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May 31

• 'Vaginal Seeding' of Newborns Doesn't Actually Work, Research Shows
• These Are The Kinds of People Who Are More Likely to Believe in Political Conspiracies
• We Just Found a Genetic Key to Why Humans Have Such Massive Brains
• Multiple Unexplained UFO Encounters Have Been Exposed in Leaked Pentagon Report
• An Undersea Volcano Could Guide NASA to Signs of Alien Life
• 20 Mystery Explosions Have Occurred in Pennsylvania Since April, And Nobody Knows Why
• ScienceAlert Deal: This Service Uses Machine Learning to Find Your Perfect Wine
• A Tiny Foundation Got $444 Million to Save The Great Barrier Reef, And No One Can Figure Out Why
• These Freaky Things With Real, Disembodied Muscle Tissue Could Be The Next Step in Robotics
• People Who Wear Glasses Really Are More Likely to Be Smart, Says Huge Study
• Something Weird Happened to Men 7,000 Years Ago, And We Finally Know Why
• Scientists Just Found a 240-Million-Year-Old "Mother of All Lizards"
• New Data Suggest Dark Matter Could Actually Have an Electric Charge
• The Actual Side-Effects of Ambien Are Pretty Terrible, But They Don't Make You Racist
• A Massive Clue on Pregnancy And The Development of Schizophrenia Was Just Found

May 30

• Nearly 170,000 Birth Control Packs Have Been Recalled Due to Risk of 'Unintended Pregnancy'
• For The First Time, Scientists Have 3D-Printed an Important Part of The Human Eye
• ScienceAlert Deal: This Raspberry Pi Sensor Kit Can Help You Expand Your DIY Possibilities
• How Kim Kardashian And The Inventor of Bitcoin Teamed Up to Write a Scientific Paper
• A Tiny 400 Million-Year-Old Fishy Just Changed Our View of Vertebrate Evolution
• Water Has More Than One Type of Molecule, And That's Even Stranger Than We Thought
• Who Is Wearing The Heels in This Freaky Viral Optical Illusion?
• Skeleton of a Headless, Unlucky Pompeii Resident Has Been Unearthed in Italy
• We Now Have a Real Time-Breaking Flux Capacitor, But It's Not For Time Travel
• Japanese Whalers Killed 333 Minke Whales This Year, in The Name of 'Research'
• Manhattanhenge Is About to Happen in New York. Here's What You Need to Know

May 29

• Most of Your Vitamin Supplements Really Are Useless, Says Huge New Study
• Authorities Are Warning People It's Not OK to Roast Marshmallows Over Hawaii's Volcano
• The EU Is Moving to Ban 10 of The Worst Single-Use Plastic Products
• A Forgotten Element Could Help Us Redefine The Way We Measure Time
• You Have a 'Second Brain', And We Now Know How It Makes You Poop
• The Brain Literally Starts Eating Itself When It Doesn't Get Enough Sleep
• Top Scientists Have Answered The Weirdest Space Questions, And It's Epic
• Our Brains Are Too Puny to Fully Understand The Scale of The Universe
• Here's Why a Tomato Is Actually Both a Fruit And Vegetable
• A Physicist Has Proposed a Grim Explanation For Why We Never See Aliens
• Here Are The Most Common Mistakes You Might Make When Choosing a Password
• Scientists Are Hinting at The Existence of a Strange New Type of Particle
• Stick Insects Have a Bizarre Way to 'Survive' Being Eaten
• The Great Barrier Reef Has Escaped Death at Least 5 Times in The Past 30,000 Years
• Some People Think That Online Bots Should Have Free Speech Rights

May 28

• What You Need to Know About "Black Salve", a Horrifying Alternative Medicine Used For Cancer
• Trump's Plan to Expand Offshore Drilling Puts 68 National Parks in Grave Danger
• Director James Cameron Warns The Ocean Has Become "The Toilet of Human Civilization"
• We Just Got a Huge Step Closer to Finding The Mysterious Origins of The Inca Civilisation
• We Just Found The Best Target For Finding Fossils From Ancient Life on Mars
• One Hand of This 150-Year-Old Baby Mummified, While The Rest of Its Body Did Not. Here's Why
• Here's The Reason Why Diseases Like Ebola Are So Much Worse in Isolated Communities
• Astronomers Just Found 6 Bizarre Galaxies That Appear to Be 'empty' of Stars
• A NASA Astronaut Reveals The Horrors of Going to The Toilet in Space
• A Doctor Is Being Slammed For Selling MP3 Files as a 'Homeopathic' Cure For Ebola
• The Oldest Known Dandruff Has Been Discovered in a 125-Million-Year-Old Fossil
• A Mystery Animal Shot in Montana Has Confused Wolf Experts, But Werewolf? Really?
• These 10 Questions Are Used to Test The US Public's Knowledge of Science. How Many Can You Answer?
• Amazon's Alexa Recorded a Private Conversation And Sent It to a Random Person

May 27

• Huge Mountain Ranges Have Been Discovered Deep Under Antarctica's Ice
• ScienceAlert Deal: This Eco-Friendly AC Will Keep You Cool All Summer
• Five Common Myths About Volcanoes
• How Long Your Sunscreen Actually Protects You, According to Dermatologists

May 26

• Marijuana Compound Removes Toxic Alzheimer's Protein From The Brain
• All Scientific Research Funded by NASA Is Available For Free

May 25

• Microsoft Is Making a Tool to Track Down Biased AI, But That's Just Half The Problem
• Here's Why AI Can't Solve Everything
• This Has Got to Be One of The Most Beautiful And Powerful Climate Change Visuals We've Ever Seen
• Traffic Jam Mathematics Could Help Us Predict Some Critical Weather Patterns
• The Media Was Blocked From Attending an EPA Summit on Toxic Chemicals Two Days in a Row
• This Is How Much The World Could Save if We Halted Global Warming at 1.5 Degrees
• If You Focus on Urgent Deadlines, It Could Be Holding You Back From Truly Important Things
• This 3D Printer Can Help Grow Organs With Scaffolding Made Out of Sugar
• Astronomers Just Zoomed Stunningly Close to The Event Horizon of Our Galaxy's Black Hole
• Can Cannabis Cure Cancer? Here's Some Evidence From an Expert
• There's No Evidence That Mercury From Eating Fish While Pregnant Will Cause Autism
• Here's What Science Knows So Far on The Causes of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Why Scientists Are Actually Super-Excited About Hawaii's Massive Volcano Eruption
• There Are Some Medical Situations Where Being Overweight Could Help Save Your Life
• HIV Can Lurk in The Brain And Increase Risk of Dementia, Even if You're Not Sick
• This Brilliant Interactive From NASA Lets You Virtually Explore Planets Far, Far Away
• Muscles Thought to Be Exclusively Human Have Just Been Found in Apes
• Nanoparticles Loaded With Drugs Could Be Used to Attack The Worst Type of Brain Cancer
• The US Military Has Released a Mysterious Report on 'Warp Drives'. Here's What Physicists Think About It
• The Few Birds That Survived The Dinosaur Extinction Had an Unexpected Advantage

May 24

• The Catastrophe That Killed Dinosaurs Created 100,000 Years of Global Warming, Study Shows
• Hawaii's Volcano Is Now Producing Eerie Blue Flames: Here's What They Are
• This Is What Happens When Your Camera Gets Too Close to a Space Launch
• The Loneliest People Are Not The Ones You Think, And It's Devastating For Their Health
• There's a Wild Conspiracy Theory on Hitler's Death, And It's Finally Been Debunked
• An Unbroken, Million-Year-Old Core of Ice Has Been Found Lurking Under Antarctica
• Pluto May Not Be a Planet, But It Could Be Made Out of Millions of Comets
• If a Nuclear Bomb Explodes, Government Officials Will Probably Use These Scripts to Calm You Down
• The Latest Test on The 'Impossible' EM Drive Concludes It Doesn't Work
• Americans Are Warned to Avoid Strange Noises After Suspected 'Sonic Attack' in China
• An Incredible Fossil Just Changed What We Know About The Split of Pangaea
• These Lynx Yelling at Each Other Sound Like People, And It's Hilarious
• You Can't Use Pills as a Sunscreen, And Apparently The FDA Needs to Remind Us of That
• A Major Staple Food For Billions of People Is at Risk of Becoming Less Nutritious

May 23

• Three Ebola Patients Have Fled Quarantine in Congo, Sparking Fears The Disease Will Spread
• Obama's Chief Science Advisor Tears Apart Trump's Dangerous Disregard For Science
• Sleeping in on The Weekend Could Save You From an Early Death, Says Study
• Scientists Have Found The 'Holy Grail of Shipwrecks' And Up to $17 Billion in Treasure
• Eating One Egg a Day Is Linked With a Seriously Lower Risk of Heart Disease
• We've Mapped a Pulsar in Unprecedented Detail, Finding Clues to a Cosmic Mystery
• Amazing Photos Have Captured The Moment an Eagle Swooped a Fox Clutching a Rabbit
• Scientists Just Found an Unexpected Link Between Tuberculosis And Parkinson's Disease
• Gun Owners And Non-Owners Actually Agree More Than You'd Think, Study Shows
• Neuroscientists Have Cracked The Science of Michael Jackson's Gravity-Defying Dance Move
• Hawaii's Massive Volcano Eruption Is Now Making The Island Larger
• Giant Predatory Worms Quietly Invaded France, And Biologists Are Shocked

May 22

• A Sinkhole 'Growing Larger by The Day' Has Developed on The White House Lawn
• New NASA Chief Does a Complete 180 And Admits Humans Are Causing Climate Change
• America's Trust in Vaccines Is Slipping, And Public Health Experts Don't Know Why
• You Could Get Credit For a Supernova Discovery by Participating in This Free Online Project
• Lightning Inside This Ferocious Hurricane Blasted a Beam of Antimatter at Earth
• China Is About to Put The First-Ever Lander on The Dark Side of The Moon
• A Man Was Stalked by a Pig in The Middle of The Night, So He Called The Police
• Here's Why Different Conspiracy Theories Keep Contradicting Each Other
• Humans Are Just 0.01% of Life on Earth, But We Still Annihilated The Rest of It
• ScienceAlert Deal: Start Making Your Own Animated Videos With Animatron Studio Pro
• The Most Common Cancer in Children Could Actually Be Preventable, Study Shows
• Huge Cache of Human Bones Has Revealed 'Barbarian' War Rituals During The Roman Empire
• Experts Say There Was "Something Wrong" With The Cougar Who Killed a Seattle Cyclist
• Scientists Are About to Catalogue All The Life in Loch Ness Once And For All

May 21

• A Rare Virus Without a Cure Has Emerged in India And Is Killing People
• Nearly 1,500 Scientists Urge Congress to Uphold The Endangered Species Act
• A Scientist at The National Park Service Risked Her Neck to Publish a Study on Sea Level Rise
• The Tiny House Trend Has Officially Peaked. Meet The World's Smallest House
• Supernovae Could Be to Blame For Mass Extinctions on Earth, Study Shows
• An Interstellar Object Has Been Hiding in Our Solar System This Whole Time
• NASA Astronaut Forgets GoPro SD Card on Spacewalk, Internet Has a Field Day
• The Size of The Town You Live in Has a Huge Effect on Happiness Levels
• US Fertility Rates Have Plummeted Into Uncharted Territory, And Nobody Knows Why
• NASA Is About to Create The Coldest Temperature in The Universe, Using Lasers in Space
• Browsing The Internet at Work May Not Make You Less Productive, Says Study
• 'Introvert Hangovers' Are a Thing. Here's The Best Way to Deal With Them
• The First Known Injury From Hawaii's Volcano Eruption Has Been Reported

May 20

• There's a Reason Why Puppies Reach 'Peak Cuteness' at a Certain Age, According to Science
• This Nightmare Shark With a Snake Head And 300 Teeth Is Absolutely Horrifying
• Some Lizards Have Green Blood That Should Kill Them And It's a Scientific Mystery

May 19

• Do You Cry More on Planes? Here's Some Scientific Reasons to Explain Why
• Elon Musk Thinks Flying Cars Could 'Guillotine' People on The Ground
• Fake Facebook Accounts And Online Lies Multiply in Hours After Santa Fe School Shooting
• Bill Gates Says Trump Asked Him The Difference Between HIV And HPV

May 18

• There's a Strange New Theory For Those Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts in Space
• What Everyone Gets Wrong About ADHD
• These Students Created a Mosaic of Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Face Out of 600 Rubik's Cubes
• There's Exciting New Evidence a Real Planet Nine Is Out There
• GM Potato Can Help Cut Pesticide Use by Up to 90 Percent, Study Shows
• Scientists Built The World's Fastest Water Heater, And It Sounds Totally Insane
• If You Have Lower Back Pain, Here's What Science Says You Should Do
• Chimp Nests Have Fewer Fecal Microbes Than Our Own Beds, But It Actually Makes Sense
• Here's Why a Disrupted Sleeping Pattern Could Increase Your Risk of Depression
• Here's Why Some Brains Really Are Smarter, According to This New Study
• A New Type of Long-Anticipated Migraine Medication Was Just Approved by The FDA
• A Teenage Girl Got Respiratory Failure After Just 3 Weeks of Vaping
• ScienceAlert Deal: Get 100+ Hours Of Cisco Certification Training
• Anne Frank's Censored Diary Pages Have Been Revealed, And They're Not What We Expected
• These 6 Baby Squirrels Accidentally Got Into a 'Rat King' Situation
• People in The US Have No More Excuses to Avoid Salad

May 17

• The Explosion Geologists Feared From Hawaii's Volcano Has Just Happened
• A Congressional Hearing on Climate Change Turned Into a Circus of Absurdist Climate Denial
• Thousands of Google Employees Are Worried Their Company Will Help Create Autonomous Weapons
• A "Made in China" Label Solved The Mystery of an 800-Year-Old Shipwreck
• The Link Between Gut Bacteria And Brain Could Influence Multiple Sclerosis
• Space Lasers Are Shooting Out of This Gorgeous Nebula, Which Means It's Hiding Something
• Hawaii's Volcano Is Now Shooting 'Ballistic Blocks' And Causing Earthquakes
• A Cancer Researcher Was Caught Using Her Own Blood For Almost 100 Samples
• A Single Mosquito Bite Could Mess With Your Immune System to Pave Way For Diseases
• Ebola Is Back. Here's How The New Outbreak Is Different From 2014
• Hippos Poop So Much, Sometimes Their Waste Kills All The Fish
• Protons Contain 10 Times More Pressure Than a Neutron Star, According to First-Ever Measurement
• This Disturbing Timelapse Video Shows a Tarantula Crawling Out of Its Own Skin

May 16

• A Mystery Source Is Producing Banned Ozone-Destroying Chemicals, Shocking Scientists
• A Speech Scientist Reveals Why This Illusion Has Only One Correct Answer
• A Florida Teacher Accused of Enlisting Kids to Drown Raccoons in His Science Class
• A New Yellowstone Park Discovery Points Back to The Origins of Life
• Can You Actually Die From a Lack of Sleep? Here's What Science Says
• The Rise And Fall of The Roman Empire Is Being Rewritten by Ice Hidden Under Greenland
• Here's What Really Happens in The Skin When You Have Eczema
• Record-Breaking Evidence Just Changed What We Know About Star Birth After The Big Bang
• This GIF of a Dandelion Posted on Reddit Is Blowing People's Minds For a Crazy Reason
• Best-Selling Author Michael Pollan Took Several Psychedelic Drugs, And Then Wrote About It in Vivid Detail
• An Insane Paper Tests The Limits of Science by Claiming Octopuses Came From Space
• Acupuncture Will Not Increase Your Chances of Pregnancy on IVF, Study Shows
• Massive, Hairy 'Globster' Has Washed Ashore in The Philippines, And Nobody Knows What It Is
• Eerie Remains of a 2,000-Year-Old Horse Have Been Discovered in Pompeii
• Megan Fox Thinks Archaeologists Are Too Narrow Minded to Understand History
• Eating Collagen Is Becoming a Health Fad, And We Can Only Sit Back And Sigh
• ScienceAlert Deal: This Meditation App Uses Machine Learning To Help You De-Stress
• Yanny or Laurel? The Internet Is Going Mad Over This Auditory Illusion

May 15

• A Surprise Asteroid The Size of The Statue of Liberty Is Hurtling Past Earth Right Now
• Astronomers Have Found a Monstrous Black Hole That's Eating Stars Shockingly Fast
• Controversial Paper Claiming HPV Vaccine Causes Brain Damage Finally Retracted
• Scientists Have Finally Captured an Enigmatic Jellyfish That Looks Like a Plastic Bag
• This New Molecule Could Actually Become a Cure For The Common Cold
• Scientists Say They've Transplanted a Memory From One Snail to Another
• Over 100 Organizations Urge Companies Against Drilling in America's Largest Wildlife Refuge
• The WHO Just Declared War on The Single Most Dangerous Type of Fat

May 14

• NASA Just Announced New Evidence For Water Plumes on Europa, Found in 20-Year-Old Data
• We Might Finally Know The Cause of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
• The Most Damaging Addictive Drugs Are Not The Ones You Think, Report Shows
• Feeling Exhausted? Here's The Science Behind 'Burnout' And How to Deal With It
• The Trolley Problem Has Been Tested in 'Real Life' For The Very First Time
• The Multiverse Could Be Teeming With Life But Is Also Problematic, Says New Study
• Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Launch More Rockets Than Any Nation on Earth This Year
• The Next Deadly Pandemic Could Be Unlike Any Threats We Know, Say Experts
• Schizophrenia Could Be Physically Changing The Body, Not Just The Brain
• A Mysterious 'Two-Headed Deer' Was Found in a Forest. Now Scientists Have Analysed It
• Stephen Hawking's Memorial Service Is Officially Open to Time Travellers
• NASA Has Unveiled The First-Ever Helicopter to Fly Above Another Planet
• Scientists Have Discovered a "Singing Space Cloud" That Could Explain How Stars Are Born
• Hawaii's Volcano Is Now Threatening a Geothermal Plant Full of Dangerous Chemicals

May 13

• ScienceAlert Deal: This In-Depth Training Bundle Will Help You Master Adobe Photoshop
• What Everyone Gets Wrong About Introverts
• This Unique Man's 60 Years of Blood Donations Saved 2.4 Million Babies
• Scientists Have Identified The Physical Source of Anxiety in The Brain
• Could Resurrecting The Mammoth Help Stop Arctic Emissions?
• Gut Microbes Could Play a Role in Heart Disease Too

May 12

• How to Understand Stephen Hawking's Last Paper – an Expert Explains

May 11

• Ariana Grande And NASA Bonded Over The Beauty of The Universe This Week
• A Monster Wave Off New Zealand Just Set a New Southern Hemisphere Height Record
• Astronomers Have Found a Record-Breaking Pair of Stars Orbiting With a Dizzying Speed
• A New Graph Shows The US May Not Be The Leader in Science Nobel Prizes For Much Longer
• Zoologists Are Rebranding a Bunch of Animals And We Think It Should Be Official
• Here's Why Google's New 'Smartphone Addiction' Features Aren't Based on Science
• This Is Why Your Brain Doesn't Need an Extra Pair of Eyes in The Back of Your Head
• This Mesmerising New Video Shows The Churning Motion of Jupiter's Clouds
• This Boston Dynamics Robot Gets More Fresh Air And Exercise Than Most of Us
• There's a Road in The US That Illustrates America's Weird Relationship With The Metric System
• North Korea's Last Nuclear Test Changed The Height of an Entire Mountain
• Hawaii's Volcano Might Go Massively Explosive After All, Scientists Say
• A Soldier Lost Her Ear in an Accident, So Doctors Grew a New One in Her Arm

May 10

• The First Evidence That Animals Can Replay Memories in Their Head Is Here
• Detached Human Feet Keep Washing Ashore in This Peaceful Canadian Province
• The White House Wants to Give a Boost to AI Technology, So They Promised Not to Regulate It
• This Interactive Tool Lets You See With Your Own Eyes How We Have Changed Our Planet
• Ever Wondered What The 10 Most Cited Sources on Wikipedia Are?
• A Rogue Star Hurtling Towards The Solar System Is Going to Arrive Sooner Than We Realised
• A Plastic Bag Was Found at The Deepest Point on Earth, And We Should All Be Ashamed
• We Could Be Getting a Hangover 'Pill' Soon, After Hugely Positive Results in Mice
• Astronomers Have Discovered How Earth's Magnetic Field Survives Intense Solar Storms
• Smokers Are Polluting Our Indoor Air Even if They Only Smoke Outside, Study Shows
• Tourists Have Been Throwing Priceless Dinosaur Footprints Into a Utah Lake
• This Crow in Japan Stole a Credit Card to Buy a Train Ticket
• California Just Made History With a Ruling on Compulsory Solar Panels

May 9

• She Was Told Her Constantly Runny Nose Was From 'Allergies'. It Turned Out to Be Brain Fluid
• California Just Became The First State to Require Solar Panels on All New Homes
• An Experiment With 100,000 Gamers Just Proved Einstein Got It Wrong About 'Spooky Action'
• This Common Viral Disease Has Plagued Humanity Thousands of Years Longer Than We Thought
• Hawaii's Unstoppable Volcano Eruption Could Go on For Months or Even Years, Scientists Say
• America Really Is in The Midst of a Rising Anxiety Epidemic
• For The First Time, Physicists Have Precisely Measured The Weak Nuclear Force
• Astronomers Have Accidentally Taken a Direct Photo of a Possible Baby Exoplanet
• These Are The Crazy Challenges Scientists Are Working on, So We Can Touch an Alien Star
• Scientists Trained a Spider to Jump on Command to Figure Out How Its Legs Work
• Google's Latest AI Booked a Hair Appointment Over The Phone, And People Are Freaked Out

May 8

• This Terrifying Video Shows a Car Get Melted by Raging Lava in Hawaii
• In The Vast Majority of The World, Climate Denial Is Not Linked to Conservatism
• New Evidence Hints at a Worrying Link Between Brain Cholesterol And Alzheimer's
• A Huge Environmental Study Has Bad News For People Who Love to Travel
• Jupiter And Venus Are Warping Earth's Orbit, And It's Linked to Major Climate Events
• Scientists Have Created Artificial Embryos That Are So Lifelike, They Initiate Pregnancy in Mice
• Scientists Have Found a Strong Link Between a Terrible Childhood And Being Intensely Creative
• Scientists Just Identified a Unique Brain Signal That Could Change The Way We Treat Parkinson's
• Gigantic Waves That Control Earth's Weather Have Once Again Been Detected Roaring Across The Sun
• ScienceAlert Deal: Get One of The Top Rated Password Managers Today
• Here's The Right Way to Pick Up a Cat, According to The World's Most Helpful Vet
• These NASA Scientists Think Pluto IS a Planet, And Here's Why
• A Mass Decimation of Forests Is Happening Across The US, And No One's Paying Attention
• Dr Oz Is a Con Man, And Now He's One of President Trump's Health Advisors

May 7

• Uber's Self-Driving Car Detected Pedestrian Before Fatal Crash, But "Decided" Not to Stop
• The French President Urges Australia's Prime Minister to Stop His Inaction on Climate Change
• CO2 Levels Have Reached a Scary New Milestone, But You're Gonna Ignore It Anyway, Aren't You
• Fasting For Just 24 Hours Boosts The Regeneration of Stem Cells, Study Finds
• The Exact Cause of Hiccups Is Still a Mystery, But Here's What You Need to Know About a Cure
• Scientists Have Figured Out When And How Our Sun Will Die, And It's Going to Be Epic
• Scientists Just Discovered One of TRAPPIST-1's Planets Has an Iron Core
• 'Biggest Ever' Sinkhole Has Ripped Open in New Zealand, And It's Unearthing History
• Scientists Find Half The Advice on Dr Oz Is Wrong or Has No Evidence to Back It Up
• New York City's Crumbling 'Island of The Dead' Is Unearthing Its Nameless Skeletons
• Radar Scan Reveals No Trace of Hidden Chambers in Tutankhamun's Tomb

May 6

• At Least 10 Volcanic Fissures Have Opened Up Near Hawaii's Mt. Kilauea
• There's No Such Thing as Being Right or Left-Brained, And 9 Other Brain Myths We've All Heard
• A New Patent Shows How Samsung's Long-Awaited Galaxy X Foldable Smartphone Might Work
• Scientists Have Reanimated Disembodied Pigs' Brains – But For a Human Mind, It Could Be a Living Hell
• Your Willingness to Take Risks Has a Genetic Basis, And It Could Be Influencing You More Than You Know
• Elon Musk's SpaceX Is Using Powerful Rocket Technology That NASA Says Could Put Lives at Risk
• Yes, You Can Die From a Broken Heart. New Study Shows How Damaging Losing a Loved One Really Is
• This Extreme Diet Reversed Type 2 Diabetes in Up to 86% of Patients
• French Bulldogs' Cuteness Comes at a Steep Cost, Warn Vets

May 5

• Humans Have a Second Immune System, And It Could Be Ruining Your Dating Life
• NASA Has Tested a New Kind of Nuclear Fission Reactor, And It's Incredibly Powerful
• Physicists Overturn a 100-Year-Old Assumption on How Brains Work
• NASA Is Launching Its Next Mars Lander Mission This Weekend. Watch It Live
• Scientists Reveal The Origin of Poland's Mysterious 'Vampires'
• A Sample of Weapons-Grade Plutonium Is Missing From Idaho, Officials Announce
• One or Two Spaces After a Full Stop? Scientists Have Found The Answer, And We're Not Happy
• Hawaii's Most Active Volcano Is Shooting Lava And 'Extremely High Levels of Dangerous' Gas Into The Air

May 4

• Mistletoe Survives Without One of The Key Ingredients For Life, And Scientists Are Baffled
• Alan Turing Wrote Just One Paper on Biology. Now It's Inspired a Totally New Type of Water Filter
• A Tumour That Weighs as Much as an Adult Human Was Removed From a Woman's Ovary
• Mantis Shrimp Officially Have The Weirdest Eyes of All Animals, Study Shows
• If You Feel Itchy at The Lightest Touch, Science Might Finally Have an Answer
• You Can Now Listen to The Weird 'Music' Made by Our Rotating Galaxy
• A Woman Got a Cockroach Stuck in Her Ear, And It Took 9 Days to Get It Out
• This Scientist Says He's Invented a Water Bottle That Fully Decomposes in Just 3 Weeks
• 4chan Tried to Stop These High School Students From Winning a NASA Competition

May 3

• Physicists Built a Real Quantum Newton's Cradle to Study The Changes of Quantum Chaos
• Your Blood Type Can Seriously Hurt Your Chances of Surviving a Deadly Injury
• A Mysterious Human Ancestor Used These 700,000-Year-Old Tools From The Philippines
• A Neuroscientist Reveals The Most Important Choice You Can Make in Life
• DNA Shows The Very First Population of Native Americans Was Shockingly Small
• For The First Time, We Know Precisely How Much Radiation Hiroshima Bomb Victims Absorbed
• Here's The Amazing Story Behind The Discovery That Elements Are Born in Stars
• This 3D Optical Illusion Will Make You Question The Shape of Reality
• Physicists Just Found Time Crystals in a Common Item You Can Buy at The Toy Store
• A Home DNA Test Kit For Humans Found This Golden Retriever Would Make a Great Cyclist
• A Scientist Sat Through an Entire Flat-Earther Convention. Here's What He Learned
• This Adorable Owl Family Has Two Mums And a Dad, a First For The Species
• Cambridge Analytica Is Shutting Down, But They've Already Started Another Company

May 2

• A Worrying Number of Science Textbooks Are Missing an Important Topic: Climate Change
• Warren And Sanders Fight Against Climate Denial as The 2018 Hurricane Season Approaches
• Here's How Old You Can Be And Still Master a Foreign Language, According to Science
• We Just Tracked The Spin of One of The Strangest Stars We Know, And It's Weird
• Do Dogs Actually Enjoy Making Us Feel Better? Here's What The Science Says
• Stephen Hawking's Final Theory About Our Universe Has Just Been Published, And It Will Melt Your Brain
• High Doses of This Vitamin Could Help You Remember Your Dreams
• Cape Town's So Desperate For Water They're Considering Hijacking an Iceberg
• Renowned Biohacker Who Injected Himself With Untested Herpes Treatment Has Been Found Dead
• Finally, a Contact Lens That Actually Beams Lasers From Your Eyes
• Mount Everest Isn't Really The Tallest Mountain on Earth
• New Evidence Shows The True Extent of The Biblical Kingdom of David
• Mark Zuckerberg Is Launching a Facebook Dating Service. Here's What You Need to Know
• Flat-Earthers Think You Can't Fall Off The Edge Because We Live in a Pac-Man World

May 1

• One of The World's Oldest Scientists Just Turned 104, And He Has an Important Message About Death
• A Climate Group Wants to Carve Trump's Face on an Arctic Iceberg
• For The First Time, Scientists Have Tracked Energy Flowing Through Superconducting Crystals
• This Is The Longest Ocean Voyage You Could Ever Sail in a Straight Line
• Disney Just Invented This Crazy VR Jacket to Give You Hugs, or Punches, or Even Wrap You in Snakes
• Those Supervolcano Eruptions We've Been Worried About Should Give Us Some Very Clear Warning Signs
• Only Half of Your Friends Actually Like You, Science Reveals
• There's an Important Reason You've Been Hit by a Whirlwind of Privacy Notifications And Updates
• Thousands of Vanished Children in India Have Been Identified by a New Technology
• Scientists Could Soon Use Holography to Edit Memories And Sensations Directly Into The Brain
• A Dolphin Body-Slammed a Paddleboarder, Reminding Us Dolphins Can Actually Be Huge Jerks
• The Arabian Sea's "Dead Zone" Is Bigger Than Florida, And It's Still Growing
• Russia Has Launched a Floating Nuclear Power Plant Critics Are Calling "Nuclear Titanic"