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- Officials Just Announced The End For Your Favourite Comet-Orbiting Probe
- Astronomers Might Have Finally Figured Out What Ceres' Weird Bright Spot Is Made of
- Sony Says Their New Robots Will Form Emotional Bonds With Us
- Here's How Space Affects Men And Women Differently
- These 50-Cent Strips Can Detect Cancer And Malaria From Home
- We've Missed Our Chance to Seriously Stop Climate Change, Study Finds
- This 6,000-Year-Old Tomb Might Have Been The World's First Astronomy Telescope
- Scientists Are Using Tiny Mirrors to Capture The Most Detailed 3D Images of Cell Structures Ever
- Scientists Want to Use Parasitic Worms to Treat Multiple Sclerosis
- San Francisco Just Banned All Polystyrene Products in The City
- This Illusion Lets You 'Feel' The Invisible Force Field Around Your Body
- 107 Nobel Laureates Just Signed a Letter Slamming Greenpeace Over GMOs
- A Huge Internet Cable Connecting The US And Japan Is About to Go Live
- Baby Cuteness Isn't Just a Visual Thing, Say Scientists
- Turns Out Dung Beetles Navigate Using The Stars
- Here's Why People Make Bad Decisions And Don't Listen to Experts
- WATCH: This Simple Triangle Will Change The Way You Think About Maths Forever
- These Mushrooms Eat Plastic Waste – And Then You Can Eat Them
- AI Just Defeated a Human Fighter Pilot in an Air Combat Simulator
- Whoa, Scientists Are Making Lava in The Lab So They Can Blow It Up
- This Robot Keeps Trying to Escape a Lab in Russia
- WATCH: The First Video of a Great White Shark Sleeping
- This Is What The Best-Before Dates on Your Food Actually Mean
- Mercury Could Be Made From a Rare Type of Meteorite, Say Astronomers
- Light Pollution Might Be Making Spring Start a Week Early, Scientists Find
- This 5,000-Year-Old Artefact Shows Ancient Workers Were Paid in Beer
- Two Zika Vaccines Are Gearing Up For Human Trials After Success in Mice
- NASA Just Tested The Rocket Booster That'll Take Us to Mars
- Scientists Say They've Developed Aspirin That Crosses The Blood-Brain Barrier
- Researchers Just Linked Chronic Fatigue to Changes in Gut Bacteria
- WATCH: The Physics Behind This Crazy Stringless Yo-Yo
- 99-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bird Wings Found Preserved in Amber
- Researchers Think They've Finally Figured Out What Causes Migraines
- Astronomers Just Discovered a "Stealth Black Hole" Hiding Inside Our Galaxy
- Girls Are Going Through Puberty Earlier Than Ever Before, With Long-Term Health Risks
- Scientists Just Showed You Can Hack an Offline PC by Listening to Its Fans
- Scientists Think They Finally Know How Dogs Sniff Out Diabetes
- Scientists Just Discovered a Massive Field of Precious Helium Gas in Africa
- Scientists Just Found a Huge Reservoir of Water Below California
- This Rainbow Corn Actually Exists. Here's How
- Scientists Just Found a Way to Make Broccoli Even Healthier
- This Was The First Music Ever Played on a Computer
- Researchers Have Developed a Formula to Explain Why Some People Are Such Jerks
- Scientists Find a Way to Make Computers Generate Totally Random Numbers
- Researchers Think We Might Need to Live in Cities of 'Bone' in The Future
- Scientists Show Dogs Are a Wonderful Source of Comfort After a Tragedy
- Scientists Claim The US Government Is Still Limiting Cannabis Research
- Smartphone Users Experience Temporary Blindness After Checking Their Screens in Bed
- Scientist Claims He's Discovered a Magnetic 'Sixth Sense' in Humans
- Just 30 Minutes of Nature a Week Could Reduce Your Risk of Depression And Heart Disease
- WATCH: This Is Humanity's Origin Story
- Hubble Just Found a 'Dark Vortex' on Neptune
- Why Asteroid Mining Could Dictate Our Entire Future in Space
- How General Relativity Is Helping Scientists Map The Universe
- Gas Giants Could Have a Layer of Mysterious 'Dark Hydrogen'
- Here's Everything That Happens on The Internet in a Single Second
- Here's How Dangerously Bad We Are at Guessing The Speed of Oncoming Trains
- Scientists Are Finally Figuring Out Why You Only Get Mitochondrial DNA From Your Mum
- Physicists Just Used a Quantum Computer to Simulate Antimatter Creation
- WATCH: Here's How to Destroy Things With Liquid Nitrogen
- Astronomers Just Switched on a Device That Lets Them Observe The Milky Way's Black Hole
- 'Brain Training' Is Just The Placebo Effect Working, Study Finds
- Scientists Discover The First Contagious Cancer That Can Spread Between Species
- Our Universe Could Be Crowded With Way More Black Holes Than We Thought
- Mens' Willingness to Use Condoms Might Depend on How Hot Their Partner Is
- Scientists Have Invented a Mind-Reading Machine That Visualises Your Thoughts
- WATCH: This Flaming Crater Has Been Burning For More Than 40 Years
- This Topographically Accurate 'Lunar Globe' Is The Coolest Way to Explore The Moon
- Looks Like Pluto's Got Liquid Water Ocean Hidden Beneath The Surface
- Massive Study of Australia's Gun Laws Shows One Thing: They Work
- Hundreds of Genes Spring to Life Up to 4 Days After Death, Scientists Find
- Scientists Just Found a Compound That Kills 98% of a Drug-Resistant Bacteria
- India Just Launched 20 Satellites in 26 Minutes And Made History
- Scientists Want to Use Bacteria to Clean Up Oil Spills – And It Could Actually Work
- Meet Mosha, The First Elephant to Receive a Prosthetic Leg
- The ISS Just Installed a Network to Form an 'Internet' For The Solar System
- A Promising Anti-Ageing Drug Is About to Undergo Human Trials For The First Time
- A Federal Panel Just Gave The Green Light to Use Gene Editing on Humans
- For The First Time, a US College Had More Female Engineering Graduates Than Men
- Astronomers Discover 'Wind Nebula' Around The Most Powerful Magnet in The Universe
- Elon Musk's New Company Is Developing Robots to Do Your Housework
- A Strange, Low-Pitched Sound Is Coming From The Caribbean Sea
- Experts Says a 'Space Base' Halfway Between The Moon And Earth Could Be Built in 10 Years
- Microsoft Just Demonstrated How Bad Chrome Is For Your Laptop's Battery
- Scientists Are Applying Naked Mole-Rats' Cancer Resistance to Humans
- These Newborn Planets Are Two of The Youngest Ever Detected
- Astronomers Have Successfully Crowdfunded an 'Alien Megastructure' Study
- A UK Zoo Has Been Releasing Hundreds of Huge Spiders Into The Wild
- Iceland's Been Named The Most Peaceful Place on Earth For 6 Years Running
- Scientists Just Cut 20% of The Fat Out of Chocolate Using Electrical Fields
- Scientists Have Developed Solar Cells 100 Times Thinner Than a Human Hair
- Breast Cancer Growth Is Halted by Osteoporosis Drug, Study Finds
- This Researcher Is Developing an App to Stop Domestic Violence Attitudes in Teens
- Researchers Find Genes in Algae That Could Stop Coral Bleaching
- Tim Peake Says He's Got The "World's Worst Hangover" After 6 Months in Space
- The FDA Just Approved The First Human Trials of a Zika Vaccine
- Scientists Have Invented a Tiny Flying Robot That Can Perch to Save Energy
- WATCH: Why The Solar System Is Almost Entirely Flat
- 93% of Mammals Were Likely Killed Off With The Dinosaurs
- Exercise Really Can Boost Your Memory, Study Finds
- Here's Why Humans Have an Innate Desire to Get High
- Scientists Just Unveiled The World's First 1,000-Processor Computer Chip
- Physicists Just Sent 'Twisted Light' 143 Kilometres to Set a New World Record
- Astronomers Have Figured Out How Black Hole Jets Burst Through Their Galaxies
- Look Up! This Week's Solstice Coincides With a Strawberry Moon
- Small Trial Shows Memory Loss From Alzheimer's Disease Can Be Reversed
- China Is Predicted to Announce The World's First 100 PetaFLOPS Computer Tomorrow
- Scientists Just Turned Plastic Bottles And Bags Into Liquid Fuel
- A Mysterious Object Just Made a Dent in One of Saturn's Rings
- Canada's Forests Might Be More Resilient to Global Warming Than We Thought
- Glow-in-The-Dark Cement Could Soon Light Up a City Near You
- There Are Now 234 Pregnant Women in The US With Confirmed Zika Virus
- NASA's Juno Spacecraft Is Almost at Jupiter
- Want to Drink Better-Tasting Coffee? Freeze Your Beans, Say Scientists
- WATCH: How Do You Tell Time in The Universe?
- This Massive Blanket of Crabs Crawled Right Out of Your Nightmares
- You Can Now Send Your Fam The Universe With an Envelope of Constellations
- Scientists Have Created Living Concrete That Repairs Itself
- Scientists Just Detected The Most Distant Oxygen in The Universe
- Physicists Say They've Figured Out How to 'See' Inside a Black Hole
- These 38 Colleges Are Getting Rid of Textbooks to Save Students Money
- WATCH: This Guy Used 1,000 Bedbugs to Give Himself a Tattoo
- This Is The First Photo of an Exoplanet Candidate 1,200 Light-Years Away
- Scientists Have Finally Figured Out What Causes Volcanic Lightning
- Hyperloop One Is Taking Its Crazy Transport System Underwater
- Earth Has a Second, 'Mini' Moon, Says NASA
- Here's Why Listening to Sad Music Makes You Feel Better
- Scientists Are Using Brain-Opening 'Microbubbles' to Make Chemo More Effective
- Playing This Simple Game Boosts The Mathematical Ability of Five-Year-Olds
- This Is The End of The Fossil Fuel Age as We Know It, Says Report
- This Is Probably Your Only Chance to See This Super-Rare Mole Above Ground
- WATCH: This Is The Crazy Supercomputer That Controls Formula 1 Cars
- WATCH: Here's How Engineers Are Turning CO2 Into Stone
- Scientists Have Invented a Machine That Lets Us Communicate With Plants
- Scientists Just Discovered Methyl Alcohol in a Nearby Planet-Forming Disc
- Physicists Suggest We Might Have Just Found Dark Matter While Detecting Gravitational Waves
- New Paper Claims That The EM Drive Doesn't Defy Newton's 3rd Law After All
- WATCH: 3 Simple Ways to Time Travel (Plus 3 Complicated Ones)
- What's The Point of Theoretical Physics?
- The FDA Just Approved This Gross Weight-Loss Device That Sucks Food From Your Stomach
- This 2,100-Year-Old Computer Could Predict Eclipses
- These Are The Trees NASA Predicts Will Get Hit Hardest by Climate Change
- Coffee Doesn't Cause Cancer, But Extremely Hot Drinks Might, Says WHO
- This Mysterious Object Could Be The First 'Extinct' Meteorite Ever Found
- Scientists Accidentally Created Nanorods That Harvest Water From The Air
- It's Official: May Is Now Earth's Hottest on Record
- Cats Seem to Use The Simple Laws of Physics to Hunt Down Prey
- Physicists Just Detected Gravitational Waves For The Second Time Ever
- This Is The First Mammal to Go Extinct Because of Human-Caused Climate Change
- Researchers Have Produced a New Type of Sonic Boom to Turn Energy Into Light
- Scientists Just Detected This Life-Forming Molecule in Interstellar Space For The First Time
- WATCH LIVE: SpaceX Is About to Launch One of Its Most Ambitious Missions So Far
- US Egg Farmers Say They'll Finally Stop Culling Millions of Newborn Male Chicks
- Physicists Have Mixed Matter And Light at Room Temperature For The First Time
- We'll Need to Wait 1,500 Years Before Alien Contact Becomes Likely, Scientists Say
- Here's How to Live Stream This Friday's Blue Origin Launch (And Crash Landing)
- An Irish Worker Just Found a 2,000-Year-Old Lump of 'Bog Butter' That's Still Edible
- Curiosity Just Found Evidence of Ancient Monster Volcanoes on Mars
- Sorry, Sleeping More Won't Necessarily Fix Your Bad Memory
- This Is The Watery Grave The ISS Will Plummet Into
- This Crazy New Material Can Trap And Recycle Radioactive Nuclear Fuel
- Astronomers Say There Could Be at Least 2 More Mystery Planets in Our Solar System
- WATCH: What Colour Is a Mirror?
- Chemists Say They Finally Know How to Make Soft, Delicious Gluten-Free Bread
- Scientists Might Have Finally Figured Out Where The Rarest Crystals on Earth Formed
- Scientists Just Discovered The Largest 'Tatooine' Planet Yet Orbiting Two Suns
- Depressing Paper Suggests Cancer's an Evolutionary Mechanism to 'Autocorrect' Our Gene Pool
- WATCH: A Sh*tty Explanation of The Theory of Everything
- A Professor Explains How 1980s Game Theory Could Explain How Morality Evolved
- A Major Assumption About How The Brain Processes Depression Could Be in Question
- 5 Obstacles We Need to Overcome Before Head Transplants Can Become a Thing
- A Third of Us Can't See The Milky Way Anymore, And It's Messing With Our Health
- Meet The Terrifying New Robot That Was Built Just to Stab People
- Human 'Body Farm' Reveals We Need to Stop Using Pigs to Establish Time of Death
- Sorry Guys, Practice Alone Won't Make You Good at Sports
- Scientists Have Produced a New Kind of Particle That Carries Energy
- Laser Technology Reveals Huge Medieval Cities Hidden in The Cambodian Jungle
- People Who Value Time Over Money Are Happier, Study Finds
- Autism Isn't Just a Brain Condition, New Evidence Suggests
- Archaeologists Think They Finally Know What Happened to These 14 Headless Corpses
- This New Drug Is Super Effective at Clearing Up Severe Psoriasis, Trials Find
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Use Bacteria as Living Hard Drives
- An Extreme New Treatment Has Cured Patients of MS
- Physicists Just Quantum Entangled 10 Photon Pairs And Set a New World Record
- Scientists Discover That This Victoria's Secret Perfume Repels Mosquitoes
- Australian Spiders Try to Flee Floods, Cover Town With a Giant Web Instead
- Astronomers Have Discovered a Potential New Planet Locked in a Death Spiral
- Explainer: How to Find an Exoplanet
- A New Patent Means Google Glass Might Soon Have Night Vision
- These Simple Water Bottle Lamps Are Bringing Light to Those in Need
- Black Holes Could Be 'Back Doors' to Another Universe, Say Physicists
- This Fish Tank Is Filled With Ingenious 3D-Printed Coral
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Turn CO2 Into Solid Rock Within Months
- This Seagull Turned Bright Orange After Falling Into a Vat of Chicken Tikka Masala
- Here's The Longest People Have Survived Without Air, Food, Water, Sunshine, or Sleep
- Scientists Are Using Mobile Mitochondria to Repair Damaged Nerve Cells
- WATCH: Here's What Happens When You Shoot a Gun in Space
- Scientists Just Discovered a Worm Living Inside Poisonous, Sulphur Caves
- Elon Musk Says We're Going to Need Brain Implants to Compete With AI
- Astronomers Just Caught Rain Falling on a Black Hole For The First Time Ever
- This Abandoned Town Has Been Filling With Sand For 50 Years
- Scientists Found Something Strange When They Looked at The Brains of Pot Smokers
- Scott Kelly Says His Feet Still Hurt 3 Months After His Year in Space
- Scientists Have Developed a Blood Test That Detects Early Alzheimer's Disease
- Physicists Confirm There's a Second Layer of Information Hidden in Our DNA
- This Gigantic Sinkhole in Ottawa Just Took Out a 4-Lane Road
- The 4 Newest Elements on The Periodic Table Have Just Been Named
- 4-Year-Year Olds Should Be Learning About Robots at School, Says Expert
- This New Blood Test Could Personalise Depression Treatments For The First Time
- Here's Why There Are No Monkeys Native to North America
- Scientists Just Successfully Measured Movement Smaller Than an Atom in Space
- The US Government Is Running The Biggest Earthquake Simulation Ever
- We're Getting Closer Than Ever to Replacing Animal Testing With Computer Chips
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Embed Light-Emitting Nanoparticles Into Glass
- Study Reveals Which Celebrities Are Paid Millions to Endorse Junk Food And Soda
- This NASA Legend Just Unveiled a Tech Startup to Beat Intel And Google
- Scientists Just Found The Remains of a 700,000-Year-Old 'Hobbit'
- It's Official: There Are No More 'Untouched' Places Left on Earth
- Physicists Hint at a Mysterious New 'Particle X' Messing With Our Universe
- This Fish Trapped Inside a Jellyfish Is Probably Having a Worse Day Than You
- Here's Why New York City Smells So Rancid in The Summer
- The Entire US Healthcare System Is Taking Advantage of You. Here's How
- WATCH: This Is What Lightning Looks Like at 7,000 Frames Per Second
- Scientists Have Recorded This Eerie 'Music' From 13-Billion-Year-Old Stars
- Scientists Might Have Just Solved The Riddle of How Old Earth's Magnetic Field Is
- Physicists Are Using This New Algorithm to Take The First-Ever Image of a Black Hole
- Stop Your Computer From Overheating by Stacking Copper Coins on It
- WATCH: Don't Be Fooled by These Common Physics Misconceptions
- Researchers Have Created a Super-Strong Optical Material Based on Butterfly Wings
- WATCH: This Floating Home Lets You Travel Across The World Off-Grid
- Renewable Energy Now Supplies Almost a Quarter of The World's Power Needs
- The US Is Close to Approving The First Ever Private Moon Mission For 2017
- Should You Worry About That Mole? Here's How to Tell
- Why Do We Get a Lump in Our Throat When We're Sad?
- Researchers Are Attempting to Grow Human Organs Inside Pigs
- Norway Could Become The First Country to Ban Gas-Powered Cars
- There Could Be a Disc of Dark Matter Cutting Through Our Galaxy
- Scientists Have Found a Way to Regenerate Failing Livers in Mice
- New Treatment Improves Pancreatic Cancer Survival Rate For The First Time in a Decade
- The Trolley Dilemma: Would You Kill One Person to Save Five?
- A Mathematician Has Built a Machine That Can Beat The Odds in Roulette
- Scientists Have Found a Human Protein That Blocks Zika Replication And Prevents Cell Death
- Scientists Discover Magma Building Up Below a Town in New Zealand
- WATCH: The Blackest Material on Earth Can Make Dense Metal Float
- Why High School Stays With Us Forever
- Scientists Are Using VR to Explore a Hydrothermal Vent at The Bottom of The Ocean
- Greece's Underwater 'Lost City' Is Actually a Naturally Occurring Rock Formation
- Researchers Have Finally Peered Behind Jupiter's Colourful Clouds
- We Can Now 'Cut And Paste' RNA in Addition to DNA, And It Could Disable Viruses
- Chile Is Producing So Much Solar Power, It's Giving It Away For Free
- After a Secret Meeting, Scientists Announce They Are Making Synthetic Human Genomes
- Dogs Were Domesticated Twice in Separate Parts of The World, Study Finds
- This New Synthetic Dog Breathes, Bleeds, And Dies For Veterinary Students
- This 90-Second Video Will Totally Change The Way You See The World
- Here's How to Make It Through The Winter Blues, According to Science
- Could Computers Replace Humans in Maths Research?
- Astronomers Just Picked Up a Hydrogen Signal From This Galaxy 5 Billion Light-Years Away
- Elon Musk Says We're Probably Characters in Some Advanced Civilisation's Video Game
- Stroke Patients Are Walking Again After Being Injected With Stem Cells
- WATCH: Does Your Body Really Regenerate Itself Every 7 Years?
- The Universe Is Growing Faster Than We Thought, And Could Rip Itself Apart
- Pluto's Famous Heart Is 'Beating', Astronomers Find
- The First Gene Therapy For Children Has Just Been Approved in Europe
- This Crazy 'Einstein Ring' Has Just Been Discovered 10,000 Million Light-Years From Earth
- Scientists Discover Extinct Snail-Eating Marsupials, Confirm Australia's Animals Are The Weirdest
- The First Babies With Zika Virus Have Been Born in Continental US
- This 12-Year-Old Just Trolled Anti-Vaxxers in The Most Brilliant Way
- We Asked a Scientist About That "Impossibly Large" Alligator
- WATCH: This Is How Formula 1 Engines Turn Exhaust Fumes Into Power
- Scientists Are About to Turn on a System That Converts Atmospheric CO2 Into Fuel
- Scientists Have Created The First Water-Repellant Metal
- This School Bus Takes Kids on a Virtual Trip to Mars
- Harambe The Gorilla's Genes Can Still Live on After His Death
- Scientists Have Performed The First Trials of a 'Universal Cancer Vaccine'
- Slovenia's Ultra-Rare 'Dragon Eggs' Are Hatching as We Speak
- Orcas Are The First Non-Human Creatures That Evolved Through Culture
- X-Rays Reveal That King Tut Was Buried With a Space Dagger
- Gravitational Waves Could Reveal a Stringy Universe, Say Physicists
- Scientists Think a Leaky Blood-Brain Barrier Could Lead to Alzheimer's
- What's The Mass of The Entire Milky Way? Astrophysicists Finally Have an Answer
- Physicists Think They Know What Planet Nine Is: an Exoplanet Stolen From Another Star
- Huge Study Shows That Teens Smoke Less Weed The More It's Legalised
- WATCH: Here's How SpaceX Plans to Land on Mars in 2018
- WATCH: You Are Actually Two Brains Living in One Person
- Scientists Have Developed a New Kind of Protein That Induces Cancer Cells to Self-Destruct
- The Case For Black Holes Being Nothing But Holograms Just Got Even Stronger
- More Than 2,000 People Have Contracted HIV Through Blood Transfusions in India
- Watch a Chick Develop And Hatch Outside of The Egg
- The Real Tragedy About The Shooting of Harambe The Gorilla