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- Can Astronomy Explain The Biblical Star of Bethlehem?
- Six Amazing Dinosaur Discoveries That Changed The World
- How Einstein's General Theory of Relativity Killed Off Common-Sense Physics
- Mondays And January 1st Really Are The Best Days For Setting New Goals
- The Beauty of Eintein's General Theory of Relativity
- Sugar-Free Candy And Soft Drinks Are Just as Bad For Your Teeth, Warn Dental Experts
- The CDC Wants 1 in 4 Sexually Active Gay Men to Take The HIV Prevention Pill
- The Crash Site of Apollo 16's Rocket Booster Has Been Spotted on The Moon
- Scientists Just Saw a Black Hole Eat a Star And Spit Some of It Back Out For The First Time Ever
- 7 of The World's Most Spectacular Weather Events – And What Causes Them
- Bosses Like Employees Who Arrive Early, According to Science
- Japan Stuns World by Announcing It Will Resume Whaling in Antarctic Ocean Despite Ban
- A New Start-Up Wants to Transfer Your Consciousness to an Artificial Body So You Can Live Forever
- How to Solve a Rubik's Cube in 5 Seconds
- Scientists Have Discovered How Early Alzheimer's Destroys Brain Connections
- Plant Lamps Powered by Soil Nutrients Bring Electricity to Remote Areas of Peru
- Scientists Have Developed a Power Cell That Harnesses Electricity From Algae
- The LHC Is Now Colliding Lead Ions at Record-Breaking Energy Levels
- Watch: Here's What We Know About The Biology of HIV/AIDS
- New 'Invisible' Nano-Wires Hide From The Sun For Increased Solar Cell Efficiency
- Diamond Nanothread Rivals Graphene as The Next Big Wonder Material
- New Criteria For What Makes a Planet Means Pluto Still Doesn't Make The Cut
- Can Champagne Really Improve Your Memory And Stave Off Dementia?
- Here's What Your Music Taste Says About Your Personality
- This New Climate-Friendly Rice Has Been Named One of 2015's Top Scientific Developments
- Engineers Are Teaching Robots to Say "No", But It's For Our Own Good
- Male And Female Brains Age Differently, New Study Finds
- Watch: Here's How Astronauts Prepare Their Thanksgiving Meal in Space
- Who Owns Space? US Asteroid-Mining Act Is Dangerous And Potentially Illegal
- This 90-Second Time-Lapse of The Evolution of The Human Face Is Mesmerising
- Global CO2 Emissions Are Finally at a Standstill After a Decade of Rapid Growth
- Watch: Slow-Motion Sneezing Is Totally Gross But Helps Explain How We Get Sick
- Scientists Have Created a New Form of Gold That's (Almost) as Light as Air
- A Brand New Particle Has Been Predicted by Physicists
- Physicists Just Sent a Quantum Message Across 2km, Setting a New Record
- This New Touchscreen Material Could See The End of Daily Smartphone Charging
- Is Double-Dipping a Food Safety Problem or Just a Nasty Habit?
- Researchers Have Figured Out How to Store The Entire Internet in a Test Tube
- Scientists Have Come Up With an Explanation For That 'Alien Megastructure' Star
- Watch: Here's Why Hovering a Helicopter Is Hilariously Hard
- Scientists Have Discovered a Material That Could Create Quantum Optical Computers
- Just US$11 Could Make Your Entire Holiday Carbon-Free, Researchers Say
- Will Humans Ever Be Able to Control The Weather?
- #LOTRyourResearch Is The Funniest Thing We've Read All Week
- The Tardigrade Genome Has Been Sequenced, And It's Even Weirder Than We Thought
- Your Gut Bacteria Are Controlling Your Appetite, Study Finds
- Scientists Have Charted The Optimal Route to Mars
- Scientists Have Developed Gene-Edited Mosquitoes That Can't Transmit Malaria
- Scientists 'Induce' Flatworms to Grow Heads And Brains of Other Species
- This Road in California Suddenly Rose Up And Crumbled And No One Knows Why
- Earth Might Be Surrounded by Giant 'Hairs' of Dark Matter
- Here's Why Sleeping in on The Weekend Can Be Bad For Your Health
- Scientists Are Building Computers That Can Give Us Artificial Brain Boosts
- Watch: Here's How Climate Change Is Causing Mass Migrations
- Bilingual People Are Twice as Likely to Recover From a Stroke, Study Finds
- Watch: The Strange Science of The Placebo Effect
- Private Space Company, Blue Origin, Just Released Incredible Footage of Its Reusable Rocket Landing
- Do You Share More Genes With Your Mother or Your Father?
- If You Keep Your Eyes Open When You Sneeze, Would They Pop Out?
- We're at Risk of Developing Entirely New Allergies as Adults – And Here's Why
- We Should All Be Eating Seaweed Every Day, Say Food Experts
- Ancient DNA Reveals How Agriculture Changed Our Height, Digestion, And Skin Colour
- This Giant Moroccan Solar Plant Will Bring Energy to 1 Million People
- This New 'Death Perfume' Could Ward Off Zombies in The Apocalypse
- Here's How The Way You're Born Could Affect Your Brain Development
- Mars Could Gain a Ring Like Saturn's Due to The Impending Destruction of Its Moon Phobos
- Li-Fi Has Just Been Tested in The Real World, And It's 100 Times Faster Than Wi-Fi
- A Parasitic Worm Appears to Be Making Some Women More Fertile
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Best Quotes Will Make You Fall in Love With Science All Over Again
- Watch: What Is a Thought Made of?
- This New Fertility Test Can Warn Women if They're Running Out of Eggs
- Italy's Earthquake Scientists Have Been Cleared For Good
- World's First Cyber-Plants Fuse Electronics With Roses
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Shock The Salt Out of Seawater
- There Are Now Only Three Northern White Rhinos Left on The Planet
- New Fingerprint Technique Can Reveal Whether You're Male or Female
- Researchers Just Made Graphene 100 Times More Cheaply Than Ever Before
- Everyone Is Freaking Out After This Beautiful Nudibranch Washed Up in Australia
- Watch: The Science of Genetic Inheritance Is Weirder Than We Thought
- Look Up! The Pleiades Star Cluster Shines Brightest This Month
- Finally, There Are More Young Americans Who 'Believe' in Evolution Than Creationism
- Universal Diets Don't Work Because 'Healthy' Foods Differ by Individual, Study Finds
- Here's Where Your Favourite Drink Sits in The Sustainability Ranks
- The US National Institutes of Health Says It Will No Longer Test on Chimpanzees
- The UK Says It Will Close All Its Coal Power Stations by 2025
- Can You Really Die From a Broken Heart?
- Here's How 139 Countries Could Run on 100% Wind, Solar, And Hydro Power by 2050
- The Results Are in: China (Still) Has The Fastest Computer in The World
- This Is The Chemical Laptop That NASA Will Use to Look For Life on Mars
- The World's Second Largest Diamond Has Been Unearthed in Botswana
- Scientists Are Developing Sausages That Could Lower Your Risk of Colon Cancer
- Is Whole Milk Better For You Than Low-Fat Options?
- New Wi-Fi Technology Transmits Both Energy And Internet From One Router
- Theoretical Physicist Proposes Radical New Hypothesis For Why Humans Exist
- The Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Is Being Blasted by Superflares, Dashing Hopes For Life
- Nearby Galaxy Contains Highest Concentration of Dark Matter Ever Detected
- Taste Comes From The Brain, Not The Tongue, Scientists Discover
- An Entire Ancient Island Has Been Rediscovered in The Aegean
- Scientists Have Grown Functioning Vocal Cord Tissue For The First Time
- Scientists Have Observed a Planet Forming For The First Time Ever
- Watch: This Is What Anaesthetic Does to Your Brain
- Science Says That Technology Is Speeding Up Our Brains' Perception of Time
- Watch: Does Hypnotism Have Any Scientific Basis?
- Play These 6 Video Games to Help Improve Your Problem-Solving Skills
- Meet The Five Most Earth-Like Exoplanets in The Universe (That We Know About)
- Scientists Create Single-Molecule 'Nanosubmarines' Powered by Light
- Scientists Faking Data Use Puzzling Jargon to Cover Their Tracks
- Fat Cells Change The Nutrients They Consume as They Mature
- This New Battery Charges 10 Times Faster Than The One in Your Smartphone
- Medicated Eye Drops Can Slow Down The Development of Nearsightedness in Kids
- Alcoholism Drug Brings Dormant HIV Virus Out of Hiding
- Common Genetic Mutation Linked to Reckless Drunken Behaviour
- Tooth DNA Confirms Ancient Cousins Lived Alongside Homo Sapiens And Neanderthals
- Short Circuit Leaves ISS Astronauts With One Less Power Channel Until 2016
- A Cosmologist Says He's Found Possible Signs of a Parallel Universe
- Watch: The Terrifying Truth About Bananas
- Scientists Use a Laser to Cool Liquid Things Down For First Time Ever
- First Map of Earth's Hidden Groundwater Reserves Shows We're Using Them Too Quickly
- Animal Magnetic Sense Explained by Tiny Protein 'Compasses'
- Researchers Have Written Quantum Code on a Silicon Chip For The First Time
- Here's Why Cats Are Fussy Eaters But Dogs Will Consume Almost Anything
- Neurologists Have Found a Scientific Explanation For Your Lack of Motivation
- World's Smallest Pacemaker Results in 51% Fewer Complications in Global Trial
- Here's How You Can Figure Out if You're Living in a Parallel Universe
- Watch: The Science of Awkwardness
- NASA Just Gave This Aspiring Journalist His First Big Break Via Humans of New York
- Scientists Have Found a (Partial) Explanation For The 'Blood Rain' in Spain
- We've Been Fighting Morning Breath All Wrong
- Surgeons Have Successfully Performed The Most Extensive Face Transplant Ever
- If a Self-Driving Car Gets Pulled Over For a Traffic Violation, Who Gets The Ticket?
- The DNA of a Boy Sacrificed by The Inca Suggests a Lost, Ancient Lineage
- Avoid Crunchy Toast And Crispy Potatoes in Home Cooking, Food Experts Warn
- Scientists Think a Whole New Type of Life Form Could Be Living in Our Guts
- Humans Have Kept Honeybees For at Least 9,000 Years, Archaeological Evidence Suggests
- The First Ever Weather Map Has Been Made For a Planet Outside Our Solar System
- Artificial Neurons Learn Human Language by Communicating With Scientists
- This New Laser Could Make Things Hotter Than The Centre of The Sun Almost Instantly
- Watch: Here's What Happened When a Teenager Stayed Awake For 11 Days Straight
- A New Artificial Nose Can Detect When Food Is About to Go Bad
- Experimental Alzheimer's Drug Shows Anti-Ageing Effects, Surprising Researchers
- Watch: How to Escape From a Car Window Thanks to Physics
- This Video Explains Rocket Science Using Only The 1,000 Most Common Words
- New Test Can Identify Cancer From a Single Drop of Blood With 96% Accuracy
- Ants Respond as a Collective "Superorganism" When They Sense a Predator
- Scientists Have Created The First Ever Porous Liquid
- This New Ultra-Sensitive Instrument Will Hunt Down Dark Matter
- This New Robot Eats Water Pollution And Produces Electricity as It Swims
- Study Suggests Little-Known STI Has Infected More Than 200,000 People in UK
- Children's Self-Esteem Is Established by The Age of Five, Says a New Report
- First Uterus Transplants to Begin in The US to Help Infertile Women
- From Newton to Einstein: The Origins of General Relativity
- The Deadly Truth About Loneliness
- Explainer: What Is Mass?
- This Unique Drone Can Fly Indefinitely And Doesn't Need to Land
- A Mysterious Piece of Space Junk Is Headed For Earth Tomorrow – Here's How to Watch
- Watch: This Is What Happens to Your Body After You Eat Sugar
- This Map Shows Which Countries Consume The Most Calories Every Day
- Mystery Illness And Fainting Sweep Through a Crowd of Students in The UK
- Science Says That Working When Ill Is Bad For You – And Your Company
- New Study Suggests We're Sending Our Kids to School Too Young
- Scientists Develop 'Nanopores' That Inexpensively Filter The Salt Out of Seawater
- NASA's Released a Prototype of The Spacesuit Astronauts Will Wear on Mars
- The Closest Exoplanet So Far Has Been Discovered, And It's Got Astronomers Excited
- Algae Has Been Engineered to Kill Cancer Cells And Leave Healthy Cells Unharmed
- Mars' Moon Phobos Is in The Process of Shattering Apart, NASA Says
- Watch: Scientists Figure Out How Long Humans Could Really Survive in Fallout
- QUIZ: Are You Smart Enough to Be a NASA Astronaut?
- Fireballs Are Falling to Earth This Week – Here's How to Watch Them
- These Cell 'Clocks' Can Indicate The Approach of Cancer And Impending Death
- Yep, Science Confirms That Quitting Facebook Makes People Happier
- Just One Energy Drink Could Increase Risk of Heart Disease, Experts Warn
- For The First Time, Chimpanzees Have Been Observed Caring For a Disabled Infant
- Science Textbooks Are Teaching Kids That Climate Change Is Debatable
- Thermal Scans Have Revealed a Strange 'Anomaly' in The Great Pyramid of Giza
- 40 Patients Are About to Be Infected With Hookworms to Treat Gluten Intolerance
- Watch: Why Grandmothers Are So Important to Our Species' Survival
- Graphene Can Create Super-Powerful Night Vision Lenses That Are Just One Atom Thick
- One-Third of The World's Remaining Orangutans Are Now at Risk From Indonesia's Fires
- These Spectacular Clouds Over Cape Town Aren't UFOs, But They Are Out of This World
- The Planet Closest to Our Solar System Might Have Just Disappeared
- Austria's Largest State Now Gets 100 Percent of Its Electricity From Renewables
- Scientists Have Breached The Blood-Brain Barrier For The First Time to Treat a Brain Tumour
- Watch an Aussie Inventor Jetpack Around The Statue of Liberty
- SeaWorld Is Phasing Out The Killer Whale Shows in Its San Diego Park
- Interactive Images Show What Long-Term Sea Level Rise Will Do to Our Iconic Cities
- Scientists Have Found a Way to 3D-Print Embryonic Stem Cell 'Building Blocks'
- Premature Ejaculation Isn't an Illness And Shouldn't Be Treated, Study Suggests
- Take The Bus or Train to Work to Avoid Diabetes And Weight Gain, Study Suggests
- Yes, There's Been an Apparent Increase in Australian Shark Attacks. No, You Don't Need to Panic
- Driverless Cars Will Change The Way We Think of Car Ownership
- New Artificial Material Mimics Photosynthesis to Create Clean, Self-Sustaining Energy Source
- So Far There Are No Signs of Life Coming From The 'Alien Megastructure' Star
- New Discovery Changes Everything We Know About How Blood Is Made
- Watch: The First Footage Ever of One of The World's Most Elusive Whale Species
- Astronomers Think The Largest Planets of All Could Be Hiding From View
- The White House Is Prepping For a Huge Solar Storm That Could Kick Us Back Into The Dark Ages
- No Matter How Old We Get, Science Shows Some of Us Carry on Reading Like Children
- Why Sleep Interruptions Could Be Worse For You Than a Lack of Sleep
- This Bacteria-Killing Paint Could Be Used to Keep Hospitals Sterile
- Scientists Have Discovered Why High-Intensity Interval Training Is So Effective
- Watch: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains How Lightsabers Could Really Work
- This 'Balloon in a Pill' Expands in Your Stomach to Kill Food Cravings
- Scientists Have Finally Measured The Force That Holds Antimatter Together
- This Infographic Explains Why Junk Food Isn't to Blame For Obesity (Updated)
- This Cancer-Causing Parasite Secretes a Chemical That Can Heal Wounds
- Watch: How Do We Avoid Becoming The Next Atlantis?
- Watch: Mind-Blowing Facts About Your Body
- Study Finds Religion Actually Tends to Make Kids Less Generous
- China Emits Nearly 1 Billion Tonnes More CO2 a Year Than It Discloses, Report Claims
- Injections Given Every 8 Weeks Suppress HIV Just as Well as Daily Pills, Trial Finds
- A Man Has Contracted Cancer From a Tapeworm For The First Time Ever
- Gene Editing Has Saved The Life of a Girl With "Incurable" Leukaemia
- Here's How Scientists Know The Pyramids Were Built to Store Pharaohs, Not Grain
- Were Wolves Dependent on Humans Long Before They Became Man's Best Friend?
- The Universe Really Is Weird: a Landmark Quantum Experiment Has Finally Proved It So
- It's Official: NASA Announces Mars' Atmosphere Was Stripped Away by Solar Winds
- This Infographic Reveals The Daily Habits of Naturally Slim People
- EM Drive Is Reportedly Still Producing Thrust After Another Round of NASA Testing
- Middle East May Be Uninhabitable This Century Due to Deadly Heat, Study Finds
- Amazing Photos of Scientists in The Field Break Down Stereotypes
- Burning Waste Could Provide Africa With 20% of Its Electricity Needs
- Three Dogs Have Had a "Nasty Encounter" With a Porcupine in Canada
- Liverpool Has Become The First City to Open Fast Walking Lanes
- BIG NEWS: NASA's Put a Call Out For New Astronauts to Crew Missions to Mars
- Watch: The Best Explanation of String Theory We've Seen
- This Simple System Purifies All The Drinking Water For a Remote Mexican Village
- Watch a 2,300 Kg Piece of Space Junk Collide With Earth
- Women's Risk of Ovarian Cancer Lowers With Each Extra Baby, Study Finds
- One of The Grandest Structures Ever Built Could Be Reborn in Greece
- Our Solar System Might Have Had Another Planet, But Jupiter Kicked It Out
- Anti-Vaccers Spread Misinformation as 'Science' to Get Parents on Side, Study Finds
- Scientists Have Found a Gene That Could Be The Key to Growing Food in Space
- NASA Is Making a Big Announcement About Mars' Atmosphere This Thursday
- Watch: Amazing Dashcam Videos Show Fireball Meteor Blazing Across Bangkok Skyline
- Researchers Create Lithium-Air Battery That Could Be 10x More Powerful Than Lithium-Ion
- Scotland to Build World's Largest Floating Wind Farm
- Asthma Drug Appears to Rejuvenate Elderly Brains, Rodent Study Finds
- Poorly Ventilated Office Spaces Really Do Slow Down Our Cognitive Performance
- NASA Can't Explain Who Made These Huge, 8,000-Year-Old Structures in Kazakhstan
- The UK Has Just Invested in a Super Plane That Could Fly Anywhere in Four Hours
- Japanese Scientists Have Created Glass That's Pretty Much Unbreakable
- Watch: This Is How Sugar Affects Your Brain
- Watch 15 Years of International Space Station Construction in Just 2 Minutes
- These Beautiful Clouds Look Like Perfectly Breaking Waves
- Brushing Your Teeth in The Dark Could Be The Key to a Better Night's Sleep
- Study Suggests Your Pet Cat Is Probably Just as Neurotic as You Are
- Indiegogo Is Helping Climate Change Deniers Raise Money to Derail Paris Talks
- Antarctica Is Gaining More Ice Than It's Losing, NASA Study Finds
- The Taurid Meteor Swarm Peaks This Week, With Visible Fireballs Predicted