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- This Is The Time of Life When People Feel The Most Optimistic, And It's Definitely Not Your 20s
- That Weird Link Between Sense of Smell And Death Risk Continues to Defy Explanation
- We're Constantly Plagued by Thoughts We Don't Even Know We Have, Study Reveals
- Scientists Detect a Giant, Unexpected Corridor of Ice on Saturn's Largest Moon
- Mind-Bending Cryptography Puzzle Gets an 'Early' Solution After Just 20 Years
- Something's Glowing at The Heart of Our Galaxy, But It May Not Be What We Thought
- Mysterious Whale Wearing a Strange Harness Is Suspected of Being a Russian Operative
- Here's Why The Idea of Alien Life Now Seems Inevitable And Possibly Imminent
- It's Not Just You – We're All Sadder, Angrier And More Worried Than Ever, Study Finds
- A Chronic Fatigue Blood Test Looks Increasingly Promising, But It's Still Early Days
- Scientists Dig Biodegradable Bags Up After 3 Years And, Yeah, The Results Aren't Good
- New Study Shows Just How Quickly Facebook's User Base Could Be Overrun by Dead People
- Weird Black Hole Is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime
- The World's Space Agencies Are About to Simulate a Doomsday Asteroid Scenario
- Unsure About Vaccines? These Brutal Images Show What Measles Actually Does to Kids
- Young People Are Gaining Ground in The Climate Wars. Here Are 14 Hopeful Signs
- Why Do People See Serpent-Like Sea Monsters? It Could Come Back to Science
- The Hubble Space Telescope Has Just Found Solid Evidence of Interstellar Buckyballs
- Up on The Moon, There's a Tiny Monument That Will Break Your Heart
- Here's The Actual Science Behind That Huge Plot Point in Avengers: Endgame
- Washington Just Passed a Bill to Become The First US State to Legalise Human Composting
- The US Navy Will Start Taking UFO Sightings Much More Seriously
- Astronomers Catch a Puny Star Puking Up A Flare Of Powerful Radiation
- Device That Detected Gravitational Waves Is Now Finding a Black Hole Merger a Week
- You Could Travel Through a Wormhole, But It's Slower Than Space, Say Scientists
- Svalbard Reindeer Are So Starving They've Started Eating Seaweed
- Almost 200,000 Never-Before-Seen Viruses Were Just Discovered Hidden in Our Oceans
- Don't Freak Out About That Viral 'Milk Duct' Image, It's Not Actually Correct
- A Mysterious 'Not-Aurora' Called STEVE Lights The Sky Purple, And We Finally Know How
- A Dead Cat Named Pikachu Is Going to Be Launched Into Space in a 'World First'
- Astronomers Just Detected The Universe Is Expanding Much Faster Than It Should Be
- Scientists Say They've Found The Annoying Gene Mutation That Turns Us Into Night Owls
- First Images Reveal The Unexpectedly Huge Result of Japan's Asteroid Bomb
- A Retired Oceanographer Took This Incredible Photo in Her Backyard, And It Has Now Been Featured by NASA
- This 90-Million-Year-Old Crab Chimera Is a Beautiful Mess of an Animal
- A Dark Matter Detector Just Recorded One of The Rarest Events Known to Science
- Scientists Have Discovered These Toxic Frogs Have Bones Glowing Through Their Skin
- We're Still So Bad at Detecting Asteroids About to Crash on Earth, And This Is Why
- 11 Things People Think Are Awful For Your Diet That Actually Aren't
- Video Shows How Hard It Really Is to Walk on Earth After 6 Months in Space
- The Far Side Of The Moon May Not Be 'Dark', But It IS Radio Silent
- Mysterious Bone Discarded by Evolution Is Making a Comeback in Modern Humans
- We Now Have More Evidence of a Worrying Link Between Obesity And Smaller Brains
- How Long Does a Human Head Actually Remain Conscious After Being Cut Off?
- We Can't Stop Staring at These 2 New Bird Species Bending Evolutionary Definitions
- Elon Musk Says an Update on His Brain-Computer Interface Is "Coming Soon"
- Agricultural Scientists Must Now Call Their Work 'Preliminary', Even After Peer Review
- Scientists Unveil a 'Brain Decoder' That Turns Neural Activity Into Speech
- We Just Got The Best Evidence Yet of an Exotic 'Supersolid' State of Matter
- Evidence in Rats Suggests We Might Need to Rethink One of Alzheimer's Main Culprits
- NASA Just Recorded a Quake on Mars For The First Time, And The Audio Will Haunt You
- Gorillas Caught in Viral Selfie Standing Tall 'Like Humans'. Here's What's Going on
- Japan Releases Epic Video of The Seconds Before Its Spacecraft Bombed an Asteroid
- This Special Hubble Birthday Image Will Make You Feel So Incredibly Puny
- Having This One Particular Blood Type Can Help Protect You From Severe Malaria
- This Never-Ending Livestream of AI-Generated Death Metal Is Giving Us Serious Anxiety
- Disturbing Animation Shows What Earth Would Look Like if All The Ice Melted
- New Brain Study Finally Explains Why Blind People's Hearing Works So Precisely
- For The First Time, Engineers Found Sand Bubbles That Act Surprisingly Like Liquid
- Here's The Little Amount You Actually Need to Move to Offset Your Sedentary Lifestyle
- Scientists Have Identified Almost 2 Million 'Hidden' Earthquakes Shaking California
- This Brainless Slime Learns And Remembers by Slurping Stuff From Its Environment
- Measles Epidemic: As an Adult, Do You Need a Vaccination to Protect Yourself?
- Eerie Photos Capture Glowing Red 'Sprites' Lighting Up The Sky in Oklahoma
- Earth's North Magnetic Pole Is Moving Fast, And We Might Finally Know Why
- Staggering New Data Show Greenland's Ice Is Melting 6 Times Faster Than in The 1980s
- Here's The Bizarre Reason Self-Driving Cars Might Not Cut Down Traffic After All
- This Brilliant Psychological Intervention Makes Teens Rebel Against Junk Food
- This Strange Ancient Wasp Found in Amber Was Named After Dracula, And We Can See Why
- Life Could Be Evolving on Nearby Planets Right Now, Even Bathed in Hellish Radiation
- Astronomers Have Discovered Bizarre New Details About Titan's Methane Lakes
- Alaska's in The Middle of a Record-Breaking Spring Melt, And It's Killing People
- A Precious Sumatran Tiger Attacked Keeper as She Was in The Enclosure 'Due to Error'
- A New Paper Reveals The Amazing Evolution of The Human Face
- Video Appears to Show SpaceX's Crew Spaceship For NASA Explode During Safety Test
- Here's Scientific Evidence Chocolate Can Boost Your Brain Power
- Cornell Engineers Create a Robotic Material That Displays 3 of The Key Traits For Life
- Incredible Footage Shows Butterflies Drinking Turtle Tears And Human Urine to Survive
- Here's The Weird Reason You Get Car Sick: Your Brain Thinks It's Being Poisoned
- Lost, Confused Sea Creatures Keep Washing Up on California's Beaches
- Sorry: Study Confirms There's No Such Thing as a Negative Calorie Food
- Many People Today "Can't Find Themselves on a Map" Warns Alabama Meteorologist
- NASA's New Planet-Hunting Telescope Just Found Its First Earth-Sized World
- Heavy Periods? Here's How to Tell if You Have an Undiagnosed Bleeding Disorder
- The People Behind Last Week's Moon Crash Are Already Planning to Go Back
- Microsoft Has Announced We Can Finally Remove USBs Without Ejecting Them
- Astronomers Just Found a New Way to Detect Elusive Colliding Neutron Stars
- This Is How You Can Stop Fake News From Infiltrating Your Mind, According to Science
- There Are 23 Million 'Missing' Girls in The World Due to Sex-Selective Abortions
- Obsessively Reading About Tragedies Can Trap You in a Cycle of Misery, Study Finds
- Review of More Than 300 Studies Shows Whether Caffeine Can Really Boost Your Workout
- Here's What You Need to Know About Sex Being a 'Cure' For Hay Fever
- Newly Invented Application of CRISPR Could Actually Cure Herpes One Day
- Silver Lining as New, 97% Effective Ebola Vaccine Saves Lives in The Current Outbreak
- These 2 Spectacular Egyptian Tombs Still Look Freshly Painted After Thousands of Years
- Lightning Totally Does Strike Twice, And Now Scientists Know Why
- Brilliant Gene Therapy Has Cured Babies With Rare And Dangerous 'Bubble Boy' Disease
- Oil Rig Workers Rescue a Dog Found Swimming in The Ocean Miles From The Coast
- Measles Is Now a 'Global Health Crisis' With a 300% Surge in Cases Worldwide
- This Jaw-Dropping Galaxy Photo Equates to 1,060 Hours of Non-Stop Stargazing
- The First Molecular Bond in The Universe Has Finally Been Detected in Space
- For The First Time Ever, Scientists Restore Some Cellular Function in Dead Brains
- Researchers Just Demonstrated Nuclear Fusion in a Device Small Enough to Keep at Home
- Harvard Scientists Say Earth Was Struck by an Interstellar Object 5 Years Ago
- Incredible 3D Laser Scans Saved in 2015 Could Help Rebuild The Notre Dame
- Turns Out Great White Sharks Are Really Scared of One Other Ocean Creature
- The Builders of Stonehenge Trace Their Ancestry Directly to Continental 'Immigrants'
- This 124-Year-Old Patent Reveals The Proper Way to Hang Toilet Paper
- Infographic: The Lyrid Meteor Shower Is About to Kick Off, Here's How to Watch
- Unnerving Footage Shows Boston Dynamics' Robot Dogs Casually Pulling a Truck
- SpaceX Finally Landed Their Falcon Heavy Booster on a Ship, Only For It to Topple Over
- A Genius First-of-Its-Kind Device Has Created Electricity From Snowfall
- A Piece of Comet Has Been Discovered in The Last Space Object You'd Think to Check
- Here's What That Study Comparing Beard And Dog Microbes Was Actually About
- Astronomers Have Found Potential Life-Supporting Conditions on The Nearest Exoplanet
- Gruesome Medical Photo Shows Rare Disease That Makes Gums Look Just Like Strawberries
- Dozens of Neolithic 'Human Sacrifice' Victims Have Been Found in England
- Alarming Study Finds That Wind Can Actually Carry Microplastics to Remote Places
- US Measles Outbreak Has Exploded With 90 More Cases, With NYC Hit Hardest
- Researchers Just 3D Printed The First-Ever Complete Heart Using Human Tissue
- A Dutch Fertility Doctor Secretly Fathered 49 Children With His Own Sperm
- Our Immune System Could Actually Be Contributing to Dental Cavities
- We Are Closer Than Ever to Merging Human Brains With The Cloud
- Meteorite Impacts Reveal Moon Has Way More Water Than We Ever Realised
- A Rare Family of 3 Eagles Has Been Spotted Raising a Nest Together
- Switzerland Has Decided Coffee Is Inessential For Life
- Ethically Fraught Experiment Has Produced Monkeys With Added Human Brain Genes
- The World's Most Famous Black Hole Just Got a New Name, But It's Unofficial For Now
- The World's Largest Plane Just Took to The Skies in an Unreal First Flight
- Florida Man Killed by His Cassowary, Huge Species Known as 'World's Most Dangerous Bird'
- Physicists Have Found an Entirely New Type of Superconductivity
- Scientists Find Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur 'Fingerprints' Like Nothing Seen Before
- These Bizarre Worms Have No Mouth or Gut, But Have Found a Unique Way to Survive
- Mind-Bending Video on The Scale of Black Holes Makes The M87 Black Hole Pic Even Wilder
- Facebook Accidentally Leaves Hidden Messages in 'Tens of Thousands' of VR Controllers
- Ariana Grande, Who's Talked About PTSD, Posts Image of Her Brain Scans on Instagram
- A Soccer Fan Got a QR Code Tattoo And It Didn't Really Go to Plan
- GoT Algorithm Has Updated Its Prediction For The Ultimate Survivor
- The UN's Global Environmental Outlook Is Grim, But There Is Some Good News
- Scientists Just Found a Fascinating Oil-Eating Bacteria in The Ocean's Deepest Trench
- Anaesthesia Can Make Nerves Grow The Wrong Way in Unborn Rats
- For The First Time, Physicists Have Managed to Measure Precisely Absolutely Nothing
- Discovery of an Ancient Egyptian Woman's Teeth Reveals She Had a Surprising Profession
- Turns Out This Age-Old Tip For Making Yourself Feel Happier Actually Works
- Eerily Beautiful Photos Show a Scary 'Pollenpocalypse' Suffocating North Carolina
- Here's The Incredible History of Science That Led to The First-Ever Black Hole Image
- The First Private Moon Mission Just Spectacularly Failed, Right Before Landing
- Watch Ginormous 'Pill Bugs' Eat a Dead Alligator Deep Under The Sea, For Science
- Genius New Device Can Kill 99.9% of an Airborne Virus in The Blink of an Eye
- A Huge Amount of Nuclear Fallout Is Embedded in Glaciers, And They're Starting to Melt
- This One Lifestyle Change Can Reduce Your Carbon Footprint by 45% – But You Won't Like It
- Scientists Have Found a Way to Prevent Water From Ever Becoming Ice
- Biologists Think They've Found The Secret Ingredient That Made Civilization Possible
- The Plot Over Whether There's Actually Methane on Mars Has Considerably Thickened
- NASA's Twin Study Results Just Changed What We Know About Long-Term Spaceflight
- Graphic Shows The True Scale of World's Glaciers Disappearing at Record Speeds
- This 29-Year-Old Computer Scientist Helped Bring Us The First Image of a Black Hole
- To Truly Appreciate The M87 Black Hole Pic, You Need to See Just How Huge It Is
- Here's How That First Black Hole Image Actually Confirms Einstein's Theory of Relativity
- Child Suicide Attempts Are Skyrocketing in The US, And Nobody Knows Why
- Woman's 'Eye Infection' Turns Out to Be 4 Bees Stuck Inside, Drinking Her Tears
- It's Official: Astronomers Just Unveiled The First-Ever Direct Image of a Black Hole
- LIVE: Scientists Reveal Groundbreaking Results From Event Horizon Telescope
- New Kind of Cancer 'Vaccine' Teaches The Immune System to Destroy Tumours
- A Previously Unknown, Tiny Human Species Has Just Been Discovered in The Philippines
- How a Woman in Oregon Lived to 99 With Organs in All The Wrong Places
- In Light of The Massive Outbreak, Here's Everything You Need to Know About Measles
- Radical Fecal Transplant Therapy in Kids Has Reduced Their Autism Severity by 47%
- Newly Discovered Ancient Sea Creature Is The World's Most Underwhelming Cthulhu
- Astronomers Are About to Make a Groundbreaking Black Hole Announcement
- New Quantum Computer Can Hold a Superposition of Many Possible Futures Simultaneously
- NYC Just Declared a Public Health Emergency And Ordered Mandatory Measles Shots
- A Man Got Kidney Failure From Taking Too Much of This Common Vitamin
- The Weather Channel's Latest Immersive Reality Video Will Give You Chills
- Controversial Paper Suggests an Old Meteorite Could Contain Active Microbial Life From Mars
- Doctors in Australia Have Found a Strange Genetic Syndrome That's Sending a Family Blind
- Mathematicians Just Discovered an 'Astonishing' New Way to Multiply Large Numbers
- Here's Why Deadly Pyroclastic Flows From Volcanoes Travel So Sickeningly Fast
- iPhone Isn't Charging? Here Are Simple Steps You Can Take to Fix It Yourself
- Scientists Fixed People's Working Memory With Simple Electrical 'Zaps' to The Brain
- A New 'State' of Matter Can Be Solid And Liquid at The Same Time
- A Deadly Superfungus Is Spreading Across The World, And We Don't Know How to Stop It
- NASA Just Catalogued The Many Microbes Found on The ISS. Um, Bring Hand Sanitizer
- Scientists Found an Opposite 'Light' Force to The Driver of All Your Worst Impulses
- Dramatic Medical Case Photo Shows What Happens if Your Iris Peels Off
- Study Shows Our Cats Do Know Their Names, They Just Choose to Ignore Us
- For The First Time, We Have a Direct Image of The Dusty Torus Around a Black Hole
- Astronomers Have Detected Structures on The Sun That Lead to Weird 'Plasma Rain'
- Artificial Intelligence Is Getting Dangerously Good at Emulating Human Behaviors
- There's a Big Problem With The One Thing Left Out of Attenborough's Latest Documentary
- A 17-Foot Python Just Caught in The Florida Everglades Has Set a Devastating Record
- NASA's Glowing Aurora Research Looks Like an "Alien Attack" in This Stunning Footage
- Yet Another Large, Fiery Meteor Just Spectacularly Exploded Over Siberia
- Japan Just Bombed an Asteroid in Our Solar System, For Science
- Suspected Rhino Poacher in Africa Has Been Trampled by an Elephant And Eaten by Lions
- Scientists Find a Tiny Stomach Hidden Inside Lung Tumours, Because Cancer Is Changing
- Water Behaves Differently to All Other Liquids Because of This Unique Molecular Quirk
- Dozens of People Are Falling Ill Across 5 States in a Mysterious E. Coli Outbreak
- Eating Badly Kills More People Around The World Than Smoking, Says a New Study
- First-of-Its-Kind HIV Therapy Kicks The Virus Out of Hiding, And Then Kills It
- This Woman Had Something Stuck in Her Eyelid For 28 Years Without Noticing
- The Creator of Linux Says Facebook, Twitter, And Instagram Are "a Disease"
- MDMA Might Be Able to "Reopen" a Part of The Brain That Closes After Puberty
- Gorillas Seen Grooming And Holding Corpses, Suggesting a Deep Curiosity Over Death
- Scientists Solve The Mystery of The Terracotta Army's 'Unnaturally' Preserved Weapons
- The UN Has Backed an Ambitious Plan For a Floating, Disaster-Proof City
- In a First, a Man Who Abandoned His Fish Has Been Charged With Animal Cruelty
- Spectacular Video of Solar 'Eclipses' on Mars Prove Just How Special Ours Are on Earth
- 8 Apollo Astronauts Reunited For Moon Landing's 50th Anniversary, And We Can't Deal
- Female Scientists Respond to Discovery's New Campaign in The Best Way
- Growing Up Poor Not Only Affects Your Health, It Changes as Many as 1 in 13 Genes
- Here's Why Scientists Are So Confident Wind Turbines Don't Cause Cancer
- Huge Review of 31 Studies Shows We Were Wrong About Sugar's Effect on Our Mood
- Spectacularly Rare Video Shows Saturn Photobombing The Moon
- Four Legged Whale Ancestors Discovered – an Evolutionary Link Between Land And Sea
- We're About to See The First-Ever Photo of a Black Hole. Here's What It Might Be Like
- "Glimpse Into Our Possible Future": Astronomers Find a Planet That's Outlived Its Sun
- Predatory Publisher Fined $50 Million After Scamming Thousands of Scientists
- There Were Trees at The South Pole The Last Time There Was This Much CO2 in The Air
- Mind-Boggling Image Shows How Far Into Space Humanity's Voice Has Actually Reached
- Stunning 'Mirror Pools' Discovered on The Edge of Boiling Deep Sea Vents
- Human Cities Are Turning Some Birds Into 'Super Colliders', And It's Killing Them
- Scientists Built a Window Into Mice Skulls So We Can Watch Their Brains in Real-Time
- DNA And RNA May Have Existed Together Before Life Began on Earth
- Astronomers Just Ruled Out Hawking's Theory on The Primordial Nature of Dark Matter
- After Uproar, USDA Terminates Controversial Experiments Infecting Cats With Parasites
- Check Out These Incredible Photos of a Huge, Rainbow-Coloured Squirrel in India
- A Lizard Laid Eggs And Gave Birth to Live Young In One Pregnancy, In Scientific First
- Volcanic Eruptions And Hurricanes Are Weirdly Linked, And We May Have Worked Out How
- The United States' 'War on Drugs' Really Did Make Things Worse, New Research Finds
- Oral Sex Appears to Have an Intriguing Link to Miscarriage Risk
- Hikers Forced to Clean Up Their Waste as Alaskan Glacier Sets to Dump Decades of Poo
- Fiendishly Simple Math Problem Gets A New Solution After Puzzling World For Centuries
- Gene-Hacked Bacteria Are Making Spider Silk So Strong It Could Build Space Suits
- Here's How to Deactivate Your Facebook Account, But Still Reactivate It Later
- Massive Study Debunks Claim That There's a Single Gene For Depression
- There's a Star in The Milky Way That 'Shouldn't Exist', And It Just Got Even Stranger
- Guinea Pigs Have Been 'Cured' of Ebola Using Human Antibodies
- The North Is Melting – Here Are All The Records Broken by Alaska's Weather Last Month
- Measles Cases in The US Have Already Surpassed All of 2018, And It's Only April
- Head of NASA Warns India's Anti-Satellite Test Has Put The ISS at Risk
- Rarely Seen Giant Viruses Have Been Caught Using CRISPR as a Weapon
- This Creepy Ancient Creature Had 18 Tentacles For Stuffing Food Into Its Gaping Mouth
- People Who Brag About Their Intellect Don't Know as Much as They Think, Study Finds
- NASA's New Planet Hunter Has Detected an 'Exocomet' Orbiting an Alien Star
- A Mystery Religion Pre-Dated The Incas by 500 Years, Stunning Lake Discovery Reveals
- Stars Don't Just Produce Light – They Reflect It Too, And No One Noticed Until Now
- Tesla Autopilot 'Hacked' And Steered Into Oncoming Traffic Using Just 3 Stickers
- MIT And NASA Unveil a Brand New Kind of Airplane Wing That Could Change How We Fly
- When Gmail Was First Announced, People Thought It Was an April Fools' Joke
- Mesmerising Animation Reveals How Our Relationships Have Changed Since The 1970s
- Garfield Phones Have Polluted France's Coastline For Decades, And We Finally Know Why
- Astronomers Worldwide Are About to Make a Groundbreaking Black Hole Announcement
- It's Official: We Now Have Independent Confirmation of Methane on Mars
- Grisly Cave Discovery Suggests Climate Change Turned Neanderthals Into Cannibals
- Blasting This Skrillex Track Will Reduce Mosquitoes' Desire to Bite, Study Finds
- It's Real: Astronomers Just Discovered a Second Galaxy With No Dark Matter
- Forget Scandinavia, The Happiest Place on Earth Might Be This Little-Known Region
- A Month After Giving Birth, This Woman Had Surprise Twins
- Some People Put on More Weight When They Become Active – Here's Why
- Check Out These Adorable, Tiny Frog Species Just Discovered in Madagascar