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- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Boil Water Three Times Faster
- Super-Efficient Graphene Lightbulbs Will Hit Markets This Year
- 1,000-Year-Old Onion And Garlic Remedy Kills Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs
- Need to Complete a Creative Task? You'll Do Better With a Tired Brain
- Stone Age Farmers in Italy Defleshed Their Dead, Hid Bones in Caves
- NASA Will Try to Capture a Boulder From an Asteroid With… THE CLAW
- WATCH: How to Get Rid of Hiccups, According to Science
- The 10 Mistakes We All Make When Interpreting Research
- There Are Real-Life 'Vampire' Tribes Roaming New Orleans
- A Researcher Tried to Make Yoghurt From Vaginal Bacteria, Because Science
- WATCH: This Fishing Net Could Capture Space Junk
- Japan Is Building a 400 Km Sea Wall to Protect Against Tsunamis
- Major Journal Publisher Admits to Publishing Fabricated Peer Reviews
- Here's How to Use Dice to Create an Unhackable, Easy-to-Remember Passphrase
- This Infographic Breaks Down The Top Five Misconceptions About Evolution
- Scientists Have Found a Simple Way to Make Chocolate Better For You
- Boeing Has Patented a Plasma 'Force Field' to Protect Against Shock Waves
- WATCH: Why Are Cities Actually GOOD For Some Species?
- The Moon's First Settlers Could Live in City-Sized Lava Tubes
- WATCH: Here's How You Turn Styrofoam Into Solid Metal
- Single-Particle 'Spooky Action at a Distance' Finally Demonstrated
- An Extra Hour of Sleep Boosts Women's Sex Drive by 14%, Study Suggests
- A City in Texas Is About to Switch to 100% Renewable Energy
- Depressing New Study Reveals Society Thinks Stalking Is "Romantic"
- First Non-Beating Heart Transplant Performed Successfully in The UK
- Incredible Non-Stick Coating Has Solved a Universally Annoying Problem
- WATCH: A Spinning Top Just Won't Quit Inside a Vacuum Chamber
- Scientists Have Created Insulin-Producing Cells That Could Replace Injections
- WATCH: These Are The Top 5 Deadliest Substances on Earth
- Crossing Your Fingers Can Dull Physical Pain, Study Finds
- WATCH: What Happens When All The Bees Die?
- New Ebola Vaccine Provokes Immune Response in Human Clinical Trials
- Elon Musk Believes It'll Be Illegal For Humans to Drive in The Future
- This Is Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Favourite Science Joke
- New Study Reveals Main Culprit For Alzheimer's Disease
- How Particle Accelerator Maths Helped Me Fix My Wi-Fi
- WATCH: Common Misconceptions About Psychology
- WATCH: Here's What It Takes to Fly a Rocket to The Space Station
- The Universe Could Be on The Brink of Collapse, Much Sooner Than Expected
- WATCH: Are Humans Still Evolving?
- Antibiotics Can Improve Autism in Some Children, New Paper Suggests
- Sweden Is Building The World's First Carbon-Negative Data Centre
- Earth Might Have a Super-Strong Layer of Rock We Didn't Know Existed
- NASA Has Found Nitrogen, a Key 'Life-Ingredient', on Mars!
- Need an Erection? Step Into The Blue Light.
- The FDA Is Eager to Approve a Drug That Gets Rid of Your Double Chin
- Watch What Happens When You Crack Your Knuckles
- New 4D Ultrasound Scans Reveal What Smoking Does to a Foetus
- A Self-Driving Car Has Embarked on an Epic Road Trip Across The US
- Jupiter Came Through Like a Wrecking Ball And Paved The Way For Earth
- Earth's Largest Known Asteroid Impact Zone Discovered in Australia
- Mammoth DNA Has Been Implanted Into Functioning Elephant Cells
- No More Physics And Maths, Finland to Stop Teaching Individual Subjects
- This Infographic Shows The Scope of Internet Censorship Around The Globe
- NASA's Latest Concept Plane Has 18 Electric Engines on Impossibly Narrow Wings
- WATCH: New YouTube Series Explains Human Nature Through Evolution
- Taking Melatonin Really Does Help You Get a Good Night's Sleep – Even When It's Noisy
- Australia's Largest Solar Farm Is Now Feeding Power to The National Grid
- These Strange Funnels Form When Meteors Crash Into Snow
- Chinese Scientists Have Built The World's First Hydrogen-Powered Tram
- Scientists Are Turning Packing Peanut Waste Into Battery Parts
- Scientists Have Found a Drug That Makes People More Compassionate
- New Device Could Lead to Computers Thousands of Times Faster
- The Best Cosmic Events Coming Up in 2015
- WATCH: Computer Colour Is Broken
- WATCH: This Short Film Shows The Terrifying Power of Lava
- YES! Flying Cars Could Hit The Market as Early as 2017
- NASA Has Spotted a Strange Aurora on Mars
- New Study Suggests Night Owls Have Psychopathic Traits
- New RNA Molecule Can Be Manipulated to Increase Neuron Production
- Scientists Are Investigating if Living With a Dog Improves Your Microbiome
- Scientists Create 'Mini Lungs' to Fight Cystic Fibrosis
- Costa Rica Powered With 100% Renewable Energy For 75 Straight Days
- Here's Why Your Hair Is Turning Grey, According to Science
- This Is The Age You Reach Peak Intelligence, According to Science
- Plants Regulate Their Vitamin C in Unexpected Ways
- Volcanic Lightning Storms Are Creating Perfect Crystal Balls
- This New Yeast Could Produce Better Wine And Less Hangovers
- WATCH: Water Droplets Explode Off Geckos' Backs in Slow Motion
- New Electrode Creates Hydrogen Fuel More Efficiently Than Ever Before
- Your Eyes Are Wired Backwards: Here's Why
- You Can Help NASA Discover Asteroids With This Free App
- WATCH: These Are The Parasites That Live on Your Face
- The Longer You're Breastfed, The Higher Your IQ And Adult Earnings, Study Suggests
- New Alzheimer's Treatment Fully Restores Memory Function
- Look Up! There's a Total Solar Eclipse This Week
- Watching Porn May Boost a Man's Performance in Bed
- A Terrifying Electric Railgun Will Be Trialled by The US Navy
- Scientists Transform Human Leukaemia Cells Into Functional Immune Cells
- WATCH: Severe Geomagnetic Storm Creates Super-Vivid Aurorae
- This Incredible Photo Clearly Shows an Explosion's Shock Wave
- WATCH: New 3D Printer Births Fully-Formed Objects Out of Molten Plastic
- Here Are The 15 Vertebrates Most Likely to Become Extinct Next
- Holy Crap. Watch This Guy Turn Plastic Back Into Oil.
- This New Type of Display Could Finally Give Us Real-Time Holograms
- Urban Solar Panels Can Power California Five Times Over
- WATCH: What Colour Is The Universe Really?
- Magnetised Graphene Could See a "Million-Fold" Increase in Hard Drive Storage
- Scientists Solve The 'Chicken And The Egg' Conundrum For Life's Beginnings
- WATCH: NASA Footage of The Biggest Solar Flare This Year
- Scientists Can Now Tell if You're in Love by Scanning Your Brain
- Trees Store Water in Their 'Food Tubes', World-First Research Finds
- Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why You Have an Anus
- This Material Can Charge Your Electronic Devices
- Separate Impact Events Might Have Formed This Double Crater in Canada
- This Incredible Chameleon-Like Material Changes Colour When Flexed
- Beautiful Map Shows The Mind-Boggling Extent of Our Underwater Internet Cables
- For The First Time in 40 Years, The World Economy Grew, But CO2 Emissions Didn't
- Watch The First Baby Gorilla in 15 Years Being Born at Melbourne Zoo
- Explainer: What Is Insomnia And What Can You Do About It?
- WATCH: Incredible Drone Footage of The World's Largest Cave
- Scientists: Practice Doesn't Necessarily Make Perfect. Sorry.
- Is There Really a Single Ideal Body Shape For Women?
- Success! Scientists Have Achieved Wireless Energy Transfer Across 55m
- First Tortoises Born on Galapagos's Pinzón Island in 150 Years
- China's Wind Farms Produce More Energy Than America's Nuclear Plants
- This New Device Recycles Plastic Bottles Into 3D-Printing Material
- The Raptor Noises in Jurassic Park Are Mating Tortoises
- First Samples Collected From Under Antarctica's Blood Falls
- New Gel Can Stop Wounds From Bleeding
- WATCH: The Rocket Booster That Will Take Humans to Mars in Action
- WATCH: Cancer Scientist Explains His Research Through Rap
- WATCH: This Is Your Brain on Magic Mushrooms
- Australian Man Unearths 2.7 Kg Gold Nugget Worth $135k
- There Are Hot Springs on Enceladus, And They Could Trigger Life
- Violent Collisions During Earth's Formation Led to Metal Rains
- Earth Has Entered a New Epoch, And We Caused It
- Homeopathy No More Effective Than Placebos, New Report Finds
- Scientists Discovered What Happens When One Twin Exercises And The Other Does Not
- WATCH: Here's Why The Stacked Ball Drop Experiment Is Like a Supernova
- WATCH: The Odd Chemical Reaction Between Coke And Milk
- Cockroaches Have Personalities, Too. You've Been Warned.
- German City Uses Hydrophobic Paint to Splash Public Urinators With Pee
- Scientists Have Reinforced Concrete With Plastic Waste Instead of Steel
- This World-First Bionic Heart Works Without a Pulse
- New Class of Drugs Improves Lifespans And Health of Mice
- WATCH: This New Shape-Shifting Liquid Metal Can Move by Itself
- Dogs Prefer to Poo Along a North-South Axis
- This Quiz Can Tell if You're Turning Your Kid Into a Narcissist
- You Can Now Turn Your Brown Eyes Blue For $5,000
- A New Drug Turns 'Bad' White Fat Into 'Good' Brown Fat
- Villagers High in The Andes Have Developed a Genetic Tolerance to Arsenic
- Second-Hand Smoke Exposure Linked to Childhood Eczema
- Driverless Mercedes Spotted Zooming Around San Francisco
- Scientists Insert Happy Memories Into The Brains of Sleeping Mice
- Future Bio-Sensors Will Be Drawn on With Ballpoint Pens
- El Niño Has Finally Arrived. Here's What That Means For You.
- This Urinal Converts Your Pee Into Electricity
- A Giant Floating Lab Is About to Find Out How The Southern Ocean Regulates Climate
- WATCH: Cuttlefish Hypnotise With Their Amazing Light Display
- This Solar Plane Will Circumnavigate The Globe, Starting From Tomorrow
- Florida Officials Have Banned The Terms "Climate Change" And "Global Warming"
- WATCH: Uranium Emits Radiation Inside a Cloud Chamber
- WATCH: Lesser-Known Scientific Discoveries, And The Women Behind Them
- WATCH: A Scientist Examines a Rare Goblin Shark
- This Tap Saves Water by Creating Incredible Patterns
- The Dawn Probe Has Successfully Entered Ceres' Orbit!
- Decapitated Skull Contains Oldest Brain Ever Discovered
- WATCH: This New Paint-Like Coating Repels Spills And Scratches
- WATCH: Why Females Make The Best Astronauts
- Mars Once Held More Water Than The Arctic Ocean
- Missing Galaxies From The Early Universe Have Been Rediscovered
- Scientists Figure Out Why Indian Cuisine Tastes So Amazing
- Identical Twin Study Shows Regular Exercise Boosts Grey Matter
- Homer Simpson Predicted The Mass of The Higgs Boson 14 Years Before CERN
- Scientists Have Discovered a Hormone That Mimics The Effects of Exercise
- Here Are All The Rockets of The World to Scale
- WATCH: How Old Is Your Hearing?
- Meet The Rarest Natural Element on Earth
- Study Confirms That Men Are More Narcissistic Than Women
- Fossil Discovery Suggests Humans May Be Half a Million Years Older Than We Thought
- WATCH: Indian Man Beats Rubik's Cube World Record… With One Hand
- Scientists Are 3D-Printing Tiny Human Brains
- A Paralysed Woman Has Flown a Fighter Jet Using Only Her Mind
- NASA Has Spotted a Giant Dust Tornado on Mars
- New Images Reveal The Tiniest Known Life-Forms on Earth
- Scientists Figure Out The Best Estimate For The Average Penis Size
- These Two British Girls Are Twin Sisters
- Half of Our HIV Strains Came From Gorillas, Study Reveals
- WATCH: This Lion King Parody Explains All The Gravitational Wave Feels
- Two Common Food Additives Linked to Obesity And Gut Inflammation
- Ancient Mass Grave Discovered Under a Supermarket in Paris
- What Makes a Popular Science Video on YouTube
- Doing The 5:2 Diet? Avoid Antioxidants, New Research Suggests
- Alien Cells Could Live Without Oxygen in Titan's Icy, Methane Seas
- WATCH: NASA's Super Ball Bot Could One Day Bounce Onto Another Planet
- This Is The World's First Image of Light as Both a Particle And a Wave
- WATCH: The World's Most Amazing Archer… in Slow Motion
- Someone Found Chris Hadfield's Flight Suit in a Thrift Store
- Good News, There Are Now Wind Turbines on The Eiffel Tower
- WATCH: Why Do We Only See One Side of The Moon?
- New Evidence Proves Chronic Fatigue Really Is a Biological Disorder
- IKEA's New Furniture Will Wirelessly Charge Our Devices
- The Gatekeeper Proteins of Our Cells Have an Unexpected 'Night Job'
- This Is The Safest Hideout in a Zombie Apocalypse, According to Statistics
- Curiosity Drill Site Reveals Mars Isn't Red – It's Greyish-Blue