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- This Stretch of Water Is Losing Oxygen Faster Than Almost Anywhere Else in The Ocean
- Top Mathematician Claims He's Solved a $1 Million Hypothesis. But There's a Problem
- Chilling Video Shows The Moment a Tsunami Tore Through an Indonesia Island Earlier Today
- Facebook Just Had a Massive Security Breach, With Up to 50 Million Accounts Attacked
- It's Official, at Last: This Is The Biggest Bird That's Ever Lived
- More Than Half The World's Orcas Are Being Poisoned by Our Leftover Chemicals
- CERN Scientists Say The LHC Has Confirmed Two New Particles, And Possibly Discovered a Third
- Here's The Most Important Science News That Happened This Week
- A Type of Crash Diet Can Actually Be Surprisingly Effective, Science Finds
- Cats Are Actually Terrible at Controlling Some Rat Populations, Study Shows
- The Maya Civilisation Was Far More Complex Than We Thought, Major Discovery Has Revealed
- We Just Received More Mind-Melting Photos And a Video From The Surface of an Asteroid
- Something Unexpected Has Been Happening to Plants in The Arctic as It Gets Warmer
- Astronomers Have Found a Strange Neutron Star That "Shouldn't Exist"
- Scientists Have Identified The Driving Force Behind All Your Darkest Impulses
- This Particular Type of Diet Can Help Prevent Depression, New Study Finds
- This Is Why Mother Octopuses Grimly Starve Themselves to Death
- An Earth-Sized Clump of Matter Was Pulled Into a Black Hole Faster Than We've Ever Seen Before
- A Seal Slapped a Guy's Face With an Octopus, And We Are Here For It
- One of The World's Rarest Tigers Was Just Killed in a Horrible, Preventable Accident
- NASA's Opportunity Was Spotted From Mars Orbit, But Things Are Looking Bleak
- This 3-Minute Animation Will Change Your Perception of Time Forever
- Scientists Have Found a New Way of Storing Information in a Single Atom
- The World's #1 Weed Killer Could Also Be Killing Bees, New Evidence Suggests
- Archaeologists Have Discovered New Information on Horrifying Ancient Burials in Panama
- There's a Dangerous 'Extinction Vortex' in One of The World's Most Important Forests
- Remember Solar Roadways? We Finally Have Data on Whether They Actually Work
- We Finally Know Why That Orange in Australia Bizarrely Turned Purple
- 'Oumuamua Came From Outside The Solar System. Astronomers Just Got Closer to Finding Its Source
- NASA Is About to Announce New Efforts in Searching For Intelligent Alien Life
- Yellowstone Grizzly Bears Just Got Saved From a Hunt, With Restored Federal Protections
- This 1,300-Year-Old Egyptian 'Love Spell' Has Finally Been Deciphered
- This New Lithium Battery Tech Can Simply Suck Up CO2 to Power Itself
- The Startup That Offers to Inject People With "Young Blood" Is Opening Its First Clinic
- An Incredible New Therapy Is Helping Paralysed People Walk Again
- Ancient Mars Likely Did Have The Conditions For Life, But Not Where We Might Expect
- An Ancient Virus Lurking in Our Genes Could Play an Important Role in Some Addictions
- This Teenager Survived Almost 50 Days Adrift at Sea in a Floating Wooden Hut
- Termite Colonies in Japan Have Been Found Completely Without Males – And They're Thriving
- NASA Just Released New Data on Why Earth Wobbles as It Spins on Its Axis
- We Just Got The First Photos Ever Taken From The Surface of an Asteroid
- Ivanka Trump Admits She Always Wanted to Be an Astronaut
- Top Mathematician Says He's Solved a 160-Year-Old Maths Problem Worth $1 Million
- Long-Lost Galileo Letter Reveals How He Tried to Fool The Inquisition
- People Are Putting Their Dogs on Vegan Diets. Here's What It Actually Does to Them
- You Are Surrounded by an Invisible Cloud Everywhere You Go, And Scientists Finally Measured What's in It
- Guess Which Single Word Will Convince Other Humans You're Not a Robot
- Scientists Are Having an Ugly Fight Over Whether We Truly Live in a New Geological Age
- For The First Time, We Have Record of a Wild Praying Mantis Catching Fish
- US Woman Finds Extremely Rare Scare Noodle With Two Heads in Her Garden
- Celebrity Food Scientist With 13 Retractions Has Resigned as Cornell Cites "Academic Misconduct"
- The World's First Hydrogen-Powered Trains Are Now Running in Germany
- Thousands of Rotting Fish Ended Up on a Highway After Hurricane Florence
- Elon Musk Just Gave The Most Revealing Look Yet at The Rocket That'll Fly to The Moon And Mars
- Scientists Say They've Come Up With a Way to Test Once And For All Whether The Big Bang Actually Happened
- It's Official, Australia Has Had Its First Recorded Marine Animal Extinction
- Here's How Long Common Drugs Stay in Your Body
- The New IPhone Is in Stores. Here Are 5 Reasons to Wait Before Buying It
- We Might Have Just Discovered The Missing Link Between The Brain And Gut
- Scientists Just Created a Magnetic Field That Takes Us Closer Than Ever Before to Harnessing Nuclear Fusion
- Watch Scientists Flip Out Over Rare Footage of a Devilishly Cute Deep-Sea Eel
- Giant Coconut Crab Caught on Camera Attacking And Eating a Seabird
- Plastic Pollution Is Now Spreading From Ocean Food Chains Into Land Animals, Thanks to This Insect
- Japanese Scientists Just Got a Huge Step Closer to Creating Human Babies From Blood Cells
- NASA's New Planet Hunter Has Already Spotted Two Candidates For Earth-Like Alien Worlds
- NASA Just Captured Data on an Incredibly Rare Type of Cloud in Earth's Atmosphere
- Scientists Gave Octopuses Ecstasy This Week, And What Happened? Take Our Science News Quiz
- There's a Vicious Cycle Behind Alzheimer's That Could Explain Why So Many Treatments Have Failed
- A Simple Chemical Reaction Caused Injuries And Evacuation at a Hotel in Australia
- This Study on Nearly Half a Million People Has Bad News For The Keto Diet
- This Insane Plan to 'Prop Up' Antarctica Could Help Save The World
- Strange And Unexpected Movement Has Been Detected Along California's Biggest Fault Lines
- When You Feel Overwhelmed, Remember There Are More Microbial Species on Earth Than Stars in Our Entire Galaxy
- An Influential Celebrity Food Scientist Has Now Had 13 Studies Retracted
- This Eerie Creature Was Just Officially Confirmed as The World's Earliest Known Animal
- People Are Electrically Zapping Their Brains With Devices Bought Online, to "Boost Creativity"
- Scientists Studied People Who Don't Use Any Social Media. Here's What They Learned
- Here's What Fruits And Vegetables Looked Like Before We Domesticated Them
- China's Chilling 'Social Credit System' Is Straight Out of Dystopian Sci-Fi, And It's Already Switched on
- Researchers Gave Octopuses Ecstasy And Watched What Would Happen, For Science
- Spiders Have Exploded Over This Greek Town, Coating Everything in a 1,000-Foot Web
- Pharma Companies Jack Up Drug Prices When People Need Them The Most, Report Claims
- Your Age Might Affect How You See This Classic Optical Illusion, Study Says
- Your Guts Could Be Full of Tiny Electricity Generators, Scientists Have Discovered
- Your Brain Is Hardwired to Do This
- This Genius Free Font Makes Your Essays Look Up to 10% Longer Than They Actually Are
- Hair Follicles Can 'Smell' Sandalwood, And It Could Be a Radical New Way to Treat Baldness
- Astronomers Just Found a Planet Where Star Trek's Vulcan Was Predicted to Exist
- A Pulsating, Alien-Looking Sea Creature Has Been Found on a Beach in New Zealand
- These Simple Tips For Storing Fruits And Vegetables Will Help You Keep Them Fresh Longer
- A Common Baby Toy Keeps Causing Serious Injuries, Experts Warn
- Terrifying 'Rafts' of Stinging Fire Ants Are Now Floating Around After Hurricane Florence
- A Leatherback Turtle Is Navigating The Turmoil of Hurricane Florence, And You Can Follow Her Journey in Real Time
- Geologists Just Found a Long-Lost Bridge Between The UK And The Rest of Europe
- SpaceX Has Announced The First Tourist to Go to The Moon – And Take Other People With Him
- A Nursery Rhyme Plagued a Woman For Months, And The Explanation Is Fantastic
- Potentially Deadly Threats Are Now Lurking in Post-Hurricane Flood Waters
- We Just Discovered Two Massive Objects That Challenge Our Understanding of Star Evolution
- A Mysterious Pulsar Is Sending Strange Emissions Really Far Into Space
- Tsunami Risk in The UK Is 'Far More Serious' Than We Ever Knew, Scientists Warn
- A Remarkably Preserved Sandstone Sphinx Was Just Discovered in Egypt
- Elon Musk And SpaceX Is Announcing The First Lunar Mission Tourist RIGHT NOW
- People Don't Actually Find You as Annoying as You Think, Science Says
- There's a Serious Problem With The Way We Measure Global Food Security
- 4 Distinct Personality Types Have Been Identified in a Massive New Study
- A Classic School Experiment in India Has Gone Terribly Wrong, Injuring 59 People
- Single Hydrogen Atoms Could Form Eerie 'Ghost Bonds' With Nothing, New Study Shows
- Here's What It's Like to Fly Into Hurricanes to Get Forecast Data For Science
- Unprecedented Medical Case Shows How 4 People Got Cancer From Just One Organ Donor
- Weird 'Nuclear Pasta' Could Be The Strongest Material in The Universe
- How a Programmer Nearly Broke The Internet by Deleting Just 11 Lines of Code
- There's Something You Should Know About The 100% Meat 'Pure Carnivore Diet'
- Chemists Have Found a Strange Pattern Hidden in The Sequence of Prime Numbers
- A Very Good Doggo Just Found Incredible Bronze Age Treasure in Czechia
- For The First Time, Physicists Have Used Antimatter in One of The Most Famous Physics Experiments
- Evacuated Solar Observatory in New Mexico Is Reopening, But We Still Don't Know What Happened
- NASA Study Provides New Hope That Life Could Survive on Proxima B, Our Closest Known Exoplanet
- Astronauts Capture Haunting Video of Hurricane Florence Making Landfall From Space
- There Are 16 Nuclear Reactors at Risk From Hurricane Florence. Here's What You Need to Know
- Rough Childhood Experiences Can Age Your Cells Prematurely, New Study Suggests
- We've Replaced BPA, But Mounting Evidence Suggests The Replacements Cause The Same Issues
- Don't Buy Any of the New iPhones Until You've Downloaded iOS 12 To Your Current Device
- A Brand New Class of Antidepressants Is Being Reviewed by The FDA, And It's a 'Game-Changer' For Postpartum
- Elon Musk Is About to Name The First Private Passenger to Fly Around The Moon
- Harrison Ford: "Stop Giving Power to People Who Don't Believe in Science"
- Archaeologists Think They've Found The World's Oldest Brewery, And It Predates Agriculture
- Astronomers Just Photographed This Spiral Galaxy For a Delightfully Simple Reason
- There's a New Baby Aye-Aye at Denver Zoo, And We Just Can't Deal With The Cute
- Did You Pay Attention to Science News This Week? Take Our Super Hard Quiz to Find Out
- Some People's Brains Respond More Strongly to Placebo, And We Might Finally Know Why
- An Amazing Reaction Happens When a Plant Gets Hurt, Making Them More Similar to Animals
- We Just Found 3 Types of Nerve Cell in The Inner Ear That Are Completely New to Science
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson Defends Elon Musk, Saying He's "The Best Thing We've Had Since Thomas Edison"
- This Weather Report Takes an Unexpected Twist to Show The Deadliest Aspect of Hurricanes
- This Unprecedented Study Shows How Different Florence Would Be if Not For Climate Change
- A Far More Powerful Storm Than Florence Is Happening Right Now, And We Need to Pay Attention
- 2017 Was Officially The Most Miserable Year in More Than a Decade
- A Solar Observatory in New Mexico Has Been Mysteriously Shut Down And Evacuated
- The US Military Has Developed a Tooth Microphone That's So Stealth It's a Little Unnerving
- Summer's Over. Here Are The 9 Most Important Science Stories You Need to Catch Up on
- Here's Why It's So Hard to Accurately Predict Massive Hurricanes
- Hubble Just Revealed Thousands of Hidden Galaxies in This Jaw-Dropping Photo
- Neuroscientists Have Finally Tracked Down The Bilingual Language Switch in The Brain
- North Carolina Literally Passed Laws Against Science on Sea-Level Rises
- Sound Makes Droplets Levitate And Turn Into Bubbles, And We Can't Stop Watching
- Scientists Have Engineered a Potential New Class of Antibiotic That Can Kill Superbugs
- Russian Media Is Peddling an Absurd 'Sabotage' Theory About The ISS Hole
- Astronauts Are Taking Hurricane Florence Photos From The ISS, And They're Truly Chilling
- Our Oceans Have Just Exploded With Tropical Storms, With 6 Active Ones Right Now
- The Vibrator's Origin Story Is Fantastically Scandalous, But It's Also Probably Fake
- Stem Cells From Baby Teeth Could Be Used to Bring Back a Dead Tooth
- A Device For Saving Earth From an Asteroid Smash Is About to Enter Its Assembly Phase
- 'Vampire Facial' Spa Has Been Shut Down Over Fears of Blood Infections
- Semi-Automatic Rifles Really Are More Deadly, New Study Clearly Shows
- Scientists Found The Oldest Known Drawing in Human History, And It's Basically a Hashtag
- That Hole on The ISS Is Now Sealed, According to a Video by a Russian Cosmonaut
- This Simple Lifestyle Change Can Reduce Your Water Usage Up to 55%, Study Shows
- We Just Got Even More Evidence That Autism And Schizophrenia Share Genetic Roots
- An Actual Pot of Gold Coins Has Just Been Found Under an Italian Theatre
- Hurricane Florence Is Becoming The Strongest Storm to Ever Make Landfall North of Florida
- 3 Species of Freaky Ghost Fish Were Just Discovered at The Bottom of The Pacific
- This Rare Binary Asteroid Shows The Dirty History of Jupiter And Saturn Bullying Other Planets
- There's a Push For Lab-Grown Meat to Get a New Name. Here's The Alternative
- A Cryonics Lab Is Being Sued For Freezing a Scientist's Head But Not His Body
- Astronomers Have Detected an Astonishing 72 New Mystery Radio Bursts From Space
- A New Cancer Vaccine Shown to Be 100% Effective in Mice With Aggressive Melanoma
- A Mass Grave of Hundreds of Mummified Penguins Has Been Found in Antarctica
- This Is What Happens to Your Body When You Hold in a Fart
- Brace Yourselves, a Solar Storm Is Coming And We Can Expect Auroras
- Suicide Rates Are Soaring in The US. Here's What We Can Do to Reverse The Trend
- The Atlantic Ocean Looks Insane Right Now – 3 Hurricanes Are Churning Above It
- Scientists Just Found a Way to Control a Single Molecule For a Millionth of a Billionth of a Second
- Scientists Have Announced an Incredible Plan to Make It Rain in The Sahara Desert
- 4 Years From Now a New Star Was Predicted to Appear in Our Sky. But There Was a Typo
- A Neuroscientist Tries to Explain The Meaning of Life Based on How Evolution Shaped Our Brains
- A 28-Year-Old Engineer Has Built a Robot That Could Save The World 2 Trillion Gallons of Lost Drinking Water
- This Orange Turned Purple Overnight, And Scientists Can't Figure Out Why
- Study Pinpoints The Time You're Most Likely to Encounter a Spider in Your House, And It Explains a Lot
- One of The Most Widely Used Antidepressants Has Just Been Implicated in Breeding Antibiotic Resistance
- Dead Wildlife Washes Up on East Coast Beaches as Florida's Toxic Red Tide Moves North
- A Giant Experiment to Clean Up The Pacific Ocean Has Just Been Deployed
- We've Finally Photographed The Crash Site of a Lost Lunar Orbiter
- Prince Charles Says He "Utterly Objects" to The Idea of People Becoming Part Human, Part Machine
- The Largest Ever Clinical Study on Vitamin D Shows We're Wrong About One of Its Main Benefits
- A Woman Was Struggling to Breathe — Because of a 61-Pound Tumor in Her Uterus
- Mesmerizing Footage Captures a 'Superpod' of Dolphins on The Hunt in California Waters
- A Fossilised Skull Has Revealed When The Last 'Siberian Unicorn' Lived on Earth
- A Scientific Model Just Predicted The Outcome of The Midterm Elections
- Nostalgia Can Be Good For You. A Researcher Explains How to Reap the Benefits
- This New Paper Says Pluto Should Be a Planet After All, And Here's Why
- Something Really Fascinating Happens When You Give Plants Anaesthetic
- Scientists Trace The Origin of Cystic Fibrosis to a Mysterious Group of Europeans
- Elon Musk Warns We're Living Through The "Dumbest Experiment in Human History"
- It's a Myth That Drinking Milk Makes You Produce More Phlegm, Expert Claims
- We've Just Seen What Happens When a Galaxy Punches a Giant Hole Through Another
- This Creepy Robot Child Bleeds, Screams, And Cries For Its Mother
- Scientists Are Now Really Fighting About The Cause of Those 'Sonic Attacks', And We're Here For It
- To Save Ourselves It's Time to Rethink Our Economic System, Warn Scientists
- Scientists Just Invented a More Efficient Way to Turn Sunlight Into Unlimited, Renewable Fuel
- Eczema Is The Latest Condition to Potentially Benefit From a Bee Venom Treatment
- Scientists Have Finally Figured Out The Origin of Mysterious Patterns on The Moon's Surface
- Deadly Spiders And 7,000 Other Creatures Have Been Stolen From a Museum in Philadelphia
- This Nanophotonic Material Could Push Interstellar Craft Closer to Light Speed
- Scientists Have Found The Mystery Cause of One of The Biggest Tsunamis Ever Recorded
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell Awarded $3m For Pulsar Discovery, Decades After She Didn't Get The Nobel Prize For It
- Scientists Have Detected an Entirely New Visual Phenomenon in The Human Eye
- 1.4 Billion People Worldwide Need to Make This Lifestyle Change, Says WHO
- A Sinking, Leaning 58-Storey Skyscraper in San Francisco Has Now Developed a Crack in One Window
- Scientists Mapped Jupiter's Magnetic Field, And It's Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen
- MIT Scientists Argue For Nuclear Power to Help Us Fight Climate Change
- For The First Time, Scientists Have Teleported And Measured a Quantum Gate in Real Time
- A Bizarre Structure Has Been Detected Towering High Above Saturn's Hexagon
- 7,200-Year-Old Traces of Cheese Have Been Discovered in Cute Animal Pots
- A Rare Case of Black Hairy Tongue Has Been Recorded in The US
- Those Useless 'Vaginal Eggs' Have Finally Landed Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop in Trouble
- A Plane Was Quarantined at JFK Because More Than 100 People Felt Mysteriously Sick
- Scientists Say They've Found The Driver of False Beliefs, And It's Not a Lack of Intelligence
- Listening to White Noise Might Affect Your Brain in a Weird Way, Study Suggests
- These Hauntingly Beautiful Images Reveal an Unseen World Beneath Vertebrates' Skin
- These Leafy Sea Dragons Couldn't Swim, So a Vet Saved Them With a Genius Solution
- Observations Confirm Near-Light-Speed Jets in The Afterglow of a Neutron Star Collision
- Here's What We Know So Far Has Survived The Museum Fire in Brazil
- 11 EU Nations Just Kicked Off a Plan to Make Public Science Free For All of Us
- These 25 Mutations Could Help Explain How Humans Have Evolved to Live So Long
- Scientists Just Identified The First Known Omnivorous Shark Species
- Japan Is About to Start Testing The Feasibility of a Space Elevator
- A Fundamental Physics Law Just Failed a Test Using Nanoscale Objects
- Gross New Study Could Help Explain Why You Get Sick When You Fly
- These Simple Tips Could Save Your Life in Almost Any Disaster, From Floods to Hurricanes
- Scientists Just Found 8,000 New Drug Cocktails For Fighting Antibiotic Resistance
- Your Ability to Resist Instant Gratification May Predict Your Earning Potential
- Syphilis Is Attacking People's Eyeballs, And This Issue Is on The Rise Around The World
- The Terrifying Reasons You Should Never, Ever Take Synthetic Marijuana
- That Leak on The ISS Was Made by a Person. Here's What We Know So Far
- Last Year's Colossal Antarctic Iceberg Has Started to Move at a Shocking Speed
- Tropical Storm Gordon Off The Florida Coast Is Developing Into a Hurricane Right Now
- A Software Engineer Hacked a Knitting Machine to Make This Stunning Star Map
- Watch as Thousands of Fish Are Dropped From a Plane Into a Utah Lake
- Maybe This Wild Theory About 'Sonic Attacks' on US Diplomats Is Not as Insane as It Sounds
- Organs That Couldn't Be Transplanted Before Are Now Usable Thanks to This Life-Saving Medicine
- This New AI Tool Could Solve a Deadly Earthquake Problem We Currently Can't Fix
- Humans Could Have 20% Fewer Coding Genes Than We Thought, Which Opens a New Mystery
- These Jaw-Dropping Mars Habitat Concepts Make Us Want to Go There Right Now
- Heartbreaking: a Massive Fire Has Just Destroyed Brazil's Oldest Natural History Museum
- Scientists Have Trained an AI to Spot Obesity From Space
- Incredible Footage Shows Never-Before-Seen Structures in Action on Our Immune Cells
- This Animation of Temperature Trends Across 191 Countries Is Almost Painful to Watch
- NASA Has Now Set a Deadline For Hearing From Opportunity, And We're Biting Our Nails
- An Ancient Egyptian Village Just Found in The Nile Delta Predates The Pyramids by 2,500 Years
- Doctor in Texas Faces Fury For Saying Female Physicians Earn Less Because They 'Don't Work as Hard'
- For Over 50 Years, a Strange Independent Micronation Has Existed Off The UK Coast
- The Most Abundant Type of Ocean Trash Is Not What We Expected, And It's Disgusting
- Endometriosis Is More Common Than You'd Think. Here's What You Need to Know