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- Europe Is Closing a Whole Lot of Coal Mines on January 1
- Scientist Who Gene Edited Babies Is Reportedly Being Held By Mysterious Guards
- Here's What Happens to Your Body And Mind if You Give Up Drinking in January
- Which Hangover Cures Actually Work, According to Science?
- If You Want to Stay Safe Online in 2019, Makes These 6 Simple Changes Right Now
- NASA Is About to Reach The Farthest Object Yet in The Solar System. Here's How to Watch
- The Most Effective Acne Medication We Have Actually Changes Your Skin's Microbiome
- A State Is on The Verge of Legalizing Human Composting
- Australian Autonomous Train Is Being Called The "World's Largest Robot"
- Russian Cosmonaut Says The Hole in The ISS Was Drilled From The Inside
- Japan Discovered a Rare-Earth Mineral Deposit That Can Supply The World For Centuries
- Could Two People Actually Repopulate Earth?
- For The First Time, Scientists Have Seen Bacteria "Fishing" For DNA From Dead Friends
- Bill Gates Warns a New Disease Could Kill 30 Million People in 6 Months
- Orangutans Are The Only Non-Human Primates We Know of Who Can Talk About The Past
- NASA Wants to Send Hot Air Balloons to The Hellscape of Venus
- This Freaky Video of The Moon Coming Down to Earth Is Totally Real
- The Scale of Retractions in Science Is Far More Staggering Than You Might Think
- 2018 Was The Year We Could No Longer Pretend Climate Change Wasn't Happening
- Underwear You Can Wear For Weeks at a Time Is Finally Here, Start-Up Claims
- These Most Stunning Wildlife Photos of 2018 Will Make You Feel Many Things
- Elon Musk Just Made a Staggering Promise About Tesla Superchargers in 2019
- A New Study Just Solved One of The Greatest Mysteries of DNA Replication
- How You Can Keep Your New Year's Resolutions, According to Science
- These Are The 10 Most Popular Scientific Papers Everyone Was Talking About in 2018
- For The First Time Ever, an Explorer Just Completed a Solo Trek Across Antarctica
- Researchers Just Spotted The 'World's Rarest Bird' in Brazil
- Mysterious Anomaly Under Africa Is Weakening Earth's Magnetic Field
- We're All Made of Stardust. But Where Does It Come From?
- Here's How Long After Christmas You Can Still Safely Eat Leftovers
- Brace Yourselves, a 'Super Blood Moon' Eclipse Is Coming in January
- Apollo Astronaut Says It Would Be 'Stupid' to Send People to Mars
- Sorry, But Giving Up on Meat Is Not Going to Save The Planet
- It's Official: Japan Is About to Resume Commercial Whale Hunting
- This Simple Optical Illusion Shows if You Have 'Curvature Blindness'
- Ever Heard of Eyeball Planets? Yep, They're Exactly as Creepy as They Sound
- Largest Ever Clinical Study on Vitamin D Shows We're Wrong About a Crucial Benefit
- Mind-Bending Study Suggests Time Did Actually Exist Before The Big Bang
- This Video on The Scale of Black Holes Will Crush Your Poor, Human Brain Forever
- A Really Common Medication Has Been Linked to Double The Risk of Stomach Cancer
- We Might Finally Know Why So Many Earthquakes Happen in The 'Wrong' Places
- Apparently, Facebook Is Now Working on Its Own Cryptocurrency
- Here Are 10 Feel-Good Environment Stories You May Have Missed in 2018
- Stanford Researchers Built a Cool 'Lung' Device That Turns Water Into Clean Fuel
- This Breathtaking Science Photo Shows a Single Trapped Atom
- On Christmas Eve 50 Years Ago, a Single Photo Revealed How Fragile Is Our Existence
- Indonesia's 'Child of Krakatau' Is Waking Up, And May Have Caused The Deadly Tsunami
- A Devastating Tsunami Has Hit Indonesia Without Warning, Killing Hundreds
- For The First Time Ever, Astronomers Detected Planets Outside Our Galaxy in 2018
- Scientists Found a Mysterious 'Boiling' River Straight Out of Amazonian Legend
- Astronomers Discover A Rare 'Fossil Cloud' Leftover From The Big Bang
- Scientists Engineer a Houseplant With Rabbit DNA That Sucks Toxins From The Air
- Scientists Thought Mars Was Covered in Methane. Now It's Disappeared
- For The First Time Ever, Scientists Discover a Lizard Breathing Underwater
- One of The Most Common Allergens Doesn't Appear on Food Labels in The US
- Winter Solstice Is Here: The Beautiful Astronomy of Christmas
- More Than 15% of Childhood Deaths in America Are Due to a Sadly Preventable Cause
- Study Confirms: Global Quantum Internet Really Is Possible
- Never Forget a Deep-Sea Fish Exists That Looks Just Like Tim Burton Dreamed It Up
- What Is Dark Matter?
- We Asked a Doctor What Women Really Need to Know About The Pill
- 25+ Astounding Science Facts We Didn't Know at The Start of 2018
- An Amoeba Just Found an Entirely New Way to Solve a Classic Computing Problem
- Astronomers Say They Can 'See' Dark Matter in The Starlight Between Galaxy Clusters
- Unborn Baby Sharks Will Swim Between Uteruses to Eat Their Brethren
- There's Mounting Evidence The Continent of Africa Is Splitting in Two
- The Inevitable Abyss: Each Year, We Lose Another Section of The Universe
- Stunning Photos Show Huge Crater on Mars Absolutely Brimming With Water Ice
- Look at All These Insane Deep-Sea Creatures Scientists Just Found in Tasmania
- These Massive Hailstones That Just Fell in Australia Are Totally Real
- This Is How Much You'd Have to Pay Most People to Actually Quit Facebook
- Astronomers Have Found a New Type of Planet That's Absolutely Riddled With Gemstones
- 4,000 Years Ago a 'Prince' Fell Victim to Oldest Known Political Assassination
- Earth Loses Hundreds of Tons of Atmosphere to Space Every Day
- There Are 3 Key Times in Life When You Are The Most Lonely, Study Shows
- The Year in Caves: 2018 Revealed Some Jaw-Dropping Underground Worlds
- A New Species of Snake Has Just Been Discovered… Inside Another Snake
- Over a Third of Adults Wish They Still Believed in Santa, According to Science
- These Dinosaurs Had Weird, Twisting Skull Tunnels That Literally Kept Them Alive
- Blind, Burrowing Amphibian Species Named After Donald Trump For a Special Reason
- Giant Dust Is Spreading Across The World, Defying The Laws of Physics
- Mysteriously Preserved 'Ice Age' Dunes Found Underwater Off The Coast of Australia
- China And Russia Have Run Controversial Experiments That Modified Earth's Atmosphere
- The Very First Space Event of 2019 Was Just Confirmed: Ultima Thule, Here We Come
- This Mysterious Population of Canines Carries Ghostly Traces of The Extinct Red Wolf
- Let's Take a Closer Look at That 'Mysterious UFO Sighting' Above a Florida Swamp
- Here's Why String Theory Might Actually Point Us Towards a 'Theory of Everything'
- Science Finally Reveals How Much Space You Should Really Give Other Pedestrians
- Saturn Is Losing Its Rings at a Shockingly Fast Rate, Says New Study
- Brace Yourselves, The Polar Vortex Is Back And Brewing Harsh Conditions
- This Ex-NASA Engineer Had Mail Stolen, So He Built The Perfect Glitter Bomb
- MIT Scientists Have Announced They Can Shrink Objects Down to The Nanoscale
- A 'Gold Rush' at The Bottom of The Ocean Could Be The Final Straw For Ecosystems
- Lacking This Common Nutrient Could Actually Increase Your Risk of Depression
- This City Already Shows What Life Will Be Like in a World Heated by Climate Change
- Australian 'Wellness Guru' Says He Stares Into The Sun For Medicinal Reasons
- A Scientist Claims The World's Oldest Pyramid Is Hidden in an Indonesian Mountain
- This 13-Year-Old Invented a Genius, Prize-Winning Way to Improve Solar Panels
- Jaw-Dropping Sound Wave Trick Can Levitate Particles in Different Directions at Once
- Here's a Calendar of Epic Space Stuff to Get Psyched For in The 2019 Night Sky
- Stop Stroking Your Plants, They Absolutely Hate It
- A Man in China Hospitalised After Sniffing His Own Socks Every Day
- 85 Incredibly Detailed Dinosaur Prints Have Suddenly Emerged in England
- There's Finally Some Good News For Women Who Get Migraines
- Huge, Dangerous Waves Smash The Californian Coast
- Astronomers Have Detected The Most Distant Solar System Object Ever Found
- Strongest Evidence Yet Links Chronic Fatigue Syndrome And an Overactive Immune System
- New Study Shows Why X And Y Chromosomes Alone Don't Determine a Baby's Sex
- A Fireball That Exploded Over Greenland Could Help Us Study Alien Worlds
- Here's Why You Don't Need to Freak Out About Eating Raw Cookie Dough
- New Evidence Shows Tornadoes Don't Form The Way Scientists Have Always Thought
- A Robot Burst Into Flames on a University Campus, And Students Held a Vigil
- Is Autism Actually on The Rise? It's Not as Straightforward as You Might Think
- Australian Skies Are Home to an Extremely Rare, Wormhole-Like Cloud Formation
- It's Official: 'Donald' Is One of The Worst Passwords People Used in 2018
- Here's Why Awful Morning Sickness Can Actually Be a Positive Sign
- Scientists Are Excited Over These 'Weird' Feathers Preserved in 100-Million-Year-Old Amber
- Here's Why Feeding Babies a Vegan Diet Can Be Risky
- That 'Cake Glitter' You're Putting on Your Food Might Not Actually Be Edible
- Stunning Photos Show 'One of a Kind' 4,400-Year-Old Tomb Just Discovered in Egypt
- 'Biggest Ever' Sinkhole Ripped Open in New Zealand, And Unearthed History
- The Largest Known Diamond in North America Has Been Found Below Canada's Arctic
- 5 Fantastically Bizarre New Nudibranch Species Have Just Been Announced
- A Neuroscientist Explains Why Multitasking Screens Is So Terrible For Your Brain
- Scientists Are Creating a Laser So Powerful It Could Get a Probe to Mars in Days
- Every Few Hours A Flash of Light Comes From The Moon. Another Impact
- Sharks Have Existed More or Less Unchanged For Millions of Years, Until Now
- Doctoral Student Just Published a Paper Describing How Time Travel Would Be Possible
- For The First Time in 80 Years, a New Invasive Tick Species Is Threatening The US
- New Paper Shows How Much Worse Organic Farming Can Be For The Climate
- These 'Useless' Quirks of Evolution Are Actually Evidence It's Still Happening
- A Strange Radar Blip Crawled Over Southern Illinois For 10 Hours This Week
- Astronomers Have Detected a Planet That's Actually Evaporating Away at Record Speed
- This Video of a Sweet Baby Hippo Getting a Bath Is All You Need to Round Out 2018
- An Incredible New Ecosystem Has Been Discovered at The Bottom of The Ocean
- Vegan Diets Are Actually Increasing Malnutrition in Wealthy Countries
- Two People Have Died at a Scientific Research Station in Antarctica
- We Just Got The Closest-Ever Picture Taken of The Sun's Atmosphere
- Chronic Bullying Could Actually Reshape The Brains of Teens
- Virgin Galactic Just Made History by Reaching Space, With Humans on Board
- Whether or Not You Get Acne Could Depend on Your Hair Follicles
- We Just Got Even More Evidence It's Better to Start School Later in The Day
- Physicists Just Smashed Another Record For High-Temperature Superconductivity
- 'Dead Zones' Already Suffocating Our Oceans Are Now Closer to Humans, Too
- China's Dark Side Moon Lander Has Just Successfully Entered The Lunar Orbit
- Your Neanderthal Genes Could Be Affecting The Shape of Your Brain
- The Legacy of Human Civilisation Will Be Written in Chicken Bones
- What Really Is Irritable Bowel Syndrome, And Can You Fix It?
- This Breathtaking Image Is a Real Photo of Two Stars Destroying Each Other
- Most Biology Textbooks Overlook The Most Abundant Animals on The Planet
- Stunning Drone Video Has Captured Wild Orcas Playing With a Human Swimmer
- Australia Sent Hundreds of Rare Birds to a German Zoo That Might Not Actually Be a Zoo
- Cosmonauts Just Went on a Spacewalk to Look For Evidence of ISS 'Sabotage'
- We Might Finally Know Why Humans Don't Have Hair on Some Body Parts
- Christmas Eve Comes With a Potentially Deadly Health Risk, Says Study
- NASA's InSight Took Its First Selfie on Mars, And It's Epic
- A Massive Study Has Exposed The Deadly, Hidden Burden Shouldered by Eczema Patients
- Why Don't Black Holes Swallow All of Space? This Explanation Is Blowing Our Minds
- Get Ready! Here's What You Can Expect From This Week's Geminids Meteor Shower
- The Living Things Lurking in Your Household Dust Could Be Evolving to Be Dangerous
- We Just Got a Surprising New Answer For What May Have Killed The Giant Megalodon
- Scientists Just Found a Previously Unknown Nerve Pathway For Pain
- Stephen Curry Thinks The US Never Landed on The Moon
- How Earth's Future Could Soon Recreate a Lost World of 50 Million Years Ago
- We Just Got a New Record For The Fastest Animal Movement on Earth
- Scientists Have Recreated Tiny Drops of Quark Soup From The Very Early Universe
- Learning The Results of a DNA Test Could Actually Change The Way Your Body Works
- Scientists Made a Bunch of Lava And Exploded It, Because Their Jobs Are Awesome
- Scientists Discover Yet Another Way That Geckos Defy Physics
- Scientists Reveal a Massive Biosphere of Life Hidden Under Earth's Surface
- NASA Already Made a Surprising Discovery About The Asteroid They Only Just Reached
- The Gruesome Story of How a Lack of Blow Flies Helped Overturn a Wrongful Conviction
- We Finally Know What Killed Sea Life in The Deadliest Mass Extinction in History
- A Dangerous Chemical Change Is Happening in Our Freshwater Supply
- At Least 15 Weather Disasters Last Year Were 'Made More Likely' by Climate Change
- It's Official: NASA Just Confirmed Voyager 2 Has Entered Interstellar Space
- Why Do We Get Such an Overwhelming Urge to Squeeze Cute Things?
- We Finally Have Found One Part of The Human Body Not Damaged by Space Travel
- You'd Better Watch Out, The Christmas Comet Is Coming to Town
- This Island Is Producing Electricity From a Local Crop, Instead of Importing Oil
- This City of 15 Million People Is Sinking Rapidly, And It Could Be Irreversible
- Rumour Has It NASA Might Be About to Announce Huge Voyager 2 News
- MIT Scientists Have Turned Wasp Venom Into a Potential Antibiotic
- A Woman Was Killed by a Rare Brain-Eating Amoeba Due to a Tragic Mistake
- Scientists Have Discovered How to Recruit And Reprogram Skin Cells to Fight Cancer
- A Man Was Using a 4,000 Year Old Indus Valley Pot to Hold Toothbrushes
- NASA Has Recorded The First-Ever Sound of Winds Tearing Across Mars
- MIT Scientists Just Used A Biological Virus To Make Faster Computers
- A Retired Professor Thinks He's Discovered The Location of King Arthur's Camelot
- In Antarctica, Scientists Enter an Extreme State of 'Psychological Hibernation'
- Black Costa Rican Monkeys Are Turning Yellow And The Suspected Cause Is Bitterly Sad
- 8 'Facts' About The Human Body Debunked by Science
- Gamers Have More Grey Matter And Better Brain Connectivity, Research Suggests
- Australia Has Passed a Controversial Bill That Strips Online Privacy
- Rare Hawaiian Monk Seals Keep Getting Eels Stuck Up Their Noses
- Millions of Japanese Homes Are Abandoned And Being Given Away For Free
- It's Official: A Lander Is Headed to The Far Side Of The Moon
- We Just Got Evidence of a Mysterious New Species of Early Human Hiding in Plain Sight
- We Need to Prepare For Quantum Attacks Now, Top US Scientists Warn
- Can Science Explain Near-Death Experiences?
- When It Comes to Monogamy, Mice Might Be More Like Us Than We'd Like to Admit
- Scientists Just Found The Oldest Evidence of Plague, in The Bones of a Neolithic Woman
- What's The Real Science Behind The "Bermuda Triangle"?
- New 'Negative' Battery Type Could Mean Charging Your Phone Just Once a Week
- Reddit Users Are at Each Others' Throats Over This Burnt Tattoo Photo
- What's The Deadliest Animal in Australia?
- A Man Coughed Up This Perfectly Shaped Blood Clot, Stunning His Doctors
- This School Installed a Book Vending Machine to Promote Literacy. It's Working
- The Most Powerful Ion Drive Ever Is About to Blast a Spacecraft to Mercury
- There's One Big Problem With That Ocean Garbage Collector We Got So Excited About
- Alzheimer's Should Be Treated as 6 Separate Conditions, Claims New Study
- Schizophrenia Is Linked to Lack of Vitamin D in The Womb, Claims New Study
- A Strange 'Dark Fluid' Could Explain The Missing 95 Percent of The Universe
- Scientists Have Captured a Giant, 'Mythical' Siren Species in Florida
- There's a Trash Crisis in The US Happening Right Now
- There's Another Link Between Our Gut And The Brain That Could Help Avoid Dementia
- A 3,700-Year-Old Meteor Could Explain This Old Bible Story
- A Promising Male Birth Control Trial Is Finally Happening, But Some Women Are Furious
- The Biggest Revelations From The Huge Trove of Facebook Emails That Just Leaked
- Should You Only Be Eating "Six Fries Per Serving"?
- Billions of Plastic Nanoparticles Collect in a Marine Animal in Just Hours
- Pig Heart Transplants Have Kept Baboons Alive For Months in Groundbreaking Study
- A SpaceX Launch Just Got Delayed Because of Moldy Mouse Food
- These Stunning Opals Have Turned Out to Be a Previously Unknown Species of Dinosaur
- Is War an Unavoidable Part of Human Nature?
- Greenland's Melting Ice Sheet Has 'Gone Into Overdrive', New Evidence Reveals
- First-Ever Baby Born Thanks to Transplant Uterus From a Deceased Donor
- Medieval Skeleton Pulled From Thames, Still Wearing Thigh-High Leather Boots
- This New Test Could Detect All Types of Cancer in Just Minutes
- Power Plants Just Made It Snow in Nebraska
- Here's The Truth About That NASA Aliens Paper
- First-of-Its-Kind Study Reveals a Shockingly Obvious Reason For Insomnia
- Harvard Scientists Will Actually Launch a Geoengineering Experiment Next Year
- Here's Something You've Never Seen Before: The Sun's North Pole
- Sir David Attenborough Warns Civilisation Is Near Collapse Unless We Act Now
- Rumours Claim The Chinese 'CRISPR Babies' Scientist Has Gone Missing
- Astronomers Have Detected The Most Powerful Black Hole Collision to Date
- After Harrowing Launch Failure Earlier, New ISS Crew Has Just Reached The Station
- NASA Just Reached an Asteroid And Will Bring Back a First-Ever Sample
- Measles Are Coming Back Around The World, And The Reasons Should Make Us Ashamed
- Brilliant New Device Can Harvest Drinking Water From Seemingly Dry Desert Air
- This Extremely Popular Diet Is No Better Than Conventional Dieting, Says New Study
- Babies Kicking in The Womb Are Mapping Out Their Body And Environment, Says Study
- This Little-Known Sea Is a Grim Preview of What Global Warming Will Do to Oceans
- Strange Cave Art Could Mean These Palaeolithic People Amputated Their Own Fingers
- Gigantic Unexplored Cave Found in Canada May Never Have Been Seen by Human Eyes
- Watch ISS Crew Try Not to Laugh as Their Floating Robot Starts Emotionally Glitching
- Australia Just Cut 80% of Its Plastic Bag Use in Just 3 Months. Here's How
- Bones of a Child With Something Bizarre in Its Mouth Have Been Found in a Polish Cave