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- The World Could Soon Run Out of a Crucial Resource And Nobody Is Talking About It
- Washing Machine Spreads a Superbug to Newborns in Strange German Hospital Case
- Here's How to Write a Good Science Paper, According to a Bestselling Novelist
- Scientists Engineered a Bacterium That Poops Out Huge Amounts of Psilocybin
- Newly Found Structures in Tooth Enamel Might Finally Explain Its Bizarre Strength
- Faster-Than-Light Speeds Could Be Why Gamma-Ray Bursts Seem to Go Backwards in Time
- A Fun New Paper Says Planet 9 Could Actually Be a Primordial Black Hole
- New Simulation Shows Superconductivity Could Be Turned On And Off in Some Materials
- T. Rex Really Could Crush a Car in Its Jaws, Without Damaging Its Own Skull
- Elon Musk Just Unveiled Wild Starship Plans For "The Moon, Mars, And Beyond"
- Here's How a Dead Girl in Paris Ended Up With The Most-Kissed Lips in History
- America's Largest Captive Alligator Has Been Found After Going Missing in Floodwater
- Hurricane Lorenzo Brings Category 4 Winds, And Presents an Ominous Climate Signal
- There's a Problem With Shark Nets And Baits, And It's Time to Look at The Evidence
- Alien Research Group Started by Blink-182 Singer Says It's Found 'Exotic UFO Material'
- Astronomers Find a Place With Three Supermassive Black Holes Orbiting Each Other
- Astronomers Catch The Immediate Aftermath of a Black Hole Destroying a Star
- Do Not Feed The Climate Trolls
- Watch The Mesmerising Colour Shifts of a Sleeping Octopus
- An Entire Alpine Glacier Might Collapse Any Moment, And People Are Being Evacuated
- A Worm With Three Sexes Has Been Discovered Thriving in a Nearly Lifeless Lake
- In All of Human History, We Haven't Lived With The Kind of Atmosphere We Have Today
- This Stunning Soyuz MS-15 Launch Photo by an ISS Astronaut Has a Special Meaning
- BMW Has Posted, And Then Deleted, an Ad Hinting at Sex in Self-Driving Cars
- A Mind-Blowing Study Just Confirmed Earth Had Living Organisms 3.5 Billion Years Ago
- Computers Are Making Huge Mistakes Because They Can't Understand Chaos, Scientists Warn
- Plastic Teabags Are Filling Your Tea With Microplastics
- New NASA Visualisation of a Black Hole Is So Beautiful We Could Cry
- Geologists May Have Finally Solved The Secret of Machu Picchu's Strange Location
- UN Report on Earth's Oceans Confirms The Catastrophe Is Already Unfolding Around Us
- People Are Adding Disturbing Levels of Lead to Turmeric, Study Shows
- Ancient Sippy Cups Show Humans Fed Their Babies Cow's Milk at Least 3,000 Years Ago
- Australia's Capital Just Legalised Recreational Marijuana in Defiance of Federal Laws
- The World's Most Freakishly Advanced Robot Dog Is Now For Sale
- If You Struggle With Imposter Syndrome, Scientists Might Have an Odd Solution
- Huge CERN Experiment Detects Two Extremely Rare Particle Decay Events
- Earth's Mantle Could Be Hiding Vast Rock Anomalies Unchanged For Billions of Years
- Scientists Are Starting to Take Warp Drives Seriously, Especially One Specific Concept
- 'Quantum Supremacy' Is Here, According to Mysterious Google Claims
- The Second Interstellar Object Has Been Officially Detected in Our Solar System
- Here Are All The Valid Health Reasons Why So Many Countries Are Banning Vapes
- A Long-Lost 8th Continent Has Been Found Buried Deep Beneath Europe
- The Creepy 'Crypt-Keeper' Wasp Has a Terrifyingly Gruesome Survival Technique
- New Experiment Finds Evidence of How an Overlooked Force Can Unravel DNA
- Hormone Diets Are All The Rage Now, So Here's Some Actual Science
- Astronomers Have Found Another 21 Stars Dimming as Erratically as Tabby's Star
- A Strange, Previously Unknown Mineral Has Been Discovered in a Single Diamond Speck
- Astronomers Detect Gamma Rays From an Extreme Pulsar Spinning 707 Times Per Second
- Walruses Have Attacked And Sunk a Russian Navy Boat in The Arctic
- Greta Thunberg Addresses UN Climate Action Summit Through Tears
- Humans Just Held Another Funeral For a Glacier, And It May Not Be The Last
- Woman Mistakes Wasabi For Avocado, Ends Up in Hospital With Heart Dysfunction
- Cats Bond Securely to Their Humans Maybe Even More Than Dogs Do
- Report: There's a "Real Threat" of a Pandemic That Could Kill Up to 80 Million People
- A Man's Gut Bacteria Was Making Him 'Drunk' in Extremely Rare Medical Case
- Venus May Have Been Habitable Until a Mysterious Catastrophe Millions of Years Ago
- Intense Drought Exposes 4,000-Year-Old 'Stonehenge' in Spain
- Scientists Have Found There's a Crucial Change We Can Make to Better Serve Our Planet
- Roscosmos Knows What Caused The Hole in The ISS, And NASA Wants Answers
- Woman Shows Up at Hospital With "Physically Blue" Skin Due to a Rare Drug Reaction
- Japan Is About to Deploy Another Lander on The Surface of Asteroid Ryugu
- Something Is Killing Galaxies in The Most Extreme Regions of The Universe
- Breathtaking Photo Shows The Shadow of Io Passing Across Jupiter's Surface
- We've Got New Photos of That Weird Substance China Found on The Moon
- A Letter From The Future
- 9 Ways Today's Society Is Like The One That Filled Earth With Garbage in WALL-E
- There Is One Safe Geoengineering Option Guaranteed to Reduce CO2 in Our Atmosphere
- There's a Climate Threat Facing Pacific Islands That's More Dire Than Losing Land
- These Are The Sad Faces of Animals Already Impacted by The Climate Crisis
- The Day That I Found Out About Climate Change
- These 5 Tips From Psychologists Will Help You Cope When Climate Change Gets You Down
- Climate Change Won't Look Like You Think: a Story About The Time I Spent in Syria
- How The First Woman in Climate Science Beat One of Its Founders to a Major Finding
- Okay, So Let's Pretend Climate Change Isn't Real
- ScienceAlert Is Joining The Global Climate Strike on September 20
- This New Chip Could Bridge The Gap Between Classical And Quantum Computing
- People Keep Putting Collagen in Their Coffee, And Scientists Have Weighed in
- Within Months, 6 Quiet Galaxies Became Blazing Quasars And Scientists Don't Know How
- This Creature Hides a Mouthful of Teeth, And It Likes to Keep Them Nice And Sharp
- We Just Narrowed Down The Mass of Neutrinos, The 'Ghost Particles' That Baffle Physics
- 'Very Aggressive' Swooping Magpie Causes Deadly Cyclist Crash in Australia
- International Space Agencies Are Going to Smash a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid
- New Model of Earth's Ancient Climate Is Painting a Worrying Picture About Our Future
- Here's Why Next Week's UN Climate Summit Is The Biggest Moment Since Paris Agreement
- Think Striking Is Pointless? Research Shows How Much of a Difference It Can Make
- 19-Year Study Shows We've Been Undervaluing How Much Compost Can Boost Carbon Capture
- Greta Thunberg Wants You to Listen to The Scientists, Not Her
- Here's How You Can Support The Global Climate Strike Happening This Friday
- One of Earth's Biggest Explosions of Life May Have Been Triggered by Asteroid Dust
- Small Trial Reverses a Year of Alzheimer's Cognitive Decline in Just Two Months
- Here's The Important Difference Between Global Warming And Climate Change
- There's a New Explanation For Mysterious Tabby's Star: a Melting Ploonet
- One of Our Main Construction Materials Spews Out CO2, But Engineers Might Have a Fix
- The Biggest Volcano on Io May Be About to Erupt, And Scientists Are Watching Closely
- Disturbing New Evidence Suggests Soot Particles Can Cross The Placenta After All
- Here's Why Talking About Climate Change Might Be The Most Important Thing You Can Do
- US Navy Allegedly Confirms UFO Footage Is Real, Says We Were Never Meant to See It
- What You Think You Know About Climate Change Is Probably Wrong
- Scientists Have Built Knives Out of Human Poop to Test Whether They Work
- American Teens Are Frightened by Climate Change, But They're Starting to Take Action
- Researchers Find an Interesting Link in The Things Happy Couples Argue About
- Explosion at Russian Lab That Houses Smallpox Sends Internet Into Panic
- We Now Know What Smashed Into Jupiter Last Month
- A New, Faster Wi-Fi Just Officially Launched: Here's What You Need to Know
- Astronomers Have Detected What Could Be The Most Massive Neutron Star Yet
- A Trial That Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes to Stop Breeding Has Backfired Spectacularly
- Mesmerising New Images of Mars Show Spring Arriving Violently on Its Frozen Dunes
- Climate Change Is Making Us Sicker, And We Need to Talk About It
- The Amazon's Tallest Trees Are Growing 50% Bigger, And Scientists Don't Know How
- It's Now Official: The Northern Hemisphere Just Endured The Hottest Summer on Record
- Antibiotic Resistance Is Surging in Dolphins Now And That's a Very Bad Sign
- Astrophysicists Say One Space Elevator Concept Is Possible With Today's Technology
- A Handful of Super-Corporations Control The Fate of The World, Chilling Report Shows
- Here's What We Know So Far About The Possibly Interstellar Object in Our Solar System
- Dead Bodies Keep Moving For More Than a Year After Death, Forensic Scientist Finds
- CO2 Makes Up Just 0.04% of Earth's Atmosphere. Here's Why Its Impact Is So Massive
- Florida Man's Body Discovered by Accident 22 Years Later Using Images From Space
- Here Are Five of The Most Common Climate Change Misconceptions, Debunked
- Hypnotic Time-Lapse Shows The Surreal Patterns of Antarctica's Tempestuous Winds
- Researchers Are Working on a New Vaccine to Finally Eliminate Polio Worldwide
- After 350 Years, Scholars Have Found Another Hidden Message in Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
- Engineers Just Unveiled a New Blackest-Ever Material, Even Darker Than Vantablack
- Astronomers Have Found a Black Hole That's Erupting With Strange Regularity
- Komodo Dragons Are So Badass They Have 'Chain Mail' Embedded in Their Skin
- Amazing Video Shows SpaceX Rigorously Testing Its Crew Dragon Escape System
- Scientist Controversially Suggests The Climate Crisis May Make People Eat Human Flesh
- This Wild, Runaway Star Looks Like It Was Kicked Out by a 'Missing Link' Black Hole
- Bizarre Discovery Shows Your Bones Could Be Triggering The 'Fight-Or-Flight' Response
- Hubble Just Captured a Breathtaking New Image of Saturn, And It Barely Looks Real
- New Test to Measure The Expansion of Our Universe Provides Even More Puzzling Results
- Neuroscientists Find Our Experience of Beauty Is Linked to an Unexpected Brain Region
- Dozens of Dogs Are Suddenly Dying in Norway And Officials Are Baffled by The Cause
- Newly Discovered Species of Electric Eel Delivers The Most Powerful Shock Yet
- What Is Titan?
- What Is Anthropogenic Global Warming?
- What Is The Big Bang?
- What Is MDMA?
- Astronomers Have Heard The 'Ringing' of a Newborn Black Hole For The First Time Ever
- Brand New Renewable Technology Harnesses Electricity From The Cold, Dark Night
- Massive Kangaroo From The Ice Age Had a Unique Link to The Giant Panda
- Tainted, Toxic Skin Cream Sends Californian Woman Into Comatose State
- Black Holes May Hide Cores of Pure Dark Energy That Keep The Universe Expanding
- Astronomers Discover Giant Radio Bubbles Expanding From The Heart of The Milky Way
- Dumping Fukushima's Radioactive Water Into Pacific Ocean Is 'Only Option', Japan Says
- Another Mysterious Object From Interstellar Space May Have Entered Our Solar System
- Sweden's Tallest Peak Dethroned in Ominous Reshaping of Mountains
- This Skull Is Not Real And Never Existed. But It Could Be Your Ancestor All The Same
- Brains of People Who Paint With Their Feet Show a Brilliant Neurological Adaptation
- There Seems to Be a Big Issue When It Comes to Single People Being Treated For Cancer
- Rare Mosquito-Borne Disease That Kills 1/3 of The Infected Is Spreading Across The US
- Man Allegedly Uses 'Photographic Memory' to Steal 1,300 Credit Card Numbers
- CRISPR-Edited Cells That Block HIV Last Over a Year Without Side Effects, Study Shows
- A Sixth Person Has Now Died From The Mysterious Lung Illness Linked to Vaping
- Water Detected in Atmosphere of Rocky Habitable Zone Exoplanet For First Time
- Newly Discovered Pterosaur Was One of The Biggest Flying Reptiles Ever
- 'Extremely Deep' Acupuncture Treatment Ends Up Piercing Patient's Lungs
- Daytime Naps May Be Linked to Lower Incidence of Heart Attack And Stroke, Study Finds
- New Evidence Hints All Comets in The Solar System May Come From The Same Place
- Without These Basic Math Skills, Study Finds You Can't Make Effective Life Decisions
- The Worst Fires in The Amazon Are Likely Still to Come, And May Burn Out of Control
- These Apps Might Have Informed Facebook About The Last Time You Had Sex
- Last Day of The Dinosaurs Revealed in Stunning Glimpse of Asteroid Disaster
- Gigantic Heat Anomaly Brewing in The Pacific Threatens a Return of 'The Blob'
- Unusual Lakes Detected on Titan Could Be The Ancient Scars of Giant Explosions
- We Just Found Traces of an Ancient Technology Used to Make The Dead Sea Scrolls
- Giant Radio Telescope in China Just Detected Repeating Signals From Across Space
- A Doctor Explains The True Risk of 'Natural' Treatments Like Green Tea Supplements
- The Strange Magnetic Poles on Mercury May Have More in Common With Earth's Than We Realised
- Mathematicians Solve '42' Problem With Planetary Supercomputer
- These Incredible Finalists For Nature Photo of The Year Need to Be Seen to Be Believed
- Aliens May Have Explored The Galaxy And Visited Earth Already, Scientists Say
- Scientists Are Furious Over a Viral Article on How to 'Prepare' For Climate Change
- An Entire Scientific Observatory At The Bottom of The Ocean Mysteriously Vanished
- Here's What We Know About The Mysterious Outbreak of Vaping-Linked Illnesses And Deaths
- Update: India Has Located Its Lost Moon Lander And Is Trying to Make Contact
- There's a Simple Way to Lose Weight And Keep It Off, According to Science
- Staring Into Someone's Eyes For 10 Minutes Can Induce Altered State of Consciousness
- A 74-Year-Old Woman Has Given Birth to Twins. Here's How That's Possible
- For The First Time, We've Found Genes And Brain Differences Linked to Left-Handedness
- Here's The Scientific Reason Doctors Are Prescribing Gardening For Mental Health
- It Hasn't Rained on Mars For a Long Time, But These Sand Dunes Look Like Raindrops
- The Longstanding Mystery of How Big a Proton Is May Finally Have Been Solved
- Taking The Pill as a Teen Seems to Have a Long-Lasting Effect on Your Depression Risk
- This Fault Line in LA Looked Dormant, But It Could Cause a 6.4-Magnitude Quake
- We Just Got Fresh Insight Into The Spectacular Death of a Star Like Our Sun
- Eel DNA Has Been Discovered in Loch Ness. Here's Why That Might Be a Clue
- Just One Head Injury Could Be Enough to Tangle Proteins in Your Brain
- The Team Behind The First Black Hole Image Was Just Awarded $3 Million Prize
- Ghostly Deep-Sea Creature Morphs on Video as Scientists Have a Cute Freakout
- Officials Just Got Closer to The Cause of The Deadly 'Vaping' Lung Illness
- A Woman Has Bled to Death After a Rooster Pecked Her Varicose Vein
- This Is One of The Earliest Known Trails Left by an Animal on Earth
- Painstaking Pulsar Measurements That Took 14 Years Just Confirmed General Relativity
- These 9 Places on Mars Could Be The Target For SpaceX's First Starship Missions
- First DNA From This Ancient Civilization Reveals Ancestry of Modern South Asians
- Radical Experiment Reveals How The Chemistry of Life Could Have Begun in Deep Space
- The Mystery of Bizarre Holes in T. Rex's Head Might Finally Be Solved
- Having Major Depression Could Cause Up to 20 Unrelated Diseases, Gene Study Shows
- Here's The Science That Links Hurricane Dorian's Features to Climate Change
- Some Women Are Living With Recurrent UTIs, as Infections Grow Resistant to Antibiotics
- Astronomers Find Top-Secret US Surveillance Satellite Thanks to a Twitter Leak
- A Controversial Autism Hypothesis Was Just Dented by a Major New Study
- Hellish Warming Event in Earth's Ancient Past Triggered by Rare Orbital Quirk in Space
- Geologists Suspect There's a Trove of Precious Metals Locked Beneath The Lunar Surface
- New York City Declares End to Largest Measles Outbreak in 30 Years
- Here's a Science-Based Ranking of Types of Cheese, by Nutritional Value
- A Strange Thing Happens if You Use Mouthwash After You Exercise
- Engineers Build a Device That Effectively Transforms CO2 Into Liquid Fuel
- Chilling Photos Taken From Space Reveal The True Scope of Hurricane Dorian
- Conservationists Find a Precious Two-Headed Turtle on a South Carolina Beach
- Problems Predicted From Satellite Fleets Like SpaceX's Starlink Have Already Started
- Unique Case of a Stroke Patient Just Changed Our Understanding of Colour Perception
- Here's What You Need to Know About That Teen Who Went Blind From Eating Junk Food
- A Cave in Mallorca Holds a Chilling Prediction About Where Sea Level Rise Is Headed
- Study Shows How Humans Have Changed The Structure of Dog Brains Over Centuries
- Breathtaking Image Shows The Stark Divide Between Day And Night on Saturn's Rings
- Scientists Have Developed a Genius Method That Actually Regenerates Tooth Enamel
- Teen's Stomach Pain Turns Out to Be The Half-Formed Remnants of Her Parasitic Twin
- Unnerving Chinese Deepfake App Lets You Replace Celebrity Faces With Your Own
- Eerie Photos Show The Peaceful Calm Right in The Eye of Hurricane Dorian
- Videos Capture a Rare Lightning Storm Unfolding in Hurricane Dorian's Swirling Vortex
- Astronomers Detect a Colour-Changing Asteroid For The Very First Time
- Physicists Have Finally Built a Quantum X-Ray Device
- Compasses at Greenwich Are About to Do Something Not Observed in Over 300 Years
- Scientists Confirm The Discovery of a Mineral Never Before Seen in Nature
- CERN's Instagram Has Everyone Excited, So Here Are 5 Other Science Accounts to Follow
- Officials Warn People Against Vaping Amidst Outbreak of Mysterious Lung Disease
- China's Lunar Rover Finds a 'Gel-Like' Substance on The Far Side of The Moon
- 2,000 New Fires Have Started in The Amazon, 48h After Government Burning Ban