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- Watch: Sorry Jurassic World, Dinosaurs Actually Had Feathers
- A Woman Has Been Awarded Compensation For Being "Allergic to Wi-Fi"
- Hate Your Job? Don't Quit Yet, Research Shows You Could Learn to Love It
- Quantum Spookiness Has Been Confirmed by First Loophole-Free Experiment
- Three Category 4 Hurricanes Have Just Hit The Pacific Ocean at The Same Time
- Watch: Sinkhole Swallows Five People Without Warning in China
- New Wireless Pacemaker Could Offer a Surgery-Free Alternative
- Four-Day School Week Linked to Better Academic Performance, Study Finds
- NASA Recruits Start Year-Long Isolation to Simulate Mars Mission
- This GIF Shows How Mind-Blowingly Fast New Horizons Is Travelling Through Space
- Unique Drone Unveiled by Sony Is Half-Copter, Half-Plane, All Awesome
- A Man in The UK Has Been Shedding Live Polio For Nearly 30 Years
- Global Life Expectancy Is Up by More Than Six Years Since 1990
- Watch How The Ocean's Garbage Patches Formed Over The Past 35 Years
- Eating High-Protein Foods Is So Good For You, It's Like Quitting Smoking, Study Finds
- Watch: What if Everyone on Earth Jumped at The Exact Same Time?
- Watch: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Does The Tim Tam Slam And Fanboys About Kepler
- Study Finds People With Schizophrenia Have Different Throat Bacteria
- Magnets Can Help 'Reset' Depressed Brains, Study Finds
- Here's Why Antibacterial Products Are Actually Bad For You
- This New Energy Bar Promises You One-Third of Your Daily Nutrition
- The First Supermoon of The Year Will Appear This Saturday
- Your Brain Is Still 30 Times More Powerful Than The Best Supercomputers
- The Age of The Universe Depends on Your Perspective, Expert Suggests
- Meet The Immortus, The World's First Solar-Powered Exotic Sports Car
- Scientists Tried to Replicate 100 Psychology Experiments And 64% Failed
- The LHC Finds Evidence of Particle Activity Beyond The Standard Model
- Watch: This Substance Is So Volatile, a Mosquito Landing on It Makes It Explode
- The 3% of Studies That Reject Global Warming Are Filled With Errors
- Watch: How to Make a Cloud in Your Mouth
- Five Science-Backed Ways to Improve Your Wi-Fi Signal
- This Algorithm Can Spot The Killer in Any Agatha Christie Mystery
- This Is The Perfectly Balanced Burger, According to a 'Flavour Perception' Expert
- Where Does The Little Voice Inside Your Head Come From?
- Ethiopia Has Launched The First Space Program in East Africa
- New Blood Test Could Predict Breast Cancer Relapse
- Marie Curie's Belongings Will Be Radioactive For Another 1,500 Years
- Scientists Find a Way to Get Cancer Cells to Grow Normally Again
- Are We Really All Connected by Just Six Degrees of Separation?
- This Is What The Invisible Wireless Signals All Around Us Look Like
- Incense Could Be More Harmful Than Cigarette Smoke, Researchers Find
- Nope, Mars ISN'T Going to Look The Same Size as The Moon This Week
- Scientists Are Working on Rechargeable Batteries With Almost Infinite Lifetimes
- Scientists Develop World's First 'Crash-Proof' File System
- Scientists Have Found a Cheap Way to Make Graphene From Tea Tree Extract
- UK Man Receives What Everyone's Calling The World's First 'Bionic Penis'
- Stephen Hawking Explains How You Could Escape a Black Hole
- Hawaii's Newest Power Plant Uses Ocean Temperatures to Generate Energy
- Here's Why We Have Trouble Remembering What Day It Is
- Drug Found to Counter Radiation Exposure if Administered Within 24 Hours
- Scientists Unveil World's First 3D Printer That Can Print 10 Materials at Once
- All The Ways Caffeine Affects Your Body in One Handy Infographic
- Cryptographers Seek to Protect Today's Internet From Cyber-Attacks Decades Away
- Incredible First Look at The Largest Heart Humans Have Ever Preserved
- Woman Gets Bacterial Infection in Her Knee From Flossing Too Much
- Watch: Why Do People Keep Seeing Crazy Stuff on Mars?
- Scientists Are Closer Than Ever to a Universal Flu Vaccine
- There's No Evidence That We Need to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day
- Here's How Hydrogen Could Transform Battery Life on Your Portable Gadgets
- Do Women Really Tolerate Pain Better Than Men?
- Watch: 3D-Printed Glass Technique Is Beautiful And Mesmerising
- Even Identical Twins Can't Fool The Facial Recognition in Windows 10
- Watch: Here's How a Teenager Solved a Rubik's Cube in 5.25 Seconds
- Watch: Here's What Everyone Gets Wrong About The Physics of Tides
- What Happens When You Stop Exercising?
- Dogs May Look Ashamed, But They Don't Feel Guilt, Experts Say
- World's Largest Solar Power Station Planned For India
- Users Describe The Effects of The Drug Some Are Calling 'Weaponised Marijuana'
- Weight Gain After Quitting Cigarettes Is Linked to How Much You Used to Smoke
- Scientists Figure Out How to Make Supermarket Tomatoes Taste Like Actual Tomatoes
- Working Long Hours Is Linked to a Significantly Higher Risk of Stroke
- Scientists Find Metabolic 'Master Switch' That Controls if Fat Is Stored or Burned
- It's Official: July 2015 Was The Hottest Month on Record
- Watch: WTF Is Going on With This Object Spinning in Zero Gravity?
- The Sumatran Rhino Is Now Considered Extinct in The Wild in Malaysia
- NASA Wants to Let You Know There's No Asteroid Threatening Earth Right Now
- This New 'Green' Antenna Could Double Solar Panel Efficiency
- This Bacteria-Killing Charger Cleans Up Your Filthy Smartphone
- Study Finds Happiness, Not Depression, Spreads Among Teens
- Incredibly Rare 'Rainbow Lightning' Hit Arizona Last Week
- India Establishes World's First 100 Percent Solar-Powered Airport
- This Narcolepsy 'Smart Drug' Makes Ordinary People Smarter
- NASA's Given Researchers $200,000 to Turn Human Poop Into Food
- Watch: Aluminium Levitates, Glows, And Melts All at The Same Time
- Watch: Here's The #1 Reason People Die Early in Each Country
- Research Finds Mixed Emotions Work Best For Kick-Starting Creativity
- Here's Why DNA Could Eventually Replace Hard Drives
- Boeing's Latest Patent Reveals a Drone That Can Transform Into a Submarine
- Scientists Who Found Gluten Sensitivity Evidence Have Now Shown It Doesn't Exist
- Scientists Successfully Grow Human Brain Equivalent to 5-Week-Old Foetus in The Lab
- This 20-Km-High 'Space Elevator' Could Revolutionise How We Get Into Orbit
- Violent Attacks And Psychosis Are Not Strongly Related, Study Finds
- Here's How Hot Chilli Could Help Us to Beat Obesity
- Technology Has Created More Jobs Than It's Destroyed in The Past 140 Years
- We're All Deluded, And This Incredibly Powerful Video Calls Us Out on It
- The FDA Has Just Approved Addyi, a Libido Pill For Women
- Watch: The Power of Asking Simple Questions in Science
- Staring Into Someone's Eyes For 10 Minutes Induces an Altered State of Consciousness
- Japan Might Be About to Experience a Large Volcanic Eruption, Scientists Warn
- When's The Best Time to Go to Bed, According to Science?
- World's Most Powerful Laser Is 2,000 Trillion Watts – But What's It For?
- Incredible 3D Images Released of Mars's Giant Canyon
- New Book Sets The Record Straight on Congolese Man Exhibited by The Bronx Zoo
- Artificial Photosynthesis Could Power Homes in a Few Years, Say Researchers
- This Venezuelan Lake Gets More Lightning Than Anywhere Else on Earth
- This Map Shows All The Claims on The Arctic Seafloor
- Google's Project Sunroof Tells You How Much Solar Energy Is Hitting Your Rooftop
- Watch: How Nuclear Disasters Helped Scientists Understand Climate Change
- Samsung Says We Can Achieve Earth-Wide Internet Via 4,600 Micro-Satellites
- 5 Cool Things Australian Researchers Have Discovered
- The US Navy Is Working on AI That Can Predict a Pirate Attack
- Researchers Have Found a Neat Trick to Help Get You Out of Debt Faster
- Warp Speed Travel Is Theoretically Possible, Says Astrophysicist
- Hydrogen Sulphide Smashes Superconductor Temperature Record
- Controlling Pests Could Save Australia Billions, And 148 Endangered Species
- The #1 Best-Selling Book on Amazon Uses Hypnosis to Help Send Kids to Sleep
- "No Jab, No Play" Vaccination Laws Will Be Introduced in Victoria
- Watch: Is Vaping Really Better For You Than Smoking?
- Solitaire And Minesweeper Were Created to Trick You Into Learning Windows
- NASA Tests Its "Ferrari of Rocket Engines" in Preparation For Mars Voyage
- Watch: Opera Singer Performs Through His Entire Brain Surgery
- The Entire African Continent Has Been Declared Free of 'Wild' Polio Cases
- Apple Is Scouting Locations to Test Its Top-Secret Self-Driving Cars
- Watch: Stunning Footage Shows What The Aurora Borealis Looks Like From Space
- The Verdict Is in: Feel-Good Exercise Hormone Irisin Is Real
- Sorry Palaeo Dieters, Our Ancestors Needed Carbs to Fuel Their Big Brains
- Why Reintroducing The Tassie Devil Would Balance Australia's Ecosystem
- Samsung Shows Off The World's Biggest SSD Hard Drive: 16TB
- Robots Are About to Enter Australian Schools as Part of a World-First Study
- Scientists Have Worked Out Why Your Eyes Move When You're Dreaming
- Australian Food Labels Might Soon Tell You How Long It'll Take to Walk Off Snacks
- Watch: New Footage of The Biggest Great White Shark Ever Filmed
- A New Baby Can Be Tougher Than Divorce, Redundancy, And Bereavement, Study Finds
- The UK Is Trialling a New Road Surface That Charges Your Electric Car as You Drive
- Fish Oil Helps at-Risk Teenagers Avoid Schizophrenia, Even 8 Years Later
- Want to Name a Planet? Here's Your Chance
- New Treatment Can Stop Tumours From Asbestos in Up to 3 Out of 4 Cases
- Thousands of Spiders Worked Together to Build This Giant Communal Web
- Even 2 Hours a Day of Standing Instead of Sitting Is Good For You, Study Suggests
- Sleeping on Your Side Could Reduce Alzheimer's And Parkinson's Risk, Study Finds
- Scientists Think They've Found a Way to Help People 'Forget' Their Drug Addictions
- LA Is Dumping Millions of Small Plastic Balls Into Its Reservoir to Tackle The Drought
- Whoa, Researchers Have Levitated Liquid Droplets on Glowing Plasma
- Giant Tiger Shark Caught Off The Coast of Australia
- Watch: Here's How to Make Plasma by Microwaving a Grape
- The 5 Best Apps to Watch Tonight's Spectacular Meteor Shower
- Scientists Figure Out The Best Spots to Tap Clean Geothermal Energy
- Here's The Science-Backed Way to Poop Without Splashback
- New Study Shows No Signs That Skipping Breakfast Will Make You Gain Weight
- Sorry, But Venting Online Just Makes You Angrier, Scientists Find
- Here's Why More Exercise Makes You Crave a Healthier Diet
- This Reinvented Shower Head Uses 70% Less Water
- Microsoft's New AI Is Capable of Spotting a Good Joke
- Australian Man Grows Ear on Arm to Make 'Remote Listening Device' For The Internet
- Don't Panic, But The Universe Is Slowly Dying
- This 12-Year-Old Has a Higher IQ Than Einstein And Stephen Hawking
- Watch: A Robot Just Explored 2,100 Metres Below The Pacific Ocean
- Flexible Skin Sensors Turn Your Body Into a Digital Touch Panel
- 3D-Printed Graphene Ink Could Lead to Longer-Lasting, More-Efficient Batteries
- Liver Disease Drug Appears to Slow The Progression of Parkinson's
- This Butterfly Is Half Male And Half Female
- Watch: Why Are There Dangerous Ingredients in Our Vaccines?
- LG Unveils Its New Flexible, Paper-Thin TV
- Facebook Analysis of 'E-Laughter' Shows That LOL Is on The Way Out
- Researchers Have Designed a Simple Fusion Reactor That Could Be Running in 10 Years
- Here's Why You Need to Poop After Your Morning Cup of Coffee
- At Last, an App That Checks if You're Busy Before Interrupting
- Computer Model Predicts Subtropic Flu Outbreaks With Up to 93% Accuracy
- New Zealand Will Shut Down Its Last Large Coal-Fired Power Generators in 2018
- A New Enzyme That Eats Up Nicotine in The Bloodstream Could Help Smokers Quit
- NASA Astronauts Will Eat Space Lettuce For The First Time Today
- Sexting Might Be Good For Your Relationship, Study Finds
- Child-Evasion Algorithm Designed to Help Poor Robots Escape Bullying Kids
- Sarcastic Rover Is Totally Unimpressed by 3 Years on Mars
- Watch: Richard Feynman on Why He Can't Tell You How Magnets Work
- Japanese Engineers Have Created The World's First 'Car in a Bag'
- There Could Be a Genetic Reason For Why You Either Love or Hate Coriander
- Self-Driving Trucks Could Cost as Many as 7 Million Jobs in The US Alone
- This 16-Year-Old Hacked a Printer to More Cheaply Detect Heart Disease
- Science Shows Dogs Really CAN Recognise Our Faces
- Watch: What Exactly Is Dark Matter And Dark Energy?
- New Device Can Immediately Target And Destroy Deadly Blood Clots
- Amateur Radio Enthusiast Makes Contact With The International Space Station
- Athletes at The 2016 Paralympics Will Use a Futuristic BMW Wheelchair
- Watch Tesla's Freaky Tentacle Prototype Find Its Way to a Car's Charging Port
- White Bread And Pasta Have Been Linked to an Increased Risk of Depression
- Scientists Have Turned The Skin Cells of Alzheimer's Patients Into New Brain Cells
- The Right Music Can Help a Surgeon Stitch You Up Better, Study Finds
- Our Perception of Colour Changes as Seasons Change, Study Finds
- This GoPro-Style Camera Automatically Edits Your Videos So You Don't Have to
- The Best Tweets From The #ILookLikeAnEngineer Hashtag
- Women Who Exercise as Teens Are Less Likely to Die of Cancer Later, Study Finds
- Public Health Professor Goes to Town on Australian Senate Inquiry Into Wind Farms
- Scientists Are Developing a Shield to Protect Astronauts From Cosmic Radiation
- This Incredible GIF Shows The Dark Side of The Moon From 1.6 Million Km Away
- Physicists Produce World's First Sample of Potential Wonder-Material: Stanene
- This New White Laser Technology Could Replace LED Lighting
- Here's How Long Your Food Actually Keeps For
- Spicy Food Could Reduce Your Risk of Mortality, Study Finds
- Watch: What Would Happen if You Stopped Eating?
- Here's How Your Smartphone Battery Can Be Used to Track Your Every Move
- Half-And-Half Mix of Placebos And Sleeping Pills May Be Best For Insomnia, Study Finds
- The FDA Has Just Approved The First 3D-Printed Drug
- Living Near More Trees Could Make You as Feel as Good as a $10,000 Raise
- A Russian Railway Mogul Plans to Build a Giant Bridge From The US to Europe
- A Psychologist Thinks It'll Be Normal to Have Sex With Robots by 2070
- Researchers Discover How to Turn Energy-Storing White Fat Into Energy-Burning Brown Fat
- Taking The Pill Can Lower The Risk of Cancer Even 30 Years Later, Study Finds
- Watch: How The World Trade Centre Attacks Changed The Way We Engineer Buildings
- We Finally Get to See That Lexus Hoverboard in Action
- Reducing Carbon Emissions Might Not Be Enough to Save Our Oceans, Say Scientists
- Bill Gates Is Doubling Down on Clean Energy With US$2 Billion in Personal Investments
- IPad Brain-Training Game Shown to Help Memory in Schizophrenia Patients
- Researchers Design First Firmware Worm That Can Attack Macs
- China Is Building Its First Large-Scale Solar Plant in The Gobi Desert
- Night Owls Feel The Effects of Sleep Deprivation More Than Morning People
- Buzz Aldrin Claimed $33.31 in Travel Expenses After Returning From The Moon
- Whoa, a Red-Hot Nickel Ball Does Some Crazy Stuff to Floral Foam
- New Solar Battery Outperforms Conventional Lithium-Iodine Batteries
- Airbus Just Patented a Jet That Could Fly From London to New York in 1 Hour
- Here's Why Women Are Always Freezing in Offices, According to Science
- Watch NASA Intentionally Crash This Cessna to Help Save Lives
- Whisky Aged in Space Expected to Taste Out of This World
- An Inconvenient Truth About Earth 2.0: It's Really Far Away, Folks
- Women's Immune Genes Are Regulated Differently to Men's, Study Finds
- Watch: Here's Everything That's Wrong With 'The Big Bang Theory'
- A Woman Can See For The First Time in 13 Years Thanks to a Bionic Eye
- Watch: How to Turn Your Smartphone Into a 3D Hologram
- The HitchBOT Experiment Has Come to a Violent End in Philadelphia
- Watch: This Is What The Inside of a Kangaroo's Pouch REALLY Looks Like