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December 31
- 20+ Science Facts We Didn't Know at The Start of 2017
- The Best New Year's Resolutions According to Science – And How to Keep Them
- A High-School Student Just Won $250,000 For This Incredible Explanation of Relativity
- We Might Have Been Wrong Telling People to Take Daily Vitamins, New Study Suggests
- 5 Common Hangover Myths Broken Down by Science
- This Ingenious Artificial Island Will Collect Wind Energy And Divert It to Shore
- The First Supermoon of 2018 Will Appear on New Year's Day – And It's Even More Special
- Physicists Test a Strange Nuclear Sphere That Could Revolutionise Fusion Energy
- Here's Why Some People Are Allergic to Exercise
- There Could Be a Biological Mechanism Behind Postpartum Depression, Says Study
- ScienceAlert Deals: These Were Our Top 10 Tech Deals of 2017
- New Device Lets Scientists Explore The Weird Physics Near Absolute Zero
- Scientists Have Discovered a Brand New Species of Giant Octopus Hiding in Plain Sight
- Study Shows What's Really Going on in Online Anti-Vax Groups
- Scientists Discover an Entirely New Biological System That Regulates Body Fat
- 6 Factors That Can Increase Your Risk of Alzheimer's Disease
- Here's Why Some People Turn Super-Red After Drinking Alcohol
- We Finally Have Evidence That Black Holes Drive Winds Shaping Their Entire Galaxy
- Scientists Have Found Where Nicotine Addiction Can Be Blocked in The Brain
- NYC Is Finally Taking Down Its Old, Misleading 'Fallout Shelter' Signs
- More Pregnant Women Are Using Marijuana, But We Still Don't Know The Risks
- Several People Are Claiming They Own This Escaped Mystery Croc Found in Australia
- Calcium And Vitamin D May Not Protect Against Bone Fractures After All
- Plants Are Better at Complex Decision-Making Than We Ever Realised
- Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Asteroid Is Even Bigger Than We Thought
- Scientists Observe Bizarre 'Double Whirlpools' in The Ocean For The First Time
- The Scientific Reason Why You Really Need to Get Enough Sleep in 2018
- 11 Things People Think Are Terrible For Your Diet That Actually Aren't
- Confirmed: 2017's Total Solar Eclipse Created Bow Waves in Earth's Atmosphere
- Scotland Is Starting a Universal Basic Income Experiment in 2018
- Our Top 13 Predictions For Science in 2018
- Physicists Have Created a Set of Conditions in Which Time Seems to Run in Reverse
- Study Says Some Men Avoid Being Eco-Friendly Because It Looks 'Less Manly'
- Amputee Bear Rescued From Cruelty Gets to Live in Sunlight For The First Time
- Here's How Your 'Cyberloafing' at Work Makes Life Easier For Hackers
- Here's What Thin People Don't Understand About Dieting
- 'Gaming Disorder' May Get Classified as a Mental Health Condition – Here's What That Means
- This Princeton Professor's CV of Failures Is Something We Should All Learn From
- 15 'Health Foods' That Aren't Actually That Good For You
- Here's What Happens to Your Brain When You Die
- Surgeons Are Attempting Life-Saving Surgery on Teen With Huge Facial Tumour
- Does Drinking Alcohol Actually Kill Off Your Sore Throat Germs? Science Explains
- Elon Musk's South Australian Battery Responded in Just 140 Milliseconds After a Coal-Fired Power Plant Failed
- Physicists Just Discovered a Way to Track Unobserved Quantum Particles
- SpaceX's Falcon 9 Launch Just Created an Eerie Light Show Over Southern California
- Scientists Have Built a Robot That Actually Sweats While Exercising
- Even Just One Workout Could Actually Save Your Life
- Your Glitter Habit Is Dangerous – Here's 5 Reasons Why
- Meet Baby Emma – She Was Frozen For 24 Years as an Embryo
- Thinking About God Might Make You Sweat, Even if You're Not Religious
- Vampire Bats Are Killing Hundreds of Cattle In Peru Every Year
- A Mysterious Winking Star Could Be Gobbling Up The Remains of Planets
- This Skull-Shaped 'Dead' Asteroid Is Coming to Haunt Earth Right Around Halloween
- HIV's Jump From Apes to Humans May Have Been Aided by an Unfortunate Deficiency
- Experts Say These 9 Things Are The Secret to Living a Longer Life
- The 10 Most Popular Scientific Papers Everyone Was Talking About This Year
- Geologists Think They Finally Know Why Earthquakes Happen in The 'Wrong' Places
- Scientists Have Confirmed What Really Happens When You Crack Your Knuckles
- A Sea Turtle Was Found Tangled in Cocaine Bundles Worth $53 Million
- American Life Expectancy Has Declined For a Second Year in a Row
- 7 Epic Science Discoveries You Probably Missed in 2017
- This Gene Links Red Meat to Cancer, And Now We Finally Know Where It Came From
- Where Did All That Mars Water Go? Scientists Have a New Idea
- We Have Failed to Regulate Thousands of Potentially Hazardous Chemicals, Warn Scientists
- 9 of The Very Best Science And Nature Photos of 2017
- Hundreds of Mysteriously Carved Stone Age 'Sunstones' Have Been Found in Denmark
- Epic Timelapse Shows The Breaking of a Giant Iceberg in Antarctica
- Incredible Graphene Sheets Could Turn Harder Than Diamond When Hit by a Bullet
- ScienceAlert Deal: 10 Last-Minute Tech Gift Ideas On Sale Now
- A Mysterious Filament Is Stretching Towards Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole
- France Just Announced a Landmark Ban on Fossil Fuel Production
- This Rub-on Male Hormonal Contraceptive Is About to Be Tested on People
- Vandals Have Damaged a 115 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprint in Australia
- This Deep-Sea Fisherman Posts His Finds on Twitter, And It's Honestly Terrifying
- NASA Has Announced Ambitious New Missions, And We Just Can't Wait
- Alien-Hunting Astronomer Is Skeptical of Pentagon's UFO 'Evidence'
- These Scientists Say Cosmic Ray Radiation Has an Effect on Climate Change
- A Baby Spent 24 Years as a Frozen Embryo Before Being Born Last Month
- One of 2017's Biggest Astronomical Events May Have Left Behind a Black Hole
- This Wackballs Planet Has an Incredibly Strange Orbit Around Its Host Star
- Facebook Just Pushed Its Facial Recognition Into a Creepy New Future
- Biologists Have Recorded The Loudest Known Fish And Oh Boy
- These Deep Sea Worms Without Butts Likely Haven't Evolved For Millions of Years
- The US Just Ended Its Own Ban on Engineering Deadly Viruses in The Lab
- It's Possible to Plant False Memories Into Your Brain, And It Could Be a Good Thing
- Loneliness Has a Surprising Link to Type 2 Diabetes, Says Study
- The Internet Is Understandably Mad Over These Bird Spikes Installed in a Tree
- FDA Just Approved The First-Ever Gene Therapy For an Inherited Disease
- Small Children Are Really Confused About The Link Between Birthdays And Ageing
- This Wild New Study Says Mars Didn't Form Where We Thought It Did
- Here's The Important Reason We Don't Get Mad Chemistry Kits For Christmas Any More
- California Has Issued a Warning About The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation
- A Brutal 500-Page Math Proof Even Experts Can't Understand Is About to Be Published
- 6 Ways to Win $1 Million if You're Really, Really Good at Mathematics
- Mountain Climbing Can Actually Cause Psychosis, And We Don't Know Why
- 5 Incredibly Weird And Deadly Places You Didn't Hear About in School
- Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together
- Surprise Ice Discovery Just Made That Interstellar Object Even More Confusing
- FDA Is Taking a More Aggressive Stance Toward Homeopathic Drugs
- CDC Director Now Says There Are No 'Banned' Words at The Agency
- Ketamine Can Ease Suicidal Thoughts Within Hours, Study Shows
- Mushrooms Played a Truly Surprising Role in Forming Our Planet's Atmosphere
- Ancient Poo Is The First-Ever Confirmation Hippocrates Was Right About Parasites
- Monkeys Trying to Have Sex With Deer Is a Thing Now, Says Study
- This Italian Family Feels No Pain, And Scientists Finally Understand Why
- 5 Myths About Bitcoin You Need to Understand
- These 5 Traits Can Help You Spot a Real Narcissist
- This Darling Marsupial Was Found Alive After Presumed Extinct For Over 100 Years
- Russia Has Swooped in to Drill For Natural Gas in The Melting Arctic
- The Pentagon Spent US$22 Million on a Secret Program to Investigate UFOs
- 7 Science-Backed Ways That Show Coffee Can Actually Be Good For You
- SpaceX Just Launched A Completely Recycled Spacecraft For The First Time in History
- 'Science-Based' Is Amongst Words Now Listed as Forbidden For The CDC
- Here's How Being in Power Messes With Your Brain, According to Science
- Science Is Getting Closer to Explaining The Mystery of Déjà Vu
- World's First AI Citizen in Saudi Arabia Is Now Calling For Women's Rights
- Fruit Fly Genetics Might Explain Why Some of Us Need More Sleep Than Others
- New Map Finally Reveals What's Hidden Under Greenland's Vast Ice Sheets
- Here's The Science on Whether Skinny Teas Actually Boost Weight Loss
- Huge Study Says Rainy Weather Doesn't Actually Make Your Joints Ache
- This Superconducting Magnet Has Shattered The Record For World's Strongest
- We Finally Understand How Meteors Explode When They Reach Earth's Atmosphere
- Women Really Do Rate The Strongest Men as The Most Attractive
- BREAKING: Engineers Just Unveiled The First-Ever Design of a Complete Quantum Computer Chip
- ScienceAlert Deal: 10 Unique Gadgets You Didn't Know You Needed
- We Finally Know How Our Immune Cells Remember Diseases For So Long
- You Can Now Watch 100+ Declassified US Nuclear Explosion Videos on YouTube
- This Study on 3,000 Very Good Golden Retrievers Could Help All Dogs Live Longer
- A Renowned Surgeon Has Pleaded Guilty to Burning Initials Onto Patients' Organs
- NASA And Google Just Announced They've Found Another Solar System Like Ours
- This Baby Was Born With Her Heart Outside The Body And Is Surviving Against All Odds
- Freaking Cool Glowing Plants Could One Day Replace Your Desk Lamp
- The Sumatran Rhino Has Been on The Brink of Extinction For 10,000 Years
- Brain Stimulation in Mice Gives Hope of Restoring Social Behaviours in Autism
- How to Correctly Wash Your Hands, According to a Microbiologist
- 300 Years Ago, Wine Glasses Were Seven Times Smaller Than Today
- We Just Found The Strongest Evidence Yet That Fracking Affects Human Health
- Scientists Have Found a Way to Hypnotise People Into Experiencing Synesthesia
- Blue Origin Just Launched 'Mannequin Skywalker' Into Space And Safely Returned It to Earth
- Scientists Bashed a Fake Skull to See if a Rare Neolithic Weapon Could Kill
- It's Official: The World Bank Will Stop Fossil Fuel Financing After 2019
- Nearly 40% of Cancer Deaths Are Preventable With Lifestyle Changes, Says Study
- Here's The One Thing Scientists Have Found Will Change Anti-Vaxxers Minds
- A Psychologist Explains How to Deal With Conflict Over The Holidays
- 12 Free Online Science Courses That'll Change The Way You See The World
- Vaginal Cleaning Fads Are Unnecessary And Harmful So Please Just Stop
- This Pacific Island Appeared Only 3 Years Ago, And Could Be Doomed Already
- Here's What Juno Discovered When It Flew Through Jupiter's Great Red Spot
- We Finally Know What Elements Are Contained in an Exploded Supernova
- Engineers Just Figured Out How to Put Several Holograms Into a Single Surface
- Bones of a Colossal Human-Sized Penguin Have Been Discovered in New Zealand
- The World's E-Waste Is Piling Up at an Alarming Rate, Says New Report
- 15+ Science-Backed Tips Show What Your Daily Routine Should Be Like
- Here's Why 'Man Flu' Might Actually Be Real, According to One Professor
- Here's How The Voice in Your Head Tricks Your Brain Into Thinking It's Real
- We Could Solve Drug Resistance by Getting Microbes to Fight Each Other
- NASA's Making Another Big Kepler Announcement So We've Wildly Speculated What It Might Be
- Discovery in 12,000-Year-Old Grave Shows Not All Ancient Fishers Were Men
- Musician Who Lost His Arm Can Play Piano Again With This Insanely Cool Prosthetic
- Huge Breakthrough as Experimental Drug Is First-Ever to Suppress Huntington's Protein
- Sorry, You Can't Blame All Your Problems on The Mercury Retrograde
- Cassini Detected Something Weird As It Passed Through The Shadow of Saturn's Rings
- People Who Constantly Point Out Grammar Mistakes Are Pretty Much Jerks, Scientists Find
- Astronomers Are Checking if That Weird Interstellar Object Is an Alien Space Probe
- President Trump Officially Wants to Send NASA Back to The Moon
- We Have The First Direct Evidence That Ticks Really Did Feast on Dinosaur Blood
- Argentinian Scientist Faces Criminal Charges Over Cyanide Pollution of Glaciers
- Will AI Ever Become Conscious, And How Would We Know if It Did?
- How to Make It Easier to Wake Up in The Morning, According to Science
- Science Can Predict if Babies Are Left-Handed Even Before They're Born
- For The First Time, Scientists Have Sequenced The Genes of an Extinct Marsupial Carnivore
- Mass Grave Discovered From Gruesome 400-Year-Old Shipwreck on 'Murder Island'
- Scientists Put a Worm Brain in a Lego Robot Body – And It Worked
- Officials Say This Whale Species Could Become Extinct After a Devastating Year
- A 3,500-Year-Old Mummy Has Been Found in a Forgotten Tomb in Egypt
- NASA Just Unveiled Its Plan to Retrieve The First-Ever Samples From Mars
- Physicists Just Experimentally Confirmed The Existence of 'Excitonium'
- An AI That Makes Fake Videos May Facilitate The End of 'Reality' as We Know It
- Some YouTubers Think The California Wildfires Are a Conspiracy, And We Can't Even
- This Year's Flu Shot Is Not as Effective Against One of The Worst Strains, But You Should Still Get It
- This Is Why It's So Bad to Call People "Retards"
- There's a Reason Time Seems to Speed Up as You Age – But It's Possible to Slow It Down
- This Soul-Crushing Video of a Starving Polar Bear Reminds Us Global Warming Is Destroying Wildlife
- The Solar Eclipse Burned an Image of Itself Onto a Woman's Retina
- Physicists Just Transferred Quantum Data Between Different Materials For The First Time
- Adorable, Cuddling Lemurs Show Cooties Are Good For Our Health
- 'No Drill' Dentistry Shows Fillings Aren't Needed in Many Cases
- Astronomers Just Found a Second Super-Earth at a Star 111 Light Years Away
- Here's Everything You Need to Consider Before Buying a Puppy For Christmas
- Humanity Has Peaked And It's All Downhill From Here, Says Study
- This 530-Million-Year-Old Fossil Could Be The Oldest Eye Ever Discovered
- New Evidence Is Forcing Scientists to Rewrite The History of Human Migration 'Out of Africa'
- A Unique Chemical Signature in Our Atmosphere Could Help Find Alien Life
- Scientists Have Finally Caught The Eerie Hum of Earth Deep Under The Sea
- All Hormonal Birth Control Is Linked to Increased Breast Cancer Risk, Study Shows
- Groundbreaking New CRISPR Technique Reverses Genetic Disease Symptoms in Mice
- This Burmese Python Caught in Florida Is 17 Feet And We Just Can't Deal
- ScienceAlert Deals: These 10 Tech Gifts Are All On Sale For Christmas
- Strange Antarctic Bacteria That Live Off Air Alone Could Be Key to Finding Alien Life
- This Genius Eyeball 'Superglue' Can Patch Wounds And Washes Off With Water
- 7 of The Most Epic Space Events You Should Get Ready For in 2018
- We May Have Just Identified Genetic Evidence of Male Sexual Orientation
- This Gigantic Avocado Discovered in Hawaii Could Break a World Record
- Adorable Jumping Spider Surprises Scientists With Its Choice of Massive Prey
- When Your Brain Is Overloaded, You Listen Better With Your Right Ear
- There's a Weird Feedback Loop Between Guts And Brains That Can Turn Deadly
- In Just 4 Hours, Google's AI Mastered All The Chess Knowledge in History
- This 3.6-Million-Year-Old Fossil Is The Oldest, Most Complete Human Ancestor Ever Seen
- Boy Missing Visual Section of His Brain Can Somehow Still See, Stunning Doctors
- Swarm AI Correctly Predicted TIME's Person of The Year… Again
- Newly Discovered Duck-Like Dinosaur Had a Neck Like a Goose And Velociraptor Claws
- Scientists Have Created Plastic Objects That Can Connect to Wi-Fi Without Any Electronics
- The History of Water on Mars Might Be Very Different to What We Imagined
- If Your Pet Has This Tapeworm, It Could Kill You
- Here's Why The Myth of The Genius Solitary Scientist Is Wrong And Dangerous
- BREAKING: Astronomers Just Discovered The Most Distant Black Hole Ever Seen
- If We Ever Find Alien Life, How Will Humans React? Here's What Psychologists Think
- MIT Researchers Have Designed a "Living Tattoo" Using Genetically Programmed Bacteria
- A History of Suicide Attempts in Women Leaves Traces in Their Blood
- The Military Is Recruiting Falcons to Study How We Can Defend Against Killer Drones
- China Has Launched World's First Electric Zero-Emissions Cargo Ship
- A Scientist Working on Plants That Fight Climate Change Just Won a $3 Million Prize
- Giving Toddlers Fewer Toys Makes One Major Difference to Their Playtime
- The Most Precious Bronze Age Artefacts Were Made With Cosmic Materials
- Bats From a Single Cave in China Have All The Building Blocks of a SARS Epidemic
- Watching 25,000 Dice Neatly Arrange Themselves Shouldn't Be This Fascinating
- A Man Extracted a Pimple With a Carpentry Blade And Things Went Horribly Wrong
- 14 Myths About Animals We All Need to Stop Getting Wrong
- Physicists Have Demonstrated That 'Impossible' Tetraquarks Can Exist After All
- Mysterious Hydrogen Clouds Have Been Mapped Moving at Incredible Speeds Through The Milky Way
- This Is The Crucial Moral Difference Between Pro And Anti Vaccine Parents
- Elon Musk's Boring Company Just Released a Map of Its Proposed LA Tunnel System
- The Genetics of Skin Colour Are a Lot More Complicated Than Anyone Expected
- 5 Science-Backed Ways to Get Over a Rough Breakup
- We May Have Underestimated Just How Bad It Is to Be Overweight
- These Groundbreaking Migraine Prevention Drugs Just Smashed Clinical Trials
- A Priest Used The Butt of Jesus as an 18th Century Time Capsule
- A Giant Iceberg in West Antarctica Is Disintegrating, And Scientists Are Worried
- NASA Just Communicated With Our Only Spacecraft Outside The Solar System
- This New Power Plant Will Produce Clean Energy From Cow Manure
- Woman With a Uterus Transplant Just Gave Birth For The First Time in The US
- Elon Musk Says He Is Launching His Red Tesla Roadster to Mars in January 2018
- The Juno Space Probe Isn't Where It Should Be, And This Isn't The First Time It's Happened
- Google's AI Built Its Own AI That Outperforms Any Made by Humans
- India Is Preparing to Land on The Moon For The First Time in The Country's History
- This Patient Had 'Do Not Resuscitate' Tattooed on His Chest And Doctors Didn't Know What to Do
- Antibiotics Might Be Stopping Immune Cells From Working Properly
- This Dramatic Photo Shows a .22 Calibre Bullet Lodged in a Man's Eye Socket
- How Many Undiscovered Creatures Are There Still Lurking in The Ocean?
- Andromeda Galaxy Has Been Photobombed by Two Incredibly Massive Black Holes
- The Only Supermoon in 2017 Is Coming This Weekend – Here's How to See It
- Scientists Are Freaking Out Over a Huge Cache of Extremely Rare Pterosaur Eggs