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- A Scary Vulnerability to Hackers Is Affecting at Least 456,000 Pacemakers in The US
- This New Robot From MIT Can Politely Navigate Through Crowds
- How to Kill Fruit Flies, According to a Scientist
- A Vast Reserve of Pristine Amazon Rainforest Has Just Been Saved From Mining Operations
- Physicists Just Caught Sight of Electrons Entangled in a Completely New State
- We Finally Know How Humans Are Able to Echolocate, Just Like Bats And Whales
- ScienceAlert Deal: Stay Safe on The Web With This Private Internet Access VPN
- Spring-Loaded Ant Jaws Snap Shut on Prey 700 Times Faster Than You Can Blink
- Black Holes Once Cleared The Way For Light in Our Universe, Say Astronomers
- Astronomers Just Solved a 580-Year-Old Mystery of a Massive Stellar Explosion
- We Just Picked Up an Intense Burst of 15 Weird Signals From a Distant Galaxy
- A Brilliant New Cancer Treatment That Re-Engineers Human Cells Just Got Approved
- Scientists Have Found a Completely New Way to Attack And Kill Cancer Cells
- Narcissists Actually Don't Like Looking at Themselves, Says New Study
- Bioengineered Lungs With Intact Blood Vessels Just Came One Step Closer to Reality
- We Finally Know Why The Caspian Sea Is Evaporating Off The Face of The Planet
- We're About to Cross The 'Quantum Supremacy' Limit in Computing
- Researchers Just Proved Crystals Can Bend, Flipping Chemistry on Its Head
- How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find
- Molecules Chilled Close to Absolute Zero Just Smashed a New Physics Record
- NASA Just Released This Absolutely Breathtaking Image of The Solar Eclipse in Infrared
- Finally, FDA Is Cracking Down on Highly Dangerous 'Treatments' From Stem Cell Clinics
- A Galaxy 5 Billion Light-Years Away Just Revealed a Major Clue to Universe's Magnetism Mystery
- Mislabelled Fossil With a Fake Tail Turned Out to Be Biggest Sea Dragon Ever Found
- In Kenya, Using Plastic Bags Can Now Send You to Jail or Cost a $40,000 Fine
- One of Our Fundamental Assumptions About Black Holes Was Just Overturned in The Lab
- People Are So Desperate For New Game of Thrones, an AI Just Wrote The Next Book For Us
- Fire Ants Are Banding Together Into Stinging Horror Rafts to Survive Hurricane Harvey's Flood
- Elon Musk Just Shared Footage of a Hyperloop Accelerating to 200 Mph And Holy Crap
- Ecstasy Was Just Labelled a 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD by The FDA
- Oldest Known Case of a Creepy Liver Parasite Has Been Found in 375-Year-Old Mummy
- People Are Using Old Laptop Batteries to Build Their Own Versions of Tesla's Powerwall
- Scientists Just Solved The Mystery of a Rare Meteor Shower That Disappeared For 60 Years
- Americans Are Confused About Food And Don't Know Where to Turn For Answers
- 'I Detest America': 148 Lost Documents by Alan Turing Accidentally Found in Old Storage
- A New Vaccine Could Make The Brain Immune to Heroin And Opioids, Scientists Say
- This Hallucinogenic Honey Is So Prized That Hunters Scale Cliffs And Confront Swarms to Get It
- Physicists Just Achieved Quantum Teleportation Underwater For The First Time
- This Breakthrough Drug Study Just Opened Up a New Way to Combat Heart Disease
- How Winning The Lottery Affects Happiness, According to Psychology Research
- This Clockwork Rover Could Be The Perfect Way to Get Around on Venus
- The Launch of This New Kind of Journal Report Could Be The Fix Medical Science Needs
- The Concept of Schizophrenia Is Coming to an End – Here's Why
- What's The Tallest Thing We Could Ever Possibly Build?
- Russian Tanker Is The First to Sail The Arctic Without an Icebreaker Escort
- Scientists Set a New Record For The World's Strongest Resistive Magnet
- New NASA Video Shows Hurricane Harvey Ready to Swallow All of Texas
- Scientists Have Created a Super-Thin Fabric That Harvests Energy From Our Movements
- Lithium in Our Tap Water Could Protect People From Dementia, New Study Suggests
- Learn Hundreds of Cool New Ways to Program The Raspberry Pi With This Online Course Bundle
- Meet 'Dark DNA' – The Hidden Genes That May Change How We Think About Evolution
- The First Thorium Salt Reactors in Over 40 Years Were Just Switched on in Europe
- We Just Got Another Explanation For The Crazy Behaviour of The 'Alien Megastructure' Star
- Tropical Storm Harvey Is Threatening to Become a Major, Devastating Hurricane in Texas
- 99% of The Microbes in Our Own Bodies Are Still a Total Mystery to Science
- Museum-Goers Just Ruined an 800-Year-Old Coffin For The Sake of a Photo
- How to Scientifically Calculate The Number of Calories You Burn Doing Any Physical Activity
- Quantum Computing Is Coming at Us Fast, So Here's Everything You Need to Know
- Dakota Access Pipeline Firm Is Suing Environmentalists Who Protested Against It
- Most of The World Could Be 100% Powered With Renewables by 2050
- Your Afternoon Work Slump Can Totally Be Blamed on The Brain, Says New Study
- Unbreakable Rubber Bands That Are 200 Times Stronger Than Steel Are Coming Soon
- Vitamin B Has Been Linked to Lung Cancer, But You Probably Don't Need to Worry
- ExxonMobil Misled The Public on Climate Change For 40 Years, New Study Shows
- This Common Ingredient in Antiseptic Soap Is Messing With Your Cell Biology
- Elon Musk Just Shared The First Photo of SpaceX's Fully Functional Space Suits
- This 3,700-Year-Old Babylonian Clay Tablet Just Changed The History of Maths
- The Key to Getting to Mars Could Be in Recycling Astronaut Pee Into Food Supplements
- Why People Believe in Conspiracy Theories – And How to Change Their Minds
- NASA Has a $3.5bn Plan to Save The Planet From The Yellowstone Supervolcano
- From Next Month, Turkey Will Stop Teaching Evolution in The School Curriculum
- Scientists Just Jacked Up Plasma Energy Output, And It Could Make Nuclear Fusion More Efficient
- We May Have Just Found The Hormone That Lets Gut Bacteria Talk to The Brain
- Cyborg Bacteria Covered in Tiny Solar Panels Are Changing The Future of Clean Fuel
- Confirmed: Electrons Flowing Like Liquid in Graphene Are Insanely Superconductive
- How Did Animals React to The Solar Eclipse? Here's Some Reports on Their Weird Behaviour
- It Rains Diamonds on Neptune And We've Now Re-Created That Effect Here on Earth
- Disney Is Developing an AI That Can Judge What Makes For a Truly Great Story
- New Analysis of This Moon Rock Says Our Satellite Doesn't Actually Have Water Inside
- ScienceAlert Offer: Check Out These Adorable Glowing Dino Pets
- A New Class of Antimicrobials Has Just Been Found in Human Breast Milk
- We Have First-Ever Evidence That Mars Gets Intense Snowstorms in The Dead of Night
- Behold The International Space Station Passing in Front of The Sun During The Eclipse
- If Your Eyes Hurt After Watching The Solar Eclipse, Here's What You Need to Know
- The Ultimate Eclipse Photo Is in: NASA Caught The ISS Flying in Front of The Sun
- Here's Why Sometimes Correlation Does Actually Imply Causation
- Turns Out That Taking Photos Really Does Help You Remember All Those Great Experiences
- Breakthrough Peanut Allergy Treatment Still Amazingly Effective After 4 Years
- Meet The Dogs With OCD
- Elon Musk And Over 100 AI Experts Are Urging The UN to Ban Killer Robots
- Here's How to Find Out if You Might Miss The Solar Eclipse Because of Bad Weather
- For The First Time Ever, a Woman in China Has Been Cryogenically Frozen
- 5 Amazing Ways Game of Thrones And Science Have Joined Forces
- Lost WWII Wreckage of The USS Indianapolis Has Finally Been Found After 72 Years
- This Adorable Golden Retriever Dug Up $85,000 Worth of Heroin in Its Backyard
- Your Bad Contact Lens Habits Are Probably Damaging Your Eyes
- The Supplement Industry Is Barely Regulated And It's Endangering Actual Lives
- This Absolutely Ginormous Asteroid Is Passing Close by Earth In Two Weeks Time
- WATCH: What Happens If You Throw an Elephant, a Dog, And a Mouse From a Skyscraper?
- Scientists Show How Bacteria Use Micro-Daggers to Fend Off Amoebae And Stay Alive
- New Dissolvable Milk Pods For Your Coffee Are Going to Save Tons of Plastic Packaging
- ScienceAlert Deal: Here's How to Get 2TB of Cheap, Secure Cloud Storage
- This New Class of Chemical Reaction Just Turned Out to Be Extremely Important
- Meet The First-Ever 3D Printer That Can Do Construction in The Vacuum of Space
- Become a Better Whisky Snob by Adding a Few Drops of Water to Your Drink
- Brave Rescue Elephants Are Helping Save Lives in Severely Flooded Nepal
- NASA's Awesome Voyager Probes Are Both Still Going Strong After 40 Years
- There's a Reason Probiotics Do Very Little – But a New Type of Pill Could Change That
- Astronomers Just Got Their First Real Look at a Supernova Slamming Into a Neighbouring Star
- Here's How to Photograph The Solar Eclipse Without Damaging Your Camera
- These Tiny Robots Can Swim Through Acid to Deliver Stomach Ulcer Drugs Directly
- Archaeologists Just Discovered Three Hidden 2,000-Year-Old Egyptian Tombs
- Here's How Even a Minor Nuclear War Could Affect Our Planet's Environment
- Mars Probe Data Shows The Red Planet Is Hiding Water Where There Shouldn't Be Any
- Everything You Need to Know to Be Ready For Monday's Great American Eclipse
- If You Can't Make This Solar Eclipse, Here's When Your Next Chance Will Be
- This Powerful New Painkiller Could Be The Unexpected Ticket to Replacing Opioids
- Scientists Attached Tiny Cameras to Gentoo Penguins And The Footage Is Amazing
- Finally! The ISS Crew Just Received Real Ice Cream Thanks to SpaceX
- We Finally Know Which Groundbreaking Period in Earth's History Gave Rise to The First Animals
- Rebel Giant Tortoise Caught by Bounty Hunters After Two Weeks of Freedom
- Hardcore Eclipse Chasers Spend Big Money to Watch The Totality Longer Than Everybody Else
- Baby Dolphin Killed by a Mob of Beachgoers Who Passed It Around For Photos
- Smoking While Pregnant Is Crazy, But Science Just Found What Really Causes The Damage
- Aussie Robot Has Just Won a US$80k Prize at The Amazon Robotics Challenge
- The Adult Brain Can Regenerate Neurons in an Unexpected Area, Says New Study
- This Frankenstein Dino Just Turned Out to Be The Missing Link in Dinosaur Evolution
- This Inspiring Study Shows How Well Our World Once United to Save The Environment
- PHOTOS: NASA's Cassini Probe Just Got Closer to Saturn Than Ever Before
- Don't Want Unsolicited Nudes From Strangers? Change This iPhone Setting Now
- There's More Than One Way We Can Be Nice to Each Other, According to Science
- Scientists Are Finally Set to Mass-Produce The Active Compound Found in Magic Mushrooms
- If Nuclear Armageddon Comes, Whatever You Do, Don't Use Hair Conditioner
- There's Little Evidence Marijuana Will Help Ease Your Chronic Pain or PTSD
- Nobody Panic, But Fleas Carrying Bubonic Plague Have Turned Up in The US
- Your Tweets Could Be Used For Predicting Disease Outbreaks in The Future
- World's Biggest Solar Thermal Power Plant Just Got Approved in Australia
- This Molecule Found in Royal Jelly Is The Secret Ingredient to Speed Up Wound Healing
- Stars Orbiting a Supermassive Black Hole May Have Finally Confirmed General Relativity
- Great Scott! DeLorean Aerospace Is Working on an Actual Flying Car
- Check Out The Beginner's Guide to Cryptocurrency Investing
- Poop Transplants – What Works, What Doesn't, And What We Still Don't Know
- The Internet Is Freaking Out Over This Bizarre, Completely White Moose
- Treating Cancer With Alternative Medicine More Than Doubles Your Risk of Dying
- Bitcoin Has Just Broken Another All-Time Record at US$4,000 And Continues to Rise
- There's a Rare Chemical Compound Lurking in The Icy Depths of Neptune
- Heart Rate Study Shows Game of Thrones Violence Isn't What Thrills Fans The Most
- WATCH LIVE: NASA Is About to Stream a 6-Hour Spacewalk From The ISS
- For The First Time Ever, We've Witnessed The Sun Rip Apart Its Own Solar Eruption
- A Researcher Disguised Himself as a Car Seat to Teach Driverless Cars to Deal With Humans
- Midwife Organisation Rules to Finally Stop Pushing The Idea of 'Normal Births'
- Almost 100 Unknown Volcanoes Have Been Found Hidden Under Antarctica
- One in Eight American Adults Is Now an Alcoholic, Study Says
- Quantum Weirdness Has Been Tested Beyond The Particle Scale For The First Time
- Five Crucial Skills We'll Need to Actually Fight Climate Change
- Your Goldfish Copes With Your Gross Aquarium by Making Its Own Alcohol
- Scientists Just Discovered New Kinds of Cells in The Human Brain
- Which Dinosaur Is The Biggest? There's a New Contender – And It's Alarmingly Large
- New Research Shakes Idea That Having Pets Is Better For Kids' Health
- This 107-Year-Old Fruitcake Found in Antarctica Looks Almost Good Enough to Eat
- This German Startup Wants to Put a Mobile Phone Tower on The Moon
- New Window Glass Switches From Clear to Opaque, So You'll Never Need Curtains Again
- Our Waters Are Getting So Polluted Sea Snakes Are Turning Black to Cope
- Hack For The Good Guys With This All New White Hat Hacker Bundle
- Chimps Just Showed They Can Learn a Simple Game Just Like 4-Year-Old Humans
- We Just Took a Huge Step Closer to Organ Transplants From Pigs Into Humans
- First-Ever Mutant Ants Have Been Raised, And They Have a Messed Up Social Life
- No, This Year's Solar Eclipse Won't Trigger a Nibiru Apocalypse
- Good News! Excitement Over Science Is Actually Contagious in The Classroom
- The Guy Who Made Us All Write Complicated Passwords Says They're U$e1ess Now
- Scientists Have Made Implantable Batteries That Run on Body-Friendly Fluids
- Your Brain Really Can Form New Memories While You Sleep
- Here's How Many Moscow Mules You'd Need to Drink to Be Poisoned by Those Copper Cups
- Landmark Vitamin Discovery Could Prevent Miscarriages And Birth Defects
- The Moon Kept Its Magnetic Field Far Longer Than Anybody Expected
- Prehistoric Baby Skull Shows What Our Common Ancestor With Apes May Have Looked Like
- 7 of The Wackiest Questions NASA Has Been Asked About The Total Solar Eclipse
- Our Nearest Sun-Like Star Has 2 Planets That Might Be Habitable
- The First Gliding Mammals Took to The Skies While Dinosaurs Still Roamed
- Sleep Disorders During Pregnancy Are Linked to Higher Risk of Preterm Birth
- An Unprecedented Fire Is Raging Across Greenland Right Now
- If a Nuclear Bomb Explodes, These Are The Emergency Supplies You Should Have
- Reversing Memory Loss in Alzheimer's Closer With Discovery of New Protein Target
- We Vastly Underestimated How Many Black Holes Are Lurking in Space
- This Teenage Girl Invented an AI-Based App That Can Quickly Diagnose Eye Disease
- Evidence of a 'Vanished' Civilisation May Have Been Rediscovered in The US
- Science Totally Debunks That Shocking Manifesto That Got a Google Employee Fired
- This App Is Leading The Revolution in Free Access to Scientific Papers
- Puppies That Get Tough Love From Their Mum Make Better Guide Dogs
- A Woman Swallowed a Wire And It Lodged in Her Intestines For 10 Years
- Women's Brains Have More Blood Flow Than Men's, New Study Shows
- This Insane Nanochip Device Can Heal Tissue Just by Touching The Skin Once
- There's a Simple New Way to Find Out if Hackers Already Have Your Password
- We're One Step Closer to Curing Type 1 Diabetes With This First-Ever Stem Cell Implant
- Master Big Data With This New Online Course Bundle
- Scientists Are Making Actual Origami Out of Body Organ Tissue
- Parasitic Worm Eggs Might Soon Be Sold as a Food Supplement in Germany
- Will The Upcoming Solar Eclipse Drive Animals to Totally Weird Behaviours?
- This Prehistoric Worm's Face Looks Like a Butt With Claws And We Can't Deal
- Awkward Robots That Make Mistakes Are More Likeable to Foolish Humans
- Asphalt Made From Cigarette Butts Can Help Us Clean All That Awful Litter
- Here's How We Can Stop Planes From Becoming Total Cesspools of Infection
- Science Shows That Discriminating Against Religious Groups Feeds Radicalisation
- Hydrogen Fuel Could Become a Viable Energy Alternative Thanks to This Aluminium Alloy
- Mysterious Hybrid Strain of Anthrax Is Running Rampant in African Rainforests
- Widespread Loneliness Is Killing People And We Need to Start Taking This Seriously
- Flesh-Eating Bugs Seriously Messed Up This Teen's Legs After a Casual Beach Dip
- We Can Now Add Bees to The List of Animals That Can Count to Zero
- This Is The Most Detailed Map Yet of The Universe's Dark Matter
- A 9-Year-Old Has Asked NASA to Be The 'Planetary Protection Officer' of Earth
- CRISPR Skin Grafts Could Replace Insulin Shots For Diabetes
- Blocking Phone Alerts For Just One Day Can Change Your Habits For Years
- Watch: This Adorable Orangutan Wants Attention And It's Everything We Need Right Now
- WATCH: What Does Science Actually Say About Whether There's a Gay Gene?
- Physicists Have Captured The First Spectral Fingerprints of Antimatter
- ScienceAlert Deal: Keep a Little Ecosystem in Your Home With This EcoQube C Aquarium
- This Crazy New Material Switches From Super Hydrophobic to Super Hydrophilic in an Instant
- Strange Little 'Ghost Particles' Finally Detected Bumping Into an Atom's Nucleus
- NASA Is Hiring a 'Planetary Protection Officer' to Guard Us Against Alien Life
- Dull Taste Buds Might Make You More Likely to Put on Weight
- The 'Mona Lisa' of Dinosaurs Is So Perfect We Even Know Its Skin Colour
- We Are Entering a New Era of Colour Science And Researchers Are Buzzing
- Scientists Unlock a Secret to Non-Genetic Variation Within a Species
- Amazing New Algorithms Will Fix Your Photos Before You Even Take Them
- Trapdoor Spiders Made a Terrifying Ocean Voyage to Move to Australia
- We Finally Know Why Artificial Sweeteners Can Make You Put on Weight
- The Perseid Meteor Shower Is Peaking This Week – Here's How to Watch
- Spoiling Our Pets Less Is One Way We Can Lower Carbon Emissions
- "Glowing" Water Atmosphere Detected on an Exoplanet For The First Time
- Astronauts Can See 'Super Typhoon' Noru From Space, And Their Photos Are Incredible
- Sharing Your Hangover With a Friend Makes It More Bearable, Scientists Say
- First Human Embryo Editing Experiment in US Corrects Gene For Heart Condition
- There's Actually a Huge Limitation to The Mediterranean Diet
- A Classic Magic Trick Is Helping Scientists Study How Your Body Maps Itself
- Scientists Just Revealed a Hidden Secret About The Sun's Inner Core
- This Is The Best Advice to Help Extend Your Phone's Battery Life
- We Finally Know What The First Ever Flower on Earth Actually Looked Like
- WATCH: What Science Really Has to Say About Fancy Wine Drinking Tips
- This Protein Could Be Spreading Type 2 Diabetes Like Mad Cow Disease
- Reviewers of Tesla's Model 3 Are Going Absolutely Nuts Over The Car
- A Plant That Was Around With The Dinosaurs Has Been Found Alive in North America For The First Time
- Not Enough Sleep Really Does Affect Your Waistline
- You Don't Want to Know How Germ-Ridden Your Kitchen Sponge Really Is
- An Asteroid Headed Our Way Is About to Test NASA's Planetary Defence System
- Learn How to Build Your Own Games With This Awesome Online Course
- We've Found Even More Proof That Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is a Real Disease
- Woman Calls 911: "I Have a Boa Constrictor Stuck to My Face"