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December 31
- Here's The Real Science on What Happens in Your Body When You Drink Too Much
- First-Ever Video of Its Kind Catches a Puffin Using a Tool – to Scratch an Itch
- Elon Musk Shares Awe-Inspiring Animation of What SpaceX Is About to Achieve Next
- Christina Koch Just Set a New Record For Longest Female Space Flight
- That 'CRISPR Babies' Scientist Was Just Sentenced to Jail in China
- Physicists Just Achieved The First-Ever Quantum Teleportation Between Computer Chips
- Lower Schizophrenia Risk And Having a Dog in Childhood Could Have an Interesting Link
- 'Abortion Reversal' Treatments Are So Dangerous, a Study on Them Had to Be Stopped
- The Strange Halo of a Nearby Pulsar Could Explain The Puzzling Antimatter Near Earth
- NASA Just Unveiled Its 2020 Mars Rover, And We're Beyond Excited
- Here Are 6 Reasons Climate Scientists Are Hopeful, And You Should Be, Too
- Scientists Have Warned That We Absolutely Must Not Farm Octopuses
- The Human Brain Can Locate The Sensation of Touch Even Beyond The Body. Here's How
- How 2019 Became The Year When The World Woke Up to The Climate Emergency
- Man Keeps Rock For Years, Hoping It's Gold. It Turned Out to Be Far More Valuable
- The World Welcomed an Incredibly Rare Black Rhino Birth on 24 December
- Stanford Researchers Have an Exciting Plan to Tackle The Climate Emergency Worldwide
- It Is Possible to Die From a Cold, And Some of Us Are More at Risk Than Others
- Even if You Hate Exercise, These Small Changes Can Make You More Active
- Here's How That 'Ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse Looked Across The World Yesterday
- Betelgeuse Looks Fainter Than Usual. Could It Mean It's About to Go Supernova?
- Quantum Teleportation Reported in a Qutrit For The First Time
- A Man's Blood Was So Full of Fat, It Turned White And Almost Killed Him
- Haunting Video Shows a Giant Squid Emerge From The Darkness in The Gulf of Mexico
- The Last Mars Panorama Sent by Opportunity Is So Beautiful We Could Cry
- Scientists Just Announced The Statistic of The Decade, And It's Heartbreaking
- The President Made Some Big Claims About Windmills. Here Are The Facts
- Physicist Proposes Radical New 'Stellar Engine' That Could Move Our Entire Solar System
- It's Time to Expand Our Understanding of What a 'Human' Is, Biomedical Experts Warn
- Here's What Happened When a High School in Germany Let Students Start 1 Hour Later
- DNA Tests Make a Fun Gift But Here's What You Need to Know Before You Unwrap
- Discovery of Stone Barrier Built 7,000 Years Ago Tells a Bleak Story of Rising Seas
- The Last Solar Eclipse of 2019 Will Create a Beautiful 'Ring of Fire' This Week
- Astronomers Discover a 'Cosmic Candy Cane' Near The Milky Way's Core
- Elon Musk Marked The Launch of Space Force With 2-Word Tweet: 'Starfleet Begins'
- Boeing's Starliner Has Touched Down Safely in Desert After Failure to Dock With ISS
- Boeing's Starliner Fails to Dock With The Space Station, Set to Return to Earth
- Scientists Say They've Found a Way to Solve The 'Oldest Open Question in Astrophysics'
- Astronomers Confirm The Existence of Planets That Have The Lightness of Cotton Candy
- Researchers Say They've Used Mice to Track The Cause of Mad Cow Disease
- Scientists Invent a 'Deluminator' For The Stars to Help Them Find Exoplanets
- There's a Food 'Variety Effect' Messing With Your Head at Christmas Meals
- Here's How We're Making That 2C Global Temperature Increase Far Worse For Humans
- An Invisible Quantum Dot 'Tattoo' Could Be Used to ID Vaccinated Kids
- A Fossil Spider Discovery Just Turned Out to Be a Crayfish With Some Legs Painted on
- There Could Be Iron 'Snow' Falling Within Our Planet's Core, New Study Shows
- These Science-Based Tips Will Help You to Actually Keep Your New Year's Resolutions
- These 6 Incredible Discoveries From The Past Decade Have Changed Science Forever
- The World's Oldest Fossil Forest Was Just Found in New York, And It's Magnificent
- 'Love' And Other Emotion Words Don't Always Mean The Same in Other Languages
- Astronomers Have Detected Two Galaxy Groups on a Violent Collision Course
- NASA's 'Quiet' Supersonic Jet Experiment Was Just Approved For Final Assembly
- Dogs Can Process Numbers, And They Use The Same Brain Parts We Do
- This Simple Bread Experiment Is a Genius Way to Get Kids to Wash Their Hands
- Clinical Trial Provides 'First Real Hope' of a Lupus Treatment in Half a Century
- Chimps Have Been Caught Throwing Rocks at Trees And Yelling For No Apparent Reason
- New Evidence Shows These Human Ancestors Mysteriously Died Out 117,000 Years Ago
- China Could Be Turning on Its 'Artificial Sun' Fusion Reactor Really Soon
- Good News! That Awesome New Space Telescope Has Finally Launched And Is in Orbit
- Your Airways Have a Microbiome, And It Could Even Have a Link to Asthma
- This New Type of 'Quantum Camouflage' Can Hide Heat Signatures From Infrared Vision
- Breathtaking Find Unearths 3,500-Year-Old Ancient Greek Tombs, Once Lined With Gold
- Australia Is Being Ravaged by The Worst-Ever Heatwave, And That Says a Lot
- Study Reveals Many Crocodile Species Can Gallop, And They Are Fast
- YouTuber Waging War Against Mail Thieves Built Glitter Bomb 2.0, And It's Magical
- NASA Just Observed a Totally New Kind of Magnetic Eruption on The Sun
- Earth's Magnetic North Pole Keeps Moving Towards Siberia at a Mysteriously Fast Pace
- Men Are More Likely Than Women to Call Their Science 'Excellent', Study Shows
- The Launch of a Brilliant New Telescope Was Just Cancelled, Almost at The Last Minute
- We Just Got Closer to Understanding How PTSD Starts to Develop in The Mind
- Astronomers Have Found an Earth-Size Planet Practically Next-Door to Us
- The Story of That Famous Female Physician From Ancient Egypt Is Actually Wrong
- Earth's Atmosphere Had Terrifying Mercury Pollution Even Before The Killer Asteroid
- Scientists Reconstruct Entire Genome of a Woman From Her 5,700-Year-Old Chewing Gum
- 9 Common Beliefs About Exercise That Aren't True, According to a Scientist
- This 3,500-Year-Old Disposable Cup Shows How Little Humans Truly Change
- The Latest UN Climate Talks Are a Wrap, And You Should Be Really Disappointed
- New Study of The Weird Auroras on Mars Just Revealed Something We Didn't Expect
- 1 Billion Years Ago, The Milky Way's Heart Mysteriously Erupted in 100,000 Supernovae
- The World's Deepest Land Canyon Was Just Discovered Underneath Antarctic Ice
- New Discovery Just Changed Our Understanding of The Source of Easter Island's Moai
- Giant Panda Cubs Are Born Shockingly Small – Turns Out They're 'Undercooked'
- Ever Heard of 'Hair Ice'? It's Totally a Thing
- Strange Sun Effects Have Been Detected by World's Highest Weather Stations on Everest
- Your Constant Feeling of 'Being Tired' Could Be Due to a Serious Health Problem
- Our Galaxy's Centre Could Have a Second Supermassive Black Hole. Here's Why
- Here's What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water
- Staggering Video Shows How Much of Earth Was Actually on Fire in 2019
- NASA Just Watched a Mass of Cyclones on Jupiter Evolve Into a Mesmerising Hexagon
- Researchers Have Identified 100 Mysteriously Disappeared Stars in The Night Sky
- It Looks Like That 'Impossible' Black Hole We Just Found Was Actually an Error
- Report Claims a Common Animal Is Now Being 'Massacred' Due to Chinese Medicine
- These 20 Companies Caused More Than One-Fifth of Ocean Acidification Since 1965
- There's a Reason Whales Have Never Grown Any More Massive Than They Are Now
- Hubble Captures Incredible Photos of Comet Borisov as It Speeds Past Our Sun
- Thousands of 'Penis Fish' Have Washed Up on a California Beach
- That Ocean Garbage Collector Is Finally Hauling in Bags of Plastic Waste
- Dark Matter Could Be Lurking at Our Galaxy's Core Blasting Out Gamma Rays
- NASA Identifies Regions of Mars With Water Ice Just Below The Surface
- Heat Energy Has Leapt Across an Empty Vacuum Thanks to a Weird Quantum Effect
- Fossil Find Shows The Enigmatic 'Sailing Stones' Existed Even 200 Million Years Ago
- We're All Made of Stardust. But an Unusual Amount on Earth Comes From Red Giants
- SpaceX's Next Space Station Delivery Includes a Stash of Cannabis
- This Is The Milky Way's Magnetic Field in More Detail Than We've Ever Seen It Before
- Scientists Uncover The Cause of Mysterious 'Tiger Stripes' on Saturn's Moon Enceladus
- 6-Foot Penguins Used to Roam The Planet. This Species Could Explain What Happened
- The World's First Fully Electric Plane Has Flown Successfully For Almost 15 Minutes
- Experiences Aren't Always Greener Than Things – Here's How to Make Memories Sustainably
- The Last Full Moon of The Decade Occurs This Week And It'll Be Beautifully Ordinary
- X Chromosome Study in Mice Hints at Why Women Get More Autoimmune Issues
- This Timelapse of Earth's Glaciers Will Change Your Perspective of The Past 50 Years
- Scientists Find a Way to Break Plastic Down Into Useful Chemicals With Light
- The Oldest Story We've Ever Found Shows Supernatural Figures on The Hunt
- Jaw-Dropping Celtic Warrior Grave Contains Shield Labelled a Find 'of The Millennium'
- We May Have Gravely Underestimated The Threat of 'Dead Zones' in The World's Oceans
- It Turns Out Curious Head Cones in Ancient Egyptian Art Were Actually Real Hats
- Physicists See Hints of X17, an Elusive Particle That Could Be a New Force of Nature
- Lost City Discovered Beneath Ethiopia Was Once a Pillar of The Legendary Aksum Empire
- Thousands of Mysterious Holes Have Been Found in The Ocean Floor Off The Californian Coast
- Fires in Australia Just Pushed Sydney's Air Quality 12 Times Above 'Hazardous' Levels
- We Just Got an Updated Estimate For The Age of The Milky Way
- More Research Says Water Births Are as Safe as 'Land Births', But Experts Are Conflicted
- New Zealand Exists Because of Volcanoes – Monday's Eruption Won't Be The Last
- Greenland Is Now Losing Ice Seven Times Faster Than It Was in The 1990s
- Scientists Just Created Quantum States in Everyday Electronics
- Deadly Chains of Heatwaves Are Linked to Newly Discovered Pattern in The Atmosphere
- Neutron Star With 'Disappearing' Magnetic Field Is The First of Its Kind We've Seen
- A Strange Asteroid Is Shooting Particles Into Space And We Just Got The Best Data Yet
- We Finally Know Where That Giant Mass of Pumice Drifting Towards Australia Came From
- The World's First Human Composting Facility Will Open in 2021
- NASA Completes Core Stage of The Next Rocket to Take Us to The Moon, And It's Glorious
- The First Mission to Remove Space Junk From Orbit Has Just Been Commissioned
- Here's Why New Zealand's White Island Volcano Erupted Without Warning
- Mice Kept in The Dark For a Week Have Profound Changes to Hearing And Neurons
- Math Genius Has Devised a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations
- Orca Grandmothers Shed New Light on The Mysterious Benefits of Menopause
- A Physicist Has a Bold Plan to Make a Gamma-Ray Laser With The Help of Antimatter
- Pig-Monkey Chimeras Have Been Brought to Term For The First Time
- Terrifying Medical Case Shows Why You Should Be Wary of Confetti Stars This Christmas
- New Details About The Infamous 'CRISPR Babies' Experiment Have Just Been Revealed
- Humans Already Slowed The Climate Crisis Once, New Research Shows
- How Do You Know When It's Time to Break Up? Here's The Research
- Your Irritable Bowel Issues Could Be Caused by a Little-Known Gut Condition
- Science Has Shown These Five Weight Loss Supplements Are a Waste of Money
- Bizarre Study Finds Women on The Pill Have a Smaller Hypothalamus, But Does It Matter?
- More Than 50 Polar Bears Are Gathered Outside a Russian Village Because of Melting Ice
- Half a Million Hermit Crabs Found Dead on Islands From an 'Avalanche' of Plastic
- Indoor Pet? Scientists Share 4 Tips For Keeping Your Cat Happy And Healthy
- Small Trial Shows Eating in a 10-Hour Window Could Have Significant Benefits For Some
- Our Bodies Age in Three Distinct Shifts, According to More Than 4,000 Blood Tests
- That Famous Russian Fox Domestication Study May Have Had a Few Crucial Flaws
- Horrifying Photo of Huntsman Spider Nest Will Haunt You, But Scientists Are Excited
- The Measles Epidemic in Samoa Is So Bad, Unvaccinated Homes Are Being Marked With Red
- Hidden Tattoos Found on Egyptian Mummies Change Our Knowledge of The Ancient Practice
- Even 50 Years Ago, Climate Models Were Way More Accurate Than Deniers Claim
- Essential Oil Poisoning Is on The Rise. Here's What You Need to Know
- MIT's Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Has Passed a Key Trial in Animals
- Extraterrestrial Impacts Could Have Triggered The Formation of Earth's Tectonics
- Forget Elephants. Giant Tortoises Can Learn New Tricks And Remember Them For Years
- Supercharged Mice And Robots That Read Emotions Have Just Been Sent to The ISS
- Scientists Create a New Kind of Artificial Flesh That Heals Itself Like The Real Thing
- Fascinating Study Finds That Stressed Out Baby Worms Tend to Live Longer
- Experimental Evidence Shows How Humans Could Have Domesticated Ourselves
- Generic Drugs Are Supposed to Be Identical, But They May Not Be as Safe as You Think
- NASA Just Gave Us Our Closest Look Ever at a Comet Exploding in Space
- New Study Links Hair Dye to Breast Cancer. Here's What You Need to Know
- The Enduring Mystery of The Moon's Brightness Could Soon Be Solved
- Scientists Just Identified an Organism That Thrives on Eating Meteorites
- These Fish Can Create Entirely New Species When They Have Sex
- Glaciers in New Zealand Are Turning Red, And Extreme Weather in Australia May Be Why
- Scientists 'Blown Away' by Unexpected Results From NASA's Sun-Kissing Solar Probe
- Giant Viking Ship Discovered Under Farm in Norway Was A One-Way Voyage to Valhalla
- This Single-Celled Animal Makes Complex 'Decisions' Even Without a Nervous System
- New Model Suggests We May Have Been Wrong About Earth's First Major Bursts of Oxygen
- Scientists Discover a Giant Exoplanet Orbiting a White Dwarf For The First Time
- Scientists Slam CRISPR Babies Experiment After Findings Become Public For First Time
- Scientists Discover New Link Between Marijuana Smoking And Testicular Cancer Risk
- The US Military Wants Cyborg Super Soldiers, But We're Not Ready, Expert Warns
- The Pure Chaos of Magnetic Fields May Explain The Intense Shine of Black Holes
- A Strange Link Between Brushing Your Teeth And Heart Health Keeps Showing Up
- It's Official: This Is The Hottest Decade in Recorded History, UN Warns
- Your Ability to Recognise Dog Emotions Says Something About Where You Come From
- Scientists Just Triggered The Coldest Chemical Reaction in The Known Universe
- Toxic White Foam Washes Up on Indian Beach, And People Don't Know to Stay Away
- Drones Reveal The Greenland Ice Sheet Fracturing in Real Time
- We May Finally Understand How Life Survived The Icy Hell of Snowball Earth
- Microgravity Seems to Neutralise The Majority of Cancer Cells, Experiments Reveal
- Used Cosmetic Products Found to Be Crawling With Infectious Bacterial Contaminants
- Measles Outbreak Forces Samoan Government to Shut Down For Mass Vaccination Campaign
- NASA Finally Discovers The Shattered Remnants of India's Lost Moon Lander
- Deadly Tsunami Unleashed by 'Child of Krakatoa' Volcano Surged Up to 150 Metres Tall
- Astronomers Have Detected a Familiar Feature in a Far-Away Solar System
- UN Chief Warns Global Warming 'Point of No Return' Is Hurtling Toward Us
- Babies Are Predicted to Be Born Earlier in The Extreme Heat of Climate Change
- US Life Expectancy Drops For Third Straight Year in Alarming Reality Check
- Fireball Spotted Over Australian Desert May Have Been Super-Rare 'Minimoon'
- Cats Do Have Facial Expressions, We're Just Bad at Reading Them, Study Shows
- Mysterious Tectonic Fault Zone Detected Off The Coast of California