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- Study of More Than 1 Million People Finds Intriguing Link Between Iron Levels And Lifespan
- Study of 1,000 People Shows The Trick That Helps You Stick to New Year's Resolutions
- Quantum Teleportation Was Just Achieved With 90% Accuracy Over a 44km Distance
- This Epic Space Cloud Is Nicely Summing Up Our Farewell to 2020
- Octopus And Squid Evolution Is Officially Stranger Than We Could Have Ever Imagined
- A Newly Described Hawaiian Flower Is The Only One of Its Kind in Existence
- Some People Can Make a Roaring Sound in Their Ears, And It's Totally Normal
- UK Just Authorised The 'Oxford Vaccine'. Here's Why That's Incredibly Good News
- Look at All These Mind-Blowing Photos of Asteroid Pieces Retrieved From Ryugu
- You've Finally Received a COVID-19 Vaccine. Now What?
- Physicists Are Still Hunting Primordial Black Holes to Solve The Dark Matter Problem
- Despite The Dumpster Fire of 2020, Here Are 11 Huge Achievements We Made in Science
- Massive, Unrivalled Deep-Sea Project Just Discovered a Bunch of New Atlantic Species
- Fireballs And Iguanas? 7 Weird Things That Have Fallen From The Sky
- First US Case of Highly Contagious Coronavirus Variant Was Just Detected in Colorado
- These Are 7 of The Strangest Experiments Humans Have Ever Done in Space
- Delightful Study Finds Monkeys Hate Sunk Costs as Much as Humans Do
- A New Therapy to Prevent People With SARS-CoV-2 From Getting Sick Just Started Trials
- In 1110, The Moon Vanished From The Sky. We May Finally Know Why
- Think Your Metabolism Is Slow? Here's What Affects How Many Calories You Burn Daily
- Good News! The Huge Iceberg Heading For a Penguin Colony Has Splintered Even More
- Some People Keep Parasitic Leeches as Pets, And Let Them Drink Their Blood
- South Korea's 'Artificial Sun' Just Set a New World Record For High-Temperature Plasma
- Yes! A Previously Unknown Population of Blue Whales Has Been Heard in The Indian Ocean
- A Pilot Traced a Giant Syringe in The Sky to Celebrate The COVID-19 Vaccine
- Behold The 'Molten Ring': Hubble Reveals One of The Largest Einstein Rings Ever Seen
- Incredibly Preserved Fast Food Stall Reveals What Romans Snacked on in Pompeii
- What Even Is a 'Balanced Diet'? Study Finds It's Not So Easy to Tell
- Centuries-Long Timeline of Smallpox Records Shows How a Fatal Disease Is Eliminated
- The Cost of Visiting Earth May Be Too Astronomical For Aliens
- The Reason For Holes on The Tops of Pen Caps Is Surprisingly Awesome
- It May Be Too Late to Save The World's Largest Lake From Climate Change
- Humans Used to Sleep in Two Shifts, And Maybe We Should Start It Again
- 4 Mind-Bending Ways Quantum Physics Challenges Our Reality
- CERN Discovers Another Clue to The Mystery of The Universe's Missing Antimatter
- There Are Reports of Rare Allergic Reactions to Pfizer's Vaccine. Here's What We Know
- People Are Now 'Perineum Sunning' to Improve Their Wellness. Here's What Science Says
- A Scary Amount of Nutrition Science Has Deep Ties to The Food Industry, Study Reveals
- Researchers Find a Way to Pull Carbon Out of The Air And Turn It Into Jet Fuel
- New Fast-Spreading Coronavirus Strain in The UK: Here's Everything You Need to Know
- The Most Common Pain Relief Drug in The World Has Been Linked to Risk-Taking Behaviour
- Astronomers Detect 'Intriguing Signal' Coming From Proxima Centauri
- These Eerie 'Living Stones' in Romania Are Fantastical, And Totally Real
- Using a Humidifier Might Reduce Your Chances of Contracting COVID-19
- This Simple 3-Minute Video Will Change Your Perception of Time Forever
- Could an AI 'SantaNet' Destroy The World?
- Meet Nature's Wondrous, Self-Rolling Snow Doughnuts
- How Our Brains Track Other People's Location Is Weirdly Consistent Between Brains
- This New Type of Glue Is Activated by Magnetic Fields, And Really Easy to Use
- Here's How Scientists Check to Make Sure Herbs And Spices Are The Real Deals
- We Might Finally Know a Key Mechanism Behind Our Planet's Biggest Earthquakes
- This Brain-Bending 3D Staircase Just Won Best Illusion of The Year For 2020
- Scientists Identify New Flower From a Forest That Existed 100 Million Years Ago
- This NASA Photo of a Crashed 'Flying Saucer' Has a Truly Amazing Story Behind It
- Seals Are Making Creepy Ultrasound Noises Underwater, And We Have No Idea Why
- Another, More Infectious Coronavirus Variant Has Arrived in The UK From South Africa
- US Just Hit an Incredible Milestone in The COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts
- What Is Ketamine?
- A Thai Rescue Worker Saved a Baby Elephant With CPR, And We Are Crying
- Great News: Latest Research Shows Immunity to COVID-19 Lasts at Least 8 Months
- A Fatal Skin Disease Afflicting Dolphins Worldwide Has Been Linked to Climate Change
- We Now Have Shocking Evidence That Microplastic Particles Can Enter The Placenta
- Gross Droplet Test Shows Masks Are Highly Effective at Limiting Your Flying Spit
- Will The New Coronavirus Mutation Affect The Vaccine? Here's What You Need to Know
- We Might Have The First Complete Observation of a 'Nanoflare' From Our Sun
- The Last Continent Untouched by COVID-19 Just Had an Outbreak
- Gobsmacking Photos Show The Great Conjunction 'Christmas Star' From Around The World
- Scientists Just Found Out What These Barbed Artifacts From a Vanished Land Really Are
- Meteorite Clues Point to a Huge, Unknown Object in The Early Solar System
- Legends About This Constellation Could Be The Oldest Stories in The World
- Microchips? Nope. Here's The Full List of Ingredients in The COVID-19 Vaccines
- 57,000-Year-Old Pup Is The Most Complete Wolf Specimen Ever Found From The Ice Age
- Decades of Satellite Data Reveal One-Third of US Rivers Changing Their Color
- We Just Got Closer to Smartphone Screens That Can 'Heal' Their Own Cracks
- Octopuses Observed Punching Fish, Perhaps Out of Spite, Scientists Say
- Early Humans May Have Hibernated Through Long Winters, Study Hints
- Sleep, Diet or Exercise? Here's The Factor Most Linked to Better Mental Health
- Mysterious Radio Signal Detected From Our Closest Neighbouring Star System
- Tonight, Jupiter And Saturn Will Appear Closer Than They've Been in 800 Years
- That Giant Iceberg Heading Straight For a Penguin Colony Has Cracked Into 2 Pieces
- Astronomers Spot Elusive 50 Million-Light-Year-Long Thread Tied to Cosmic Web
- Here Are 9 Things to Say to Someone Hesitant to Get a COVID-19 Vaccination
- Mummified Baboons Narrow Down The Mystery Location of an Ancient Fabled Land
- Australia Was Once Home to Hundreds of Ancient Volcanoes. We May Finally Know Why
- Llamas Were Medical Rock Stars in 2020, But They Were Important to Us Long Before Now
- Even as Kids We Show a Mysterious, Possibly Innate Appreciation of Nature's Shapes
- US Authorizes Moderna Vaccine, Making Millions More Doses Available
- Lose Yourself in 50 Breathtaking New Images Released For The Hubble Anniversary
- Meet The 'King' of a Toxic Underground Ecosystem Unlike Anywhere Else on Earth
- Wildfire Smoke Might Grow More Toxic as It 'Ages' And Blows Downwind
- A Newly Discovered Illusion Could Help Explain Our Visual Consciousness
- The True Cost of Meat Is 2.5 Times Higher Than Its Current Price Tag, Study Argues
- Can't Clear Your Mind? Study Finds 3 Ways to Help Get Rid of Nagging Thoughts
- Newfound Dinosaur Had Outrageous Feather-Like Decoration
- A Massive Supercontinent Could Dominate Earth in The Far Future, Scientists Predict
- Quantum Experiment Reveals Particles Can Form Collectives Out of Almost Nothing
- Modern Crops Save The Lives of 3 to 6 Million Babies a Year in Developing Countries
- The Best Way to Restore Forests May Not Actually Involve Planting Trees
- Somehow, a Monstrous Supermassive Black Hole Has Gone Missing
- Here's The Safest Hideout in a Zombie Apocalypse, According to Research
- July 2020 Might Have Been The Deadliest Month Ever For Young Americans
- It's Official: Botanists Have Found The Ugliest Orchid in The World
- Planets Will Align in The Sky on Monday. Is The Star of Bethlehem Coming Back?
- Hundreds of Ancient Graves Reveal a Spanish Town's Secret Muslim History
- Heartbreaking Study Shows The Long-Term Effects of Yelling at Your Dog
- Breaking: US Could Be About to Have a Second COVID-19 Vaccine Approved
- New Evidence Suggests COVID-19 Could Be a Kind of Autoimmune Disease. Here's Why
- Astronomers May Have Detected The First Radio Signal From an Exoplanet
- Extremely Rare 5,000-Year-Old Pyramid Artefact Discovered in Misplaced Cigar Tin
- Deadly 'Brain-Eating' Amoeba Slowly But Surely Expanding Its Footprint in The US
- A Chinese Probe Just Brought Back The First New Samples From The Moon in Decades
- Lonely People Have a Different Brain Signature, Which Might Help Fill a Social Void
- Dark Vortex on Neptune Changes Direction in Never-Before-Seen Phenomenon
- These 2 Graphs Show The Life-Changing Gap Between COVID-19 Vaccines And Placebos
- Apathy May Be An Early Predictor of Dementia Years Before Other Symptoms Show
- World's Largest Iceberg On Track to Crash Into Island Haven For Penguins And Seals
- Physicists Create Time-Reversed Waves of Optical Light In Head-Spinning First
- Physicists Made an Insanely Precise Clock That Keeps Time Using Entanglement
- The World's Largest Renewable Energy 'Megapark' Will Be The Size of Singapore
- Amazing Photo of Endless Sunsets Is Believed to Be The Longest Exposure in Existence
- Experimental Therapy Injected in One Eye Unexpectedly Improves Vision in The Other
- The Moon Has a Strange, Hidden Effect on Earth Leaking Potent Greenhouse Emissions
- There's a Human-Made Barrier in Space, Surrounding The Entire Earth
- UK Scientists Urge Caution Over Claims of a Particularly Contagious SARS-CoV-2 Strain
- 'Cloud Forest' in The Misty Mountains of Bolivia Reveals 20 Species New to Science
- These Fish May Have 'Domesticated' Shrimp Staff to Help Them Farm Algae
- Astronomers Confirm Exoplanet With a Truly Strange Orbit, Sort-of Like 'Planet Nine'
- Japan Just Revealed The First Image of Ryugu's Asteroid Dust to The World
- We Just Had The Only Total Solar Eclipse of 2020, And The Photos Are Amazing
- You Are Surrounded by Neural Networks. Here's How They Try to Simulate The Human Brain
- Catastrophic Oil Spill From Abandoned Ship in The Red Sea Could Happen Any Second
- Tsunami-Like Mechanism in Brain May Foreshadow Migraines, Study in Mice Shows
- Spiders in Space Reveal The Weird Things That Happen to Webs in Microgravity
- Codebreakers Finally Crack The Zodiac Killer's Diabolical Cipher After 50 Years
- Scientists Identify Genetic Variants Linked to Risk of Getting Severe COVID-19
- The Ghostly Ruins of Chernobyl May Soon Be Enshrined With World Heritage Status
- Gruesome 'Tower of Skulls' Discovery in Mexico Unearths Over 100 Aztec Sacrifices
- Watch 25 Years of Solar Cycles in One Incredible Video
- New African Potato Resists The Same Disease That Caused The Irish Potato Famine
- New Material Can Store Energy From The Sun For Months or Even Years
- This Striking Chart Shows Just How Well Pfizer's Vaccine Works
- UN Warns of 3°C Warming by 2100 Even With The Pandemic And Our Carbon Pledges
- Scientists Think They've Discovered a New Species of Beaked Whale
- US Agency Grants Approval of Pfizer's COVID Vaccine And Doses Are Expected in Days
- Coronavirus Shows You May Not Be as Good at Detecting Misinformation as You Think
- Russians Are Being Told Not to Drink Before And After Their COVID-19 Vaccinations
- Yes, Palm Oil Is Damaging. But Boycotting Could Be Making Things Worse
- Bird Poop 'Time Machine' Shows a Staggering Historic Decline in Sea Birds
- Clinical Trials of 'Universal' Flu Vaccine That Blocks Multiple Strains Show Promise
- Global Emissions Are Down, But Scientists Warn That Won't Last For Long
- In a Mind-Bending New Paper, Physicists Give Schrodinger's Cat a Cheshire Grin
- A Morning DIY Test Could Tell You if You Need to Get Tested For COVID-19
- Physicists Suggest All Matter May Be Made Up of Energy 'Fragments'
- Scientists Just Set A New World Record In Solar Cell Efficiency
- You've Never Seen The Moon Like This Before, But It's a Real Image
- New Evidence Supports Controversial Claim of Humans in The Americas 130,000 Years Ago
- Astronomers Just Found Cosmic 'Superhighways' For Fast Travel Through The Solar System
- We Just Got Even More Evidence That Some Dogs Can Reliably Detect COVID-19
- Young Ravens Could Have Cognitive Skills That Rival Adult Great Apes, Research Finds
- The Geminids Meteor Shower Peaks Sunday, With The Brightest Shooting Stars of The Year
- Black Holes That Spin Fast Enough Might Gain New Powers, Physicists Find
- SpaceX Starship Prototype Launched Successfully… And Then Crashed in a Huge Fireball
- How Many People Need to Be Vaccinated For COVID-19 to Be Eradicated?
- Scientists Capture Incredibly Rare Footage of Deep-Sea Fish Devouring a Whole Shark
- Researchers Synthesise a Psychedelic That Could Treat Depression Without Hallucinations
- Here's What You Can (And Can't) Do Once You've Got Your COVID Vaccine
- Child's Bones Buried 40,000 Years Ago Solve a Longstanding Neanderthal Mystery
- Sneezes Are Like 'Mini Atomic Bombs' Blasting Over 2 Metres, Scientists Warn
- Archaeologists Discover Hidden Network of Amazonian Villages Arranged Like Clock Faces
- Bees Witnessed Using Tools in Nature For The First Time… And It's Really Gross
- Should People With Allergies Avoid The Pfizer Vaccine? Here's What You Need to Know
- Astronomers Detect Giant X-Ray Bubbles Expanding Above And Below The Galactic Plane
- The First Weather Report From Our Closest Star Is in, And It's Bad News For Life
- Dogs Probably Don't Understand Us as Well as We Think, Brain Scans Reveal
- Scientists Show How SARS-CoV-2 Causes Multiple Organ Failure in Experimental Mouse Model
- Human-Made Stuff Doubles in Mass Every 20 Years. It Just Crossed a Disturbing Line
- This Teen's Brilliantly Simple Explainer on Quantum Mechanics Just Won a Global Prize
- Mount Everest Has Officially Grown Taller in 2020
- The Final-Stage Oxford Vaccine Results Have Just Been Published in a Scientific Journal
- Update: SpaceX Postpones First Major Launch of Starship Rocket Prototype
- What Is Quantum Cryptography?
- Weirdly, Some Small Islands Are Growing Bigger in The Face of Rising Seas
- Our Sun Has Entered a New Cycle, And It Could Be One of The Strongest Ever Recorded
- It's Not Just Humans. Sparrows Have Been Seen Using Preventative Medicine
- One of The Blackest Planets in The Galaxy Is Headed For a Fiery Death
- China Claims It's Achieved 'Quantum Supremacy' With The World's Fastest Quantum Computer
- Viral Image Hints at The Brutal Reality of Life And Death in The US Right Now
- The UK Will Perform Its First Wave of Coronavirus Vaccinations Tomorrow
- A Mystery Illness Has Hospitalized More Than 300 People in India
- This Glorious High-Res Image of a Sunspot Will Take Your Breath Away
- A New Device Will Help Astronauts Extract Fuel, Air And Water From Martian Brine
- Scientists Discover an Unexpected Structure Hidden Inside Plant Cells
- Scientists Say They've Identified The Best Place For Life to Have Existed on Mars
- Burnt 'Great Pyramid' Notes Reveal Isaac Newton's Research Into The Apocalypse
- Divers Discover a Legendary Nazi Enigma Machine in The Baltic Sea
- China Just Switched on Its 'Artificial Sun' Nuclear Fusion Reactor
- First-Born? New Study Debunks The Idea Birth Order Affects Your Career
- It's Official: Japan's Space Agency Has Recovered Asteroid Samples From Hayabusa2
- Geologists Think They've Found an Alaskan Version of Yellowstone's Supervolcano
- Lose Yourself in These Gloriously Detailed New Images of The Magellanic Clouds
- An Essential Element For Life on Earth Has Finally Been Found on a Comet
- Saliva From Hungry Caterpillars Alerts Cowpea Plants to Turn on Their Defenses
- Hayabusa2's Asteroid Samples Return to Earth in a Fiery Dash of Glory
- How Keen Eyes And Smart Satellites Help Archaeologists Find Hidden Wonders
- Eerie Footage Captures Human Immune Cells Digging a Tunnel Through Tissue
- We May Finally Understand The Point of Having Moist, Textured Fingertips
- Here's How to Watch Hayabusa2 Drop Off Its 'Treasure Box' of Asteroid Dust
- The Wings of Insects Might Have Evolved From The Legs of Crustaceans
- Ireland's Only 2 Dinosaur Bones Have Just Been Confirmed For The First Time
- Thousands of Stunning, Ancient Cave Art Drawings Have Been Found Deep in The Amazon
- Researchers Say They've Found The Key to Dealing With Defensive People
- Chinese Probe Heads Back to Earth With First Moon Rocks Collected in 40 Years
- A New Species of Bat Has Been Found, And It Flapped Around 16 Million Years Ago
- Astronomers Have Mapped Stars to The Very Anticentre of The Milky Way
- Voyager Mission Finds a New Type of Electron Burst at The Edge of Our Solar System
- Scientists Confirm Certain Spider Bites Inject Something Even Worse Than Venom
- NASA Reveals Plans to Buy Fresh Moon Dust For Just $1
- Man's Urine Turns Alarmingly Green During Hospital Stay in Rare Case Study
- Video Shows The Heartbreaking Moment The Arecibo Telescope Collapsed
- An Australian Family Just Found a Live Koala in Their Christmas Tree
- For The First Time, Physicists Have Recorded The Flowing Sound of a 'Perfect' Fluid
- 'Oldest' Baby Ever Born Is a 28-Year-Old Record-Breaker Almost as Old as Her Mother
- Scientists Invent a Microscope That Can Safely Look Straight Through Your Skull
- 'This Is Suicidal': 2020 Is on Track to Be Second-Hottest Year on Record
- Astronomers Are Mystified by These Ghostly, Unexplained Circles Seen in Space
- Vaping CBD May Not Impair Your Driving Ability, Latest Research Confirms
- Lab-Grown Chicken Meat Is Finally Going on Sale in a World First
- Neuroscientists Found Which Part of Our Brains Tells Real Words Apart From Srhlil
- Stone Age 'Venus Figurines' Have a New Explanation, And It's Surprisingly Touching
- A 37-Million-Year-Old 'Sabre-Toothed Tiger' Just Went Up For Auction
- It Now Looks Like COVID-19 Was Already in The US in December 2019
- There Are 6 Human Chronotypes, Not Just Morning Larks And Night Owls, Study Says
- An Astronomer Has Searched The Universe For a Potential Message From Its Creator
- New Study Reveals SARS-CoV-2 Can Invade The Brain Through The Nose
- China's Lunar Mission Just Landed on The Moon And Is Ready to Bring Back Some Rocks
- The Arecibo Telescope Has Suffered a Fatal Collapse, Smashing It Into Pieces
- What Is a P-Value?
- Only a Small Fraction of The Dark Web Is Being Used For Hidden Activity, Study Finds
- Astronomers Just Solved a Dark Matter Mystery, Saving Our Galaxy Formation Models
- A Baby Was Born With Protective Antibodies After Mom Had COVID-19 During Pregnancy
- Physicists Observe Trippy 'Vortex Rings' in a Magnetic Material For The First Time
- AI Solves 50-Year-Old Biology 'Grand Challenge' Decades Before Experts Predicted