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- Engineers at Google's DeepMind Have Made a Major Advance in Weather 'Nowcasting'
- Gigantic Comet Approaching From Outer Solar System May Be The Largest Ever Seen
- Wild Idea Envisions Future Spacecraft Spraying Their Own Instant Landing Pads
- YouTube Bans All Anti-Vaxx Content in Sweeping Bid to Suppress Misinformation
- Ancient Cave Sealed For 40,000 Years May Have Been Hideout of The Last Neanderthals
- Children Born Today Are in For a Life Full of Natural Disasters, Unless We Act Now
- Startling Discovery Reveals Mysterious Citadel Hidden in Ancient Maya City
- Astronomers Finally Know What Force Shaped The Ancient River Valleys on Mars
- Famous Viking Map of North America Turns Out to Be an Epic Loki-Worthy Deception
- Enigmatic Fossils From The Isle of Wight Reveal 2 New Predatory Dinosaurs
- Ancient Humans Tended The World's Most Dangerous Birds, Because of Course We Did
- Cold Showers Allegedly Have Health Benefits. Here's The Actual Science
- Largest Underwater Eruption Ever Recorded Gives Birth to Massive New Volcano
- Want to Live Forever? There's No Theoretical Limit to Human Lifespan, New Study Says
- All Identical Twins Appear to Carry a Hidden Chemical Signature on Their DNA
- There's a Horrible Bias That Makes Us Underestimate The Pain of Poorer People
- The Winds Near Jupiter's Great Red Spot Are Speeding Up, And No One Is Sure Why
- Mystery Gamma Rays Could Originate From Sleepy Black Holes, Astronomers Say
- The Eerie Perfection of 'Zen Stones': How Rocks Maintain Balance on Pillars of Ice
- New Data Strengthen The Case For a Simple Diet That Could Protect Against Alzheimer's
- Surge in Deadly 'Fake Pills' Prompts Rare Public Warning From The DEA
- How a Scientist's Blunder Let Loose Stomach-Bursting Parasites on a Remote Island
- Astronaut Captures Jaw-Dropping Photo of Aurora Blazing Gloriously Above Earth
- Landmark Vision Experiment in Kids Reveals What We Should Have Seen All Along
- This Tiny 'Vaccine Patch' Could Prompt Stronger Immune Response Than a Needle
- Official Sources Warn a Geomagnetic Storm Is Imminent, So Get Ready For Auroras
- The Common Kitchen Ingredient That Could Help if Your Child Swallows a Battery
- DNA Has Finally Revealed The Mysterious Origins of The Ancient Etruscans
- By 2500, Earth Will Be Alien to Humans if We Don't Act Now, Scientists Warn
- Even Mild COVID-19 Can Affect The Brain, And We Don't Know How Long It Lasts
- The Closest Related Virus to SARS-CoV-2 Has Just Been Discovered, And It's in Bats
- Do Ice Baths Actually Improve Muscle Recovery? Read This Before You Try It Out
- There's a Pretty Glaring Issue With Tesla's Autopilot, Says New Study
- This Insane New Image of The Moon's Tycho Crater Is So Detailed It Barely Looks Real
- This One Tiny Animal Has Found a Way to Give Up Sex Completely, And Still Do Fine
- In a First, Scientists Track 1 Million Neurons Near-Simultaneously in a Mouse Brain
- The Evidence Is in – One Mask Type Stands Out as The Best Protection Against COVID-19
- Meta-Reviews Are Amplifying Bad And Even Fake Ivermectin Data, Researchers Warn
- There's a Reliable Method For Triggering Lucid Dreams, Scientists Have Found
- Breathtaking 'Einstein Ring' Reveals Views of a Galaxy 9.4 Billion Light-Years Away
- These Engineers Have Invented an Entirely New Approach to Recycling Plastic
- A Common Pain Relief Med Used in Pregnancy Should Be Taken With Caution, Experts Warn
- Astronomers Have Made an Unprecedented Detection of Clouds on a Far-Off Exoplanet
- It's Not 'Weakness' to Change Your Mind About Something Like Vaccines. Here's Why
- Rare Medical Case Hints 'Restless Arm Syndrome' Could Actually Be a Thing
- Parental Burnout in The US Is Among The Highest in The World, And We May Know Why
- Incredible Fossil Footprints Are The Earliest Known Trace of Humans in North America
- Three Record-Breaking Quakes Have Been Detected on Mars, And They're Fascinating
- Ice Melt at The Poles Is Now Causing Hidden Changes to Earth's Crust on a Huge Scale
- Hospital Reports a Scary Effect of Severe COVID-19 Is Far More Common Than Thought
- Study Discovers Startling Amounts of Microplastics in The Feces of Babies
- The Epic Span of Early Polynesian Sea Voyages Has Been Mapped in New Genetic Study
- This Microchip With Wings Is The Smallest Flying Structure Humans Have Ever Built
- We Can Save Millions of Lives Each Year by Implementing These New WHO Guidelines
- Those Cracks Found on The ISS Are Likely 'Serious', Says Former NASA Astronaut
- Fearsome Dinosaurs Like T. Rex Likely Waggled Their Tails While Running
- A Major Advance in Computing Solves a Complex Math Problem 1 Million Times Faster
- Astronomers Have Discovered a Giant, Empty Cavity Lurking in Space
- Viral Songs And Infectious Disease Have More in Common Than You'd Think, Study Finds
- Having 'Good' Gut Bacteria Could Really Help if You're Trying to Lose Weight
- NASA Announces a Dark, Eerie Moon Landing Site For Its Next Rover Mission
- A Giant Volcano Didn't Stop Ancient Maya From Taking The Ashes And Building a Pyramid
- We May Finally Know What Caused That Huge Ozone Hole in The Arctic Last Year
- Hidden Traces of a Massive Ancient City Are Still in Mexico's Landscape Today
- Hubble Has Captured The Startling 'Eye' of a Massive Stellar Explosion
- Daycares in Finland Built Their Own 'Forests', And It Changed Kids' Immune Systems
- Mysterious, Never-Before-Seen Signals Picked Up By New Gravitational Wave Detector
- A Landmark Autism Intervention Study Has Shown Dramatically Reduced Diagnosis Rates
- Mysterious Skeletons of an Unknown People Rewrite The History of Japanese Ancestry
- Pfizer's COVID Vaccine Is Safe For Younger Children, New Results Show
- Giant Space Rock Blast Wiped Out Ancient City With 1,000 Times Hiroshima's Ferocity
- There Could Be an Extremely Simple Reason Why Mars Isn't as Suitable For Life
- Rechargeable 'Glow in The Dark' Plants Are The Green Light We've Been Waiting For
- The Placebo Effect Is an Amazing Illusion, But That Doesn't Mean It's Medicine
- Large-Scale Study Shows The Moon Exerts a Powerful Influence on How We Sleep
- There's a Serious Problem With How Heart Symptoms Are Treated in Women, Study Reveals
- The Deep Seas Near New Zealand Have Yielded 6 New Species of Bizarre Sponges
- COVID-19 Vaccines Seem to Affect Periods, And That's Finally Being Investigated
- SpaceX Just Marked Another Huge Milestone in The History of Crewed Spaceflight
- New Study Explains Why Human Languages Share a Lot of The Same Grammar
- Mass Extinction Events Can Turn Freshwater Into Toxic Soup, And It's Already Happening
- The Sad Reason Some Primate Moms May Carry Around Their Dead Infants
- Only One Country Is on Track to Meet Its Climate Targets, Report Finds
- An Odd Result From a Dark Matter Detector Might Be Something Even Wilder
- The World's Longest Cave System Just Got Even Bigger
- Scientists Find a Blood-to-Brain Pathway in Mice That Could Be Behind Alzheimer's
- In 1181 a Rare Explosion Lit Up The Sky, And We May Have Finally Found What It Left Behind
- Forget Nasal Spray. There's a More Enjoyable Way to Clear Up a Stuffy Nose
- The Surprising Reason The Moon Has Fewer Craters Than It Probably Should
- Scars on T. Rex Skulls Suggest Their Courtship And Territory Battles Could Get Fierce
- Building Blocks For Life Have Been Found Within Planet-Forming Dust Clouds
- Spectacular Fossil Shows a 120-Million-Year-Old Bird With a Highly Impractical Tail
- An Elusive 'Missing Link' Mass Black Hole Has Been Caught Devouring a Star
- Something Large Just Smashed Into Jupiter
- Bone Discovery Suggests Humans Were Already Manufacturing Clothes 120,000 Years Ago
- Dogs Really Are Hard-Wired to Understand Humans From Birth, Experiments Show
- One Mozart Song Calms The Brains of People With Epilepsy, And We May Finally Know Why
- SpaceX Just Launched Its First All-Civilian Crew Into Space, And The View Is Incredible
- School Kids in New Zealand Discovered a Giant Penguin Fossil With Long Legs
- Thousands of Ancient Super-Eruptions Have Been Detected on Mars
- Interstellar Visitors Could Vanish in Space Before We Ever See Them. Here's Why
- Mysterious Stone Spheres Discovered in Ancient Tomb, But What Were They For?
- Incredible Ice Age Visualization Uncannily Resembles 'The Wall' From Game of Thrones
- Scientists Uncover Dozens of Ancient Baby Elephant Tracks, But They Didn't Walk Alone
- Amazing New Photos Give A Stunning Glimpse Into The Hidden World of Tiny Things
- Gigantic Plankton Bloom Larger Than Australia Spawned by Intense Bushfire Blazes
- Wild Experiment Coaxes Liquids Into Amazing Square And Hexagonal Shapes
- Physicists Create Swirling Tornado of Helium With First-Ever Atomic Vortex Beam
- We May Have Detected Another Hint of Gravitational Waves in Pulsing Stars
- People's Heartbeats Synchronize When They're Captivated by The Same Story
- Scientists Hung Rhinos Upside-Down From Helicopters… For Science
- Ancient Hand Prints of Children Said to Be The Earliest Prehistoric Art in The World
- This Fossilized Skin Sample of an Iconic Dinosaur Has Revealed Jaw-Dropping Details
- For The First Time, Scientists Have Entangled Three Qubits on Silicon
- All Modern Snakes Evolved From Just a Few Asteroid Survivors
- Concrete on Mars Could Literally Be Made Out of Astronaut Blood, Sweat, And Tears
- Scientists Figured Out How to Toilet Train Cows, And It's Totally Genius
- Neutron Beams Could Help Reveal The Elusive 'Fifth Force' of Nature, Scientists Say
- Scientists Just Revealed How High The Emissions From Animal Farming Really Are
- Scientists Just Identified Another Mysterious Surge in The Atmosphere Due to Humans
- Bioscientists Have an Ambitious New Plan to Resurrect The Extinct Woolly Mammoth
- Something in The Eyes Reveals if You're Looking at a Person Who Doesn't Exist
- Scientists Built a New Kind of Invisibility Cloak, But It's Not For Your Eyes
- A Clever 'Gene Silencing' Injection Has Been Approved For Treating High Cholesterol
- Physicists Just Accidentally Made a New Discovery About Black Holes
- Human Gut Bacteria Could Be Accumulating Our Medications Without Us Realizing
- A Disabled Parrot in New Zealand Has Taught Himself to Use Tools For Self-Care
- Haunting New Photo of Earth at Night Captures Our Planet's Fragile Beauty
- A Group of Gorillas in a Southern US Zoo Have Been Infected With COVID-19
- Researchers Generated an Entire Virtual Universe, And You Can Even Download It
- Ground Squirrels Have Four Specific Personalities That Shape Their Ecosystems
- Sunlight Can Bake Plastic Waste Into a Soup of Tens of Thousands of Organic Molecules
- We Finally Know Why Icy Plumes Flare Ahead of Deadly Supercell Storms
- Mammals Carry a Graveyard of Viruses in Our DNA, And It Could Have a Crucial Purpose
- Perseverance's Rock Samples Hint That Mars Had Long-Lasting Ancient Water
- Detox Diets That Rid Your Body of 'Toxins' Are Not All They're Cracked Up to Be
- We Now Know Why There Are Dead Galaxies Floating Lost in The Void of Space
- These Ridiculous Marsupials Start to Crawl Before They Even Grow a Single Bone
- The World's Oldest Known Forest Was Not Like We Imagined, New Study Shows
- SpaceX's First Civilian Astronauts 'Underestimated' How Intense The Training Would Be
- Worms Share Memories With Others by Swapping RNA, Wild Study Reveals
- Over 450 Previously Unknown Objects Have Been Discovered in Our Solar System
- Heartbreaking Footage of The Last Known Thylacine Has Now Been Released in Color
- There Really Is Such a Thing as Too Much 'Free Time', According to Science
- New Imaging Reveals Hidden Ice Age Landscapes Buried Deep in The North Sea
- 600 Cubes of Nazi Uranium Went Missing in The US. These Scientists Are on The Hunt
- Migrating Birds Follow The Whims of The Wind When Flying Non-Stop Across The Sea
- A Smoke Alarm Just Went Off on The International Space Station
- Geneticists Just Got Closer to The Sources of Lung Cancer in People Who Never Smoked
- MIT Physicists Just Majorly Advanced The Quest Towards Actual Fusion Power
- This Weird, Bone-Shaped Asteroid May Have Given Birth to Its Own Moons
- What Is Nuclear Fusion, And Why The Hype?
- Physicists Glimpse Signs of 'Triangle Singularity' in Unexpected First
- What Is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis?
- The World's Largest Carbon-Sucking Plant Just Became Operational
- T. Rex Wasn't Always at The Top of The Food Chain. Meet What Came Before
- Almost All of The World's Coal Is Now 'Unextractable', Scientists Warn
- Animal Bodies Are 'Shape-Shifting' to Survive Climate Change, Scientists Say
- Scientists Put Flies in 'Virtual Reality' to Explore How Vision Shapes Motion
- A Huge, Unknown Cambrian Bug Fossil Has Been Found in The Eerie Burgess Shale
- Nobody Really Knows if The Tesla Bot Is Real. But if It's Real, So Are The Risks
- The Threat of Supervolcano Eruptions Lingers For Thousands of Years, New Data Show
- Mars Is Bombarded With Radiation, But We May Have Just Found Natural Shelter
- Baby Birds Start Learning Songs From Inside Their Snug Eggs, Study Reveals
- Scientists Studied Thousands of Cats And Identified 7 Distinct Personality Traits
- Scientists Created a New Kind of Metal Where Electrons Flow Like a Fluid
- New Algorithm Can Identify Pre-Alzheimer's Brain Changes With Over 99% Accuracy
- Something Mysterious Near The Galactic Center Is Flashing Radio Signals
- Hundreds of Medical Journals Just United Together to Issue a Brutally Frank Warning
- NASA Testing Electric 'Air Taxi' Prototype Designed to Carry Passengers in The Sky
- The Next Solar Superstorm Could Unleash a Global 'Internet Apocalypse' Lasting Months
- When Robot Eyes Gaze Back at Humans, Something Changes in Our Brain And Behavior
- Google's Incredible New Photo AI Makes 'Zoom And Enhance' a Real Thing
- New Discovery on White Dwarf Deaths Could Help Predict The End on The Universe
- Study Suggests a New Number of Daily Steps For Health Benefits, And It's Not 10,000
- Antibiotic Resistance Has Been Found in Bears in Remote Scandinavia
- Ambitious Plan to Protect 80% of The Amazon Could Save It For Future Generations
- These Australian Ducks Can Learn to Swear Like People, And Biologists Are Excited
- Here's Why Taking Ivermectin 'For COVID' Can Be Dangerous For Your Body
- Ingenuity Is So Good, NASA's Mars Helicopter Mission Just Got an Exciting Update
- Astonishing Earthen Structures Showcase Early Native Americans' Engineering Skills
- Scientists Watch Bacteria Fix Broken DNA in Real Time to See Exactly How It's Done
- Scientists Figured Out How And When Our Sun Will Die, And It's Going to Be Epic
- 'A Complex Form of Empathy': Boars Hatch Breakout Plan to Save Two Caged Piglets
- Scientists May Have Just Found a Way to Make Chocolate Tempering Much Easier
- The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Affecting Space Launches. Here's Why
- Cute Experiment With Treats Shows Dogs Can Perceive Your True Intentions
- Researchers Have Finally Observed These Crafty Cockatoos Making 'Cutlery' in The Wild
- Why Trusting Your Gut Instinct Isn't Always The Best Move, According to Science
- Spectacular Pic of One of Our Weirdest Galactic Neighbors Reveals Fascinating Details
- A Bird in an Australian Zoo Has Learned to Perfectly Mimic a Crying Human Baby
- WHO Has Named a New COVID 'Variant of Interest'. Here's What You Need to Know
- First Study of Its Kind Finally Reveals How Dying Trees Affect Earth's Carbon Cycle
- Large UK Study Indicates a Simple Health Intervention to Reduce Risk of Long COVID
- Perseverance Just Drilled a 'Perfect' Rock Sample After The First One Crumbled
- Astronomers Identify an Entirely New Type of Supernova Born in a Violent Star Merger
- A Unique Mixture of Salts Could Have Sparked Life on Primordial Earth, Study Hints
- First In-Depth Study of 'Misokinesia' Phenomenon Shows It May Affect 1 in 3 People
- Physicists Have Successfully Advanced a Key Device For Producing Fusion Power
- Beer Was Drunk in China 9,000 Years Ago, But It Likely Wasn't For Recreation
- Is The 'Fetal Heartbeat' Detected at 6 Weeks Actually a Heartbeat? A Doctor Explains
- A Virologist Explains Why You Don't Need to Panic About The C.1.2 Variant
- A 'Gold Standard' Clinical Trial Just Confirmed Masks DO Reduce The Spread of COVID
- Huge Find of 400,000-Year-Old Bone Tools Challenges Our Understanding of Early Humans
- Over 400,000 Years, Climate Change Lured Ancient Humans Into Arabia Several Times
- The Most Mysterious Planet in The Solar System Is Missing. But We Know Where to Look
- Enigmatic Object Called 'The Accident' Hints of an Entire Population of Unknown Stars
- Man Can Change His Pupil Size on Demand, Something Scientists Thought Was Impossible
- Hurricane Ida Rapidly Evolved Into a Monster Storm. An Oceanographer Explains Why