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- Something Very Wrong Is Making San Francisco Stink of Rotten Eggs
- NASA Just Released Its Incredibly Cool Concept For Houses on Mars
- The Reason You're Late All The Time Might Change With Age
- WATCH: The World's Highest Bridge Just Opened And It's Terrifying
- This Heat-Activated Penile Implant Could Be The Answer to Erectile Dysfunction
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- A Rare Comet Is Zooming Past Earth Right Now, And You Should Be Able to See It With Binoculars
- Researchers Have 'Translated' Bat Calls, And They're Way More Complex Than We Expected
- Famous Artworks From Dali And De Kooning Might Contain The Early Signs of Cognitive Disorders
- Study Shows The Arctic's Freakishly Warm Winter Is Due to Humans' Climate Influence
- Do Humans Actually Need Milk And Dairy Products in Adulthood?
- Researchers Are Developing Nanodiscs That Can Wipe Out Tumours
- WATCH: What Happens When a Bullet Hits an 'Unbreakable' Prince Rupert's Drop
- Who'll Live Longer: Meat Eaters or Vegetarians?
- In His Final Weeks, Obama Just Issued an Executive Order to Protect 1.65 Million Acres of US Land
- Amazon's Virtual Assistant 'Alexa' Might Have Been a Witness to a Murder
- WATCH: Why Your New Year's Eve Will Suck, Explained by Science
- Biologists Have Found Litters of Rare, Wild Ocelot Kittens in The Southern US
- Here's What Happens to Your Brain When You're Drunk And Stoned at The Same Time
- Scientists Have Created The Thinnest Possible Electrical Wire, Measuring Just 3 Atoms Wide
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- Sorry Everyone, 2016 Will Have an Extra Second Added to The End of It
- WATCH: Tesla's Autopilot Predicts a Crash Freakishly Early
- Snow Is 'Erupting' From Yellowstone's Old Faithful Geyser
- 21 Amazing Photos That Show What Life Is Like in The Coldest Inhabited Town on Earth
- Scientists Can Now Measure Gravity More Accurately Than Ever Before
- WATCH: Is Overpopulation a Myth?
- The Universe Is Losing Dark Matter, And Researchers Have Finally Measured How Much
- How We Breathe Could Also Affect How We Think And Feel
- WATCH: Here's Why Perfect Cloning Will Always Be Impossible
- A Centuries-Old Chinese Herbal Medicine Could Help Us to Fight TB
- New York Officials Report The First Ever Case of Bird Flu Spread From Cat to Human
- 8 Reasons Why Space Is Worth Getting Excited About in 2017
- Uluru Became a Massive Waterfall After Extreme Rains Flooded The Australian Desert
- Here's What Magic Mushrooms Do to Your Body And Brain
- China Plans on Being The First Country to Land a Probe on The Far Side of The Moon
- Global Cheetah Populations Have Crashed, Raising New Fears of Extinction
- Simply Identifying as Lower Class Could Be Enough to Trigger Junk Food Cravings
- Scientists Plan on Contacting The Closest Earth-Like Exoplanet to Our Solar System
- These Are The 12 Largest Nuclear Detonations in History
- A Just-Discovered, 90 Million Year-Old Bird Could Help Us Predict The Future of The Planet
- A 100-Tonne Pile of Waste Has Washed Up on an Island in Shanghai
- It's Official: We Finally Have an Ebola Vaccine That's Up to 100% Effective
- Turns Out, Mouthwash Kills Gonorrhoea Bacteria
- Reindeer Are Still Very Radioactive 30 Years After Chernobyl
- Graphene's Crazier Than We Thought, Can Handle 1,000 Times More Current Than Regular Material
- This Baby's Legs Are Poking Through a Tear in Its Mother's Uterus Wall
- 23 Science Facts We Didn't Know at The Start of 2016
- The World's First Solar Road Has Opened in France
- Mad Cow Disease Is Still a Threat, But We Might Finally Have a Blood Test For It
- A Weather Buoy Near The North Pole Just Hit Melting Point
- Snowfall Was Recorded in The Sahara Desert For The First Time in 37 Years
- Salamanders Will Travel Freakishly Far For Sex
- We Just Got Our Best Look Yet at Saturn's Baby Moon Pandora
- This Recently Discovered Hawaiian Fish Has Been Named After President Obama
- This Foldable Battery Is Powered by Bacteria From Wastewater
- China Claims It's Already Started Testing an EM Drive in Space
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- This 'Bleeding Rock' Sea Creature Looks Like a Tomato Thunderegg
- Scientists Think They Can Finally Explain The Weirdness That Is The 'Alien Megastructure' Star
- Scientists Think They've Identified The Underlying Neurological Cause of Dyslexia
- The Supervolcano That Caused One of The Biggest Eruptions in History Has Started to Stir
- Physicists Have Mimicked an Elusive 'Synthetic' Magnetic State
- NASA Has Discovered The First Gamma-Ray Star System Outside The Milky Way
- Scientists Can Now Sniff Out 17 Diseases From a Single Breath Sample
- This Brainless Slime Can Share Memories by Fusing Together
- We've Mapped The Entire Ocean Floor, But Still Know Woefully Little About What's Down There
- Scientists Have Discovered a Colourful Wonderland Beneath The Antarctic Ice
- Scientists Are Planning a Mission to Saturn to Search For Alien Life
- Scientists Have Witnessed The Birth of an Ice Cloud For The First Time
- This Man Gets Stung by The Most Painful Insect on Earth, And It's Pretty Upsetting
- Scientists Have Used 'Pregnancy Fluid' to Strengthen Ageing Bones
- 8 of The Best Science Tweets You Might Have Missed This Year
- New Treatment Based on Ocean Bacteria Shown to Stop The Spread of Prostate Cancer
- The Way We Protect Ourselves From an Exploding Star Could Help Us Find Aliens
- 15 of The Best Science Pics From Our Instagram Page in 2016
- Hands-Free Mode Might Be Just as Distracting as Holding Your Phone While Driving
- Elderly Patients Treated by Female Doctors Appear to Die Less Often
- Mining Could Threaten That Adorable Ghost Octopus Researchers Found Earlier This Year
- Cosmic Radiation Could Dash Your Plans to Get High in Space
- 4-Million-Year-Old Bacteria Have Been Found in One of The Deepest Caves on Earth
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- A School in India Is Asking Parents to Plant a Tree Instead of Paying Fees
- Astronomers Just Released The Largest Digital Survey of The Visible Universe
- Seahorses Are The Most Rapidly Evolving Fish Scientists Have Ever Seen
- An Accelerating River of Molten Iron Has Been Discovered Under Alaska And Siberia
- Pregnancy Changes a Woman's Brain Structure For at Least 2 Years After Giving Birth
- At Least 49 People in Russia Have Died From Drinking a Herbal Bath Remedy
- Physicists Have Observed The Light Spectrum of Antimatter For First Time
- Scientists Have Discovered 163 New Species in The Greater Mekong Region
- There's No Trace of Dark Matter Inside The Gamma Ray Background, Researchers Find
- A Retired Professor Thinks He's Found The Location of King Arthur's Camelot
- Here's The Only Supplement You Should Take For a Cold
- Solar Power Is Now The Cheapest Form of Energy in Almost 60 Countries
- There's a Biological Reason For Why You Can't See This Dot
- An Australian Woman Found a Metre-Long Snake Wrapped Around Her Christmas Tree
- Dwarf Planet Ceres Appears to Be Covered With Hidden Ice
- WATCH: What Will Humans Look Like in 100 Years?
- This Other-Worldly 'Ghost Shark' Has Been Captured on Camera For The First Time
- Boron Has Been Detected on Mars For The First Time
- Scientists Have Identified That Mysterious, Metallic Sound Coming From The Mariana Trench
- Scientists Are Going to Hunt For Dark Matter at The Bottom of a Gold Mine
- Astronomers Have Found Another Star That's Mysteriously Dimming
- WATCH: Should Our Calendar Follow The Human Era?
- Another Nuclear Fusion Record Just Got Broken in South Korea
- Scientists Have Found Evidence of a Planet-Eating 'Death Star'
- A Map of The Entire Internet in 1973 Has Been Found in Some Old University Papers
- Scientists Have Figured Out Where The Rarest Diamonds on The Planet Form
- Cellular Reprogramming Has Been Used to Reverse Ageing in Living Animals For The First Time
- Obama Wrote 2016's Most Talked-About Scientific Paper
- The Culling of Australia's Dingoes Is Having a Strange Effect on Plant Life
- So You Want to Build a Death Star? Here's How to Get Started
- America's First Offshore Wind Farm Has Turbines Twice as Tall as The Statue of Liberty
- This Awesome Photo Shows The Snow-Covered Midwest Moonlit From Space
- These Microfossils Reveal What Our Ancestors Were Eating 1.2 Million Years Ago
- Archaeologists Have Discovered an Ancient Underground City in Greece
- Runners And Musicians Have Better-Connected Brains Than The Rest of Us
- WATCH: This Is What an Asteroid Impact in The Ocean Could Mean For You
- The Sun Is Slowing Down, And Scientists Think They Finally Know Why
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- The Arctic Is Warming Twice as Fast as The Rest of The Planet
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- The World's Oldest Water Is Even More Ancient Than We Realised
- New Paper Claims The Nobel Committee Got Its Physics Wrong
- Giant 'Rivers in The Sky' Could Cause Vast, Extinction-Level Floods
- It's Official: The Polar Vortex Is Back With a Vengeance
- Earth's Crust Is Getting Thinner Than Ever, Thanks to a Rapidly Cooling Interior
- We Might Finally Know Why Humans Lost Their Penis Bones
- Scientists Have Found 3.7-Million-Year-Old Footprints From One of Our Tallest Ancestors
- Scientists Have Named This New 'Sorting Hat' Spider After a Harry Potter Character
- Scientists Have Found Genetic Links Between Personality Traits And Psychiatric Diseases
- New Light-Reflecting Particles in The Stratosphere Could Cool Earth And Fix The Ozone Layer
- Viruses Have Evolved to Be More Deadly For Men Than Women, Study Suggests
- A Monster, 19-Metre Wave Has Set a New World Record
- Scientists Have Developed a Material That Generates Electricity Simply by Touching It
- Earth Is Totally Unprepared For a Surprise Asteroid Strike, NASA Scientists Warn
- This New Surgery Can Restore Some Legally Blind People to 20/20 Vision
- Life Could Survive on Exoplanet Proxima B, Despite Catastrophic Solar Flares
- That Thing The Standing Rock Protesters Were Afraid of Just Happened
- Scientists Have Developed an Optical Tractor Beam to Study Cells
- This Device Can Bypass Spinal Injuries to Help Defeat Paralysis
- Fasting Could Slow The Development of a Common Type of Childhood Leukaemia
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- Clouds Outside The Solar System Are Made From Ruby And Sapphire Minerals
- Watch David Attenborough's Emotional Last Plea in The Planet Earth II Finale
- The Brightest Supernova on Record Was Something Much More Brutal Than an Explosion
- It's Time to Take Pets Seriously as Mental Illness Support, Say Scientists
- There's a Giant Crater in East Antarctica, And It's Very Bad News
- Scientists Have Made a Diamond That's Harder Than Diamond
- Here Are 19 of The Most Incredible Nature Photos of 2016
- People Are Freaking Out Over This 'Monstrosity' That Washed Up in New Zealand
- This New 'Clever Buoy' System Could Stop Shark Attacks Using Sonar
- Strange Magnetic Stars Could Spawn Some of The Universe's Most Massive Black Holes
- This Is What Monkeys Would Sound Like if They Could Produce Human-Like Speech
- Magnets Are Being Used to Retrieve Patients' Lost, Short-Term Memories
- Engineers Have Achieved Wi-Fi Using 10,000 Times Less Power
- This Strange 'Spherical' Cloud Appeared in The Sky Over Japan
- NASA Now Has Its Own GIF Channel, And It's The Happiest Place on The Web
- Ammonia Has Been Detected in Earth's Lower Atmosphere For The First Time
- There's Way More Energy in a Bolt of Lightning Than We Thought
- Echoes in Gravitational Waves Hint at a Breakdown of Einstein's General Relativity
- Scientists Discover Mutated Fish That Have Become 8,000 Times More Resistant to Toxic Waste
- Scientists Have Discovered Strange Hydrogen Particles in Our Upper Atmosphere
- We Now Have More Evidence That Fat Fuels Cancer's Spread
- Will Earth Still Exist in 5 Billion Years?
- This Mummy's DNA Might Help Us Finally Figure Out Where Smallpox Came From
- Your Peripheral Vision Might Be an Optical Illusion, Scientists Find
- Giraffes Are Heading Towards a "Silent Extinction", as Populations Plummet
- One of The Rarest Crystals on Earth Has Been Found in a Russian Meteorite
- Here's How Scientists And Space Luminaries Are Honouring Famed Astronaut John Glenn
- A Feathered Dinosaur Tail Has Been Found Preserved in Amber
- This Is The Reconstructed Face of a 9,500-Year-Old Neolithic Man
- A Mysterious Roman Tombstone Has Been Found in One of America's Wealthiest Neighbourhoods
- Humans Might Have Evolved to Identify Faces Like Chimps Recognise Butts
- NASA's Working on a Nano-Starship That Travels at 1/5 The Speed of Light
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- WATCH: 98 Awesome Random Facts About Literally Half The Countries on Earth
- Scientists Have Created a Tiny Crystal That Can Turn Darkness Into Light
- The Geminid Meteor Shower Is About to Coincide With The Last Supermoon of The Year
- Earth's Days Are Getting 2 Milliseconds Longer Every 100 Years
- WATCH: A Stunning Fireball Just Lit Up The Sky in Siberia
- This Propulsion Expert Says There's a Good Chance NASA's EM Drive Results Are Flawed
- Watch 2 Snakes Wrestle Together And Form a Nightmarish Uni-Snake
- NASA Has Recreated The Deadly Surface of Venus in Ohio
- NASA Might Have Just Solved One of The Sun's Oldest Mysteries
- You Can Thank The Physics Inside Dying Stars For The Fact That Barns Are Red
- WATCH: These Are The Worst Parasites on The Planet
- Google Says It Will Be Running Solely on Renewable Energy by 2017
- A Massive Chasm in Antarctica's Ice Is Threatening to Cut Off a Crucial Research Station
- WATCH: This Crazy Spray-on Coating Makes a Watermelon Indestructible
- Bad News: 80% of Students Can't Tell The Difference Between Real And Fake News
- WATCH: How Are Tattoos Permanent, When Humans Shed So Much Skin?
- Cosmic Dust Has Been Discovered on City Rooftops For The First Time
- A Hunk of Sea Ice Bigger Than India Has Vanished
- Google Says Doing a Coding Bootcamp Isn't Enough to Get a Job With Them
- We Might Finally Know Where Some of The Biggest Objects in The Universe Came From
- This Massive Huntsman Just Ate a Lizard on a Family's Living Room Window
- Plants Can Learn Despite This Absence of a Brain
- This Stick-on Patch Could One Day Save Your Life After a Heart Attack
- A First Edition of Isaac Newton's 'Principia Mathematica' Is About to Go Up For Auction
- Caesarean Births Could Be Having an Effect on Human Evolution
- A New Tree of Life Is Challenging Our Ideas About Vertebrate Evolution
- More Than 99% of Counterfeit IPhone Chargers Fail Basic Safety Tests
- Physicists Have Found Hints of a Rare 'Quantum Spin Liquid' Hiding in a Crystal
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- This Galaxy Is Being Destroyed From Within by a Supermassive Black Hole
- Tests Confirm That Germany's Massive Nuclear Fusion Machine Really Works
- People With Autism Have Unusually Symmetrical Brains, New Scans Reveal
- After a Century of Searching, Scientists Have Confirmed The Existence of This Bizarre Sea Blob
- Scientists Are Moulding Photons Into Shapes to Unlock The Secrets of Light
- This Strange Material Could Reveal The Link Between Classical And Quantum Physics
- A Giant Wind God Temple Has Been Found Under a Supermarket in Mexico City
- We Could Find Alien Life in The Clouds of Failed Stars, Say Scientists
- It Took Thousands of Years, But We Finally Have a Digital Sundial
- New Evidence Suggests Parkinson's Might Start in The Gut, Not The Brain
- Strange, Electric Blue Clouds Have Appeared Over Antarctica Way Earlier Than Expected
- A First-of-Its-Kind HIV Vaccine Will Move to Phase II Trials in 2017
- WATCH: Jupiter's Moons Make Actual Sine Waves
- A Scientist Just Explained What Really Happens When You Drive Tired or Distracted
- Here's Why You'd Never Want to Swim in Pluto's Gigantic Liquid Ocean
- Scientists Just Discovered There Are 'Bees' in The Oceans
- We Finally Have Footage of Tardigrade Mating, And It's Even Weirder Than Expected
- Our Bipedal Human Ancestor 'Lucy' Was an Expert Tree-Climber, Scientists Reveal
- Researchers Have Found Ancient Mastodon Fossils Under LA's New Subway
- Scientists Say These Mystery Knees Belonged to Egypt's Queen Nefertari
- The Massive Amount of CO2 Locked in Our Soil Appears to Be Leaking
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- The Total Mass of Earth's 'Technosphere' Is 30 Trillion Tonnes
- More Young People Are Watching David Attenborough Than The X Factor
- Tornado Outbreaks in The US Are Getting Worse, And No One Knows Why
- A Man's Prostate Cancer Has Disappeared With an Experimental Treatment
- Superconducting Bismuth Is Real, And It's Forcing Us to Rethink The Nature of Superconductivity
- After Centuries, Scientists Have Finally Figured Out How Water Conducts Electricity
- Magic Mushrooms Are Helping Cancer Patients Deal With The Fear of Dying
- Bill Gates Is Backing a Revolutionary Waterless Toilet – Here's How It Works
- A New German Moon Mission Could Finally Prove The First Landings Weren't a Hoax
- NASA Is Developing Metallic Glass to Make Better Robot Astronauts
- Platypus Venom Could Be The Future of Diabetes Treatments
- Archaeologists Have Uncovered a Mass Burial Pit of Black Death Victims
- The Sun Is Eerily Quiet Right Now
- We Just Got The First Real Evidence of a Strange Quantum Distortion in Empty Space
- The Observatory That Made History by Detecting Gravitational Waves Is Now Back Online
- Students Have Made Martin Shkreli's $750 Drug in Their Chem Lab For Just $2
- It's Official: Your Periodic Table Is Now Obsolete
- The FDA Just Approved The Largest Clinical Trial on Ecstasy to Date