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- Scientists Have Found a Way to Help You Learn New Skills Twice as Fast
- China's Dark Matter Space Probe Just Detected… Something Very Interesting
- Researchers Just Smashed a Quantum Computing Record With 10 Entangled Qubits
- This Icky Creature Is The Deepest Ocean Fish Humans Have Ever Seen
- People Who Never Marry Have a 42% Higher Risk of Developing Dementia
- Scientists Have Developed a Baldness Treatment That Helps Grow New Follicles
- Some People Can't See Any Pictures in Their Imagination, And Here's Why
- Astronomers Think They've Cracked The Mystery of Humongous 'Hot Jupiters'
- The Flat Earth Society Just Responded to Elon Musk's Tweet And We're Confused
- Bone Study Reveals Prehistoric Women Had Insanely Strong Arms
- The World Is Stuck on Eating The Same Few Crops, And That's Really Bad For Us All
- NASA Astronaut Has Captured What He Sees on Earth While Doing a Spacewalk
- This New Battery Material Uses Graphene to Charge 5 Times Faster
- Teen Brains Find It Hard to Work Out What's Actually Important
- New Semi-Synthetic Organism Can Make Molecules We've Never Seen Before
- NASA Has Literally Reinvented The Wheel to Improve Future Mars Missions
- Latest DNA Analysis Shows The Yeti Are Actually Just a Bunch of Bears
- Here's Why You Really Shouldn't Clean The Wax From Your Ears
- This Crazy Twist on Black Holes Says There Was No Big Bang
- Living Bacteria "From Outer Space" Have Been Found on The Outside of The ISS
- The Once-Deadly Scarlet Fever Is Making a Weird Comeback Around The World
- Scientists Have Discovered That The Tomb of Jesus Christ Is Far Older Than People Thought
- These 'Soft Robots' With Origami Muscles Can Lift 1,000 Times Their Own Weight
- Here's Why You Really Shouldn't Eat Raw Cookie Dough
- This Scientist Wants to Send Building Blocks of Life to Distant Exoplanets
- Poo Pills Really Are Becoming Our Answer to Dangerous Superbug Infections
- Tweaking Prices For 7 Foods Could Save 60,000 Lives in The US Every Year
- Our Love For Fried Food Could Have a Surprising Effect on The Weather
- Research Shows That Earthworms Can Thrive Even in Mars Soil
- This Mysterious Post-Orgasm Illness Could Be Caused by Semen Allergy
- These 4 New Insights Into HIV Show a Vaccine Is Closer Than Ever
- A Buried Cache of 2,300 Year-Old Iron Age Artefacts Has Been Discovered in The UK
- There's a Scientific Reason to Speak, Not Write, to Those Who Disagree With You
- How to Prove Earth Isn't Flat Without Building a Dangerous Homemade Rocket
- Is Apple Cider Vinegar Really The Miracle Food It's Made Out to Be?
- Scientists Have Worked Out How to Build Fire Extinguishers Into Batteries
- A Company in Canada Is Selling Illegal Marijuana Advent Calendars
- Flies Are Much More Disgusting And Disease-Ridden Than We Suspected
- This Protein in Your Brain Could Be at The Heart of Creating Memories
- ScienceAlert Deals: Here Are Our Top 10 Picks For Cyber Week
- This Horrifyingly Huge Wasp Nest Will Haunt Your Nightmares
- An Incredibly Rare Black Rhino Has Been Born at an Australian Zoo
- 5 Surprising Facts You Need to Know if You Want to Improve Your Fitness
- Turtles Breathe Through Their Butts to Survive in Frozen Ponds
- Physicists Just Smashed a Record For Measuring a Fundamental Proton Feature
- Flat-Earther's Plan to Launch Himself in Homemade Rocket Just Hit a Problem
- Do Fish Have Feelings? What Science Says About Animal Sentience
- Oil And Gas Industry Is Causing Texas Earthquakes, Landmark Study Suggests
- Scientists Have Created a Synthetic Molecule That Could Be The Key To Ending Antibiotic Resistance
- Research Finds It Might Not Be Consciousness That Drives The Human Mind
- This Is How Every Type of Alcohol Affects Your Mood, According to Science
- Schizophrenia Begins During Pregnancy, New Evidence Suggests
- The Evidence Is Building That Our Teeth Evolved From Fish Skin
- ScienceAlert Deal: Our Top 10 Picks For Black Friday
- Astronomers Want to Send a Probe to That Interstellar Asteroid, But There's a Catch
- Parent Obsession With Baby Growth Trends Could Be Fuelling Childhood Obesity
- British Water Firms Are Using Discredited Pseudoscience to Look For Pipes
- Strange Atomic Ripples in Graphene Could Unlock Clean, Limitless Energy
- 99% of Ocean Plastic Waste Is Invisible, But This Method Could Help Find It
- A New Bird Species Has Evolved on Galapagos And Scientists Watched It Happen
- Here's The Real Science Behind The Unreal Predictions of Major Earthquakes in 2018
- World's Smallest Tape Recorder Has Been Built Inside a Living Bacterium
- Elon Musk Just Met That 100-Day Deadline to Get Australia a Giant Tesla Battery
- A Team of Students Just Won a Prestigious Award For This Cheap Skin Cancer Detector
- Scientists Have Built a 'Hallucination Machine' For a Drug-Free Brain Trip
- US Military Is Working to Turn Plants Into a Network of Environmental Spies
- This Amazing Heart-Squeezing Robot Keeps Blood Pumping in Damaged Organs
- A Dangerous Fungal Infection Hid Inside a Man For 30 Years Before Revealing Itself
- There's an Important Similarity Between How Honeybees And Humans See Optical Illusions
- Now You Can Build Your Very Own Muon Detector For Less Than $100
- ScienceAlert Deal: 5 of The Most Important New Technologies For 2018
- Costa Rica's Electricity Has Run Entirely on Renewables For 300 Days in 2017
- A Stunning Blue Tarantula And Its Friends Were Just Discovered in South America
- Energy-Saving LED Lighting Has Backfired in a Spectacular Way
- Smoking During Pregnancy Is Now Linked to The Most Common Childhood Physical Disability
- These Free Resources on Science Could Be The Answer to The 'Fake News' Epidemic
- Space Dust Really Can Transport Life From Star To Star
- Exotic Australian Plants Have Superpowers That Can Be Used to Clean Up Chemical Spills
- This Horrifying 'Slaughterbot' Video Is The Best Warning Against Autonomous Weapons
- Breaking: Thunderstorms Observed Triggering Nuclear Reactions in The Sky
- Use of Hand Sanitiser Can Seriously Mess With Breath Alcohol Test Results
- People With Loads of Facebook Friends Share an Interesting Trait, Says Study
- Here's Everything You Need to Know About Ethereum, The Next Big Cryptocurrency
- Headless Skeleton of Enormous Extinct Sea Cow Has Been Unearthed in Siberia
- Here's What You Need to Know About That Mysterious Radiation Cloud Over Europe
- Here Are The Best Science-Based Hacks For The Ultimate Thanksgiving Meal
- Earth's Absorption of Ghost-Like Neutrinos Has Been Measured For The First Time
- Big Sugar Buried These Concerning Health Studies 50 Years Ago
- This Man Is Launching Himself in a Homemade Rocket to Prove Earth Is Flat
- Scientists Show They Can Tweak The Brain Circuits That Control Our Music Taste
- Oxygen Surge 400 Million Years Ago Helped Trigger an Explosion in Biodiversity
- 14 Ways Our Perception of The Universe Changed Forever in 2017
- Antivaxxers in The US Have Finally Stopped Gaining Ground, Study Suggests
- The Asteroid That Killed Dinosaurs Triggered a Worse Global Disaster Than Ever Imagined
- Sleep Position in Late Pregnancy Linked to More Than Doubled Stillbirth Risk
- LHC Measurements Hint at Entirely New Physics Just Outside Our Reach
- Humanity's Fertility Decline Could Be Driven by Poor Air Quality
- Here's Another Reason The Global Warming 'Hiatus' Never Actually Happened
- This Former NASA Engineer Has Debunked Pretty Much Every Online UFO Sighting
- The First Interstellar Object to Visit Us Is More Incredible Than We Ever Expected
- Those Signs of Liquid Water on Mars May Not Be Water After All
- Melted Nuclear Core at Fukushima Finally Discovered by Robot After 6 Years
- 7 Ways Renewable Energy Totally Kicked Ass in 2017
- These Prize-Winning Kids' Science Inventions Will Give You Hope For The Future
- Here Are Ways You Can Be More Persuasive, According to Science
- There's a Type of Brain Exercise That Could Reduce Dementia Risk by Nearly 30%
- Chimps Eat Poop, So Is There Anything That Actually Grosses Them Out?
- New Analysis Says We Were Wrong About What Caused The Chernobyl Disaster
- Ancient Skeletons Could Finally Reveal Origins of The Dead Sea Scrolls
- This NASA Scientist Has Had Enough of Your Ridiculous Planet X Doomsday Theories
- Dog Ownership Is Linked to Yet Another Great Health Benefit, Says Study
- Here's The Science on Why Eating Fat Won't Make You Fat
- Surgeon Claims He's Done The First Human Head Transplant, But There Are Huge Red Flags
- Here's Why It's Not Too Late to Save Our Oceans
- We Might Finally Know Why Pluto Is So Much Colder Than It Should Be
- An Ex-Google Exec Is Founding a Religion Where People Worship an AI God
- Our Knowledge of Our Own Anatomy Is Really Bad – Here's Why It Matters
- The Truth Behind The 'First Marijuana Overdose Death'
- Scientists Just Messaged an Alien Star – And Some Think It's a Bad Idea
- This Exoplanet Periodic Table Neatly Classifies More Than 3,700 Distant Worlds
- Physicists Just Quantum Entangled Two Silicon Chips That Can Share Information
- Surgeons Find a Parasite Unlike Any They've Seen in Defector Who Escaped North Korea
- This 8,000-Year-Old Rock Art Is The Earliest Depiction of Domesticated Dogs
- NASA Has Captured Earth's Pulse of Life in a Breathtaking Time-Lapse
- Look Up! The Leonid Meteor Shower Is Peaking This Weekend
- 10 Gift Ideas Under $100 For The Tech Lovers In Your Life
- Humanoid Robot From Boston Dynamics Can Now Do a Backflip And OMG
- Earth Is Getting Hit by Too Much Anti-Matter, And Nobody Knows Why
- 1,500 Skeletons Have Been Found in Record-Breaking Mass Graves in Europe
- These Pigeons Went From Billions to Extinct, And Humans Need to Take Note
- SpaceX Is Launching The Top-Secret 'Zuma' Mission Tonight – Here's What We Know
- 8 'Facts' About The Human Body Debunked by Science
- The Way Our Brains Process Sound Is Weirder Than We Ever Expected
- Eating Too Fast Can Lead to Several Health Problems, Study Shows
- These Futuristic Floating Buildings Are Made From Thousands of Plastic Bottles
- These Strange Spiders Have The Fastest Internal Clocks in Nature
- Engineers Have Created an 'Impossible' Stable Ring of Plasma in The Open Air
- NASA Finally Has Stunning Photos of The Giant Iceberg That Broke Off Antarctica
- Over 400 Scientific Papers Have Cited a 'Phantom' Reference That Never Existed
- First Ever Anti-Ageing Gene Discovered in a Secluded Amish Family
- This 2.5 Billion-Year-Old Explosion Is Unlike Any Astronomers Have Seen
- Scientists Have Tried First-Ever Gene Editing Directly Inside a Patient's Body
- MIT Scientists Discover How Droplets Can Levitate on a Liquid Surface
- We Finally Know What Creates These Eerie Whistling Sounds in Space
- Sweden's Incredibly Rare White Moose Was Nearly Killed Earlier This Week
- These Are The Melting Glaciers Threatening to Drown Your City, According to NASA
- Trees in Some Cities Grow Faster Than in The Wild, And Here's The Crazy Reason Why
- Good News! Science Says You'll Probably Never Have Heart-Stopping Sex
- People With Certain Blood Types Appear to Be More at Risk From Air Pollution
- Scientists Will Look For Signs of Life on This Newly Discovered Earth-Size Planet
- FDA Approves a Trackable 'Digital Pill' That Delivers Schizophrenia Medication
- This Ancient Chinese Box Says It Contains The Collected Remains of The Buddha
- This Incredible Footage Shows CRISPR Editing DNA in Real Time
- For The First Time Ever Scientists Have Boosted Human Memory With a Brain Implant
- A Helium-Resistant Material Could Finally Usher in The Age of Nuclear Fusion
- Scientists Begin to Uncover The Mysteries of Antarctica's Vast Fossil Forests
- The Classification of 'High Blood Pressure' Just Changed. Here's What You Need to Know
- Scientists Have Discovered a Grass That Tastes Like Salt And Vinegar Chips
- What Would Happen if Everybody in The US Went Vegan Right Now?
- Specimens of Earth's Oldest Known Life Forms Have Been Discovered in Tasmania
- ScienceAlert Deal: 8 Insanely Cool Things You Can Do With Raspberry Pi
- This Mesmerising NASA Footage Set to a 'Sound of Silence' Cover Will Give You Chills
- 8,000-Year-Old Pottery Shards Reveal Traces of The World's Oldest Wine
- Scientists Have Engineered Beetles With a Fully Functional Third Eye
- Which Is Worse For Your Health, Marijuana or Alcohol? Here's The Science
- CO2 Emissions Are Rising Again For The First Time in 3 Years, And Only Getting Worse
- Largest Ever Group of Scientists Issues Humanity an Urgent Warning: Time Is Running Out
- Hacking The Rhythm of DNA Replication Could Kill Off Cancer Cells
- This Crazy New Material Could Harvest Electricity From The Human Body
- Deep in The Ocean, There's a 'Shadow Zone' Where The Water Is 2,000 Years Old
- An Actual Insect Was Found Trapped in This Classic Van Gogh Masterpiece
- A Former NASA Flight Director Explains How to Stay Calm in a Crisis
- 2017 Really Is Much Worse Than 2016, Annual Survey Reveals
- This Simple Hack Using Aluminium Foil Could Improve Your Home Wi-Fi
- Your 'Gluten Sensitivity' Could Be Explained by Something Else Found in Wheat
- We're Running Out of Commonly Used Drugs And Hospitals Say It's 'Becoming a Crisis'
- Biologists Just Determined How Long Life Can Survive on Mars, And It's Longer Than We Thought
- Your House Is a Gigantic Bug Habitat, And There's Nothing You Can Do About It
- There's a Biological Reason Why Some People Get Chills When They Listen to Music
- Why Is It Nice to Be Nice? The Scientific Explanation For Kindness
- IBM Just Announced an Insanely Powerful 50-Qubit Quantum Computer
- Study Shows How a Low Calorie Diet Can Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
- Patterns in Fruit Fly Brains Could Soon Power Your Netflix Recommendations
- Scientists Finally Answer The Important Question, Are Cats a Liquid?
- ScienceAlert Deal: 4 Essential Coding Languages You Should Know in 2018
- World's 'Most Premature' Surviving Baby Is Thriving Three Years Later
- Having a Cat Around When You're Young Could Help Prevent Asthma
- Astronomers Are Puzzled by a Huge Object at The Centre of Our Galaxy
- Buried For Up to 50,000 Years, a Perfectly Frozen Cave Lion Cub Was Just Found in Siberia
- Dinosaurs Might Have Survived if The Asteroid Had Hit Earth Elsewhere
- Good News: Soil Could Be a Much Larger Carbon Sink Than We Hoped
- A Single Heartbreaking Photo Shows The Horror Elephants Face in India
- This Incredibly Tiny Probe Can Record Brain Activity Like We've Never Seen Before
- Is Manuka Honey Really a 'Superfood' For Treating Colds, Allergies And Infections?
- It's Possible For a Person to Have Two Different Sets of DNA – Here's How It Happens
- Here's What You Really Need to Know About That Hot Plume Under Antarctica
- A Common Contraceptive Is Linked to a "Stunning" Reduction in Cervical Cancer Risk
- Rare 2,000 Year-Old Sundial Discovery Changes Assumptions About Roman History
- Bonobos Volunteer to Help Strangers, Making Them More Human Than We Thought
- Physicists Might Finally Be Able to Detect The Spectacularly Rare Radiation Escaping Black Holes
- 13 Surprisingly Weird Reasons Why Crows And Ravens Are The Best Birds, No Question
- This Scientist Says to Fight Climate Change We Must Sue Major Polluting Companies
- This Star Exploded, Survived, And Then Exploded Again After 60 Years
- Check Out How Giant Curved Mirrors Are Being Made For This Enormous Telescope
- Physicists Are Running Out of Places to Look For Mysterious Dark Matter Particles
- In a Major Warning, Top US Cancer Doctors Are Asking People to Drink Less Alcohol
- Sheep Can Recognise Celebrity Faces From Photos Alone, Which Is Crazy
- How to Avoid Products That Pollute The Indoor Air in Your Home
- Scientists Have Found an Entirely New Type of Eye Cell in These Deep-Sea Fish
- 7-Year-Old Boy With Incurable Condition Has 80% of His Skin Genetically Modified
- This Prehistoric "Masterpiece" Could Rewrite The History of Ancient Greek Art
- Yet Another Study Shows That Children of Gay Parents Do Just Fine
- Controversial 'Free Research' Site Sci-Hub Could Be Blocked in US After Legal Blow
- Incredible Fossil Teeth From Earliest Mammal Ancestors Have Been Found in The UK
- Stephen Hawking Warns Our Time as The Ruling Species on Earth Is Running Out
- A Dutch Company Has Hacked a Tesla So It Drives on Hydrogen
- US Is The Only Country Left to Reject Paris Climate Deal After Syria Just Joined
- This Renewable 'Instant Coal' Could Be The Fuel of The Future
- Sleep Deprivation Has The Same Effect as Drinking Too Much, Says Study
- Turns Out Magma Is Locked in 'Cold Storage' Before Volcanoes Dramatically Explode
- NASA Wants Your Help to Name a Space Object, What Could Go Wrong
- Scientists Just Found a Vital Missing Link in The Origins of Life on Earth
- Harvard Scientists Have Unlocked Unexpected New States of Light
- ScienceAlert Deal: Which VPN Should You Choose?
- A Rare Black Truffle Has Grown Farther North on Our Planet Than Ever Before
- Alien Life Could Thrive in Enceladus' Hidden Oceans Thanks to an Epic Invisible Force
- People With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Are Exhausted at a Cellular Level, Study Shows
- 10 Myths About Birth Control You Need to Stop Believing Right Now
- Incredible New Astronomy Technique Just Confirmed The Most Ancient Galaxy So Far
- This Insect's Camouflage Could Teach Us How to Make an Invisibility Cloak
- 2017 Is One of The Hottest Years on Record, And This Time There's No Excuse
- CDC Has Revealed 2 Alarming Trends Claim More American Lives Than a Year Ago
- The Very First American Settlers Arrived Much Earlier Than We Thought
- The Closest Star to Our Own Solar System Just Got a Lot More Interesting
- T. Rex May Have Actually Used Its Tiny Arms For "Vicious Slashing" of Its Victims
- In a Historical Agreement, Several Sharks Just Received Major Worldwide Protection
- NASA Just Completed The First Test of a Tracking System For Hazardous Asteroids
- Scientists Have Found a New Clue About How 'Super-Agers' Stay Sharp as They Age
- Forget Daylight Saving, We Should Adopt a Single, Universal Time, Scientists Say
- The Earth's Ozone Hole Is Shrinking And Is Now The Smallest It's Been Since 1988
- The Science Is in. Spanking Children Does Serious, Long-Term Damage
- China Will Launch Their Highly Classified Reusable Spaceplane in 2020
- How Often Do You Actually Need to Shower? Science Weighs in
- 7 Things You Peak at in Life After 50, According to Science
- Scientists Have Identified The Chemical That Suppresses Unwanted Thoughts in The Brain
- US Government Report Finds 'No Convincing Alternative Explanation' For Climate Change
- The FDA Would Like to Remind You That Pot Doesn't "Cure" Cancer
- We Don't Know Much About Earth's First 1.5 Billion Years, But This Mineral Could Hold Answers
- Turns Out Bees Can Be Right- or Left-Handed, Just Like Humans
- 6 Idiot-Proof Houseplants That Can Live For Weeks Without Water
- We Now Know Why Corals Keep Eating Plastic And It's Worrying
- Physicists Just Discovered Such an Explosive Type of Fusion They Almost Hid The Results
- A Surprising New Orangutan Species Was Just Identified, And It's Critically Endangered
- A Beluga Whale Living With Dolphins Swapped Her Language For Theirs
- Here's What Long-Term Living in Space Does to Astronaut Brains
- You Can Measure Your Charisma With Just 6 Questions, According to This Study
- Scientists Just Completed a Record-Breaking Test of The Revolutionary X3 Ion Engine
- You Can't Fight The Evolving And Random Changes in Language, Says Study
- We Could Heal Spine Injuries in Humans by Studying Cells in Gecko Tails
- These Simple, Science-Backed Exercises You Can Do at Home Have Huge Health Benefits
- Shark Bites Really Are More Deadly in Australia, And Here's Why
- Why Two Burgers Can Be Healthier For You Than Eating One Burger And Fries
- UPDATED: Scientists Discover a Giant Void Hidden in The Great Pyramid of Giza
- We've Finally Narrowed Down The Speed of Gravity And The Numbers Are Insane
- Can You Train Yourself to Develop Supersenses? Here's What Science Says
- Stanford Professor Files Libel Suit Against Top Science Journal Over Clean Energy Claims
- 9 Countries Are on Track to Completely Eradicate Hepatitis C
- Human Trial Shows Little Promise For Young People's Blood as Dementia Treatment
- Dingoes May Have Actually Migrated to Australia Twice
- Iceland's Biggest Volcano Is Getting Ready to Erupt Again
- 7 Quotes That Show Why You Really Need a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral
- What Would Aliens Really Look Like? Here Are Some Hints From Evolution
- People Really Do Love Dogs More Than Humans, Says New Study
- Humans Were Not Smarter Than Neanderthals, We Simply Outlasted Them
- Scientists Are Still Detecting Radioactivity From Pacific Nuclear Tests in The 1940s
- This Fish Species Can Actually Repair Brain Damage From Freezing in The Winter
- A Flying Predator The Size of a Plane Could Have Been The Largest of Its Kind
- These Football Fans Were So Loud They Caused a Spike in Seismic Activity
- This Monster Planet With a Tiny Star Poses a Planetary Formation Puzzle
- Extremely Rare Case in US as Woman Gets Pregnant While Already Pregnant
- A Strange Vision Quirk Could Explain Why Some of Us Are Photophobic