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- Astronomers May Have Detected a Black Hole That's Unlike Any We've Seen Before
- Ancient Ice Has Revealed The CO2 Cycle of Earth Going Back Nearly 2 Million Years
- New Radar Study Reveals The Failure That Forced The Khmer Empire to Move Its Capital
- Itchy Skin Conditions And Mental Health Are Linked, And We Need to Talk About It
- The Very First Stars Formed Too Fast For Our Cosmological Models, New Evidence Shows
- Tree-Planting Campaign Started on YouTube Raises Over $8 Million in Less Than a Week
- Photos From Space Reveal The True Scale of The Kincade Fire's Spread in California
- Chinese Man Chops Off Own Finger After Snake Bite, Doctors Say It Was Unnecessary
- Doctors Just Livestreamed a Brain Surgery on Facebook, And The Patient Was Awake
- A Scientist Made a Calculator That Shows The Risk of an Actual Vampire Apocalypse
- Simply Imagining a Bright Light Can Be Enough to Change Your Pupil Size, Study Finds
- First-Ever Observation Reveals The Structure of Alzheimer's Proteins in The Brain
- StarCraft II Has a New Grandmaster, And It's Not Human
- Astronomers Have Found an Exoplanet Somewhere It Really Shouldn't Have Survived
- Our Belief in The 'Devil' Evolved as a Way to Avoid Sickness, Says Study
- Some Animals Can Literally Pause Their Pregnancies. Here's Why
- Guess Which Company Was Just Crowned The World's Biggest Plastic Polluter (Again)
- In an Unexpected Twist, Plants Enter a Type of 'Panic' State When It Rains
- That Interstellar Comet Is Carrying Water From Beyond Our Solar System
- This Man Had a Drug Parcel Stuck Inside His Nose For 18 Years
- Latest Estimates Show More People Will Face Rising Waters Than We Ever Expected
- World-First Analysis Clearly Shows Healthier Diets Are Also Better For The Planet
- 'Overzealous' Regulation of GM Crops Costs Children's Lives Worldwide, Says New Book
- Scientists Say They've Found a Place on Earth Where No Life Can Thrive
- Scientists Have Made a Blueprint For a Quantum Battery That Never Loses Charge
- Migrating Eagles Bankrupted a Russian Science Study With Excessive Mobile Charges
- Annoying 'Duracrust' on Mars Just Kicked Out InSight's Heat Probe, Again
- 'First Light' Achieved on an Experiment That Could Crack The Mystery of Dark Energy
- Growing Older Doesn't Automatically Mean You'll Get Fat, According to Science
- Creepy Parasitic Fungus Turns Its Host Into an Artillery of Spore-Shooting Cannons
- Hubble Catches a Giant Spooky Face Staring at Us From Deep Within The Cosmos
- New Study Pinpoints The Ancestral Homeland of All Humans Alive Today
- That Mysterious US Space Plane Just Landed After a Mind-Blowing 780 Days in Orbit
- New Neural Network Could Solve The Three-Body Problem 100 Million Times Faster
- Dramatic Video Reveals The Moment California's Kincade Fire Ignited
- Engineer Has a Bold Plan to Help Stop Arctic Melting Using Millions of Glass Beads
- Astronomers Just Found What May Be The Smallest Dwarf Planet in The Solar System
- This Creepy Life-Sized Doll Is a Warning About What Office Life Is Doing to Us
- Rarely Seen Gravity Waves Captured Rippling in Earth's Atmosphere
- Lab Worker Accidentally Infects Herself With Virus Related to Smallpox
- This Mind-Boggling Infographic Shows Just How Much of The Ocean We Don't See
- Officials Think This Marker Could Help Explain The Mysterious Vaping Outbreak
- Harvard Scientists Think Even Absolutely Tiny Planets Could Support Life
- How Dust Could Have Brought About The Collapse of a Once Mighty Empire
- Here's Why Thousands of Rubber Bands Turned Up on a Bird Sanctuary Island in The UK
- New Research Says Toddlers Can Count Long Before They Understand Numbers
- Here's How We Might Find a Wormhole, if They Existed
- The Most Advanced Space Telescope Ever Just Passed a Series of Crucial Tests
- This Simple Process Can Turn Water Into an Environmentally Friendly Disinfectant
- Qatar Is Now Air Conditioning Outdoor Spaces to Battle 'Unbearable' Heat
- 'Stunning' Fossil Discovery Reveals How Mammals Flourished After The Dinosaurs Died
- Turns Out Pumpkins Are Primarily Grown to End Up as Landfill Waste After Halloween
- Here's Why Ants Are Practically Immune to Traffic Jams, Even on Crowded Roads
- We Might Finally Know Why Nacre Is So Incredibly Tough
- US Air Quality Got Worse After Years of Improvement, And It's Killing More People
- If You Have Asthma, Avoiding The Flu Shot Can Actually Be a Deadly Mistake
- NASA Just Picked New Planetary Missions to Study. Here Are The Most Exciting Ones
- Here's How Your Brain Deals With Tricky Tasks
- Scientists Are Arguing About The Messed Up 'Tully Monster' All Over Again
- Here's What The Controversial 'Quantum Supremacy' Claim From Google Really Means
- New Telescope Reveals The Shockwave From a Supernova Seen Exploding 30 Years Ago
- What Was The First Colour in The Universe?
- Monkeys Have Been Caught Devouring Rats at a Palm Oil Plantation in Malaysia
- The FDA Is Calling For Breast Implants to Come With Serious Health Warnings
- The World Is Experiencing a Critical Shortage of Blood, First Global Count Reveals
- Astronomers Accidentally Find an Invisible 'Monster Galaxy' From The Early Universe
- India's Crashed Moon Lander Is Still Missing, And NASA Can't Find It Anywhere
- Scientists Built an 'Artificial Leaf' That Uses Sunlight to Produce Clean Synthetic Fuel
- Astronomers Have Measured The Devastating Aftermath of Two Exoplanets Colliding
- This Simple 3-Minute Animation Will Change Your Perception of Time Forever
- Mystery Illness Paralysing Children Across The US Has Been Traced to a Rare Virus
- Here's How Climate Change Is Going to Affect 'Super El Niño' Events in The Future
- China Releases a New Photo of The Mystery Substance They Found on The Moon
- The Melting Arctic Has Revealed 5 New Islands We Never Knew Were There
- A New Type of Storm Has Been Detected on Saturn's Chaotic Surface
- Scientists Taught Rats How to Drive Tiny Cars, For Science Purposes
- Violent Crime Rates Go Down When Seasonal Allergies Peak in The US
- A 'Failed' Alzheimer's Drug Could Actually Work After All, Surprise Analysis Shows
- Wild Video Shows Venomous Snake Eat Another Snake While a Wasp Attacks Them Both
- That Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Instantly Acidified Our World's Oceans, Too
- For The First Time, a Heavy Element Has Been Detected Forming in a Neutron Star Merger
- We Are 'Perilously Close' to Creating Sentient Mini-Brains in a Dish, Experts Warn
- Radical New Method Can Directly Edit Human Cells to Get Rid of Genetic Disease
- Physicists Just Smashed an Insane Record of Particle Acceleration in a Plasma Channel
- This 11-Minute Timelapse of Earth Might Be The Most Spectacular We've Ever Seen
- NASA Just Revealed Incredibly Good News About 2019 Ozone Hole Data
- The Orionids Meteor Shower Peaks This Week! Here's What You Need to Know
- The Loudest Bird Sound Ever Recorded Is This Shrill Mating Call of a Bellbird
- Strange New Virus Could Represent 'Entirely New System of Viral Evolution'
- Aye-Ayes Have More Digits Than Any Other Primate, And It's Just Too Weird
- 4 Simple Tips For How You Can Actually Talk With Vaccine Skeptics
- Hubble Catches Incredible 'Photobomb' of an Asteroid Streaking Past Crab Nebula
- A Man's Gut Made Him Extremely Drunk by Brewing Alcohol When He Ate Carbs
- We Could Be The Only Intelligent Life in The Universe, According to Evolution
- History Has Been Made: NASA Just Carried Out The First All-Female Spacewalk
- Scientists Dramatically Extend The Lifespans of Mice in a Genius New Telomere Study
- For The First Time, Scientists Find Fat Can Clog Lungs And Airways, Not Just Your Heart
- Biologists Get Morbidly Excited Over Discovering a Rare 'Whale Fall'
- For The First Time Ever, Scientists Discover Fractal Patterns in a Quantum Material
- Students Are Taking Stimulants to Help Them Study, But There's No Evidence They Help
- There's More to Consider Than The Habitable Zone When Searching For a Liveable Planet
- Gender-Specific Brain Cells Have Just Been Discovered Inside The Brains of Mice
- This Incredible Image Looks Biological But Is Actually a Strange, Exploded Star
- Antarctica's "Sudden Stratospheric Warming" Has Started Impacting Australia
- More Than 20 Ancient Egyptian Coffins in Pristine Condition Have Just Been Uncovered
- 'Excessive' Brain Activity Has Been Linked to a Shorter Life
- Large-Scale Study Rules Out a Common Assumption About 'Narcissistic' Only Children
- Antarctic Ice Sheets Are Still Leaking Radioactive Chlorine From 1950s Nuclear Weapons Tests
- Scientists Discover 'Stormquakes': a Never-Before-Seen Geophysical Phenomenon
- We Can't Stop Watching This Robot Hand Seamlessly Solve a Rubik's Cube
- Astronomers Find Remarkable Evidence The Guts of Some Exoplanets Are Similar to Earth's
- Mathematicians Have Discovered an Entirely New Way to Multiply Large Numbers
- SpaceX Requests to Launch Another 30,000 Satellites For Controversial Starlink Network
- World-First Discovery Hints Why Brain Studies in Mice Don't Always Translate to Humans
- Ancient Babylonian 'Omen' Has Helped Scientists Verify Timing of an Epic Solar Storm
- Here's Why Plants Aren't Just Growing Faster With All The CO2 in The Atmosphere
- Half a Billion Years Ago, Trilobites Died in Strange, Orderly Lines. Now We May Know Why
- Japan Imports Ebola And Other Deadly Pathogens in The Lead-Up to Tokyo Olympics
- Here's The Truth Behind 'The Blob' – Paris Zoo's Latest Display That's Gone Viral
- Hubble Reveals a Striking New View of Mysterious Interstellar Comet Borisov
- Elon Musk Says There's a Potentially Major Flaw in SpaceX's Moon Base Plans
- Peas, Quinoa And 7 Other Crops Grown Successfully in Soil Equivalent to Moon And Mars
- Piranhas Have a New Set of Pointy Sharp Teeth Waiting in 'Crypts' Ready to Emerge
- Ancient 'Lost City' of Khmer Empire Rediscovered Hidden Under The Cambodian Jungle
- Study Casts Doubt on One of Our Key Assumptions About The 'Powerhouse of The Cell'
- World's Fastest Ant Has Just Been Clocked at a Breathtaking 855 Millimetres Per Second
- Scientists Might Have Finally Found The Origin of This Surreal Jagged Crystal Cave
- Surprise Discovery Could Explain How Early Universe Black Holes Grew So Enormous
- Researchers Admit They Were Wrong to Predict Early Death of The Famed CRISPR Babies
- NASA Just Unveiled Its Brand New Spacesuits For The Artemis Missions
- NASA's 'Mole' Is Digging Below The Surface of Mars Again Thanks to an Ingenious Hack
- Psychologists Spot a Key Personality Trait That Could Be Shared by All Humble People
- For The First Time in 137 Years, UK Got More Power From Renewables Than Fossil Fuels
- Underwater Volcano Could Release Noxious Gas Bubbles Bigger Than The Pyramids
- NASA Engineer Claims 'Helical Engine' Concept Could Reach 99% The Speed of Light
- AI Could Be a Powerful Force For Good – But We're Currently Heading Down a Darker Path
- Incredible, Rare Underwater Footage Shows Whales Using Bubble 'Nets' to Hunt
- A Man Had 3-Inch-Long Tweezers Stuck Inside His Penis For 4 Whole Years
- For The First Time, Scientists Have Observed Mucus's Secret Ability to Subdue Germs
- Former NASA Scientist Is 'Convinced' We've Already Found Evidence of Life on Mars
- Why Typhoon Hagibis Packed Such a Powerful, Devastating Punch in Japan
- Another Reason Why We Might Have Never Seen Alien Probes: They're Tiny Micro-Machines
- Scientists Create a Material That Captures CO2 And Turns It Into Organic Matter
- Study Spanning 40 Years Finds Odd Link Between Being a Slow Walker And Ageing Faster
- The First Peer-Reviewed Paper on Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Has Just Been Published
- Upside-Down 'Rivers' Are Melting Antarctic Ice Shelves From Beneath
- Astronomers Observe in Incredible Detail a Black Hole Flickering in Our Own Galaxy
- Orangutans Can Play The Kazoo, And It's Changing Our Knowledge of How Speech Evolved
- We Just Found Out That The Milky Way Has Been Repeatedly Stealing Smaller Galaxies
- There's a Genius, Sustainable Economic System We Could All Be Using. Here's How
- Here's How Eating 5-Day-Old Pasta or Rice Can Actually Kill You
- Babies Who Are Cuddled More Seem to Have Their Genetics Altered For Years Afterwards
- Former NASA Scientist Demonstrates Why Star Trek's Warp Speeds Are Painfully Slow
- Someone's Built an Operating System to Run After The World Ends
- Scientists Have Identified The Physical Source of Anxiety in The Brains of Mice
- The US Just Hit Another Troubling High in STD Rates, And You Need to Protect Yourself
- MIT Engineers Show Da Vinci's 500-Year-Old Radical Bridge Design Would Have Worked
- Astronomers Just Detected 20 New Moons Around Saturn – Why Are We Only Finding Them Now?
- Here Are 5 Important Questions to Help You Tell if Health News Can Be Trusted
- Research Has Ignored Endometriosis For Decades, And It's Now Costing All of Us
- Would You Stand Up to an Authoritarian Regime or Conform? Here's The Science
- This Mesmerising Underwater Blob Is Actually a Huge, Rare Mass of Squid Eggs
- Scientists Can Now Predict The Weird Behaviour of Oobleck
- There's a Depressing Difference Between The Sewage of Wealthy Areas And Poorer Ones
- Astrophysicist Who Just Won The Nobel Prize Says We'll Never Colonise Exoplanets
- These Fish Can Live on Land And Breathe Air, But Authorities Are Not Impressed
- Intriguing Study Suggests Humans Have Hidden 'Salamander-Like' Ability to Regrow Tissue
- Here's What Would Happen if All The Ice on Earth Melted Overnight
- Scientists Have Successfully Kept Mouse Brain Tissue Alive in The Lab For Weeks
- Police Robot on Patrol Completely Ignores Woman Trying to Summon The Police
- Let's Face It: Going Green Is Simply No Match For Cutting Back on All The Junk We Buy
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Extract Oxygen From Moon Dirt
- Voyager Mission Reveals Unexpected Pressure at The Edge of The Solar System
- 'Extreme' Fire Threat in California Forces Power Cut For Over 2 Million People
- Dead Bulls Found Mysteriously Drained of Blood in Oregon, And It's Not The First Time
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded For Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries
- This Quirky Jogging Hack Could Help You Instantly Run Longer And Faster
- We Finally Have Solid Insight Into What Produces The Strongest Magnets in The Universe
- Here's The Real Reason Why Some People Still Think Climate Change Isn't Happening
- Pigs Have Been Observed Using Tools For The First Time, And There's Video Evidence
- Owning a Dog Lowers Your Risk of Death if You've Had Heart Problems, Study Shows
- A Diamond With A Whole Other Diamond Inside It Was Discovered in Siberia
- Nobel Prize in Physics Won by Scientists Who Changed Our Concept of The Cosmos
- Meat Has Been Grown in Space For The First Time, Hundreds of Miles Above Earth
- Surprise Result in Experiment With Mice Reverses Core Symptom of Schizophrenia
- A New Antibiotic Has Been Discovered in The Soil of a Mexican Rainforest
- First-of-Its-Kind Quantum Vibration Produced by Shooting a Laser at a Diamond
- You Can Now Visit Chernobyl's Control Room, But Only For 5 Minutes
- Devastating Solar Storms Could Be Much More Frequent Than We Realised
- The Woolly Mammoth Made Its Last Stand Marooned On An Isolated Arctic Island
- Six Elephants Drown After Plunging Into Waterfall in Tragic Accident
- Stunning Images Reveal The Complex Birth of Binary Stars For The First Time
- Neuroscientists See Unique Brain Changes in Blind People Who Learn to 'See' With Sound
- Scientists Just Discovered 20 Previously Unknown Moons Orbiting Saturn
- Nobel Prize in Medicine Won For Profound Discovery of How Cells Sense Oxygen
- ISS Astronauts Are Spacewalking to Replace Batteries, And It's About to Make History
- This Man Ended Up With First-Degree Burns From A High-Vis Safety Vest
- Are Earth, The Solar System, And The Milky Way Gaining or Losing Mass?
- It Takes 21 Litres of Water to Make a Chocolate Bar. Here's How Other Foods Stack Up
- Scientists Have Found a Culprit Spreading Antibiotic Resistance to Other Microbes
- China's Pork Shortages Prompt Farmers to Breed Pigs as Large as Polar Bears
- We Just Got More Solid Evidence Mars' Gale Crater Once Held a Vast Salty Lake
- After 30 Years, The US's Twin Boom Might Finally Be Ending
- Scientists Implant False Memories in Birds to Teach Them Songs They've Never Heard
- We Just Got New Information on The First-Ever Plant Sprouted by China on The Moon
- Juno Just Burned Its Thrusters For an Intense 10 Hours to Outrun Jupiter's Shadow
- We Just Got More Evidence a Large Meteorite Smashed Into Earth 12,800 Years Ago
- Here's Why Scientists Are Working So Hard to Keep Warming Below 2 Degrees Celsius
- In a Quantum First, Physicists Put 2,000 Atoms in Two Places at Once
- Something in The Centre of Our Galaxy Colossally Erupted 3.5 Million Years Ago
- Astronomers Have a Bold Plan to Film The Black Hole at The Centre of Our Galaxy
- 'Fireballs' Reportedly Sparked Blazes Across Chile Last Week, But It Wasn't Meteorites
- The Golden Ratio Has Been Found in The Human Skull, But What Does It Mean?
- A Fossil of a Ginormous Flying Reptile Has Just Been Discovered in Australia
- We Just Learned Plants Under Attack Evolve a Universal 'Scream' to Warn Others
- That Interstellar Comet's Home System May Be Strangely Similar to Our Own
- We Just Got The First Glimpse of The Mysterious Cosmic Web That Binds The Universe
- Scientists Are About to 'Unravel' Ancient Papyrus Scrolls Charred by Vesuvius
- One of The Most Deadly Fungus Species in Asia Just Mysteriously Emerged in Australia
- This One Simple Change to Cafeteria Menus Could Make a Massive Difference to The Planet
- Astronomers Have Traced a Single Neutrino to a Collision 3.8 Billion Light-Years Away
- That Great Pacific Garbage Patch Cleaning Device Is Finally Working Properly
- An Ancestral Genome of The Plague Has Been Traced Back to Russia
- Nearly 100 Mysterious Amphorae Have Been Recovered From an Ancient Roman Shipwreck
- Earth's Magnetic Poles Could Flip More Frequently Than We Previously Thought
- NASA Just Revealed an Ocean on Enceladus Contains The Building Blocks of Life
- Engineer Creates a Sprayable Gel That Acts Like a 'Vaccine' For Wildfires
- NASA's InSight Mars Lander Has Sent Back Some Truly Bizarre Sounds
- When It Comes to Parenting There's One Thing That Can Save a Whole Bunch of CO2
- We Just Made a Breakthrough on a Genius Concept For Eco-Friendly Batteries
- Tardigrades Can Survive X-Ray Bombardment by Deploying a Protein Shield
- We Just Got More Evidence That Great Apes Possess 'Theory of Mind'
- The Andromeda Has Eaten at Least Two Other Galaxies in Its Cannibalistic Past
- If an Extreme Global Pandemic Hits, These Are The Safest Places You Can Be
- Ancient Reptilian 'Hand' Muscles Have Been Found in Human Embryos
- Here's The Real Truth About That Confusing Red Meat Study
- Medical Case Reveals Direct Link Between Brexit And a Man's Psychotic Incident
- Humans Produce 100x More CO2 Than All Earth's Volcanoes Combined
- A Giant Iceberg Just Broke Off Antarctica in an Unexpected Location
- One of World's Most Popular Games Just Got Hacked, With 218 Million Accounts at Risk
- Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Reversed Even Without Intensive Weight Loss, Study Shows
- People Are Trying to Get Themselves Run Over by Their Own Teslas
- Astronomers Detect a 'Hot Jupiter' With a Staggering 18-Hour-Short Orbit
- Alien 'Lurkers' Could Be Covertly Watching Us From Space, Physicist Says
- An Eerie Egyptian Burial Has Been Found, With Nonsense Hieroglyphs on The Coffin
- Controversial Paper Suggests We Could Just 'Infect' Mars With Life
- First Direct Evidence Shows Bacteria Change Shape Inside Humans to Avoid Antibiotics