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- Scientists Think They've Figured Out Why You're Always Thirsty Before Bed
- This Newly Discovered Star System Just Broke The Luminosity Record
- This Simple Vaccine Could Finally Offer Protection Against The Common Cold
- Scientists Just Documented The First Case of Zika Spreading Through Physical Contact
- You Have a Second Brain
- This 1995 Hubble Photo Changed Astronomy Forever
- These Incredible Animations Tell The Untold Stories of Nobel Prize Winners
- Women's Breasts Start to Eat Themselves Once They're Done Breastfeeding
- 80% of Data in Chinese Clinical Trials Have Been Fabricated
- Here's How The English Language Could Sound Incredibly Different in 50 Years
- Scientists Just Discovered a Major New Source of Greenhouse Gases
- A Chicago Doctor Just Got Busted For Using 'Vaccines' Made of Cat Saliva And Vodka
- The FDA Just Approved The World's First 'Artificial Pancreas'
- One in 10 Children With HIV Have an Inbuilt Defence Against AIDS
- The "Exact Opposite" of a Palaeo Diet Is Probably Best For Long Life
- Here's Why Birds Never Crash Into Each Other in Mid-Air
- The Psychology Behind Why Clowns Creep Us Out So Much
- Bed Bugs Are Rapidly Evolving Thicker Skin to Resist Insecticides
- Having More Than 8 Fillings Could Increase Mercury Levels in Your Blood
- Sorry, But 'Muscle Memory' Might Not Actually Exist
- These Typhoon-Powered Wind Turbines Could Power Japan For 50 Years Straight
- 'Marsquakes' Could Be The Key to Life on The Red Planet
- Controversial AI Has Been Trained to Kill Humans in a Doom Deathmatch
- The United Nations Just Announced Its First Ever Space Mission
- A Swedish Scientist Is Using CRISPR to Genetically Modify Healthy Human Embryos
- Good News: People With Acne Appear to Be Protected Against The Signs of Ageing
- Happy Galactic Tick Day! You Just Moved Around The Milky Way
- Scientists Find Evidence That Life on Earth Didn't Only Originate From RNA
- Earth's CO2 Levels Just Crossed a Really Scary Threshold – And It's Permanent
- Women on The Pill Are 23% More Likely to Be Treated For Depression
- The 'Tesla of Eco-Villages' Is Developing Off-Grid Housing That Produces Its Own Food And Power
- Humans Inherited Murder Through Evolution
- Making Rocket Fuel From Water Could Drive a Power Revolution on Earth
- Physicists Have Figured Out How to Create Matter And Antimatter Using Light
- Rosetta Is About to Make Its Final Crash Into a Comet – Watch It Happen LIVE
- Turns Out, Australia Isn't Where You Think It Is
- Welcome to The World's Largest Brain Bank
- These 3.8-Million-Year-Old Eggshells Hold The World's Oldest Proteins
- Elon Musk: To Join SpaceX's First Mission to Mars, You Have to Be "Prepared to Die"
- Scientists Say Chaos Theory Could Keep Moore's Law Alive
- An Ancient Greek Algorithm Could Reveal All-New Prime Numbers
- China's Plummetting Space Station Has Revealed a Big Problem With Its Space Program
- It's Official, Measles Has Been Eliminated From The Americas
- WATCH: Elon Musk Just Unveiled The Spaceship That Will Take Passengers to Mars
- Trees Communicate Via Their Own Fungi-Based 'Internet'
- The World's First Baby Has Been Born Using a New Controversial '3-Parent' Technique
- Your Poop Could Predict Your Level of Belly Fat
- Iron Nanoparticles Have Been Shown to Kickstart The Immune System to Destroy Tumours
- WATCH: What if The World's Population All Lived in The Same City?
- Elon Musk Just Unveiled a Critical Piece of His Plan to Save Humanity by Colonising Mars
- Morning Sickness Sucks, But Could Actually Be a Good Sign
- A Rare 'Black Moon' Is Set to Rise This Friday Night
- This Roller Coaster Could Help People Pass Kidney Stones
- Time Might Only Exist in Your Head, Say Physicists
- NASA Just Detected High-Energy X-Rays in Space That Don't Come From Any Known Source
- These Maps Reveal How Earth Would Look if You Could See Gravity
- Scientists Just Restored The First Computer-Generated Music Ever
- We Just Found a Second Tectonically Active Planet in Our Solar System
- Hubble Might Have Just Caught Jets of Water Squirting Out of Europa
- These Amazing Photos Show The Aurora Australis Above a Bioluminescent Sea
- Scientists Just Discovered a New Species of Ant – in Frog Vomit
- Why The Science World Is Freaking Out Over This 25-Year-Old's Answer to Antibiotic Resistance
- The World's First Hydrogen-Powered Passenger Train Is Coming to Germany
- Horses Have Been Taught to Communicate With Humans
- Schrödinger's Cat Behaviour Has Been Filmed in Atoms For The First Time
- Two More Classic Psychology Studies Just Failed The Reproducibility Test
- These 5 Lionesses Have Grown Manes And Are Starting to Act Like Males
- Science Journalists Are Suing The FDA Over Alleged Manipulation of The News
- 99.9999999% of Your Body Is Empty Space
- This Device Pulls Clean Drinking Water Out of Thin Air
- Life "Not as We Know It" Might Be Possible on Titan
- Here's What Happens in Your Brain When You Finish Someone Else's Sentence
- Earth's Atmosphere Is Slowly Leaking Oxygen, And Scientists Aren't Sure Why
- This Portable Vaccine Kit Just Needs Added Water
- Scientists Just Demonstrated Internet Speeds 1,000 Times Faster Than Google Fibre
- Here's Why You Need to Stop Complaining About 'Fake Colours' in NASA's Photos
- Bad Science Has Misled Millions With Chronic Fatigue, Court Order Reveals
- Uh Oh, Climate Change Is Threatening The World's Coffee Supplies
- Astronomers Just Spotted Deep-Space Galaxies That Are Like Nothing We've Seen Before
- This Sonic Tractor Beam Costs Less Than $10 to Make
- 25 of The Most Iconic Images of Earth Taken From Space
- Researcher Finds Evidence That The 'World's Most Mysterious Book' Is an Elaborate Hoax
- Prehistoric Human Teeth Have Revealed What The 'Paleo Diet' Actually Entailed
- Drones Just Revealed a Hidden Settlement Near an Ancient Cult Site in Italy
- Archaeologists Think They've Found an 800-Year-Old Boomerang Victim
- Tiny Frozen Fossils Have Revealed a Worrying Secret About Antarctica
- Scientists Just 'Unwrapped' This Ancient Biblical Scroll For The First Time
- What Did The First Ever Nobel Prize Winner Discover?
- Fish Have Been Recorded Singing a Dawn Chorus – Just Like Birds
- This Is What Ötzi The Iceman Sounded Like
- NASA Can't Explain The 'Impossible' Cloud That's Been Spotted Over Titan
- Genetic Study Points to Indigenous Australians as The Oldest Continuous Society on Earth
- North Korea Just Accidentally Revealed It Only Has 28 Websites
- Astronomers Have Finally Solved The Mystery of Those Giant Green Space Blobs
- Introduce Eggs And Peanuts Early in Infants' Diets to Reduce The Risk of Allergies
- Microsoft Says It Will 'Solve' Cancer in The Next 10 Years
- Do Bears Poop When They're Hibernating?
- This Weird AF Bike Just Broke The Speed Record For Human-Powered Travel
- Feelings of Loneliness Appear to Be Partially Down to Your Genes
- Study Warns That Science as We Know It Is Evolving Into Something Shoddy And Unreliable
- NASA Says It'll Be Announcing "Surprising Activity on Europa" Next Monday
- Head Transplant Surgeon Says He's Successfully Reattached The Spinal Cords of a Bunch More Animals
- China Pretty Much Just Admitted It's Lost Control of Its Space Station
- Yes, You Really Can Make Your Own EpiPen For $30
- We Finally Know How Water Bears Became So Damn Unkillable
- There's a Reason Your Friend's Gluten-Free Diet Is Actually Making Them Feel Better
- Fitness Trackers Might Make Weight Loss Programs Less Effective
- 2,100-Year-Old Human Skeleton Has Been Found at The Mysterious Antikythera Shipwreck
- NASA's New Budget Might Cancel Their Awesome Asteroid-Capturing Mission
- How a Strange Case of Tunnel Vision Taught Scientists More About How We Perceive Things
- NASA Just Imaged The Edge of The Sun For The Very First Time
- Scientists Just Figured Out How Pluto Got Its Heart
- Quantum Teleportation Was Just Achieved Over More Than 7 Km of City Fibre
- A Robot Was Just 'Arrested' by Russian Police
- Babies Can See And Hear a Lot More Inside The Womb Than You Might Suspect
- New Paper Suggests The 'Alien Megastructure' Star Could Be Explained by Interstellar Junk
- This Is The Crazy Government Conspiracy Theory That Inspired 'Stranger Things'
- Cancer Rates Among Two Key Groups Are Declining
- Here's Why Zebras Have Never Been Domesticated
- Researchers Might Have Just Made a Drug That Gives The Cardiovascular Benefits of Working Out
- Gamers Just Outdid Scientists in a Race to Figure Out a Protein's Shape
- Blind People Can 'Repurpose' Their Visual Cortex to Solve Maths Problems
- Astronomers Think They've Finally Solved The Mystery of Rings Around Minor Planets
- New Research Shows Pigeons Can Be Taught to Read – Kind of
- Palaeontologists Can't Explain The Strange Mammoth Skull Found in a California Park
- AI Can Analyse Mammogram Results 30 Times Faster Than Doctors, And With 99% Accuracy
- Stop Freaking Out, NASA Did Not Just Change Your Zodiac Sign
- Oklahoma Had The Longest Lightning Strike on Record
- France Just Became The First Country to Ban All Plastic Plates, Cups, And Utensils
- A Fatal Tick-Borne Disease Is Now Spreading in Western Europe
- The Sun Will Destroy Earth Sooner Than You Might Think
- This Glider Might Soon Ferry Humans to The Edge of Space
- Pluto Is Emitting X-Rays, And It's Challenging Our Understanding of The Solar System
- Researchers Have Observed Individual Atoms Interacting For The First Time
- 'Underwater Yellowstone' Was Just Named a National Marine Monument in The US
- Scientists Might Have Just Seen The Building Blocks of Memories Light Up For The First Time
- This New High-Tech Satellite System Is Being Used to Spot Illegal Fishing
- China Just Successfully Launched Its Second Experimental Space Lab
- Scientists Discover 3 New Strains of Norovirus That Are Causing Gastro Outbreaks
- This Galaxy Is Going Dark Because of a Turf War Between 2 Supermassive Black Holes
- Should We Be Trying to Colonise Venus Instead of Mars?
- Mars Had Liquid Water a Billion Years Longer Than We Even Thought Possible
- Why Do Sad Songs Say So Much to Some People, But Not Others?
- What Is The Scientific Method, And Why Do So Many People Get It Wrong?
- There's an Open Sea at The North Pole, And It's Got Experts Very Worried
- This Stingray Just Got Caught Chewing Its Food Like a Human
- What You Eat When You're Sick Could Affect Your Recovery Speeds
- These Are The Tricks Your Brain Uses to Slow Down The Effects of Ageing
- Here's Why Air Turbulence Isn't as Scary as You Think
- These New Quasars Could Help Us Solve One of The Biggest Mysteries in Astronomy
- This Physicist Says Consciousness Could Be a New State of Matter
- In The Current Mass Extinction, The Largest Marine Animals Will Be The First to Go
- Astronomers Have Finally Figured Out What That Big Red Smudge on Charon Is
- The Most Detailed Map of The Milky Way Ever Shows It's Even Bigger Than We Thought
- There Was Once a Plot to Drain The Mediterranean Sea And Link Europe to Africa
- Here's How Physicists Accelerate Particles to 99.99% The Speed of Light
- The Final Eclipse For 2016 Is About to Occur – Here's How to Watch
- This 'Highly Sexual' Tortoise Almost Single-Handedly Saved His Entire Species
- 500 Dead Horseshoe Crabs Have Mysteriously Washed Up in Japan
- This Rare Star 'Rebirth' Is The First We've Directly Observed
- Here's Why You Feel Busy All The Time
- Scientists Have Just Bred Live Mice Without Using Fertilised Eggs
- Japan's Sakurajima Volcano Is Edging Closer to a Major Eruption, Scientists Warn
- Congratulations, You Just Survived The Hottest Month on Record – Twice
- These 10 Survival Myths Might Actually Get You Killed
- WATCH: F-16 Autopilot System Saves The Life of an Unconscious Fighter Pilot
- Scientists Have Found The Best-Shaped Nanoparticles to Fight Cancer
- WATCH: Statistically Speaking, How Will You Die?
- Migraines Were Taken More Seriously in Medieval Times – So Where Did We Go Wrong?
- A Giant Meteorite Has Just Been Unearthed in Argentina
- The Northern Lights Appear to Move in Rhythm With Earth's Magnetic Field
- Astronomers Might Have Just Caught a Glimpse of a Black Hole Being Born
- Scientists Have Accurately Modelled a Virus Invading a Cell For The First Time
- Monkeys on Typewriters Are Writing Shakespeare, Thanks to New Brain-Sensing Technology
- New Evidence Is Forcing Scientists to Reconsider How The Moon Was Formed
- The Sugar Industry Has Been Distorting Dietary Guidelines For More Than 50 Years
- There's Now Even More Evidence That The Moon Triggers Our Most Powerful Earthquakes
- Humans Use Similar Sounds For Common Words in More Than 6,000 Languages
- Time Crystals Might Exist After All – And They Could Break Space-Time Symmetry
- Here's Why You Can't See All 12 Black Dots in This Crazy Optical Illusion
- Here's How Blue Origin's Giant New Rockets Compare to Elon Musk's
- This Solar Plant Accidentally Incinerates Up to 6,000 Birds a Year
- A 'Conversation' Between Two Dolphins Has Been Recorded For First Time
- Neil Armstrong Might Have Been Misquoted on The Moon
- Bilingual Brains Have Better Attention And Focus, Study Finds
- Virgin Galactic Just Resumed Test Flights, 2 Years After Its Fatal Crash
- This Amazing Video Shows Bacteria Evolving in Just 10 Days
- Scientists Have Halted Huntington's Disease Activity For 6 Months in Mice
- We're All Lost in a Directionless Universe, Study Concludes
- 10 Scientific Hoaxes That The World Totally Fell For
- NASA's Curiosity Rover Just Took The Most Incredible Pictures Yet of The Martian Surface
- Google's DeepMind AI Just Made a Machine That Sounds Exactly Like a Human
- This New 'Refrigerator Backpack' Could Help Transport Vaccines to Remote Areas
- Sorry, But The 5-Second Rule Was Debunked by Science Yet Again
- The 'Earth Next Door' May Have a Breathable Atmosphere – And We Could Find Out in 2 Years
- NASA Might Have Just Spotted The Slowest Spinning Magnetar Ever
- These Wildflowers Are So Rare, Botanists Are Keeping Their Location a Secret
- Nearly a Million People That Don't Have Coeliac Disease Are Going Gluten-Free
- Scientists Have Discovered New 'Smoke Rings' Made From Laser Light
- Scientists Just Figured Out Why Poison Ivy Makes Us Itch So Much
- Bill Nye Explains: What Would Happen if All The Ice Melted on Earth?
- Humans Have Destroyed 10% of Earth's Wilderness in Just 25 Years
- SpaceX Could Be Grounded For Up to 1 Year After Its Falcon 9 Rocket Explosion
- Here's How Often You Need to Use a Tote Bag to Be More Sustainable Than Plastic
- Researchers Just Discovered an Entirely New Bacteria Species in Multiple Fracking Sites
- Scientists Just Realised There Are Not One, But Four Species of Giraffe
- Over-The-Counter Treatments Probably Won't Kill Your Head Lice Anymore
- NASA Just Successfully Launched a Space Probe Towards a Nearby Asteroid
- The Rise of 'Super Bugs' Just Prompted a UN General Assembly Meeting
- Scientists Have Finally Confirmed The Cause of London's Great Plague
- NASA's Solar Satellite Just Filmed a Rare 'Double Eclipse'
- How to Raise a Genius, According to a 45-Year Study on Extraordinary Kids
- Scientists Just Predicted That Extreme Floods Like Louisiana's Are Now Almost Twice as Likely
- Physicists Have Caught Signs of a New Particle: The Madala Boson
- This Mysterious Maya Codex Has Been Verified as The Oldest Known Text of Ancient America
- This 48-Million-Year-Old Fossil Has an Insect Inside a Lizard Inside a Snake
- Here's What The 5 Most Addictive Substances on Earth Do to Your Brain
- How a Massive Solar Storm Could Wipe Out Modern Technology
- Disease Is Spreading Through Our Oceans Like Never Before, Report Finds
- Astronomers Have Created The Most Detailed 'Age Map' of The Milky Way Yet
- Most of The World's Humpback Whale Populations Are No Longer Endangered
- Experimental Drug Fights Cancer by 'Waking Up' The Immune System
- Huge Australian Catfish Have Started Catching And Eating Mice
- Babies Born by Caesarean Section Are More Likely to Be Obese, Study Finds
- The US Has Given Fast-Track Approval to a Surprising New Cancer Drug
- Samsung Is Recalling 2.5 Million Galaxy Note 7 Smartphones Over Exploding Battery Fears
- Nuclear Waste From a Cold War Base Is About to Leak Into The Arctic
- You Lose Weight Every Day – Here's Where It Goes
- Costa Rica Has Been Running on 100% Renewable Energy For 2 Months Straight
- Here's a Calendar of The Awesome Sky-Watching Events in September
- Meet The 170-Million-Year-Old 'Sea Monster' That Was Just Uncovered in Scotland
- Incredibly Rare Compounds Could Be Hiding Inside Neptune And Europa
- Here's How a 3-Day Weekend Could Benefit The Environment
- WATCH: Here's How Animals Can See in The Dark
- Life on Earth May Have Sprung From a Planetary Collision 4.4 Billion Years Ago
- Magnetic Particles From Pollution Have Been Found in Human Brains
- The 'Impossible' EM Drive Is About to Be Tested in Space
- Stone Houses Have Just Been Found Off The Coast of Australia – And They're 9,000 Years Old
- Here's How Officials Plan to Save The World From a Deadly Asteroid Impact
- These Closest-Ever Images of Jupiter Are "Like Nothing We Have Seen Before", Says NASA
- The Last Supplies of an Important Snake Antivenom Just Expired – And That's a Problem
- Guys, We Finally Found Philae – And It's Crammed Inside a Comet
- The Largest Living Primate in The World Is on The Verge of Extinction
- Scientists Just Recorded The First Aerial Footage of a White Southern Right Whale
- For First Time, Carbon Nanotube Transistors Have Outperformed Silicon
- A 60-Year-Old Pattern in The Stratosphere Just Went in Reverse
- Scientists Just Made Lasers Out of Human Blood
- These Are The Only 8 Numbers You Need to Do Maths
- The Giant Panda Is No Longer an Endangered Species
- Just One Joint of Cannabis Can Make You Lazy – But Only in The Short Term
- The FDA Just Banned Antibacterial Soaps Because They're Not Safer or Cleaner Than Regular Soap
- WATCH: Your Tears Are as Unique (And Beautiful) as Snowflakes
- NASA Just Found an Ice Volcano on Ceres That's Half The Size of Everest
- Researchers Have Just Reconstructed a 2,300-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy's Face
- Scientists Have Found a Sixth Taste – And It Explains Our Love of Carbs
- In The Next 10 Years, Renewables Could Provide a Third of The Power in The Eastern US
- Scientists Have Created a Gigantic Molecule From Just Two Atoms
- South Carolina Just Obliterated Millions of Bees by Accident
- Scientists Might Have Just Figured Out Why We Get The 'Vacation Effect'
- Sydney's Coral Appears to Have Recovered After an Extensive Bleaching Event
- RNA Therapy Has Shown Real Promise Against Psoriasis in Its First Human Trial
- As Sea Ice Around Antarctica Melts, The Southern Ocean Is Becoming Fresher
- Researchers Just Found a Second 'Dyson Sphere' Star
- A Dog Has Just Given Birth to The World's First Identical Twin Puppies
- New Fossil Shows Birds And Pterosaurs Flew Side-by-Side
- Mark Zuckerberg Is "Deeply Disappointed" by Explosion That Destroyed Facebook's First Satellite
- This Free Online Course Will Teach You How to Survive on Mars
- African Elephant Numbers Have Plummeted 30% in 7 Years, Survey Reveals
- 8 Facts That Will Make You Realise How Strange Animal Sex Really Is
- Astronomers Just Discovered Two of The Closest-Orbiting Twin Stars Ever
- The World's Oldest Known Fossils Have Been Found – And They're 3.7 Billion Years Old
- This Satellite Just Survived a Collision With a Space Particle Travelling at More Than 40,000 Km/H
- New Alzheimer's Drug Trial Clears Toxic Brain Proteins And Slows Memory Loss
- The Tropical Storm That's Approaching Florida Right Now "Has a Mind of Its Own"