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- New Evidence Points to a Catastrophic Die-Off of Life on Earth 2 Billion Years Ago
- Elon Musk Says The Gap Between Us And AI Is Like The Difference Between Chimps And Humans
- In a Huge Milestone, Engineers Build a Working Computer Chip Out of Carbon Nanotubes
- Inhaling Powdered Toad Secretions Just Once Is Linked to Feeling Happier For a Month
- Scientists Detected 2 Black Hole Mergers Just 21 Mins Apart, But It's Not What We Hoped
- Scientists Break Down 5 of The Latest Diet Fads, And 2 Definitely Aren't Recommended
- DARPA Urgently Needs a Secure Underground Location, And It Sounds Ominous
- Astronomers Have Detected Hints of a Hellish Volcanic Exomoon
- Strange 'Werewolf Syndrome' Appeared in Multiple Spanish Infants
- 13 Strange Reasons Why Crows And Ravens Are Definitely The Smartest Birds, Hands Down
- Over 250 Archaeologists Show Evidence Humans 'Transformed' Earth Long Before 1900s
- Satellite Images Show Hurricane Dorian Gaining Strength Over The Caribbean
- Physicists Create a Device That Can 'Forget' Memories, Just Like a Human Brain
- Physicists Have Published Instructions For a DIY Wormhole
- This Is How Nuclear Winter Would Affect Every Single One of Us Across The Planet
- Millions of High-Speed Black Holes Could Be Zooming Around The Milky Way
- Some of The World's Most-Cited Scientists Have a Secret That's Just Been Exposed
- Brain Waves Have Been Detected Coming From 'Mini Brains' Grown in The Lab
- There's a Big Problem With Making Vaccines Mandatory, And It's Worth Paying Attention
- The James Webb Space Telescope Has Been Fully Assembled, And It Looks Epic
- Saturn's Strange Magnetic Field Could Make Its Insides Flow Like Honey
- Don't Panic, Scientists Haven't Shown C-Sections 'cause' Autism
- One of The Most Rigorous Experiments We Have Shows Gluten Isn't Bad For Healthy People
- Researcher Finds Evidence of Ancient Greek Lifting Mechanism That Predated The Crane
- This 'Monster' Tumbleweed Is Rapidly Taking Over California, And Its Genes Reveal Why
- Astronomers Detect a Mammoth Planet With The Most Extreme Orbit We've Ever Seen
- We've Finally Uncovered The Face of One of Our Most Elusive Early Human Ancestors
- Now Metal Particles From Tattoo Needles Have Been Found in Human Lymph Nodes
- Study of Half a Million People Fails to Find a Specific 'Gay Gene'
- Extremely Rare Case Sees Woman Give Birth to 2 Babies Born 11 Weeks Apart
- There's One Wrong Statistic Everyone's Sharing About The Devastating Amazon Fires
- SpaceX's Experimental Mars Rocket 'Starhopper' Just Passed Its Last Test
- We Just Learned Manta Rays May Have Surprisingly Close 'Friends' They See Regularly
- Scientists 'Tantalised' by Draining Every Hydropower Dam in The US For Solar Panels
- Scientists Discover Microbial Life 2.4 Km Underground in Depths of a Canadian Mine
- In a Totally Unexpected Finding, Water Has Spontaneously Produced Hydrogen Peroxide
- This Mindblowing Picture Shows a Galaxy, But Those Dots Aren't Glittering Stars
- Grisly Discovery Suggests The Inca Ritually Mounted 'Trophy Heads' as Display of Power
- Mysterious Space Plane Has Now Been Orbiting Earth For 719 Days, And We Don't Know Why
- Three Rocky Exoplanets Have Been Found Orbiting a Star Just 12 Light-Years Away
- Update: The First Harvested Northern White Rhino Eggs Have Just Been Fertilised
- In Landmark Case, The First Pharma Giant Has Been Blamed For Fueling The Opioid Crisis
- Here's What Would Happen if You Nuked a Hurricane
- Before You Blame Screen Time For Teen Mental Health Issues, Read This
- Texas Is Setting Itself Up For a Major Measles Epidemic, New Study Warns
- Physicists Outline an Ambitious Plan to Simulate Black Holes With Holograms
- Brace Yourself, a Particle Accelerator Just Simulated Colliding Neutron Stars
- Scientists Just Took A Huge Step Towards Saving The Northern White Rhino
- NASA Administrator Says Pluto Is Still a Planet, And Things Are Getting Heated
- A Massive Raft of Volcanic Rock Is Floating Towards Australia, And That's Good News
- You're Still The Same Person Morally When You're Drunk, Says Study
- The ISS Now Has Better Internet Than Most of Us After Its Latest Upgrade
- NASA Images Show Just How Much Carbon Monoxide Is Coming Off The Burning Amazon
- The First Person Has Died From a Mysterious Lung Illness Linked to Vaping
- It's Not Just Brazil's Amazon – Bolivia's Vital Forests Are Burning Out of Control, Too
- She Thought She Had Water in Her Ear. It Was a Tiny Venomous Spider
- Wildfires Are Turning Important Northern Carbon Sinks Into Major Emitters
- A Prehistoric Plant Could Reproduce in The UK For The First Time in Human History
- Breathtaking New Images Reveal What's Happening Inside Jupiter's Turbulent Storms
- Analysis of a Strange Erupting Magnetar Hints Link With Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts
- This Is What Aliens Would See if They Examined Earth From Afar
- New Paper Shows How Governments Can Deter The Rise of Hostile, Super-Intelligent AI
- No Boys Have Been Born in This Polish Village For 10 Years. Here's What's Going on
- Physicists Have Built The World's Smallest Engine, And It's Seriously Tiny
- Study: There May Be Exoplanets Out There Even Better Suited For Life Than Earth
- Experts Are Warning People Not to Wash Their Chicken. Here's Why It's So Dangerous
- Psychologists Reveal What People Really Think About Your Selfies
- Incredible Images Show Something Uncannily Familiar About The Rocks on Asteroid Ryugu
- Vaping Just Once Could Immediately Change Your Blood Vessels, Even Without Nicotine
- Physicists Find Evidence of Superconductivity at Temperatures Well Above The Current Threshold
- There's a Spotify Feature You Don't Know About That Makes Your Music Sound Way Better
- New Blood Test Could Help Predict One's Risk of Death in The Next 10 Years
- Florida Panthers Are Stumbling Like They're Poisoned, And Scientists Don't Know Why
- This Tiny 20-Million-Year-Old Skull Could Improve Our Understanding of Brain Evolution
- New Images of The Titanic Reveal How The Wreck Is Being 'Consumed' by Ocean Microbes
- This Weird Echidna Is The Result of One of The Best Fire Survival Tactics We've Heard
- The Amazon Is Burning at a Record Rate, And The Devastation Can Be Seen From Space
- Dizzying Footage of Earth's Rotation Across The Night Sky Will Flip Your Perspective
- Practising For 10,000 Hours May Not Turn You Into a Star After All, Says New Study
- YouTube's AI Has Been Flagging Robot Battle Videos For 'Animal Cruelty'
- Scientists Just Used The Cosmos to Measure The Mass of a Ghost Particle
- Feeding Cows This Weird Pink Stuff Could Actually Help Fight Climate Change
- Here Are NASA's Wild Plans to Explore Time And Space For The Next 10 Years
- US Is Already Transforming Greenland, And It's Going to Affect The Whole World
- DNA Analysis Just Made The Eerie Mystery of Himalayan 'Skeleton Lake' Even Stranger
- A Huge, Mysterious Reservoir of Methane Has Been Identified Deep Under The Ocean
- Why Do Humans Hardly Engage in Cannibalism, if It's So Common in Animals?
- Welcome to The Deepest Hole on The Entire Planet
- India's Chandrayaan 2 Has Officially Entered an Orbit Around The Moon
- The WHO Has No Idea if Microplastics in Our Water Are Harmful or Not
- Europe Could Power The Entire World With Onshore Wind Farms Alone
- New Study Outlines The Nuclear Winter We'd Have if US And Russia Blew Up Their Bombs
- These 9 'Moonshot' Innovations Will Remind You How Ingenious Humans Can Truly Be
- Researchers Find Bone-Like Particles Travelling in The Human Bloodstream
- Earth's Mysterious Inner Core Could Finally Be Explained by New Science
- New Experiment Just Placed a Major Constraint on The Mysterious Force of Dark Energy
- The Effects of Climate Change Might Make Spiders Angry, According to New Study
- These Stunning Photos Reveal The Extremely Rare Phenomenon of a 'Fire Cloud'
- Bees Are Dropping Dead Across Brazil, And The Reason Is Absolutely Devastating
- Turns Out Storytelling Isn't Always The Best Way to Get People to Believe Facts
- Iceland Just Held a Funeral For The First Glacier Killed by Climate Change
- Astronomers Just Narrowed Down Which Exoplanets Might Host Life
- This Genius 'Heat Shield' For Electronics Is Just 10 Atoms Thick And Uses Graphene
- New Evidence in Animals Shows Whole Body Vibration Actually Changes The Microbiome
- Worried You're Eating Too Much Salt? Here's The Science on 'Safe Levels'
- Oh Great, There's a New Form of Plastic Pollution That Looks Exactly Like Rocks
- In a Dizzying New Upgrade, CRISPR Can Now Edit Several Genes at Once
- Brilliant Video Shows a Comet Get Utterly Vaporised by Our Sun
- Earth May Have Supported Life Much Earlier Than We Thought, Study Suggests
- There Could Be Up to 10 Billion Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy Alone
- Officials: Nearly 100 Cases of a Mysterious Lung Illness Could Be Linked to Vaping
- Striking Gamma Ray Image Reveals How The Moon Is 'Brighter' Than Our Sun
- Bogus Paper Claims HPV Vaccine Causes Infertility, Scientists Shred It to Pieces
- This Crazy Skin-Like Sticker Can Wirelessly Monitor Your Vitals
- You Could Be "Smoking" a Pack of Cigarettes a Day Just by Breathing in City Air
- Astronomers Show Dead Planets Could Be 'Broadcasting' Radio Wave Signals Into Space
- Elon Musk Wants to Drop Nuclear Bombs on Mars
- A Major Cyber Attack Could Be Just as Deadly as Nuclear Weapons, Says Scientist
- 'Mad' Flat-Earther Is Preparing For Another Homemade Rocket Launch
- This Superconductor Could Be Key to a Whole Different Type of Quantum Computer
- Scientists Just Discovered a Previously Unknown Pain-Detecting Organ in Mammals
- Here's What Happens to Your Body And Brain When You Pull an All Nighter
- Early Reports Indicate We May Have Detected a Black Hole And Neutron Star Collision
- We've Just Discovered Comet 67P Has Its Own Little 'Churymoon', And It's So Cute
- The IPCC Report Says We Need to Eat Better – But Does It Really Mean You?
- For The First Time Ever, Scientists Have Made a Stable Ring of Pure Carbon
- The World's First Solar Road Has Officially Crumbled Into a Total Failure
- Hubble Has Caught a Stunning Image of Two Smooshing Galaxies
- Independent Data Just Confirmed July as Earth's Hottest Month Since Records Began
- Climate Deniers Have Enjoyed Way More Media Coverage Than Scientists in Recent Decades
- The FDA Is Literally Warning People Not to Drink Bleach Now
- Greenland's Ice Is Melting at a Rate Scientists Didn't Expect Until 2070
- Bones Reveal That Neanderthals Were Prone to Surfer's Ear, But Nobody Knows Why
- 'Super-Deep' Diamonds Reveal Vast Reservoir of Primordial Magma as Old as The Moon
- US Geological Survey Finds It's Raining Plastic in The Rocky Mountains
- The Deadliest Type of Tuberculosis Has a New FDA-Approved Treatment
- A Human-Sized Penguin Fossil Has Turned Up in New Zealand, Again
- Women Are Not Better at Multitasking. They Just Do More Work, Studies Show
- Jupiter May Have Absorbed a Whole Other Planet Early on, Study Suggests
- We Just Got Closer Than Ever to a Working Chlamydia Vaccine
- Incredible Fossil Fly Eyes Are Changing What We Know About Insect Eye Pigment
- Scientists Just Developed an Unnerving Method For Selecting The Sex of Mouse Sperm
- Doctors Take Hip X-Ray, Discover Patient's Penis Is Literally Turning to Bone
- Astronomers Have Detected a Whopping 8 New Repeating Signals From Deep Space
- Here's How You Can Delete Voice Recordings on Your Smart Devices
- Alzheimer's Appears to Attack The Neurons That Keep Us Awake
- Facebook Admits It Has Been Secretly Transcribing Users' Voice Conversations
- Here's What You Need to Know About The Endangered Species Act Changes
- Scientists Just Traced Antibiotic Resistance Millions of Years Into The Past
- Creating Hallucinations Without Any Drugs Is Surprisingly Easy
- Scientists Grew a Mysterious Life Form That Could Reveal The Origins of Complex Life
- A Woman Got 2nd Degree Burns From Vaginal Steaming, And It's Really Not Funny
- There Are Many Myths About Left-Handed Brains. Here's What We Actually Know
- There's Something You Must Know About Trees And Their Role in Climate Change
- Astronomers Just Got Closer to Unravelling The Mystery of 'Glitching' Pulsars
- A 'Ring of Fire' Is About to Devastate The US With Heatwaves, Possible Storms And Floods
- In a Huge Medical Breakthrough, One Ebola Treatment Has Really Started Saving Lives
- NASA Has Closely Measured a Shockwave From The Sun For The First Time
- Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Has Emitted a Mysteriously Bright Flare
- Breast Milk's Unique Composition May Actually Help Babies Tell Day From Night
- Oldest Known High-Altitude Human Settlement Has Been Discovered in Ethiopia
- For The First Time, a Rare Type of Space Dust Has Been Found in Antarctic Snow
- Here Are 12 Facts We Know About Gun Violence, According to Science
- Astronomers Create Millions of 'Virtual Universes' to Find Out How Our Universe Evolved
- NASA Just Successfully Tested Orbiting Spacecraft Propelled by Water
- The World's Biggest Frogs Are So Chunky, They Shift Rocks to Build Their Own Ponds
- Scientists Create Tiny Magnetic Coils That Could Break Down Plastic in The Ocean
- 'Ferocious' Leopard Seals Caught on Camera in an Unexpected Display of Sharing
- Not All Viruses Are Bad For You. Here Are Some That Can Have a Protective Effect
- These Sharks Produce an Eerie Glow Through a Mechanism Previously Unknown to Science
- Scientists Have Made Vodka Out of Grain Grown Inside Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone
- Someone Built a Flying Saucer That Actually Flies And We're So Here For It
- Physicists Propose a Fascinating New Explanation For Galaxies' Strange Symmetry
- Massive UN Report Outlines How We Can Change Our Food Supply to Save The Climate
- A Woman Let an Octopus Bite Her Face, So Let's Talk About Octopus Beaks
- You Must See The Glorious New Photo Hubble Has Taken of Jupiter
- Why Do Humans Grunt When They Bend Over? Science Weighs in
- Climate Change Is Already Increasing Turbulence on Flights, Study Shows
- It Looks Like Facebook Changed Its Mind About The 'Storm Area 51' Event
- Black Hole 'Nurseries': New Model Hints Where Rare Black Holes Are Likely to Be Born
- Earth's Last Magnetic Pole Flip Happened Much More Slowly Than We Thought
- A Meteor Just Exploded On Jupiter, And A Photographer Actually Caught It On Video
- Check Out This Amazing Video of a Boat Catching a SpaceX Rocket Piece
- There Could Be a Bunch of Tardigrades Alive on The Moon Right Now
- Fascinating New Study Claims Dark Matter May Be Older Than The Big Bang
- We Just Got Closer to a Simple Blood Test That Can Actually Diagnose Celiac Disease
- The Largest Parrot That Ever Lived Has Been Discovered in New Zealand
- Designers Propose a Wacky Submarine For Making 'Iceberg Babies' in The Arctic
- Quantum Teleportation Has Been Reported in a Qutrit For The First Time
- This Particularly Odd Sleeping Pattern Might Be More Common Than We Thought
- Scientists Have Made The Thinnest Gold Sheets Ever, Just 2 Atoms Thick
- Astronomers Just Detected Galaxies From The Early Universe That No One Has Seen Before
- Map Shows The Few Places in America Where You Can Still See a "Pristine" Night Sky
- Chernobyl's 'Sarcophagus' Is Being Dismantled as It's on The Verge of Collapse
- Study Finds a Scientific Method For Keeping Gulls Away From Your Fries
- This Strange, See-Through Squid Looks Like Some Kind of Alien Bird
- Facebook Has Bad News For The 2 Million People Who Wanted to Storm Area 51
- Nearly 25% of The World's Population Faces a Water Crisis, And We Can't Ignore It
- A 40-Year Old Specimen Just Turned Out to Be a Totally New Dinosaur Species
- Astronomers Just Found an Absolutely Gargantuan Black Hole The Mass of 40 Billion Suns
- SpaceX's Ambitious Mars Rocket Prototypes Could Be Ready to Fly as Soon as This Month
- Stunning New Map Finally Reveals How Ice Flows From Antarctica to The Sea
- Curiosity Has Now Been on Mars For 7 Years, So Here Are 7 Amazing Things It Has Seen
- A Huge Fireball Above Ontario May Have Scattered Meteorite Shards on The Ground
- Gloriously Deceptive Hubble Photo Shows What Spiral Galaxies Look Like From The Side
- Do Video Games And Mental Illness Cause Mass Shootings? Here's The Science
- Do 500 People in The US Die From Medical Error Every Two Days? Here's The Real Data
- Ancient Water Drops May Have Just Changed The Timeline of Earth's Plate Tectonics
- The Oldest Freshwater Fish Ever Found Just Changed What We Know About Fish
- Survey: The Vast Majority of Americans Actually Do Trust Scientists
- Astronomers Have Found a Record-Breaking Star That's Nearly as Old as The Universe
- ISS Astronauts Say Goodbye to Their Waste as It Blazes Into Fading Darkness
- Communities With Mass Shootings Have 4 Things in Common, According to Research
- Keto Diet Leaves Out 'Some of The Most Healthful Foods on The Planet', Says Doctor
- July Has Likely 'Re-Written Climate History' as the Hottest Month Ever Recorded
- Elon Musk Announced He's Launching The Boring Company China at The End of This Month
- Physicists Overturn a 100-Year-Old Assumption on How Brain Cells Work
- Scientists Are Testing Whether Bacteria Could Help Them Mine The Riches of Space
- We Just Learned The Moon Could Be Much Older Than We Thought
- Scientists Create a Tiny, Creepy Robot That Survives Stomping, Just Like a Cockroach
- Archaeologists Shed Light on Mysterious Neolithic Society Behind Rise of Ancient Egypt
- Two Percent of All North Atlantic Right Whales Have Died in The Last Two Months
- These 6 Specific Exercises Can Cut Body Weight, Even if You're Predisposed to Obesity
- It's 2019, And Astronomers Just Discovered a New Type of Strange, Pulsing Star
- A Woman Had Her Arms Partially Amputated After Her Dog Licked Her Wounds
- Bats Are More Badass Than We Knew, Using Leaves as 'Mirrors' to Find Camouflaged Prey
- Greenland's in The Middle of a Record Melting Event, as The Arctic Burns And Swelters
- Hubble Spots a Scorching Hot, Hellish Planet That's Being 'Evaporated' by Its Star
- A Woman's Body Was Donated to Science, And Then Her Son Found Out How It Was Used
- For The First Time, Scientists Have Seen Dolphins Adopt an Orphan From Another Species
- A Second, Independent Study Just Confirmed The Milky Way Is 'Warped And Twisted'
- Baby Jumping Spiders Are Watching Us, Their Eyesight Is That Good
- Scientists Find The Origin of an Ancient Reservoir of Water Below The Israeli Desert
- A 'Vampire's' Remains Were Found 30 Years Ago. DNA Is Now Revealing Who He Was
- Scientists Have Found a Way to Better Predict Where Volcanoes Will Erupt Next
- Are You Excellent at Trivia? Your Brain Could Be Uniquely Wired
- Incredible Photo Captures The Exact Moment a Sea Lion Ended Up in a Whale's Mouth
- Scientists Just Discovered a New Structure in Gold That Only Exists at Extreme States
- Malfunction Triggers Freak 'Tsunami' Wave in Chinese Waterpark, Injuring Dozens
- Dentists Pulled Out More Than 500 Teeth From a 7-Year-Old Boy's Mouth
- Nearby Super-Earth Found Just 31 Light-Years Away May Be Habitable, Scientists Say