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- Lake Michigan Is a Surreal Frozen World Right Now
- We Now Know The Horrifying Reason Sonar Makes These Whales Beach Themselves
- The Risks of Advanced AI Are Real. We Need to Act Before It's Too Late, Warn Experts
- We Just Got New Clues About The 'Denisovans', Ancient Humans Who Live on in Our DNA
- Is It Safe to Get an MRI if You Have Tattoos?
- Massive Study Shows The 'Us And Them' Division Is a Myth, Don't Buy Into It
- Eating 5-Day-Old Pasta or Rice Can Actually Kill You. Here's How
- Scientists Have Detected an Enormous Cavity Growing Beneath Antarctica
- This Mighty Bird Deserves a Medal For Being Dad of The Year
- Black Hole Jets Could Be Fueled by Strange 'Negative Energy', Astronomers Find
- Scientists Think They've Finally Figured Out How LSD Alters Our Consciousness
- The Difference Between The Sexes Is Written Into Our Bones, Even After Cremation
- This Is What Life in -40 Degrees Actually Feels Like
- Archaeologists Have Discovered a Lost Metropolis in South Africa
- A Life-Threatening 'Snow Squall' Just Hit The US East Coast – Here's What That Means
- Scientists Have Found a Way to Convert Human Brain Signals Directly Into Speech
- The Scientific Reason Yoda Is Wiser Than Spock
- It Could Take Joshua Tree National Park 300 Years to Recover From The Past 35 Days
- Our Environment Is Turning These Adorable Birds Into Violent, Brain-Eating Killers
- Australia Is So Hot Right Now Snakes Are Seeking Refuge in The Worst Possible Places
- Mind-Altering Cat Parasite Linked to Schizophrenia in Largest Study Yet
- Scientists Are Warning of a Future Parkinson's Pandemic, And We Can No Longer Ignore It
- An Unexpected New Measurement of The Universe Suggests We Need to Update Our Physics
- We Just Got More Evidence That Drinking Too Much Alcohol Could Change Your Genes
- Here's The Real Connection Between The Brutal Polar Vortex And Global Warming
- When This Woman Came Back From Vacation, Something Was Living in Her Forehead
- Apple Just Shut Down FaceTime Group Calls Due to a Huge Security Flaw
- Antibiotic-Resistant Genes Were Just Found in One of The Most Remote Places on Earth
- Do You Lose All Your Muscles if You Take a Break From The Gym?
- Scientists Invent a Flexible Device That Converts Wi-Fi Signals Into Electricity
- This Experiment Will Run For 500 Years. Now, We Have The Very First Results
- There Are 3 Global Pandemics Threatening Humanity, And They're All Dangerously Linked
- These Intricately Carved Drums May Hold a Geometric Secret From The Time of Stonehenge
- Astronomers Have Detected a Curious Object at The Edge of Our Solar System
- Nobel Prize Winner Reportedly Knew About Gene-Edited Babies Months Before It Was Announced
- Arctic Landscapes Hidden For More Than 40,000 Years Are Starting to Emerge
- Chickens Have Been Modified to Lay Eggs Containing Anti-Cancer Medicine
- The Polar Vortex Is About to Bring a 'Brutal' And 'Dangerous' Cold to Parts of The US
- Being Born Blind Appears to Somehow Protect People From Getting Schizophrenia
- Don't Kiss or Snuggle Hedgehogs, CDC Researchers Warn
- World's Oldest Nobel Prize Winner Says His New Device Will Give Clean, Cheap Energy
- Is Marie Kondo Good For You? A Psychologist Assesses The KonMari Method of Tidying
- You're Probably Brushing Your Teeth Wrong – Here Are 4 Tips For Better Dental Health
- Researchers Say They've Figured Out Why People Reject Science, And It's Not Ignorance
- Earth Could Be Crushed to The Size of a Soccer Field by Particle Accelerator Experiments, Says Astronomer
- Scientists Create Liquid Fuel That Can Store The Sun's Energy For Up to 18 Years
- We Just Got The Best Photo Yet of The Most Distant Object Humanity's Ever Visited
- These 'Frozen' Alligators Aren't Dead, They're Displaying a Creepy Survival Strategy
- This Genetic Quirk Could Explain Why Some People Stay Thin No Matter What They Eat
- Here's What Happens to Your Body And Brain When You Orgasm
- Astronomers Have Made a Breathtaking Image Staring Deeper Into Space Than Ever Before
- This Daily Meal Plan Could Help Us Sustain 10 Billion People by Mid-Century
- Study Reveals The Types of Human Twitter Users Most Likely to Spread Fake News
- Birds Can See a 'Colour' Humans Can't. Now Scientists Have Revealed This Hidden World
- Exclusive: This Wild Paper Suggests Gravity Is Just a Product of Quantum Mechanics
- Can Species Evolve Backwards? The Strange Science of 'Devolution'
- We May Have Found Earth's Oldest Known Rock. It Was on The Moon
- An Eye Surgery Left This Patient's Cornea Sliced Up Like a Pizza
- I Went to The Pyramids – Here Is The Downside No One Talks About
- A 10-Year-Old Won His Science Fair With The Physics of Why Tom Brady Is a Cheater
- Scientists Have Figured Out Who Is Most Likely to Die in 'Game of Thrones'
- It's 2 Minutes Left Until Apocalypse, According to the Doomsday Clock… For Now
- This Not-at-All-Creepy New Computer Program Lets Any Camera See Around Corners
- MIT Has Invented Slightly Eerie Lasers That Transmit Whispers Only You Can Hear
- This Ancient Dead Bug Could Change What We Know About Opal Formation
- 500 Years Ago This Culture Sacrificed Hundreds of Children And Llamas. Nobody Knows Why
- An 'Optional' Vaccine Is Helping Protect Women Who Haven't Even Had It Yet
- Report Claims Trump Offered NASA "All The Money" Needed to Land on Mars Quickly
- The Cause of Alzheimer's Could Be Coming From Inside Your Mouth, Study Claims
- Life on Earth Could Have Started Due to an Epic Clash With Another Planet
- Bricks Made From Human Waste Could Be The Future of The Construction Industry
- Chinese Scientists Have Cloned a Genetically Altered Primate For The First Time
- Sir David Attenborough Warns We've Entered a New Geological Age During His Lifetime
- An Antivax Hotspot Near a Major US City Now Has an Emergency Measles Outbreak
- A Common Daily Medication Raises The Risk of Severe Internal Bleeding, Doctors Warn
- Scientists Have Successfully Done a Controversial 'Gene Drive' Experiment on Mammals
- A DNA Test Just Shattered One of The Most Famous Nazi Conspiracy Theories
- Here's How You Can Easily Keep Yourself Warm, According to a Physiologist
- Modern Humans Are Mutating Slower Than Ever Before, Study Reveals
- It Looks Like a Common Vaccine Is Unintentionally Helping Prevent Type 1 Diabetes
- People Are Now Travelling Across The US to Deliberately Breathe Radioactive Air
- Scientists Recreated a Devastating 'Freak Wave' in The Lab, And It's Weirdly Familiar
- New Survey Shows Americans Are Finally Coming to Terms With a Pivotal Scientific Truth
- Watch a Meteoroid Smash Into The Moon During Lunar Eclipse in First-Ever Footage
- Here's Why Elon Musk's Extremely Shiny Starship Is Made Out of Stainless Steel
- There's a Water 'Time Bomb' Lurking Beneath The Planet's Surface, Scientists Warn
- You Don't Even Need to Be on Social Media, The Companies Still Have Data on You
- India Is About to Launch The Largest Basic Income Experiment in History
- The First-Ever Photo of a Black Hole Is Almost Ready. Here's What It Might Look Like
- Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Could Be Pointing a Relativistic Jet Right at Us
- Treasured US National Parks Are Being Devastated Due to Government Shutdown
- The Most Important #10YearChallenge Photos Are Probably Not What You Expected
- A Totally New Type of Blood Vessel Has Been Discovered Hidden in Human Bones
- This 'Ancient' Stone Circle in Scotland Has Turned Out to Be… Not Ancient at All
- There Are People Amongst Us Whose 'Super Poop' Can Treat Serious Diseases
- 'CRISPR Babies' Scientist Faked Ethical Reviews, Say Chinese Authorities
- Insomnia Isn't Just One Disorder, Says New Study
- Scientists Discover Freaky Fish Thriving in Waters We Thought Were Deadly to Life
- We Just Got Lab-Made Evidence of Stephen Hawking's Greatest Prediction About Black Holes
- A Horrible Birth Defect on The Rise in The US Could Be Linked to Opioid Use
- Earth Is Caught in an Epic Asteroid Surge, And You Probably Didn't Even Notice
- The Sugar Pills in Your Birth Control Pack Were Put There to Placate The Pope
- Something Else Instead of Planet Nine Could Be Hiding in The Outer Solar System
- Disturbing Link Found Between Opioid Overdose Deaths And Big Pharma Gifts to Doctors
- If You Find Cats Antisocial, It's More Likely You Being a Jerk, According to Science
- Remains of Tiny, Strange Creatures Have Been Discovered in a 'Lost' Antarctic Lake
- Change Your Phone Settings So Apple And Google Can't Track Your Movements
- Why Don't Black Holes Swallow All of Space? This Explanation Is Blowing Our Tiny Minds
- The Most Common Genetic Disease in The Western World Is Still Poorly Understood
- Simple Animations by a NASA Scientist 'Prove' The Speed of Light Is Torturously Slow
- Scientists Have Identified a Specific Diet That Could Save 11.6 Million Lives a Year
- This Animation Nails Why Your Kid Still Needs Vaccines Even if Everyone Else Has Them
- Biggest Data Breach Yet Has Leaked 773 Million Emails. Here's What You Need to Do Now
- Last Readings From Dead Space Probe Reveal Something Surprising About Saturn's Rings
- A Scientist Accidentally Found The World's Oldest Surviving Periodic Table
- Physicists Have Built a Machine That Actually Breaks Two Rules of Light
- Sloths Are Better at Adapting Than We Ever Gave Them Credit For
- Scientists Can Now Grow Perfect Human Blood Vessels in The Lab
- Researchers Identify a 2-Minute Trick That Stops You Craving Fatty Foods
- Baby Cuttlefish Have an Incredible Strategy to Avoid Enemies Even Before They Hatch
- Fear of Vaccines Is Officially One of The Most Dire Global Health Threats in 2019
- We No Longer Need These 9 Body Parts
- Satellite That Will Rain Down 'Meteor Showers' on Call Is About to Be Tested in Space
- Some Common Signs of Aging Could Actually Be Due to a Preventable Genetic Disorder
- The 'Super Blood Moon' Eclipse Is Almost Upon Us, Here's How to Watch
- Astronomers Just Found Evidence of a Curious Weather Phenomenon on Titan
- A Man Injected Himself With His Own Semen to 'Cure Back Pain'
- Most of Our Planet's Wild Coffee Species Are in Danger of Extinction
- You Absolutely Must See These Videos of The Farthest Object We've Ever Reached
- We Have Very Sad News About The First-Ever Moon Plant
- Plants May Not Have Ears, But They Can 'Hear' Way Better Than We Thought
- There's Still One Last Chance to Avoid Total Climate Catastrophe, Says Study
- Largest-Ever US Twin Study Reveals How Your Postcode Could Affect Your Health
- The Sarcastic Fringehead Is a Real Living Thing, And It's Spectacularly Horrifying
- Russian Startup Wants to Put Ads in Low-Earth Orbit to Ruin The Sky For Everybody
- This Freaky Spinning Ice Circle in Maine Looks Like a Giant Alien Landmark
- These 'Habitable Planets' Could Be Missing a Crucial Ingredient For Alien Life
- Ocean Waves Are Officially Getting Stronger as Water Temperatures Rise Each Year
- Astronomers Have Found Evidence of a Big Black Hole Wandering Our Galaxy
- CERN Just Revealed Plans For a New Particle Accelerator, And It's Monstrously Huge
- Who Decided It Was Bad to Be Fat?
- The 'World's Loneliest Frog' Romeo Finally Has His Juliet
- 100 Years Ago Today, a Deadly Flood of Molasses Tore Through an American Town
- China Just Sprouted The First-Ever Plant on The Moon
- This Totally Real Map Makes It Look Like Australia Is on Fire, And It Kinda Is
- We Might Finally Know How Supermassive Black Holes Get So Impossibly Huge
- Here's Why You Need to Stop Buying Vitamins, And Do This Instead
- These Experts Think There's Only One Type of Energy That Can Truly Save Our Planet
- Here's One Thing You Need to Know About People Who Strongly Oppose GMOs
- Researchers Successfully Turn Breast Cancer Cells Into Fat to Stop Them From Spreading
- You Absolutely Must See The First-Ever Panorama From The Far Side of The Moon
- Antarctica Is Now Rapidly Melting All Over, Including Parts We Thought Were Safe
- This Harvard Astronomer Is Still Saying That 'Oumuamua Could Be an Alien Probe
- Mathematicians Have Developed a Computing Problem That AI Can Never Solve
- Astronomers Have Found a Mysteriously Shrinking Black Hole
- MIT Scientists Score Breakthrough in Finding Bacteria That Produce Electricity
- 'Father of DNA' James Watson Stripped of Honors Over More Ugly Racism Comments
- This Startup Wants to Feed Maggots to Your Dog, And They Have a Point
- Competitive Culture Is Making Scientists Act Like Awful People
- Ant Colonies Have Memories That Their Individual Members Don't Have
- No, a NASA Scientist Did Not Reveal a 'Secret Sign' of The Apocalypse
- Your Gut Microbiome Could Actually Reveal Your Age, Study Shows
- These Genius 'Worm Toilets' Backed by Bill Gates Are Changing People's Lives in India
- Elon Musk Releases a Photo of His Latest Rocket, And It's Very Silver
- The 5 Most Addictive Substances on Earth – And What They Do to Your Brain
- This Crazy Steam-Powered Probe Could Pretty Much Explore Space Forever
- NASA Photo Shows The Wreck of a 'Flying Saucer', But The Real Story Is Even Better
- Don't Look Up: Intense Video Shows The Sky 'Raining Spiders' in Brazil
- Astronomers Just Discovered Strange Patterns in The Clouds of Venus
- Researchers: Women's Reproductive Rights Are Still Being Controlled on a Large Scale
- Here Are 15 Wild Sci-Fi Predictions About Future Technology That Actually Came True
- Here Are The Signs You're Really Dehydrated And What to Do About It
- People With Schizophrenia Have a Strange, Telling Response to The Epstein Barr Virus
- A Weird Shift of Our Planet's Magnetic Field Is Messing With Navigation
- Flat-Earthers Are Organising a Massive Cruise And The Hypocrisy Is Just Too Much
- Ancient Humans Had Sex With More Than Just Neanderthals, Scientists Find
- You're Probably Not as Bad at Math as You Think. You Might Just Be Traumatised
- This Generation Shares The Most Fake News on Facebook, Says New Study
- Astronomers Are Closing in on The Source of a Mysterious Explosion Called 'The Cow'
- Scientists Find a Simple Trick For Remembering Pretty Much Anything
- Carrying Extra Belly Fat Has Just Been Linked to a Worrying 'Brain Shrink'
- Your Eye Colour Could Be The Reason You Feel So Down Over Winter
- Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident
- Dental Floss Might Have a Potentially Toxic Impact We Never Knew About
- Leading Doctors Say There's Little Medical Evidence For Limiting Screen Time For Kids
- Physicist Says One of Sci-Fi's Wildest Hyperspace Travel Ideas Could Actually Work
- This Mathematical Concept Could Explain Why Anti-Vaxxers Just Don't Give Up
- Our Sun Will Become a Solid Crystal as It Dies, Joining Billions of Others Out There
- Scientists Discover The Remains of a Whale Inside a Bigger, Ancient Whale
- New Drug Trial Takes Different Approach to Stop Alzheimer's
- The Chinese Moon Rover Could Be Searching For Interplanetary Fuel
- What's The Deal With Mona Lisa's Ever-Watchful Eyes? Two Scientists Decided to Find Out
- 11 Fitness Misconceptions That Really Need to Stop
- Australia's Facing an Unprecedented Ecological Crisis, But No One's Paying Attention
- Mysterious Repeating Signals Have Been Detected Coming From Space For The Second Time
- Study Lifts The Lid on How Coke Has Infiltrated Chinese Health Policy
- Rare Gemstone Hidden in Ancient Teeth Reveals a Surprising Truth About Medieval Women
- Video Apparently Shows Self-Driving Tesla 'Hitting And Killing' a Robot in Las Vegas
- Astronomers Discover a Rare Exoplanet 2x The Size of Earth That May Host Liquid Water
- Lonely George – a Hawaiian Tree Snail – Has Died, Taking His Species With Him
- Crows Are So Clever They Can Judge Weight Using a Technique We've Only Seen in Humans
- Surprise Discovery Reveals an Ancient, Extinct Giant Hidden Among Ivory in Cambodia
- IBM Just Unveiled The First Commercial Quantum Computer
- Sinister 'Hunger Stones' With Dire Warnings Surfaced in Europe in 2018
- Only 2 Weeks Into Gov Shutdown, National Parks Are Being Closed Due to Trash
- 'Screams' From a Black Hole's Edge Could Finally Let Us Measure Its Incredible Speed
- New Paper: a 'Mirror Image' of Our Universe Existed Before The Big Bang
- Huge Study Finds a Bizarre Link Between Bottle Feeding And Left-Handedness
- Happiness in America Correlates With One Specific Thing About Where You Live
- We Just Got The Most Detailed Photo Ever of Our Neighbour, The Triangulum Galaxy
- Scientists Just Identified a Universal 'Genetic Formula' For Monogamy
- Scientists Identify The Physical Source of Anxiety in The Brain
- One of The Most Common Assumptions About Autism May Be a Complete Misunderstanding
- A Mysterious Cluster of Neatly Decapitated Skeletons Have Been Unearthed in England
- 50% of People Who Think They Have a Food Allergy Don't. It Might Be This Instead
- These Tiny 'Jungle Factories' Vent Out 100,000 Times More CO2 Than Surrounding Soil
- Microgravity Appears to Permanently Mutate Bacteria to Make Them Faster Breeders
- Bad Moods May Signal Much More Than Just a Negative State of Mind, New Evidence Finds
- Sperm Could Be a Bigger Factor in Miscarriages Than We've Been Led to Believe
- Haunting Photos Show China's Lunar Rover Set Out Across The Far Side of The Moon
- Look at This Adorable And Extraordinarily Strange Treefrog Just Discovered in Ecuador
- The World's Oldest Woman Was 122 When She Died, But a Researcher Says She Was Lying
- There's One Vast, Ancient Swathe of Ocean That's Actually Getting Colder
- Nightmare in Poland as 'Escape Room' Fire Claims The Lives of 5 Teens
- Scientists Have an Embarrassingly Simple Explanation For The Cuban 'Sonic Attack' Noises
- Woman in Vegetative State For 10 Years Shocks Carers by Giving Birth
- The Moon Is Upside Down on The Other Side of The World, And It's Freaking Us Out
- Did China's Moon Landing Just Launch a New Space Race?
- A Review of 6,000 Studies Over Two Decades Delivers Its Verdict on GMO Corn
- Study Spanning Almost a Decade Reveals The Impact Single-Parent Families Have on Kids
- A Physicist Has Calculated The Best Place to Put Your Router
- Juno Caught a Volcano Erupting on Jupiter's Moon, And It's Breathtaking
- Please Don't Do The 'Bird Box' Challenge, Netflix Officials Warn
- There's Evidence Even Dust Is Now Becoming Antibiotic Resistant
- Ancient Druid Healing 'Treatment' Shows Potential For Killing Today's Superbugs
- Removing "Zombie Cells" From The Brains of Mice Helps Treat Anxiety
- Scientists Have Ranked 9 Recreational Drugs From Safest to Most Dangerous
- Scientists Fix a Crucial Photosynthesis 'Glitch', Boosting Crop Growth by 40%
- Galaxy Coming Our Way Could Wake a Black Hole And Send The Milky Way Flying Into Space
- China Makes History by Landing a Probe on The Far Side of The Moon
- China's War on Air Pollution Has Had a Sinister Side Effect No One Saw Coming
- This New Years' Day, I Learned About Transient Global Amnesia in a Very Personal Way
- Enormous 'Pulse of Death' in The Holocaust Was Far Worse Than We Feared, New Study Finds
- Here's Why 'The Child of Krakatau' Is Still Extremely Dangerous
- Physicists Just Created a Strange New Type of 'Quasicrystal' in The Lab
- Breathtaking NASA Video Shows Jupiter's Moons Race Across Its Great Red Storm
- Viral YouTuber Discovers a Hellish New Benchmark For The Most Agonising Sting Ever
- Police Force Mobilised After Man Overheard Violently Screaming at a Spider
- First Close-Ups of The Farthest Object Ever Detected Reveal Strange Details
- Out-of-Control Firenadoes Rang in The New Year in The Netherlands
- Some Viewers Are Criticizing 'Bird Box' For How It Depicts Mental Health
- US Surgeon General Shares His Scientific Thoughts on Bird Box
- Why Does Everyone Seem to Get Pregnant Around Christmas? There's a Scientific Reason
- Bill Gates Just Published a Letter Urging US Leaders to Embrace Nuclear Energy
- Here's What Happened When an Alaskan City Took Fluoride Out of Their Drinking Water
- Scientists Just Drilled Through Thousands of Feet of Ice Into a 'Lost' Antarctic Lake
- Mind-Melting Study Says Our Universe Is an Expanding Bubble in Another Dimension
- Chinese Warship Armed With an Electromagnetic Railgun Appears to Have Set Sail
- We Just Got The First Images of The Most Faraway World Humans Have Ever Encountered
- Brains of 3 People Have Been Successfully Connected, Enabling Them to Share Thoughts
- Scientists Successfully Made Sheep-Human Hybrids in 2018