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- Scientists: Greenland's Ice Loss This Century on Track to Be Worst in 12,000 Years
- Oldest Fossil Feather Ever Found Came From The Archaeopteryx Dinosaur, Study Confirms
- Vast Majority of Reptiles Sold Online Have No Protection Under Law, Study Finds
- Virtually Blind Mole-Rats Use Their Eyes to 'See' Magnetic Fields, Experiment Shows
- Radical Discovery Suggests The Solar System Has Two Planes of Orbital Alignment
- New Study of Neanderthal And Denisovan DNA Reveals a Surprising Link to Men Today
- Newly Created Mutant Enzyme Hybrid Is Six Times Better at Devouring Plastic
- Astronauts Finally Find Location of Elusive Leak on The International Space Station
- Sudden Rise in New York City Coronavirus Cases Raises Fears of a Resurgence
- Phenomenon Shrinking Arctic Forests Linked to Legacy of Russia's Most Polluted City
- Astronomers Just Revealed One of The Most Extreme Planets Ever Discovered
- The Ocean Is Becoming More Stable, And The Consequences May Be Dire, Scientists Warn
- Is The Dominant, Mutated Coronavirus Strain More Infectious? Experts Can't Agree
- Largest Study of Its Kind Identifies 41 Gene Variants Linked to Being Left-Handed
- Scientists Say They've Determined The Total Amount of Matter in The Universe
- 'Earthgrazer' Meteoroid Seen Bouncing Off Atmosphere in Super-Rare Video Footage
- What Is a Science Journal?
- Wildfires Rip Through California, Forcing Tens of Thousands to Flee And Evacuate
- Pets Can Be a Mental Health Buffer During The Stress of Lockdown, Study Shows
- What Is a Meta-Analysis?
- A Once-in-a-Century Climate 'Anomaly' Might Have Made World War I Even Deadlier
- A Network of Hidden Lakes Has Been Found Under The Surface of Mars, Scientists Say
- Here's What People Used Before Toilet Paper Was Invented
- Your Running Shoes Might Actually Increase Your Risk of Injury, Scientists Say
- The Mystery of Tarantulas' Brilliant Colour Schemes May Finally Be Solved
- Crows Are Capable of Conscious Thought, Scientists Demonstrate For The First Time
- The Global Death Toll of Coronavirus Has Now Passed One Million People
- Texan City Told to Avoid Tap Water After Brain-Eating Microbe Found in Water Supply
- Scientists Have Found The Molecule That Allows Bacteria to 'Exhale' Electricity
- We May Finally Know What Life on Earth Breathed Before There Was Oxygen
- Lunch With Mosquitoes
- First Compelling Evidence of Organisms That Eat Viruses as a Food Source
- A Physicist Has Come Up With Math That Makes 'Paradox-Free' Time Travel Plausible
- SARS-CoV-2 Seems to Block Some Pain Signals. Here's Why This Is Important
- We Finally Know How Much Radiation There Is on The Moon, And It's Not Great News
- As if 2020 Wasn't Enough, Climate Change Is Now Raising 'Zombie Storms' From The Dead
- Huge Haul of Dinosaur Teeth Reveal The Spinosaurus Really Was a River Monster
- The Latest Flyby of Jupiter Has Offered Some of The Most Marvellous Views Yet
- Coronavirus Mutations: What We've Learned So Far
- A Man Has Died After Eating Bags of Black Licorice Daily
- There's No Speed Limit in a Superfluid Universe. Now We Know Why
- A New Mass Extinction Event Has Been Discovered, And It Triggered The Rise of Dinosaurs
- An Elusive Leak on The ISS Has Been Narrowed Down to 2 Russian Modules
- Study of 11,000 Kids Links Weed Use During Pregnancy to Child Behavioural Changes
- The Giant Black Hole We Imaged For The First Time Now Appears to Be… Glittering
- Dogs Deployed at Helsinki Airport Can Detect COVID-19 With Almost 100% Accuracy
- We May Finally Know a Molecular Reason Why COVID-19 Is So Deadly, But Only For Some
- Study Solves The Mysterious Origins of The Birds Ancient Egyptians Gifted Their Gods
- New Report Says Up to 70% of KN95 Masks Imported From China Fail Safety Standards
- Birds in San Francisco Started Singing Differently in The Silence of COVID-19 Lockdown
- California Just Moved to Ban Sales of New Gas-Powered Cars by 2035
- The World's Marvellously Freaky Carnivorous Plants Are in More Trouble Than We Knew
- The Massive 'Blob' Anomaly Has Our Fingerprints All Over It, Study Finds
- Experimental Cancer Treatment Destroys Cancer Cells Without Using Any Drugs
- The Historic Fungus That Gave The World Penicillin Had Its Genome Sequenced
- Coronavirus Vaccines Still Aren't Being Tested in Kids, And Experts Are Concerned
- What Is Venus?
- Rising Temperatures Are Pushing Antarctica Past Point of No Return, Scientists Warn
- Brain Imaging Study Suggests Parkinson's Might Actually Be Two Diseases in One
- The Origins of Stainless Steel Date Back Almost 1,000 Years Earlier Than We Realised
- There's Growing Concern COVID-19 Could Spark a Wave of Parkinson's Disease
- Ancestor of All Penguins Lived on Earth's 'Lost' 8th Continent Zealandia, Fossils Show
- Older People Are Physically And Mentally Fitter Than 30 Years Ago, Says Finland Study
- Mysterious Circles in The Desert Explained by Alan Turing Theory From 70 Years Ago
- An Asteroid Will Get Closer to Earth Than The Moon This Thursday, But Don't Panic
- For The First Time, an 'Ultra-Hot Neptune' Has Been Discovered Orbiting a Sun-Like Star
- Physicists Just Discovered a Brand New Type of Superconductor
- Here Are The Detailed And Risky Steps NASA Needs to Take to Land on The Moon by 2024
- The Space Station Had to Make Emergency Maneuvers to Dodge an Object Today
- This Gigantic Sailboat Design Could Use Wind Power to Transport 7,000 Cars
- Astronomers Discover 'Pi Earth' Exoplanet Orbits Its Star Once Every 3.14 Days
- Melting Arctic Ice Doesn't Increase Sea Levels. But It Will Still Impact Us
- Mysterious Mass Elephant Die-Off in Botswana Was Caused by Cyanobacteria Poisoning
- Earth Is About to Capture a Minimoon, But There's Something Odd About This One
- Supercooled Water Is Actually Two Different Liquids in One, Physicists Reveal
- Does Wearing Glasses Protect You From Coronavirus? Here's What You Need to Know
- We May Finally Know Why Male Funnel Web Spiders Are So Deadly to Humans
- As The West Coast Burns, Study Reveals The Deadly Health Toll of Australia's Megafires
- A Strange, Glowing Ultraviolet Aurora Has Just Been Detected Around a Comet
- Two Extremely Rare Javan Rhino Babies Have Been Seen in Indonesia, Offering New Hope
- Breathtaking Images Suggest There's Fresh Ice on One of Saturn's Moons
- Scientists Say Jellyfish Should Become The Next Popular Seafood
- This Tuesday Is The 'Fall Equinox'. Here's What That Means
- The WHO Has Endorsed Testing Traditional Herbal Medicines Against Coronavirus
- Egyptian Authorities Just Found 14 More Coffins That Have Been Sealed For 2,500 Years
- Washing Synthetic Clothes Spreads Microplastics Even Further Than We Thought
- Scientist Shows There Are Two Ways to Measure a Day on Earth – We Use The Longer One
- Are Humans Still Evolving? Scientists Weigh in
- This Experimental Patch Can Painlessly Check Your Blood Glucose Levels
- Our View of Space Is Becoming Blurrier as Our Planet Heats Up, Astronomers Warn
- A Strange New Magnetoelectric Effect Has Been Discovered in a Symmetrical Crystal
- These Are The 4 Most Promising Worlds For Alien Life in Our Solar System
- Physicists May Have The First Experimental Evidence of a New Type of Dark Boson
- A Rare Blood Type Variant Helps Prevent Malaria. Now We Finally Know How
- Astronomers Have Discovered a Surprise Asteroid Orbiting Closer to The Sun Than Venus
- Wildfire Smoke Could Leave Lungs Vulnerable to COVID-19 And The Flu, Warn Scientists
- Stop Saying Isaac Newton Was an Overachiever in Lockdown. Here's The Reality
- This Year's Atlantic Hurricane Season Is So Bad We Ran Out of Names Two Storms Ago
- CDC Just Reversed Its Controversial COVID-19 Testing Guidelines
- New Research Helps Explain Why Tiny Humans And Animals Sleep So Much
- Scientists Discover What Happens in Our Brains When We Make an 'Educated Guess'
- We Now Know How Dying Stars Carve Out Mesmerising Mandalas of Stardust
- Over Half of COVID-19 Patients in a New Study Are Suffering Long-Term Fatigue
- Glorious New Hubble Photo Showcases Jupiter's Stormy Side
- 120,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Have Been Discovered in Saudi Arabia
- Scientists Call That New Paper About Intentional Release of SARS-CoV-2 "Poppycock"
- E-Cig Clouds Aren't 'Vapour', Scientists Warn. That Word Just Makes Them Sound Safer
- IBM Just Committed to Having a Functioning 1,000 Qubit Quantum Computer by 2023
- Teen 'Blasts Away' Parts of Retina by Staring Into a Pet's Laser Pointer
- Eating Healthy Foods May Be More Important Than How Much You Weigh
- This Toxic Australian Plant Injects Scorpion-Like Venom. The Pain Can Last For Days
- Vast DNA Analysis of Hundreds of Vikings Reveals They Weren't Who We Thought
- Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' Is in Serious Danger, New Research Confirms
- Astronomers Detect a Huge Gas Giant Orbiting a Much Smaller Dead Star
- For Some, Mental Health Suffers Less During The Pandemic. Here's What They Are Doing
- Dust Determined The Early Rise of Human Civilisations More Than You'd Suspect
- 10 Tips For Dealing With Wildfire Smoke, From a Public Health Expert
- Not Getting Enough Sleep Really Does Suck The Joy Out of Life, Research Confirms
- Extinct Cave Bear, Roughly 30,000 Years Old, Has Emerged From Siberian Permafrost
- What Is The Hubble Constant?
- Mysterious, Sudden Mass Die-Off in The US Could Be Killing Millions of Birds
- NASA Confirms We've Officially Entered a Brand New Solar Cycle
- If Your Home Used to Be a Meth Lab, The Very Air Could Still Contain Drugs
- How Many People Have Died From Coronavirus?
- We Set 20 Targets to Save Our Planet a Decade Ago, And We've Missed Them All
- Oldest Animal Sperm to Date Was Just Discovered in 100-Million-Year-Old Amber
- The True Origins of Gold in Our Universe May Have Just Changed, Again
- Wild Hypothesis Says Animals Sense Magnetic Fields Thanks to Microbes in Their Bodies
- Scorpions Are Running Rampant in Australia, And We Might Finally Know Why
- Experts Warn We Are Still Horribly Underprepared For Another Pandemic
- Pluto Has a Surprising Similarity to The 5 Biggest Moons of Uranus
- 5 Things COVID-19 Armchair 'Experts' Are Getting Wrong About The Pandemic
- Massive Chunk of Greenland's Largest Glacier Just Crashed Into The Sea
- Why Blue Is One of The Brightest Colours We Find in Nature
- Internet Search Results Predict US COVID-19 Hotspots Weeks Later, Study Reveals
- Myriad Exoplanets in Our Galaxy Could Be Made of Diamond And Rock
- One Brain Circuit Links Stress, Sleep And The Immune System, Mouse Study Reveals
- Microbial Life on Venus? Here's What You Really Need to Know About The Major Discovery
- Striking New Images Reveal How SARS-CoV-2 Infects Lung Cells in Detail
- Eerily Well-Preserved 17th Century Ship Found in The Dark Waters of The Baltic Sea
- Protector of Brazil's Indigenous Groups Fatally Shot With Arrow by Isolated Tribe
- Latest Results on Peanut Allergy Treatment Are in, And They're Super Promising
- Turns Out There's Another Ocean Creature That Scares The Hell Out of Great White Sharks
- Scientists Identify at Least 11 Fish Species That May Be Capable of Walking on Land
- Astronomers Thought They'd Found a 'Calm' Red Dwarf 11 Light-Years Away. They Were Wrong
- The Oxford University COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Is Officially Back on
- There's No Evidence 'Blue-Light Blocking' Glasses Help You Sleep, Says Neurologist
- Scientists Just Found a Way For Machines to See Through Clouds And Fog
- Calories or Macros? A Nutritionist Explains Which Is Best to Track
- The Fate of Schrödinger's Cat Probably Isn't In The Hands of Gravity, Experiment Finds
- Math Shows How Famed Indus Valley Civilization May Have Been Toppled by Climate Change
- Jupiter's Moons Are Hotter Than They Should Be. They Could Be Heating Each Other
- This Endangered Croc Is Piggybacking 100 Babies After Mating With '7 or 8 Females'
- What We Don't Know About Parasites in Our Changing World Could Be Deadly
- Scientists Finally Discover How 'Stone Forests' Develop Their Otherworldly Forms
- NASA Is Officially in The Market For Moon Rocks
- Hubble Discovery Hints at a Serious Problem With Our Understanding of Dark Matter
- Physicists Used Graphene to Build an Extremely Tiny Magnetic Field Detector
- We Might Finally Know How Jupiter's Weird Polar Storms Stay Together
- These Are The World's Most Troubling Hotspots of Vaccine Hesitancy
- Scientists Concerned Over 'Data Inconsistencies' in Russian COVID-19 Vaccine Trial
- A Spray Containing Live Bacteria Could Be The Eczema Treatment Children Need
- Earth Is Barreling Toward a 'Hothouse' State Not Seen in 50 Million Years
- We May Finally Know The Origins of a Mysterious Stream Circling The Milky Way
- Giant Viruses Could Explain The Mysterious Evolution of a Key Part of Our Cells
- Drinking Until You Pass Out Is Linked to Doubled Risk of Dementia, Huge Study Reveals
- What You Need to Know About That COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Put on Hold
- Archaeologists Just Sequenced Some of The Oldest Neanderthal DNA Found in Europe
- In Just 50 Years, Earth's Wildlife Populations Have Plummeted More Than Two-Thirds
- Striking Photos Show Wildfire Smoke Turning The Sky Orange Over San Francisco
- A Shocking Percentage of World's CO2 Emissions Is Directly Traced to Multinationals
- The Most Common Pain Relief Drug in The World Induces Risky Behaviour, Study Suggests
- These Are The Key Reasons Parents Are Hesitant to Vaccinate Their Children
- Space Could Be Littered With Eerie Transparent Stars Made Entirely of Bosons
- Photos: Incredibly Well Preserved Mammoth Bones Keep Turning Up in Mexico
- We Just Got a Better Idea of How Fast Genes For Lactose Tolerance Spread Across Europe
- Genetically Engineered Beefcake Mice Retain Their Muscle Mass in Space
- World's Leading COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Was Just Put on Hold Due to Safety Concerns
- NASA Reveals The 'Heart' of The Nancy Roman Space Telescope Is Now Complete
- Too Much CO2 Has an Unnerving Effect on The World's Trees, New Study Finds
- Across 10 Million Stars, Not a Single Whisper of Alien Technology
- Where You Live in The US Is Linked to Certain Personality Traits, Study Finds
- High Blood Pressure And Diabetes Could Alter Brain Structure, Slowing Down Cognition
- If Sitting Is So Bad, Is Lying Down to Work Any Better? A Physiologist Explains
- Egyptian Authorities Have Discovered 13 Completely Sealed 2,500-Year-Old Coffins
- 'Zombie' Fires Are Once Again Blazing Through The Arctic, Causing Record Burning
- One Chart Shows The Best And Worst Face Mask Types, Based on The Latest Research
- Psychedelic 'Trips' Really Are Similar to Religious Experiences in Many Ways
- Mammal Extinctions Are Speeding to an Unprecedented 'Second Wave', Scientists Warn
- Something Strange Happens on Mars During a Solar Eclipse
- These 3 Recent Studies Radically Change What We Understand About Dogs
- Scientists Clone an Endangered Przewalski's Horse For The First Time, And It's So Cute
- Mysterious Post-COVID Syndrome Affecting Kids Appears to Be Even Worse Than We Thought
- China Lands Mysterious Reusable Spacecraft After 2 Days in Space
- Simulation Reveals What Dark Matter Might Look Like if We Could See It
- Expert Group Proposes a Controversial New Way to Allocate The First COVID-19 Vaccines
- Why Sleep Is So Important For Losing Weight, According to Researchers
- Hundreds of Mammoth Bones Have Been Found Under The Site of a Future Mexican Airport
- A Joint After Work Doesn't Affect at-Work Productivity, Says Study
- Hubble's New Photo of The Cygnus Loop Looks Too Perfect to Be Real
- Bronze Age Brits Kept Bone Keepsakes From Their Dead Old Relatives
- It Pays to Be Kind. People Live Longer in Societies That Share More Across Generations
- These 6 Coronavirus Precautions Probably Aren't Worth Your Time, According to Experts
- Cosmonaut Brain Scans Show Space Does Weird Things to Motor Skills And Vision
- Sleep Experts Call For The Abolition of Daylight Saving Time in The US
- Naked Mole Rats Would Deafen Themselves if They Weren't Already Hard of Hearing
- Are Tardigrades The Most Indestructible Animals on Earth? There's a Close Contender
- Scientists Have Found a Way to Make Foldable Keyboards Out of Any Paper
- Tear Gas Is More Dangerous Than Most Realise And Should Be Banned, Experts Argue
- SpaceX Says Its Starlink Satellite Internet Can Already Download 100 Megabits Per Second
- Russia's Coronavirus Vaccine Has Passed a Small, Initial Test – Here's What That Means
- Can The Leaves of Plants Help Us Find Buried Human Remains?
- Drone Survey Reveals Wichita 'Council Circle' Monument on a Ranch in Kansas
- New High-Res Images of The Sun Show How Creepy Sunspots Look in Closeup
- Palaeontologists Reveal What Could Be The True Proportions of The Fearsome Megalodon
- Orion Hosts a Bizarrely Wonky Protoplanetary System With 3 Stars
- Evidence Is in: Female Leaders Really Are Tackling The Pandemic Better
- An Ancient Oak in Italy Just Turned Out to Be Nearly 1,000 Years Old
- Is Maths Real? That's Actually a Much Smarter Question Than You Might Think
- We Finally Have Another Life-Saving Medication For The Sickest COVID-19 Patients
- NASA Discovered a Faster, Cheaper Way of Getting to The Moon… And Patented It
- Bizarre Discovery Reveals The Moon Is Rusting, Even Without Liquid Water And Oxygen
- Only 1 in 10 Medical Treatments Is Backed by High-Quality Evidence, Study Finds
- The ISS Is Still Leaking Air, And The Hunt For a Hole Is Taking Longer Than Expected
- Human Modification of The Ocean Is as Rampant as Urbanisation on Land, Study Finds
- Physicists Made Boats Sail Upside-Down on an Ocean of Levitating Liquid
- Most Massive Black Hole Collision Detected Confirms Elusive Middleweight Black Holes
- What Is Scientific Peer Review?
- A Molecule in Honeybee Venom Destroys Breast Cancer Cells in The Lab, Study Shows
- Why Do Scientists Experiment on Animals?
- A Coronavirus Superspreader Infected Over 20 People on a Single Bus Ride, Study Finds
- Incoming Object With Earth Impact Trajectory Turns Out To Be Old NASA Spacecraft
- One-Third of Americans Say They Wouldn't Take a Coronavirus Vaccine, Poll Shows
- New Study Indicates Major Earthquakes in Italy Are Linked to Hidden CO2 Emissions
- Face Shields And Masks With Valves Don't Effectively Block Droplets, Experiment Shows
- Earth's Deepest Known Freshwater Cave Goes a Lot Deeper Than Anyone Ever Realised
- Giant Gaping Void Emerges in Siberia, The Latest in a Dramatic Ongoing Phenomenon
- Blistering Hot Weather Will Release Air Pollution From Our Very Streets
- This Interactive Map Shows Where Your Home Was on Earth 750 Million Years Ago
- 'Ultra-Processed' Junk Food Linked to Advanced Ageing at Cellular Level, Study Finds
- Glacial Lake Volume Has Surged by 50 Percent in Just 30 Years, Scientists Warn
- A Strange Form of Life Could Flourish Deep Inside of Stars, Physicists Say
- Satellite Images Before And After Australia's Bushfires Reveal a Devastating Contrast
- Ice Sheet Melting Is Perfectly in Line With Our Worst-Case Scenario, Scientists Warn
- Russia Just Declassified Footage of The Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Blast in History