's Older Than Canada
- Breakthrough in Artificial Photosynthesis Lets Scientists Store The Sun's Energy as Fuel
- There's a Theory Beyond Relativity That Would Allow You to Fly Through a Wormhole
- Here Are 6 Myths About Masks That People Really Need to Stop Sharing
- Swimming Is One Thing in The Pandemic. The Crowd at The Beach Is Something Else
- Microbes Living Deep Below Earth's Surface Could Be Remnants of Ancient Life Forms
- Current Physical Distancing Measures Are Based on 'Outdated Science', Say Researchers
- Physicists Just Found a New Quantum Paradox That Casts Doubt on a Pillar of Reality
- More Than Half The Ice Shelves Currently Buffering Antarctica Are at Risk of Crumbling
- 'Swapping Bodies' With a Friend Swaps Your Beliefs, Strange Experiment Reveals
- There's a Strange Glow in The Centre of Our Galaxy, And It's Not What We Thought It Was
- Silica Takes on a Strange 'Half Way' Form in Meteorite Impacts, Experiment Suggests
- Google Says It Just Ran The First-Ever Quantum Simulation of a Chemical Reaction
- Despite CDC's Changed Advice, WHO Confirms Anyone Exposed to COVID-19 Should Be Tested
- Super Rare 'Elite Controllers' Are Able to Completely Overcome HIV Without Any Drugs
- Simple Cells Just Solved One of The World's Most Infamous Mazes
- Where Did Earth's Water Come From? Study Casts Doubt on The Current Meteorite Theory
- Making One Simple Change to Wind Turbines Could Cut Bird Deaths by 70 Percent
- Incredibly Rare Dinosaur Embryo Reveals Hatchlings Possessed Strange Facial Horn
- What Is 'Reverse Dieting' Anyway? What We Do And Don't Know About This Post-Diet Plan
- Experts Alarmed as CDC Abruptly Changes COVID-19 Advice Amid Reports of Interference
- New Evidence Finally Confirms The Theory of How Stars Get Shredded by Black Holes
- Physicist Predicts How The Universe Might End: With Explosions Like None in Existence
- Scientists May Have Identified Why COVID-19 Affects Men And Women So Differently
- Scientists Measured The Global Magnetic Field of The Sun's Corona For The First Time
- A Vast Radio 'Bridge' Has Been Found Connecting 2 Galaxy Clusters About to Merge
- We Just Got More Evidence Bacteria Could Survive The Journey Between Earth And Mars
- Puppy Preserved in Permafrost Ate a Chunk of One of Earth's Last Woolly Rhinos
- Strange Forms of Vitamins Called 'Antivitamins' May Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
- A Man Lost His Hearing And Suffered Inflamed Eyes After Getting a Standard Back Tattoo
- It's Official: Africa Has Just Been Declared Free of Wild Poliovirus
- More COVID-19 Reinfections Are Being Reported. Here's Why You Don't Need to Freak Out
- How Big Is … ?
- Flies Fall For Optical Illusions Just Like Us, Despite Millions of Years of Evolution
- Massive Study of 24,000 Dreams Suggests They Really Are Continuations of Reality
- Scientists Just Narrowed Down The Age of Earth's Inner Core
- Up to Half The World's Water Supply Is Being Stolen, a Troubling Report Reveals
- This Spiraling Stream of Gas Just Revealed The Rotation of Historic Comet NEOWISE.
- A Collapsed Cliff Has Revealed 313 Million-Year-Old Fossil Footprints in The Grand Canyon
- A 100-Year-Old Treatment Has Been Approved For COVID-19 in The US. Here's How It Works
- Someone in Hong Kong Caught COVID-19 Twice – Possibly The First Confirmed Reinfection
- Space Could Be Filled With Hidden 'Rogue' Planets – And We May Soon Be Able to See Them
- Earth Appears to Be Travelling Through The Debris of Ancient Supernovae
- Ancient Mars Had Planet-Wide Rainstorms So Intense They Breached Its Lakes
- Strange, 'Long-Lost' Elephant Shrew Has Been Rediscovered in Africa After 50 Years
- By March, The US Counted 1,500 COVID-19 Cases. Scientists Say We'd Missed 100,000 More
- A Mysterious Radio Burst That Keeps Repeating Just Woke Up, Right on Schedule
- This Is Why The Californian Wildfires Are So Dangerous This Year
- Here's The Real Truth About That 'Election Day' Asteroid on Its Way to Earth
- Mantis Shrimp Have The Ocean's Fastest Punch. Now We Know How Their Claws Survive
- Earth Lost a 'Staggering' 28 Trillion Tonnes of Ice in Just 23 Years
- How Much Will Earth Really Warm by? Here's What The Latest Research Says
- Scientists Are Figuring Out What Happens in The Skin When You Have Eczema
- Up to Half of The World's Oceans Are Already Affected by Climate Change
- Scientists Film Hummingbirds Flying Through Waterfalls, And It's Beautiful And Genius
- There Are Mysterious Wrinkles Inside Our Hearts. This Might Be What They're For
- Good News. The Latest COVID-19 Tests Work Without 'Tickling Your Brain'
- This NASA Animation Shows What It's Really Like to Travel Close to The Speed of Light
- Scientists Just Discovered Another Trick Bacteria Use to Avoid The Immune System
- Weaponised Disinformation Could Unleash City-Wide Blackouts, Researchers Warn
- Researchers Just Set a New Record For The Fastest Internet Speed Ever
- What's Actually in Wildfire Smoke, And Why Is It So Damaging For Your Lungs?
- Large Study on Depression Reveals The 'Protective Effect' of Confiding in a Friend
- For The First Time, Two Hurricanes May Hit The Gulf of Mexico at The Same Time
- 9 Reasons Why You Should Be Optimistic a COVID-19 Vaccine Will Be Available in 2021
- Tardigrades Have DNA Armour, And We Just Got Closer to Understanding How It Works
- In a Lab on Earth, Scientists Just Replicated Pressures Found on White Dwarf Stars
- Greenland's Ice Sheet Has Lost a Record Half-a-Trillion Tonnes in a Single Year
- So, The International Space Station Is Leaking Air Again
- Ancient Sculptures Hint at Universal Expressions of Feeling Across Time And Culture
- For The First Time in Years, Earth Overshoot Day Has Been Pushed to a Later Date
- Some 'Healthy' Kids Can Carry as Much COVID-19 Virus as Severely Sick Adults
- Security Researchers Found a New Way to Pick Locks, Using Only The Sound of The Key
- New X-Ray Imaging Has Revealed What's Inside Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies
- Strange Bacteria That Survive Only on Air May Be More Prevalent Than We Realised
- A Stupendously Huge Raft of Volcanic Rock Has Floated Across The Ocean to Australia
- After 400 Years, Debris From This Supernova Is Still Not Slowing Down
- Is The Timing of Your Meals Important For Weight Loss? It Could Be, Evidence Shows
- Loss of Smell in COVID-19 Has an Unusual Cause, Study Indicates
- Study of More Than 55,000 COVID-19 Cases Reveals a Predictable Order of Symptoms
- New Study Says Honey Is Better For Colds Than Drugs. Here's What You Need to Know
- Mystery Gas Has Been Detected Shooting 'Like Bullets' From Our Galactic Centre
- Newly Identified Social Trait Could Explain Why Some People Are Particularly Tribal
- Oleandrin Is Actually a Deadly Plant Toxin, Not a COVID-19 Cure. Here's Why
- An Exploding Star 65 Light-Years From Earth May Have Triggered a Mass Extinction
- First Detailed Study Deepens The Mystery of Vast Stone Monuments in Saudi Arabia
- Doctors Used a Poop Transplant to Cure a Man Whose Gut Was Making Him Drunk
- California Just Reported First Case of Human Plague in 5 Years
- An Asteroid Just Made The Closest Earth Fly-by on Record, And We Didn't See It Coming
- What Are The Four Fundamental Forces of Nature?
- Math Riddle From Decades Ago Finally Solved After Being Lost And Found by Researchers
- Betelgeuse Is Dimming Again
- Scorching Death Valley May Have Just Reached a New Global Heat Record
- This Gas Cloud Is Pulsing With Gamma-Rays From a Distant Black Hole, But How?
- NASA Is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field
- 60% of Americans Agree That Rising Coronavirus Cases Are Due to New Infections
- 30 New Species of Deep-Sea Life Forms Discovered Near The Galapagos
- Newly Designed Nanowire Material For Face Masks Can Actually Destroy Pathogens
- For The First Time, Physicists Have Controlled The Interaction of Time Crystals
- Here's How to Talk to Someone Who Won't Wear a Mask, And Actually Change Their Mind
- Human Ancestors Made Beds 200,000 Years Ago, And Then Burnt Them
- Lifeless Objects Stare at You Everywhere. A New Study Explains Why They Won't Quit
- Magical Photo From The ISS Captures Two Enchanting Earth Phenomena in One Image
- Photographer Captures Eerie And Majestic Sky 'Jellyfish' During a Storm
- FDA Grants Emergency Authorisation to Cheap New COVID-19 Saliva Test
- Every Single Seafood Sample Tested in This Microplastics Study Was Polluted
- The Ship Leaking Oil Off The Coast of Mauritius Has Split in Two
- Greenland's Melting Ice Sheet Has 'Passed The Point of No Return', Scientists Say
- Scientists Just Found A Way to Make Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer
- Brazilian Frog Is The First Known Amphibian to Live in a 'Harem' With 2 Loyal Mates
- Placebos Can Lower Emotional Distress, Even When People Know They're Taking Placebos
- Many of Us Are Lonely During The Pandemic But Struggle to Admit It. Here Are The Signs
- Scientists Compared Yoga And Therapy For Chronic Anxiety, With Mixed Results
- Here's Why Narcissists Never Really Learn From Their Mistakes
- Scientists Create a Material That Makes Salty Water Safe to Drink in Minutes
- This 'Anti-Solar Panel' Could One Day Produce Energy Even at Night
- Why Does Some Rain Fall Harder Than Other Rain? A Scientist Explains
- The Mysterious 'Blue Whirl' Flame Is Actually 3 Different Flames Combined
- Research Shows a Way to Sanitize N95 Masks at Home – You Just Need an Electric Cooker
- A Simple Change to Cafeteria Menus Could Make a Massive Difference to The Planet
- When Is Someone Really, Truly Dead? The World Brain Death Project Seeks a New Answer
- Can Imported Frozen Foods Really Spread COVID-19? Here's What Experts Say
- We May Finally Know What Killed The Woolly Rhinos, And It Wasn't People
- Biologist Accidentally Finds Nightmare Fish Parasite While Digitising Scans
- Astronomers Finally Know What Caused That Mysterious Dimming of Betelgeuse
- US Already Had Over 200,000 Excess Deaths This Year, CDC Data Show
- Male-Dominated Clinical Trials Have Led to Dangerously Overmedicated Women
- Palaeontologists Discover a New Species of Dinosaur on The Isle of Wight
- Mouse Study Reveals Previously Unknown Taste Cell That Detects Nearly All Flavours
- These Orbs Look Like Candy, But They're Actually Different Flavours of Phobos
- Pandemic Conspiracies And Rumours Have Killed Over 800 People, Study Shows
- We Just Found The Fastest Star in The Milky Way, Travelling at 8% The Speed of Light
- The WHO Wants to Review The Results of Russia's COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
- We Finally Know The Chemical That Triggers Locust Swarms. Now to Use It Against Them
- How to Test Your Face Mask to Make Sure It Actually Works
- Good News! Wind And Solar Just Hit a New Record in 2020 as Coal Declines
- The Voice Boxes of Primates Have Evolved Surprisingly Fast, Study Confirms
- Digital Information Threatens to Consume The Planet's Mass, Physicist Claims
- A Broken Cable Has Smashed a Huge Hole in The Arecibo Observatory
- When Will The Coronavirus Pandemic End?
- This 'Terror Crocodile' Had Teeth The Size of Bananas, Perfect For Eating Dinosaurs
- What Is Mars?
- A Galaxy Suspiciously Similar to Milky Way Has Been Spotted in The Early Universe
- A Vaccine Against a Widespread Common Cold Type Just Passed Promising Clinical Trials
- WHO Is Now Asking People to Avoid Routine Dental Work. Here's Why
- Experts Worry About Improperly Tested COVID-19 Vaccine Just Approved in Russia
- Arctic Sea Ice Could Be Gone by 2035, According to Earth's Climate History
- Sharks Might Be Making Friends With Other Sharks After All
- These Jurassic Sea Creatures Spent Decades Crossing The Ocean on Rafts. Here's How
- Engineer Explains How You Can Use Ventilation to Prevent Coronavirus Spread Indoors
- Scientists Have Been Sending Signals to The Moon. They Finally Got One Back
- Geologists Confirm Bizarre 'Boomerang' Earthquake Deep Beneath The Atlantic Ocean
- Painting Eyes on The Butts of Cattle Can Protect Them From Lions, Research Shows
- Global Pandemic Numbers Are 'Stabilising' as Detected Cases Reach 20 Million
- Some Humans Are Carrying DNA From an Unknown Ancient Ancestor
- 'Invisible Words' Shape The Hidden Blueprint of All Storytelling, Study Finds
- Mysterious Bright Spots on Dwarf Planet Ceres Point to Secret Underground Ocean
- The Mammalian Brain Starts Eating Itself When It Doesn't Get Enough Sleep
- Astronomers May Have Identified The Biggest Impact Structure in Our Solar System
- Simple New Experiment Reveals Which Face Masks Are Best at Blocking Droplets
- Canada's Last Intact Ice Shelf Just Collapsed, Forming a Manhattan-Sized Iceberg
- COVID-19 Could Increase Risk of Memory Loss. Here's What We Know
- New Zealand Just Marked 100 Days Without Coronavirus Transmission
- Over 100 Years of Searching Hasn't Found Key Differences Between Male And Female Brains
- Why Are Only 10% of People Left-Handed? Here's What Scientists Know So Far
- We May Have 'Recycled' a Key Region of Our Brains as Humans Learned to Read
- Kids Need to Spend Time Alone Outdoors to Really Bond With Nature, Study Finds
- Physicists Demonstrate a Weird Effect Where Heating Particles Causes Them to Freeze
- No, All This COVID-19 Hand Washing Isn't Going to 'Weaken' Your Immune System
- Some Extreme Planets Have Lava Oceans, But Something Else Is Making Them So Bright
- NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into Oxygen to Mars
- This Abandoned Soviet Site Is Home to The Deepest Hole on The Planet
- For The First Time, CRISPR Gene-Editing Has Been Used on Squid
- SpaceX Just Launched 57 New Starlink Satellites With Controversial Sun Shades
- Humans Have Been Making Poison Arrows For Over 70,000 Years, Study Finds
- Here's How Your Soft Hair Continues to Ruin Even The Sharpest Steel Razors
- Some Coronavirus Patients Are Getting Rashes, And It May Signal Underlying Issues
- The Force of Nothingness Has Been Used to Manipulate Objects
- Genomic Study Reveals New Zealand's Tuatara Is Like No Other Animal on The Planet
- Here's What Happens in Your Body When You Overeat Just Once
- For The First Time, We Can See Patterns of an Eerie Glow in The Martian Atmosphere
- Common Colds May Have 'Primed' Some People's Immune Systems For COVID-19
- We Finally Know How This Ancient Reptile Lived With Such an Absurdly Long Neck
- The Viral Loads of Asymptomatic Coronavirus Carriers Are Surprisingly High, Study Reveals
- Prehistoric Graves Reveal The Wealth Gap Existed Even in The Stone Age
- Chemistry Experiment Produces The Brightest Fluorescent Materials Ever Made
- Here's How Exploding Stars Forged The Calcium in Your Teeth And Bones
- An Epic, Planet-Scale Wave Has Been Hiding in The Toxic Clouds of Venus For Decades
- What Is Ammonium Nitrate, The Chemical Behind The Massive Beirut Explosion?
- Prehistoric 'Hell Ant' Stuck in Amber Has Been Mauling Its Prey For 99 Million Years
- SpaceX Breakthrough as Mars 'Starship' Prototype Rocket Aces Successful Test Flight
- Beirut's Devastating Explosion Equivalent to Several Hundred Tons of TNT, Experts Say
- Satellites Reveal Hidden Colonies of Emperor Penguins We Never Knew Existed
- Spiderweb Is Slathered in Neurotoxins That May Subdue or Kill Prey, Scientists Say
- What's The Maximum Number of Habitable Worlds Around a Star? Here's The Science
- We Thought We Knew How Sperm Swam, But It Was Just an Optical Illusion
- In a First, Astronomers Find an Exoplanet by Using Radio Waves And a Wobbly Star
- Experts Predicted COVID-19 Would Come in Waves. Now They Say It's a 'Forest Fire'
- Malignant Bone Cancer Has Been Diagnosed in a Dinosaur For The First Time Ever
- What Is Pool Testing For a Disease?
- Terrifying Explosion in Beirut Wasn't Nuclear, Experts Say, And Here's Why
- Which Face Masks Work Best Against COVID-19?
- Who Is Buzz Aldrin?
- Ancient Llama, Discovered in Stone Box Under a Lake, Was Likely a Gift to Inca Gods
- Physicists Measured The Central Engine That Powers Solar Flares For The First Time
- The Giant Panda Is a Conservation Icon, But The Success Story Masks a Dark Truth
- These Water Beetles Make Their Escape Out of a Frog's Butt After Being Swallowed
- Harvard Scientist Says We Need More Cheap, 'Crappy' Tests For COVID-19. Here's Why
- Astronomers May Have Found a Lost Neutron Star That's Been Missing For Decades
- The Majestic Valleys of Mars May Not Have Been Carved by Rivers After All
- US East Coast Braces For Imminent Hurricane as Tropical Storm Isaias Regains Strength
- A Grim Prediction Gave These Ice Caps 5 Years. They Didn't Even Last That Long
- Mysterious Cause of Hundreds of Elephant Deaths in Botswana Finally Comes Into Focus
- We Have Ploonets. We Have Moonmoons. Now Hold Onto Your Hats For… Blanets
- Scientists Say We Need to Save The World's Parasites Before We Lose Them Forever
- Scientists Publish First Study of Mysterious Fast Radio Burst-Like Event in Milky Way
- Tiny Crustaceans Are Fragmenting Microplastics Into Even Smaller Nanoplastics
- A Statistician Explains How 1 Figure Shows The US Isn't Doing Enough Testing Yet
- Yes! SpaceX Just Brought 2 Astronauts Back Home in a Milestone For Human Spaceflight
- Does Coronavirus Linger? What We Know About How Viruses Hide in The Brain And Testes
- Researchers Discover Unexpected Magma Systems Lurking Beneath 'Boring' Volcanoes
- Scientists Find a Striking Similarity Between The Friendships of Gorillas And Humans
- China's Tianwen-1 Captured a Haunting Photo of Earth And The Moon on Its Way to Mars
- 2 Astronauts Will Make a Historic Landing in The Gulf of Mexico Today. Watch Live Here
- Engineers Have Found a Way to Make More Durable Roads Out of Old Tyres And Rubble
- Humans Might Be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease
- These Are The Riskiest Moments to Look Out For in SpaceX's Historic Reentry to Earth
- Update: 2 Astronauts Just Left The Space Station on Board SpaceX's Crew Dragon
- Here's Why Hydroxychloroquine Doesn't Block The Coronavirus in Human Lung Cells
- Scientists Discover Strange 'Glassy' State of Metal That Could Boost Lithium Batteries
- Anglerfish Physically Fuse to Their Mates, And We Finally Know How That's Possible
- Amateur Astronomers Find a Saturn-Sized Planet in The Habitable Zone of a Distant Star