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- A New Type of Brain Cell Has Been Discovered
- DNA Barcodes Can Tell You Exactly Where Your Food Came From
- Scientists Have Invented a Brain Decoder That Could Read Your Inner Thoughts
- Scientists Now Know Why Scratching Makes You More Itchy
- Aerial Images Shed Light on The Middle East's Mysterious Stone Circles
- WATCH: The Psychology of Accents
- WATCH: The Science of Beer
- WATCH: Why I'm Scared of Spiders
- World's Most Advanced Flying Car Unveiled in Austria
- Study Suggests Milk Doesn't Strengthen Your Bones – It Ages You Instead
- There's Now a Vaccine to Stop Koalas Getting Chlamydia
- This Technology Shows Nurses Where Your Veins Are
- An African Solar Plant Could Power UK Homes by 2018
- The Real Damage From Yesterday's Rocket Explosion
- Gladiators Drank a Post-Workout Drink Made From Ash
- Does Eating Cheese Before Bed Give You Nightmares?
- This Is Your Brain on Magic Mushrooms
- Scientists Use Stem Cells to Grow Tiny Human Stomachs
- WATCH: This Is Not a Rainbow
- Ferns Can Change Their Neighbour's Sex
- Learning a New Word Stimulates The Same Region of The Brain as Sex
- Chefs And Scientists Have Joined Forces to Perfect Japanese Food
- Algal Virus Found Slowing Down The Brains of Humans
- Newly Explored Regions of The Human Genome Reveal Fundamental Processes of Life
- World's First Artificial Cow's Milk to Hit The Market Next Year
- WATCH: How Quantum Teleportation Works
- New Sparkling Apple Variety Fizzes in Your Mouth
- Musicians Are Better at Multitasking
- Scientists Have Converted Human Skin Cells Into Brain Cells
- WATCH: Ebola – The Full Story
- New Windowless Planes Set to Fly Within a Decade
- World's Fastest Network Can Transmit 32 Terabytes Per Second
- WATCH: Can You Erase Bad Memories?
- Brain Scans Have Revealed Why Some People Get So Depressed in Winter
- Scientists Have Grown a Functioning Blood Vessel in Just Seven Days
- Physicists Have Finally Proved The Existence of a New Superconductive State, First Proposed 50 Years Ago
- Erratic Rain Patterns Can Change The Taste of Your Tea
- Cocoa Could Reverse Age-Related Memory Decline
- Here's Why Curious People Are Better at Learning
- New CT Scans Reveal Strange, Frail Visage of Tutankhamun
- Scientists Have Built a Sound-Powered Medical Device
- World First: "Dead Heart" Successfully Transplanted at Australian Hospital
- Cane Toads Accelerated Their Hostile Takeover by Evolving to March in Straight Lines
- WATCH: Why Our Brains Like Everything to Be Personalised
- Scientists Now Know What a Comet Smells Like
- Ancient Europeans Were Lactose Intolerant For 4,000 Years After They Started Making Cheese
- The Highest Altitude Archaeological Site in The World Is Also The Earliest Inhabited by Humans
- WATCH: 4D Printing Creates Structures That Self-Assemble
- Whisky Waste Could Be The Fuel of The Future
- WATCH: How to Make Electrical Sparks Just Using Running Water
- The Sun Is Unleashing Powerful Solar Flares From a Sunspot The Size of Jupiter
- Scientists Have Detected a Single Atom Using MRI
- WATCH: Artificial Atoms Can Produce Any Colour in The World
- Scientists Have Opened The Blood-Brain Barrier For The First Time
- Three Cups of Coffee a Day Could Benefit Your Liver
- WATCH: Why Is The Sun Yellow And The Sky Blue?
- Black Holes Can Block New Stars From Forming, Research Has Revealed
- Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Has Joined an Australian University
- Scientists Have Worked Out How to Desalinate And Reuse The Wastewater From Fracking
- A Cell Transplant Has Enabled a Paralysed Man to Walk Again
- Miniature Human Intestines Have Been Grown Inside Mice For The First Time
- Australian Scientists Have Created a Tractor Beam That Can Move Particles Up to 20 Centimetres
- WATCH: Australian Bees Wage Brutal Hive Wars That Last For MONTHS
- Our Brains Have an Internal Calorie Counter, Research Suggests
- Plants Can "Hear" Themselves Being Eaten
- The Season You Were Born in Can Affect Your Mood
- Researchers Are Farming Seaweed And Turning It Into Fuel And Food
- WATCH: A Drone Has Captured World-First Footage of Killer Whales
- Scientists Have Built The World's Thinnest Electric Generator – And It's Only One Atom Wide
- Ancient Fish Were The First Animals Ever to Have Sex
- Action Video Games Can Boost Your Ability to Learn Motor Skills
- This Sunday an Ancient Comet Will Narrowly Miss Mars, And Put on a Spectacular Show
- Astronomers May Have Detected The First Direct Evidence of Dark Matter
- Scientists Recreate 172-Year-Old Shipwrecked Beer
- Scientists Have Found "Hidden" Brain Activity That Can Indicate if a Vegetative Patient Is Aware
- WATCH: Why Positive Thinking Can Be Bad For You
- Reheating Your Pasta Makes It Significantly Better For You
- Robots Could Soon Perform Brain Surgery Through Your Cheek
- Australia's "Safe" Pollution Levels Are So High They Could Cause Thousands of Deaths if Met
- WATCH: The Secrets of Sleep
- No, a Spider (Probably) Didn't Crawl Through a Man's Body For Several Days
- WATCH: Your Brain On MDMA
- This Jelly-Filled Human Tank Could Help People With Pacemakers Have Life-Saving MRI Scans
- WATCH: A Hawk Attack a Drone Mid-Air
- WATCH: Which Came First – The Chicken or The Egg?
- Study Suggests 21-Day Ebola Quarantine Period Is Not Enough
- Cigarette Ash Can Clean Arsenic From Water
- WATCH: The Quantum Mechanical Force That Happens Every Time You Turn Off The Light
- Honeysuckle Tea Can Treat Influenza A Viruses, And Possibly Ebola
- WATCH: How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries
- This New Nuclear Reactor Could Bring Carbon-Free Power to 80,000 Homes, And Fit in The Back of a Truck
- Earth's Magnetic Field Could Flip Much Faster Than Previously Predicted
- WATCH: Mother Spider Explodes With Babies During a Fatal Attack
- Research Shows The Rats of NYC Are Infected With at Least 18 New Viruses
- WATCH: Deep-Sea Spookfish Is One of The World's Most Eerily Beautiful Animals
- This Giant 3D Printer Can Build Houses From Mud in The Poorest Regions
- This New Umbrella Creates a Force-Field of Air to Protect You From The Rain
- A Solar Car Built by Australian Students Has Broken The Electric Vehicle World Speed Record
- School Replaces All of Its Desks With Exercise Bikes
- WATCH: The Structure of Earth
- WATCH: The Chemical Reactions That Make Pizza Taste So Good
- The Walking Corpse Syndrome Convinces People They're The Living Dead
- WATCH: Where Does The Smell of Rain Come From?
- WATCH: Could Telepathy Exist?
- Blind People Have Four Times More Nightmares Than Those Who Can See
- WATCH: What's New in Archaeology?
- WATCH: This Is What It Looks Like When You Mix Sand With Silly Putty
- This New Veggie Burger Bleeds Like Meat
- The First Implanted Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm Has Restored a Patient's Sense of Touch
- WATCH: Two Kangaroos Box in Suburban Australia
- Australian Skies Are Home to an Extremely Rare, Wormhole-Like Cloud Formation