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- This Monster Wind Turbine Just Set a New Record For Energy Output
- This Beautiful 'Jewel Ice' Is So Rare, It Only Washes Up in Japan
- NASA Just Captured Some of The Most Mind-Blowing Images of Saturn's Icy Rings Ever
- An Unexplained 'Void' Appears to Be Pushing The Milky Way Through The Universe at 2 Million Km/H
- This Could Be The First Observational Evidence That Our Early Universe Was Once a Hologram
- Here's What It's Like to Get Up Close And Personal With The 'Door to Hell'
- Solar Wind Is Blasting Earth's Oxygen Onto The Surface of The Moon
- Dark Humour Could Be a Sign of Superior Intelligence
- Here's The Real Science Behind Recent 'Alien' Communications
- One of Our Oldest Ancestors Has Been Discovered, And It Had a Big Mouth And No Butt
- The Top 21 Countries For Quality of Life Have Been Ranked
- Scientists Simulate a New Material That Could Be Even Weirder Than Graphene
- Who Needs Asteroids? Earth Makes Its Own Water Deep Within The Mantle
- Scientists Have Released Footage of a Giant, 3-Km Crack That Opened Up in Arizona
- Children Say They Get More Satisfaction From Pets Than Siblings, New Study Finds
- This Epic Short Film Reveals What Life Will Look Like Once We've Conquered The Solar System
- Girls as Young as 6 Are More Likely to Believe Brilliance Is a Male Trait
- These Artificial Cells Are Not Alive – But They Just Passed The Turing Test
- WATCH: How Far Away Would You Need to Be to Survive a Nuclear Blast?
- We Might Finally Know What Caused The Largest Volcanic Eruption in Human History
- Physicists Have Found a Metal That Conducts Electricity But Not Heat
- Scientists Have Confirmed a Brand New Phase of Matter: Time Crystals
- The Doomsday Clock Is Now 2.5 Minutes to Midnight, But What Does That Really Mean?
- A Diet of Corn Is Transforming French Hamsters Into Raging Cannibals
- This Ethiopian Sulphur Spring Is One of The Hottest And Most Inhospitable Places on Earth
- The First Human-Pig Hybrid Embryo Has Been Created in The Lab
- Get a Personal Assistant For Your Email Account With MailButler
- Boeing Just Unveiled Its Slick New 'Starliner' Spacesuit
- Mice Have Had Their Diabetes Reversed After Receiving Pancreatic Tissue Grown in Rats
- This Scary, Alien-Like Specimen Trapped in Amber Represents a Brand New Order of Insect
- 2 Infants Have Had Their Cancers Disappear After Being Treated With Genetically Engineered T-Cells
- A Mathematician Says He's Found a System That Could Stop Tsunamis in Their Tracks
- Artificial Intelligence Can Now Identify Skin Cancer as Accurately as Experts
- Galaxy-Sized Lenses Confirm It: The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than We Ever Expected
- We Might Finally Know What Triggered Living Cells to Evolve For The First Time
- Animals Are Way Smarter Than We Give Them Credit For
- A Snake-Catching Tribe From India Is Helping Florida Clean Up Its Loose Pythons
- This Australian Zoo Is Urging The Public to Catch Deadly Spiders For Them
- The US Navy Is Engineering Hagfish Slime to Stop Missiles And Sharks
- It's Real: Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Created For The First Time
- Scientists Have Created Star Wars-Style Holograms in The Lab
- Shooting Electron Waves Through Plasma Could Reveal if Black Holes Permanently Destroy Information
- Google Is Giving $20m to The First Team to Land a Spacecraft on The Moon in 2017
- Scientists Claim They've Built The Most Powerful Pulse Laser on Earth
- Meteorites Didn't Actually Trigger One of The Main Explosions of Life on Earth, New Study Suggests
- Kill Your Fear of Death by Taking This Virtual Out-of-Body Experience
- The Internet Is Freaking Out Over This Spooky Prediction by Carl Sagan About The Future
- Heat From Earth's Core Could Finally Explain What's Driving Plate Tectonics
- A Bus-Sized Asteroid Will Pass Between The Moon And Earth Tonight
- This Crazy Design Makes Materials Switch From Soft Like Rubber to Hard Like Steel
- A Collision in Space 466 Million Years Ago Is Still Hurling Asteroids at Earth
- Scientists Have Found The Cause of New York's Recent Drug-Fuelled 'Zombie' Outbreak
- The Massive Rift in The Antarctic Ice Shelf Has Already Gained 10 Km in 2017
- Physicists Have Simulated a 'Superfluid' Black Hole That Acts Like Liquid Helium
- New Organisms Have Been Formed Using The First Ever 6-Letter Genetic Code
- Giant, Wolf-Sized Otters Roamed The Swamps of China 6 Million Years Ago
- Scientists Have Just Melted a Solid Below Its Freezing Point
- This Anxiety-Inducing Video Shows More Than 100 Years of Climate Change in 20 Seconds
- The Most Detailed 'Full Disk' View of Earth Ever Has Been Released – And It's Incredible
- This Titanium Super-Material Creates Perfect Spheres of Blood, Plasma, And Water
- Scientists Claim They've Developed a Psychological 'Vaccine' Against Fake News
- Pop Culture Was Wrong – Psychopaths Are More Likely to Have Below-Average Intelligence
- These Unsettling Images From NASA Show Just How Fast Earth Is Changing
- Scientists Have Detected a Habitable Zone in One of Our Nearest Solar Systems
- A Radical New Hypothesis Claims to Have a Simple Explanation For Dark Energy
- Almost 1 in 2 US Men Could Have a Genital HPV Infection, Study Finds
- A New 'Flesh-Eating Parasite' Relative Has Been Discovered in Australia
- Researchers Say They've Figured Out What Makes People Reject Science, And It's Not Ignorance
- This Awesome Periodic Table Shows The Origins of Every Atom in Your Body
- 25 Animals That Scientists Want to Bring Back From Extinction
- US Farmers Have Been Caught Feeding Red Skittles to Their Cattle
- Scientists Have Filmed a 'Sonic Boom' of Light For The First Time
- Scientists Just Announced Our Best Shot at Ending Antibiotic Resistance to Date
- These Are The 3 Diseases Scientists Say We Really Need to Worry About Becoming Epidemics
- Research Shows Babies Remember Their Birth Language, Even if They Never Use It
- Last Time The Ocean Was This Hot, Sea Levels Got Up to 9 Metres Higher
- Learn How to Code From Your Couch With This Complete Web Developer Course 2.0
- Researchers Have Woven a 'Smart' Fabric That Mimics One of Our Bodies' Hardiest Tissues
- Researchers Have Reconstructed The Brain of The Extinct Tasmanian Tiger
- Graphene's Superconductive Power Has Finally Been Unlocked, And It's Crazier Than We Expected
- This Crazy See-Through Engine Shows You What Internal Combustion Actually Looks Like
- China Says Its World-First 'Exascale' Supercomputer Is Almost Complete
- NASA Just Announced a Mission to Send a Probe to a Dead Planet's Core
- Curiosity Just Found The First Evidence of Ancient Mud Cracks on Mars
- Scientists Have a Plan to Bring Back The Caspian Tiger, Which Has Been Extinct For 50 Years
- Monkeys That Eat Fewer Calories Really Do Live Longer And Healthier, Two Major Studies Find
- This Drug Company Just Got Caught Jacking Up The Price of a Baby Medicine by 85,000%
- Scientists Say There's No Such Thing as 'Middle Child Syndrome'
- 'Miniature', Modular Nuclear Power Plants Could Be Rolled Out in The US
- We Finally Know What Ötzi The Iceman Ate For His Last Meal
- One-Third of Adults Diagnosed With Asthma Don't Actually Have It, Study Finds
- World-First in Ukraine as 'Three-Parent' Baby Born to an Infertile Couple
- Physicists Say They've Manipulated 'Pure Nothingness' And Observed The Fallout
- WATCH: This Crazy Heart-Hugging Robot Could Save The Lives of Transplant Patients
- Scientists Have Identified a Weirdly Common Form of Synaesthesia
- Scientists Might Have Finally Decoded The Strange Signals Coming From Pulsars
- The End of Coal Is Near: China Just Scrapped 103 Power Plants
- We Might Finally Know What's Causing Namibia's Super Weird Fairy Circles
- This Again? NASA Just Confirmed That 2016 Was The Hottest Year on Record
- Most Primate Species Are Now Threatened With Extinction
- Antelopes Are Returning to The Sahara 20 Years After Going Extinct in The Wild
- This Malaria Drug Is Having an Amazing Effect on Brain Cancer Patients
- French Polynesia Just Revealed Plans to Develop The World's First Floating City
- Astronomers Have Photographed Hidden Details in The Sun
- In Australia, Bees And Wasps Are More Dangerous Than Spiders And Snakes
- Natural Selection Is Causing a Decline in Human 'Education Genes', Say Scientists
- Here's How Much It Really Costs When a SpaceX Rocket Explodes
- Complex Life Could Have Existed on Earth at Least Once Before
- A Monstrous Alligator Has Been Filmed Casually Strolling Around Florida
- Parts of The Northeastern US Are Heating Up Faster Than The Planet as a Whole
- Scientists Say It's Time We Discussed Creating Humans From Stem Cells
- Drug-Resistant "Nightmare Bacteria" Are Quickly Spreading Through US Hospitals
- IBM Just Posted 5 Predictions About What Life Will Be Like in 2022
- Zebra Shark Makes World-First Switch From Sexual to Asexual Reproduction
- Why 4.5 Billion Years of Fluctuating Global Temperatures Can't Explain Climate Change Today
- Astronomers Have Spotted a Massive 'Bulge' in Venus' Atmosphere
- A Giant Ice Crack Is Forcing The Evacuation of The Halley Antarctic Research Station
- An Uncomfortably Large Carbon Deposit Has Been Discovered in The Congo
- A New Twist on Fusion Power Could Finally Create Limitless Clean Energy
- For $8,000, This Startup Will Fill Your Veins With The Blood of Young People
- The Dinosaurs Might Have Died a Much Slower Death Than We Thought
- It's Come to This: Prince Charles Has Written a Book About Climate Change
- Japanese Whalers Have Been Caught With a Dead Minke Whale in Protected Waters
- Physicists Can Now Predict The Exact Moment Quantum Systems Will Fail
- Experts Just Released Another Report Urging All Young Women to Take This Daily Supplement
- WATCH: SpaceX Just Nailed a Rocket Landing, And Is Officially Back in Business
- This Hell Worm Dragging Prey Into Its Underground Lair Is Giving Us Anxiety
- Mysterious-Looking Light Pillars Have Appeared in The Night Sky Above Canada
- Incredibly Rare Ruby Sea Dragon Has Been Caught on Camera For The First Time
- A Superbug Resistant to Every Available Antibiotic Has Killed a Woman in The US
- WATCH: This Is How It Feels to Get Caught in an Avalanche
- We Now Know Bacteria Can Communicate Electrically, And We Should Be Worried
- This Implantable Micro-Machine Can Deliver Medications From Inside The Body
- Scientists Could Finally Have an Explanation For Why Menopause Exists
- Special Offer: Get Smarter in 2017 With The Machine Learning & AI For Business Bundle
- Scientists Have Tied Molecules Into The Tightest Knot Ever Created
- Forget What You Learned in High School – This New Carbon Molecule Has 6 Bonds
- We Might Finally Have Found Where Complex Life Came From
- Learn How to Become a Pro Automated Tester With This Online Bundle
- We Subconsciously Look For Partners as Educated as We Are While Online Dating
- A Super Cheap, Generic Alternative to The EpiPen Just Hit Shelves in The US
- Schizophrenia Could Be Linked to Type 2 Diabetes, Study Finds
- 11 Findings From One of The Most Comprehensive Studies Ever on Marijuana's Health Effects
- Moon Rocks Reveal That We Were Very Wrong About The Age of The Moon
- Researchers Might Have Figured Out Why The World's Largest Shark Went Extinct
- Scientists Are Genetically Engineering Salmonella to Destroy Brain Tumours
- Planet Nine Could Be a Rogue Planet That Got Captured by Our Solar System
- Physicists Have Created a New Form of Hydrogen
- All Electric Trains in The Netherlands Are Now 100% Wind-Powered
- Scientists Have Cooled an Object Beyond The Icy Limits of Known Physics
- The Skeleton of Infamous Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele Is Now a Teaching Aid For Medical Students
- Syria's War Has Affected Water in The Region So Much, You Can See The Damage From Space
- These Brazilian Vampire Bats Have Started Feeding on Humans For The First Time
- Here's Why This Picture of a Strawberry Is Freaking People Out
- This Spray Can Silence Genes in Plants Without Changing Their DNA
- Sorry, Your Dog Pretty Much Ignores All Your High-Pitched "Good Boys"
- 12,600-Year-Old Handprints Show Humans Lived in The Himalayas Much Earlier Than Thought
- Here's The Science Behind Why You Get So Hungry When You're Drunk
- We Can Now Watch Solar Storms in Real Time, And It's Going to Be Epic
- Here Are All The Risks of Climate Change in a Single Graph
- Scientists Have Outlined an 8-Page Plan to Fix What's Wrong With Science
- WATCH: This Crazy Spinning Ice Disc Just Appeared in a Michigan River
- Australian National Parks Staff Admit to Luring Feral Cats With KFC
- A Scientist Just Registered a Patent For a Common Cold Vaccine
- This Monkey Trying to Have Sex With a Deer Is a Total Trainwreck
- Scientists Think They've Uncovered The 'Missing Element' Inside Earth's Core
- Here's How High You Could Jump on Other Worlds in The Solar System
- Scientists Have Invented a Centrifuge Using Paper And String
- California's Iconic 'Tunnel Tree' Has Finally Fallen
- This Could Be The Best Explanation Yet For That Baffling 'Alien Megastructure' Star
- Leaving Exercise For The Weekend Could Be as Effective as Regular Workouts
- NASA Has Discovered Gigantic Ice Towers on Pluto, Standing 500 Metres Tall
- Your Appendix Might Serve an Important Biological Function After All
- A Star Heading This Way Could Knock Millions of Asteroids Towards Earth
- Scientists Have Found Two Supermassive Black Holes 'Hiding' in Nearby Galaxies
- A Surprise Asteroid Just Zoomed Past Earth, About 50% Closer Than The Moon
- A Tarantula Mauled This Snake to Death, And Scientists Have Never Seen Anything Like It
- A New Study Is Challenging What We Thought We Knew About How The Moon Formed
- The Milky Way's Black Hole Could Be Blasting Out 'Spitballs' The Size of Planets
- Scientists Have Found a Drug That Regenerates Teeth, And It Could Reduce The Need For Fillings
- A New Bright 'Star' Could Appear in The Night Sky in 2022
- 52-Million-Year-Old Relative of Potatoes And Tomatoes Discovered in Patagonia
- NASA Just Explained Why Moon Dust Is 'Levitating' Above The Lunar Surface
- Strange Sounds Have Been Recorded in Sweden, Apparently Coming From The Northern Lights
- The Claim Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold Water Is Even Weirder Than You Think
- Breathtaking New Image Shows Our Tiny Planet And Moon From Mars
- A Tiny Brain, Skull, And Hair Have Been Extracted From a Teen's Ovary
- An Iceberg The Size of Delaware Is About to Break Off From Antarctica, And It's Really Bad News
- WATCH: Could You Survive Nuclear War?
- Astronomers Have Discovered an Insane Galactic Particle Accelerator, Fuelled by a Black Hole
- Scientists: We Were Wrong About Not Feeding Babies Peanuts
- We Just Photographed The Highest Concentration of Supermassive Black Holes Ever Detected
- That Global Warming 'Hiatus' Never Actually Happened, Study Confirms
- Perk Up Your Resume With This Online SEO Course
- WATCH: The Absolute Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves
- The White House Has Finally Released a Strategy For Dealing With Deadly Asteroids
- Scientists Discover How The Brain Helps The Body Fight Bacteria
- Scientists Find an Australian Honey That Rivals New Zealand Mānuka's Antibacterial Properties
- New Study Calculates How Long Humanity Could Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
- There Are Only 7 Months Until The Great American Eclipse – Here's How to Watch
- Too Many Tabs: Why Some People Can Multitask Online And Others Can't
- Almost 100 Percent of Australia Is Now Covered in Feral Cats
- Researchers Have Created an Antibiotic Spider Silk That Heals Wounds
- NASA Is Sending a Probe to a Bizarre Metallic World
- The ISS Just Got Its First Battery Refresh in 18 Years
- Scientists Think They Might Have Figured Out The Cause of Severe PMS
- Mysterious Startup Faraday Future Has Finally Unveiled Its Long-Awaited Electric Car
- People Are Freaking Out Over This Snake Devouring an Entire Wallaby
- Scientists Just Discovered a Brand-New Type of Galaxy
- Big News: Astronomers Pinpoint The Source of Mysterious Radio Signals
- Researchers Identify Different 'Types' of Alzheimer's Based on Protein Clumps in The Brain
- An Anaconda Has Been Found Inside Some Poor Guy's Toilet in Virginia
- Here's How to Make Your Very Own Sonic Tractor Beam For Less Than $70
- Seriously Guys, It's Time to Stop Cleaning Your Ears With Cotton Buds
- An Indian Chemical Plant Has Figured Out How to Turn Its Carbon Emissions Into Baking Soda
- Study Online: Learn How to Build Incredible Multiplayer Games Using Unity
- We Just Got The First Experimental Proof of a 70-Year-Old Hypothesis of Magnetism
- The World's Oldest Known Orca, Granny, Is Believed to Have Died
- WATCH: A Chunk of Hawaii Just Collapsed Into The Ocean
- 3 Ways to Quickly Spot Dodgy Science
- Finland Has Just Launched a World-First Universal Basic Income Experiment
- Nature Is Cruel: Walruses Can't Stop Using Dead Birds as Their Sick Play Things
- Scientists Have Traced Ireland's Great Potato Famine Back to South America
- Costa Rica Went 250 Days in 2016 Without Burning Any Fossil Fuels
- New Evidence Suggests There Was Something Very Wrong With The Titanic Before The Iceberg
- Bitcoin Was The Best-Performing Currency of 2016
- Scientists Have Discovered an 'Off' Switch For The Revolutionary CRISPR Gene Editing Tool
- It's Official: A Brand-New Human Organ Has Been Classified
- Study Reveals Dinosaurs Spent Way Longer in The Egg Than Previously Thought
- Scientists Are Attempting to Bring Back an Enormous Ancient Cow
- Look Up! One of 2017's Best Meteor Showers Is Peaking Tonight