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- That Recently Detected 'Alien Signal' Is Actually Just a Terrestrial Disturbance
- The World's Population Is Growing Faster Than We Thought
- NASA Just Sequenced DNA in Space For The First Time Ever
- In 1975, a Cat Co-Authored a Peer-Reviewed Physics Paper
- A Huge, Previously Undetected Asteroid Just Came Very Close to Earth
- If Planet Nine Exists, It Could Spell Disaster For Other Planets in The Solar System
- Tasmanian Devils Are Rapidly Evolving Resistance to Contagious Cancer
- How to Watch This Week's Breathtaking 'Ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Appears to Leave a 'Chemical Signature' in The Blood
- NASA Plans to Send an Autonomous Submarine to Explore Titan's Oceans
- Here's Why an Entire US State Could Be Changing Its Time Zone
- Dog Brains Don't Just Hear What We're Saying, But How We're Saying It
- New Solar System Objects Just Made The Case For Planet Nine Even Stronger
- Why We Should Get 3-Day Weekends All The Time, According to Science
- Scientists Just Declared The Dawn of a New, Human-Influenced Epoch
- Scientists Just Emerged From a Year in Isolation After an Epic NASA-Funded Mars Simulation
- A Lightning Strike Just Killed 300 Reindeer in Norway
- Here's Why 'Smart Drugs' Like Ritalin Can Actually Make You Less Clever
- Archaeologists Are Fuming Over a New Study About How Early Hominin Lucy Died
- Astronomers Have Detected a Mysterious Radio Signal Coming From a Sun-Like Star
- In Space, Scott Kelly Aged Slower Than His Brother on Earth – And Here's Why
- Researchers Just Accidentally Discovered How to Treat Chlamydia Infected Koalas
- Excel Is to Blame For Major Typos in 20% of Scientific Papers on Genes
- These Are The World's 10 Worst Problems, According to Millennials
- Scientists Have Detected a Crazy 'Weather Bomb' That Made Earth Rumble
- Can Stress Really Turn Your Hair Grey?
- NASA Just Flew a Spacecraft Closer to Jupiter Than Ever Before
- The HPV Vaccine Has Cut Infections by Up to 90% in The Past 10 Years
- US Physicists Just Revealed Plans to Build The Most Viable Nuclear Fusion Devices Ever
- This New Dairy Alternative Is Made From Real Milk Proteins – But With No Cows Required
- A Massive Reef Was Just Discovered Hiding Behind The Great Barrier Reef
- The Worst Stings in The World, Rated by The Scientist Who's Experienced Them All
- Singapore Just Became The First Country to Have Self-Driving Taxis
- Meet The 'Space Train' Concept That Can Get to Mars in 2 Days
- These Are The Best Houseplants to Improve Indoor Air Quality, Study Finds
- Your Coffee Habit Could Be Encoded in Your DNA
- This Crazy New Virus Just Broke The Rules of Infection
- Weird Magnetic Bacteria Could Be Key in Targeting And Destroying Tumours
- Astronomers Have Discovered a Massive 'Ghost Galaxy' That's 99.99% Dark Matter
- Our Mission to Alpha Centauri Could Be Jeopardised by Dust Collisions
- This 2,500-Year-Old Stone Just Revealed The Name of a Powerful Etruscan Goddess
- This Russian Billionaire Has a Plan to Explore Proxima B, Our Closest Earth-Like Planet
- No, The Moon Will Not Be as Big as Mars on 27 August
- Poor Water Management Likely Triggered The Demise of The Maya Civilisation
- The World's Largest Pyramid Is Hidden Under a Mountain in Mexico
- Ultrasound Has Been Used to 'Jumpstart' a Coma Patient's Brain For The First Time
- Scientists Might Have Just Found a Way to Protect Babies From Zika
- The Human Impact on The Natural Environment Is Actually Slowing Down
- The Older We Get, The Happier We Are, Study Finds
- Human-Made Climate Change Started Twice as Long Ago as We Thought
- Scientists Have Found Signs of an Ancient Hidden Sea Off The Philippine Coast
- The Most Famous Lion Family in Namibia Has Been Poisoned
- How Isaac Newton Could Help You Beat The Casino at Roulette
- An Extinct 600-Gram 'Micro-Lion' Has Been Discovered in Australia
- CONFIRMED: An Earth-Like Planet Has Been Found in Our Closest Neighbouring Star System
- Researchers Just Caught a Glimpse of The World's Most Mysterious Mammal
- The First Offshore Wind Farm in The US Has Finally Been Completed
- Scientists Have Finally Figured Out How Cancer Spreads Through The Bloodstream
- The First Photos of Earth From The Moon Would Be Lost if Not For 3 People And an Old McDonald's
- Scientists Have Developed a New Wi-Fi System That's 3 Times Faster
- Why Time Is Relative, Explained in Under 3 Minutes
- This New Infertility Treatment Could Be Less Invasive And Cheaper Than IVF
- The First Ever Copies of The 'World's Most Mysterious Book' Are About to Be Released
- Scientists Might Finally Address Rumours of The Closest Earth-Like Planet EVER
- After 300 Years, Scientists Think They've Finally Solved The Mystery of 'Eclipse Wind'
- 7 Weird Dog Behaviours And What They Mean
- Scientists Have Witnessed The Pavlovian Response in Real Time
- Scientists Just Discovered a New Type of Eye Movement We Do Every Day
- Scientists Have Uncovered a New Family Link in a Rare Form of Cancer
- New Smartphone Batteries Lasting Twice as Long Will Hit The Market Next Year
- The Great American Eclipse Is a Year Out, But Viewing Spots Are Already Being Snapped Up
- Guys, NASA Just Accepted Our Terrible Levels of Sea Ice as The "New Normal"
- Scientists Have a New Way to Determine Which Alien Planets Could Truly Be Habitable
- A Massive Crack Is Threatening to Cause an Entire Antarctic Ice Shelf to Collapse
- A Lost Spacecraft Is Communicating With NASA After Almost 2 Years
- 'Space Tour Guide' Is Just One of The Awesome New Jobs You Could Apply For in 2025
- Chemists Have Created a 5-Minute Test to Identify Dangerous Synthetic Drugs
- At 1,075 Years Old, This Might Be The Oldest Living Tree in Europe
- Astronomers Just Caught a Glimpse of a Rare, Massive Star in Formation
- Don't Worry – Your Genes Aren't The Only Thing Controlling Your Intelligence
- The US Air Force Plans to 'Plasma Bomb' The Sky to Improve Global Radio Reception
- The Science of The Hallucinogenic Drug Ayahuasca
- Physicists Have Discovered Particles That Warp The Laws of Thermodynamics
- Countless Tiny Black Holes Might Be Hurtling Through Space Like Cosmic Bullets
- The UN Has Admitted That It Played a Role in The Cholera Outbreak in Haiti
- Thousands of Strange Blue Lakes Are Appearing in Antarctica, And It's Very Bad News
- Researchers Find There Are 2 Months When Couples Are Most Likely to Get Divorced
- NASA Has Successfully Test-Fired The Engine For The Most Powerful Rocket Ever
- What Would Aliens Actually Look Like?
- Australian Scientists Just Set a World Record For Solar Thermal Efficiency
- Archaeologists Just Uncovered an American Manuscript Hidden in Plain Sight For 500 Years
- A Pyramid Has Been Discovered in Kazakhstan That Might Be Even Older Than Some Egyptian Structures
- One of The Common Cold Viruses Originated in Camels
- All That Melting Ice Could Actually Be Good For Some Coral Reefs, Study Finds
- Ancient Supervolcanoes Threw Rocks Right Across Australia
- Scientists Are Close to Rewriting The Genetic Code of Life
- 8 Scientific Papers That Were Rejected Before Going on to Win a Nobel Prize
- The Most And Least 'Liveable' Cities in The World in 2016 Have Just Been Ranked
- Here's How Scientists Are Going to Save The World From Annihilation
- Scientists Have Finally Figured Out What Ötzi The Iceman Wore When He Died
- Parkinson's Could Be Caught Early by a Simple Eye Test
- NASA Astronauts Are Installing a New Dock on The ISS For Visitor Access
- Latinos Age More Slowly Than The Rest of Us, And The Finding Could Help Us All Live Longer
- Retirees Have Found an Incredible, 200-Year-Old Shipwreck at The Bottom of Lake Ontario
- Researchers Just Performed a Fake Human Sacrifice at CERN
- This Online Test Can Tell if You're a 'Super Recogniser' of Faces
- Scientists Just Discovered The Evolutionary Link Between Hands And Fins
- This Awesome Video Shows How Different The Night Sky Looks Without Light Pollution
- Scientists Just Developed a Safer Alternative to Morphine Without The Dangerous Side Effects
- Don't Panic, But The Observable Universe Just Got a Bit Smaller
- This New Equation Might Finally Unite The Two Biggest Theories in Physics, Claims Physicist
- Evidence of Ancient Solar Storms Is Locked Up in Tree Rings
- Scientists Have Finally Shown That These Ancient Stones Align With The Sun And Moon
- An 18-Year Study Just Revealed How Bad Pesticides Are For Bees
- Pet Goldfish Dumped Into Lakes Are Growing Into Football-Sized Monsters
- Scientists Have Made Super-Strong, Transparent Windows Out of Wood
- This Is Why You Really, Really Need to Stop Peeing in The Pool
- Most Dogs Enjoy Your Praise More Than Treats, Study Finds
- Scientists Are Launching 50 Mini-Satellites to Study Our Atmosphere's Outermost Layer
- This Ancient Text Reveals a Maya Astronomer Calculated The Movements of Venus Over a Millennium Ago
- Rare Deer Species Rediscovered in Afghanistan After Surviving Two Major Wars
- This New Study Might Actually Explain The Weirdness That Is Déjà Vu
- Here's Everything Scientists Know About How to Avoid Ageing
- This Is What Earth Will Look Like in 100 Years
- Researchers Have Discovered How to 'Tune' Ultra-Bright Quantum Emitters
- Here's The Maths Behind Those 'Impossible' Never-Repeating Patterns
- Biologists Just Spotted The Cutest 'Stubby Squid' Ever in The Deep Sea
- We Need to Rethink The Origins of Life on Earth, Study Suggests
- Listen to Albert Einstein Talk, And Get Closer Than Ever Before to The Legendary Genius
- Microbeads Could Be Turning The Fish We Eat Toxic, Study Finds
- This Tiny Device Makes Dirty Water Drinkable in Just 20 Minutes
- This New Technique Will Help NASA Search For Martian Life in 2020
- Fungal Disease Could Wipe Bananas Out in 5 to 10 Years
- This New Hack Makes Your PC Leak Sensitive Information Via Noises From The Hard Drive
- Sugar Has a Stronger Effect on Our Brains Than We Even Realised, Study Finds
- New Study Suggests We Might Have Spotted a Fifth Force of Nature
- July 2016 Was The World's Hottest Month Since Records Began, NASA Confirms
- A New Invisible Film Made From Healthy Corneal Cells Could Restore Vision to Millions
- A Lab-Made Black Hole Just Gave Us The Strongest Evidence Yet For Hawking Radiation
- This New Study Could Explain Why You Feel So Damn Stiff in The Mornings
- Global Warming Could Make The Summer Olympics Nearly Impossible by 2085
- This Common Period Pain Medication Reverses Alzheimer's Symptoms in Mice
- Physicists Have Levitated a Golf Ball-Sized Object Using Nothing But Sound Waves
- The Large Hadron Collider Is Back, And Set to Flip The Science World on Its Head
- Scientists Have Set a New Record For Data Transmission Using Li-Fi
- A Huge Wooden Circle Has Been Found Buried Just a Few Kilometres From Stonehenge
- First Published Study on 'Chemtrails' Finds No Evidence of a Cover-Up
- Coral Bleaching Has Been Caught on Video For The First Time – And It's Creepy as Hell
- This Weird Meteorite Could Be Our First Ever From The Outer Solar System
- Scientists Say The US Is Facing The Strongest Hurricane Season Since Sandy Hit The East Coast
- US Monuments Are Getting Covered in Slime, And No One Knows How to Stop It
- 10-Trillionths of Your Suntan Comes From Galaxies Beyond The Milky Way
- Hubble Just Spotted Two Dwarf Galaxies 'Growing Up' Together For The First Time
- Here's Why You Get Car Sick: Your Brain Thinks It's Being Poisoned
- These 300-Million-Year-Old Sharks Ate Their Own Babies And Pooped Them Out in Spirals
- This Is Why a Lot of Peer-Reviewed Research Is Wrong
- A Roman Mosaic of an Ancient Chariot Race Has Been Uncovered in Cyprus
- 8 Paraplegics Just Took Their First Steps in Years, Thanks to Robots
- Scotland Just Generated More Power Than It Needs From Wind Turbines Alone
- WATCH: The Amazing Physics of Antibubbles
- The DEA Just Opened Up a Path to Medical Marijuana Nationwide
- This Shark Can Live Up to 400 Years, Making It The Oldest Known Vertebrate
- This Insane Bamboo Treehouse Doesn't Use Any Nails or Screws
- Skeletal Remains Hint That Ancient Greeks Performed Human Sacrifices
- Meteors Might Have Wiped Out Evidence of Life on Mars in The Places We're Looking
- Scientists Might Have Figured Out How to Use a Phone in Bed Without Your Affecting Sleep
- The First North Americans Probably Didn't Travel There by Land
- Here's Why Time Seems to Go by More Quickly as We Get Older
- This Video Perfectly Explains Why CRISPR Really Will Change The World Forever
- Here's How One Man Faked One of The Biggest Archaeological Discoveries in History
- Cassini Just Discovered Flooded Canyons on Saturn's Moon Titan
- Scientists Say They've Figured Out Which Is Better: Drunk or Stoned Sex
- There's an Unidentified Object in a Strange Orbit Past Neptune, And No One Can Explain It
- Physicists Have Calculated a Whole New Way to Generate Super-Strong Magnetic Fields
- Our Oceans Aren't Just Rising – They're Accelerating, And That's Even Worse
- Astronomers Just Caught a Dwarf Galaxy Giving Birth to an Even Tinier Galaxy
- NASA Is Preparing to Build These Awesome Deep Space Habitats on Earth
- People Who Read Books Live Almost 2 Years Longer, Study Finds
- Stardust Trapped Deep Within The Ocean Has Revealed a 2.6-Million-Year-Old Mystery
- Scientists Just Found an Advanced Form of Malware That's Been Hiding For at Least 5 Years
- This Simple Trick Uses The New York Subway to Convert Fahrenheit to Celsius
- Archaeologists Have Unearthed a Series of 2,000-Year-Old Magic Spells in Serbia
- 6 Million Americans Have Unsafe Levels of Toxic Chemicals in Their Drinking Water
- We're Missing a Magnetic Monopole, And It's Messing With Our Understanding of The Universe
- Sperm Quality in Dogs Is Rapidly Declining, And It Could Be a Big Warning For Human Fertility
- The Olympics Diving Pool Turned Green Overnight And Officials Can't Explain Why
- A Solar Storm in 1967 Nearly Took The US to The Brink of Nuclear War
- The Strangest Creature Just Got Unearthed From a Siberian Diamond Mine
- Jupiter Is Humongous, And This Photo of Its Hellish Moon Proves It
- Here's How Cupping Therapy Works, And Why So Many Olympians Use It
- One of The World's Rarest Cats Was Just Spotted For The First Time in a Decade
- This New Drug Could Fight 3 of The Deadliest Infections in Developing Nations
- This Ancient Stone Tool Reveals What We Were Eating 250,000 Years Ago
- Scientists Just Found The Part of Our Brain That Actually Gets Physics
- US Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Thinks Wi-Fi Is a Threat to Children's Health
- The Search For a Hypothetical Fourth Type of Neutrino Just Got Even Weirder
- Students Who Play Online Games Actually Get Better Academic Results
- The First Asthma Pill in 20 Years Shows "Massive Promise" in Reducing Symptoms
- More Evidence Suggests That Botox Can Spread From Its Injection Site
- NASA's New Camera Just Filmed a Rocket Plume So We Can See It Properly For The First Time
- The Department of Energy Watched Stranger Things, And Wants You to Know These 5 Things
- These Are The Body Types That Will Get You Into The Olympics
- A Gas Cloud Has Been Caught Blowing a Huge Hole in Our Milky Way Galaxy
- NASA Accidentally Sold a Priceless Apollo 11 Artefact, And Now They Want It Back
- Archaeologists Have Uncovered One of The Biggest Maya Tombs Ever
- Scientists Just Discovered a New Kind of Fire
- We Just Used Up All of Earth's Resources For The Year, And It's Only August
- Staying Single Might Be Even Better For You Than Getting Married
- Physicists Have Discovered a Whole New Form of Light
- New Evidence Suggests China's Legendary 'Great Flood' Might Have Actually Happened
- Actually, There's No Such Thing as a Fish, Say Cladists
- There's Mounting Evidence That Venus Was Once Habitable
- Minerals Discovered in a Siberian Mine Aren't Like Anything We've Seen in Nature
- Watch The Sun Absolutely Destroy The Fastest Object in The Solar System
- Here's Why There's a Tiny Hole in Airplane Windows
- NASA's Just Released an Awesome Curiosity Game to Celebrate The Rover's 4th Birthday
- Humpback Whales Around The World Are Saving Other Animals From Orcas
- NASA Finally Has Clues About What Ceres Is Made of
- It's Official: We Haven't Found a New Fundamental Particle
- We Finally Know How Sunflowers Track The Sun Across The Sky
- This Body Builder Has No Pulse And Plugs Himself Into The Wall at Night
- Despite What You Might Think, Humans Actually Evolved to Be Kind
- Three New Zika Vaccines Offer Complete Protection From Virus in Primates
- Three New Zika Vaccines Offer Complete Protection From Virus in Primates
- Researchers Have Built The First Reprogrammable Quantum Computer
- This Awesome Video Shows The Scale of The Universe in The Best Way Possible
- A Deadly Infection Has Just Been Linked to Horse-Riding
- CERN's About to Make an Announcement on That Possible New Particle
- Jupiter's Great Red Spot Could Help Us Solve One of The Biggest Mysteries of The Solar System
- Archaeologists Have Uncovered a Massive Palace at The Legendary Birthplace of King Arthur
- This Weird Hexagon on Saturn Has Puzzled Scientists For Decades
- NASA's Getting Ready to Plunge a Spacecraft Deeper Into The Sun Than Ever Before
- Scientists Used a Particle Accelerator to Find a Hidden Face in Degas's Portrait of a Woman
- Scientists Are One Step Closer to Understanding How Fusion Works in Pulsar Stars
- Brains of Overweight People Look 10 Years Older Than Those of Lean People
- Scientists Have Just Seen Birds Sleep During Flight For The First Time Ever
- Guys, The Perseid Meteor Shower Is Here, And It's Going to Be Twice as Good This Year
- A Bar Owner in The UK Has Built a Faraday Cage to Stop Customers Using Their Phones
- These Are The 20 Best Places to Search For Alien Life, Say Astronomers
- Bacteria Can Show Us When Earth's Magnetic Field Flipped
- It's Official: The US Is Going Back to The Moon
- China's Actually Built That Awesome Bus That Drives Over Traffic
- China's Jade Rabbit Rover Has Died After 31 Months on The Moon
- Virgin Galactic Is Finally Licensed to Take Tourists Into Space
- Scientists Are Trying to Predict Which Babies Will Grow Up to Become Criminals
- Scientists Are Trying to Build a Colossal 'Library of Ice' Before It All Disappears
- This Is What The Standard Model of Physics Actually Looks Like
- Australian Vaccination Rates Are at an All-Time High After Government Removes Anti-Vaxxers' Benefits
- Millennials Are Hooking Up Less Than Every Generation Since The 1920s
- A Company Claims to Have a Machine That Stops Avocados Going Brown
- Scientists Have Just Uncovered a Major Difference Between DNA And RNA
- Io's Atmosphere Just Collapsed
- Scientists Just Figured Out How to Make Pokémon Interact With The Real World
- Scientists Might Have Finally Figured Out What Killed Off The Last Woolly Mammoths
- Astronomers Just Discovered a Strange Void Near The Centre of The Milky Way
- Flossing Might Not Actually Have Any Proven Medical Benefits
- Scientists Have Found a New Way to Stop Skin Damage And Ageing From The Sun
- This Poor Kid Literally Dropped His Phone in a Nuclear Reactor
- NASA Is About to Explore a Huge Asteroid, But No, It's Not Going to Destroy Earth
- A Scientist Just Told Rio Athletes: "Don't Put Your Head Under Water"
- This Experiment Shows Why You Should Put YOUR Oxygen Mask on First
- Scientists Claim They've Finally Figured Out The Mystery of The Female Orgasm
- This Crazy-Ass Skydiver Just Jumped From 7,600 Metres Without a Parachute
- Scientists Have Found 15 Genetic Variations That Could Be Linked to Depression
- Black Holes Can Actually Destroy Us From Light-Years Away
- Meet 5 of The Most Remarkable Humans Known to Science
- Jack White's Spacecraft Just Played a Record 28,000 Metres Above Earth
- America's Pungent Corpse Flowers Are All Mysteriously Blooming at Once
- These Are The Four Stages of Your Brain on Maths
- Millions of People Put Their Coffee Cups Into Recycling Bins – But They're Not Being Recycled
- Pre-Term Breastfeeding Has Been Linked to Better Brain Development, IQ, And Academic Achievement
- Come Quick, Lego's Thinking About Making a Female NASA Scientist Range
- What Does The Solar System Sound Like?
- Mars's Gullies Probably Aren't Being Formed by Flowing Water
- Florida Just Announced That Mosquitoes Are Probably Transmitting Zika in The US
- Australia's About to Move 1.5 Metres to The North
- These 5 Crazy Thought Experiments Show How Einstein Formed His Revolutionary Hypotheses