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- Astronomers Just Revealed The Most Detailed Record of a Dying Star Humanity Has Ever Seen
- Stone Tools From North Africa May Have Just Shifted The Human Origin Story… Again
- Remember The Giant Tesla Battery in Australia? It Just Marked Its First Year
- How Long Should You Wait Between Pregnancies? Here's The Science
- A Tiny High-Speed Particle Could Actually Melt a Hole in a Space Station, Study Shows
- These Wild Conspiracies on YouTube Are Really, Really Wrong About California's Fires
- The Human Body Has a Strange Type of Fat That Can Actually Help Weight Loss
- Scientists Have Found a Surprising New Source of Blood Cells in The Human Body
- Here's The Science on Why Crying May Sometimes Feel So Good
- These Cute Jumping Spiders Actually Nurse Their Babies on Spider Milk
- Life on Earth Could Have Started Thanks to a Simple Ingredient We Use Every Day
- Okay, We Need to Clear Up That McDonalds Screens 'Contaminated With Feces' Story
- For The First Time, We're Close to Seeing Supermassive Stars From The Early Universe
- Turns Out We Still Have a Huge TV Scientist Stereotype Problem
- NASA Just Announced It Will Outsource Next Moon Lander to Private Company For The First Time Ever
- MIT Scientists Have Discovered an Unusual Sign of Aging Damage in The Human Brain
- Intriguing New Discovery on Hair Loss in Wounded Skin Could Lead Us to New Treatments
- This Bill Gates-Backed Company Is Developing a Possibly World-Changing Nuclear Reactor
- Scientists Found The Number of Photons Produced by All The Stars in The Universe, And Our Minds Are Blown
- The FDA Just Approved a Drug That Targets Cancer in a Radically Different Way
- A Mysterious Seismic Wave Recently Shook Earth, And Scientists Can't Explain It
- Your Skin Is Covered With a Potentially Deadly Pathogen, And We Need to Talk About It
- A Researcher Thinks He's Unlocked The Secret Alignment of Ancient Chinese Pyramids
- We Now Have Atomic Clocks So Precise, They Could Detect Space-Time Distortion
- In The Future, Earth Will Have Just One Continent. It Might Look Like This
- We Have Some Facts About That Giant 'Cow' The Internet Is Freaking Out About
- 'CRISPR Babies' Scientist Just Defended His World-Shattering Research in First Public Appearance
- Australia Doesn't Just Have Knickers – Check Out These Other Absolute Units
- We May Have Just Discovered an Unexpected New Weapon Against Greenhouse Gases
- A Scientist Explains Why The Alleged CRISPR Babies News Is More Shocking Than You Might Realise
- Scientists Have Found The Funniest Words in The English Language
- This New Polio Vaccine Has One Crucial Difference, And It Could Finally End The Disease For Good
- Online Chat With Customer Support Has a Creepy Privacy Risk You Probably Don't Know About
- Astronomers Just Detected an Enormous Ancient Galaxy Orbiting The Milky Way
- These Cave Art Fragments Could Be Proof of Humans Doing Astronomy 17,000 Years Ago
- 7 Major Countries Are Massively Behind Paris Agreement Goals. Also, We Don't Have a Planet B, People
- These Australian Doctors Swallowed Lego Pieces For Science
- Mummies in Incredible Condition Have Been Found in a 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb
- Turns Out Neanderthals And Early Humans Had Sex Waaay More Than We Thought
- The Silk of These Spiders Is 5 Times Stronger Than Steel. Now, We Finally Know How That's Possible
- Mother's Vaccine Plea Goes Viral After Daughter Catches Measles During Chemo
- This Incredible Simulation of a Black Hole Is Getting Us Closer to What One Might Look Like
- Radical Findings Show Mitochondrial DNA Can Be Inherited From Dads
- Norwegian Cruise Liners Will Soon Be Powered by Dead Fish, For Real
- A Mass Stranding Left This New Zealand Beach Covered With Over 140 Dead Whales
- A Natural Wonderland on Australia's Iconic Coast Is in Danger of Oil Exploration
- We Have an Official Update From The University Behind The CRISPR Baby Scientist
- NASA's InSight Probe Has Sent Back Its First Photos From Mars
- Elon Musk Says There's a '70 Percent Chance' He'll Be Moving to Mars
- Spraying Aerosols Into The Sky to Cool The Planet Is 'Technically Possible', Harvard Scientists Find
- Watch LIVE Right Now: NASA Is Landing a Brand New Spacecraft on Mars
- DNA of The Mysterious 'Siberian Unicorn' Has Been Analysed For The First Time
- Scientist Claims The First CRISPR Gene-Edited Babies Have Already Been Born
- Woman Sues Doctors For Not Disclosing Her Father's Deadly, Hereditary Secret
- Russia Says It Will 'Verify' Whether The US Moon Landings Ever Really Happened
- Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Have Been Discovered on Board The International Space Station
- You Might Not Actually Own Your Bitcoins, Says Law Expert
- These Are The Critical Findings From The Trump Administration's 'Buried' Climate Report
- NASA's About to Attempt a Harrowing Mars Landing – Here's a Second-by-Second Timeline of The Plan
- One of The Most Widely Used Antidepressants Has Been Implicated in Breeding Antibiotic Resistance
- These 'Sea Nomads' Are The First Known Humans to Have a Genetic Adaptation to Diving
- Here Are The Most Common Ways You're Wasting Water That Cost You More Than You Think
- Another 14 Iconic Psychology Experiments Have Failed Replication Attempts
- Earth Is Sucking Down Way More Water Than We Thought, And No One's Sure Where It's Going
- Researchers Just Found a Way to Turn CO2 Into Plastic With Unprecedented Efficiency
- Some Peculiar Things Happen to Our Brains in Zero Gravity
- Strange Grooves on Mars' Moon Were Caused by Boulders Rolling Around Its Surface, Study Suggests
- Scientists Have Discovered 'Warm' Ice in The World's Highest Glacier
- Water Has Been Detected in The Atmosphere of a Planet 179 Light Years Away
- David Attenborough Will Take The First Ever 'People's Seat' at Next Month's Climate Talks
- Netflix Is Reportedly in Talks With Gwyneth Paltrow For a Goop Show
- Earth Might Have Once Had a Different Kind of Magnetic Field, And It's Good News For Life on Other Planets
- Here's What Happens to Your Body When You Hold in Your Pee
- Reminder: Cold Winters Don't Mean Global Warming Isn't Happening
- Low-Protein, High-Carb Diet May Be The Key to a Mentally Healthy Life, Hints Mouse Study
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa Is Now Leaning Less
- An Exotic Strain of Hepatitis Appears to Have Made The Leap From Rats to Humans in Hong Kong
- Here Are The Best Science Hacks For The Ultimate Thanksgiving Meal
- A Turkey Is Causing Havoc in Rhode Island by Chasing People, And Stopping Them Paying Taxes
- Here's a List of Science News to Share At Thanksgiving Any Time Politics Comes Up
- Archaeologists Have Unearthed Rare Skeletons of Dinosaurs' Ancestors
- Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Previously Hidden Region in The Human Brain
- Scientists Built an AI Inspired by HAL 9000 And What Could Go Wrong, Really
- One of NASA's Mars Exploration Tools Has a Glitch That Created The Illusion of Water
- We've Found a Special Type of Light That Could Be a Crucial Ingredient For Life in The Universe
- Astronomers Have Detected a New 'Alien Megastructure' Star, And It Might Give Us The Missing Answers
- This Comic Is The Most Delightful Explanation of a Major Space Mission We've Ever Seen
- These Teeny-Tiny Birds Fly an Incredible 13,000 Kilometres One Way to Migrate
- Here's What We Know About The Isolated Tribe That Reportedly Killed an American Tourist
- What Is Quantum Entanglement?
- Here Are The Wonderful Reasons Why Solar Power Is Cheaper Than Ever
- Stunning Maps Show How We've Changed The Face of Earth Over The Last 25 Years
- Scientists at MIT Have Flown The First-Ever Solid-State Plane Powered by an Ion Drive
- Millions of Women in Kenyan Slums Avoid Using Available Toilets. We Need to Pay Attention to This
- Our Universe's Gravity Isn't Leaking Into Other Dimensions, Physicists Find
- Infectious, Deadly Prions Could Be Spreading Via People's Eyes, Scientists Warn
- There Was a Shocking Amount of Plastic in This Dead Whale's Belly – Including Flip-Flops
- These Female Insects Have Evolved Functional Penises, And Now We Know Why
- The Orgasm Gap Definitely Still Exists, New Evidence Shows
- NASA Is Reviewing Safety at SpaceX And Boeing, Reportedly Thanks to Musk's Pot Smoking Episode
- The Internet Is Freaking Out Over This Perfectly Normal Pulsating Mass of Sewer Worms
- A Scanner That Can See Inside The Entire Human Body at Once Just Took Its First Images
- A Hidden, Radioactive Heat Source Seems to Be Melting East Antarctica From Below
- Scientists Have Found Rare Giant Viruses Lurking in The Soil of a US Forest
- Astronomers May Have Just Discovered Our Sun's Long-Lost Identical Twin
- Horrific Tiger Slaughterhouse in Czechia Has Exposed Illegal Animal Trade in Europe
- Scientists Have Grown 'Mini Brains' Resembling Those of Premature Babies, Inciting Controversy
- NASA Is Going to Launch The Next Mars Rover to Look For Signs of Life in a Crater
- Look at This Sea Worm With a Creepy 'Smiling' Face Pulled From The Deep Ocean
- Here's What Bill Nye Thinks About Terraforming Mars: "Are You Guys High?"
- It Looks Like a Weird Feature of The Arctic Atmosphere Is Making Climate Change Worse
- A Peanut Allergy Treatment Pill Just Got Closer to Reality, But Sadly There's a Major Catch
- There's a New Study on Why Wombats Poop Cubes, And It Might Have Some Answers
- Scientists Have Studied The Freaky Weirdness of The Cat Tongue And Turned It Into a Hairbrush
- These Mysterious Mounds in Brazil Are 4,000 Years Old And Visible From Space
- Should You Really Take Probiotics if You're on Antibiotics? The Answer May Surprise You.
- A Jaw-Dropping Binary Star Is About to Go Supernova, And Could Produce a Gamma-Ray Burst
- You Heal Faster if You're Injured During The Day Rather Than at Nighttime
- Climate Change Likely Caused The Collapse of This Ancient Civilisation 4,000 Years Ago
- Scientists Are Challenging The Next Generation to Put Together a New Message For Aliens
- Here Are Some of The Strangest Things on Earth You May Not Have Heard of
- Is There Actually a 'Right' Age to Have a Child? Here's The Science
- Weight-Loss Surgery Data Indicates There Are Actually 4 Types of Obesity
- Submarine That Vanished a Year Ago With 44 Sailors Has Been Found Near Argentina
- There's a Secret Meaning Behind The Devil's Number 666
- 17 Signs You Might Be Smart – Even if It Doesn't Feel Like It
- It's Official: The Definition of a Kilogram Has Changed
- A Startling Microbe Discovery Just Revealed a Whole New Branch of Our Tree of Life
- Here Are 4 'Natural' Depression Therapies That Can Actually Work, According to a Psychiatrist
- Scientists Have Determined The Worst Year to Be Alive in Human History
- If You're on Any Medications, You Need to Know About These Weird Drug Interactions
- Why Your Palm Oil Boycott May Not Be The Best Way to Save The Environment
- Elon Musk's Boring Company Has Been Tunnelling Under People's Homes Without Their Permission
- Marvel at The Plans For Japan's Futuristic New Space Research Center
- Human Evolution Could Be Happening Faster Than Ever
- These Jobs Have The Highest Suicide Rates, According to The CDC
- The Brightest Known Galaxy in The Universe Has Turned Out to Have a Really Dirty Secret
- Orangutans Just Became The Only Non-Human Primates We Know of Who Can Talk About The Past
- NASA Just Detailed a Charged Particle Explosion Right in Earth's Magnetosphere
- Are You a Coffee or Tea Person? It Could Be Down to Your Genetics
- Watch Divers Encounter a Bizarre Sea 'Creature' That Looks Like a Giant Tube
- Scientists Find Compelling Evidence Depression in Men Could Be Treated With Testosterone
- When It Rains in The Driest Desert on Earth, It Literally Brings Death, Not Life
- There's a Crucial Physiological Difference Between Us And These Remote Amazonian Tribes
- There's a Surprising Link Between IVF And Intellectual Impairment For The Baby
- Good News! We Have Found a Thriving Polar Bear Population Somewhere on Our Planet
- This Italian Supervolcano Looks to Have Restarted Its Deadly Cycle of Fire
- George Clooney Can Probably Convince You That Evolution Is True
- China's Nuclear Fusion Machine Just Smashed Temperature Records by Getting 6 Times Hotter Than The Sun
- Scientists Just Found Errors in a Huge Climate Study That Made Headlines Two Weeks Ago
- China Has Changed Its Mind on Legalising Tiger And Rhino Part Trade After International Outcry
- Something Is Causing Male Infertility in One of The Most Important Life Forms on Earth
- Hoverbikes Are a Real Thing Now, And You Probably Didn't Even Notice
- Astronomers Have Detected a Super-Earth Orbiting a Star That's Surprisingly Close to Us
- The Definition of The Kilogram Is About to Change. Here's What That Really Means
- This Study Suggests Multitasking Is Not as Awful For Us as We Thought
- Humans Have Changed The Course of Evolution in Ways We Never Predicted, Scientist Warns
- There's a Major Change in The Latest US Exercise Guidelines. Here's What You Need to Know
- We Thought Earth's Water Came From Comets. Turns Out That's Not The Full Story
- A Massive Geological Surprise Has Been Discovered Under Greenland's Ice Sheet
- Can Big Cats Actually Purr?
- Historians Have Revealed a Totally Unexpected, Unique Depiction of Jesus's Face
- A US Government Agency Has Doubled Down on Running Controversial Experiments on Dogs
- Scientists Develop a Spiky Eye Patch That Injects Drugs Straight Into The Eye
- Watch 40 Years of Icebergs Break Off Antarctica in Less Than a Minute
- Our Brains Could Actually Have Bacteria Living Inside, New Evidence Suggests
- These Fractal Triangles Made Out of Electrons Will Quite Possibly Blow Your Mind
- This Jupiter Cloud Kinda Looks Like a Dolphin, So We Found Some More Animals to Keep It Company
- Illegal 'Whale Jail' Has Been Spotted in Russia, Lifting The Lid on a Massive Animal Exploitation Industry
- An Incredibly Fast 'Dark Matter Hurricane' Is Blowing Past Earth Right Now
- The Pill Was Just Implicated in The Rise of Another Concerning Symptom in Women
- Stan Lee Said He Was "The Least Scientific Person You'll Ever Know", But He Inspired Us Anyway
- Stunning Data Reveal How Wildfires in California And The US Are Becoming More Devastating
- Furry Moths Have Evolved Impressive 'Acoustic Camouflage' on Par With Military Technology
- We Just Got Closer Than Ever to Unlocking Graphene's Superconducting Powers
- This Insane Device Both Harvests Solar Energy And Sends Excess Heat Into Space
- Trying to Lose Weight? Here Are 5 Simple Food Mistakes to Avoid
- Scientists Found a Bird That's 3 Species in One, And We've Never Seen Anything Like It
- There's a Strange Explosion of Certain Meditative Practices in America Right Now
- Heart-Wrenching Ad on The Dark Reality of Palm Oil Banned in The UK For Being Too 'Political'
- Dozens of Cat Mummies Have Been Found in a 2,500-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb
- Infographic: Here's What Was Important in Science News This Week
- Two Huge Studies Have Just Revealed The Actual Benefits of Fish Oil And Vitamin D
- This Crazy Optical Illusion Shows We Have a Weird Need to Relate to All Things
- Apple Admits There Are Hardware Issues With Its IPhone X And 13-Inch MacBook Pro
- These Are The 'Smartest' Dog Breeds, According to a Canine Psychologist
- Consciousness Might Be a Result of Basic Physics, Say Researchers
- Stephen Hawking's Final Book Suggests Time Travel May One Day Be Possible
- There's Early Evidence Poaching Is Causing Elephants to Evolve Away From Having Tusks
- Researchers Think They've Glimpsed What Sadness Looks Like in The Brain
- Astronomers Just Discovered Two Rogue Planets in Our Galaxy
- Fertility Rates Are Now Falling in Half The World's Countries
- For The First Time, Scientists Have Tracked a Wolf Leaving The Radioactive Chernobyl Zone
- Mounting Evidence Shows a Dark Side to Our Obsession With Ripped Men
- Scientists Just Engineered Human Heart Tissue That Beats Like The Real Thing
- A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines, Declassified Navy Documents Reveal
- Here's How an Allergic Reaction Can Shut Your Body Down in Minutes
- Your Lifestyle Could Be Giving You Type 2 Diabetes by Changing Your DNA
- No, 3 Giant Asteroids Aren't 'Skimming' Earth This Weekend to Put You Out of Your Misery
- Ancient DNA Has Revealed Surprising Connections Between The First People of The Americas
- New York's Beloved, Handsome Duck Is Back After a Mysterious Disappearance
- Children Really Need to "Go Play Outside" to Prevent a Serious Eyesight Problem, Researchers Warn
- This Popular Supplement Could Be to Blame For a Newborn's Horrifying Withdrawal Symptoms
- Scientists Find Out How Horrifyingly Tight Mosquitoes Can Be Packed Together And Survive
- An Astronaut on The ISS Has Caught an Eerie Orange Glow Above Earth
- Satellite Data Has Revealed Relics of Lost Continents Hiding Under Antarctica
- Move Over Ravens, Cockatoos Can Make New Tools of Their Own
- The Ozone Hole Will Be Completely Healed Soon – Imagine if Humans Just Worked Together More
- Ancient Gauls Did Truly Gruesome Things to Their Enemies' Heads, Study Confirms
- There's Now a 'Vaccine Fatwa' in Indonesia, And Guess What's Happening
- Astronomers Found a Black Hole Rotating So Fast, It Could Be Spinning Space Itself
- A Lot of Your Poop Is Actually Alive. Here's What's in It
- A Lot More People Are Already Dying From Superbugs Than You Realize
- What The Midterm Results Mean For Science – The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- Wonder How Long You'll Live? There's One Surprising Factor We Haven't Thought About
- If You're Sleeping 6 or Fewer Hours a Night, There's a Weird Health Effect We Didn't Expect
- How to Keep Your Pet Calm During The Fireworks (or Thunder)
- LHC Is Hinting at a Tantalising New Particle. We May Even Need New Physics to Explain It
- A Discovery in a Borneo Cave Just Crushed The Record For The Oldest Known Figurative Art
- This Scientist Has a Warning About The WEIRD Problem in Psychology Research
- Astronomers Have Discovered a Supermassive Black Hole Acting Like a Giant Fountain
- The Moon Is Flipped on The Other Side of The World, And It's Freaking Us Out
- China Just Revealed a Model of Earth's First New Modular Space Station in Over 20 Years
- Poor Air Quality Is Actually Linked to Autism, New Study Shows
- How a Tiny Flightless Bird Got to an Island in The Middle of The Atlantic
- Watch a Diver Perform The First Undersea Ultrasound on The World's Biggest Shark
- Antarctica Nearly Had World's Largest Marine Reserve, But Some Countries Ruined The Plan Again
- These MIT Scientists Say We Could Use Lasers to Attract Alien Attention to Earth
- Scientists Have Used 'Ghost Particles' to Measure The Mass of Earth
- NASA Photo Shows The Wreck of a 'Flying Saucer', But The Real Story Is Even More Amazing
- This Tiny Arachnid With a Black Bunny Head Is Totally Real, We Kid You Not
- Here's The Really Gross Reason Why You Don't Want to Burp in Space
- Hubble Has Found a Friendly Face Out There in The Universe
- An Australian Man Has Died 8 Years After Eating a Garden Slug on a Dare
- Scientists Develop Liquid Fuel That Can Store The Sun's Energy For Up to 18 Years
- One of Japan's Islands Just Vanished Beneath The Waves, And No One Noticed
- That Disgusting Slime on Your Showerhead Could Be Full of Lung-Disease Germs
- Astronomers Have Detected One of The Oldest Stars in The Entire Universe
- Right Now, There's a Man Trekking Across Antarctica. He's Completely Alone
- Need to Get Off This Planet? Here, Have a Virtual Trip to Mars
- An Unstoppable Geyser of Mud Is Slowly Creeping Across California From The San Andreas Fault
- David Attenborough Warns About Too Much Environmental Alarmism, And Some People Are Not Happy
- Look at This Extremely Large Hole Dug For The Extremely Large Telescope
- Here Are The Many Scientific Reasons to Hate Daylight Saving Time
- Infographic: Here's What You Need to Know in Science News This Week
- Immigrants Arrive in America With Diverse Gut Bacteria, But That Changes Almost Immediately
- This Is What Icebergs Look Like at The End of Their Lives, And It's Pretty Morbid
- Scientists Have Confirmed a New DNA Structure Inside Human Cells
- For The First Time, Physicists Created a 'Fifth' State of Matter in Space
- 9 Things You Should Never Use on a Pimple, According to Dermatologists, And 2 That Might Actually Work
- Scientists Create a New Type of Contact Lens That's Like a Band-Aid For Your Eyeball
- A Patient Went to Hospital For Back Surgery And Left Without a Kidney
- A Trippy Effect From The 1980s Could Finally Help Scientists Understand The Mysteries of Human Consciousness
- 200 Million Women Suffer This Debilitating Condition, And Scientists Just Opened The Door to Treating It
- Harvard Scientists Suggest Weird Interstellar Object Oumuamua Could Be an Alien Solar Sail
- MDMA Therapy Shows Incredible 76% Success Rate at Treating PTSD in Early Trial
- Most Vitamin Pills Are Useless, But Here Are The Ones You Should Take
- The Creepy And Fascinating History of How Humans Get Rid of Their Dead
- Desperate to Know How Panda Sex Will Turn Out, Scientists Listen to Their Love Bleats
- There's Something Different About The Gut Microbes of Babies Born at Home, Study Finds
- We Have Found The Deepest Known Volcanic Eruption – a Field of Glass Under The Sea
- We Could Soon Get a Universal Flu Vaccine, Thanks to None Other Than Llamas
- Look at This Absolute Unit of an Emerald Just Found in a Zambian Mine
- "Male" Octopus Gives Surprise Birth to Thousands of Babies in a US Aquarium
- Another NASA Spacecraft Just Ran Out of Fuel And Will Be Forever Silent
- Earth's Oceans Are Heating Up Way More Than We Thought. Here's What That Means
- Just Five Countries Hold 70% of The World's Remaining Wilderness
- This Italian Man Started Crying Blood Tears, Making an Incredibly Rare Medical Case
- There's a Massive Issue in Quantum Computing That No One Talks About, And We Just Got Closer to Overcoming It
- This Primitive Ramp Could Have Helped Build Egypt's Great Pyramids
- NASA Scientists Think They Might Be Able to Use Martian Soil as Rocket Fuel
- Scientists Just Identified 3 Distinct Types of Depression, And 1 Appears to Be Drug-Resistant
- CERN's About to Release Details on Tantalising 'Bumps' in Large Hadron Collider Data
- Your Appendix Might Have a "Use" After All, as The Starting Place of Parkinson's Disease