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- Scientists Are Writing Honest Reviews of Amazon Products, And They're Just So Good
- These Bright Orange Crocodiles Could Be Evolving Into a New Species
- This Historian Has Some Practical Advice in Case of a Nuclear Explosion
- Here's Why Naps Are Really Good For You, According to Science
- Archaeologists Have Revealed That Game Dice Used to Be Totally Unfair
- This 'Unsolvable' Math Problem Given to Chinese Fifth-Graders Is Pretty Brilliant
- California Is Overdue For Another Massive Earthquake, Scientists Say
- Scientists Are Drilling Holes in Antarctica's Largest Ice Shelf to Explore The Ocean Beneath
- Scientist Claims US Lab Engineered 'Humanzee' Human-Chimp Hybrid 100 Years Ago
- Earth Went Strangely Quiet About 2 Billion Years Ago And We Don't Know Why
- An Orca Has Been Taught to "Say" Human Words in a World-First
- There's a Scary Link Between Bad Sleep And The Onset of Alzheimer's
- Here's How to Watch Tonight's Super Blue Blood Moon Without Leaving Your House
- A Canadian Couple Got Attacked by Hookworms During Vacation
- After More Than 100 Years, Wild Wolves Are Finally Returning to Belgium
- 5 Children Have New Ears Grown From Their Own Cells in a World First
- German Carmakers Exposed Monkeys And Humans to Diesel Fumes in Secret Tests
- 8 Surprising Things Your Physical Appearance Says About You
- Earth's Magnetic Poles Are Overdue For a Switch And We're Not Prepared
- These Crows Have Figured Out How to Safely Eat Poisonous Toads
- AI May Have Finally Decoded The Bizarre, Mysterious 'Voynich Manuscript'
- Huge Dinosaur Uncovered in Egypt Reveals The Lost Link Between Africa And Europe
- Here's When You Should See a Doctor About Your Headaches
- This Superconducting Switch Could Be The Missing Piece For a Human-Like AI Brain
- Scientists Are Figuring Out How to Get Astronauts to Eat Their Own Poop
- Mosquitoes Are Much Better at Learning Than We Ever Suspected
- Mitochondria Within Cells Could Be Way Hotter Than The Rest of Our Bodies
- We Just Got More Evidence For The Strange Link Between Sugar And Alzheimer's
- This Insanely Colourful Millipede Can Kill 18 Adult Birds
- This Amazing Fossil Shows World's Earliest Birds Evolved Just Like Darwin's Finches
- Scientists Think They've Found a Way to Stop Allergic Reactions Before They Happen
- 13-Year-Old Was a "Millimetre Away" From Death After Huge Screw Pierced His Brain
- Astronomers Are Outraged Over This "Space Garbage" Ball Just Launched Into Orbit
- Scientists Just Found Naked Mole Rats Have Another Freaking Weird Superpower
- Keepers of The Doomsday Clock Say We're Now Only 2 Minutes to Midnight
- Here's Everything You Need to Know About The Total Supermoon Eclipse of Jan 31
- This Is What It's Like to Have Sleep Paralysis And What Science Says About It
- The Complete Guide to 2018's Best Meteor Showers
- What Is Kombucha And Does Its Hype Stand Up to Scientific Scrutiny?
- These Burnt Bears Healed Amazingly Fast Thanks to a Weird Type of Bandage
- High-Cholesterol Diets Can Speed Up Tumour Growth 100-Fold, Scientists Say
- This 40 Year Old Antibiotic Could Fight Back Against The Worst Superbugs
- This Might Be The Strongest And Lightest Material on Earth
- Scientists Show Human Consciousness Could Be a Side Effect of 'Entropy'
- 6 Deceptively Simple Maths Problems That No One Can Solve
- A Multi-Planet System Has Been Discovered Entirely Through Crowdsourcing
- Is Masturbation Good For You? Science Weighs in
- The Great Pyramid of Giza Is Actually Lopsided, Researchers Say
- We Could Soon Get Lasers Powerful Enough to Literally Rip Emptiness Apart
- Climate Change Is Revealing Thousands of Historical Relics Trapped in Norway's Glaciers
- The World's Rarest Fish Just Doubled in Known Population
- A New Smart Contact Lens Could Monitor The Glucose in Your Tears in Real-Time
- Elon Musk's Huge Battery in South Australia Made $1 Million in Profit in Just a Few Days
- Here's The Science Behind Why Teenagers Make Such Bad Decisions
- This Astrophysicist Just Proposed a New Limit on The Definition of "Planet"
- A Human Fossil Has Just Been Confirmed as The Oldest Found Outside of Africa
- Never-Before-Seen Viruses With Weird DNA Were Just Discovered in The Ocean
- Our Eye Movements Also Move Eardrums, And Nobody Knows Why
- Mystery Death of Snake Keeper Ruled 'Misadventure' With an Overly Cuddly Python
- If You Had a Human Head Transplant, Would You Still Be Yourself?
- These Star Wars-Like 3D Projections Are More Epic Than Any Hologram You've Ever Seen
- 4 Things You Need to Know Right Now to Protect Yourself From The Flu
- Modern Human Brains Have Only Been Around For a Surprisingly Short Time
- Amateur Flat-Earther Who Wants to Prove His Crazy Theory Is Back With a New Rocket
- Mars May Have Lost a Lot of Its Water in Massive, Devastating Dust Storms
- Devastating Volcanic Eruptions Will Be More Common in The Future, Scientists Warn
- Here's Why You Should Never, Ever Bite a Smartphone Battery
- These Are The First-Ever Monkeys Cloned Using an Advanced Technique
- This NASA Probe Will Fly Closer to The Sun Than Anything Ever Before
- Smiling Could Help You Get More Out of Your Running Workouts
- An Arizona Woman Diagnosed With The Flu Was Actually Infected With a Rare Flesh-Eating Disease
- Solar Energy Now Creates More Jobs in America Than Any Other Industry
- We Should Consider Obesity as a Kind of Contagious Disease, Study Shows
- Researchers Have Finally Decoded One of The Last Remaining Dead Sea Scrolls
- MIT Engineers Have Designed a Chip That Behaves Just Like Brain Cell Connections
- Centipedes Can Kill Animals 15 Times Their Size Thanks to This "Spooky Toxin"
- This Man Is Probably The First to Blame His Self-Driving Tesla on Drunken Crash
- Study Shows Cats Really Do Have a Left or Right Paw Preference
- This Could Be The One Key Hormone That Set Us Apart From Apes
- We May Finally Know The Cause of Polio-Like Illness Paralysing Children Around The World
- Stunning NASA Photos Show The Graceful Slow Motion of Antarctic Ice
- Even This Crazy System of Ultradense Dead Stars Can't Break General Relativity
- China Just Overtook The US in Scientific Output For The First Time
- Here's What Makes Some Types of Bread Way Better Than Others
- Scientists Counted All The Protein Molecules in a Cell And The Answer Really Is 42
- This Bizarre Fossil Worm From 508 Million Years Ago Has Scientists Excited
- For The First Time We've Observed an Inactive Black Hole in a Globular Cluster
- Facebook Has Invented a Completely New Unit of Time
- This Breakthrough in Tractor Beam Tech Could Pave The Way to Levitating Humans
- Scientists Find a 35-Million-Year-Old "Mordor Under The Sea" Near Australia
- Scientists Have Figured Out Why Human Skin Doesn't Leak
- This Fake "God Helmet" Can Induce Mystical Experiences in People
- Scientists Warn World Is Now "More Vulnerable to Smallpox" After Controversial Virus Synthesis
- Ancient DNA Reveals Surprise About 4,000-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy "Brothers"
- New Study on Black Hole Magnetic Fields Has Thrown a Huge Surprise at Astronomers
- Two Boys in Iowa Have Been Charged With Killing Half a Million Honeybees
- Mounting Evidence Suggests a Remote Australian Region Was Once Part of North America
- A Man Has Become The First Patient in The World to Receive a Second Face Transplant
- Here's Why You Don't Need to Worry About That Huge "Incoming" Asteroid
- This Man Ate Salmon Sashimi Every Day Until a Tapeworm Slithered Out of His Body
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Make Wounds Heal Without Scars
- This Mysterious Tree Appears to Kill Birds Just For The Heck of It
- What Are Antioxidants And Are They All They're Hyped Up to Be?
- Currently Used Algorithms Are No Better at Predicting Repeat Offenders Than Humans
- The Human Y Chromosome Is Degenerating And Our Body Is Trying to Stop It
- We Might Finally Know Why Dogs Love to Eat Poop
- NASA Is Testing a Mini Nuclear Reactor to Keep The Lights on When We Get to Mars
- This Simple Optical Illusion Might Help Stop Us From Getting Sick in Self-Driving Cars
- New Non-Invasive Test Can Detect 8 Different Cancers in Their Earliest Stages
- 100 Years Later, This Russian Scientist's Predictions on Space Travel Are Eerily Accurate
- The Aftermath of Explosive Neutron Star Merger Is More Crazy Than Scientists Thought
- This Popular Household Plant Keeps Seriously Damaging People's Eardrums
- These 88 Scientists Are Defending The Most Important Measurement in Science
- ScienceAlert Deal: Ten Skills You Can Learn Right Now – Without Leaving The Couch
- Incredibly Rare 'Super Blue Blood Moon' Is About to Appear For The First Time in 150 Years
- We Now Have a Complete Map of Titan's Surface And It's Surprisingly Like Earth
- Some People Can Distinguish Smells as Easily as Most of Us Can Name Colours
- Surprise! Chameleons Have Stunning Facial Patterns That Glow Under UV Light
- Cape Town Is Set to Run Out of Water in Less Than 100 Days
- A Highly Contagious Dog Flu Might Be on The Rise in The US
- Study Shows That Humans Domesticated Turkeys For Worshipping, Not Eating
- Here's How to Deal With Interruptions at Work, According to Science
- Toxic Extract Used in Poison Arrows Could Be The Future of Male Contraception
- This Is How Intense Life Can Get in The Coldest Village on The Planet
- Here's Why This Year's Flu Outbreak Is One of The Worst in Recent Times
- Loneliness Is Such a Huge Problem, The UK Now Has a Minister For It
- Neuroscientists Have Followed a Thought as It Moves Through The Brain
- Divers Found The World's Largest Underwater Cave, And It's Full of Maya Secrets
- This New Brain Study Shows Why Some People Are More Creative Than Others
- Here's Why 200,000 Endangered Antelopes Dropped Dead in Kazakhstan
- No, This Spectacular Meteor Explosion in The US Didn't Cause an Earthquake
- The End of Single-Use Plastic Has Officially Arrived
- Scientists Just Recalibrated Our Future Climate Scenarios And We Need to Pay Attention
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Recycle Waste CO2 Back Into… Plastic
- Experts Say Universal Basic Income Could Reach The Mainstream in 2018
- Over 2,000 Newly Discovered Biological Markers Could Help Explain How Autism Develops
- This Researcher Says The Moon Has No Link to Earthquakes After All
- Chinese Researchers Say We Could Use Lasers to Destroy Space Junk
- This New Experiment Could Finally Unite The Two Biggest Theories in Physics
- There Could Be a Scientific Reason Why Trump Can Sleep Just 4-5 Hours a Night
- Emergency Alert in Japan After Supermarket Accidentally Sold Extremely Toxic Fish
- The Entire Known Universe, in a Single Image. Here's What It Looks Like
- This Wriggling Sac of Deadly Baby Spiders Has Australian Researchers Excited
- We Were Wrong About Rats Spreading The Black Death Plague
- There Were Over 12,000 Poison Control Calls For People Eating Laundry Pods Last Year
- Endangered Owls Are Being Fatally Poisoned by Illegal US Marijuana Farms
- Genome of Man Who Died in 1827 Has Been Reverse-Engineered Without Any Remains
- Scientists Are Engineering GMO Species to Self-Destruct After Breeding in The Wild
- The World's First Universal Flu Vaccine Is Already Undergoing Clinical Trials
- A Man Tore a Hole in His Throat Trying to Hold Back a Sneeze
- Scientists Have Created a Mini Gamma-Ray Burst in The Lab For The First Time
- Mysterious 16th Century Epidemic That Almost Wiped Out Mexico Finally Identified
- Humans Share a Relevant Gene With This Fish That Can Repair Its Spinal Cord
- Stunning Fossil Discovery Reveals a New Dinosaur With Iridescent Feathers
- Why Do Our Veins Often Look Blue if Blood Is Actually Red?
- There Might Be a Way to Detect Bipolar Disorder Before It Really Starts
- How to Stay Alert Without Caffeine – Try These Science-Based Tricks Next Time You're Tired
- Scientists Are Having a Fight Over What Pregnant Women Should Eat
- We All Nearly Missed The Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Recorded
- This Newly Discovered Tiny Lemur From Madagascar Is So Cute We Just Can't Deal
- Anxiety Could Be an Early Manifestation of Alzheimer's, Says Study
- This Incredibly Creepy Robot Baby Shows How Disgusting Your Carpet Really Is
- "Baby Brain" Is a Totally Real Phenomenon, According to Science
- This Eerie Mental Health Condition Has Locked Thousands of Japanese Away From Society
- Teens Are Eating Laundry Detergent Capsules in Another Insane Viral "Challenge"
- China Says It Still Has Control Over Its Space Station And Can Decide Where It'll Crash
- 11 Things in Your Bathroom That You Really Should Just Throw Away
- This Strange Condition Might Explain Why Doctors Sent a Living Man to The Morgue
- 10 Facts About History's Greatest Pandemic We Often Get Wrong
- Scientists Think They've Discovered Lava Tubes Leading to The Moon's Polar Ice
- Our Bodies Could Be Treating a Western Diet Like It Was a Dangerous Infection
- This Is The Biggest Key to Happiness, According to Science
- This Spectacular Video Shows What It Would Be Like to Fly Through The Orion Nebula
- Feeding Your Cat or Dog a Raw Meat Diet Could Actually Be Dangerous
- These Are The Hottest And Coldest Temperatures in The Universe, According to Conventional Physics
- NASA Has Invented an Incredible New Space Navigation Technique
- Obesity Can Actually Scar Your Fat Tissue, Making Weight Loss Even Harder
- The Hunt For Elusive Single-Pole Magnets Just Became More Challenging
- People Are Stockpiling Special 'Radiation Blocking' Pills to Guard Against Nuclear Apocalypse
- Newly Discovered Cannibalistic Spider Totally Looks Like… a Pelican
- Vast, Thick Ice Sheets Have Been Found Buried All Over Mars
- Chernobyl's Transformation Into a Massive Solar Plant Is Almost Complete
- These Meteorites Are The First-Ever Found to Have All The Ingredients For Life
- These Insane Photos Show Alligators Stuck in Frozen Swamps Surviving The Winter
- This Venomous Snake Tapped on The Window of a Driving Car in Australia
- 4 Things We Really Need to Do to Fight The Global Plastic Crisis
- Physicists Say They've Created a Device That Generates 'Negative Mass'
- Compared to Other Planetary Systems, Our Solar System Is Apparently a Mess
- This Huge Study Is The Best Evidence Yet That Your Personality Changes Over Time
- ScienceAlert Deal: 9 Products To Help You Be More Productive And Stress-Free
- Researchers Have Found a Surprising Link Between Winter Weight Gain And Sunlight
- First-Ever Drone Swarm Attack Has Struck Russian Military Bases, Sources Claim
- A Marine Biologist Says a Whale Protected Her From a Huge Shark While Diving
- Rare Sharks With Bizarre Jaws Have Turned Up Off The Coast of Taiwan
- This May Be The Year We Will See a Black Hole For The First Time
- Astronaut Apologises For Misleading Claim He Grew Crazy Tall While on The ISS
- Supercooled Water at Record-Low Temperatures Acts Like Two Liquids at Once
- These Birds of Prey Are Deliberately Setting Forests on Fire
- BREAKING: Astronomers Find a Spectacular Source For Those Mysterious Repeating Space Signals
- 5 Reasons Why You Really Should Wear Gardening Gloves
- We Finally Have Direct Proof That Human Activity Is Healing The Ozone Hole
- Bacteria Living in Our Gut Are Hijacking And Controlling Our Genes
- Man Declared Dead by 3 Doctors Wakes Up in Morgue Just Hours Before Autopsy
- This Extraterrestrial Stone Contains Compounds Not Found Anywhere Else in Our Solar System
- These Birds Have Evolved Feathers as Black as The Blackest Material on Earth
- It's So Hot in Australia, Hundreds of Dying Bats Are Falling From Trees
- Did Space X Just Lose a Super Secret Government Satellite? We May Never Know
- Dolphins Keep Dying on a Beach in Brazil, And No One Knows Why
- Physicists Just Caught Particles Spinning Wildly in The 'Wrong' Direction
- One of World's Biggest Drug Companies Just Abandoned Alzheimer's And Parkinson's Research
- Scientists Just Changed Our Understanding of How Anaesthesia Messes With The Brain
- 300-Year-Old Scraps of Paper From a Shipwreck Reveal What Pirates Liked to Read
- Here's Everything Science Knows So Far About The Origins of Humans
- These 8 Steps Will Prepare You For a Good Night's Sleep
- This Common Painkiller Could Be Negatively Affecting Male Fertility
- Forensic Scientists Are Using DNA to Bust Rhino Poachers
- A Fully Solar-Powered Car May Be Hitting The Road by 2019
- Climate Change Is Turning 99% of These Baby Sea Turtles Female
- Astronauts Can Get Hit by a Kind of 'Space Fever', Says New Research
- Magic Mushrooms Do The Opposite of Anti-Depressants, But That May Be Why They Work
- This Insane Prehistoric Snake Was as Long as a School Bus
- Trypophobia Might Not Be an Actual Phobia, According to Scientists
- A US Mountain Was The Second-Coldest Place On Earth on Saturday
- The Bottom of The Ocean Has Started Sinking Under The Weight of Melting Glaciers
- The World's Oldest Known Wild Bird Is About to Become a Mum at 67, Baffling Scientists
- Britain Now Generates Twice as Much Electricity From Wind as Coal, And That's a Big Deal
- Why Are So Many of Our Pets Overweight? A Vet Shares The Harsh Truth
- NASA's $1 Billion Probe Just Sent Back Mind-Meltingly Gorgeous New Images of Jupiter
- Here's The Most Effective Way to Lose Weight With Minimal Effort, According to Science
- We Might Have Been Wrong About What Makes People Left- or Right-Handed
- It's Scientifically Possible to Boil Water Until It Freezes Solid
- Iguanas Are Falling Out of Trees in South Florida, But Please Don't Pick Them Up
- A Former Facebook VP Says Social Media Is Destroying Society
- We Might Finally Know How Alzheimer's Spreads Through The Brain
- Using Hot Sauce Is a Really Easy Way to Improve Your Diet, Say Experts
- Experiments Show The Effects of a Fourth Spatial Dimension
- Archaeologists Uncover an Ancient Model of The Universe in Mexico
- Scientists Are Investigating Facial Exercises to Make You Look Younger
- Here's The Secret to Unlocking Your Creativity, According to Science
- The First Truly Effective Migraine Prevention Drugs Could Hit The Market Within Months
- It's 2018. Here Are Six Scientific Mysteries We Still Haven't Solved.
- This 400-Year-Old Mummy Could Change Our Understanding of Hepatitis B
- Here's How Often You Should Wash Your Bath Towel
- New Study Shows It Does Matter Which Books You Read to Your Baby
- Bill Gates Wants You to Know That The World Is Actually Getting Better
- Hidden 'Dead Zones' in The Ocean Have Quadrupled Since The '50s, And That's Really Bad
- What Would Happen if You Only Ate Meat?
- The Largest Prime Number to Date Has Been Discovered And It's Hurting Our Brains
- China Will Be Carrying Insects And Plants to The Surface of The Moon This Year
- Stunning Images Show The 'Bomb Cyclone' Snowstorm Blasting The East Coast From Space
- Climate Change in The Arctic Is So Severe, The Chemistry of Its Water Is Changing
- What You Need to Know About The Intel Flaw Everyone's Freaking Out About
- Here's What You Need to Know About That Viral Story on Chocolate 'Going Extinct'
- There's Now "Very Strong Evidence" That Alcohol Can Directly Damage DNA
- ScienceAlert Deal: The Best Way To Learn New Skills This Year
- This Haunting Photo of Earth And The Moon Will Remind You How Alone We Really Are
- Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans
- This Incredible Virus Attacks Brain Cancer And Actually Boosts Our Immune System
- Food-Safety Expert Warns Silicon Valley's Bizarre 'Raw Water' Trend Could Quickly Turn Deadly
- Germany Had So Much Renewable Energy Over Christmas It Had to Pay People to Use It
- Autism Rates Appear to Have Finally Plateaued in The US, But Doctors Don't Know Why
- A Revolutionary New Type of Lens Focuses All The Colours of The Rainbow Into a Single Point
- 'Bomb Cyclone' to Blast US Before Polar Vortex Releases Wild Cold Weather This Week
- It's Official: An Alien Megastructure Can't Explain The Weird Behaviour of Tabby's Star
- Doctors Warn That People Are Mixing Up Superglue And Eyedrops And Oh God Why
- 3 Simple Steps to Mastering Any New Subject, According to a Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist
- Food Comas Are Real And They're Slowing Down Your Brain, New Study Finds
- Some People Have an Uncanny Sixth Sense For Detecting Sickness
- 6 Science-Backed Ways to Get Better Mental Health in 2018
- It's So Cold in Canada a Zoo Had to Bring Its Penguins Inside
- Here's Why Detoxing Is Possibly The Worst Way to Start The New Year
- We Now Have Scientific Evidence For a Colic Treatment That Actually Works
- We Just Got The First Direct Evidence That Supermassive Black Holes Control Star Formation
- A Child Digging Through a Sandpit in Australia Uncovered 7 Deadly Snake Nests
- This Is The Fascinating Way Blue Eyes Get Their Colour
- A Diabetes Drug Has 'Significantly Reversed Memory Loss' in Mice With Alzheimer's
- $45M Russian Satellite Lost After Scientists Admit They Gave It The Wrong Coordinates
- Astronauts Have Identified Unknown Microbes in Space For The First Time
- Grab a Blanket And Head Outside, January Is Going to Be Incredible For Sky-Gazing