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- E-Cigarettes Can Contain Up to 10 Times The Carcinogens of Cigarettes
- World's Most Abundant Mineral Finally Gets a Name
- WATCH: Maglev Elevators Will Be Able to Take You Up, Down, And Sideways
- Whisky Creates Stunning Landscapes at The Bottom of a Glass, This Is Why
- These Parasitic Drones Suck Up Our Carbon And Turn It Into Fuel
- WATCH: Early Birds vs Night Owls
- What's Causing These Perfect Ice Rings to Form Around Rocks?
- Graphene Could Be Used to Filter Fuel Out of Thin Air
- WATCH: Can Money Buy Happiness?
- Scientists Pinpoint Chemical Link Between Sleep And Memory Formation
- The Mystery of The 'Man-Eating' Sand Dune Holes That Swallowed a 6-Year-Old
- WATCH: Dude, Where's My Flying Car?
- How a Week of Camping Resets The Body Clock
- WATCH: Why Do We Get So Nostalgic About Food?
- New Superconductor-Powered Wind Turbines Could Hit Australian Shores in Five Years
- WATCH: Robots Are Better at Dealing With Our E-Waste Than We Are
- WATCH: Where Do Birds Go in Winter?
- New Genetic Test Knows Which Larvae Will Grow Into The Biggest Fish
- WATCH: Hummingbird Moustaches (IN SLOW MOTION)
- WATCH: Rare Footage of Waterspouts Stretching From Clouds to The Sea
- WATCH: Why Dogs Are Messier Drinkers Than Cats
- WATCH: The Chemistry of Thanksgiving Dinner Explained
- Scientists Can Now Turn Sawdust Into Gasoline Building Blocks
- Sure, We'd Live in This Futuristic Underwater Sphere-City
- WATCH: Mesmerising Slow-Motion Simulations of Hummingbird's Unique Flight
- This New Battery Can Fully Charge Your Smartphone in 30 Seconds
- Over 16,000 Pages of Darwin's Research on Evolution Released Online
- Australian Engineers Have Boosted Solar Cell Efficiency by Five Times More Than Ever Before
- WATCH: This Chimp's Visual Processing Speed Is Nuts
- New, One-Dollar Injectable Contraceptive to Reach World's 69 Poorest Countries by 2020
- Three Stunning Ancient Greek Mosaics Unearthed on The Syrian Border
- WORLD FIRST: Scientists Have Turned Skin Cells Into Pain-Sensitive Nerve Cells
- New, Cheap Circuit Could Double The Speed of Our Smartphones
- This New Filter Will Extend Your Phone's Battery And Let You Take Photos in Low Light
- WATCH: Why Do Rivers Curve?
- A 2,000-Year-Old, Hidden Goldmine Has Been Discovered in Spain
- How Humans Learn to Subconsciously Connect With Their Eyes
- Take a T-Rex And a Chicken And You'll See How Dinosaurs Shrank, Survived And Evolved Into Birds
- WATCH: What Does Sound Look Like?
- Simon Beck's Colossal Snow Art Revels in The Beauty of Mathematics
- WATCH: Could a Zombie Apocalypse Actually Happen?
- Here's How Much Bacteria Hand Dryers Are Spreading
- Journal Accepts Paper Titled "Get Me Off Your F*cking Mailing List"
- Scientists Have Turned a Single Molecule Into Flash Storage
- Meet The New Mailboxes – Australian Skynet Delivery Drones
- WATCH: What Makes This Metal Chain Spray Up Like a Magic Fountain?
- WATCH: Why Do We Feel Mind-Blown?
- Imagination And Reality Flow in Opposite Directions in Your Brain
- Listen to The Satisfying Crunch Philae Made When It Touched Down on a Comet
- Astronomers Believe They've Detected The First Black Hole to Have Been Kicked Out of Its Galaxy
- Here's Everything That Kills Us in One Morbid Chart
- This Is The First Look at What Happens to Uranium Fuel During a Nuclear Meltdown
- WATCH: Just How Small Is an Atom?
- WATCH: Do Beards Make Men Sexier?
- WATCH: This Band-Aid Gel Instantly Stops Bleeding
- This New Folding Electric Bike Can Fit in Your Backpack
- Historical Evidence Suggests Antarctica Will Melt Quicker Than We Thought
- This New Plastic Breaks Down in Just 3 Hours
- The Large Hadron Collider Has Observed Two Brand New Particles
- New Alzheimer's Test Detects Disease 10 Years Before Diagnosis
- QUIZ: Which Famous Brain Is Your Mind Most Similar to?
- WATCH: Gecko-Inspired Spiderman Sticky Pads Are Here
- New Study Reveals What Checking Your Phone Is Doing to Your Neck
- WATCH: The Sixth Extinction – This Time, We're The Asteroid
- New Brain Exercises Teach People to See Letters as Colours
- Philae Found Organic Molecules in Its 60 Hours on a Comet
- Neuroscientists 'Rediscover' Entire Brain Region Linked to Reading
- New Self-Filling Water Bottle Harvests Drinking Water From The Air
- WATCH: Does Smiling Make You Happy?
- Scientists Are Using Artificial Skin to Find Better Bandages For Burn Victims
- Could Viruses Be Engineered to Kill Cancer?
- Molten Lava Cascades at a Painfully Slow Rate Through Hawaii
- Cheap Diabetes Tests Can Now Be Printed With an Ink-Jet Printer
- New Research Shows That Eating Fewer Calories Slows Down Genetic Ageing
- New York Is Turning Its Old Phone Booths Into Free Wi-Fi Hubs
- WATCH: Fur Seals Caught Having Sex With Penguins
- This Is What The Ride Home From The International Space Station Looks Like
- Largest Study Yet Points to Genetic Factors in Male Homosexuality
- Google Will Test Its Wi-Fi-Beaming Balloons in Australia
- WATCH: Burns Surgeon Fiona Wood on Why Average Isn't Good Enough in Science
- WATCH: How to Build Your Own Race Car on a Budget
- Short Bursts of Hibernation May Help Animals Slow Down Ageing
- WATCH: Could We Actually Live on Mars?
- WATCH: Adam Savage's Incredible Robot Spider
- This Molecule Could Be The Key to Unlocking Super-Memory in Our Brains
- Kisses Transfer 80 Million Bacteria, New Study Reveals
- WATCH: Japan's Built a Maglev Passenger Train That Travels 500 Km/H
- WATCH: Neurosurgeon Completes Full 'Subdural Haematoma' Surgical Procedure
- WATCH: Match Burning in Slow Motion
- This Single Protein Influences How Your Brain Copes With Stress
- Cannabis Has Been Used to Shrink Aggressive Brain Cancer in The Lab
- Analysis of World's Oldest People Reveals There's No Gene For Long Life
- This App Promises to Read Your DNA And Give You Personalised Health Advice
- This Is How Many Tasks Your Brain Is Processing Right Now
- Scientists Have Finally Climbed to The Bottom of One of Siberia's Mysterious Holes
- Australian Students Have Invented a Cheap Nanosensor to Detect Ebola
- WATCH: How Did Walking And Breathing First Evolve?
- Study Suggests Action Video Games Can Help You Learn Faster
- Habitual Baby-Killing Is Being Thwarted by Promiscuous Females And Big Balls
- World First: Scientists Have Sent Images Across Vienna Using "Twisted Light"
- Scientists Have Identified The Gene That Makes Mosquitoes Crave Human Blood
- Study Finds Six Toxic Flame-Retardants in Humans
- WATCH: Moving House? Join The Hermit Crab Conga Line
- WATCH: Young Elephant Fights Off 14 Lions
- How Learning a New Language Changes Your Brain – at Any Age
- WATCH: Why Isn't The Sky Purple?
- New Smartphone Device Zaps Your Nerves to Relax or Energise You
- Why 'Watermelon Snow' Doesn't Taste Nearly as Good as It Sounds
- WATCH LIVE: A Spacecraft Is About to Land on a Comet For The First Time in History
- Scientists Use Mind-Control Device to Edit Mouse Genes With Their Thoughts
- Can't Dance? There Might Be a Scientific Explanation
- New Technology Could Power Battery-Free Electric Cars Within Five Years
- A Piece of Australia Is Trapped Beneath Vanuatu – And Scientists Don't Know How It Got There
- Dolphin-Like Robots Help Scientists Explore Melting Polar Ice
- WATCH: Lyrebird Perfectly Imitates Laser Gun Sounds
- Computers That Use Light Instead of Electricity Will Be Here Within 10 Years
- A Purpose in Life Is Linked to a Longer Lifespan
- Heavy Marijuana Use Shrinks Your Brain But Increases Connectivity
- Scientists Have Discovered That Monster Chromosomes Are Fuelling Cancer Growth
- New Study Suggests Cats Become Domesticated For Treats
- Scientists Have Unlocked a State of Child-Like Fast Learning in The Adult Brain
- WATCH: Astronauts Grow a Water Orb in Space And Stick a Camera Inside
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Turn Peanut Butter Into Diamonds
- Stem Cell Transplant Reverses Parkinson's Disease Symptoms in Rats
- This Inflatable Incubator Could Save Premature Babies
- New Study Reveals Why It's Impossible to Put Down a Harry Potter Book
- New Headset Uses Sound to Guide The Blind
- Common Blood-Pressure Drug Cures Diabetes in Mice – Human Trials Begin in 2015
- WATCH: Why Do We Like Our Own Farts?
- WATCH: Here's What It Looks Like When a Giant Insect Breathes
- Young Entrepreneur Gains Backing From Intel For His Braille Printer
- New Wearable Device Can Track Your Diet
- World-First Evidence Suggests That Meditation Alters Cancer Survivors' Cells
- WATCH: The Science Behind Laser Tattoo Removal
- WATCH: Can You Make Your Brain More Creative?
- Archaeologists Uncover Thousands of Ritual Objects in an Ancient Pre-Aztec Tomb
- Scientists Pinpoint Why Some People Might Feel 'Ghosts'
- Long-Term Study Finds Zero Link Between Violence in Video Games And Real Life
- This 30-Cm-Long Box Contains The World's Most Efficient Particle Collider
- Cockroaches With Microphones Could Help Save Lives
- This Robotic Snake Could Be The Future of Rescue Missions
- WATCH: Electric Car Breaks Acceleration World Record
- WATCH: Which Organism Rules The Earth?
- High-Fat Diet Could Stop Premature Ageing in Diseased Mice
- WATCH: One Porcupine Fends Off 17 Lions
- Direct Brain-to-Brain Connection Has Been Established Between Humans For The Second Time
- New Antibiotic Alternative Traps And Eats Bacterial Toxins
- Here's Why Some Animals Have Two Penises
- How Much Are You Worth?
- WATCH: How Were The Pyramids Built?
- World's First Solar Road Opens in The Netherlands
- This Ambulance Drone Could Help Save Heart Attack Victims
- Scientists Have Found a Way to Interfere With Light to Make Objects Transparent
- Why Listening to Sad Songs Is Good For You
- A Random Genetic Mutation Has Made HIV Harmless in Two Patients
- This Bird Is One of The Most Talented Singers on Earth
- Shimmering Rainbow Cloud Forms in Australian Sky
- New Device Gives Unprecedented, Real-Time View of How Cancer Cells Spread
- New Batteries Are Safe For Children to Swallow
- Plants Make Their Own Sunscreen
- This Algae Farm Eats Highway Pollution
- Less Than 100 of These Trees Are Left in The Wild, But Fungi Could Help Save Them
- WATCH: Why Are Some People Left-Handed?
- What if The Whole World Suddenly Went Vegetarian?
- WATCH: A Bowling Ball And Feather Fall in World's Biggest Vacuum Chamber
- New Study Suggests Only 8.2% of Our DNA Is Functional
- Sea Sponge Drug Can Give Women With Breast Cancer an Extra 5 Months of Life
- New Electric Spoon Can Zap Tongue With Extra Flavour
- New Measurements Show Hole in Ozone Layer Holds Steady
- US Couple Invent World's First Functional Hoverboard
- Man Has Life-Long Fear of Spiders 'Cut' Out of His Brain
- New Research Suggests You Make Better Decisions When You're Hungry
- New Wearable Technology Improves Communication Between Dogs And Humans