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- Australian Olive Python Swallows Wallaby Whole
- This Is Where The 60% of The World That Don't Have The Internet Live
- Here's How to Trick Your Brain Into Keeping All of Your New Year's Resolutions
- Developers Are Planning to Build Sauron's Tower in Morocco
- Arsenic in Drinking Water Linked to a 50% Drop in Breast Cancer Deaths
- Drunk Birds "Slur" Their Songs, Just Like Us
- This Physicist Has Built a Supercomputer From Old PlayStations
- Scientists Have Found The Oldest Known Earth-Sized Planet in The Milky Way
- Origin of 2014 Ebola Outbreak Traced to Kids' Favourite Hollow Tree
- A US Suburb Just Got The Fastest Internet Connection in The World
- Altering Your Gut Bacteria Could Ease Anxiety And Depression
- WATCH: What's Causing This Crazy Pool Vortex?
- WATCH: How to Make a Rocket Out of a Matchstick, Paperclip And Tin Foil
- Smartphone Use Continuouslty Alters Our Brains And Makes Our Thumbs More Sensitive
- Here's How Playing a Musical Instrument Can Improve a Child's Brain
- Here's How E-Readers Are Messing With Your Sleep Cycles
- This Infographic Shows How Dense China's Population Really Is… Sort of
- First Trials Show That The Ebola Vaccine Candidate Is Safe
- WATCH: This Creepy Hexapod Has Robot Snakes For Legs
- 'Green' Hybrid Aircraft Successfully Tested in The UK
- WATCH: The Surprisingly Complex Physics of Snapping Spaghetti
- WATCH: A Simple Proof of Conservation of Energy
- Gecko Gripper Robot Could Clean-Up Space Junk
- Farming Made Human Bones Fragile
- Flying Dragons Mimic Falling Leaves to Escape Predators
- 180,000 Bites Later… We May Have a Trap For Bedbugs
- TEST: Which Voters Have The Best Maths Skills?
- Australian Researchers Have Mapped The Genome of The First Marsupial
- WATCH: This Is How a Research Nuclear Reactor Works
- Australian Scientists Find That Mice Can Live Without an "Essential" Protein
- Tesla's New Roadster Will Be Able to Drive 643 Km on a Single Charge
- Neuroscientists Have Worked Out How to "Read" And "Write" Brain Signals
- These Are The Stories You Clicked on The Most in 2014
- WATCH: Is Santa Real? (A Scientific Analysis)
- This Is Why You're So Hangry, According to Science
- WATCH: Progress Is Being Made on Revolutionary Hyperloop Train
- Huge Electric Field Found in Ice-Cold Laughing Gas
- Artificial Sweeteners Bring on Glucose Intolerance And Alter Gut Microbiota
- New Study Suggests Alzheimer's Patients Could Restore Lost Memories
- A Mysterious Phase of Matter Stands in The Way of High-Temperature Superconductivity, New Evidence Shows
- Researchers Solve The Mystery of How Humans Evolved Colour Vision
- WATCH: Kangaroo Boxes Drone Right Out of The Sky
- Ibuprofen Gives Longer Life to Some Species, New Research Finds
- The Science of Home Alone: Would Kevin Have Killed The Burglars?
- WATCH: This New Device Turns Plastic Into Edible Mushrooms
- Scientists Have Created a Device That Could Build Instant-Start Computers
- This Device Can Diagnose 1,000 Pathogens in Your Blood in 6 Hours
- WATCH: This Giant Tortoise Rescues His Overturned Friend
- What's Causing These Strange Clouds Over Tunisia?
- Scientists Have Translated a Primate Language Into English
- WATCH: A Double Amputee Controls Two Prosthetic Limbs at Once With His Thoughts
- WATCH: Is Sitting Too Much Killing You?
- New Study Links Autism Risk to Air Pollution
- India Launches Biggest Rocket Into Space
- WATCH: Is MSG Bad For You?
- WATCH: How Many Friends Can You Have?
- Copper Bed Rails Kill Hospital-Related Infections on Contact
- WATCH: What's The Most Radioactive Place on Earth?
- New Report Says Antimicrobial Resistance Will Kill 300 Million by 2050
- WATCH: New Mind-Controlled Robot Arm Grabs And Moves Objects
- WATCH: 3D Printing Lets Disabled Dog Run For The First Time
- Rock With 30,000 Diamonds Inside Pulled From Russian Diamond Mine
- Scientists Have Found a Way to Make Graphene Magnetic
- Computers Think These Random Patterns Are Real Objects
- Men Who Like Spicy Food Have Higher Testosterone Levels, Study Suggests
- Here's When You Should Be Drinking Your Coffee, According to Science
- Most Mammals Take 21 Seconds to Pee, Regardless of Their Size
- The UK Is Successfully Crowd-Funding Themselves to The Moon
- WATCH: How to Detect an Exoplanet With Your DSLR Camera
- WATCH: Why People Don't Believe in Climate Science
- Mysterious Methane Bursts Detected on Mars
- Cutting a Baby's Umbilical Cord 2 Minutes Later Can Improve Development
- Sparks Literally Fly When an Egg Meets Sperm, World-First Images Reveal
- WATCH: Lighting a Match Never Looked So Cool
- There Are Now Just Five Northern White Rhinos Left in The World
- WATCH: Skype Has Launched an Instant Translator
- Welcome to The Office of The Future
- Colossal Statue of Pharaoh Amenhotep III Raised in Egypt After 3,000 Years
- An Anti-Anxiety Drug Has "Woken Up" a Minimally-Conscious Patient
- WATCH: Seven Years of Preventable Disease Outbreaks Around The World
- WATCH: NASA Interns Parody "All About That Bass"
- A Complete Woolly Mammoth Skeleton Has Been Recovered From The North Sea
- New Study Reveals… Men Are Idiots
- WATCH: Should You Take This "Impossible" Bet?
- Scientists Have Created a Whole New Type of Ice
- This Spider-Inspired Detector Can Sense The Flutter of a Ladybird's Wings
- This Plane Will Be Able to Fly Anywhere in The World Within 4 Hours
- This Infographic Shows All The Space Technology Needed to Get Humans to Mars
- Only The Well-Dressed Elite Can Join Capuchin Monastery's 'Club Dead'
- WATCH: You're Not What You Think You Are
- WATCH: This Baby Bird Perfectly Mimics a Toxic Caterpillar
- WATCH: Where Does Belly Button Lint Come From?
- Magic Mushrooms, Hallucinogenic Toad Skins Common in Early Americas
- New Metal Alloy Has Highest Strength-to-Weight Ratio of Any Metal
- There Are Now 5.25 Trillion Pieces of Plastic in The Ocean, Study Estimates
- New Study Reveals 84% of Vegetarians Return to Meat
- Earth's Water Probably Didn't Come From Comets, Rosetta Data Suggests
- WATCH: How to Draw Mushrooms on an Oscilloscope With Sound
- WATCH: This Is What Liquid Crystal DNA Looks Like
- Don't Worry – This Rare Two-Headed Salamander Is Not Radioactive
- The Ancient Egyptian Artist Who Decorated This Coffin Was a Dud
- You Can Now Pay to Have Your Dog Cloned in South Korea
- New Hypothesis Suggests That Two Parallel Universes Were Produced by The Big Bang
- WATCH: Beautiful Reverse Snowflake Formation
- This "Bionic Bra" Automatically Tightens in Response to Movement
- Astronomers Have Detected Hydrogen Gas in Galaxies 3 Billion Light-Years Away
- This New Flexible Prosthetic Skin Can Sense Pressure, Temperature And Moisture
- A Study by Maggie Simpson And Edna Krabappel Has Been Accepted by Two Scientific Journals
- New Anti-Obesity Drug Can Cut Body Weight by 30%
- The World's Most Efficient Particle Accelerator Has Just Set a New Energy Record
- WATCH: Slow-Mo Footage Shows Raindrops Hitting Sand Are Like Tiny Asteroid Impacts
- WATCH: Our Top Ten Animal Videos For 2014
- NASA Reveals That Mars' Gale Crater Was Once a Massive Lake
- World's First Underground Park to Open in New York by 2018
- WATCH: In a Live GMO Debate, The 'For' Side Wins
- WATCH: Here's What Life Would Be Like on a Flat Earth
- New Drug Eliminates The Malaria Parasite Within 48 Hours in Mice
- These 'Sea Trees' Offer Protected City-Living to Wildlife
- Australian Researchers Have Converted Sunlight Into Electricity With More Than 40% Efficiency
- World War II 'Ghost Ship' Discovered Off The Coast of Hawaii
- Thousands of Einstein Documents Are Available Online For Free
- WATCH: Flames Dance to Music on This 2D Rubens' Tube
- WATCH: NASA's Orion Space Capsule Splashes Down
- WATCH: Can You See These Optical Illusions?
- WATCH: This Worm-Like Amphibian Is Eating Its Mother Alive
- Researchers Have Discovered Comet Dust on Earth For The First Time Ever
- WATCH: Physicists Create a New Type of Pasta to Explain Mysterious Polymers
- Physicists Achieve Superconductivity at Room Temperature
- Shackled Skeletons Unearthed in Large Roman Graveyard
- This New Camera Can Capture 100 Billion Frames Per Second
- WATCH: This Is What London's Night Sky Would Look Like if All The Lights Went Out
- WATCH: The Science Love Song
- WATCH: What Is Sitting Down Doing to Your Health?
- A New Drug Lets Paralysed Animals Move After Spinal Cord Injury
- WATCH: Take a Tour of The World's Largest Body Farm
- WATCH: How to Pick a Cologne, According to Science
- New Material Uses The Cold Darkness of The Universe to Cool Your House
- Smoking Leads to Y Chromosome Loss And a Higher Risk of Cancer in Men
- Smarter Prosthetics Will Help Make Humans Even Faster
- Discovery of Oldest Engravings "Rewrites Human History"
- WATCH: Sulphuric Acid Melting a Sponge in Slow Motion
- Stephen Hawking's New Speech System Will Be Open-Source
- HIV Appears to Be Evolving Into Less Deadly, Less Infectious Form
- Nature Makes Research Papers Open-Access to The Public
- Welcome to Whale Bone Alley – Siberia's Eerie Answer to Stonehenge
- DNA Evidence Proves These ARE Richard III's Bones
- WATCH: This Will Revolutionise Education
- Breaking: NASA Is Sending Humans to Mars
- This Parasitic Fungus Is Worth More Than Its Weight in Gold
- Study Proves We CAN See 'Invisible' Infrared Light
- Needle-Free Measles Vaccine Deemed Safe in First Clinical Trials
- WATCH: An Ode to Curiosity
- First Trials of a New Breast Cancer Vaccine Show Promising Results
- Linguistic Family Tree Reveals The Roots of Nordic Languages
- World-First Artificial Enzymes Suggest Life Doesn't Need DNA or RNA
- New Study Reveals What It Feels Like to Wake Up During Surgery
- Evidence Suggests Jason And The Golden Fleece Was Based on True Events
- WATCH: The Count From Sesame Street Count Pi to 10,000 Places
- WATCH: Drone Captures Haunting Footage of Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone
- Search For The World's First Zero Leads to The Home of Angkor Wat
- WATCH: The World's Favourite Number – Why We Love 7
- Rare Double-Yolk Eggs Are Hitting The Market by The Dozen