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- Spraying Stem Cells Up The Noses of Mice Has Restored Their Sense of Smell
- Wild Bees Have Been Found Building Nests Entirely Out of Plastic Waste
- This X-Ray View of The Night Sky Reveals a Whole New Way of Seeing The Universe
- Ammonia on Pluto Hints at a Massive Hidden Ocean That Could Support Life
- Academic Says UFOs Exist, But That Doesn't Mean 'Aliens' Do
- Newly Discovered Hybrid Immune Cell Could Finally Explain The Cause of Type 1 Diabetes
- Here Are 8 Types of Doctor You Should Probably See More Regularly Than You Think
- Psychologists Have Found One Key Financial Lesson Everyone Should Teach Their Kids
- These Freaky African Rats Don't Feel Pain, And Could Help Us Move Away From Opioids
- Scientists Detect Ancient Sea Salt in Diamonds, Proving Their Extraordinary Origins
- Scientists Detect an Ancient Rock Structure Hidden Beneath Antartica, Shifting The Ice
- Natural Gas Is Now Being Referred to as 'Freedom Gas' by The US Department of Energy
- Our Sun's Mysterious 11-Year Cycle Appears to Be Driven by Alignment of The Planets
- The Bizarre Phenomenon of 'Ball Lightning' Has a Startling New Explanation
- This Creepy AI Predicts What You Look Like Based on Your Voice
- Hawking's Greatest Black Hole Prediction Just Passed a New Test in The Lab
- Man Busted at Canadian Airport With Almost 5,000 Live Leeches in a Grocery Bag
- 100 Years Ago, Einstein And an Eclipse Changed Physics Forever
- A Teetotal Patient Developed Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis Thanks to Homeopathy
- Incredible Fossil Discovery Shows an Entire School of Fish From 50 Million Years Ago
- Extreme Weather Has Made Half of America Look Like Tornado Alley
- Promising Trial Suggests Music Can Help Strengthen The Brains of Premature Babies
- 'Forbidden Planet' Discovered Against All Odds in Hellish Neptunian Desert
- We Just Generated Usable Electricity From Americium For The First Time
- Two Stars Are Showing 'Peculiar Outburst Activity' That Scientists Can't Explain
- Thousands of Puffins Perished in Alaska in a Massive Mortality Event
- Our Galaxy Has a Shocking Array of Really Strange Stars. Here's The Ultimate Guide
- Strange Microbe Discovery in Ethiopian Volcano Shows How Life Could Survive on Mars
- Scientists Identify Unexpected Paths Our Ancestors Might Have Taken Out of Africa
- Philippines Passes Bill Requiring Students to Plant 10 Trees Before Graduating
- This Mysterious Feature on Mars Might Finally Have an Explanation
- Wild New Study Links Humans Walking Upright to Exploding Stars Millions of Years Ago
- This Incredibly Rare Photo of a Bald Eagle And Its Reflection Is Stunning The World
- This Is What Happens to Your Body in Mount Everest's Overcrowded 'Death Zone'
- 'Burn-Out' Is Now a Legitimate Syndrome According to The WHO. Here Are The Symptoms
- Laptop Infected With 6 of History's Most Dangerous Viruses Just Sold For $1.3 Million
- Incredible Photo From Orbit Reveals Where Day Becomes Night on Planet Earth
- Newly Released Amazon Patent Shows Just How Much Creepier Alexa Can Get
- Vast New Reservoir of Water Ice Has Been Found Beneath Mars' North Pole
- It's Official: Malaysia's Last Male Sumatran Rhino Is Dead
- Camel Milk Has an Intriguing Effect on Inflammation Associated With Type 2 Diabetes
- These Breathtaking Photos Are The First Known Sighting of an Albino Giant Panda
- Wild Footage Shows Lightning Strike Russia's Soyuz Rocket Mid-Launch
- Here's How Scarily Accurate NASA's Long-Term Climate Predictions Have Been So Far
- Apple Fanboy Says He Hacked The Tech Giant's Server Twice Because He Wanted a Job
- For The First Time Ever, Scientists Observe The Complex Messaging System of Cells
- Scientists Discover Rare, 'Undisturbed' Pockets of Seawater From The Last Ice Age
- Elon Musk's Starlink 'Train' Looks Amazing, But Astronomers Have Serious Concerns
- Scientists Trying to Make a Rare Type of Ice Just Stumbled Upon Something Even Weirder
- Traces of Extraterrestrial Organic Matter Have Been Found In South Africa's Mountains
- For The First Time, DNA Has Been Edited With CRISPR in Space
- New Paper Explains How a Habitable Venus Could Become The Hellscape We See Today
- An Anaconda in The US Has Impregnated Herself And Given Birth Without Male Contact
- A Volcano in Bali Along The 'Ring of Fire' Erupted on Saturday, And It Looks Terrifying
- Mount Everest Is Now So Busy Climbers Are Dying in Traffic Jams
- Asteroid Flying By Earth This Weekend Is So Big It Has Its Own Moon
- Here's What Really Caused Those 2 Strange Fireballs That Lit Up The Sky Over Australia
- For The First Time, Chimpanzees Have Been Spotted Smashing Open And Eating Tortoises
- SpaceX Just Launched The First 60 of Nearly 12,000 High-Speed Internet Satellites
- Scientists Have Found a Way to Preserve Vaccines Without Refrigeration For Months
- Samsung's Creepy New AI Can Generate Talking Deepfakes From a Single Image
- For The First Time, The Geometry of an Electron Has Been Mapped
- ScienceAlert Editor: Yes, It's Time to Update Our Climate Change Language
- These Scientists Think Leonardo Da Vinci May Have Had ADHD
- Scientists Have Observed Eerie Sand Movements on Mars That Never Happen on Earth
- US Officials Threaten to Start a Radical Air Travel Ban to Fight Measles Outbreaks
- This Is The First-Ever Detailed Model of Stem Cell Division, And It's Breathtaking
- Video Reveals Top-Secret Chinese Space Mission Exploded After Launch
- Cold Offices Could Actually Be Harming Women's Cognitive Performance, Study Suggests
- Someone Has Made Beer Using 5,000-Year-Old Yeast From Ancient Egypt
- Astronomers Just Detected 18 New Earth-Sized Exoplanets
- Here's Why Climate Change Can Make Seasonal Allergies Even Worse
- Medicinal Herbs Used in The US Civil War Could Help Us Kill Drug-Resistant Bacteria
- New Artificial Photosynthesis Breakthrough Uses Gold to Turn CO2 Into Liquid Fuel
- Scientists Have Discovered The Oldest Fossils of Multicellular Life on Land
- Expert Panel: Humans Really Have Started a New Geological Epoch on Earth
- Physicists Have Officially Smashed The Record For High-Temperature Superconductivity
- NASA Just Revealed More of Its 2024 Plan to Return to The Moon
- An Entire US City Is Being Held Hostage by Cybercriminals
- Being in Nature as a Kid Is Linked to Better Mental Health in Adulthood
- Mesmerising Experiment Shows The Strange Reaction of Vibrating Glass Beads Underwater
- A Shark Vomit Study Shows They've Been Eating a Totally Unexpected Animal
- A Special Type of Honey Might Be Just as Effective For Cold Sores as Regular Creams
- Viral Video Reveals The Bizarre Way You Can Make a Soda Can Fully Transparent
- Stunning Sonar Image Just Revealed Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Detected
- Experiment Reveals How to Make Nearly 70% of Vaccine-Hesitant People Change Their Mind
- These 11 Foods Can Help You Avoid a Nasty B Vitamin Deficiency
- Viral Photos Show a Squirrel Biting a Snake in Texas. Don't Mess With Squirrels
- Scientists Propose a Wild Idea For Cleaning The Atmosphere, And It Would Mean More CO2
- It's Official: Sea Level Rise Could Soon Displace Up to 187 Million People
- We Finally Know Where The Scandalous Ozone-Destroying Chemicals Are Really Coming From
- Scientist Think This Dinosaur Crawled Before It Walked, Just Like a Human Baby
- An Ancient Maya Tool Made Out of an Unexpected Material Has Been Found in a Salt Mine
- Sulky Ravens Share Their Bad Mood With Their Friends
- Amazing Plastic-Eating Microbes Could Help Clean Up The Terrible Trash in Our Oceans
- A Colossal Smash-Up With a Dwarf Planet May Have Messed Up Our Moon
- People Are Making DIY Suncreen From Pinterest Recipes. Guess What Experts Think
- Scientists Used Rats to Figure Out Why Coffee Speeds Up Our Need to Poop
- What Are Clinical Trials?
- A Huge Storm Just Formed in The Atlantic, Before Hurricane Season Has Even Started
- Think Your Mom Is Too Much? Bonobo Mothers Get Really Involved in Their Sons' Sex Lives
- For The First Time, Scientists Have Linked Rare Genetic Mutations to Lupus
- Bed Bugs Are So Ancient, Dinosaurs Were Still Walking The Planet When They Evolved
- Scientists Might Have Just Found Where Cannabis Originally Came From
- Pluto Was Supposed to Be Fully Frozen – But It Looks Like It Has Liquid Oceans
- Scientists Have Created The Loudest Possible Sound Underwater
- New Study Shows How Much a Vaginal Birth Really Distorts a Baby's Body
- This Is What It Looks Like if You Get a Tick Stuck in Your Ear
- Here's How a Universal Basic Income Can Help Us Mitigate The Climate Emergency
- The Healthiest Weight Could Actually Be 'Overweight', Huge Study Finds
- These Mind-Boggling Images Are a Reminder of How Far Technology Has Come
- A Crusty Old Pot Just Revealed New Details on What a Medieval Diet Was Really Like
- New Study Shows What Eating 'Ultra-Processed' Food For 2 Weeks Does to Your Body
- 'The Big Bang Theory' Finale Introduced a Fictional Theory That Mirrors Real Science
- The UN Is Very Worried That a "Radioactive Coffin" May Be Leaking Into The Ocean
- Scientists Just Built a Laser From Sound Waves That Can Help Us Detect Weak Forces
- There's a Surprising Downside to Having a Job That You Love, According to Science
- 'Groundbreaking' Sharp Images of Distant Planetary System Show 3 Planets Are Missing
- Changes to Individual Brain Cells Have Been Identified in Children With Autism
- Should Vegans Avoid Avocados And Almonds? Here's The Science
- How Do Cryptocurrency Scams Actually Work? The Science of Disappearing Billions
- Climate Breakdown Could Send Crabs And Octopuses Blind
- More Than Half of Americans Reportedly Think We 'Shouldn't Teach' Arabic Numerals
- You CAN Get Pregnant on Birth Control, And 9 Other Myths You Need to Stop Believing
- A Rocket Scientist Explains How We Could Hypothetically Relocate Earth
- After 14 Years, The US's Longest Offshore Oil Spill Is Finally Starting to Be 'Contained'
- The Death of a Friend Can Be as Traumatic as Losing a Family Member, Study Finds
- What Is The Cosmic Microwave Background?
- This Gum Has Held The DNA of The Ancient Humans Who Chewed It For 10,000 Years
- More Mysterious 'Jars of The Dead' Have Been Discovered in Laos
- The DNA of New Doctors Ages 6 Years in Their First 12 Months on The Job
- Explorer Goes Deeper Than Humans Have Gone Before to Find Our Trash Got There First
- Here Are The First Findings From New Horizons' Historic Flyby of Ultima Thule
- It's Official: America's Birth Rate Is The Lowest It's Been in 32 Years
- Peacock Spiders' Colourful Butts Have a Mesmerising Secret – Patches of 'Super' Black
- A Strange Effect Has Been Expanding The Hidden Underwater Forests of The Arctic
- Scientists Just Unearthed Our First-Ever Glimpse of The Moon's Hidden Interior
- Geologists Just Discovered a Source of Volcanoes Deeper Than Ever Before
- Scientists Redesigned an Entire Genome to Create The Most Synthetic Life Form Yet
- Do Snails Fart? A Behavioural Ecologist Answers This Burning Question
- The Worst Nuclear Accident in History Turned Chernobyl Into Something Nobody Expected
- This Strange, Flightless Bird Evolved Into Existence Twice Across Millennia
- 'Dense Bullet of Something' Blasted Holes in Milky Way, Says Harvard Astrophysicist
- Academic Claims He's Decoded The 'World's Most Mysterious Book' in Just 2 Weeks
- Alzheimer's Changes Can Lie Hidden For 30 Years Before Symptoms Appear, Study Reveals
- Strange Canary Yellow Glass in Egyptian Desert Shown to Be Result of Meteorite Impact
- A Man Went to Hospital With a Gut Parasite. It Turned Out to Be a Rare Kind of STI
- One Oil Company Expertly Predicted This Week's CO2 Milestone Almost 40 Years Ago
- This Is What Happens if Your Eye Pigment Cells Turn Cancerous
- Concerned About The WhatsApp Hack? Here's How to Make Sure Your App Is Updated
- Biologists Discover Mystery Marine Larvae, And They Don't Know What They'll Grow Into
- Readily Available Joint Supplement Might Have an Unexpected Benefit For Heart Health
- A Vicious Dog Disease Has Broken Out in The US, And Humans Are at Risk Too
- San Francisco Becomes First City in US to Ban Facial-Recognition Software
- NASA Will Send a Female Astronaut on The 2024 Moon Mission
- Men Have a Biological Clock, Too, And 40 Years of Data Say They Need to Pay Attention
- Twin Study Shows Exams Aren't The Only Way to Accurately Assess Kids at School
- This Chilling Simulation Shows What a Measles Outbreak Could Do to Your City
- This Alien Planet Has Vaporized Rare-Earth Metals Drifting Through Its Atmosphere
- The Ghostly Legacy of Hiroshima Has Finally Been Discovered in Physical Form
- What Is Dark Energy?
- What Is Parkinson's Disease?
- 3,500 Parents Might Have Serious Name Regrets After Last Night's Game of Thrones
- A Hidden Underground Chamber Has Been Found in The Palace of Emperor Nero
- What Are Neutrinos?
- Those 96 Million Black Balls in LA's Reservoir Are Not Just There to Save Water
- Our Moon Isn't 'Dead', It's Slowly Shrinking And Shaking From Active Geological Faults
- Bill Nye Shocks Audiences by Saying It Like It Is: "The Planet's on F***ing Fire"
- New 'Bio Glue' Seals a Gushing Heart Wound in 20 Seconds – While It's Still Beating
- New Evidence Reveals There Can Be a Darker Side to Meditation
- What Is Epigenetics?
- For The First Time, Engineers Measure Accuracy of 2 Qubits in Silicon – And It Works
- Scientists Discover Something Remarkable Trapped in Amber: Ancient Sea Creatures
- It's Official: Atmospheric CO2 Just Exceeded 415 ppm For The First Time in Human History
- Elon Musk Just Showed Off 60 of The First 'Internet-Changing' SpaceX Satellites
- What Is Antimatter?
- 13 Awesome Science Facts You Probably Didn't Learn in High School
- Scientists Are Warning That We Absolutely Must Not Farm Octopuses
- What Is CRISPR Gene Editing?
- Researchers Just Tested a Prototype Probe Designed to 'Sail' Between The Stars
- It's Time We Put a Stop to Human Evolution, Says Geneticist
- IHOP's Being Slammed Over a Mother's Day Tweet About Pancakes in a Uterus
- Scientists Just Published Plans For an Even Better Black Hole Image
- An AI Has Spontaneously Developed a Human-Like 'Sense' For Numbers
- Experts Announce Koalas Are 'Functionally Extinct'. Here's What That Means
- Someone Is Now Claiming They Recognise The "Russian Spy Whale" From 2008
- Elon Musk Just Couldn't Stay Quiet About Jeff Bezos' Moon Lander
- Scientists Get Closer Look at Weird Algae That Are More Efficient Than Solar Panels
- This Strange Jurassic Dinosaur Had Wings Like a Bat, Not a Bird
- Devastating Video Shows Floods Created a River of Plastic Trash in Romania
- There's a Bizarre Link Between Losing Your Appendix And Parkinson's, Huge Study Shows
- You May Not Need to Have Sex to Transmit Gonorrhea, New Study Suggests
- A Surprising Piece of Stonehenge Taken 60 Years Ago Has Finally Been Returned
- A 2,624-Year-Old Tree Has Just Been Found Growing in a Swamp in America
- Report: These 25 US Places Are at The Highest Risk of an Imminent Measles Outbreak
- Australia Released a Banknote With a Typo, And Nobody Noticed For 6 Months
- Jeff Bezos Just Unveiled Blue Origin's Moon Lander, And It's Quite Something
- The ISS Now Has an Experimental 'Life-Supporting' Algae Bioreactor on Board
- Doctors Save a Dying Teen With an Unprecedented Therapy of Bacteria-Eating Viruses
- How Far Do Nuclear Tests Spread? Radioactive Particles Found in The Mariana Trench
- Strangely Bright Galaxies From The Early Universe Could Finally Explain a Cosmic Mystery
- First Drone Survey of Chernobyl's 'Red Forest' Reveals Staggering Radioactive Hotspots
- Wasps Just Became The First Known Insects Who Can Reason Using Logic
- Scientists Just Created a Bizarre Form of Ice That's Half as Hot as The Sun
- Anti-Vax Teen Who Sued Over School Health Ban Has Come Down With Chickenpox
- Here's Why You Get Motion Sickness – And What You Can Do to Treat It
- Scientists Just Revealed a Brand New Type of Endlessly Recyclable Plastic
- A US Legislator Just Accused a Vaccine Scientist of 'Sorcery'
- A Couple in Mongolia Has Died of The Plague After Eating Raw Animal Innards
- Mostly Vegan Pandas Have a Surprising Carnivorous Quirk to Their Diet
- Experiment Shows We Can Actually Generate Electricity From The Night Sky
- Gravitational Waves Could Be Leaving Some Weird Lasting Effects in Their Wake
- A Drug That Helps The Social Symptoms of ASD Shows Strange Promise in 2 New Trials
- The UK Has Gone 6 Days Without Burning Coal Now, And Guess What, The World Didn't End
- Archaeologists Uncover a Truly Disturbing Story in a 5,000-Year-Old Mass Grave Site
- Germany Proposes Massive Fines For Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Kids Against Measles
- For The First Time, Scientists Film an Immune System Complex Eating Holes in Bacteria
- Stanford Researchers Found a Brain Region That Stores Your Pokemon Game Skills
- First-Ever Record of 400 Years of El Ninos Shows They Really Are Getting More Brutal
- Scientists Think They've Found an 'Ingredient' That Drove The Cambrian Explosion
- This Carnivorous Plant Evolved to Also Be a Rodent Toilet. We're Not Making This Up
- Scientists Working With Mice Just Discovered How Cells Can Stop The Spread of Cancer
- Anomaly in Atlantic Ocean Could Be First Detection of a Tectonic Plate Peeling Apart
- Astronomers Just Found The Ancient Cosmic Event That Gave Earth Gold And Platinum
- For The First Time, Physicists Have Used Antimatter in an Iconic Physics Experiment
- This Adorable Little Tyrannosaur Just Filled a Large Gap in T. rex Evolution
- Here's Why The Latest Fad of Drinking a Morning 'Salt Juice' Is Not That Smart
- Car Keys Mysteriously Stopped Working in This Small Ohio Town, And We Now Know Why
- Here Are The Main Takeaways From UN's Chilling Report on Species Extinction
- Facebook Just Opened Up Its Data to Election Researchers
- Arsenic-Breathing Life Forms Have Been Discovered in The Pacific Ocean
- This 1,000-Year-Old Shaman's Bag Contained Various Psychotropic Drugs, Including Coke
- What if We Turned The Sahara Desert Into a Giant Solar Farm?
- Terrifying Case Study Shows Why Popping Your Neck Could Actually Kill You
- An Astrophysicist Just Calculated The Insanely Complex Waveform of Two Colliding Black Holes
- Here's What Happened When The World's Space Agencies Simulated a Killer Asteroid Impact
- UN Warns of 'Biological Annihilation' as The 6th Extinction Event Unfolds on Our Planet
- Time Going Too Fast? A Psychologist Explains What You Can Do to Slow It Down
- Study of 'No Drill' Dentistry Shows Fillings Aren't Needed in Many Cases
- You're About to Have a Rare Chance to See This Usually Obscure Meteor Shower
- A Man Says He Swallowed an AirPod, And It Still Worked in His Stomach
- Some Humans Have Mysterious Variants in Their Anatomy – Here Are 5 of The Strangest
- The Chilling Story of WWII's 'Demon Core' And The Scientists Who Became Its Victims
- Stanford Scientist Says In-Ear Gadgets Will Be Able To Monitor Our Brains
- Scientists Have Finally Achieved Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication
- Here's More Evidence Sexual Orientation Is Fluid Right Into Our Adult Years
- Huge Step as HIV Antiviral Treatment Achieves "Effectively Zero" Sexual Transmission
- A 1,100-Foot-Wide Asteroid Is on Course to Pass by Earth in a Decade
- NASA Finds Evidence Humans Were Draining The Planet as Far Back as The 1900s
- All Those Tiny White Dots in Mind-Blowing New Hubble Photo Are Actually Galaxies
- People Who Always Point Out Grammar Mistakes Are Pretty Much Jerks, Study Finds
- Scientists Are Trying to Gene-Hack New Animals For Research, But There's a Problem
- If You've Gone Vegan, Keep an Eye Out For These 4 Nutrient Deficiencies
- Alleged Russian Spy Whale Doesn't Want to Leave Norway And Just Wants Nose Boops
- A Mysterious Hole Keeps Opening Up in Antarctica, And Scientists Say It'll Be Back
- A Scientology Cruise Ship And 100s of Passengers Have Been Quarantined Due to Measles
- We May Have Detected Gravitational Waves From a Black Hole Devouring a Neutron Star
- Bones of Giant Ice Age Bear And Ancient Humans Discovered in Underwater Mexican Cave
- Lab Claims an Alternative to Pasteurization That Keeps Milk Fresh For Months
- A Supplier Was Delivering Faulty Material to NASA For 20 Years And Falsifying Their Reports
- A Boy Almost Lost His Hearing Thanks to a Parasite Burrowed Into His Eardrum
- A Three-Eyed Snake Has Been Discovered in a Small Australian Town
- Four Ways Leonardo Da Vinci Was Well Ahead of His Time
- Startling Discovery Shows How Close Nazi Germany Really Was to a Nuclear Program
- Someone Deliberately Set Fire to Beehives in Texas, Killing Half a Million Bees
- Can You Really 'Miraculously' Wake Up After Decades in a Coma? Here's The Science
- This Mouse Study Shows Why You Shouldn't Overdo The Protein Supplements
- The World's Responding to a Fake Asteroid Emergency Right Now, And You Can Watch It
- While We Scramble to Save The Great Barrier Reef, Earth's Oldest Rainforest Vanishes Nearby
- A Strange Star Hidden in The Milky Way Is Likely From Another Galaxy, Say Astronomers
- Tiny Deep-Sea Creatures Are Building Their Own Armour To Survive The Crushing Depths
- Asteroid Samples Found With Water Hint Half Our Oceans Could Have Come From Space
- Jawbone of a Mysterious Denisovan Has Been Discovered in a Remote Cave in Tibet
- Ancient Carvings Show Evidence of a Comet Swarm Hitting Earth Around 13,000 Years Ago
- We Just Got a Huge Step Closer to Solving The Bizarre Physics of Glass
- The First Exomoon Ever Detected in Space Might Not Actually Exist, Scientists Say
- This Shockingly Common Brain Disease Looks Like Alzheimer's But Is Something Else
- Zuckerberg Says 'The Future Is Private', But That Doesn't Mean What We Think
- Internal Memo Suggests That SpaceX Crew Capsule Explosion Video Could Be Legit