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- Researchers Decipher The Secret Ingredients of Ancient Egyptian Ink
- Here's What Happens When Lab-Grown Mini-Lungs Are Exposed to SARS-CoV-2
- Daylight Saving Ends This Sunday in The US. It's One of The World's Stupidest Rituals
- The Mystery of The Platypus Deepens With The Discovery of Its Biofluorescent Fur
- Scientists in Japan Just Found a Detailed Record of Earth's Last Magnetic Switcharoo
- Insects Play a Key (And Also Icky Role) in Decomposition by Turning Corpses Into Bones
- Underground Fungal Colonies Act as Aid Networks For Some Older Trees, Scientists Find
- This 3D-Printed Tugboat Is Smaller Than a Human Hair, But It Represents So Much More
- 50-Million-Year-Old Foot Fossil May Belong to The Largest Bird That Ever Flew
- To Avoid an 'Era of Pandemics,' We Must Protect Nature, UN Warns
- There Could Be at Least 300 Million Potentially Habitable Worlds in The Milky Way
- Our Canine Best Friends Were Surprisingly Diverse Already 11,000 Years Ago
- Mouth Bacteria Have Been Linked to Severe Forms of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- NASA's Leaking Asteroid Sample Is Finally Secure! Now to Get It Back to Earth
- Trump Administration Just Ended Gray Wolf Protections Against Advice of Scientists
- The World's Most Popular OTC Painkiller Is Increasingly Causing Poisonings
- A Common Type 2 Diabetes Drug Could Be Slowing The Onset of Parkinson's
- The Philae Lander Has Revealed 'One Final Mystery' From Beyond Its Cometary Grave
- Brain Scans Show a Whole Spectrum of COVID-19 Abnormalities We Can't Fully Explain
- Astronomers Discovered 39 New Gravitational Wave Events In Just Six Months
- Fireball Meteorite That Struck Michigan Reveals Ancient Extraterrestrial Compounds
- The Shape of Greenland's Coast Is Rapidly Changing as It Loses Record Levels of Ice
- The First-Ever Footage of a Bizarre Squid Has Scientists Freaking Out
- Colossal Reef Discovered Off Australia's Coast Is Taller Than Empire State Building
- Octopuses Can Taste You With Their Arms. Here's How That's Possible
- Lightning 'Sprites' Have Been Detected on Jupiter For The First Time, NASA Says
- Who Is Ignaz Semmelweis?
- Famous Alien-Hunting Equation Inspires New Way to Predict COVID-19 Spread
- Melting Time Crystals Could Help Us Model Complex Networks Like The Human Brain
- 'Weird' Molecule Detected on Titan Has Never Been Found in Any Atmosphere
- Ice Loss Will Trigger Increased Warming in a Vicious Feedback Loop, Study Warns
- Even Vampire Bats Socially Distance Themselves When They Feel Sick
- Scientists Identify The 5 Symptoms That May Predict a Long-Term Case of Coronavirus
- Exercise May Inhibit Cancer by Fuelling The Immune System, Study in Mice Suggests
- Psychologists Found The Personality Trait That Makes It Hardest to Endure Lockdown
- Giant Asteroid Survivor of Failed Planet Discovered to Be Slowly Rusting in Space
- Asymptomatic Cases of Coronavirus Seem to Lose Antibodies Sooner, Study Finds
- Scientists Created a 'Living' Aneurysm Out of Blood And Human Brain Cells
- Two-Headed Snake Discovered in Florida Reveals Rare Natural Phenomenon
- Astronomers Peer Into The Atmosphere of a Rare Exoplanet That 'Shouldn't Exist'
- If Your Heart Health Is at Risk, Your Partner Should Get Checked Too. Here's Why
- Extreme 'Black Widow' Star Identified as Source of Mystery Gamma Radiation
- Can You Really Overdose on Black Licorice? Here's The Science on The Hidden Dangers
- Scientists Just Reported The First Unambiguous Detection of Water on The Moon
- Weird Structures Found to Be Ancient Leftovers of Violent Milky Way Collision
- COVID-19 Can Make Patients' Immune Systems Attack Their Own Bodies, Study Shows
- These Tiny, Little-Winged Dinosaurs Were Probably Worse at Flying Than Chickens
- The First Nest of Giant 'Murder Hornets' Discovered in The US Has Been Eradicated
- Your Dreams Are More Complex Depending on What Stage of Sleep You're in, Study Finds
- Weight Training in One Arm Has Benefits For The Other, Even if It Doesn't Do a Thing
- Here's What It Actually Means if a COVID-19 Vaccine Passes Phase 3 Clinical Trials
- Monkeys May Have Self-Domesticated Just Like Humans Did, Study Suggests
- 125-Year Study of Chess Matches Suggests We Don't Peak at The Game Until Our 30s
- The BepiColombo Probe Just Took a Ridiculously Close Video of Venus as It Flew by
- Earth's Volatile Environment 320,000 Years Ago Helped Make Humans So Adaptable
- New Research Shows The Best Way to Express Gratitude to Your Loved One, And It's Easy
- NASA Probe Has Collected a Bit Too Much Asteroid Dust And Is Now Leaking Its Treasure
- Naked Mole Rats Have Been Caught Kidnapping Other Mole Rat Babies, And It Gets Creepier
- Study Shows We Might Be Thinking About Joint Injuries in The Wrong Way
- An Ancient Maya City Had a Surprisingly Effective Water Filtration System
- Medieval Church Ruins Found With 'Witch Marks' Removed For a High-Speed Rail
- Even Short, Minute-Long Encounters May Matter When It Comes to Spreading COVID-19
- Elevated Radiation Found Near US Fracking Sites Has Public Health Experts Worried
- Just Like Humans, Chimps Focus on High-Quality Friendships in Old Age
- Study in 19 Countries Shows We May Struggle to Get High Uptake of a COVID-19 Vaccine
- Special Type of DNA in Owl Eyes May Be a 'Lens' That Supercharges Night Vision
- For The First Time, Astronomers See Plumes of Sulfur Dioxide From The Volcanoes of Io
- Wild Pandas Have Been Caught Mating on Film For The First Time – And It's Not Pretty
- You've Heard of Vantablack. Scientists Just Created 'Super White', And It's Very Cool
- Researchers Discover a Second 'Key' That Makes The New Coronavirus So Infectious
- Daycares in Finland Built a 'Forest Floor', And It Changed Children's Immune Systems
- FDA Grants Full Approval For Use of Antiviral Remdesivir to Treat COVID-19
- The 20th Century's Greatest Debunker Has Died, Leaving a Precious Legacy of Truth
- Alien Planets Around 1,000 Nearby Stars Could Be Looking Straight Back at Earth
- Some COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates May Make People More Vulnerable to HIV, Scientists Warn
- The First Star in Our Galaxy Caught Sending Out Fast Radio Bursts Is Doing It Again
- World's Largest Solar Farm to Be Built in Australia – But They Won't Get The Power
- Here It Is: The Spectacular Footage of NASA Touching Down on an Asteroid
- Scientists Analysed Twinkies Kept in a Basement For 8 Years, And Got a Surprise
- NASA Will Announce an 'Exciting New Discovery About The Moon' on Monday
- A Controversial Lost Tectonic Plate May Have Been Discovered by Geologists
- Will We Ever Get to 'Zero COVID-19'? An Immunologist Weighs in
- Catastrophic Trigger That Led to Earth's Largest Mass Extinction Revealed in Fossils
- This Beetle's Shell Is So Diabolically Tough It Can Be Driven Over. Now We Know How
- Mouthwash May Help to Neutralise Coronavirus, Experiment With Human Cells Suggests
- The Orionids Meteor Shower Peaks This Week. Here's How to Watch
- 14-Year-Old From Texas Wins Top Science Prize For Coronavirus Molecule Discovery
- The Ozone Hole Over Antarctica Has Grown Much Deeper And Wider in 2020
- UK Scientists Want to Give Healthy Volunteers SARS-CoV-2 to Study Infection
- What Is an Asteroid?
- NASA Just Successfully Touched Down on an Asteroid
- What Is The Spanish Flu?
- Watch Live: A NASA Spacecraft Is About to Land on an Asteroid And Grab a Sample
- Scientists Have Piloted a Tumbling Microbot Inside an Animal Colon For The First Time
- 24-Million-Year-Old Nursery For Baby Megasharks Discovered in South Carolina
- The Closest Black Hole to Earth May Not Actually Be a Black Hole After All
- Scientists Just Discovered a Mysterious Organ Lurking in The Centre of The Human Head
- Scientists Uncover Gorgeous 2,000-Year-Old Etching of a Giant Cat in Nazca Desert
- Babies May Consume a Million Microplastic Particles Each Day From Bottles, Study Finds
- ISS Crew Just Found an Elusive Air Leak Using Floating Tea Leaves
- Breathtaking Hubble Image Captures a Star That's Still Being Born
- Ice Melt in Alaska Threatens to Unleash Unprecedented 'Mega-Tsunami', Scientists Warn
- Study Says an Adorable Species May Be Doing Okay in Climate Change – The American Pika!
- Voyager Spacecraft Detect an Increase in The Density of Space Outside The Solar System
- There Are Snowcapped Mountains on Pluto, And We May Finally Know Why
- CBD Is Talked About as a Cure-All Online, Study Finds. But The Evidence Is Lacking
- How Much Do Our Genes Really Influence Our Free Will?
- Here's How to Safely Celebrate Halloween During A Global Pandemic
- Scientists Measure The Shortest Length of Time Ever: Zeptoseconds
- Since 1995, We've Lost More Than 50% of Great Barrier Reef Corals
- Could Schrödinger's Cat Exist in Real Life? Physicists May Soon Find Out
- The Very First Forms of Life May Have Been More Animal-Like Than We Ever Realised
- This Martian Lava Tube Could Swallow Earth's Biggest Lava Tube More Than 3 Times
- Bar-Tailed Godwit Breaks Record by Flying Nonstop From Alaska to New Zealand
- Chilling Experiment Pinpoints The Moment You Have a Venus Flytrap's Full Attention
- What We Know And Don't Know About COVID-19 Reinfection Cases
- Graphene Reveals a Super-Rare Form of Magnetism When 3 Layers Combine Together
- Study Finds a Key Factor That Makes Some Friends Feel More Supportive Than Others
- Etching a Simple Pattern on Solar Panels Boosts Light Absorption by 125%, Study Shows
- Two High-Speed Pieces of Space Junk Just Narrowly Missed a Major Collision
- 'An Archaeological Emergency': Artifacts Are Emerging From Melting Alpine Glaciers
- It's Bad That Most Animals Used in Experiments Never Appear in Published Research
- Astronomers Report That Venus' Atmosphere Contains a Building Block of Protein
- Huge, 'Impossible' Crystals in Denmark Have Finally Been Explained by Scientists
- Adult Wolves Get Attached to Their Humans Just Like Dogs Do
- Betelgeuse Is Neither as Far Nor as Large as We Thought, And It's a Total Bummer
- Earth's 'Barren' Deserts Actually Have Millions of Trees, Surprising Data Reveal
- We Just Got More Evidence Your Blood Type May Change COVID-19 Risk And Severity
- Oxygen Supply Just Failed in Part of The ISS, But Everyone Is Safe So Far
- First Study of Its Kind Reveals How We Can Slow Down Propaganda Memes Online
- The Moon May Have Shielded Early Earth From The Sun, Protecting Our Atmosphere
- This Startup Is Making Fully Edible 'Plastic' Sauce Packets Out of Seaweed
- Experts Watch in Horror as 2 Dead Satellites Are on Track For a Potential Collision
- When Will The Pandemic End? If We Look at History, The Answer Is Not So Simple
- The Latest Soyuz Launch Just Delivered The ISS Crew in 3 Hours! It Used to Take Days
- Even The Deepest Parts of The Ocean Are Slowly Beginning to Warm
- Penis Bones Could Be Scooping Out The Sperm of Competitors in Some Animals
- In New Milestone, Physicists Store And Transport Light Using Quantum Memory
- Creating Hallucinations Without Any Drugs Is Actually Surprisingly Easy
- For The First Time, Physicists Have Achieved Superconductivity at Room Temperature
- We Just Found Another Trick Tardigrades Use to Be Basically Indestructible
- Which 'Milk' Is Better For The Environment? The Answer May Surprise You
- Astronomers Solve Mystery of a Galaxy Containing 99.99% Dark Matter
- 800 Years Ago, Old Faithful Went Quiet. Soon, It Might Happen Again
- Two COVID-19 Trials Were Just Paused Within 24 Hours Over Safety Concerns
- Chilling Report Suggests 1 Out of 5 Countries Could Be Headed For Ecosystem Collapse
- What Is Artificial Intelligence?
- A Massive WWII Bomb Has Exploded in Poland During a Defusal Operation
- Who Is Rosalind Franklin?
- COVID-19 Has Caused Over 1 Million Mink to Be Killed Due to Culling at Fur Farms
- Fireflies Love to Synchronise Their Flashing Lights. Now, We Finally Know How
- Do Couples Start Looking More Alike Over Time? New Study Finally Solves The Mystery
- Earth's Space Debris Problem Is Getting Worse, And There's an Explosive Component
- Your Likelihood of Contracting COVID-19 May Not Be Age-Dependent, Study Shows
- Multivitamins Don't Necessarily Make You Healthier. Here's Why
- COVID-19 Reinfection Cases Raise Concern About Sustained Immunity to The Virus
- World's Biggest Arctic Mission Just Returned Home, And The Discoveries Are Chilling
- Our World Really Has Been Quieter During The Pandemic, Study Reveals
- Witness The Very Last Scream of Light From a Star Devoured by a Black Hole
- Sorry, But Dogs May Prefer The Faces of Other Dogs to Those of Humans
- Geologists Solve Crucial Mystery Surrounding The Deposits of Rare Earth Elements
- Astronomers Detect Eerie Glow Still Radiating From Neutron Star Collision Years Later
- Lab Study Shows SARS-CoV-2 Can Last on Some Surfaces For 28 Days
- The True Details About The Excavation of That 'German Harem' Are Way More Interesting
- 12 US States Just Hit Record COVID-19 Case Counts. It Could Be The Dreaded 2nd Wave
- Engineer Says Where You Sit in a Room Can Influence Your Risk of Catching COVID-19
- 25-Year Study of Nuclear vs Renewables Says One Is Clearly Better at Cutting Emissions
- Scientists Have Recreated The Initial Steps of HIV Infection in a Test Tube
- Female Moles Grow Testicles to Fight Through Their Brutal Underground Existence
- Scientists May Be Able to Treat Tinnitus With Electronic Music And Tongue Buzzing
- Poisonous Caterpillars That Look Like Bad Wigs Are Popping Up All Over Virginia
- Astronomers Are Using Black Hole Echoes to Help Map The Universe
- An Autoimmune-Like Antibody Response Has Been Linked With Severe COVID-19
- There May Be Planets Out There Better Suited to Life Than Earth
- The Atmosphere of One of The Hottest Exoplanets in The Galaxy Is Full of Metal
- Your Brain Remembers Where You Left Junk Food Easier Than Healthy Snacks, Study Hints
- Here's The First Thing You Need to Do if You Think You've Been Exposed to COVID-19
- Physicists Just Confirmed The Upper Limit For The Speed of Sound in The Universe
- Asteroid Bennu Carries Organic Materials Consistent With Ingredients For Life
- Incredible Photo Shows a Rocket Pass in Front of The Moon. Here's How It Was Captured
- More Humans Are Growing an Extra Artery in Our Arms, Showing We're Still Evolving
- Iceland's Most Active Volcano Looks Like It's Getting Ready to Erupt Again
- 1,200-Year-Old Temple to Thor And Odin Has Been Unearthed in Norway
- NASA Finds Billion-Year-Old Sand Dunes Preserved on Mars, And They Look Familiar
- This Newly Discovered Parrot-Like Dinosaur Lost a Finger to Evolution
- Authorities Investigate Mass Deaths of Sea Life Off The Coast of Russia
- Some Fish Can Regenerate Their Eyes. Turns Out, Mammals Have Those Genes Too
- Emergency Authorisation Was Just Requested For a New COVID-19 Treatment
- Study Confirms 'Slow Blinks' Really Do Work to Communicate With Your Cat
- Damage Similar to Alzheimer's Has Been Found in Young Brains Exposed to Air Pollution
- That Space Station Air Leak Has Finally Been Isolated Further, Says Roscosmos
- What Does The Historic 2020 Nobel Win Really Mean For Women in Science?
- Biologists Find Spectacular Bird That's Both Male And Female, Split Down The Middle
- Amazing Footage Reveals Human Cells Squeezing Through Impossibly Tight Spaces
- Brain Cells Turned to Glass Found in a Victim of The Vesuvius Eruption
- Who Is Marie Curie?
- Astronomers Reveal The Youngest Baby Planet Structures We've Ever Seen
- A Historical Epidemic Has Been Making a Scary Comeback Due to a Bacterial 'Clone'
- Nobel-Prize Winning Black Hole Researcher Holds a Map of Stars in Her Mind
- What Are Meteor Showers?
- Here's How The Steroid Dexamethasone Can Make a COVID-19 Patient Feel
- Irregular Menstruation Was Just Linked to Early Death. Here's Why That's Important
- There's a Scientific Use For Those Neat Precarious Rocks, And It Could Be Life-Saving
- Megalodon Was Stupendously Big Even Amongst Its Dead Relatives, Study Reveals
- Here's How Fake Turtle Eggs Are Helping Scientists Fight Crime in Costa Rica
- The Most Detailed Image Yet of The Carina Nebula Will Blow Your Mind
- Life-Saving Virus Research Was Just Rewarded With The Nobel Medicine Prize 2020
- CDC Finally Admitted How Far The Coronavirus Actually Travels in Enclosed Spaces
- Skull Shows an Anglo-Saxon Teen Had Her Nose And Lips Cut Off 1,100 Years Ago
- A Sustainable, Poverty-Free Future Is Possible For All Humanity, Study Reveals
- Physicists Just Showed That Graphene Circuits Can Produce Clean, Limitless Power
- As The World Focuses on Coronavirus Another Devastating Health Threat Is Brewing
- Oat Milk, Almond, Dairy or Soy? A Dietitian Breaks Down Your 'Milk' Options
- Why Do Mirrors Flip Things Horizontally But Not Vertically? Here's The Physics
- This Week, Mars Is The Closest to Earth It'll Be For Another 15 Years
- We Now Have Proof a Supernova Exploded Perilously Close to Earth 2.5 Million Years Ago
- Snakes Have Been Found Slicing Open Live Toads And Devouring Their Organs One by One
- New Study Reveals Global Warming Is Affecting Night-Time Temperatures Differently
- Melting Antarctic Snow Is Revealing The Preserved Remains of 800-Year-Old Penguins
- Archaeologists Just Unveiled a Fully Intact Mummy That's Been Sealed For 2,500 Years
- Scientists May Have Figured Out Where Unwanted Thoughts Are Hiding in The Brain
- We're Finally Getting Closer to Solving The Mystery of Glass's Perplexing Strength
- 35 Years of Research Into Coronavirus Infections Show Long-Term Immunity Is Unlikely
- Astronomers Say They've Detected a Rogue Earth-Mass Planet Drifting in The Milky Way
- A New Chemical 'Tree of The Origins of Life' Reveals Our Possible Molecular Evolution
- Mysterious Post-COVID Syndrome Found in Kids Is Now Also Affecting Adults
- Here's What We Know About The Antibody Treatment Trump Is Getting For COVID-19
- Physicists Have Successfully Connected Two Large Objects in Quantum Entanglement
- Link Between Alzheimer's Disease And Sleep Apnea Discovered in Brain Tissue
- Scientists Reveal First Direct Image of an Exoplanet Only 63 Light-Years Away
- Astronomers Find Monster Black Hole With 6 Galaxies Trapped in Its Gravitational Web
- Dramatic Timelapse From Hubble Shows a Star Literally Exploding in Nothingness
- Could Poop Transplants in Milk Rebalance The Microbiomes of C-Section Babies?
- Due to Extremely Rare Situation, Woman Suffers Brain Fluid Leak From COVID-19 Swab
- A Nuclear Breakthrough Could Help Us Make The Most Accurate Clock in Existence
- Breathtaking Discovery of Australian Cave Art Shows Nature And Humans in Harmony
- Venus Might Have Been a Temperate Habitable World if It Wasn't For Jupiter
- Even The Immense Darkness of a Black Hole Obeys Einstein's Theory, Study Shows
- Risk of Severe Coronavirus Linked to Neanderthal Genes From 60,000 Years Ago
- NASA Detected Phosphine on Venus Decades Ago And Didn't Realise, Scientists Claim
- The First Person to Be Cured of HIV Has Passed Away From Cancer