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- This Incredibly Rare Salamander Species Was Just Found For The First Time in 42 Years
- The FDA Warns That Black Licorice Can Cause Heart Problems in Adults
- This Infographic Shows What Eating Too Much Sugar Does to Your Body And Brain
- Earth's Sloshing Molten Core Could Give Us Earthquake Warnings 5 Years Ahead
- Working Out in a Group Could Be Better For You Than Exercising Alone
- Here's What Makes Female Psychopaths a Whole Different Kind of Dangerous
- Here's What Science Says You Should Do if You Can't Fall Asleep
- New AI Could Help Us Avert Tragedy by Identifying People With Suicidal Thoughts
- Scientists Have Mathematical Proof That It's Impossible to Stop Ageing
- 13 of This Year's Creepiest Science Stories For Your Halloween Enjoyment
- Why Climate Scientists Are Obsessed With Two Mysterious Boulders in The Bahamas
- 'Twisted Light' Could Create Ultra-Fast Wireless And Make Fibre Optics Obsolete
- Alzheimer's Could Actually Start Elsewhere in The Body And Not The Brain, Says Study
- Carbon Dioxide Levels Are The Highest They've Been in 3 Million Years
- A Biblical "Miracle" Could Be One of the First Documented Solar Eclipses
- Cave Art Has Been Discovered on an Isolated, Empty Caribbean Island
- Why We Love to Be Scared, According to Science
- This AI Has Learned to Generate Completely Photorealistic Human Faces
- A Protein Has Been Caught Conducting Electricity, And Scientists Are Really Excited
- 5 Popular Claims About Coconut Oil Broken Down by Science
- Scientists Are Literally Digging Through Bat Poop to Reconstruct Historic Climate Records
- This New Kind of AI Can Breach Anti-Bot Security by Thinking Like a Human
- You Must See What Those Recent Insane Solar Flares Looked Like From Space
- These Spooky Space Sounds Compiled by NASA Will Make Your Skin Crawl
- We Now Have an Explanation For That Mysterious Orb of Light Floating Above Siberia
- A Team of Octopuses Has Been Caught Crawling Out of The Sea in Wales
- The Nibiru "Apocalypse" Apparently Coming in 2017 Was Just Pushed Back… Again
- Something Is Making Jupiter's Gravitational Field 'Askew'
- Scientists Have Discovered a Material That Could Store Quantum Information
- 7 Things That Predict Divorce, According to Science
- Apparently Weed Smokers Have More Sex Than The Rest of The Population
- We Might Finally Know What Triggered Yellowstone's Massive Crater
- Weird Growths Appear Before Batteries Explode, And Scientists Finally Got a Close-Up Look
- 3 in 4 Reptile Pets Die in The First Year So Maybe Humans Don't Deserve Them
- Scientists Just Discovered That Bacteria Have a Sense of Touch
- There Are Three Kinds of Consciousness, And Computers Have Mastered One, Says Study
- Scientists Just Found a Serious Flaw in Ocean Temperature Calculations
- Breakthrough Treatment Lets Man With Spinal Cord Injury Stand And Move Legs
- There's a Simple Way to Convince People Mental Illness Is a Real Disease
- Saudi Arabia's Newest Citizen Is a Robot And She Just Had a Go at Elon Musk
- This Feathered Dinosaur Had an Amazing Raccoon-Like Bandit Mask
- Researchers Now Know in Uncomfortable Detail Exactly What Chewing Does to Our Teeth
- Astronomers Are Watching an Interstellar Object That's Appeared in Our Solar System
- A Strange New DNA Edit Has Been Discovered in Animals Under Stress
- Here's Why Planets With Loads of Water Don't Stay Wet For Long
- This Incredible 150-Million-Year-Old Jurassic 'Sea Monster' Was Just Unearthed in India
- 10 'Bad' Habits That Are Actually Signs You're Smarter Than You Think
- Yes, That Is a Giant Centipede Eating a Whole Snake Because Why Not
- Study Says That Psychopaths With Their Lack of Empathy Can Actually Be Useful For Society
- Quantum Weirdness of Light Was Just Confirmed by Shooting Photons Into Space
- Gene Editing Just Became More Precise And Powerful Than Ever Before
- Your Weird Tastebuds Are to Blame For Your Huge Love of Carbs, Says New Study
- This Rare 6,000-Year-Old Skull Could Be The Earliest Known Tsunami Victim
- Yes! We Are Officially Sending a Habitat to Orbit The Moon
- Einstein's Theory of Happiness Just Sold For US$1 Million at Auction
- New Evidence Suggests Ovarian Cancer Might Not Start in The Ovaries
- There's a Single Molecule in Blood That Makes Predators Go Crazy For It
- This Poor Bear's Tongue Got So Big, Vets Had to Surgically Remove It
- Constantly Texting Your Friends About Problems Could Be Increasing Your Anxiety
- This Study Has Good News For People Who Spend All Their Time Daydreaming
- New Algorithm Could Let Us Reprogram Any Cell Into Any Other Cell Type
- Being Pretty Is a Problem When You're Applying For Low-Level Jobs
- This New 'Uplifting' Mirror Forces Cancer Patients to Smile at It
- Tesla Is Successfully Restoring Power to Hospitals in Puerto Rico
- Conjoined Twins Have Survived One of The World's Rarest Surgeries
- Scientists Have Concluded That The Universe Shouldn't Really Exist
- Dolphins Just Became The First Wild Animals to Show Traces of Alzheimer's Disease
- Transparent Solar Cells Like This Could Deliver 40% of America's Power
- An Unprecedented Study Has Revealed 72 New Breast Cancer Gene Variants
- Psychedelic Drugs Appear to Make People Less Likely to Commit Crimes
- Scientists Have Trained a Quantum Machine to Find The Higgs Boson
- New Study Could Explain The Elusive Reason Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold
- China Has Shut Down Up to 40% of Its Factories in an Unprecedented Stand Against Pollution
- There's a Totally New Type of Diabetes And It's Being Misdiagnosed as Type 2
- A Rare Condition Is Causing a Woman to Uncontrollably Sweat Blood
- Record-Breaking Johnson & Johnson Cancer Verdicts Have Just Been Tossed
- Marine Ecosystems Can Survive The Worst Mass Extinction Events, Study Shows
- Conspiracy Theorists Really Do See The World Differently, New Study Shows
- We Really Are Born With a Natural Fear of Spiders And Snakes, New Study Shows
- Here's The Reason Your Old Devices Feel So Slow And Make You Want to Upgrade
- One of The Biggest Evolution Experiments Ever Has Followed 68,000 Generations of Bacteria
- Evidence Is Mounting That The Drug Ketamine Can Actually Treat Chronic Migraines
- Thanks to This Former Researcher, More Scientists Are Running For Office
- Here's What You Need to Know About That Fossil Teeth Discovery Said to 'Rewrite History'
- Raccoons Have Passed an Ancient Intelligence Test by Knocking It Over
- Turns Out There Are Probably Fewer Deadly Asteroids Than We Originally Thought
- This Bird Could Actually Be Evolving to Eat From Bird Feeders
- A Study Made Conservatives Turn Liberal With a Thought Experiment – For a Little While
- A Woman Has Suffered a Clinical Broken Heart After The Death of Her Dog
- Looking For Signs Of Extraterrestrial Life Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
- These Are The Countries on Earth With The Most Junk in Space
- 6 of The Biggest Misconceptions About Happiness, According to Science
- One in Six Deaths Each Year Is Thanks to Pollution
- NASA Just Discovered a Huge, Twisted Magnetic Tail Hidden Behind Mars
- Scientists Are Mapping an Atlas of The Underworld Hidden Far Beneath Our Feet
- A 17-Year-Old Astronomer Recorded an Astonishing Rare Solar Flare Back in 1886
- ScienceAlert Deal: We've Just Released These Cool New Science T-Shirts!
- Too Much Refined Sugar Can Increase The Risk of Opioid Addiction
- Have Scientists Pinpointed 'Jealousy' in The Primate Brain? Not So Fast
- Here's The Reason Why There Is So Little Scientific Research on Guns in The US
- It Can Take Just One Mutation For Some Cells to Turn Cancerous, New Study Finds
- We're One Step Closer to Understanding The Inner Workings of Bacteria's Complicated Proteins
- Signs of Ritual Violence Discovered on Ancient Skeletons From a Peruvian Civilisation
- Here's Why This County With 15,000 People Is The Unhealthiest Place in America
- Dogs Really Do Pull Faces to Communicate With Us, Says New Study
- If You Want to Have Lucid Dreams, Here's a Tip From a Recent Study
- Scientists Have Made a Two-Dimensional Material That's Never Been Seen in Nature
- A Cutting-Edge Immunotherapy Treatment Was Just Approved For Another Deadly Cancer
- Our Skin Can 'Remember' Inflammation, And It Could Help Us Understand Psoriasis
- Speaking a Foreign Language Really Does Get Easier After You Have a Drink
- An 11-Year-Old Just Became 'America's Top Young Scientist' With This Clever Invention
- The Perfect Location For a Future Moon Base Has Finally Been Confirmed
- Lego Is Finally Releasing a 'Women of NASA' Set And The Details Are Amazing
- Google's Latest Self-Learning AI Is Like an "Alien Civilisation Inventing Its Own Mathematics"
- Nearly 400 Ancient Monuments Have Been Found in Saudi Arabia Lava Fields
- Flying Insects Are Disappearing at Huge Rates, And We Should All Be Worried
- This Calculator Can Guess How Many Healthy Years You Have Left
- An Island Has Been Spewing Mud For 11 Years Straight, And We Finally See Why
- Schizophrenia Fries More of The Brain's Wiring Than We Thought, Study Shows
- A Faked Study Linking Vaccines And Autism Is Being Eviscerated by Scientists
- Take a Break And Travel Through Our Beautiful Solar System With New Google Maps
- A Small Australian Town Is Getting Burritos And Aspirin Delivered With Drones
- This Old Photo of a Snake Swallowed by a Frog Is Giving Us Nightmares
- World's Most Intense Laser Is About to Get a Totally Insane Upgrade
- It Seems More Likely Than Ever That Mars Once Had Both Liquid Water And Surface Ice
- Researchers Have Finally Discovered Genes That Are Linked to OCD
- Here's What That Huge Gravitational Wave Discovery Really Means For Future Astronomy
- A Giant Volcano Eruption Could Have Sparked The Collapse of Ancient Egypt
- Blood Transfusions From Some Women Can Be More Dangerous For Men, Says Study
- Whale And Dolphin Social Lives Are Surprisingly Similar to Ours, Says New Study
- Lake Waves Are Constantly Shaking The Earth, But We Don't Really Know Why
- The Weather on Saturn's Moon Titan Is Even More Extreme And Earth-Like Than We Thought
- Google's Machine Learning Software Has Learned to Replicate Itself
- Alligators Have Been Caught Feasting on Sharks in a Bizarre Predator Cross Over
- Does Breast-Feeding Actually Decrease Cancer Risk? Here's What Science Says
- There's a Big Problem Skewing Neuroscience – We're Not All White And Middle Class
- Right Now You Can Grab 50% Off All Our ScienceAlert Academy Course Bundles
- Here's The Horrifying Reason Why Scientists See So Few Baby Chimps Born in The Wild
- Here's Everything You Need to Know About Today's Massive Wi-Fi Hacking Attack
- Why Is Space 3D? Physicists Might Finally Have a Plausible Explanation
- China's First Space Station Will Come Crashing Down to Earth Within Months
- It's Time: The Netherlands Is Planning to End All Its Coal Power by 2030
- Here's Why The Sky Has Turned Red Over Britain Today
- This Record-Breaking Device Just Made Solar Thermal Power Vastly More Powerful
- Live Blog: The Huge Gravitational Wave Discovery We've Been Waiting For Is Here
- Over 30,000 Published Studies Could Be Wrong Due to Contaminated Cells
- Dubai Police Will Soon Be Buzzing Around on These Epic Hoverbikes
- A Century-Old Discovery of a Virus Could Become Our Solution to Antibiotic Resistance
- IT'S OFFICIAL: Gravitational Waves Have Given Us Colliding Neutron Stars!
- Here's What Happens When Astronauts Use a Fidget Spinner in Space
- Gene Variants That Affect Skin Colour Suggest The Concept of Race Is Deeply Flawed
- A Nine-Year Collaboration Has Just Shown How Sugar Influences Cancer Cell Growth
- UPDATED: There's a Massive Gravitational Wave Announcement on The Way
- NASA's New Ion Thruster Engine Is Breaking Some Important Records
- Hydrogen-Fuel Trucks Are Hitting The Roads in Los Angeles This Month
- Why Does Your Nose Run When It's Cold?
- One of The Most Deadly Venoms Could Help Scientists Treat Cancer
- First Gene Therapy For an Inherited Disease Could Soon Be Approved by The FDA
- Here's Why You Should Never Let a Drunk Friend Just 'Sleep It Off'
- The California Fires Have Created The 'Worst Air Quality Ever Recorded' in The Area
- Oxford Is Creating a World First Zero Emission Zone by 2035
- 7 Surprising Organs You Can Totally Live Without
- Here's What Can Happen to Your Brain And Body When You Shoot a Gun
- Your Placenta Is Not a Superfood, Please Stop Eating It
- ScienceAlert Deal: Check Out This Comprehensive IT Career Kickstarter Bundle
- We Just Got a New Spin Test For Detecting Particles That Are Their Own Antiparticles
- NASA Is Putting 12 Volunteers in Downwards Angled Beds For a Whole Month
- There's a Brain Quirk That Could Explain Why Some People Think They Are Psychic
- The Word 'Allah' Has Been Discovered Woven Into Viking Burial Clothes
- Here's The True Story Behind The Collapse of The Mysterious Easter Island Culture
- Here's The Sound US Diplomats Heard Before Suffering Mysterious Brain Injuries in Cuba
- This Commonly Used Fertility Test Is Completely Unreliable, Says New Research
- An Astronaut Explains How It'd Feel to Ride Elon Musk's Giant, Super-Fast 'Airplane'
- Yellowstone's Supervolcano Could Give Less Warning of an Eruption Than We Thought
- This Amazing New Material Changes Shape Just Like an Octopus
- BREAKING: Astronomers Just Set a New Record For Measuring Distances Across Our Galaxy
- Millions of Dollars Worth of Gold And Silver Is Ending Up in Sewers in Switzerland
- A Girl Screamed So Hard at a One Direction Concert That Her Lungs Collapsed
- Anthrax Outbreak Suspected to Have Killed More Than 100 Hippos in Namibia
- Researchers Just Shattered The Record For The Shortest-Ever Pulse of Light
- Are Blood Sniffing Police Dogs as Good as We Think?
- Worrying New Research Finds That The Ocean Is Cutting Through a Key Antarctic Ice Shelf
- Here's What Americans Are Most Scared of in 2017 And No, It's Not Spiders
- Astronomers Just Found an Epic Ring Around an Exotic Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System
- No, This Company Isn't Really Scattering Your Loved One's Ashes in Space
- Turns Out The Great Barrier Reef Can Actually Heal Itself, But We Have to Help It
- World's Newest Ridiculously Big Radio Telescope Has Made Its First Discovery
- There's a New Quantum Material That Mimics Human Brains in an Unexpected Way
- You Must See This Epic Photobomb Captured as The ISS Was Transiting The Sun
- This Is How Online Dating Has Changed The Very Fabric of Society
- Study Using Inflated Penises Reveals The Bizarre Mechanics of Dolphin Sex
- This House Had 30,000 Aggressive Bees Living Inside Its Walls
- Incredible Images From Space Show The True Devastation of California's Wildfires
- Hacking Brain Waves Can Give You an Instant Cognitive Boost, Says Study
- One of The Sun's Most Perplexing Mysteries May Finally Be Solved
- NASA Is Running Out of The Most Precious Ingredient Needed For Future Space Missions
- Get Unlimited Access to 100+ Courses With This Linux Academy 1-Year Subscription
- Are Women Less Selfish? Here's What That Study Actually Found
- A 17-Year-Old Teen Just Achieved a Scientific First With This Weird Electric Phenomenon
- EPA Says "The War on Coal Is Over" in Major Reversal of Obama's Clean Power Plan
- Astronomers Have Finally Found Most of The Universe's Missing Visible Matter
- Scientists Are Testing Psychedelic Drugs on Human Minibrains, With Surprising Results
- Massive 'Life-Saving' Helium Field Just Turned Out to Be Far Bigger Than We'd Hoped
- There's Enough Wind Energy Across Oceans to Power The Entire Human Civilisation
- This Ancient Martian Lake Offers More Clues For How Life First Started on Earth
- BREAKING: Physicists Just Smashed a Quantum Light Measurement Limit
- More Than a Million Birds Die Every Day in Australia, Because Cats
- Study Reviews 1,154 Climate Science Results, Finds No Evidence of Publication Bias
- Quantum Observation Can Make Energy Flow Against The Current, New Study Shows
- Look Up! Here's Your Unique Chance to See a Newly Discovered Comet
- The Closest Star System to Earth Could Be Concealing a Dark, Long-Kept Secret
- Google Is Delivering Emergency Cell Service to Puerto Rico Using Giant Balloons
- Elusive 'Tree Lobster' Insect Was Just Officially Brought Back From The Dead
- Here's a List of The Most Hopeful Alzheimer's Treatments Currently in The Works
- Scientists Just Discovered Our Moon Once Had an Atmosphere
- Vintage Photos Reveal What America Looked Like Before Pollution Was Regulated
- Weather Scientists Were Stumped by a City-Sized Blob of Butterflies Over Colorado This Week
- Don't Miss The Draconid Meteor Shower Peaking This Weekend
- Elon Musk And Rick And Morty Tweeting About The Singularity Is The Best Thing We've Seen All Week
- We Finally Know The Weird Way Electrons Behave During Fusion-Like Conditions
- Carbon Released by Warming Soils Could Trigger a Disastrous Feedback Loop
- Scientists Are Proposing to Protect Earth From Solar Flares With a Gigantic Shield
- Is It Possible We're All Living in a Computer Simulation And Don't Know It?
- New 3D Quantum Gas Atomic Clock Keeps The Most Precise Time Ever
- A Huge Change Is About to Happen Over How We Label Antibiotic Use in Meat
- Schizophrenia Is 80% Genetic, According to This Massive New Study on Twins
- Learn The Ins And Outs of Ethical Hacking With This Online Course Bundle
- The US Just Officially Said It Is Sending Humans Back to The Moon
- Awesome New Method Can Pull Hydrogen Fuel From Seawater Using Only Sunshine
- Strange Quantum Particles Could Be Our Next Weapon Against Superbugs
- Santa Claus Lies in an Ancient Undisturbed Grave in Turkey, Claim Archaeologists
- New Neanderthal Gene Analysis Shows We Have More of Their DNA Than Expected
- Ancient Space Rocks Could Be Key to The Mystery of Insanely Huge Volcanoes on Mars
- Thousands of People Were Misled by a Supplement Claiming to Treat Drug Addiction
- Most Japanese People Are Born With a Crucial Difference in Their Kidneys
- Here's Why Some People Absolutely Love Animals And Others Don't Care
- 15+ Bizarre And Beautiful Microscope Photos You Absolutely Must See
- That 'Alien Megastructure' Star Has Turned Out to Be Even Weirder Than We Knew
- That Giant Antarctic Iceberg Just Revealed an Ecosystem Hidden For Thousands of Years
- Severe Liver Damage Case Study Shows The Dangers of Naturopathy
- There Could Be a Spectacular Cache of Statues in The Antikythera Shipwreck
- Researchers May Have Discovered a Way to Reverse Untreatable Blindness
- Giant Pythons Keep Attacking People in Indonesia For a Really Worrying Reason
- Scientists Have Developed Surgical Glue That Seals Wounds in 60 Seconds
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded For Work That Achieved Crazy High-Res in Microscopy
- A Rare Element From The Edge of The Periodic Table Is Breaking Quantum Mechanics
- Here's The Real Reason Why Some People Become Addicted to Drugs
- This Boy Who Inhaled a Whistle Is Probably Having a Worse Day Than You
- Scientists Have Finally Discovered Proof That Our Brains Have a Waste Drainage System
- It's Official: Anti-Vaxxers Most Likely to Blame For Rise in Measles
- Inquiry Reveals Patients Received Experimental Implants Never Approved For Humans
- Mysterious Dark Energy Is More Dynamic Than We Thought, Says New Study
- A Strict Diet of Potato, Meat And Cereal Made a Boy Go Blind
- The World's First Fully Autonomous Train Is Officially in Operation
- We're More Confident Than Ever That Life on Earth Really Did Come From Meteorites
- Nobel Prize in Physics Was Just Awarded to 3 of The Gravitational Wave Discovery Team
- Fire Ant Venom Could Be a Surprising New Treatment For Psoriasis
- John Oliver Just Nailed The Huge Issue With Forensic Science
- ScienceAlert Deal: Learn A New Language For Under $20
- Just One Hour of Exercise a Week Can Be Enough to Prevent Depression
- Scientists Have Discovered a Way to Generate Electricity From Tears And Saliva
- Researchers Have Discovered a Previously Unknown Role For The Brain's Hippocampus
- Hundreds of Polar Bears Spotted Feasting on a Dead Whale Carcass
- This Ancient Primate May Be Responsible For Genital Herpes in Humans
- The Largest Dataset We Have Shows Gun Control Actually Works
- 15-Year-Old Tattoo Caused a Cancer-Like Reaction in a Woman's Lymph Nodes
- Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to 3 Americans Who Explained Our Circadian Rhythms
- Massive Solar Storm Just Blasted Mars, Causing a Spectacular Global Aurora