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February 28

• This Shop in Amsterdam Just Proved More Than 700 Groceries Can Be Sold Plastic-Free
• ScienceAlert Deal: 5 Ways To Learn Python Without Leaving Your House
• We Just Detected Signals From The Very First Stars in Our Universe – And It's Not What We Expected
• Depression Can Actually Leave Long-Term Changes in Your Brain, Study Shows
• A Totally New Species of Tardigrade Was Just Discovered in a Japanese Carpark
• New Study Suggests The Pill Doesn't Increase Risk of Depression After All
• Scientists Have Found The Reason Why Magic Mushrooms Evolved to Be So 'Magical'
• Scientists Discover a Self-Replicating Protein Structure, And It Could Have Built The First Life on Earth
• These Viruses Found in Brazil Are So Huge They're Challenging What We Think a 'Virus' Is
• A Lioness Living in a Zoo Has Suddenly Grown a Mane, Confusing Her Caretakers
• The North Pole Has Gone Above Freezing in The Dead of Winter, Stunning Scientists

February 27

• Drop Everything And Watch This Shaolin Monk Puncture Glass by Throwing a Needle
• Enceladus Has Everything It Needs to Host Alien Life, And We're So Excited
• The World Just Got a New Species of Elephant. It Was Hiding in Plain Sight
• Death-Bringing 'Brain Tsunamis' Have Been Observed in Humans For The First Time
• 5 Reasons Why Being Kind Is Great For Your Brain, According to a Psychologist
• Evidence Is Mounting on Just How Bad Loneliness Really Is For You
• The Closest Star to Our Solar System Has Suffered an Insane Eruption
• A Certain Level of Anxiety Can Actually Boost Your Memory, Study Shows
• Humans Will Hear From Aliens This Century, Says Renowned Physicist
• There's a Place on Earth Eerily Similar to Mars, And Scientists Have Confirmed It Has Life
• Our Best Hope For Surviving The Apocalypse Just Hit a Stunning Milestone

February 26

• Physicists Just Stuffed an Atom Full of Atoms And Created a Brand New State of Matter
• This Horrifying Fungus Hijacks Cicadas Before Exploding From Their Butts
• China's New Hypersonic Plane Could Take Us From Beijing to New York in 2 Hours
• MIT Engineers Have Built a Device That Pulls Electricity Out of Thin Air
• Experts Are Warning That Children Can't Properly Hold Pens Anymore
• World's Deadliest Treasure Hunt Has Claimed Another Life in The Rocky Mountains
• This Strange Species That Lives Off Nuclear Energy Is Like Alien Life on Earth
• SpaceX's Biggest Rival Is Working on Its Own Reusable Rocket, And It Sounds Amazing
• These 11 Psychological Traits Reveal Striking Differences Between Conservatives And Liberals
• A Series of Hidden Tombs Were Just Found in Egypt, And Archaeologists Are Excited
• ScienceAlert Deal: Learn Any New Language On Your Own Time With UTalk
• A Stanford Climate Scientist Just Dropped a Major Lawsuit Against His Critics

February 25

• Water on The Moon Has a Surprising Quality, According to This New Study
• Measles Is on The Loose in NYC Thanks to an Australian Tourist
• The Woman Who Looked at Faces And Saw Dragons

February 24

• Science Reveals There Are Surprising Benefits of Being a Pessimist
• Here's Scientific Evidence Humans Aren't All Garbage
• Video Showing The Acceleration of Tesla's Electric Truck Is Breathtaking
• Scientifically Speaking Which Is Better, Male or Female Orgasms?
• The Physics of Why Olympic Curlers Sweep The Ice
• New Study Shows Just How Close The Amazon Rainforest Is to The Brink of Collapse
• Physicists Have Confirmed a Pear-Shaped Nucleus, And It Could Ruin Time Travel Forever

February 23

• Elon Musk Has Successfully Launched His First 2 Space Internet Satellites
• Europe Is Bracing For The Most Severe Cold Snap in Years
• NASA's Very Expensive Rocket Launch Tower Is Leaning at a Precarious Angle
• The FCC's Vote Repealing Its Net Neutrality Rules Is Finally Official – Here's What Happens Now
• Apple Devices Are Accidentally Dialing Emergency And No One Can Figure Out Why
• We Could Have Two Space Hotels as Early as 2021
• There's a 'Doorway to The Underworld' in Siberia So Big It's Uncovered Ancient Forests
• These Are The Top 15 Deadliest Animals on Earth
• A Prominent Biohacker Is Now Saying It's a Bad Idea to Hack Your Body
• CDC Warns About Salmonella Infections Tracked Back to This Popular Supplement
• Something Disturbing Happens After You Wipe Down Your Kitchen Countertops
• Toxic Heavy Metals Are Leaking From E-Cigarettes Into The Vapours, Study Shows
• This Woman Had Surgical Sponges Left in Her Abdomen For at Least 6 Years
• Latest Estimate on The Universe's Expansion Shows We Need New Physics to Explain It
• Antidepressants Do Actually Work, Says Huge Review of Over 500 Studies

February 22

• Archaeologists Think They've Found First-Ever Evidence of a Legendary Biblical Prophet
• Indian Surgeons Have Successfully Removed The 'Largest Brain Tumor in The World'
• New Research Says Neanderthals Were Actually The First Artists on Earth
• Here's Why Jeff Bezos Is Building a Giant Mechanical Clock Designed to Last 10,000 Years
• A Drug to Treat Peanut Allergies Is on Its Way to Being Approved by The FDA
• Physicists Are Planning to Take Antimatter Out of The Lab For The First Time
• SpaceX Is Launching The First 2 Satellites to Bring High-Speed Internet For All of Earth
• New Study Reveals How Our Brains Evolved to Be So Amazingly Huge
• This Is The Most Toxic Town in The United States
• We Might Finally Know Why The Blood of Young People Can Rejuvenate Old Brains
• An Amateur Astronomer Accidentally Caught The First-Ever Photo of an Exploding Star

February 21

• Here's Why Matching Your Diet to Your DNA Is a Waste of Time
• Boston Dynamics New Video Is Just Another Reason Robots Will Hate Us One Day
• Scientists Think They've Finally Discovered The Bones of The Richest Pirate in History
• US Intelligence Issues a Warning About Russian, Chinese Space And Counterspace Weapons
• What We Do in The Next 5 Years Will Affect Sea Levels For Several Centuries
• Budget Cuts Could Force NASA to Scrap Its Dark Energy Mission
• Cape Town Just Got a Few More Weeks Before It Runs Out of Water on 'Day Zero'
• The World's Largest Underwater Cave Is Already Yielding Sacred Maya Relics
• Scientists Just Discovered a Never-Before-Seen Structure in Human Sperm
• How Many Glasses of Water a Day You Really Need, According to Science
• Star Wars Actor Mark Hamill Wants You to Elect This Scientist to Congress
• Swarm of Over 200 Earthquakes Detected at Yellowstone Supervolcano
• This Cambridge University Game Wants You to Build a Fake News Empire For Science
• Astronomers Just Found Some of The Most Massive Black Holes Discovered in Our Universe

February 20

• A Review of 6,000 Studies Across Two Decades Delivers Its Verdict on GMO Corn
• The World's Loneliest Tree Could Tell Us The Exact Moment We Started The Anthropocene
• A Man Stole The Thumb of a 2,000-Year-Old Terracotta Warrior Just to Take a Selfie
• There Are 4 Types of Alcohol Drinker – Which One Are You?
• Scientists Are Revealing The Brain Difference That Turns Some People Into 'Superagers'
• Your Perfume And Shampoo Could Be Rivalling Cars as a Source of Air Pollution
• An Archaeologist Says He's Figured Out The Secret of The Pyramids' Peculiar Alignment
• Ancient Skeleton Reveals 'Extinct' Caribbean Islanders Were Never Really Wiped Out
• We Finally Know How Vampire Bats Are Able to Drink Blood And Survive

February 19

• First-Ever Video of Baby 'Dumbo' Octopus Is So Adorable We Can't Deal
• The Greatest Storm in Our Solar System Has Shockingly Few Years Left
• Here's How You Can Debunk 7 Most Common Anti-Vaxxer Arguments With Science
• ScienceAlert Deal: Why You Should Be Crunching Data With MATLAB
• Just How Bad Is Sugar For Your Heart And Body?
• A Mysterious Radioactive Particle Has Been Detected Above Alaska
• Lost City in Mexico May Have Had as Many Buildings as Manhattan
• Doctors Release Details on The Illness US Diplomats Suffered in Cuba, And It Gets Weirder
• The Bizarre Story of How This Woman Ended Up in an X-Ray Machine
• Review of More Than 130 Studies Provides Powerful Evidence That Gun Control Saves Lives
• Scientists Just Made Sheep-Human Hybrids. Here's What You Need to Know
• Ancient Roman "Gate to Hell" Killed Victims With This Deadly Lake
• This Breathtaking Photo of Earth Really Puts Everything Into Perspective

February 18

• Where in Space Is Elon Musk's Roadster Right Now?
• This 6-Year-Old Is So Sure Pluto Should Be a Planet, She Sent an Adorable Letter to NASA

February 17

• Here's How Witnessing Violence Harms Children's Mental Health
• This Is Where Body Fat Actually Goes When You Lose Weight
• We Need to Talk About What Happens When You Get Your Period in Space
• According to Science Our Perfect Partners Are Probably Not What You Think

February 16

• Elon Musk Is Arguing With Spaceflight CEOs on Twitter. Again.
• A Mysterious Syndrome in Which Marijuana Users Become Violently Ill Is Worrying Researchers
• US Police Arrested a Mother For Treating Her Daughter's Autism With Bleach
• This Common Medication Can Actually Prevent Type 1 Diabetes
• Surgical Tools Could Be Spreading Proteins Linked to Alzheimer's
• NASA Is Finally Removing This Creepy And Broken Robot Astronaut From The ISS
• This Alzheimer's Drug Repairs Alcohol-Induced Brain Damage in Rats
• This New Graphene Invention Makes Filthy Seawater Drinkable in One Simple Step
• 11 Scientific Tips That Will Help You Learn Anything Faster – And Actually Remember It
• Alzheimer's Has Been Reversed in Mice With This Single Enzyme Treatment
• Mysterious Pulsating Auroras Exist, And Scientists Might Have Figured Out What Causes Them
• Scientists Think They Know Where Female Ejaculation Comes From, And What It's Made of
• Footprints From Children 700,000 Years Ago Reveal Just How Much Parenting Has Changed
• MIT Physicists Have Constructed a Bizarre Form of 'Molecular' Light With 3 Photons
• Researchers Find More Than 100,000 of Borneo's Orangutans Have Been Wiped Out

February 15

• A Solar Storm Is About to Strike Earth, So Here's What You Need to Know
• Here's Why Paper Cuts Hurt So Damn Much, According to Science
• Scientists Are Annoyed by This Pretty Big Flaw in The New DNA Emoji
• We Just Measured The World's Heaviest Atom, And It's Even Weirder Than Expected
• There's an 11% Chance Elon Musk's Tesla Is on a Collision Course With Earth
• BREAKING: Nearly 100 New Exoplanets Have Been Found in K2 Mission Data
• Here's How Chocolate And Sugary Treats Feed The Addictive Cycle in Your Brain
• This Weird Brain Change Found in Foxes Shows How Dogs Became Our Best Friends
• 5 Weight Loss Supplements That Science Shows Are a Waste of Money
• ScienceAlert Deal: 6 Great Resources to Get You Started With DIY Electronics
• This Rare Book Shows How Insane Medicine Really Was in The 16th Century
• A Person's Genes Can Reveal The Time of Their Death, Says Study
• We Now Know Why SpaceX Falcon Heavy's Core Booster Failed to Land Last Week
• Fierce Warrior Ants Are The First Insects Ever Observed to Treat Their Wounded Soldiers
• An Incredible New Type of Brain Implant Can Boost Memory by 15%
• The #AcademicValentines Hashtag Is Probably The Best Thing We've Read in a Long Time
• Mind-Bending New Paper Could Explain The Strange 'Patterns' Within Our Solar System
• A Lock of George Washington's Hair Has Been Discovered Hidden in an Old Book

February 14

• Surprise Discovery Shows We Have Been Totally Wrong About The Size of Andromeda Galaxy
• A Transgender Woman Was Able to Breast-Feed Her Baby in First Documented Case
• This Pacific Island Was Expected to Disappear, But It's Actually Growing Larger
• Here's What You Need to Do to Eradicate The Flu Virus From Your House
• This Is How Much Money You Need to Be Happy, According to Science
• 8,000-Year-Old Smashed Skulls on Spikes Found in Sweden, And Nobody Knows Why
• Biologist Gets a Fake Star Trek Paper Accepted by 4 Dodgy Science Journals
• An American Says She Suddenly Woke Up With a British Accent – Here's How That Could Happen
• This Photo of a Single Trapped Atom Is Absolutely Breathtaking
• A Woman Had 14 Worms in Her Eye And Doctors Didn't Even Know It Was Possible

February 13

• Scientists Just Found a Super-Powerful New Class of Antibiotics in Dirt
• This Study Shows Alcohol Could Be More Damaging to The Brain Than Marijuana
• 25 Years of Data Shows We Missed Something Important About Sea Level Rise
• This Rare Video of a Tiny Baby Octopus Hatching Is Breaking The Internet
• Japanese Company Claims Experimental Drug Kills Flu Virus in a Single Day
• The WHO Warns We're Officially on The Path to a Global Pandemic
• These Are The Factors That Can Help Predict if Your Spouse Might Cheat on You
• If We Receive a Message From Aliens, Should We Delete It Without Reading?
• Scientists Are About to Explore a Hidden World Trapped Under Ice For 120,000 Years
• For The First Time, a Portable Atomic Clock Has Been Used to Measure Gravity
• The Mini Robodog From Boston Dynamics Can Now Open Doors to Get Out
• Lions Have Killed And Eaten a Suspected Poacher in South Africa
• Over 600 US Schools Are Already Using This Simple Smartphone Addiction Fix

February 12

• There Could Be a Link Between Antibiotics And The Crazy Rise in Allergies
• Scientists Discover Hundreds of 2D Materials That Could Be The Next Graphene
• There's an Absolutely Massive Lava Dome Lurking Underneath Japan
• Don't Let The Internet Scare You With That Hand Dryer Petri Dish
• These 15 Questions Can Help You Determine if Your Relationship Is Worth Keeping
• A Sea Snail Was Found Living in a Boy's Skin After a Trip to The Beach
• Scientists Can Now Read The Whole Genome of a Baby Still in The Womb
• SpaceX Hid a Second, Secret Payload Aboard Falcon Heavy, And It Sounds Amazing
• Our First Interstellar Visitor Crashed Into Something Mysterious Before It Got Here

February 11

• People Keep Thinking These Eerie Atmospheric Light Beams Are UFOs
• 8 Evidence-Based Things You Can Do to Help Beat a Cold or The Flu
• Here's Why It's Better to Be Single, According to Science

February 10

• 11 Health And Fitness Myths That Really Need to Stop
• Scientists Rank 9 Recreational Drugs From Safest to Most Dangerous
• For The First Time Human Eggs Have Been Developed to Maturity in a Lab

February 9

• A New Study Links Asparagus to Cancer And The Internet Is Freaking Out
• IOS Source Code Has Been Leaked, And This Is Great News For Hackers
• 3 Reasons Why Governments Ignore Scientific Advice on Drug Use
• A Strange Link Between Parasitic Wasp Venom And Parkinson's Could Lead to New Treatments
• These Record Breaking Pics Were Snapped Further Out in Space Than Any Picture Ever Taken
• Scientists Have Found a Lake Under The Sea – Those Who Swim There Won't Come Back Alive
• Scientists Have Found Out Why You're Chronically Late
• The Asteroid That Killed Dinosaurs Also Triggered Huge Volcanoes Under The Oceans
• This Vantablack Pavilion Is The Blackest Building on Earth
• For The First Time, Physicists Have Slowed High-Speed Electrons Using a 'Sheet of Light'
• No, McDonald's Fries Will Not Cure Your Baldness
• An Entirely New Form of 3D Vision Was Just Discovered in Praying Mantises
• These Major Mental Illnesses Share Unexpected Levels of Gene Activity

February 8

• 4 Myths About GMOs And Organic Food Everybody Needs to Stop Believing
• The Museum of London Just Put a Fatberg on Display And It Sounds Horrifying
• The First Fish to Evolve The Ability to Walk Never Even Left The Ocean
• Scientists Have Developed a Way to Make Wood as Strong as Steel
• 8 Awesomely Simple Science Experiments You Can Do at Home
• Cockroaches Were There When The Continents Split Up, And Will Probably Outlive Us All
• Thinning Ozone May Have Contributed to a Mass Extinction 252 Million Years Ago
• Your Mobile Phone Can Give Away Your Location, Even if You Tell It Not to
• Scientists Have Found a New, Healthier Way to Cook Broccoli
• This New Autism Genetics Study Could Help Explain Why It's Such a Huge Spectrum
• Here's Why Car Horns, Planes And Sirens Might Be Really Bad For Your Heart
• Scientists Have Discovered How Traumatic Experiences Actually Rewire The Brain
• DNA Analysis Reveals Britain's Oldest Known Modern Man Had Dark Skin

February 7

• A Popular, Widely Available Supplement Was Just Officially Declared an Opioid by The FDA
• 5 Essential Resources You Need For Big Data Analysis
• We Can Now Harvest Electricity From Earth's Heat Using Quantum Tunnelling
• We Just Got More Details on How The Moon Left Earth 4 Billion Years Ago
• A Previously Unknown Language Has Just Been Discovered in Southeast Asia
• We Can't Stop Watching This Epic Video of a Marble Travelling Through a Chain Reaction
• This Hilarious Flu Chart Tells You Whether You Have a Simple Cold or Actual Flu
• Astronomers Just Measured The Strongest Magnetic Field Ever Seen on The Sun
• These 6 Easy Steps Can Debunk Any Climate Science Denier
• Insane Numbers of Viruses Are Constantly Falling on Us From The Sky, Study Shows

February 6

• This Optical Illusion of Two Identical Photos Is Freaking Out The Internet
• These Huge Crayfish Mutated to Clone Themselves And Are Now Taking Over The World
• Elon Musk's SpaceX Just Successfully Launched The Most Powerful Rocket on Earth
• Scientists Just Made 'Superionic Ice' That's Solid And Liquid at The Same Time
• There Might Be No Way to Live Comfortably Without Also Ruining The Planet
• 7 Things You Can Do Right Now to Reduce Your Risk of High Blood Pressure
• This Simple Dye Is Our Best Bet to Finally Stopping Malaria
• Scary Amounts of Mercury Have Been Found Lurking in The Permafrost
• An Engineering Journal Retracted 3 Papers Because They Were Cited Too Much
• New Data Shows TRAPPIST-1 Planets Are More Habitable Than We Ever Thought
• This Flat-Earther Has Failed to Launch His Rocket Again And Now We're Almost Sorry For Him

February 5

• SpaceX's Biggest Rocket Ever Is About to Launch Elon Musk's Red Tesla to Mars
• Computers Can Now Tell What Songs You've Listened to Just by Using Brain Scans
• CERN May Have Evidence of a Quasiparticle We've Been Hunting For Decades
• How a Person Uses Language Can Be a Clear Sign of Depression Symptoms
• Spider-Like Creature With a Tail Was Just Found in 100 Million-Year-Old Amber
• These Bacteria Digest Toxic Metals And Poop Out Tiny Gold Nuggets
• Tesla Is Hooking Up 50,000 Australian Homes to Become World's Biggest Virtual Power Plant
• Massive Study on Health Effects of Cellphone Radiation Has Left Scientists Confused
• For The First Time Ever, Astronomers Have Detected Planets Outside Our Galaxy
• Russian Cosmonauts Just Set an Accidental Spacewalk Record While Wrestling an ISS Antenna

February 4

• NASA Has Immortalised Curiosity's 5-Year Mars Journey in One Stunning Panorama
• A Mysterious Circle of Intertwined Human Skeletons Has Been Found in Mexico

February 3

• This Is What Your Body Is Busy Doing While You're Asleep

February 2

• The World's Loneliest Gannet Has Died by The Side of His Only Love
• Watch: Humanity's Biggest Discovery Could Herald The Beginning of The End
• Brain Damage Could Explain Violent Crimes, But It's Not Always a Simple Defence
• Quantum Chemistry Solves The Question of Why Life Needs So Many Amino Acids
• A Recent Ice Age Was Triggered by a Firestorm Bigger Than The One That Killed The Dinosaurs
• These Nomads Spend Nearly Their Entire Lives at Sea, But They Might Be The Last Group to Do So
• This Huge Galaxy Has Tiny Galaxies Orbiting It, Like Planets Around a Star
• Years After Losing Weight, Your Hormones Could Still Trick You Into Overeating
• Astrophysicists Have Built The Most Detailed Simulation of The Universe Ever Created
• A Truck Driver Has Damaged Several 2,000-Year-Old Nazca Lines

February 1

• Laser Survey Has Revealed Vast Network of Hidden Maya Structures in Guatemalan Jungle
• An Amateur Just Found The Signal of a Satellite NASA Lost 12 Years Ago
• Amazon Has Patented Wristbands to Constantly Track The Hands of Warehouse Staff
• New Blood Test For Alzheimer's Is So Precise It Could Predict It 30 Years Ahead
• Here's The Simple Science of Why Some Dogs Have Floppy Ears
• California Might Soon Put a Cancer Warning On… Coffee
• India Could Be Trialling a Universal Basic Income Before 2020
• Humans Have Already Left More Than 400,000 Pounds of Junk on The Moon
• Sweetening Your Vape With Flavouring Could Be Damaging Your Immune System
• ScienceAlert Deal: Here Are Our Top 10 Tech Offers Of January
• This Parasite Wasp Uses Saw-Like Spikes to Cut Its Host Open From The Inside
• One of World's Finest Dinosaur Footprint Discoveries Uncovered in NASA's Parking Lot
• Physicists Just Found a New Way to Bend a Fundamental Rule of Light Waves