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- These New Nanoparticle 'Cluster Bombs' Could Make Chemotherapy Less Toxic
- WATCH: How Big Does an Asteroid Need to Be to Wipe Out Manhattan?
- New Holographic Exhibit From NASA And Microsoft Lets You Walk on Mars
- Why Do Some of Us Handle Stress Way Better Than Others? It Could Be The Wiring of Our Brains
- Here's What Happens to a Dead Body at The Bottom of The Sea
- Researchers Have Finally Figured Out How Newts Regenerate Their Limbs
- WATCH: This Is What Happens to an Old-Timey Calculator When You Try to Divide by Zero
- Japan's Building a Giant 'Ice Wall' to Contain The Fukushima Radiation
- Scientists Have Developed 'Transparent Wood' That Can Build Windows, Solar Cells
- The 'World's Biggest Orgy' Is About to Start Again
- Early Hominin Known as 'Hobbits' Became Extinct Much Earlier Than We Thought
- WATCH: The Science of Laser Hair Removal in SLOW MOTION
- Over-Reliance on GPS Could See Us Lose Our Sense of Navigation, Expert Warns
- How Amateur Astronomers Used Backyard Telescopes to Film Jupiter's Collision With a Space Rock
- This Researcher Thinks a Mysterious Planet X Is Causing Mass Extinctions on Earth
- Stem Cells Have Been Used to Regenerate Damaged Spinal Cords in Rats
- A Vegetarian Diet Could Cause Long-Term Genetic Changes
- Japan Has No Idea What Just Happened to Its $278m Orbiting Satellite
- The Origins of Malaria Have Been Traced to The Age of The Dinosaurs
- This 10-Year-Old Has Built a Prosthetic Arm That Shoots Glitter
- Uganda's Going to Start Jailing Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Their Kids
- Physicists Have Finally Figured Out Why These Massive Ice Discs Start Spinning on Their Own
- Quantum Physics Has Just Been Found Hiding in One of The Most Important Mathematical Models of All Time
- The Death Star's Destruction Would Have Wiped Out The Ewoks, According to Science
- Top Medical Experts Say We Should Decriminalise All Drugs
- NASA Is About to Attach an Inflatable 'Space House' to The ISS
- Your Birth Season Is Stamped on Your DNA And Can Affect Your Risk of Allergies
- Condom-Free Male Birth Control Just Passed Another Trial, And Could Be on Sale Within 2 Years
- Something Just Smashed Into Jupiter
- Scientists Just 'Rediscovered' a Drug That's Effective Against Two Human Viruses
- Scientists Just Built The Most Promising Quantum Computing Circuit Ever
- This Awesome Interactive Site Lets You Relive The History of Space Exploration
- This Biodegradable, Algae-Based Water Bottle Breaks Down When It's Empty
- 7 Surprising Maps That Prove Your View Across The Ocean Isn't What You Think It Is
- WATCH: What if The Whole World Went Vegetarian?
- Yes, There Is Such a Thing as Militarised Dolphins
- Scientists Have Identified a New Universal Facial Expression Called The 'Not Face'
- This Simple New Technique Could Save Sea Turtles From Fishing Nets
- NASA Just Released This New Hubble Image of Two Galaxy Clusters About to Collide
- Tweaking Our Gut Bacteria Could Help Protect Our Brain From Strokes
- Compounds in Dark Chocolate Can Make You Feel Calmer And More Content, Study Finds
- Physicists Just 'Undiscovered' an Important Metal Compound
- Isaac Newton's Recipe For The Mythical 'Philosopher's Stone' Has Just Been Rediscovered
- What Would Air Travel Be Like on Other Planets?
- Scientists Just Found More Evidence That Planet Nine Exists in Our Solar System
- This Award-Winning Underground 'Skyscraper' Would Sink Central Park
- What's The Link Between Insomnia And Mental Illness?
- Scientists Just Broke The Record For The Fastest Fibre Optic Data Transfer Ever
- Microsoft's New 'Holoportation' Tech Lets You Jump Into Someone Else's Reality
- Endangered African Rhinos Are Being Relocated to Australia For Protection Against Poachers
- There's a Worldwide Sugar Shortage Happening Right Now, Thanks to El Niño
- Saturn's Moons And Rings Could Be Younger Than The Dinosaurs, Study Reveals
- A Major Film Festival Is Premiering a Movie From The Man Who Jump-Started The Anti-Vaccine Hysteria
- Biologists Have Just Created a New Species of Bacteria With Just 437 Genes
- This New Map Is The Most Complete Catalogue of Every Known Thing in Our Sky
- There's an Intact Ancient Virus Lying Dormant in Human DNA
- Edison's Last Breath Lives in a Test Tube in The Henry Ford Museum
- We're Getting Closer Than Ever to Reading The Mysterious Herculaneum Scrolls
- You Know How When You Learn a New Word, You See It Everywhere? Science Knows Why
- Heat-Assisted Storage Could Give You 10x More Space on Your Computer's Drive
- A Novel Written by AI Passes The First Round in a Japanese Literary Competition
- This Japanese Diet Has Been Linked to a 15% Reduction in Mortality
- This German Invention Puts an Actual Mini Farm at The End of Your Supermarket Aisle
- Good News: Scientists Have Found Corals That Might Actually Survive Climate Change
- This Open-Access Picture Book From The '70s Shows How Glorious The Space Race Really Was
- Astronomers Have Observed The Most "Outrageously Luminous" Galaxies Ever
- These Three Factors Explain Why US Men Have a Shorter Life Expectancy
- This Time-Lapse Shows The Sun Only Rises Due East Two Days a Year
- Why Won't This Damn Balloon Pop After Being Skewered by an Arrow?
- Scientists Are Developing an Ultrasensitive 'Biosniffer' to Detect Diseases on Your Breath
- Self-Cleaning Clothes Are Actually on The Horizon
- WATCH: Take This Hearing Test to See How Old Your Ears Are
- 3 Billion Years Ago, Our Moon Had a Different North Pole
- This $99 Device Transforms Any Smartphone Into a 3D Printer
- A Brain Parasite Has Been Linked to an Increased Risk of Rage Disorder
- WATCH: The Tricks You Can Do With These Next-Gen Magnets Look Like Magic
- NASA Just Released New, Ultra-Clear Images of Ceres' Mysterious Bright Spots
- Massive Solar Storms Are Triggering Jupiter's Amazing 'Northern Lights'
- A Hydrogen Car Just Set The Record For The World's Longest Continuous Journey
- Every 11-Year-Old in Britain Is Getting a Free Mini Computer
- Scientists Have Identified The Molecules Most Capable of Fighting Prostate Cancer
- Just Looking at Photos of Nature Could Be Enough to Lower Your Work Stress Levels
- Only 2.7% of US Adults Meet All Four Science-Backed Criteria For a Healthy Lifestyle
- Pharaoh Ramesses III Had His Throat Cut And Toe Hacked Off by Multiple Assassins, New CT Scans Reveal
- These Are The 10 Cities With The Worst Air Pollution in The World
- Bill Gates Is Backing a Waterless Toilet That Generates Energy From Human Waste
- Physicists Have Finally Solved a Key Mystery in How Hydrogen Bonding Works
- XKCD Comics Will Soon Be Featured in High School Science And Engineering Textbooks
- NASA Thinks It's Found a Frozen Lake on Pluto's Surface
- There's Way Too Much Human Faeces on Mount Everest, Experts Have Warned
- This Unit of Measurement Figures Out How Likely You Are to Die Today
- This Common Bacterium Grows 60% Better in Space Than on Earth
- The World's Smallest Rhino Has Just Been Sighted in Borneo For First Time in 40 Years
- Australia's Spending $3.3 Million to Study 'Wind Turbine Sickness' – Despite No Evidence It Exists
- Scientists Have Invented a New Type of Metal to Make Nuclear Reactors Stronger And Safer
- Last Time Carbon Emissions Were This High, The Dinosaurs Went Extinct
- NASA Scientists Say We Could Colonise The Moon by 2022… For Just $10 Billion
- DNA Test Reveals That Vietnamese Twins Have Two Different Fathers
- This Interactive Graph Shows How Your Parents' Career Choices End Up Affecting Yours
- Scientists Just Discovered a Black Hole That's Blasting The Fastest 'Space Wind' in The Known Universe
- Two Chinese Poachers Have Been Jailed For 30 Years After Slaughtering 226 Elephants
- We All Carry The Genes For Autism, Study Finds
- WATCH: Guy Gets a Biopsy of His Thigh to Figure Out What Human Flesh Tastes Like
- Scientists Have Removed HIV From Human Immune Cells Using a New Gene-Editing Technique
- Interactive Body Map: What Really Gives You Cancer?
- A Lunar Eclipse Is Coinciding With a Super-Bright Jupiter Tomorrow
- Silicon 'Nano-Balls' Have Wiped Out Metastatic Breast Cancer in Mice
- Scientists Have Seen The Shockwave From a Star's Collapsing Core For The First Time
- Flash of Light Alerts Astronomers to The Strangest Planetary Orbit Ever Observed
- WATCH: What Happens When You Try to Fold Paper More Than 7 Times With a Hydraulic Press?
- A Patient Has 'Caught' a Kiwi Fruit Allergy From a Bone Marrow Transplant
- 4 Things You Can Actually Learn While You Sleep
- Evidence of a New Particle That Could Break The Standard Model of Physics Is Mounting
- A College Student Has 3D-Printed His Own Braces For Less Than $60
- Two Comets Will Make The Closest Flyby of Earth in Decades This Week
- Dark Matter Might Be Made of Super-Heavy Particles Almost as Big as Human Cells
- Astronomers Just Discovered a New Type of Galaxy Called 'Super Spirals'
- Something Rare Happened in 2000, And We're Getting The Earliest Spring Since 1896 as a Result
- The Massive Meteor That Just Shot Over The UK Was One of The Brightest Ever Seen
- Scientists Discover an on/Off Switch For Sperm That Could Lead to Better Male Contraceptives
- This New Urine-Based Fuel Cell Puts Your Liquid Waste to Good Use
- This New Capsule Implant Releases Antibodies to Fight Alzheimer's Disease
- New Quantum Computer Device Takes Advantage of a Loophole in Causality
- This New Technique Allows Scientists to Inject Healthy Nerve Cells Into Damaged Brains
- Astronomers Have Observed a Black Hole Flashing Red With The Energy of 1,000 Suns
- The World's Oldest Message in a Bottle Spent 108 Years at Sea For a Critical Science Experiment
- Scientists Have Isolated 6 Natural Compounds That Could Help Us Slow Down Ageing
- Scientists Have Grown a First-of-Its-Kind Functional Heart Muscle From Stem Cells
- Learning Complex Tasks Breaks Down Barriers in Our Brains, Say Scientists
- A Mysterious Disease Is Killing People in Wisconsin
- The UK Just Announced a Tax on Sugar – And It's Scary News For Coca-Cola And Pepsi
- Scientists Want to Turn Guantanamo Bay Prison Camp Into a Marine Research Lab
- New Evidence of Secret Chambers in Tutankhamun's Tomb Hints at Royal Treasures
- Seaworld Just Ended All of Its Captive Orca Breeding Programs – Here's Why It Took So Long
- Russia Has a Crazy Plan to Fly to Mars in 45 Days Using Nuclear Power
- This Neuroscientist Is Figuring Out How to Harness The Enormous Potential of The Unconscious Mind
- This Map Estimates Which US Cities Face The Highest Risk From Zika Virus
- An English Professor Just Won $700,000 For Solving a 379-Year-Old Maths Problem
- This Time in 2009, a Bat Hitched a Ride on The Space Shuttle Discovery
- Cities Are Paying People to Ditch Their Cars And Bike to Work Instead
- Even Geckos Might Not Be Able to Survive Global Warming, Say Scientists
- Scientists Use Light to Reactivate Lost Memories in Mice With Alzheimer's Symptoms
- Here's Why You're So Terrible at Rock-Paper-Scissors
- Researchers Inject Dengue Into Vaccinated Volunteers And Find 100% Were Protected
- China Is Responsible For Approx. 10% of Climate Change, Says New Study
- Scientists Have Just Thawed a 12,400-Year-Old Puppy Found in Russian Permafrost
- WATCH: Is It Healthy to Shave Your Pubes?
- The World Happiness Index 2016 Just Ranked The Happiest Countries on Earth
- What Exactly Is Consciousness, And Can We Replicate It?
- Scientists Get Their First Glimpse at How New Memories Are Born
- The World's First Solar-Powered Airport Is No Longer Paying For Electricity
- NASA Plans to Start a "Large-Scale" Fire in Space by Setting an Unmanned Spacecraft Alight
- A Devastating 'Double-Fault' Earthquake Could Be in Store For California, Warns Expert
- This Is Our Closest Look Ever at The Biological Motors That Power Bacteria
- Scientists Are Developing The World's Biggest Wind Turbine
- WATCH: A McDonald's Big Mac Is "Indestructible" When Covered in Molten Copper
- Italy's About to Pass a Law to Encourage Supermarkets to Give Unsold Food to Charity
- Scientists Have Discovered Mysterious 'Fairy Circles' in The Australian Outback
- Group of Biologists Bypasses Journals And Uploads Their Work Straight to The Internet
- 6 of The Most Beautiful Solar Farms in The World
- This Painful Video Shows What It Was Like to Send an Email in 1984
- Rare Single Gene Mutation Increases Risk of Schizophrenia 35-Fold
- 'Invisibility Cloaks' For Military Tech Could Breach Geneva Conventions, Says Expert
- How Do Airline Pilots Beat Jetlag?
- Why Science Says Having a Younger Sibling Can Be Really Good For You
- Here's Why You Shouldn't Schedule 'Fun', According to Science
- This Company Recycles Cigarette Butts And Turns Them Into Plastic
- 10 Workspaces of Some of The Greatest Minds in Science
- NASA's Developing a Decelerator That Would Replace Parachutes in Space Vessels
- Too Many Hot Nights Will Leave You Feeling Like You're Battling a Hangover
- This Glorious Map Helps You Keep Track of Every Space Mission in The Solar System
- What Your Parents Ate Before You Were Born Might Affect Your Risk of Obesity And Diabetes
- Scientists Have Created a Painless Patch That Can Control Diabetes Without Injections
- This Computer Simulation Accurately Recreates 350 Million Light-Years of Our Universe
- August Babies Are More Likely to Be Diagnosed With ADHD Than Those Born in September
- Mathematicians Have Discovered a Strange Pattern Hiding in Prime Numbers
- The Oldest Human Genome Ever Has Been Sequenced, And It Could Rewrite Our History
- The Incredible Life And Times of Albert Einstein
- Scientists Are Closer Than Ever to a Single Antidote For 28 Common Snakebite Venoms
- This New Plane Will Make The First Ever Carbon-Free Flight Across The Atlantic
- This Spray-on Coating Could Ice-Proof Everything From Aeroplanes to Power Lines
- A Forensic Lab Tech Caught Fabricating Results Casts Doubt on Almost 8,000 Criminal Cases
- Scientists Have Grown 'Dinosaur Legs' on a Chicken For The First Time
- 6 Science Podcasts You Need to Be Listening to Right Now
- Pi And Its Role in The "Most Beautiful Formula in Mathematics"
- This New Patch Uses Noise-Cancelling Technology to Silence Snores
- For Every Sexist Email This Student Gets, She Adds a Woman Scientist to Wikipedia
- An Ice Shelf Twice The Size of Manhattan Is About to Break Off From Antarctica
- Researchers Have Built The Most Complex Light-Based Quantum Computer Chip Ever
- Our Next Mission to Mars Launches TODAY
- A New Study Will Figure Out if Cats Pick Up The Dialects of Their Owners
- Scientists Think They've Pinpointed Where Bullying Starts in The Brain
- Teaching Children Philosophy Can Improve Their Reading And Math Skills, Study Finds
- Nutrient Drink Helps Protect Memory in Early Alzheimer's Patients, Study Finds
- The Robots Sent Into Fukushima Have 'Died'
- WATCH: This Is What Tuesday's Solar Eclipse Looked Like From a Plane Window
- These Newly Discovered Bacteria Can Help Prevent Cavities, And Scientists Want to Put Them in a Pill
- Combination of Drugs "Dramatically" Shrinks Breast Cancer in Just 11 Days
- 8 Awesome Science Resources That You Can Access For Free Online
- Scientists Identify a Virus And Two Bacteria That Could Be Causing Alzheimer's
- WATCH: Disabling IPhone Animations Can Actually Speed Up Your Device
- WATCH: Could You Eat a Bus, According to Science?
- This Is The Clearest Picture Yet of What Could Be an Ageing Star's Planet-Forming Dust
- Scientists Just Discovered Plastic-Eating Bacteria That Can Break Down PET
- A "Revolutionary" New Treatment Could Allow Kidney Transplants From Any Donor
- This New Biosensor Can Diagnose Cancer And Other Diseases on The Spot
- WATCH: Goodyear Unveils The Future of Tyres, With Spherical, Maglev Wheels
- WATCH: The Terrifying Physics of Teleporting Humans
- This Bus Will Give Thousands of Homeless People Somewhere Safe to Sleep
- A Canadian Province Is About to Start Trialling Universal Basic Income
- How Much You Earn Could Be Affecting Your Genes
- Alan Alda Has a Message For You About Science Communication
- Google's AI Makes History, Beating World-Class Go Grandmaster
- A Group of Scientists Plans on Paying Young Women $900 to Eat Genetically Modified Bananas
- Scientists Found a New Spider in Australia That Can Swim And Catch Fish
- Who (or What) Drives a Driverless Car?
- Scientists Have Improved Vision in Babies With Cataracts Using Stem Cells
- This New Code Makes Websites Load 34% Faster in Any Browser
- New LHC Results Suggest There's a Flaw in The Standard Model of Physics
- Meet The Hydra, an Animal That Rips Itself a New Mouth Every Time It Eats
- Getting Multiple Tattoos Can Strengthen Your Immune System
- These Haunting Photos Show What's Left of America's Space Race
- Happiness Can Break Your Heart Too, Scientists Find
- Blue Origin Plans to Launch Humans Into Space by 2017
- Here's How Occasional Fasting Could Actually Be Good For You
- You Can Now Sequence Your Entire Genome For Under $1,000
- We May Have Found The 'Achilles Heel' of Cancer
- Samsung Is Now Shipping The "World's Largest" Hard Drive
- Science Finds 'Aha!' Moments Are Better Than Slow, Analytical Thinking
- Guys, It's Time to Stop Using 'Statistical Significance' as The Mark of Important Research
- This New Facility Is Turning Exhaust Fumes Into Liquid Fuel
- The FCC Is Planning a Monthly Subsidy to Make The Internet Affordable For Low-Income Americans
- A Screening Test For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is Ready For The Public
- Tomatoes, Peas, And 8 Other Crops Have Been Grown in Mars-Equivalent Soil
- New Mathematical Model Maps The Expansion of The Early Universe Better Than Ever Before
- A Few Nights of Bad Sleep Can Be as Unhealthy as No Sleep at All
- These 6 Women Were Written Out of Tech History
- 10 Inspiring Scientists You Should Have Heard About, But Probably Haven't
- Scientists Grow a 'Person on a Chip' – Living Human Tissues on a Mini 3D Structure
- This Is The Fastest Hydrogen-Powered Car Ever Designed, And It Looks Awesome
- WATCH: A Huge Albino Whale Just Appeared Off The Coast of Mexico
- Watch: Meet Nadine, The 'emotionally Intelligent' Companion Robot
- Scientists Are About to Drill Into The Dinosaur-Killing Impact Crater For The First Time
- In The 1800s, Doctors Prescribed Beards to Help "Filter Air"
- This New Urn Uses Cremation Ashes to Grow a Tree
- WATCH: Something Crazy Happens When You Add Molten Salt to Water
- The World's Oldest Chameleon Was Just Uncovered in a 99-Million-Year-Old Amber Fossil
- Statistics Show Half of All Inventions Happen by Accident
- Norway's Spending US$1 Billion on Bike Highways to Become Carbon Neutral by 2050
- This New Material Pulls Clean Drinking Water Straight Out of The Air
- This Interactive Map Reveals Every Nuclear Detonation Since 1945
- This Could Be The Jetpack We've All Been Dreaming About
- A River of Trash Is Flowing Through Beirut
- Scientists Say They've Finally Figured Out The Identity of Banksy
- Scientists Have Developed Early Stage Human Embryonic Stem Cells For The First Time
- More Evidence Show That Feeding Kids Peanuts Before They Turn 1 Could Prevent Allergies
- These 'Sea-Nomad' Children Can See Underwater Like Dolphins
- WATCH: The World's Blackest Material Just Got Even More Black
- For The First Time, Mac Users Have to Worry About Malware That Locks Their Computer And Demands a Ransom
- Researchers Think They've Just Found a New Kind of Stem Cell
- Explorers Might Have Just Stumbled Upon an Adorable New Octopus Species
- Tiny, Artificial Trees Could Form The Next Generation of Windmills
- Here's How to Get The Best Wi-Fi Signal in Your House
- Scientists Find Regular Aspirin Use Lowers Overall Cancer Risk
- Scientists Have Finally Found a Way to Control Electrons in Action
- Scientists Are Freaking Out Over a New Paper That Says Our Hands Were Designed by God
- Here's Why Astronaut Scott Kelly Grew 5 Cm During His Year in Space
- A Material That's Better Than Graphene? Scientists Say They've Found It
- Always Switched on: What Years of Multitasking Does to Our Brains
- New Study Reveals How Too Much Stress Could Be Destroying Your Brain
- 9 Science Words That Even Smart People Get Wrong
- A Former Coal Mine Has Been Turned Into a Walkable Representation of The Universe
- This Futuristic 'Vertical Village' Is Like a Jungle Stretching 36 Storeys Into The Sky
- What We Know Affects Our Visual Perception of The World, Study Finds
- Thousands of Ancient Egyptian Texts Have Just Been Deciphered, Revealing Hangover Cures And Death Notes
- At 440 Million Years Old, This Fungus Is The Earliest Land-Based Life Ever Found
- The Future of The Xbox Could Mean The End of The Games Console as We Know It
- Study Finds That Chronic Stress Really Does Spread Cancer in The Body
- Scientists Have Developed The World's First Living, Breathing Supercomputer
- You Can Now 3D Print The World's Lightest Material – Graphene Aerogel
- Mysterious Repeating Radio Signals Have Been Detected Coming From Outside Our Galaxy
- WATCH: This Is Exactly What Happens When You Die
- One of The World's Newest Atom Smashers Just Hit a Major Milestone
- 10 Weird Things You Never Knew About The Ocean's Deepest Places
- Depression Affects Your Whole Body, Not Just Your Mind, New Evidence Confirms
- Scientists Say They've Figured Out The Best Way to Find Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life
- First Evidence Surfaces That Zika Could Cause a Severe Neurological Disorder
- NASA's Designing a Passenger Jet That'll Break The Sound Barrier WITHOUT The Boom
- This Device Turns Plastic Waste Into Safe, Edible Mushrooms
- First Drug For Huntington's Disease Proves Safe And Effective in Mice And Monkeys
- Here's Why You Subconsciously Assume Prettier People Are More Intelligent
- Doctors Could Soon Cut Out Prostate Cancer More Accurately Than Ever Before
- Scientists Claim They've Invented a Matrix-Style Device That Instantly Uploads Skills to Your Brain
- The World's Biggest Source of Freshwater Is Beneath Your Feet
- A Total Solar Eclipse Is Coming on March 8-9 – Here's What You Need to Know
- Scientists Have Finally Identified The Gene Involved in Turning Hair Grey
- 8 Facts About The Scientific Mystery That Affects Only 10% of The Population
- The World's Pollinators Are Dying Out, And All Our Favourite Foods Could Go With Them
- Would You Trust a Malfunctioning Robot in an Emergency? These People Did
- These New Quantum Dot Crystals Could Replace Silicon in Super-Fast, Next-Gen Computers
- Why Men Get Stomach Aches When They're Hit in The Groin, According to Science
- What Would Happen if We Abolished Time Zones For Real?
- LIVE STREAM: Scott Kelly Is About Return to Earth After a Year in Space
- WATCH: Scott Kelly Gives Us All The Feels as He Hands Over Control of The Space Station
- This Nanometre-Thick Graphene Film Is The Most Light-Absorbent Material Ever Created
- Super-Rare 'Dragon Eggs' Are About to Hatch in a Slovenian Cave
- A Russian Satellite Could Soon Be The Brightest 'Star' in The Night Sky
- An Asteroid The Size of a Basketball Court Will Approach Earth This Week