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- A Model Who Tattooed Her Eyeball Is Now Partially Blind And Warning Others
- 7 'Facts' You Learned at School That Are No Longer True
- Tonga Was Once The Heart Of A Mighty Trading Empire In Prehistoric Oceania
- A Long Overdue Solar Cell Competitor Just Smashed a Critical Record
- Scientists Have Drilled Into Earth's Hidden 8th Continent
- Scientists Just Made The First Quantum-Encrypted International Video Call
- A Texas Woman Has Died From 'Flesh-Eating Bacteria' in Harvey's Floodwaters
- Astronauts Are Roasting B.O.B's Flat Earth Satellite And It's Amazing
- Elon Musk Also Plans to Fly You Anywhere in The World in Under an Hour
- Here's Elon Musk's Spectacular Plan For Colonising Mars
- Ultraviolet Light Could Be Having a Strange Effect on Ice in Space
- The Japanese Tsunami Had an Unprecedented Side Effect on The Pacific
- We Just Got a Huge Step Closer to Getting Rid of Malaria Using Genetic Modification
- There's a New Method For Fixing Broken Bones Using Pieces of Other People's Bones
- Zika Used to Be a Mild Infection. Here's How It Became So Devastating
- Here's The Best Way to Avoid Bringing Home Bed Bugs, According to Science
- Quantum Weirdness Once Again Shows We're Not Living in a Computer Simulation
- Lithium-Ion Batteries Have Been Created in Australia For The First Time
- A Fatal Blood Disorder Was Fixed in an Embryo Using Precision Gene Editing
- Amateur Metal Detectorist Finds Incredible Ancient Roman Treasure Hoard in The UK
- The Rosetta Team Just Found One Final Image, Hiding in The Data
- Tonight, Elon Musk Will Unveil New Details About Conquering Mars
- Learn to Become a Master Photographer With This Online Course Bundle
- Newly Discovered Broken Brain Links Could Be Why Parkinson's Causes Hallucinations
- The Fiery Hell That Gave Birth to Earth Could Have Evaporated 40% of Our World
- Here's The Real Reason Cutting Onions Makes You Cry
- Australian Animals Were a Lot More Gigantic And Terrifying During The Ice Age
- Here's How Colours Really Affect Our Brain And Body, According to Science
- We Can Finally Detect Concussive Brain Trauma in Living Patients
- Ancient Chinese Ink Could Hold A Surprising New Way to Kill Cancer Cells
- Check Out This Incredible Mars City The UAE Is Building For Training Purposes
- Researchers Have Developed Microchips That Behave Like Brain Cells
- It's Official: Russia And The US Will Work Together on The First-Ever Moon Station
- Should You Actually Be Clearing Out Your Pores?
- This Newly Discovered Giant Rat Species Is So Huge It Cracks Coconuts With Its Teeth
- IT'S OFFICIAL: Gravitational Waves Were Just Detected With The Greatest Precision Ever
- Weather Is a Serious Risk Factor For Heart Failure, Says Large Scale Study
- This Crazy New Tech Contest Is Set on Finally Making Jetpacks a Practical Reality
- Researchers Claim They Just Invented The "Ultimate" Method For Quantum Computing
- A 4-Year-Old Boy Has Inspired a Crazy New Organ Donation System, And It's Already Saving Lives
- New Discovery Points to Life on Earth Nearly 4 Billion Years Ago
- Confirmed: A Huge Gravitational Wave Announcement Is Happening
- Most Autism Cases Can Be Explained by Faulty Genes, New Research Confirms
- Evaporating Water Could Power Almost 70% of The US Electrical Grid
- A Jar of Decapitated Toads Has Been Found in a 4,000-Year-Old Burial
- This Researcher Thinks There's a Case For Having a 3-Hour Workday
- Yep, Rapper B.O.B Is Crowdfunding Satellites to Prove Earth Is Flat
- A Suspected Case of Lung Cancer Turns Out to Be a Toy Traffic Cone
- An Asteroid Space Probe Just Captured a Gorgeous New Photo of Earth
- 'Magic Dust' Made From Light And Matter Could Power Supercomputers of The Future
- Being in a Good Mood Can Affect How Well The Flu Vaccine Protects You
- Changing Sea Levels Have a Disturbing Effect on Sleeping Volcanoes, Says Study
- A 1000-Year-Old Viking Boat Burial Was Just Found Under a Market Square in Norway
- ScienceAlert Deal: Learn Arduino by Building Electronics Projects From Scratch
- South Pole Observatory Could Solve The Mystery of All Those Fast Radio Bursts
- Lost City of Alexander The Great Thought to Be Found After 2,000 Years
- You Must See This Stunning Picture of New Stars Forming in Our Own Galaxy
- A Monkey Mother Ate Her Mummified Dead Baby in a Never-Before-Seen Case
- Scientists Spent a Month Scaring Guppies to Prove That Fish Have Personalities
- A Major Antarctic Glacier Just Lost a Massive Chunk of Ice 4x The Size of Manhattan
- This Awesome Blood Labyrinth Is The Newest Method For Catching Cancer Cells
- There's a Link Between Chronic Migraines And This Common Jaw Disorder
- Here Are 7 Places in Our Solar System Most Likely to Harbour Microbial Life
- Scientists Have Designed a Crystalline Type of Aluminium That's Insanely Light
- Doctors Restore Consciousness in Man Who Spent 15 Years in a Vegetative State
- Here's How Scientists Are Mapping The Decline of The Great Barrier Reef With AI
- This Overlooked Theory Could Be The Missing Piece That Explains How The EM Drive Works
- Sweet Potatoes Suggest Easter Island Had More People Than Previously Thought
- Flint's Poisoned Water Had a 'Horrifyingly Large' Effect on Fetal Deaths, Study Finds
- It's Official: Australia Is Finally Getting Its Own Space Agency
- Going to Mars Might Be Twice as Deadly as We Thought
- Is It Really Bad to Share a Bed With Your Dog? Science Weighs in
- Newly Engineered Antibody Can Fight Back Against 99% of HIV Strains
- Uber Will No Longer Have a License to Operate in London
- Gravity Could Be Produced by Bizarre Quantum 'Flashes'
- We Just Got a Glimpse at What Life on The Moon Could Look Like
- Here's What Could Happen if North Korea Sets Off a Nuclear Explosion in The Pacific
- Here's Why We Should Actually Listen to Creationists About Evolution
- We Just Found a Gene That Could Radically Change Our Thinking on Alzheimer's
- 8 Myths About Sugar You Need to Stop Believing
- We Might Finally Know Where All Those Mysterious Cosmic Rays Are Coming From
- ScienceAlert Deal: Get a Closer Look at The World Around You With The Blips Smartphone Lens Kits
- Physicists Just Quantum Teleported Complex Light Patterns For The First Time
- There's Evidence That ADHD Could Be a Type of Sleep Disorder
- This Worm Has Gone 18 Million Years Without Sex, And We Now Know Its Secret
- Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts May Be Occurring Every Second
- Here's a First Hand Account of What It's Like to Survive a Lightning Strike
- Three Students Just Discovered The First Brainless Animal That Sleeps
- Newly Discovered Hermit Crab Species Carries Around a Giant Coral House
- Researchers Think They've Figured Out What Mysterious Scottish Stone Circles Were Used For
- Sea Turtles Are Coming Back From The Brink of Extinction, Well Done Everybody
- A Brave Fleet of Tiny Nanosatellites Could Explore 300 Asteroids in Our Solar System
- 6th Global Mass Extinction Is Coming All Too Soon, According to This Mathematician
- More Viruses Than We Previously Thought Could Be Transmitted Sexually
- This Nuclear Bomb Map Shows What Would Happen if One Exploded Near You
- Sleep Deprivation Is Surprisingly Effective as an Antidepressant
- Duck Penises Vary a Lot in Size And Growth, And That's Actually Really Bizarre
- Astronomers Have Spotted a Strange Hybrid Asteroid in Our Solar System
- This Gigantic, Extinct Devil Frog Was Capable of Eating Dinosaurs
- Where No Flatworm Has Gone Before: Doctors Find Wriggling Parasite in Teen's Eyeball
- The Iconic Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico Is Being Battered by Hurricane Maria
- A Vaccine Is Being Developed For Preventing Tooth Decay And It Sounds Amazing
- Scientists Warn How Giant Space Hurricanes Could Knock Out Our Satellites
- These Baby Spiders Demand The Flesh of Their Mothers When They Get Hungry
- Pirates Are to Blame For Why The US Doesn't Use The Metric System
- Strange But True: Cargo Ships Are Triggering More Lightning Storms at Sea
- There's a Much Better Option Than Pap Smears For Detecting Cancer, Evidence Shows
- Your Dog Is Probably Dumber Than a Wolf, And Here's Why
- Social Media Isn't Actually Causing Our Massive Political Divide, Says Study
- Teenagers Are Avoiding Sex, Alcohol, And Driving Like Never Before, Says New Study
- Here's Why Mexico Is in One of The Worst Possible Places For Earthquakes
- This New Method For Testing Blood With Sound Waves Is Insanely Clever
- One of The Brightest Stars in Our Sky Is Spinning Nearly Fast Enough to Destroy Itself
- EXCLUSIVE: This Infographic Reveals Which Cancer Remedies Could Harm You The Most
- Physicists Just Cracked The Problem of Stabilising a Totally New Kind of Particle
- Here's 13 Things That Make People Dislike You Immediately, According to Science
- This Newly Discovered Jurassic Sea Monster Was Related to Ocean Super-Predators
- ScienceAlert Deal: Start Exploring The Stars With This Awesome Telescope
- We Can Still Reach The Most Optimistic Target of The Paris Climate Deal, Says New Study
- Blue Dinosaur Eggs Have Revealed a Surprise About Ancient Bird-Like Creatures
- These 9 Charts Clearly Show Our World Is Actually Doing Better Than Ever
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson Has a Stern Warning For All of Humanity
- This Critical Thinker's Letter to His Daughter Will Restore Your Hope For The Future
- This Needle-Covered Patch Dissolves Excess Body Fat Wherever You Stick It
- Mystery Fossil Finally Confirmed to Be an Animal After 70 Years of Research
- A Rare Occultation Is About to Happen as The Moon Will Block Out Three Planets
- Astronomers Just Found a Surprise Hidden on The Mysterious Night Side of Venus
- Why Some People Have Trouble Telling Left From Right
- Here's The Story Behind This Heartbreaking Photo, in The Photographer's Own Words
- This Badass Koala Survived a 10 Mile Journey Trapped Under a Car
- If You Feel Everyone Around You Has More Friends, You're Probably Wrong
- There's Confusion Over US Intentions to Leave The Paris Climate Agreement
- This Is How Weed Actually Affects Your Sleep
- Here's What Psychoanalysis Really Is, And What Science Says About Whether It Works
- Scientists Develop a Jab That Could Deliver All Childhood Vaccines in One Go
- The Science Museum And Natural History Museum Had a Massive Twitter Argument, And We Love It
- Third-Hand Exposure to Cigarette Smoke Can Still Damage Your Organs
- Want to Fix America's Health Care? We Need to Focus on Food
- Official: NASA's Cassini Probe Is Dead After 20 Years of Exploring Saturn
- New Research Takes Us Another Step Closer to a Hydrogen-Fuelled Future
- The Snow Leopard Was Just Declared No Longer Officially Endangered
- Bilingual People's Brains Process Arithmetic in a Quirky Way, Study Shows
- Watch This Electric Eel Zap a Biologist in The Name of Science
- An AI Recreated an Old-School Video Game Just by Watching Someone Play It
- This Extremely Hot Exoplanet Is So Black It Eats Up Almost All Visible Light
- Get Started With The Ultimate Computer Science Career Bundle Online Now
- An 8-Year-Old Bullied For Her Love of Bugs Just Got Her First Scientific Publication
- Experiences in Childhood Can Alter Your DNA For The Rest of Your Life
- Here Are 15 All-Time Best Photos From Cassini That You Absolutely Must See
- Astronomers Have Discovered a Bizarre Inferno World With Titanium Oxide Skies
- That Creepy Fanged Creature Washed Up in Houston Has Finally Been Identified
- NASA Is Now Receiving The Last Photos Ever Taken by Cassini Before Its Death
- Here's What Will Happen 10,000 Years From Now, According to Science
- Bacteria Use Freaky Ways to Develop Drug Resistance Once They're in Space
- NASA Will Be Streaming Video During Cassini's Death Plunge – Here's How to Watch
- Here's Why Gun Violence Research in The US Is About to Come to a Grinding Halt
- The Most Stunning Wildlife Photos of 2017 Are Here And Holy Crap
- These 7 New Species of Adorable Little Peacock Spiders Will Make You Go 'Aww'
- This Surprising New Model of The Universe Doesn't Need Dark Energy at All
- Mind-Altering Cat Parasite Just Got Linked to a Whole Lot of Neurological Disorders
- A Potential Vaccine Is in The Works For This Horrifying Flesh-Eating Parasite
- IBM Just Broke The Record of Simulating Chemistry With a Quantum Computer
- Cassini Is Dying, But Its Groundbreaking Huygens Lander on Titan Lives on
- By 2050, Most of World's Best Coffee Growing Areas Won't Be Viable Any More
- Here's a List of 100 Words Scientists Really Want You to Stop Misusing
- We Just Found 500-Million-Year-Old Fossils From The Earliest Complex Life on Earth
- Giraffes Didn't Evolve Long Necks Simply to Reach Tree Leaves, New Study Shows
- Bill Gates Reveals The Biggest Public Health Threats Over The Next 10 Years
- Scientists Have Discovered a Way to Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air
- Reddit Has Found a Way to Reduce Hate Speech That Actually Works
- A Monster 'Fatberg' The Size of 20 Elephants Is Clogging London's Sewer Right Now
- Vikings Really Could Have Used Strange 'Sunstones' to Navigate The Dark Seas
- Uncontacted Tribe in The Amazon Reportedly Massacred by Illegal Gold Miners
- Nanoparticles From Tattoos Can Actually Travel Around Your Bloodstream
- We Finally Know Why Galaxies Across The Universe Have All Those Weird Shapes
- 3 People Have Died After Falling Into a Volcanic Crater in Italy
- Scientists Just Added a Shocking 20 New Branches to The Tree of Life
- Here's What's Really Going on With That Study Saying AI Can Detect Your Sexual Orientation
- Here's What We Can Expect From Apple's New Push Toward Augmented Reality
- Cassini's Final Moments May Be Visible From a Telescope Here on Earth
- Gut Microbes Could Actually Be Triggering Relapses of Multiple Sclerosis
- Get Ahead of The Pack With The Complete IOS 11 Developer Course + IOS Mastery Bundle
- Cancer Drugs Cost Way Less to Develop Than What We've Been Led to Think, Study Claims
- A Man Got Cyanide Poisoning From Taking Apricot Kernel Extract to Prevent Cancer
- The World Isn't Ending, But Here's The Science Behind Why It Feels Like It
- We Can Finally Read The 'Clock' That Tells How Long Human Cells Have Left to Live
- This Is The Closest Look We've Ever Had at The Proteins Linked to Alzheimer's Disease
- Before Its Death, Cassini Has Sent Us The Closest-Ever View of Saturn's Rings
- This Newly Discovered Ant Has a Metal Spike on Its Head And Was Probably a Vampire
- 40% of Worker Ants Are Actually Lazy Slackers, But They Have Their Reasons
- China Just Announced It Is Also Planning a Future Ban on Fossil Fuel Cars
- A 3,500-Year-Old Tomb Full of Mummies Has Just Been Discovered in Egypt
- Most Hurricanes That Hit The US Start in The Exact Same Location
- Zoo Miami Has Secured Its Animals in Special Bunkers For Hurricane Irma
- Finally, We Have a Full-Body View of SpaceX's Sleek Dragon Crew Spacesuit
- Hurricane Irma Has Been Literally Pulling The Ocean Away From Its Shores
- The World Is Facing a Global Sand Crisis Because We're Mining Way Too Much of It
- Planet 9 Might Not Be an Exoplanet After All
- These Are The Ways The Alcohol Industry Is Distorting The Facts on Cancer Links
- This Viking DNA Discovery Is Our Best Evidence to Date of Female Viking Warriors
- Parasites Inside Your Body Could Actually Be Protecting You
- Scientists Are Investigating Warm Caves Under Antarctica Which Could Support Secret Life
- The Last Piece of This Super-Powerful Telescope Is in, So We Can Map More of Space Than Ever
- Pluto's Features Finally Have Official Names, And They're Pretty Awesome
- Cockatoos Just Became The New Champions of Tool Building Among Birds
- This Interactive Periodic Table Has a Haiku For Each Element And We Can't Deal
- ScienceAlert Deal: Enjoy The Night Sky From Your Bedroom With This Laser Twilight Projector
- Atheists Are Nicer Than Christians, But There's a Complicated Twist
- Fossilised Cosmic Dust Has Been Found in The Beautiful White Cliffs of Dover
- Iconic Monarch Butterflies Could Soon Be Extinct in North America's West
- This Week's Crazy Solar Flares Will Deliver Amazing Auroras Beyond The Normal Range
- SpaceX Just Launched Pentagon's X-37B Spaceplane on a Mysterious Mission
- Covering Streets in Cooling Paint Is The New Trick to Deal With Rising Heat in Cities
- This New Proof of Majorana Fermions Is Going to Be Massive For Quantum Devices
- Earth Is Now a Hybrid Planet, According to This Strange New Classification
- Doctors Found a Stone Almost The Size of an Ostrich Egg in a Man's Bladder
- Here Are 6 of The Filthiest Things You Touch All The Time
- The Asteroid That Just Came Close to Earth Is So Huge It Has Its Own Moons
- New Genetic Discovery Explains The Skin-Blistering 'Vampire' Disease
- Jupiter's Insane Auroras Are Powered by an Energy Source Nobody Can Explain
- A Student Found an Ancient Canadian Village That's 10,000 Years Older Than The Pyramids
- Climate Change Could Wipe Out One-Third of Earth's Parasite Species by 2070
- The Sun Just Erupted The Biggest Solar Flare in 12 Years And It Has Affected Earth
- For The First Time, CRISPR Has Been Used to Dramatically Change Flower Colour
- Meet Aeroice: Scientists Just Engineered The Lowest Density Ice Crystals Ever
- Breaking: An Entirely New Type of Quantum Computing Has Been Invented
- Zika Virus Could Actually Be Turned Into a Weapon Against Brain Cancer
- 15 Really Good Things Happening in Science Right Now
- Deadly Whale Strandings in 2016 Could Have a Link to The Northern Lights
- NASA's Latest Jupiter Pics Are Here to Remind You The Universe Doesn't Totally Suck
- Evidence Shows Natural Selection Is Working Right Now to Cull Bad Genes in Humans
- Packs of African Wild Dogs Vote on Group Decisions by Sneezing
- Trials of Breakthrough Cancer Treatment Were Just Put on Hold After a Patient's Death
- Look Up: A Ghostly Aurora May Be Visible in Northern US on Wednesday Night
- A Strange Fossil Just Changed What We Know About Animals Evolving to Walk on Land
- We Now Have an Equation That Explains How The Hell Quantum Chaos Behaves
- Here Are 5 Amazing Marine Biology YouTube Channels You Should Subscribe to
- Watch: Here's How The American Lifestyle Really Compares to The Rest of The World
- A Completely New Type of Camera Can Actually See Through The Human Body
- Electrons Are Getting Exciting New Properties in This Weird Superconducting Crystal
- A New Kind of Giant Black Hole Was Just Found Lurking Near The Heart of Our Galaxy
- Turns Out Our Biases Really Are Stronger Than Our Ability to Perceive Facts
- NASA's Latest Retro Posters Celebrate The Voyagers' Astonishing Interstellar Mission
- Finally, Schools Around The US Are Pushing to Start Later in The Day
- This New Recipe For Cheap Hydrogen Fuel Uses Light And a Few Simple Ingredients
- A Lost Underwater City Has Been Found 1,700 Years After a Tsunami Sank It
- Here's Why These Horribly Deadly Poison Dart Frogs Never Poison Themselves
- Vaccines Have Saved Nearly 20 Million Children's Lives in Poor Countries Since 2001
- Anyone Can Win $1 Million by Solving This Wildly Complex Mathematical Chess Puzzle
- World's First Ethical Guidelines For Driverless Cars Have Been Adopted in Germany
- Scientists Are Building an Incredible Artificial Reef Next to The Sydney Opera House
- First-Ever Evidence of Strange Bouncing Light Particles Has Been Caught in The LHC
- Bizarre Brain-Like Blobs Discovered Lurking in a Lagoon in Vancouver
- ScienceAlert Deal: See Into Tight Spaces With This WiFi Endoscopic Camera
- What Earthquake Science Can Tell Us About North Korea's Nuclear Tests
- Peggy Whitson Just Got Home After Smashing US Record For Longest Time Spent in Space
- Here's How Ultraviolet Light Could Point to Alien Life Throughout The Universe
- Ancient Parasitic Black Holes Could Be Responsible For Making The Universe's Heaviest Atoms
- The Reason Why Some Leaves Can Grow So Huge Is Totally Not What We Thought
- Experts Cast Doubt on Groundbreaking CRISPR Embryo Editing Research
- "Economics Nobel Prize" Winners Are Advocating For Universal Basic Income
- Scientists Just Found The First Evidence That The Trappist-1 System Might Contain Water
- Our Antidepressants Are Becoming a Big Problem For Fish in Niagara
- The Rise And The Fall of The Romans Can Be Charted in Their Lead Plumbing
- In a Surprise Discovery, Engineers Have Turned a Laser Beam Into a Liquid Stream
- Get Started Learning to Code With The Python Programming Bootcamp Bundle
- Saturn's Moons And Rings Have Just Been Turned Into Eerie Celestial Music
- Scientists Just Found Some Cells Have a Surprisingly Huge Role in Brain Development
- We Finally Have Data on Which Nearby Stars Could Send Comets Crashing Into Earth
- Mysterious Footprints Suggest Humanoids Roamed Crete Nearly 6 Million Years Ago
- Here's a Guide on How to Choose The Strongest Password, According to Science
- This Musician Played The Saxophone While Doctors Removed a Tumour From His Brain
- This Ultimate Infographic Breaks Down 100 of The Most Common Misconceptions