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- An Enormous 'Radio Jellyfish' Just Rose From The Dead in The Night Sky
- We've Found Deep Parts of The Sea Where The Last Ice Age Never Actually Ended
- Particles of a Meteor Explosion From 430,000 Years Ago Found Hidden in Antarctic Ice
- Here's What COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects to Expect Based on Your Age, Sex, And Dose
- We Finally Have Synthetic Mucus. Here's Why That Matters
- Physicists Just Crushed a New Record For Slowing Down Antimatter
- Scientists Discover a Hidden Law Behind The Pointy Bits on All Living Things
- A Pacific Storm Cloud Has Smashed The Records For Coldest Temperature Ever
- Guess What Just Happened to The Latest SpaceX Starship Prototype
- Visual Illusion Reveals That Depression Can Change How We Physically See The World
- A Gamma-Ray Burst Just Revealed a 'Goldilocks' Black Hole in The Early Universe
- The Genetic Signal of Ancient Australians in South America Goes Deeper Than We Knew
- Researchers Find The Gene Responsible For One of The Deadliest Breast Cancer Types
- This Interstellar Object Could Be The First Truly Pristine Comet We've Ever Seen
- The Earliest Cherry Blossom Season in 1,200 Years Is Here Due to Climate Change
- Humans Have The Biological Toolkit to Have Venomous Saliva, Study Finds
- WHO Officials Have Ruled on The Likely Source of COVID-19 in a New Report
- We Finally Know Why Cold Makes Our Teeth Hurt – And How to Stop It
- Scientists Built an Artificial Cell That Grows And Divides Like a Natural One
- Mysterious Glow Caught in Our Galaxy's Center Really Could Be Due to Dark Matter
- Does Coffee Really Stunt Children's Growth? Here's The Science
- 99% of Australia's Wild Dog 'Problem' Turns Out to Be a Different Animal
- Googling Your Symptoms Might Not Be a Horrible Idea After All
- Phew, an Earth Impact From a Notorious Asteroid Was Just Ruled Out by Astronomers
- So, Ever Given Is Absolutely, Totally Stuck. An Expert Explains How to Save a Megaship
- There's One Really Shameful Aspect of The Global Vaccine Rollout, Says UN Chief
- People Underestimate Female Pain, Even When They Are Obviously Suffering
- US Fossil Fuel Companies Get a Shocking Amount of Implicit Subsidies Each Year
- Are Artificial Sweeteners Healthier Than Sugar or No? Here's What Experts Think
- Cannibalistic Moths Help Scientists Understand How Extreme Selfishness Evolves
- Distributing Energy on The Moon Could Just Be a Matter of Bending Sunlight
- The Newest British Bank Note Features Alan Turing And Geeky Puzzles, Flourishes
- The Trouble With Dinosaur Bones
- Drinking Coffee Before Exercise Can Do Something Pretty Awesome to Your Body
- Scientists Ranked The Most Dangerous And Toxic Pollutants in US Landfills
- Scientists Thrilled to Observe The First Milliseconds of Gold Crystal Formation
- Scientists Discover Deep-Sea Microbes That Are Invisible to Our Immune System
- These Huge 'Demon Ducks' With Squished Brains Were an Extreme Evolutionary Experiment
- Groundbreaking Study Reveals The Extent of Brain Abnormalities in American Children
- SpaceX Debris Creates Spectacular Lightshow Over The US Pacific Northwest
- Pregnant Women Vaccinated With Pfizer or Moderna Actually Pass Antibodies to Babies
- This Discovery Just Changed What We Know About The Earliest Life Forms on Earth
- Enceladus Could Have Ocean Currents Similar to Those on Earth
- We Finally Know The Genetic Reason Why This Bunny Walks on Its Front Paws
- Scientists Have Simulated The Primordial Quantum Structure of Our Universe
- After 25 Years, We Finally Know The Mystery Cause of Gruesome Bald Eagle Deaths
- Huge US Trial Results Revise The Efficacy of AstraZeneca Vaccine to 76%
- One of The Earliest Stone Tool Types Could Date Back 2.6 Million Years, New Data Show
- We Have The First-Ever Confirmation of Alternating Sleep States in an Octopus
- Global Warming Is 'Fundamentally' Changing The Structure of Our World's Oceans
- Yep, Cheap Wine Really Does Taste Better if You Increase The Price Tag
- Something Invisible Is Tearing Apart The Nearest Star Cluster to Earth
- Scientists Found a Key Neurological Switch That Makes Human Brains So Large
- Thousands of Jellyfish Are Dying Worldwide, And 'The Blob' Could Play a Role
- A Telescope Sunk Into World's Deepest Lake Has Started The Hunt For 'Ghost Particles'
- Fossils Reveal Cephalopods May Be 30 Million Years Older Than We Thought
- Flu Shots Are Linked to a Drop in COVID-19 Infections, And Scientists Aren't Sure Why
- Neuroscientists Detect Confused 'Zombie' Cells in The Human Brain After Death
- We Just Got Even More Evidence of Humans Interbreeding With Mysterious Denisovans
- Vast Fragments of an Alien World Could Be Buried Deep Within Earth Itself
- For The First Time, Twisted Light Reveals Magnetic Fields Around The Black Hole M87*
- More Results From The Large Hadron Collider Point to Entirely New Physics
- A 4th Coronavirus Surge Is Threatening The US Due to a List of Reasons
- A Banned Experimental Stimulant From 1940s Was Just Found in Weight Loss Supplements
- A Star Just Exploded in The Sky, And It Is Easy to Observe
- The World's Oldest Known Wooden Statue Is Over 7,000 Years Older Than Stonehenge
- Neanderthals Used a Really Familiar Tool For Their Dental Hygiene, Study Shows
- Our Brains Could Be Directly Involved in Processing Alcohol, Mouse Study Hints
- New 'Map of Life' Reveals Where Unknown Animals May Still Live on Earth
- COVID-19 Vaccine in The Form of a Pill Is Set to Enter First Clinical Trials
- Infamous Scroll Claims to Be Oldest Copy of Ten Commandments. Is It Fake or Not?
- After 50 Years, Physicists Confirm The Existence of an Elusive Quasiparticle
- Does Your Bad Mood Stick Around? Neuroscientists Find Key Brain Region Involved
- An Astronomer Just Laid Out a Navigation System For Interstellar Space Travel
- The US Just Vaccinated 6+ Million People Against COVID-19 in Just 2 Days
- Heart Problems in Pets Could Be Linked to COVID Variant. Here's What You Must Know
- Scientists Just Demonstrated How These 'Spiders' Might Form on Mars
- This New AI Exists For The Sole Purpose of Arguing With Humans
- Israel's 'Cave of Horrors' Has Yielded a Treasure Trove of Startling New Discoveries
- Mind-Blowing Photos Reveal Icelandic Eruption That Was 900 Years in The Making
- The Sensitivity of Human Fingertips Is Greater Than We Ever Imagined
- Semi-Transparent Solar Cells Can Power Greenhouses Without Stunting Plant Growth
- Melting Glaciers May Be Playing a Subtle But Key Part in Alaska's Earthquakes
- We All Do It, But Is It Actually Safe to Reuse Plastic Water Bottles?
- We Finally Know How Sperm 'Remember' And Pass on Non-DNA-Coded Traits to Embryos
- The Calved Brunt Ice Shelf Reveals a Seafloor Teeming With Life Hidden For 50 Years
- Sperm Whales Learned How to Dodge Harpoons And Taught The Skills to Others
- Echoes From a Comet That Crashed in 1994 Have Revealed New Data on Jupiter
- Bottom Trawling in The Ocean Is Running The Tap on Earth's Largest Carbon Sink
- Take in The Colorful Beauty of Perseverance's Landing Courtesy of Talented Mars Fans
- Biofluorescent Fish Have Finally Been Spotted in Arctic Waters, And They're a Little Unusual
- The Threat of Cascading Extinctions on Earth Could Be Greater Than We Thought
- Australian Bushfires Spewed Volcanic Eruption-Worth of Aerosols Into The Stratosphere
- An Unexpected Hubble Discovery Just Changed Our Understanding of Star Formation
- That Dramatic Beijing 'Sandstorm' Was Actually Something Worse, Says Geologist
- Ancient Vertebrates May Have Had Tools For Walking Long Before They Left The Ocean
- The Tragic Beirut Explosion Was So Violent, It Disturbed Earth's Ionosphere
- A Photographer Spent 12 Years Making This Milky Way Pic. It Will Crush Your Tiny Heart
- NASA's Enormous Moon Rocket Core Just Passed a Grueling Test
- AstraZeneca Vaccine Was Just Declared Safe by The EMA. Here's What That Means
- Molecules Never Before Seen in Space Have Been Identified Among The Stars
- As if We Needed It, a Major Review Just Confirmed 5G to Be Completely Safe
- Ocean Creatures Mysteriously Swim in Circles, And Scientists Don't Know Why
- Embryo-Like Forms Coaxed From Skin Cells Offer a Divisive New Way to Study Human Life
- Bacteria Behind UTIs Make Their Own DNA Building Blocks From Your Urine
- Long COVID Symptoms Are Vanishing For Some Vaccinated Patients, And We Don't Know Why
- Bitcoin Consumes More Electricity Than Most Countries in The World. Here's Why
- New Ebola Outbreak Suggests The Virus Might Lurk For Years Inside People
- Gigantic Stone 'Tiger Stripes' Etched Across Ethiopia Pose an Ancient Mystery
- Deadly Superbug Identified on Sandy Beach in Remote Tropical Archipelago
- Groundbreaking New Images of Cosmic Web Strands Revealed by Astronomers
- The Birth of Jupiter's Mysterious Auroral Storms Has Been Observed For The First Time
- More Twins Are Being Born Today Than Ever Before in History. Here's Why
- Origins of Mysterious Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua May Finally Be Explained
- The AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine And Risk of Blood Clots: What You Need to Know
- Mars' Vanished Oceans May Be Trapped Within The Planet, Scientists Say
- Coronavirus Infections in US May Be Twice as High as Official Figures, Study Warns
- Lightning Bolts Could Have Delivered The Spark That Started Life on Earth
- Scientists Grew Tear Glands in a Dish, And Made Them Cry
- Adorable Snoozing Lemurs Are Teaching Scientists The Secrets of Hibernation
- Gigantic Supernova Remnant Lurking in Space Is Largest Discovery of Its Kind
- Microbes Unknown to Science Discovered on The International Space Station
- There's a Reason Giant Sinkholes Keep Swallowing Things, But We Can Make It Stop
- Wormholes Across The Universe Are Fully Traversable, New Calculations Show
- Record-Breaking Sandstorm Chokes Beijing in a Surreal Veil of Orange Dust
- Ancient Plants Buried a Mile Under Greenland's Ice Are a Grim Warning From The Past
- The Amazon May Now Actually Be Making Climate Change Worse, Scientists Warn
- Scientists Reveal How Many Interstellar Objects May Be Visiting Our Solar System
- 'Restless' Supermassive Black Hole Found Mysteriously Wandering in Space
- Giant Space Telescope Submerged Thousands of Feet Below World's Deepest Lake
- Giant Brood of Billions of Insects Set to Emerge in US in Mass Synchronized Event
- 'Lunar Ark' Could Safeguard Millions of Species' DNA on The Moon
- Outbreak of Mysterious Paralyzing Condition Squashed by COVID–19 Pandemic
- The Layers of Narwhal's Tusk Tell The History of Its Life in a Rapidly Changing World
- What Is Pi?
- Did Humans Once Wipe Out Neanderthals? Here's What We Know
- Interactive Map Highlights The Best Places to Plant New Trees in The US
- Researchers Unlock The Antikythera Mechanism's Ancient Secrets
- Hubble's Latest Image Release Is So Beautiful, It Should Be Illegal
- Scientists Now Know How Squid 'Exquisitely Optimized' Camouflage in Shimmery Shallows
- Some Women Were Big-Game Hunters, Complicating Ancient Gender Roles
- An Underwater Revolution Millions of Years Ago Rewrote The Script of The Ocean
- We Finally Know What's Going on With That Weird, Long, Recurring Cloud on Mars
- Contentious Hypothesis Posits Humans Brains Grew Larger as We Hunted Smaller Prey
- This Nearby Exoplanet May Have Lost Its Atmosphere, And Then Made a New One
- Ancient Magma From Earth's Early Days Discovered in Rocks From Greenland
- For The First Time, We've Examined The Stomach Contents of a 47-Million-Year-Old Fly
- The Largest Asteroid to Pass Earth This Year Is Rapidly Approaching
- Bacteria Could Be The First Organisms Found to Use Quantum Effects to Survive
- Dazzling Treasures Unearthed in Bronze Age Grave Likely Belonged to a Queen
- Several Countries Just Suspended AstraZeneca Vaccine, But No Health Issues Confirmed
- What Did I Come in Here For? New Study Explains The Weird 'Doorway Effect'
- Suspicions on True Origin of World's Oldest 'Impact Crater' Have Now Been Confirmed
- Scientists Find a Natural Protein That Stops Allergies And Autoimmune Conditions
- Faster-Than-Light Travel Is Possible Within Einstein's Physics, Astrophysicist Shows
- The Verdict Is in: You Only Need One Vaccine Dose if You've Already Had COVID-19
- Secrets From Ancient Bones Have Changed What We Know About The Scythians
- Ancient Earth Really Was a Serene Water World, New Evidence Confirms
- Analysis of Chilling Massacre Site Unearthed in Croatia Points to a 'Random Killing'
- Perseverance Has Officially Started Its Search For Signs of Life on Mars
- We Just Found The Secret Weapon That Makes Cotton The Best For Reusable Face Masks
- Pollen Can Raise Your COVID-19 Risk, Even if You Don't Have Allergies
- Harrowing Report Finds 110,000 People Were Contaminated by French Nuclear Tests
- Physicists Just Made The Smallest Gravitational Field Measurement Ever
- Jaw-Dropping Fossil Find Contains a Dinosaur Sitting on an Entire Clutch of Eggs
- A 'Relic of The Early Solar System' Was Just Found on a Driveway in England
- We Finally Know The True Age of The Huge, Mysterious Objects in Laos' Plain of Jars
- Northern Hemisphere Summers Are Trending Towards a Hugely Disruptive Length
- Sea-Level Rise Affects Coastal Areas 4 Times Faster Than We Thought. Here's Why
- Neanderthals Vanished From Europe Thousands of Years Earlier Than We Thought
- If You Use Cannabis, Here's What You Need to Know About Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Humans Have Surprising Similarities to Strange Creatures From 550 Million Years Ago
- This Is a Piece of a Lost Protoplanet, And It's Officially Older Than Earth
- Percy's Landing Site Has Been Named For Octavia E. Butler, And It Fits So Beautifully
- Get Ready to Hug! CDC Just Released First Guidelines For Fully Vaccinated People
- How Your Brain Registers Loneliness Could Have a Strange Link to Wisdom
- These Self-Decapitating Sea Slugs Can Grow an Entire New Body on The Old Head
- In Surprise Twist, COVID-19 Can Cause Weird Skin Rashes. Here's What to Look Out For
- A Single Cave in Germany Is One Possible Origin of Early Wolf Domestication
- We've Found The Best Time And Place to Live in The Milky Way… And It's Not Here
- AI Can Now Learn What Faces You Find Attractive Directly From Your Brain Waves
- A Foreign Object Stuck in Teen's Nose For 8 Years Led to a 'Mysterious Odor'
- One Type of Bat Mysteriously Can't Echolocate. We May Finally Know Why
- Humans Now Control The Majority of All Surface Freshwater Fluctuations on Earth
- Echidnas Do Their Part to Fight Climate Change Without Even Thinking About It
- Humans Evolved to Be More Water-Efficient Than Other Primates, But We Don't Know Why
- What Is Endometriosis?
- Researchers Capture Images of Newborns' Lungs as They Take Their Very First Breaths
- Perseverance Is Officially Roving Mars After a Successful Test Drive
- Some Animals Will Go to Social Distancing Extremes if It Means Keeping The Group Safe
- Astronomers Have Found The First Evidence For Tectonic Activity on an Exoplanet
- No, The COVID-19 Vaccines Don't Cause Infertility. Here's Why
- Scientists Develop an 'Elevator' to Generate Kelp For Biofuels 4x Faster Than Normal
- This Switch Takes Us an Important Step Closer to a Quantum Internet
- Eiffel Tower-Sized Asteroid Zipping by Earth in Dress Rehearsal For Closer 2029 Flyby
- Vaccine Hoarding Could Make The Pandemic Drag on an Extra 7 Years
- Octopuses Not Only Feel Pain Physically, But Emotionally Too, First Study Finds
- According to One Key Measure, China Just Increased Its Innovation Lead Over The US
- The Latest Chatbots Are Capable of 'Resurrecting' The Dead – if We Let Them
- For The First Time, Organic Matter Crucial For Life Has Been Found on an Asteroid's Surface
- Physicists Just Found 4 New Subatomic Particles That May Test The Laws of Nature
- South-West Iceland's Been Hit by 17,000 Earthquakes This Week. It May Be About to Erupt
- This Exoplanet May Be Our Best Chance of 'Seeing' The Atmosphere of an Alien World
- How Did This Skull End Up All Alone in a Cave in Italy? We Finally Have an Answer
- Scientists Detect Signs of a Hidden Structure Inside Earth's Core
- Watch a Super-Elusive Moonflower Cactus Bloom in This Gorgeous, Rare Time Lapse
- What Happens When People Get Infected With 2 Strains of COVID at Once?
- Engineers Have Proposed The First Model For a Physically Possible Warp Drive
- First Results From California's Universal Basic Income Trial Show Employment Rose
- Update: SpaceX Successfully Landed Starship For The First Time – Before It Exploded
- We Just Found The Largest Luminous Glowing Shark Species in The World
- Strange Earthquakes in Utah Reveal Volcanic Activity Hidden Below The Desert
- Benefits of LSD Microdosing Might Just Be a Manifestation of The Placebo Effect
- Awkwardly, Research Shows 98% of Conversations Don't End When We Want Them to
- Enjoy It While It Lasts: Dropping Oxygen Will Eventually Suffocate Most Life on Earth
- Renaissance-Era Letter Sealed For Centuries Just Virtually Unfolded And Read For The First Time
- For The First Time, A 'Space Hurricane' Has Been Detected Over The North Pole
- A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children
- Landmark Study Shows Soil Pesticide Reduces Wild Bee Reproduction by 89%
- Experimental CRISPR Treatment Cuts Cholesterol in Mice by Up to 57% in a Single Shot
- COVID Found Mutating Inside a Baby Born With The Virus, in a World First
- Study of Over 600,000 Women Shows Almost Half Are Getting The Wrong UTI Treatment
- Dads Who Take a More Hands-on Role Their Kid's First Year Have Better Mental Health
- The Oldest Known Mummification 'Recipe' Has Been Unearthed, And It's Intense
- Eerie Stars of 'Dark Matter' May Be Behind Largest Gravitational Wave Detection Yet
- People Are Accidentally Poisoning Themselves Trying to Treat COVID With a Horse Drug
- There's Another New Variant of SARS-CoV-2 Spreading Fast. Here's What We Know So Far
- In a Momentous Discovery, Scientists Show Neanderthals Could Produce Human-Like Speech
- Can You Spot The Perseverance Rover in This Breathtaking Satellite Image of Mars?
- Small Study Reveals a Link Between Suicide And People's Perception of Time
- Huge, Global Study of Plastic Toys Finds Over 100 Substances That May Harm Children
- Long Before The Pandemic, The UN Was Urging Us to Transform Our Economic System
- Slime Mold Doesn't Have a Brain, But It Can 'Remember' Where to Find Food
- Your Indifferent Cat Won't Choose Your Friend Over Your Enemy, Research Finds