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- The Truth About Where 11 Tech Breakthroughs Really Came From
- Here's The Massive Amount of Fuel It Takes to Launch a Rocket Into Space – Measured in Elephants
- Scientists Find The 'Brain Clock' That Keeps Our Memories Ticking
- Here's Why It Doesn't Really Matter How Much You Practise at Sport
- Here's Why New Mothers Post So Many Baby Photos on Facebook
- This Crazy Sponge-Filled Injection Just Saved Its First Life on The Battlefield
- Artificial Intelligence Should Be Protected by Human Rights, Says Oxford Mathematician
- This Genetically Engineered Bacteria Can Inhale CO2 And Produce Energy
- Mark Zuckerberg Is Broadcasting a Live Call With ISS Astronauts
- These 3D-Printed Hands Are Made by Volunteers And Given Away For Free
- This Pot Plant Can Charge Your Phone Through Photosynthesis
- Plants Really Do Respond to The Way We Touch Them, Scientists Reveal
- The World's Largest Maths Problem Has Been Solved, And It Takes Up 200 TB
- 10 Amazing Photos of The Computers That Changed The World
- Physicists Have Found a Way to Slow Light Down by 'Twisting' It
- The Sound of a Knee Cracking Amplified Is The Actual Worst Sound Ever
- Schizophrenic Brains Have The Ability to Regenerate, New Findings Show
- This Planet Could Support Life… And It's Only 1,200 Light-Years Away
- WATCH: There Is No Fourth Dimension
- The Researcher Behind That Music 'Skin Orgasms' Study Has Answered Your Questions
- A Dutch Company Is Training Eagles to Take Down Drones
- A NASA Physicist Just Gave Us The Most Promising New Candidate For Dark Matter
- Fasting Diet Has Been Shown to Ease Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms in Early Trial
- Key Ingredients of Life Have Been Detected in Comet 67P's Atmosphere
- This Footage of Friday's Perfect SpaceX Landing Is Simply Incredible
- Phantom Limb Sensations Can Be Used to Control a Computer
- Europe Announces That All Scientific Papers Should Be Free by 2020
- This Terrifying Bed Could Save Your Life During an Earthquake
- Mars Is Finally Emerging From an Ice Age That Ended 400,000 Years Ago
- Archaeologists Might Have Just Found Aristotle's Tomb
- Some Sharks Really Are Ballsier Than Others, Scientists Find
- Scientists Have Discovered a New Trigger For Killing Cancer Cells
- Scientists Just Started Teaching Robots to Feel Pain
- The Internet Just Lost Its Mind Over This Teen Flipping a Water Bottle Like a Pro
- The Length of a Second Might Be About to Change
- The Superbug That Experts Have Been Dreading Has Just Reached The US
- The US Nuclear Weapons Program Still Relies on Floppy Disks
- Physicist Brian Greene Explains The Most Powerful Explosions in The Universe to Colbert
- A Simple Test Can Predict Whether Coma Patients Will Wake Up Within a Year
- Schrodinger's Cat Is Now Alive – And Dead – in Two Boxes at Once, IRL Experiment Reveals
- Here's How to Watch SpaceX's Latest Launch Attempt Live
- Want to Lose Weight? Train The Brain, Not The Body
- Physicists Just Made Their Own Clouds Using a Chemical Grown in Trees
- Alzheimer's Might Be Caused by Our Brains Fighting Off Infection
- Surprise! Spoilers Can Actually Enhance Our Enjoyment of Stories, Research Shows
- Physicists Have Figured Out How Supermassive Black Holes Turn Galaxies Into Cosmic Graveyards
- Physicists Think They Might Have Just Detected a Fifth Force of Nature
- The Tomb of One of The Most Important Women in Ancient Egypt Has Just Been Unearthed
- A Patent's Just Been Granted For What Could Be a Functional 'Cure' For Type 1 Diabetes
- This Dutch Town Will Grow Its Own Food, Live Off-Grid, And Handle Its Own Waste
- ​​Neanderthals Built Complex Underground Structures 176,000 Years Ago – And No One Knows Why
- Thousands of Bees Chased This Car For 2 Days Looking For Their Queen
- This New Bus Drives Right Over Traffic Jams
- Dolphins Might Actually Use Snot to Make Those Cute Chirps And Clicks
- Turns Out Building Stonehenge Probably Wasn't That Hard, Experiment Finds
- Letting Your Baby Cry Itself to Sleep Won't Harm Its Health, New Research Finds
- This New Invention Zaps Harmful – And Annoying – Bugs With Targeted Laser Beams
- A Single Injection Can Eliminate Type 2 Diabetes in Mice For Months
- Maths Is Getting Closer to Replacing Animals in Cosmetic Testing
- Astronomers Might Have Just Solved One of The Biggest Mysteries About How Black Holes Form
- This Awesome Video Explains The Entire Universe in Less Than 4 Minutes
- Poverty Affects Your DNA And Increases The Risk of Depression, Study Finds
- An Ex-Microsoft Billionaire Just Accused NASA of Releasing Seriously Flawed Data on Asteroids
- Engineers Just Smashed Wireless Speeds of 6 Gbps in The Real World
- Scientists Have Found a Way to Build Houses Out of 1.2 Million Tonnes of Discarded Cigarette Butts
- WATCH: How Long Would It Take to Fall Through Earth?
- WATCH: NASA's Working on a Massive 'Sunshade' That Could Reveal Alien Worlds
- We Got a Theoretical Physicist to Explain That Mind-Boggling Moment in 'Game of Thrones'
- This New Biosensor Could Detect Parkinson's, Alzheimer's And Different Types of Cancer
- 6 of The Hardest Codes to Crack That Will Drive You Completely Bonkers
- WATCH: Drone Captures This Brutal 70-Shark Feeding Frenzy
- Antibiotics Found to Cause Immune System Damage And Reduce Brain Cell Growth
- Clownfish Have Started Sharing Their Homes Because Times Are Tough
- WATCH: Someone Recreated The Game of Thrones Intro With Slime Mould
- WATCH: The Physics of Quantum Levitation
- Earth's Core Is 2.5 Years Younger Than Its Crust, New Calculations Reveal
- Archaeologists Discover Remnants of The Oldest Known Beer Brewery in China
- New Evidence Could Break The Standard View of Quantum Mechanics
- Controversial Report Suggests Governments Are Recommending Foods That Make Us Obese
- Adorable Tortoise Receives a 3D-Printed Shell After Being Burnt in a Fire
- Huge Solar Storms Might Have Been The Key to Life on Earth
- Study Confirms That Doctor Who Is The Ultimate Inspiration For Female Scientists
- Keep Forgetting Stuff? Experts Say You Can 'Hack' Your Memory to Get Things Done
- Your Dog Doesn't Trust You When You're Angry, Study Finds
- India Just Launched a Mini Space Shuttle, And Is Now Officially in The Reusable Rockets Game
- Sorry Guys, This Is The Age You Start Losing Your Friends
- Scientists Just Made Big Progress in Fighting This Incurable Form of Brain Cancer
- Early Trials Show an Insulin Pill Can Lower Diabetics' Blood Sugar Levels
- One Person's Cancer Can Be Fought Using Someone Else's Immune Cells, Study Finds
- 12 of Your Biggest Cooking Questions Answered With Science
- Astronomers Just Discovered a Rare Dwarf Galaxy That's Loaded With Precious Elements
- Scientists Say They Already Know How to Reduce Cancer Deaths by Half
- This Tiny Cardboard House Takes 1 Day to Build And Can Last 100 Years
- Here's What Really Happens to Your Body When You Swallow Gum
- WATCH: This Mathematical Principle Makes Us Believe in Crazy Conspiracy Theories
- Trees Might Have Just Been Caught 'Sleeping' For The First Time
- Giant Tsunamis Might Have Shaped The Ancient Martian Landscape
- Selfie Fans Regularly Overestimate How Attractive They Are, Scientists Find
- Scientists Just Discovered The Faintest Galaxy Ever From The Early Universe
- This Japanese Company Wants to Rain Down Artificial Shooting Stars Over The Tokyo Olympics
- A Massive Fireball Just Shot Through The Sky Over Portland
- What Is Love, Anyway? Here's The Science
- Physicists Just Found a Link Between Dark Energy And The Arrow of Time
- 6 Years After His Death, an Astronomer Solves a Huge Mystery of Star Evolution
- Want to Build a Moon Base? Easy. Just Print It
- Bright Light at Night Time Can Seriously Mess With Your Metabolism, Study Finds
- This New-Found Asteroid Impact May Have Been Deadlier Than What Killed The Dinosaurs
- Here's Why You Shouldn't Wrap Your Food in Aluminium Foil Before Cooking It
- Antibacterial Ingredient Can Really Quickly Mess With Gut Bacteria, Study Finds
- These Edible Six-Pack Rings Don't Strangle Marine Life – They Feed Them
- WATCH: Is Makeup Bad For You?
- After 40 Years of Blindness, a Bionic Eye Gave This Man His Sight Back
- Here's How an Old-School Drug Could Beat Brain Cancer – by Starving It to Death
- We Have The Technology to Find Alien Broadcasts Carried by Lasers, Says Physicist
- How to Get That Song Out of Your Head, According to Science
- WATCH: The Science of How a Formula 1 Turbocharger Works
- This Sheet of Paper Can Filter Viruses Right Out of Drinking Water
- This Hypersonic Jet Engine Just Passed a Crucial Test in The Australian Desert
- Here's How to Teach Kids About Genetics Using Harry Potter
- Portugal Just Ran For 4 Straight Days Entirely on Renewable Energy
- WATCH: How to Solve The Famous 'Grandfather Paradox' of Time Travel
- How Dogs Find Their Way Home (Without a GPS)
- NASA Just Found Even More Evidence That Europa Could Host Alien Life
- An Amateur Fossil Hunter Just Found a Gorgeous New Horned Dinosaur, 'Judith'
- This Russian App Lets You Take Photos of Strangers And Identify Them Online
- 10 Mind-Blowing Scientific Facts About Black Holes
- A Billionaire Just Put Up $100 Million to Create a Tuition-Free School in Silicon Valley
- Complex Life Might Have Started Nearly a Billion Years Earlier Than We Thought
- Students Are Developing Bacteria That Eat Plastic Polluting Our Oceans
- Sweden Is Relocating an Entire City to Stop It Sinking Into The Ground
- 'Ethical Amnesia' Could Be The Reason Cheaters Keep on Cheating
- There's a Way to Test if Immortality Is Real: Lock Yourself in a Room With a Nuke
- These New Earbuds Can Translate Languages For You in Real-Time
- Huge Analysis Determines Genetically Engineered Crops Are Safe
- Surgeons Just Removed The World's Tiniest Phone From a Prisoner's Stomach
- Here's What It Takes to Make a Mathematical Genius, According to Science
- IBM's New Memory Is Over 50 Times Faster Than Flash And Could Soon Be Just as Cheap
- Our Smartphones Could Be Afflicting Us With Symptoms of ADHD
- Engineers Just Created The Most Efficient Solar Cells Ever
- A Blue Moon And a Red Mars Are Pairing Up This Week – Here's How to Watch
- Magic Mushrooms Appear to Ease Long-Term Depression, Studies Find
- Scientists Have Invented Self-Spooling 'Liquid Wire' That Acts Like Spider Silk
- Higher Stress Levels Could Make You More Susceptible to Conspiracy Theories
- Neuroscientists Have Recorded The Brain Activity of a Man at The Exact Moment He 'Saw God'
- This 1-Minute Animation Shows How Much Radiation You're Exposed to in Everyday Life
- Dying Stars Could Transform Frozen Planets Into Habitable Worlds, Astronomers Find
- The Most Powerful Proton Conductor in The Natural World Is This Jelly Found Inside a Shark's Head
- A Mind-Bending Atlas of All The Weirdest Sh*t in Mathematics Is Now Online
- Divers Just Uncovered Incredible Roman Treasures From a 1,600-Year-Old Shipwreck
- Students Are Using 'Smart' Spy Technology to Cheat in Exams
- A Binary Star Is Flying Out of Our Galaxy And Researchers Don't Know Why
- Scientists Have Finally Figured Out How Dung Beetles Use Celestial Navigation to Return Home
- Scientists Just Found Even More Evidence That RNA Is Behind The Origin of Life
- IBM Says It's Designed a Molecule That Could Fight Off Any Human Virus
- NASA Announces It's Working on Force Fields And Deep Sleep Chambers For Astronauts
- This Floating UFO Home Lets You Live Off-Grid on The Ocean
- Multicellular Life Was Caused by The Same Gene That Suppresses Cancer, Study Suggests
- Scientists Just Set Their Sights on a New Target For a HIV Vaccine
- WATCH: There's a Mathematical Reason For Why You Can't Catch a Dollar Bill in Your Fingers
- The Healthiest Weight Might Actually Be 'Overweight', Massive Study Finds
- Physicists Just Discovered a Totally New Form of Light
- 150 Scientists Just Met in Secret to Discuss Creating a Synthetic Human Genome
- Big, Beautiful Photos of Insane Physics Experiments Chasing The 'Ghost Particle'
- Scientists Explain How to Avoid a Food Coma After Your Next Family Feast
- Tofu Is Providing Clean Energy to Residents in Indonesia
- WATCH: Here Are The Limits of Humanity's Space Exploration
- Newly Discovered Microbe Does Something Textbooks Say Is Impossible: It Lives Without Mitochondria
- Ontario Parents That Refuse to Vaccinate Their Kids Could Be Forced to Take a Class in Immunisation
- Engineers Have Figured Out How to Use Old Coffee Grounds to Pave Roadways
- An Astronaut on The Space Station Just Looked Out The Window And Saw This
- Lord of The Rings' Mount Doom Might Be About to Erupt IRL, Experts Say
- The World's Most Powerful Atom-Smasher Just Turned Back on, to Push Physics Even Further
- Wormholes Could Be The Key to Beating The Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Say Physicists
- This Distant Blue Galaxy Contains The Least Amount of Heavy Elements Ever Detected
- Scientists Just Solved The Mystery of These Weird South American Mounds: They're Worm Poop
- A Huge, Mystery Dwarf Planet's Been Hiding in Our Solar System This Whole Time
- Primitive Quantum Computers Are Already Outperforming Current Machines
- This New Tattoo Ink Is Designed to Disappear After a Year
- This College Has Been Using a Robot as a Teaching Assistant For Months – And No One Noticed
- Scientists Are Uncovering a Terrible New Effect That Space Might Have on Our Bodies
- In This Distant Solar System, Synchronised Planets Orbit Their Star Like Clockwork
- A Commonly Used Herbal Remedy Can Cause Kidney Disease in Up to 10 Percent of The Population
- The Youngest-Ever Mummified Foetus From Ancient Egypt Has Been Found in This Tiny Coffin
- WATCH: Here's Why Avocados Shouldn't Exist
- This Turing Machine Should Run Forever, Unless Our Understanding of Maths Is Flawed
- Physicists Just Smashed Quasiparticles Together For The First Time
- Watch The First Full-Scale Demonstration of Hyperloop Technology
- 12 Rare Photos That Take You Inside an Amazing Salt Mine Hidden 2,000 Feet Below Lake Erie
- The San Andreas Fault Is Ready to Rupture, Scientist Warns
- Welcome to Null Island, The Most 'Visited' Place on Earth That Doesn't Actually Exist
- Scientists Are Using One of The World's Deadliest Venoms as a Safer Insecticide
- Scientists Are Starting to Dig Inside The Crater Left by That Dinosaur-Wrecking Asteroid
- New 'Spintronics' Technology Is Set to Offer a Huge Leap Forward in Data Storage
- Probiotics Have No Real Effect on Healthy Adults, Study Finds
- Physicists Might Have Just Solved The Mystery of Non-Newtonian Fluids
- More Than One Fifth of The World's Plant Species Are Now Threatened With Extinction
- New Study Shows How Rapidly Earth's Magnetic Field Is Changing
- Genetic Analysis of Your Favourite Burgers Finds Some Not-So-Great Surprises
- Earth's Mantle Is Way Less Stable That We Thought It Was
- Memories Can Be Inherited, And Scientists Might Have Just Figured Out How
- WATCH: Wrap Your Head Around The Schrödinger's Cat Experiment in Less Than 2 Minutes
- NASA Just Released 56 Patented Space And Rocket Technologies to The Public
- Rare Aerial Footage Reveals a Pod of Whales Chasing Down a Shark
- Something Weird Happens to Your Brain When You Start Improvising
- NASA Just Announced The Discovery of 1,284 New Alien Planets
- Your Hunger Hormones Can Affect The Way You Make Decisions
- 95% of Germany's Energy Was Provided by Renewables Last Sunday
- You Can Actively Forget Memories if You Try, And Scientists Have The Brain Scans to Prove It
- What's Dirtier – Your Office or an Alcatraz Jail Cell?
- WATCH: Here's What Happens Inside The Engine of a Formula 1 Car
- This New Low-Cost Test Can Diagnose Zika in Just 3 Hours
- Astronomers Just Discovered Massive, 'Peanut Shell' Structures Inside Nearby Galaxies
- Scientists Have Created Polymer 'Skin' And Everyone Wants to Use It to Hide Their Wrinkles
- Flawed Data Makes It Even More Unlikely That The 'Alien Megastructure' Exists
- Scientists Have Unveiled The World's First Holographic Flexible Smartphone
- A 15-Year-Old Might Have Just Discovered a Lost Maya City in The Mexican Jungle
- John Oliver Just Totally Nailed The Reason So Much Science Coverage Sounds Like Bullsh*t
- NASA's Making a Major Kepler Announcement Tomorrow!
- This Tiny, Optical Clock Just Beat The Most Accurate Timekeeper Ever Built
- Five Islands Have Disappeared Into The Pacific Ocean, And Six More Are Following Suit
- NASA Just Detected Oxygen in The Martian Atmosphere
- People Who Work Remotely Are Happier And More Productive, Study Finds
- An Unrelated Operation Unexpectedly Restored a Blind Woman's Vision
- For The First Time Ever, Scientists Have Found a Safe Way to Deliver Medicine to The Placenta
- New Plastic-Free Wrap Keeps Fruit Fresh For More Than a Week Outside The Fridge
- Vaping Will Now Be Regulated Like Regular Cigarettes, FDA Announces
- The Hand You Write With Could Affect How Good You Are at Maths
- Pluto Is More Like a Planet Than We Thought, New Flyby Data Reveals
- Watch The Transit of Mercury Live Here!
- Astronomers Just Measured a Black Hole, And It's 660 Million Times More Massive Than The Sun
- Do Great Mathematicians Have Different Brains to The Rest of Us?
- Looking at Trees Can Reduce Your Stress Levels, Even in The Middle of a City
- New 'Smart Threads' Can Change The Colour of Your Clothes Instantly
- 30-Year Study Turns Up No Link Between Mobile Phones And Cancer
- New Report Officially Ranks All The Catastrophes That Could Wipe Us Out in 2016
- Scientists Might Have Finally Found a Way to Stop The Parasitic Cancer Wiping Out Tasmanian Devils
- Google Is Making Its AI Binge-Read Thousands of Romance Novels to Get a Little Warmer
- WATCH: Take a Tour Inside Svalbard's Frozen 'Doomsday' Seed Vault
- WATCH: This Crazy Alien Jellyfish Was Just Spotted Near The Mariana Trench
- Government Researchers in The '60s Tried to Build Hearts Fuelled by Radioactive Decay
- New Paper Explains Why The Universe Ended Up With Three Dimensions
- Japanese Scientists Have Used Skin Cells to Restore a Patient's Vision For The First Time
- Scientists Think They've Found The Key to Ketamine's Unprecedented Anti-Depressant Effects
- This New Drug Is "10,000 Times More Powerful Than Morphine", And It Just Hit The US
- Scientists Have a Crazy Plan to Sequence Leonardo Da Vinci's Genome
- The Echo of Ancient Wildfires Could Be Buried in Caves Under Your Feet
- This Infographic Reveals The Bizarre Ways Weather Affects Your Body
- Eating Less Improves Mood, Sleep, And Sex Drive in Healthy People, Study Finds
- A Mysterious Cloud Over Mars Has Been Linked to a Massive Solar Outburst
- Obesity Could Be as Contagious as a Superbug, Study Suggests
- This New Surgical Robot Just Outperformed Human Surgeons
- Thanks to The Super New Moon We're in For a Great Meteor Shower Tonight
- Scientists Keep Human Embryos Alive in The Lab For The Longest Time Yet
- The Existence of Massive Particles of Light Could Finally Explain Dark Energy
- WATCH: The 7 Best Ways to Wake Yourself Up – Without Coffee
- Scientist Says The San Andreas Fault Is "Locked, Loaded, And Ready to Roll"
- Yeast Infections Have Been Linked to Mental Illness
- For The First Time in a Decade, Mercury Is About to Transit The Sun
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Hide Secret Messages in Your Soda
- WATCH: It's Illegal to Know or Distribute This Number
- This New, Ridiculously Rare Violet Diamond Has Just Been Unearthed in Australia
- Scientists Have Finally Figured Out Why Your Labrador Is So Fat
- El Niño Is Causing Tonnes of Dead Sea Creatures to Wash Up in Chile
- New 3D Holograms Are Giving Scientists an Unprecedented Glimpse Inside Molecules
- IBM Is Giving People Free Access to Its Quantum Computing Processor Online
- Watch The Entire Evolution of The Universe in Less Than 3 Minutes
- Why Women's Eggs Run Out And What Can Be Done About It
- This New Device Claims to 'Switch Off' Period Pain
- Leaked Document Reveals Google Has Access to Millions of Patient Records
- A Biotech Company Has Been Given Permission to Try to Resurrect The Clinically Dead
- Largest-Ever Analysis of Breast Cancer Genomes Could Lead to Personalised Treatments
- Medical Errors Estimated to Be 3rd Leading Cause of Death in The US, Study Suggests
- Astronomer Uses Pig's Eye to Show Why You Should NEVER Look at The Sun Through a Telescope
- Looking After Your Heart Could Protect Against Cognitive Decline, Study Finds
- How to Watch This Week's Meteor Shower Created by Halley's Comet
- Russia Spent Millions on 'Cloud Seeding' Tech to Prevent Rain on Its Public Holiday
- Humans Can Really Only Maintain Five Close Friends, According to This Equation
- The Largest Study of Life Forms Ever Has Estimated That Earth Is Home to 1 TRILLION Species
- NASA Has Mapped Every Eclipse That Will Occur For The Next 1,000 Years
- A Single Injection of Antibodies Protects Monkeys Against HIV For Nearly 6 Months
- You'll Soon Have to Hand Over Your DNA if You Want to Visit Kuwait
- Air Rage Is 4 Times More Likely When You've Got This on Your Plane
- Scientists Are Streaming a Live Video Feed of The Mariana Trench Right NOW
- The Water Flowing on Mars Might Be *boiling*
- Archaeologists Think They've Finally Uncovered Captain Cook's Endeavour
- These 3 Nearby Planets Could Be Our Best Shot Yet to Find Alien Life
- Does The 'G-Spot' Really Exist?
- Spanish Builders Just Uncovered 1,300 Lb of Ancient Roman Coins
- Global Warming Could Trigger a 'Climate Exodus' From The Middle East And North Africa
- 6,000-Year-Old Skulls Unearthed in Russia Show Signs of Ritualistic Drilling
- Astronomers Just Spotted Winds Travelling at a Quarter of The Speed of Light in Deep Space
- There's a Reason For Holes on The Tops of Pen Caps, And It's Surprisingly Awesome
- Our Concept of Free Will Could Be an Illusion, New Research Suggests
- Sony Has Filed a Patent For Contact Lenses That Record And Store Videos With The Blink of an Eye
- Hints of an Unexpected New Particle Are Getting Stronger, And Physicists Are Stumped
- Science Magazine Just Tried to Defend Its Paywall And Totally Missed The Point
- Astronomers Have Discovered The First Ever Comet Without a Tail