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- High-Speed Space Junk Risk Forces NASA Astronauts to Abandon Spacewalk
- This 3D-Printer Uses Ink Made From Microbes to Print Blobs That Are Alive
- Scientists Identify Brain Switch That Controls A Vital Survival Instinct in Organisms
- Scientists Discovered a Way to Read The Minds of Jellyfish, And It's Phenomenal
- Major Discovery Challenges Decades of Advice to Avoid All Saturated Fats
- Earth's Ancient Mountains Rose Up With Help From The Ocean's Tiniest Organisms
- Oldest Remains of Mysterious, Extinct Human Ancestors Unearthed in Siberian Cave
- Experimental Chewing Gum That Traps Virus Particles Could Help Fight COVID-19
- We Could Save Up to 12 Million Lives by Retiring This Technology Right Now
- Bizarre Creatures Are World's First Self-Replicating 'Living Robots', Scientists Say
- The Sun Could Be The Mystery Source of Earth's Unexplained Water, Scientists Say
- Physicists Detect Elusive 'Ghost Particles' in The LHC For The Very First Time
- Why Some People Find It Harder to Be Happy, According to Science
- Mysterious Vanishing of Advanced Chinese Civilization 4,000 Years Ago Finally Solved
- Jaw-Dropping Simulation Shows Stars Shredded as They Get Too Close to a Black Hole
- Better Language For Endometriosis Pain Could Lead to Faster Diagnosis. Here's How
- Several Manufacturers Are Already Testing Their COVID-19 Vaccines Against Omicron
- Kids Start Appreciating Humor And Cracking Jokes Surprisingly Early, Survey Reveals
- Plants Used by The First Australians Seem to Stop Cancer Cells Rejecting Treatment
- Humans Have Evolved to Stay Active Even in Old Age, New Hypothesis Claims
- Sea Lions' Whiskers Help Them Touch The World Around Them, Just Like Our Fingertips
- New 'Super Jelly' Is 80 Percent Water And Can Survive Being Run Over by a Car
- What We Know So Far About Omicron, The Latest COVID 'Variant of Concern'
- Declining Eyesight Could Be Given a Boost by Short Morning Doses of Seeing Red
- Molecule Derived From Poisonous Plant Blocks All SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Cell Cultures
- Weird Tracks in Texas Indicate Giant Sauropods Walking on Their Front Feet Only
- What Secrets Can The World's 1st Magma Observatory Discover 1 Mile Inside a Volcano?
- Scientists Did an Actual Study on Hugs, And It's Making Us Feel Warm Inside
- How Science And Your Taste in Music Can Guide You to The Right Headphones
- The Hottest White Dwarf We Know of Is Up to Something Ghoulish With Its Neighbor
- Shock AI Discovery Suggests We've Not Even Discovered Half of What's Inside Our Cells
- We All Nearly Missed The Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Detected
- Korea's Cutting-Edge Fusion Reactor Just Broke Its Own Record For Containing Plasma
- Over 350 Exoplanets Have Been Found, Bringing Us Close to an Incredible Milestone
- A 100,000-Year-Old Mammoth Tusk Has Been Discovered Off The Coast of California
- Australian Zoo Adopts a 'Megaspider' So Big Its Fangs Can Pierce Human Fingernails
- 'Vulture Bees' Have Developed a Taste For Rotting Flesh – And Scientists Are Stumped
- Scientists Are Closely Watching New COVID Variant With a 'Very High' Number of Mutations
- The UK Will Finally Officially Recognize Octopuses And Crabs as Sentient Beings
- Inexplicable Phenomena Spur Pentagon to Launch New UFO Investigation Force
- The Milky Way May Have Just Lost a Whole Bunch of Satellite Galaxies
- An Alzheimer's Nasal Spray Vaccine Is About to Enter Human Trials For The First Time
- NASA Just Launched A Mission to Intercept An Asteroid The Size of A Football Stadium
- We Finally Know How Animals Can Survive Eating Butterflies Full of Poisonous Toxins
- Mars Breakthrough Peers Under The Red Planet's Surface in Scientific First
- This Ancient Human Relative 'Walked Like a Human, But Climbed Like an Ape'
- Record-Breaking Exoplanet With Insanely Extreme Orbit Is Totally Doomed
- Did Humans Invent Mathematics, or Is It a Fundamental Part of Existence?
- This Picture of Mars Taken By The Curiosity Rover Is So Beautiful We Could Cry
- The World's Largest Organism Is Slowly Being Eaten, Scientist Says
- Einstein's Handwritten Theory of Relativity Notes Smash Auction Record
- Old Beliefs About Rampant Infant Deaths in Prehistoric Times Don't Add Up
- NASA's Powerful New Telescope Could Transform How We Search For Life on Exoplanets
- Wild 'Propeller' Star Smashes The Record For Fastest-Spinning White Dwarf
- The Magellanic Stream May Be 5 Times Closer to Us Than We Ever Realized
- Magnetic Anomaly in New Mexico Reveals An Invisible Signature of Meteorite Impacts
- Do Babies Cry in The Womb? Ultrasounds Show Something Strange Going On
- Scientists Reveal Crazy Plan to Terraform Mars With an Artificial Magnetic Field
- Spooky Quantum Effect That Turns Matter Invisible Finally Demonstrated
- We May Have Underestimated The First Known Outbreak of Bubonic Plague
- This New Hubble Pic Reveals a Dramatic Cosmic Phenomenon in All Its Gory Detail
- A New Kind of Cell Discovered in The Heart Seems to Be Critical For Your Heartbeat
- The 5:2 Diet Has One Key Advantage Over Traditional Diets, New Study Claims
- Man Keeps a Rock For Years, Hoping It's Gold. It Turned Out to Be Far More Valuable
- NASA Reveals Bold Plan to Put a Nuclear Reactor on The Moon Within 10 Years
- One Day, Seeing a Helicopter Fly on Mars May Be Commonplace. That Day Is Not Today
- Our Universe Is Finely Tuned For Life, And There's an Explanation For Why That Is So
- No, 'Overtraining' Is Not The Reason For Your Weight Loss Plateau. Here's Why
- NASA Is About to Launch a Probe That Will Smash Into an Asteroid, Nudging Its Orbit
- Here's Why Earthquakes' 'Four-Leaf Clover' Shockwaves Are Dangerous Instead of Lucky
- A Mass Extinction 250 Million Years Ago Seems to Have Had Multiple Causes
- Why We're Turning to Music to Help Treat Neurological Conditions
- The Sierra Nevada Might Have Two Geological Birthdays – One Old And One Young
- Ant Colonies Can Share a Single 'Social' Metabolism, All Thanks to The Way They Kiss
- Misremembering Something May Be Evidence That Your Memory Is Actually Working
- Warming Events Could Destabilize The Antarctic Ice Sheet Soon. Very Soon
- Ancient Pine Cone Trapped in Amber Shows a Super-Rare Form of Plant 'Parenting'
- Even Tiny, Very Hungry Caterpillars Have a Large Impact on Carbon Emissions
- Regardless of The Language You Speak, You'll Likely Call One of These Shapes 'Bouba'
- New Lie Detector Can Read Facial Muscles You Don't Even Know You're Using
- Newly Discovered Hydrothermal Vents Are an Underwater Wonderland of Shimmering Worms
- Alien Pathogens Could 'Hitchhike' to Earth – And We're Totally Unprepared, Experts Warn
- Researchers Think They've Finally Figured Out How Herpes Invades Our Nervous System
- Astronomers May Have Detected a Rare 'Missing Link' Black Hole in Our Closest Neighbor
- Hundreds of Millions of Birds Have Vanished Across Europe in The Last 40 Years
- Scientists Warn About 'False Fossils' Present on Mars
- A Rather Tiny, 'Very Rare' Toothless Dinosaur Was Just Discovered in Brazil
- Check Out This Eerie, Alien-Like Squid Captured Gliding in The Gulf of Mexico
- An Epic Lunar Eclipse Is Coming Tomorrow – The Longest of Its Kind in 580 Years
- The Most Common Pain Relief Drug in The World Induces Risky Behavior, Study Finds
- 'Landmark' Study Gives Unprecedented Glimpse at Mysterious Phase of The Human Embryo
- Famous Discovery of Four-Legged Snake Fossil Turns Out to Have a Twist in The Tale
- Toxic Signature of Poisoning in 5,000-Year-Old Bones Is Oldest Evidence of Its Kind
- Experimental mRNA Vaccine Not Yet Tested in Humans Protects Against Lyme Disease
- Antibody Breakthrough in Mice Could Lead to a Vaccine For Alzheimer's Disease
- New Electric Propulsion Engine For Spacecraft Test-Fired in Orbit For First Time
- Scientists Discover Unknown Plant Species Growing on Australia's Sacred Uluru
- An Experiment Using Human Stem Cells Ended Up Reversing Diabetes in Mice
- A Space Expert Explains Why Russia's Exploded Satellite Is Such A Huge Problem
- Otherwise Healthy Man Found to Have a Disturbing, Unexpected Visitor in His Brain
- Alien Worlds Hold Minerals Like Nothing in Our Solar System, Scientists Say
- Subatomic Particles Falling From The Sky Are Exposing The Inner Secrets of Volcanoes
- Gigantic Universe Simulation Spanning Billions of Light-Years Is The Largest Ever
- Wildfires Are Spurring Wandering Tree Species to Move Faster, Study Finds
- Black Holes Could Be Inadvertently Making Gold, Astrophysicists Say
- Wild New Theory Suggests Wormholes Could Be Stable Shortcuts Through Space-Time
- Amazing Video Reveals a New Kind of Leidenfrost Effect We've Never Seen Before
- Mysterious Object Glimpsed Decades Ago Might Have Actually Been Planet Nine
- Fossil Breakthrough Identifies What Could Be The Longest Dinosaur That Ever Lived
- Missile Emergency Provokes Fury After ISS Forced to Take Evasive Action
- In Extremely Rare Case, a Woman With HIV Has 'Cleared' The Virus Without Treatment
- Antidepressants Linked With Less Risk of Dying From COVID-19, Study Finds
- Human Faces Reflect a Wider World of Emotion Than We May Realize
- Scientists Used AI to Track Spiders Building Webs in The Dark in Unprecedented Detail
- Scientists Identify a Gene Variant That Doubles The Risk of Dying From COVID-19
- These Strange, Brittle 'Eggshell' Exoplanets Could Be Orbiting Alien Stars
- This Volcano Erupted For 5 Years Straight, And The Photos Are Out of This World
- A Chunk of Satellite Almost Hit The ISS, Requiring an 'Urgent Change of Orbit'
- Quick Summary: 5 Things You Need to Know About The New Glasgow Climate Pact
- We're Pretty Good at Decoding an Emoji, Even When It's Not a Perfect Match For a Word
- Dark Matter Birthed More of Itself From Regular Matter, Claims Wild New Paper
- Scientists Finally Understand What Some Mysterious 'Hotspots' on Brain Cells Do
- Could a Radiation Shield Made of Fungus Keep Astronauts Safe During Space Travel?
- There's an Evolutionary 'Arms Race' Between Genes And 'Selfish' Genetic Elements
- Composition of a Kid's Gut Microbiome Doesn't Cause Autism, Says New Study
- Isolation From Earth May Drive Changes in How Space Colonies Communicate With Home
- Is a Lush Beard a Signal of Having More Testosterone? Not So Fast, Says New Study
- Climate Change May Have Done 2 Odd And Contradictory Things to Birds in The Amazon
- A Surprising Number of Kids in The US Think Hot Dogs Are Actually This
- A Major Biodiversity Explosion in Earth's History Was Not Triggered by What We Thought
- There Are Five Different Phases in Your Day, Each With Music to Match
- US Lobsterman Pulls Up 1-in-a-100-Million Lobster The Color of Cotton Candy
- Ghosting in Casual Dating Is Linked With 'Dark Triad' Traits Such as Narcissism
- 24,000 Years of Temperature Data Show Just How Unprecedented Current Global Heating Is
- The Intense Pressurized Conditions of Earth's Outer Core Have Been Recreated in a Lab
- Humans Have Broken One of The Natural Power Laws Governing Earth's Oceans
- Gold Could Be The Unexpected Secret Weapon We Need Against Antibiotic Resistance
- In an Astonishing Feat, a New Drug Reversed Paralysis in Mice With Spinal Cord Injury
- Premature Baby With Less Than 1% Survival Chance Officially Breaks The World Record
- Elusive Crystal Predicted Decades Ago Found Trapped in a Diamond From The Deep Earth
- A Massive Rock Orbiting The Sun Appears to Have Originated Surprisingly Close to Us
- A Black Hole Was Found Outside Our Galaxy For The First Time With an Ingenious Method
- Don't Freak Out or Anything, But Your Cat Is Tracking Your Movements
- Abandoning Fossil Fuels Would Bring Immediate Benefits to Millions, Study Shows
- Scientists Identify Gene Linked to Significantly Higher Risk of Severe COVID-19
- The Moon's Surface Has Enough Oxygen to Keep Billions Alive For 100,000 Years
- There's a Strange Difference Between Human Brains And Those of Other Mammals
- We May Finally Understand Why These Gargantuan Mollusks Got So Huge
- This 'Tree of Death' Is So Toxic, You Can't Even Stand Under It When It Rains
- Giant Study Identifies The Best Time to Fall Asleep to Lower Risk of Heart Problems
- A Massive Global Syringe Shortage Could Hit in 2022, WHO Warns
- When Murder Hornets Attack, Bees Start Heartbreaking 'Shrieks' to Warn The Colony
- An Avalanche of Plastic Waste Generated by The Pandemic Is Seeping Into The Ocean
- Rare Genetic Mutation in Utah Family Traced Across Continents And Over Centuries
- Meet 'Cold Bone': The First Distinct Dinosaur Species Ever Found in Greenland
- There's a Mysterious Barrier Keeping Cosmic Rays Out of The Galactic Center
- Water Detected in Ancient, Distant Galaxy From The Beginnings of The Universe
- We're Doing Mindfulness Wrong, Psychologists Say
- Earth's Continents Emerged Millions of Years Earlier Than We Realized, Scientists Say
- Do Flies Really Throw Up on Your Food When They Land on It? Let's Dive in
- Romantic Attraction Is Linked to Synchronized Heartbeats, Dating Experiment Reveals
- Deepest Earthquake Ever Detected Was So Deep We Thought It Was Impossible
- Most Electricity In Industrialized Nations Could Be From Wind And Solar, Study Shows
- Glorious New Hubble Image Could Offer a Sneak Preview of Our Sun's Demise
- NASA's Juno Peered Beneath Jupiter's Clouds, And It's More Hectic Than They Thought
- Scientists Find a Single Protein Can Switch Some Ants From a Worker Into a Queen
- Brain Implant Translates Paralyzed Man's Thoughts Into Text With 94% Accuracy
- Astronomers Detect a 'Tsunami' of Gravitational Waves. Here's Where They're Coming From
- Poor ISS Astronauts Will Return Home in Diapers As SpaceX's Toilet Keeps Leaking Pee
- Millions of Giant Spiders Have Invaded Georgia. Will They Spread to The Rest of The US?
- Astonishingly Preserved Roman Slave Quarters Unearthed in Pompeii After 2,000 Years
- Study Reveals Shocking Risks Pregnant People Would Face Under a National Abortion Ban
- Clever Experiment Reveals The Ideal Deadline to Set to Actually Get Stuff Done
- Getting Enough Sleep? New Study May Be a Wake-Up Call For Those Who Doze This Long
- Thanks to Mice, We May Know Why Arthritis Keeps Flaring Up in The Same Joints
- What The Heck Is a Neutron Star?
- Ancient Earth May Have Been Ravaged by Gigantic Rain Storms
- Newly Discovered Symbiosis Could Power Carbon Removal in The Sea
- Unnerving Study Reveals There May Be No Warning For The Next Supervolcano Eruption
- A 150-Year-Old Note From Darwin Is Changing How We Plant Forests
- The Surprising Difference Sugary Drinks Have on Preschoolers' Test Scores
- These Engineers May Have Come Up With The Perfect Material For Unbreakable Screens
- Pfizer Announces Its COVID-19 Pill Reduces Risk of Hospitalization or Death by 89%
- The Circles in This Illusion Actually Aren't Changing Shape or Moving at All, Sorry
- This Indigenous Samoan Plant Could Rival a Common Painkiller, New Lab Study Shows
- Discovery of Child's Skull Adds to Mystery Over How Human Ancestors Treated Their Dead
- Calculations Suggest It'll Be Impossible to Control a Super-Intelligent AI
- Global 'Climate Clock' Suggests We're Now Only a Decade Away From Hitting 1.5 C
- Cervical Cancer Cases Dropped by Almost 90% Thanks to HPV Vaccine, Real-World Data Show
- UK Becomes First Country To Approve Antiviral COVID Pill
- NASA Rover Has Found Previously Unknown Organic Molecules on Mars
- Lightning Strikes Carve a Deadly Signature Deep Inside The Bones, Scientists Discover
- Earthquakes Can Actually Help Trees to Grow, New Evidence Shows
- Creepy Zombie Fungus Turns Insects Into Horny 'Necrophiles', Proving Nature Is Sick
- A Vaccine Is Urgently Needed For Infection Killing 150,000 Babies Annually, WHO Warns
- Staggering Data on How Much Whales Actually Eat Just Solved The 'Krill Paradox'
- These 'Life Zones' Are Most Vulnerable to Climate Change, New Projections Warn
- There's a Weird Shape in The Middle of Andromeda, And Astronomers Finally Know Why
- Archaeologists Find Remarkably Intact Maya Canoe Hidden Deep Within a Sinkhole
- These Theoretical Black Holes Could Erase Your Past And Mess With Your Future
- 'Tools' Suggesting Humans Reached Mexico 30,000 Years Ago May Not Be What They Seem
- Mysterious Shards of Glass Are Strewn Across Miles of Desert, And We Finally Know Why
- New Study Explains Why Dogs Do The Head Tilt, And It's Honestly Too Cute to Handle
- For The First Time Ever, NASA Astronauts Get to Eat Space-Grown Chilis on The ISS
- An Asteroid Barely Skimmed Earth Last Week, And We Completely Missed It
- Achieving Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Seems Way More Common Than Scientists Realized
- 'Useless Specks of Dust' Turn Out to Be Building Blocks of All Vertebrate Genomes
- Humans Have Compressed Millions of Years of Natural Change Into Mere Centuries
- 'Genetic Goldmine' in Earth's Harshest Desert Could Be The Key to Feeding The Future
- New Horrifying Secrets of Peru's Ancient Civilizations Unearthed in The Andes
- An Undisclosed 'Medical Issue' Just Delayed The Next Crewed SpaceX Launch
- New Study Reveals Zinc Really Might Help Treat a Cold, But There's a Catch
- Past 7 Years in a Row Were Hottest on Record, Harrowing WMO Report Confirms
- Post-Infection COVID-19 Antibodies Last at Least 10 Months, New Evidence Suggests
- Nearly 90% of Human Genes Are Mentioned in Cancer Studies, And That's a Problem
- Needle-Free Vaccine Patches Are Just a Matter of Time Now, Latest Results Indicate
- 'Extreme Morphologies' in Ancient Insects Show How Little We Know Them at All
- Human Birth Canals Are Seriously Twisted. Researchers Think They've Figured Out Why
- The Largest Climate Summit in Years Just Started in Glasgow. Here's What to Expect