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- It's Happening: LIGO Just Detected Gravitational Waves For The THIRD Time
- This Internal 'Master Clock' Could Be in Control of All Our Circadian Rhythms
- Ice Cores Dating From The Black Death Challenge The Concept of 'Natural' Lead Levels
- New Evidence Reveals Black Hole Event Horizons Are All Too Real
- This Common Antioxidant Actively Slows The Signs of Ageing in Human Skin
- We Might Have Been Wrong About How Anaesthesia Blocks Consciousness All Along
- 8 Genetic Mutations That Can Give You 'Superpowers'
- Changing Meal Times Can Alter Your Body Clock
- Scientists Claim to Have Invented The World's First Quantum-Proof Blockchain
- The Solar Industry Is Creating Jobs 17 Times Faster Than The Rest of The US Economy
- This Video Shot From Inside a Human Larynx Is Incredible And Kinda Horrifying
- Get a Jumpstart on a New Career With This Cybersecurity Certification Mega Bundle
- Physicists Are Probing The Centre of Our Galaxy to Find The Missing Fifth Force of Nature
- The Great Barrier Reef Can No Longer Be Saved by Current Efforts, Scientists Warn
- Why The MP3 Might Not Be Dead Just Yet
- Look Up: Jupiter And Saturn Will Light Up The Night Skies in June
- A 100-Year-Old Drug Shows Extremely Promising Results For Treating Autism Symptoms
- Here's How We Can Achieve Mass-Produced Quantum Computers
- Whole Body Vibration Offers Many of The Benefits of Exercise
- NASA Is About to Make a Big Announcement About a New Mission to "Touch The Sun"
- CRISPR Gene-Editing Could Cause Hundreds of Unexpected Mutations, Study Shows
- Science Predicts You're Hiding 13 Secrets – And Nearly Half of Those You've Never Told a Soul
- Microbes, Not Food Restriction, Could Be The Key to Our Most Effective Treatment For Obesity
- This Dystopian Device Warns You When AI Is Trying to Impersonate Actual Humans
- We've Been Obsessed With Calories For 100 Years Because of a Book You've Never Heard of
- We Now Have The First Evidence That Immune Cells in The Skin Directly Trigger Hair Growth
- People With Creative Personalities Really Do See The World Differently
- Here's Why Your Mouth Gets Itchy or Tingly When You Eat Certain Fruits And Veggies
- This Is What Humans Could Look Like in 1,000 Years
- NASA Watched a Wave of Ice Bend The Earth's Crust
- These Are The Hardest Words to Spell in Health And Science
- This Failed Supernova Might Have Given Us Our First Look at The Birth of a Black Hole
- Climate Change Is Keeping Americans Awake at Night. Literally.
- The Death Rate From Alzheimer's Disease Has Increased 55% Over 15 Years
- The US Library of Congress Just Put 25 Million Records Online, Free of Charge
- Not So Unique? A Key Feature of the Human Brain Has Just Been Found in Monkeys
- Scientists Are Using Century-Old Tumours to Study Rare Childhood Cancers
- ScienceAlert Deal: Check Out These Simple Universal Smartphone Car Mounts
- Learning to Read Can Rewire Deep Parts of The Adult Brain in Just 6 Months
- Astronomers Have Finally Pinpointed The Source of One of Those Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts
- How Wild Monkeys Embraced The Thug Life to Sell Stolen Human Valuables For Food
- Bitcoin Just Hit an All-Time High, But New Rival Ethereum Is Rapidly Outpacing It
- 24 Health 'Facts' That Are Actually Completely Wrong
- Bitcoin And Ethereum Were Two of Google's Most Popular Searches This Week
- NASA's Juno Spacecraft Just Shattered What We Knew About Jupiter
- Scientists Have Used CRISPR to Slow The Spread of Cancer Cells
- Microsoft Plans on Storing Its Data on DNA in The Next 3 Years
- Scientists Just Detected What Appears to Be a Whole New Layer in Earth's Mantle
- ScienceAlert Deal: This Kickstarter Success Is Redefining The Smartwatch Game
- This Is The First Ever Nanoscale Image of a Living Cell Membrane
- Scientists Are About to Perform an Experiment to See if The Human Mind Is Bound by Physics
- NASA Just Fast-Tracked Its Mission to Explore a $10,000 Quadrillion Metal Asteroid
- The World's Thinnest Hologram Could Soon Be Integrated Into Smartphones
- Your Brain Is Trying to Show You The Future – And It Might Save Your Life
- The Dakota Access Pipeline Has Sprung Two Leaks – And It Hasn't Even Started Operating Yet
- Star Wars Turns 40, Still Inspires Real-Life Space Junkies
- We've Been Underestimating How Many Black Hole Collisions Are Terrorising The Universe
- Turns Out, Snakes Can Hunt in Packs, So Let's Just All Move to Antarctica
- We Need a "Cunning Idea" to Make Time Travel a Scientific Reality
- A New And Unusual Force in The Universe Just Got Even Stranger
- "Godlike" Artificial Intelligence Just Officially Beat The World's #1 Go Player
- A New Type of Planetary Object Has Been Proposed – And It Could Explain Earth's Origin
- Watch The Terrifying Moment a Wild Sea Lion Yanks a Girl Into The Water
- China Just Extracted Gas From 'Flammable Ice', And It Could Lead to a Brand New Energy Source
- This Simple Blood Test Can Predict Cancer as Accurately as a Lump in The Breast
- Scientists Have Figured Out How Everest's 'Superhuman' Sherpas Overcome Hypoxia
- Finally Learn How to Code With The Complete Programming Language Bootcamp
- Naked Singularities Can Actually Exist in a Three-Dimensional Universe, Physicists Predict
- ScienceAlert Deal: Feel Safer Online With This Top Rated Tracking Blocker And VPN
- These Healthy Space Pups Were Born From Sperm That Spent 9 Months in Orbit
- For The First Time Ever, Women in Their 30s Are Having More Babies Than 20-Somethings
- Here's What Happens After You Die
- Diarrhoea Outbreaks Linked to Swimming Pools on The Rise Across The US
- Scientists Have Found a Way to Photograph People Through Walls Using Wi-Fi
- The World's Best Dark Matter Detector Just Delivered Its First Results
- The Origins of The Human Spine Might Have Just Been Found in a 3.3-Million-Year-Old Fossil
- Scientists Have Identified 40 New Genes Linked to Intelligence
- The Oldest Hominins Could Have Lived in Europe, Not Africa, Claims New Study
- Researchers Have Used Proteins to Create The Strongest Organic Acid Ever
- This Wireless Heart Pump Battery Could Save Thousands of Lives
- Scientists Have Stabilised a One-Dimensional Metallic Material in a World-First Experiment
- Gravitational Waves Are Permanently Warping The Fabric of Space-Time
- Cannabis Is Being Touted as a Promising New Treatment For Crack Addiction
- That 'Alien Megastructure' Star Just Kicked Into Action Again, And Scientists Are Freaking Out
- Russia Just Reactivated 3 Mystery Satellites – And We Still Don't Know Why They Exist
- Nearly 40 Years After Mount St. Helens' Deadly Eruption, It's 'Recharging'
- Plasma Jet Engines Might Soon Take Us From Earth to Space
- Melting Permafrost Is Causing Water to Leak Into The Arctic 'Doomsday' Vault
- Why These Researchers Think Dinosaurs Were Merely Minutes Away From Avoiding Extinction
- Now Artificial Intelligence Is Inventing Sounds That Have Never Been Heard Before
- This New Device Can Hear The Actual Sounds Made by Individual Cells
- Cicadas Are Emerging 4 Years Early, And Scientists Are Stumped
- Our Quest to Find a One-Sided Magnet Just Took an Unexpected Turn
- A Dangerous 'Superbug' Fungus Is Spreading Through US Health Care Facilities
- American Trees Have Started Migrating West, And No One Knows Why
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Detect Nuclear Materials Up to 1 Km Away
- ScienceAlert Deal: Create a Professional Website Without Having to Code a Thing
- Antarctica Is Turning Green, as Climate Change Pushes It Back in Geologic Time
- Google Researchers Are Teaching Their AI to Build Its Own, More Powerful AI
- Scientists Have Reversed Age-Related Blindness by Deliberately Infecting Eyes With a Virus
- Researchers Say They've Identified The Functions of Life's Earliest Genes
- Einstein's 'Spooky' Entanglement Is Guiding Next-Gen Gravitational Wave Detectors
- A 100-Year-Old Medical Technique Could Help Infertile Couples Avoid Expensive IVF
- Scientists Are "Tantalisingly Close" to Producing a Limitless Blood Supply From Stem Cells
- This Plant-Based 'Molecular Condom' Is Our Latest Shot at a Male Contraceptive
- How to Fix 9 Common Sleep Problems With Science
- Elon Musk Finally Confirms What The Boring Tunnels He's Making Are Actually For
- America Has Been Using The Metric System All Along – Kind of
- This Newly Discovered Gene Variant Reduces The Risk of Severe Malaria by 40%
- Scientists Still Can't Decide if Our Closest Earth-Like Planet Is a Fiery Hellscape or Future Home
- This Air Force Cadet Has Invented a Bullet-Stopping Goo to Reinforce Body Armour
- Increasing Entropy Could Signal When a Mysterious Quantum Flip Is About to Occur
- This Strange Creature You've Never Heard of Could Cease to Exist by 2018
- Learn Ethical Hacking With This White Hat Hacker 2017 Bundle
- A Teenager Just Built The World's Lightest Satellite – And NASA's Launching It
- Being an Only Child Can Actually Change The Structure of Your Brain
- Here's The Single Best Type of Exercise For Your Brain, According to Scientists
- A Break in Delirium Research Might Have Just Solved a 2,500-Year-Old Medical Mystery
- For The First Time, Physicists Have Observed a Giant Magnetic 'Bridge' Between Galaxies
- New 3D-Printed Ovaries Have Allowed Infertile Mice to Give Birth
- A Bioengineered 'Pancreas' Has Ended One Diabetic's Need For Insulin
- Scientists Just Discovered Yet Another Coral Reef Devastated by Global Warming
- Scientists Have Developed The Most Efficient Water-Splitting Catalyst Yet
- ScienceAlert Deal: Build Your Own Arduino Robot Car!
- Scientists Have Discovered a 'Puffy' Exoplanet With The Density of Styrofoam
- NASA Has Detected Hundreds of Unexpected Flashes Reflecting Off Our Planet
- A Giant 'Lava Lamp' Inside Earth Could Be Flipping The Planet's Magnetic Field
- There's Now More Evidence Linking Psychopathy to Disturbances in The Prefrontal Cortex
- This Tiny Remote Island Has Been Named The Most Plastic-Polluted Place on Earth
- Here's The Science Behind That Bizarre Viral Video of a Burrowing Clam
- Experts Warn That Italy's Supervolcano Could Be Closer to an Eruption Than We Think
- Introducing The 'Chit' – The World's First One-Bit Chemical Hard Drive
- Ever Feel Like You're Being Watched? It's Not Just You
- This New Glue-Like Substance Could Be The Key to Healing Wounds Without Scars
- Here's a Mind-Melting Snapshot of What Earth Will Look Like in 1 Billion Years
- It's Official: The MP3 Is Dead, After Even Its Creators Abandon It
- Scientists Have Created Liquid Metal Drops That Move Like T-1000
- Hydrogen Bonds Have Been Directly Detected For The First Time
- Repeated Brain Zapping Has Helped Minimally Conscious Patients Communicate Again
- Experts Warn The Global 'WannaCry' Ransomware Hack Is Far From Over
- This 36.4 Million-Year-Old Fossil Might Finally Close The Gaps in Whale Evolution
- This Never-Before-Seen Footage Reveals The Violent Purpose of The Narwhal's Tusk
- This 22-Year-Old Is Launching a Controversial Plan to Clean Up The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- Descartes Is The Latest Genius to Have His Brain Mapped For Signs of Intelligence
- Researchers Have Increased The Distance at Which a Supernova Could Kill Us All
- The Viral Video of 15 Sharks Circling Near Surfers in California Shows a Much Bigger Problem
- A New Dinosaur Fossil Found in Alberta Is So Well-Preserved It Looks Like a Statue
- Astronomers Are in Hot Pursuit of a Runaway Supermassive Black Hole
- Not Good: Nearly 1 in 3 Drugs Have Safety Issues Even After FDA Approval
- A Massive, Unidentified Creature Has Washed Up on an Island in Indonesia
- Huge Study Shows Link Between Common Painkillers And Increased Risk of Heart Attack
- NYU Accidentally Leaked a Top-Secret Code-Breaking Supercomputer to The Entire Internet
- Two Independent Teams Find Hints of Dark Matter in Space Station Data
- Students Have Invented a 'Portable Translator' That Converts Text to Braille in Real-Time
- Learn How to Harness The Power of Big Data With This Online Course Bundle
- Bitter Compounds Could Be The Future of Preventing And Treating Asthma
- A Strange, Primitive Atmosphere Has Been Discovered Around a Water-Rich Alien World
- Physicists Might Have Just Found a Primordial State of Matter in Rare Proton Collisions
- Stephen Hawking And 32 Top Physicists Just Signed a Heated Letter on The Universe's Origin
- We Now Have The Most Precise Timeline Ever of a Cancer Spreading in a Patient's Body
- Scientists Have Discovered Incredible 'Lost' Forests That Would Cover 60% of Australia
- Introducing: The History of The Everything You Wish They'd Taught in School
- A Chemist Discovered The First New Blue in 200 Years – And Crayola Is Turning It Into a Crayon
- Your Sense of Smell Is More Powerful Than You Think
- Nasa Just Revealed Its 4-Step Plan to Launch a Year-Long Mission to The Moon
- Become an Expert in Cloud Security With This New Online Course
- Scientists Have Set a Limit For Quantum Entanglement – And It's Really Freaking Powerful
- The World's Best Timekeepers Are Unlocking Quantum Control Over Entire Molecules
- Can LSD Microdosing Tip The Scales in a New Human Versus AI Battle?
- Here's How to Improve The Massive Environmental Footprint of Commercial Shipping
- Scientists Are at a Loss to Explain This Mysterious Cosmic Radio Signal
- Astronomers Map Gigantic Waves of Lava Flowing Around Io's King of Volcanos
- Alaska's Thawing Soils Are Unleashing a Crapload of CO2 Into The Air
- Finally, Scientists Think They Know How Lithium Treats Bipolar Disorder
- Elon Musk Just Announced His Solar Roofs Will Have "Infinity Warranty"
- The Language You Speak Can Change Your Perception of Time
- A Thermonuclear Bomb Slammed Into a US Farm in 1961, And Part of It Is Still Missing
- This orca died with one of the highest concentrations of PCB ever seen in a marine mammal
- Researchers Find Gut Bacteria Can Trigger Brain Lesions That Lead to Strokes
- A United Arab Emirates Company Wants to Tow Icebergs From Antarctica to Combat Drought
- Massive Landforms Have Just Been Discovered Under The Antarctic Ice Sheet
- Scientists Can Now Switch Between Electrons And Photons in a Single Transistor
- We've Finally Cracked The Secret of Prince Rupert's Drops
- The Most Toxic Nuclear Facility in The US Is Now in Lockdown
- Humanity's Strange New Cousin Could Transform Our Understanding of Human Evolution
- This New Study Says Forget What You Think You Know About Salt
- ScienceAlert Deal: Take Control of Your Inbox With This Awesome Browser Extension
- Up to 7,000 Asylum Graves Are Thought to Be Hidden Under The University of Mississippi
- Earliest Signs of Life on Land Have Been Found in 3.48 Billion-Year-Old Australian Rocks
- Scientists Achieve Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication For The First Time
- Gravitational Waves Could Be The Key to Discovering Extra Dimensions in Our Universe
- New Results Show Low Daily Doses of Cannabis Could Actually Improve Memory
- MIT Physicists Have Found a Brand New Way to Unleash Graphene's Superconductive Power
- Master Essential Project Management Methods With This Lean Six Sigma Course
- This Entire Beach Vanished 33 Years Ago – And Just Mysteriously Reappeared
- This Robot Can Complete a 2-Hour Brain Surgery Procedure in Just 2.5 Minutes
- Several Massive Viruses Could be 'Re-awakened' if the Arctic Permafrost Continues to Thaw
- Switching Just 50% of Our Meat to Insects Can Seriously Reduce Land Use
- These Radiation-Proof Flower Seeds Could Help Spark Life on Exoplanets
- Turns Out, Livers Grow by Almost Half During Waking Hours
- Scientists Have Uncovered Rare "Dragon-Skin" Ice Forged by Intense Antarctic Gales
- An Unexplained Side Effect of Radiotherapy Caused a Man to Dream in Colour For First Time
- Johnson & Johnson Just Paid a Woman Millions in a Case Linking Talcum Powder With Cancer
- This Guy Fixed His Teeth by 3D-Printing His Own Plastic Braces For $60
- The CDC Just Mapped Which States Have The Highest Rates of Cancer in The US
- A New ALS Drug Has Just Been Approved For The First Time in More Than 20 Years
- The Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Just Landed After a Record-Breaking 718 Days in Orbit
- North Dakota Has Experienced More Than 700 Oil Spills in The Past Year Alone
- Scientists Think They've Finally Found The Mechanism Behind Grey Hair And Baldness
- This Intimidating Parasite Burrows Into Its Host's Eye And Hijacks Its Brain
- Anti-Vaccine Activists Spark a State's Worst Measles Outbreak in Decades
- How Much Do We Really Know About The Speed of Light?
- Fukushima's Meltdown Gave Every Human on Earth 1,000 Bananas' Worth of Radiation
- Bacteria Could Be Responsible For Shifts in Brain Structure in People With IBS
- Unchecked Fake News Gave Rise to an Evil Empire in Star Wars
- Good News, Humans: Swearing Can Actually Make You Stronger
- Scientists Have Developed The World's First Soft Tissue Synthetic Retina
- We'd Need 1.7 Earths to Make Our Consumption Sustainable
- Observing Your Own Brain Activity Could Be The Future of Treating Depression
- 7 Wild Predictions Bill Gates Has Made About The World That Could Actually Happen
- Here's How SpaceX Plans to Give Everyone on Earth Internet Access
- A New Form of Whirlwind Could Be Brewing in The Andes – And It's Packed Full of Crystals
- Learn to Code For Amazon Alexa, And Even Build Your Own
- Turns Out The Powerhouse of Our Cells Could Be Running at a Scorching 50°C
- ScienceAlert Deal: Never Run Out of IPhone Chargers Again
- Here's What We Know About This Week's Massive Google Docs Phishing Attack
- A Wave of Ultra-Hot Gas Twice as Big as The Milky Way Has Been Found Rippling Through Space
- The Halley's Comet Meteor Shower Is Set to Peak This Weekend – Here's How to Watch
- Scientists Might Have Just Discovered a Whole New Role For The Thalamus
- 17 Fascinating Photos of Our Solar System And Beyond
- Scientists Can Now Extract Ancient Human DNA From 240,000-Year-Old Dirt
- Here's What We'd Need to Transform Wormholes Into Intergalactic Shortcuts
- Dolphin Sex Is Literally Kinky
- A Breakthrough in How We Treat Cancer Is on The Horizon
- The Tea Plant's Genome Has Been Unlocked – And It's 4 Times That of Coffee
- A Gluten-Free Diet Could Do More Harm Than Good For People Without Coeliac Disease
- A Gaping Crack in The Antarctic Ice Shelf Just Forged a Devastating New Path
- Neurologists Have Identified Brain Lesions That Could Be Linked to Religious Fundamentalism
- For The First Time, Scientists Have Measured The Mysterious Force That Makes Crystals Align
- Researchers Have Finally Uncovered a Key Mechanism Behind Devastating Autoimmune Diseases
- Experts Have Revealed The Potential Dangers of Elon Musk's Neuralink Brain Interface
- Fungi From a Toxic Mine Pit Have Teamed Up to Produce a New Type of Antibiotic
- Tensions Flare as Scientists Go Public With Plan to Build Synthetic Human DNA
- We Have Weird New Details On The Strangest Symbiotic Relationship Ever Found
- Here's Why Bottled Water Is One of The Biggest Scams of The Century
- NASA Has Recorded The First Sounds of The Eerie Void Inside Saturn's Rings
- Gene-Editing Technology Has Successfully Targeted Cancer's "Command Centre"
- Tackle Your to-Read List With a Lifetime Subscription to This Time-Saving Reading App
- A New Gene-Editing Technique Has Eliminated Acute HIV Infection in Living Animals
- Next-Level Energy Storage Could Be Achieved by Adding an Atomic Layer of Water
- 1 in 5 Women With UTIs Are Still Being Told There's Nothing Wrong With Them
- Your Blood Type Could Be Linked to a Higher Risk of Heart Attack or Stroke
- Forget BMI – We Finally Have a More Accurate Way to Measure a Healthy Weight
- Astronomers discover a rare star full of calcium, but no clear origin
- Physicists Are 'Breeding' Schrödinger's Cat, And It Could Reveal The Limits of The Quantum World
- A Widely Reported Study on The Dangers of Microplastics in Fish Is About to Be Retracted
- That Crazy Plan to Refreeze The Arctic Is Actually Getting a Trial Run in Switzerland
- WATCH: There's a Genetic Reason Why Some People Sneeze in The Sunshine
- Hepatitis C Has Been Eradicated in 20 Patients Who Received Infected Kidney Transplants
- This New Gene Map Could Force a Rethink of How Vertebrate Brains Evolved
- The UK Just Switched on an Ambitious Fusion Reactor – And It Works
- These New Quantum Materials Can Conduct Electricity at Nearly The Speed of Light
- The US Military Wants to Hack The Human Brain to Help Us Learn a Second Language Faster
- Elon Musk Wants to Build High-Speed, Subterranean 'Car Sleds' to Finally Beat Traffic