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- A Crucial Role of Insulin Has Just Been Discovered in The Body's Immune System
- Flat Earthers Understand Climate Change And We're Just Not Sure What to Think
- We Were Wrong – The Testes Are Connected to The Immune System
- A Terminator-Style Kill-Bot Is About to Start Wreaking Carnage on The Great Barrier Reef
- Anomalies in The Large Hadron Collider's Data Are Still Stubbornly Pointing to New Physics
- A New Zealand Village Is Considering Banning Cats – For a Noble Cause
- This Weird Amazonian Fruit Reduces Obesity in Mice, But Don't Rush Out to Buy It Just Yet
- Mysterious Lights Appeared Above San Diego This Week, And People Have Been Freaking Out
- New Horizons Just Sent Back The First Images of The Mysterious Object It'll Reach on New Years
- A Tiny Fish Just Passed a Classic Self-Awareness Test With a Mirror
- Hubble Has Delivered New Pics of Saturn's Aurora And They Are Absolutely Stunning
- This Boutique Type of Dog Food Has Been Linked to Heart Disease
- The ISS Sprung a Leak But There's Nothing to Panic About… Probably
- For The First Time, Scientists Have Accelerated Electrons in a Plasma Wave
- Scientists Test an Experimental Painkiller That's More Powerful Than Morphine But Non-Addictive
- Black Holes Not Only Destroy Stars, They Have The Power to Reignite Them
- 'Ticking Time Bomb' of Heated Ocean Discovered Hidden Under The Arctic
- A Potential Acne Vaccine Just Passed an Important Early Test, And It Can't Come Soon Enough
- This Haunting Mask Could Be The Face of The Longest-Reigning Ancient Maya King
- We Might Be About to Enter a Brand New 11-Year Solar Cycle, Earlier Than Predicted
- Goats Prefer Happy, Smiling Humans, Study Finds
- French Environment Minister Quits During Live Interview Because The World Isn't Doing Enough
- A Horny Dolphin Has Shut Down a French Beach, But There's Sadly More to The Story
- Researchers Are Offering People $300 to Eat Avocados Every Day
- A NASA Astronaut in Training Just Quit – The First Time This Has Happened in 50 Years
- Doctors Have Found a Big Problem With Using Ketamine to Treat Depression
- Creepy Fossil Discovery Reveals Wasp Parasites Lurking Inside Ancient Insects
- Taking Holidays Might Seriously Prolong Your Life, 40-Year Study Shows
- 10 Practical Weight Loss Strategies Backed by The Latest Science
- STDs in The US Have Surged to a Record-Breaking High, The CDC Warns
- All The Gross Ways Astronauts Have Gone to The Toilet in Space For 57 Years
- Physics Milestone as Scientists Finally Observe Predicted Higgs Boson Particle Decay
- Forget What You've Heard – Cheese Might Actually Be Good For Your Cholesterol Levels
- Scientists Just Discovered a Huge, Hidden Coral Reef Off The US Coast
- Forehead Wrinkles Could Increase Your Risk of Dying, And Scientists Don't Know Why
- The Amazing Way That Extinct Cave Bears Are Still Living on Today
- Forget BMI. Scientists Just Developed a More Accurate, Simpler Way to Measure Your Body Fat
- Weight Loss Pill Found to Be Safe in Unprecedented Clinical Result
- These Scientists Predicted The Ghostly Shape of The Sun's Aura a Week Before Last Year's Eclipse
- Air Pollution Actually Makes Us Dumber Over Time, Says New Study
- Mole Rat Queens Turn Their Workers Into Nannies in a Remarkably Disgusting Way
- Marijuana Traces Pass Into Breast Milk And Linger For Days, Study Shows
- Scientists Have Found Secret Tunnels Between The Skull And The Brain
- Scientists Have Found a New Type of Brain Cell And It Looks Like It's Unique to Humans
- Scientists Have Discovered Two More Animals That Experience Menopause Like Us
- NASA Just Released 19,000 Hours of Forgotten Audio From The Apollo 11 Mission
- Divers Found a Monstrous Squid on a New Zealand Beach, And We Have Pictures
- Scientists Say This Is The Ideal Amount of Sleep to Get For Heart Health
- An MIT Computer Predicted The End of Civilisation Almost 50 Years Ago
- Here's Why Over 80% of All Life on Earth Was Wiped Out 250 Million Years Ago
- The 'Brazilian butt lift' is the deadliest of all cosmetic surgeries. Here's why
- Here's What Happens to Your Body And Brain When You Pull An All Nighter
- Science's 'Replication Crisis' Has Reached Even The Most Respectable Journals, Report Shows
- Sinister 'Hunger Stones' With Dire Warnings Have Been Surfacing in Europe
- This Wriggling Egg Sac Spews Over 1,000 Baby Tarantulas, And We Can't Stop Watching
- Read Roald Dahl's Powerful Letter to Parents About Vaccination From 1988
- First-Ever Images of a Hidden Amazonian Tribe Have Been Captured by Drone
- These Weird 'Moss Balls' Only Float During The Day. Now We Finally Know Their Secret
- It's Starting to Look Like One of Our Favourite Mars Rovers Really Is Dead
- A Shocking Number of People Still Think Autism Is Linked to Vaccines
- Feeding Mice a Special Type of Sugar Reduces Their Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes
- Children Start Lying as Young as 2. Here's What Science Says About Deception
- Physicists Are Almost Able to Cool Antimatter. Here's Why That's a Big Deal
- Physicists Say They've Come Up With a Mathematical Model For a Viable Time Machine
- The 'Space Kingdom' Asgardia Already Has Its Own Flag And Anthem, But It's Not a State
- More Than 300 Reindeer Were Struck by Lightning in The Same Spot, And It Changed The Landscape
- The Oldest Mummies in The World Are Turning Into Black Slime
- There Are Fundamental Differences Between The Brains of Doers And Procrastinators
- Study Finds Even More Reasons You Should Rethink Your On-Again/Off-Again Relationship
- Grasshoppers And Crickets Might Play a Hidden Role in Pollination
- Do Dogs Have Feelings? Here's What The Science Says
- Scientists Create The World's Cleanest Water Droplet And Show Why Everything Is Dirty
- Gravitational Waves Pose a Bizarre New Threat That Could Destroy Earth
- Incredibly Preserved, 40,000-Year-Old Extinct Baby Horse Has Been Unearthed in Siberia
- Potatoes Are Actually Surprisingly Good For You, Says Nutritionist
- This Chilling NASA Image Shows How Much of Earth Is on Fire Right Now
- There's a Psychological Link Between Conspiracy Theories And Creationism
- This Mad New Quantum Experiment Breaks The Idea of 'Before' And 'After'
- A Devastating Geologic Event in Indonesia May Have Helped Defeat Napoleon
- Russian Trolls Have Found an Insidious Way to Turn People Against Vaccines
- Pentagon Is Testing Laser Comms in Case China And Russia Interfere With Radio
- Here's How Restricting Calories Might Offer Protection Against Age-Related Diseases
- This Freaky Parasitic Vine Preys on Parasitic Wasps, And We Just Can't Deal
- Scientists Have Discovered a Brand New 'Micro-Organ' in The Human Immune System
- The Monstrous 'Fatbergs' Lurking Below Cities Might Have a Surprisingly Important Benefit
- Our Galaxy Has Already Died Once. Now We Are in Its Second Life
- Massive Study Finds Alcohol Is a Leading Contributor to Death And Disease Worldwide
- Do You Really Need to Wash Hands After Every Bathroom Trip? Here's The Science
- A Crocodile in Florida Was Caught Using Pool Noodle as Swimming Aid
- By The End of This Headline, Your Brain Will Have Shifted Focus 20 Times
- A Dangerous Category 5 Hurricane Is Currently Heading Straight For Hawaii
- NASA Has Released a Selfie App So You Can Pretend You're an Astronaut
- Woman Loses NASA Internship After Swearing on Twitter at a National Space Council Member
- Parasitic Illness From a Bug That Bites People at Night Is Spreading Worldwide, Doctors Warn
- Candidates in Smaller Elections Simply Can't Defend Themselves Against Cyberattacks
- There's a Disturbing Link Between Women Posting Sexy Selfies And Income Inequality
- Logging Forests to Halt Wildfires Would Do More Harm Than Good
- Finally, Scientists Have Figured Out How to Send Messages From Submarines to Planes
- Your Saliva Actually Changes to Make Things Taste Better, Study Shows
- This Ancient Teenager Had Parents From Two Different Species
- We Have The Most Precise Reading Yet on How Fast Earth's Magnetic Poles Could Flip
- Scientists Just Found a Way to Convert Donor Blood Into a Universal Type
- 'Survival of The Laziest' Is How Some Species Approach Evolution, Study Shows
- Coconut Oil Is "Pure Poison", Says Harvard Professor
- The Oldest, Thickest Arctic Sea Ice Is Breaking For The First Time on Record
- Quantum Weirdness Just Got Reinforced With an Experiment Billions of Years in The Making
- Ancient Maya Landscape Never Recovered From Deforestation Thousands of Years Ago
- The Trump Administration's Revised Clean Power Plan Will Make Pollution Worse
- Here's What You Need to Know About The Next Total Solar Eclipse
- This New Test Could Detect Type 2 Diabetes Earlier Than Ever Before
- Baffling Viral Video Shows Ants Carrying Flowers to a Dead Bee
- International Climate Change Reports Are Dangerously Misleading, Says Eminent Scientist
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson Thinks He Has A Better Idea Than Trump's Space Force
- Scientists Have Invented an Awesome New CRISPR Method That 'Skips' Over Gene Sections
- A New Method For Having Lucid Dreams Has Been Discovered by Scientists
- For The First Time, Physicists Know How to Measure The Force of Light's Momentum
- You Think 'The Meg' Had Horrifying Prehistoric Shark Teeth? Meet The Australian Version
- This Bizarre Optical Illusion Shows if You Have 'Curvature Blindness'
- Steve The Weird 'Aurora' Is Not What We Thought It Was
- A Tourist Fell Into This Ultra-Black Artwork That Looks Like a Cartoon Hole
- Here's Why Missing Your Daily Coffee Can Lead to a Headache
- Here Are The American Countries With The Most Progressive Drug Policies
- Archaeologists Have Removed And Analysed The Black Egyptian Sarcophagus Contents
- The Moon Has Water Ice at The Surface. It Could Power a New Age of Space Exploration
- A Painting of Henrietta Lacks Is Now in The National Portrait Gallery, And It's About Time
- The US Is Woefully Underprepared For The Next Pandemic
- The Trump Administration Keeps Losing Environmental Court Cases
- Trump's Power Plant Plan Would Release Hundreds of Millions of Tons of CO2
- These Crucial Brain Functions Are Not Affected by Gender or Sex, Study Reveals
- Never-Before-Seen Megalithic Mass Grave From 5,000 Years Ago Discovered in Kenya
- We May Soon Know How a Crucial Einstein Principle Works in The Quantum Realm
- Googling Your Medical Symptoms Can Actually Be a Good Thing
- These 11 Signs Mean Your Boss Could Be a Narcissist
- Bubbling Lakes Are Speeding Up Arctic Permafrost Melt, And That's Really Bad News
- Mysterious Giant Shark Sightings Are Helping Scientists on The Hunt
- Stop And Read This Before You Wash Your Contact Lenses Down The Drain
- San Francisco Streets Are Covered in Human Poop. Here's Why That Can Be Dangerous
- Here's What Elon Musk's Sleep Habits Would Do to Your Health
- A $1 Billion Telescope That Will Take Pictures 10 Times Sharper Than Hubble's Is Now Officially Under Way
- Ancient Human Ancestors Had The Same Dental Problems as Us, Even Without Refined Sugars And Fizzy Drinks
- This Simple Waste Product Could Stop One of The Deadliest Parts of Earthquakes
- Turns Out One of World's Rarest Songbirds Never Actually Existed
- A Scientist Explains Why Mosquitoes Bite Some People More Than Others
- Engineers Discover a Glaringly Simple Way to Detect Bombs And Hidden Weapons
- Just in Case WW3 Breaks Out, Here Are 8 Foods That Almost Last Forever
- This Is How Many Carbs You Should Eat For a Long Life, According to a Study of 447,000 People
- The Science Behind Why So Many of Us Are Slaves to Routine
- Turns Out, a Disproportionate Number of People Have The Same Favourite Colour And Number
- Lust Is Complicated, But Studies Show These 19 Things Make Men More Attractive to Women
- This Summer Has Been Brutal. Show These 7 Images to Anyone Who Says It's Normal
- Some Cannabis Users in Canada Are Driving High, And Police Don't Know What To Do
- Zinke Said He Would Never Sell Public Lands, But Now He's Considering It
- No One Knows What Will Happen When Trump's Science Advisor Arrives at The White House
- Some People Seem to Be Immune to Damaging Alzheimer Plaques in The Brain, And Now We Might Know Why
- EPA Staff Want Nothing To Do With The Trump Administration's Weakened Fuel Standards
- Trump's Space Force Could Cost US Taxpayers an Astronomical Amount of Money
- Here Are The Most Important Things That Happened in Science This Week (And a Bonus Quiz)
- 10 Simple Habits of People Who've Lost Weight And Have Actually Kept It Off
- Hubble Has Revealed a Dizzying New Picture of Our Universe's Evolution
- Next Time Someone Calls You Lazy, Tell Them This Story About Fire Ants
- Controversial Organisation Says There's Weed Killer in Your Breakfast. Here's What You Need to Know
- FDA Issues a Warning Because People Are Stealing Their Pets' Opioids
- These 3.4 Billion-Year-Old Fossils From Australia Are Startlingly Similar to Modern Bacteria
- A Newspaper in 1912 Published This Eerily Accurate Prediction About Today's World
- Vaccines Aren't Linked to Autism, But This Infamous Pesticide Might Be
- Musk's Boring Company Just Unveiled Plans For a Superfast Tunnel in LA. But Why Now?
- Beaker From The Muppets Was Just Spotted on Mars
- A Woman Dies Using Parsley to Induce Abortion. Protesters Are Blaming Argentina's Senate
- Wildfires Are Inevitable, But The Loss of Homes And Lives Are Not
- A Newspaper From 1912 Predicted The Future Consequences of Burning Coal
- This Lab-Made Mineral Just Became a Key Candidate For Reducing CO2 in The Atmosphere
- Nebraska Just Became The First State to Use Fentanyl in an Execution
- The Carcasses of Tiny Marine Organisms Could Be Filling Our Sky With Clouds
- 'Very Abnormal Behaviour' From Russian Satellite Sparks Fears It May Be a Space Weapon
- Here's Why Psychedelic Drugs Like LSD Are So Exciting For Modern Medicine
- People Who Love 'Pseudo-Profound Bullsh*t' Are Less Likely to Give to Charity
- There's a Surprising Link Between Dental Health And a Vital Organ in The Body
- The Date of The Legendary Volcano Explosion of Thera Has Finally Been Traced
- These Swirls of Light Could Be Signs of a Previous Universe Existing Before Ours
- Which Is The World's Most Liveable City? The Answer Is Not That Simple
- The FDA Just Approved a Birth Control App. But Does It Really Work?
- People Who Use Marijuana For Gut Inflammation Might Actually Be on to Something
- No, These Strange Cloud Formations Are Not A Government Conspiracy, Says Atmospheric Scientist
- The Media Is Falling Short in Reporting Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases
- The US Military Now Has The Money It Needs to Prepare For Climate Change
- Your Dog Could Be Lying to Other Dogs About Its Size When It Pees
- Tech Developers Are Pledging to Keep Their Creations "Consistent With The Public Good"
- Grisly Discovery Shows Egyptians Were Mummifying Their Dead Way Earlier Than We Thought
- SpaceX Just Let People Inside The Crew Dragon Capsule, And Introduced The First Astronauts
- How Often You Should Wash Your Bed Sheets, According to a Microbiologist
- For The First Time, We've Detected Iron in The Atmosphere of a Blindingly Hot Exoplanet
- New Horizons Just Found Hints of a Huge Structure at The Edge of Our Solar System
- A Woman Had a Contact Lens Stuck in Her Eyelid For 28 Years. She Didn't Notice It
- Elephants Hardly Ever Get Cancer, And We May Finally Know Their Secret
- This Humanoid Robot by Disney Can Do Mindblowing Stunts in The Air
- The Next Five Years Could Be Seriously Hotter Than Normal, Say Scientists
- Turns Out NASA Has a Chemical Specialist Who Sniffs Things Before They Go to Space
- A New Survey of US Federal Scientists Should Concern All Of Us
- It Took a Pre-Teen Just 10 Minutes to Hack a Simulation of Florida's Election Results
- Rich People Are More Likely to Lie, Cheat And Steal, Research Says
- A World Land Speed Record Was Just Smashed With a 50-Year-Old Car
- There Is Not Enough Land on Earth to Support The Diet Recommended by Authorities
- Scientists May Finally Have Discovered Why Women Get More Migraines
- 'The Meg' Is Not The Only Terrifying Prehistoric Creature That Should Have an Epic Movie
- An Instagram Star's Cookbook Just Got Recalled Because It Lists Unsafe, Toxic Ingredients
- A French Theme Park Has 'Hired' Trained Rooks to Pick Up Trash And Cigarette Butts
- MIT Scientists Have Finally Figured Out How to Break Spaghetti Into Just Two Pieces
- New Study Shows Why You Really Need to Put Your Smartphone Away When Hanging With Friends
- As Small as a Grain of Rice, This Newly Discovered Seahorse Will Totally Make Your Day
- Common Vaccine For Pregnant Women Doesn't Increase Autism Risk, Shows Study of 80,000 Kids
- Yet Another Stunning National Park in The US Is Burning Amid a Record Heatwave
- Tax Havens Are Essentially Subsidizing The Destruction of The Environment, New Study Claims
- Florida Is Experiencing An Extreme Algae Crisis, And It's Threatening Public Health
- A First of Its Kind Gene-Silencing Drug Just Got Historic Approval From The FDA
- Man Who Stole 76-Seat Plane Explained "I've Played Some Video Games"
- Gamma-Ray Bursts Might Have a Really Weird Time-Reversible Mirroring Effect
- Here Are The Top 10 Overused Medical Treatments in The US, According to Scientists
- A Deadly 18th Century Disease Is Making a Comeback in Some of The World's Richest Countries
- SpaceX Just Held a Secret Meeting to Solve The Huge Problems With Mars Space Travel
- Physicists Say There Could Be a Strange Source of 'Negative Gravity' All Around Us
- Scientists Have Just Measured The 'Speed of Death' of a Cell And It's Surprisingly Beautiful
- Monsanto Has Been Found Liable in The First Roundup Cancer Case – But That Might Not Mean What You Think
- Researchers Discover The Tiny Brains of Bees And Wasps Can Recognise Faces
- Grieving Orca Mother Finally Lets Her Dead Newborn Go After 17 Days
- Scientists Just Successfully Reversed Ageing in Lab Grown Human Cells
- Mars' Dust Storm Is Subsiding, But Opportunity Is Nowhere to Be Found… Yet
- Ignore Expiry Dates – Here Are 12 Science-Backed Ways to Tell if Your Food Has Really Gone Off
- Trump's Supreme Court Pick Has A History of Ruling Against Environmental Protections
- This One Thing Makes Women More Likely to Die From a Heart Attack – No Female Doctors in The ER
- This Strange, Tiny Fern Could Hold The Secret to Pesticide-Free Insect Resistance
- Stretching Plays a Surprisingly Important Role in Weight Loss And Exercise. Here's How
- The Taj Mahal Is Wasting Away And May Soon Pass The Point of No Return
- Europe's Heatwave Is So Intense, Rare Flamingoes Just Laid Eggs For The First Time in 15 Years
- An Environmental Crisis Has Sullied Florida's Tight Senate Race
- Most People Who Think They Have a Penicillin Allergy Are Wrong
- Student's Message on a NASA Weather Device Sets Off a Presidential Security Scare
- Scientists Might Have Finally Figured Out Why Period Pain Hurts So Damn Much
- This Simple Optical Illusion Could Help Diagnose Autism
- That Grieving Mother Orca Is Still Carrying Her Dead Calf, And Scientists Are Getting Worried
- 6 Unexpected Warning Signs That Could Indicate Your Heart Is in Trouble
- Smoke From California's Wildfires Is So Intense It's Now Reached The East Coast
- New Study Confirms Your Worst Suspicions About Drivers And Cyclists
- Astronaut Mark Kelly Says Trump's Plan to Create a Space Force 'Is a Dumb Idea'
- There Is Literally No Logical Reason The US Should Allow More Uses For Asbestos
- Decades of Warnings About Our Salt Intake Might Have Been Wrong
- Scientists Think They've Found The Part of The Brain That Makes People Pessimistic
- AI Is Helping to Identify Overlooked Women in Science
- Other People Are Having Far Less Sex Than You Think
- There's a Tiny Strange Galaxy Orbiting The Milky Way And No One Knows How It Got There
- Everything You Didn't Know You Needed to Know About Plastics
- Tomorrow NASA's Launching a Spacecraft to 'Touch' The Sun For The First Time – Here's How
- The ISS Is Actually a Claustrophobe's Nightmare – This Video Shows You Why
- A Siberian Meteorite Revealed a New Mineral We've Never Seen Before on Earth
- Trump's 'Space Force' Is Serious And We Just Got a Bunch of New Details
- Vaping Means Less Carcinogens, But It Comes With Its Own Set of Risks
- ScienceAlert Deal: Create Your Own Animations With Animatron Studio Pro
- Most People Pursue Mates Who Are 'Out of Their League,' According to Huge Dating Site Study
- Catch The Best of This Year's Perseid Meteor Shower This Weekend
- Sorry, More Evidence Just Debunked The Idea We Can Learn While We Sleep
- The Trump Administration Wants a Space Force by 2020, But It's Really Up to Congress
- Scientists Just Discovered a Crucial Link Between Eye Disease And Alzheimer's
- President Trump's Face Is Now Branded on a Russian Asbestos Product
- This Is The Slightly Sad Reason So Many Men Think They're Still Single
- This Genius Map Explains How Everything in Physics Fits Together
- These 10 Countries Are Evolving Into Demographic Time Bombs
- Three Nights After A Full Moon, These Worms Light Up The Ocean. Now We Understand How
- Why Are People With Autism Often Good at Maths? New Study Offers a Clue
- 'Miraculous' Feather Transplant Saves Bird Dangerously Tangled in Barbed Wire
- Blue Light Is Causing The Human Eye to Attack Itself
- The Movement of Chromosomes Has Just Been Mapped, And It's Absolutely Mesmerising
- Reflecting Sunlight to Stop Climate Change Could Have Grave Consequences, Scientists Warn
- Glowing Green 'Incredible Hulk' Comet Will Pass Earth Tonight For The First Time
- Exercise May Be The Best Protection Against Ageing, New Research Suggests
- Here's How a Night of Heavy Drinking Gives You The 'Drunchies'
- Trump's Tweets on Water And Wildfires Are Not Just Nonsense, They Are Dangerous
- US Farmers Are Draining One of The World's Largest Aquifers Faster Than It's Naturally Replenished
- It's Official: The Science on Whether Boxers or Briefs Are Better For Boys
- Scientists Just Created Silkworms That Spin Super-Strong Spider Silk
- Bizarre Phenomenon That Intrigued Leonardo Da Vinci Can Finally Be Explained
- These Cities Have The Nicest Weather in America, According to Science
- Cats Sailed With Vikings to Conquer The World, Says Genetic Study
- Electromagnetic Waves Are 1 Million Times Stronger Around Jupiter's Moon Ganymede
- Mount Everest Is a 'Fecal Time Bomb', But One Engineer Has an Ingenious Solution
- Here's What You Should Actually Take For a Cold, According to Science
- Insanely Intense X-Ray Lasers Have Recorded Nanoplasma Generation For The First Time
- Spider Venom Could Treat A Devastating Form of Childhood Epilepsy
- These 9 Amazing Graphs Reveal How Life Is Actually Getting Better For Billions of People
- China Just Launched a Hypersonic Aircraft That Could Slip a Nuke Past US Defences
- Some Americans Will Get to Vote Via Blockchain This November
- When The Government Funds Basic Research, The Future Wins
- The Loss of Arctic Sea Ice Is Having a Strange Effect on Tornadoes in The US
- How Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, And Microsoft Are Shaking Up Healthcare
- Sleeping More Than 8 Hours a Night May Be a Deadly Warning Sign
- Scientists Have Found an Important Reason You Might Want to Reconsider Taking Probiotics
- Tree Bark Generates a Weird Force That Defies Gravity
- Humans Are About to Unleash an Irreversible "Hothouse Earth", Scientists Warn
- US Police Are Killing About 3 Men Per Day, Says This New Study
- Angry, Short-Tempered People Are Probably Wrong About How Smart They Are, Study Finds
- Wildfires in Ireland Have Revealed a Hidden WWII Message
- A Soviet-Era Fox Experiment May Finally Reveal The Genes Behind Domestication
- NASA's Brand New Planet-Hunting Telescope Already Captured This Insane Footage of a Passing Comet
- An Artist Had a Parasitic Worm Living in His Eye, And Created This Deeply Disturbing Painting About The Experience
- Physicists Have Invented an Essential Component Needed For Quantum Computers
- Facebook Is Now Asking Banks For Data on Your Spending Habits
- ScienceAlert Deal: Here's How You Can Become An In-Demand Project Manager
- There Once Was an Eighth Wonder of The World, And It's Never Coming Back
- We Asked an Expert About Trump's Baffling Wildfire Tweets. Here's What They Had to Say
- A Medical School in Japan Has Been Systematically Blocking Female Applicants
- An Australian City Says They've Wiped Out a Dangerous Mosquito-Borne Disease, With No Environmental Impact
- Man Incredibly Lucky to Be Alive After Surviving Rare And Bizarre 'Internal Decapitation'
- Academics Create Periodic Table of Technology, Ranking World-Changing Potential And Feasibility
- Physicists Just Tied Light in Knots to Study The Strange 'Holes' in Between
- Astronomers Have Detected an Intense And Mysteriously Low Frequency Radio Signal Coming From Space
- A Mother Orca Has Been Carrying Her Dead Baby Around The Pacific Ocean For More Than 10 Days
- Scientists Have Finally Found an Elusive Molecule That Helps Sperm Find The Egg
- Eating Crickets Does Something Really Good to Your Gut Bacteria, Study Finds
- First Assassination Attempt of a President Using Drones Just Happened – Here's Why It Won't Be The Last
- A Former Refugee Won The 'Nobel Prize' of Mathematics – And It Was Stolen Minutes Later
- A Controversial Cleanup of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is About to Begin
- Here's Why Scientists Are Giving Generic Viagra to Pregnant Women
- Just How Dirty Is Your Office Desk? It's Worse Than You Think
- The Top Five Books on Parenting – According to a Developmental Psychologist
- US FDA Announces Almond Milk Recall After Contamination With Actual Dairy Milk
- Real 'Superfoods' Science Says You Should Be Eating More of
- Which Languages Are Hardest to Learn? This Infographic Has Your Answer
- Does Monsanto's Roundup Cause Cancer? The Answer Is Not So Simple
- This Woman of Science And Art Was a Pioneer, And Nearly Forgotten
- Science Says There's One Way to Know if Someone Is Truly Trustworthy
- A Top Japanese University Has a System For Excluding Female Applicants
- Scientists Say This Strategy Can Help You Learn Anything Fast
- Meet NASA's New Astronauts Flying SpaceX And Boeing Ships to Space
- Science Says Broadband Is Really Bad For Good Sleeping Patterns
- This Rocket Scientist Knows How to Talk With Conservative Voters About Science
- Sweden's Weather Has Been So Hot Its Tallest Mountain Is Shrinking
- China Is Cracking Down on a Company Making Unsafe Vaccines
- Can a Jump Save You in a Falling Elevator? Here's The Maths
- Humans Just Created The Coldest Spot in Space – Here's Why
- There Is an Absolutely Gigantic Rogue Planet Wandering Our Galactic Neighbourhood
- 'Strange Metals' Have Revealed a Completely New Kind of Electric Current
- The CDC Is Pleading – Stop Washing And Reusing Your Condoms!
- LIDAR Shown to Be a Powerful New Tool in The Hunt For Missing Murder Victims
- Scientists Have Identified That Earthquakes Can Trigger Tremors a World Away
- NASA Predicts SpaceX Will Be Ready to Take Humans to Space by April 2019
- Ancient Lake Offers New Clues to Why Mayan Civilisation Collapsed
- Stop What You're Doing And Watch Meteoroids Slamming Into The Moon
- The Trump Administration Is Being Sued After Stacking a Wildlife Council With Trophy Hunters
- Everything You Need to Know About The Keto Diet
- These Lemurs Have Good Reasons For Rubbing Toxic Millipedes on Their Butts
- From Gun Kits to 3D Printable Guns, a Short History of Rogue Gun Makers
- Superbugs Are Growing More Resistant to Hand Sanitizer, Scientists Warn
- The Trump Administration Freezes National Fuel-Efficiency Standards Claiming It Will Save Money And Lives
- The Exotic Mystery of Why Blue Diamonds Are Blue Has Finally Been Solved
- Scientists Just Found Out Something Strange About The Human Remains Buried at Stonehenge
- We're Going to Die in Record Numbers as Heatwaves Bake The World, First Global Study Shows
- Scientists Just Discovered a New Kind of Lung Cell Nobody Ever Knew About
- Death Valley Just Posted The Hottest Month Ever Recorded Anywhere on Earth
- These Are The Dazzling Finalists in a NASA Mars Habitat Design Competition
- Scientists Have Identified The Exoplanets Where Earth-Like Life Could Exist
- 60 Years After The Thalidomide Crisis, We Finally Understand What Went Wrong
- ScienceAlert Deal: Master Raspberry Pi Electronics For a Fraction of The Price
- Turmeric's Amazing Health Benefits Sound Too Good to Be True. But The Research Looks Good!
- Lab-Grown Lungs Have Been Successfully Transplanted Into Living Pigs
- Mysterious Mass Graves From Up to 5,000 Years Ago May Exist For a Surprising Reason
- A Man's Hands And Legs Were Amputated All Because a Dog Licked Him
- Australia's Plan to Save The Great Barrier Reef Is a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
- Millennials Are So Over US Domination of World Affairs
- Even Being Just a Little Dehydrated Makes It Harder to Think, Study Reveals
- Federal Judge Says Printable Guns Are a National Security Threat And Temporarily Banned Them
- New Research Shows Most Human Pregnancies End in Miscarriage
- Is Cheese Bad For Our Health? Five Experts Give Their Verdict
- Want to Be Happier? There's One Simple Thing You Need to Stop Doing
- Scientists Have a Bold New Hypothesis For Why We're The Only Humans Left on Earth
- This Boy Lost One-Sixth of His Brain, But The Amazing Part Is How His Brain Adapted
- These 'Light Fingerprints' Can Help Us to Identify Distant Alien Worlds
- There's No Clear Link Between Brain Cancer And Electromagnetic Fields, Says Largest Study Yet
- Here's Why Wildfires in The US Are Getting Wilder, Bigger, And Out of Control