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- A Weasel Just Shut Down The Large Hadron Collider, According to Reports
- For The First Time, Researchers Have Mapped The Inside of a Pyramid Using Cosmic Rays
- NASA Just Unveiled The James Webb Space Telescope's Huge Golden Mirror
- There's a New Hypothesis About How Earth's Oldest Crystals Were Formed
- Scientists Find 69 Different Factors That Control Your Gut Bacteria
- Astronomers Might Have Finally Detected Where Mysterious, Extragalactic Neutrinos Are Coming From
- Physicists Have Calculated That We're *probably* Not The Only Advanced Civilisation Ever in The Universe
- Physicists Think They've Finally Figured Out How to Locate Planet Nine
- Researcher Thinks He's Figured Out Why So Many People Hate The Word 'Moist'
- WATCH: Can Formula 1 Cars Ever Be Totally Energy Efficient?
- Gravitational Waves Can't Solve Our Black Hole Problems, Physicists Warn
- Japanese Priests Began Recording Climate Data Nearly 600 Years Ago
- The Benefits of Mindfulness Are Probably Overrated, Research Suggests
- WATCH: Is There Actually a Difference Between Name-Brand And Generic Products?
- 93% of Leukaemia Patients in Remission After an Experimental T Cell Therapy
- Scientists Have Used 'Light Echoes' to Measure The Gap Around a Star For The First Time Ever
- Explorers Just Got Their First Glimpse Inside The Amazon's Mysterious Tepui Mountains
- Scientists Have Just Made Sperm Out of Human Skin Cells
- Sticky Beads That Bind to Sperm Could Offer a New Kind of Contraceptive
- Scientists Just Embarked on a World-First Expedition to Ethiopia's Toxic Hot Springs
- Why Does Your Cat Act So Weird All The Time?
- Just 1 Minute of Intense Exercise Rivals The Benefits of a 45-Minute Workout
- Multiple Computer Viruses Have Been Discovered in This German Nuclear Plant
- Japan Has Approved Gene Editing Using a Fertilised Human Egg
- This Giant 'Brain Dictionary' Reveals Where Your Mind Stores Thousands of Words
- Wikipedia Is Basically Just Another Giant Bureaucracy, Study Finds
- SpaceX Announces It Will Send a Spacecraft to Mars by 2018
- This Single-Celled, Brainless Slime Can 'Learn' Without a Nervous System
- Astronomers Just Created The Most Powerful Artificial Star in The Sky – Using Lasers
- Chemists Have Developed The World's Tiniest Thermometer Out of DNA
- England's Doctors Just Walked Out of Emergency Wards in Their First-Ever Strike
- This German City Is Installing Traffic Lights in The Pavement For Smartphone Addicts
- Earth's Light Blue Colour Could Be a Signature of Life
- WATCH: Guy Straps Himself Into a Falling Helicopter to Prove They Don't Drop Like Bricks
- Mysterious Blue Flashes in Space And Upside-Down Lightning Have Been Caught on Film
- Physicists Just Debunked One of The Most Promising Candidates For Dark Matter
- Scientists Just Discovered a Monster Black Hole Formed by 3 Colliding Spiral Galaxies
- Scientists Just Captured The Flash of Light That Sparks When a Sperm Meets an Egg
- Your Crappy Old Phone Battery Could Power a Solar Lamp For 3 Years
- You Need to Stop Hugging Your Dog, Study Finds
- This Weird Experiment Is Bringing Us Closer Than Ever to Solving a 100-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery
- It's Official: China Will Launch a Mars Rover in 2020
- Hubble Just Discovered a Moon Hiding at The Back of Our Solar System
- Why It's Impossible to Actually Be a Vegetarian
- Why Do People Sneeze in a Series of Three?
- The Building Blocks of Life Might Have Emerged From a 'Primordial Puddle' 3.8 Billion Years Ago
- An Ancient Astronomer's Observations of a 1,000-Year-Old Supernova Have Just Been Unearthed
- This Huge Solar Panel Barge Could Be The Future of Ocean-Based Renewable Energy
- Archaeologists Think They've Finally Solved The Mystery of This Mile-Long 'Band of Holes'
- A Massive Lake Underneath Antarctic Ice Could Be Home to Hidden Life Forms
- Archaeologists Have Discovered an Ancient Mosaic Skeleton That Says "Enjoy Your Life"
- We Finally Know All 5 Molecules That Are Attacked in Type 1 Diabetes
- Physicists Have Created a 'Black Hole' in The Lab That Could Finally Prove Hawking Radiation Exists
- The World Is Getting Greener Thanks to Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels
- Researchers Have Accidentally Made Batteries That Could Last 400 Times Longer
- Chernobyl's Milk Is Still Radioactive 30 Years Later, Investigation Reveals
- Scientists Think Anorexia Could Be Caused by a Bacterial Infection
- International Meeting Proves No One Knows How to Regulate Killer Robots
- Corals in Sydney Harbour Have Been Extensively Bleached For The First Time Ever
- CERN Just Dropped 300 TB of Large Hadron Collider Data Free Online
- Solar Impulse 2 Is Back in The Air And Breaking More World Records
- Scientists Have Pushed Water Molecules Into a Whole New State of Matter
- This Resume For Elon Musk Proves You Never Need to Use More Than One Page
- Scientists Claim They've Completed The First Successful Gene Therapy Against Human Ageing
- What The Universe's Most Elusive Particles Can Tell Us About The Universe's Most Energetic Objects
- Monkeys Could Have Floated to North America 21 Million Years Ago
- This Autonomous 'Cyber Garden' Rolls Around to Keep Its Plants Alive
- These Trees in Ecuador Are Reportedly 'Walking' Up to 20 Metres Per Year
- NASA Just Announced It's Building an Electric Propulsion System to Take Us Into Deep Space
- Scientists Think They've Finally Figured Out How Birds Outlived The Dinosaurs
- The Sound of Your Skull Could Soon Replace Your Password – Seriously
- Damien Hirst's Controversial Artworks Could Be Leaking Poisonous Chemicals
- WATCH: What's Outside The Universe?
- Here's What Exercise Does to Your Bones
- Here's Why We Sleep So Badly in Unfamiliar Beds
- A Nearby Supernova Explosion Is Dumping Radioactive Metal on Earth
- Scientists Just Discovered a 1,000-Km-Long Coral Reef at The Mouth of The Amazon
- This New Hypothesis Could Explain How The Controversial EM Drive Works
- WATCH: Could You Win The Game of Thrones?
- San Francisco Has Ruled That All New Buildings Must Install Solar Panels
- Yes, Bacon Has Been Linked to Cancer AGAIN – Here's What You Need to Know
- Magic Leap Has a New Demo Video For Its Jaw-Dropping Augmented Reality System
- The QWERTY Keyboard Is Changing Our Feelings Towards Words
- A US Air Force Sled Just Smashed The Maglev Speed Record – at 633 Mph
- Prescription Drugs End Up in Our Crops Thanks to Our Medicated Pee, New Study Finds
- The 'Midnight Terror Cave' of Belize Was a Child Sacrifice Site, Experts Report
- The Internet Isn't Making Us Smarter, But Here's How We Can Fight Back
- Scientists Are Creating an 'Extreme Universe' in a Lab
- Some Superbugs Literally Explode When They Die, Making Them Even More Deadly
- This New Wi-Fi Chip Doubles Wireless Speed From a Single Antenna
- WATCH: This Is How You Trap a Laser Beam in Water
- NASA Might Have Just Discovered Gravity Waves in Pluto's Atmosphere
- Scientists Just Got a Step Closer to Creating a Universal Allergy Treatment
- New Protein Injection Reverses Alzheimer's Symptoms in Mice in Just One Week
- Researchers Have Developed a Blood Test That Could Detect Parkinson's With 95% Accuracy
- Turmeric Can Improve Memory And Attention in Old Age, Study Finds
- WATCH: This Is Your Brain on Music
- The Most Terrifying Part About Getting Struck by Lightning Is What Happens Afterwards
- WATCH: Why Every Image of a Black Hole Isn't Real
- NASA Just Discovered a New Lonely Planet With No Host Star
- Insects Are Conscious And Egocentric, Study Finds
- This New Program Can Spot DNA Mutations in a Single Cancer Cell
- An Abandoned Probe Just Discovered Something Weird About The Atmosphere of Venus
- India Says The Cost of Solar Power Is Now Cheaper Than Coal
- This Royal Dress Is One of The "Most Significant" Shipwreck Treasures Ever Found
- Nope, The Moon ISN'T Going to Turn Green on Wednesday Night
- The Sun Might Have Consumed a 'Super-Earth' in Our Solar System
- 93% of The Great Barrier Reef Is Now Damaged by Coral Bleaching
- What Does Your College Major Say About Your Personality?
- Scientists Have Just Found The First Fossilised Heart EVER in a Prehistoric Animal
- Orbiting Experiment Shows Mammal Embryos Can Develop Fully in Space
- The Most Promising New Treatment For Inflammatory Bowel Disease? Parasitic Worms
- These Two Drugs Can Eliminate One in Five Skin Cancer Tumours
- A $1.3 Billion Mission to Study Gravitational Waves in Space Just Passed an Official "Sanity Check"
- Billions of Cicadas Are About to Erupt From The Ground And Have Sex in Your Backyard
- There's No Scientific Validity to This Dangerous Idea – Yet Most of Us Are Probably Guilty of It
- NASA Just Called Out Climate Change Deniers on Facebook, And It Was Glorious
- The Dinosaurs Were Already Doomed Long Before The Meteorite Hit, Scientists Find
- This Hilarious Twitter Account Uses Lego to Show The Realities of Academia
- NASA Has Detected Strange Signals Coming From The Gravitational Wave Source
- Academics Admit to Embellishing The Impact of Their Research to Get Grants
- This Is What Your Brain Looks Like on Science
- These Wireless Earbuds Let You Control Which Outside Sounds to Block
- What Would Happen if You Stuck Your Head Inside a Particle Accelerator?
- This New Fabric Can Help Clean Up Oil Spills in The Open Ocean
- AccuWeather Is Now Issuing 90-Day Forecasts And Meteorologists Are Pissed
- These Huge Solar-Powered Machines Can Provide an Entire Village's Water Supply
- This Is Why It's Going to Be So Hard to Create a Zika Vaccine
- Google Is Working on Beaming High-Speed Wireless Internet Into Your Home
- New Study Suggests We Don't Actually Need a Tetanus Booster Every 10 Years
- This Ultra-Thin 'Electronic Skin' Turns Your Body Into an LED Screen
- Astronomers Just Discovered a Huge Galaxy Orbiting Our Own
- It's Official: Boaty McBoatface Is The Winning Name For This $300 Million Research Vessel
- WATCH: The Entire Universe Is Flat, And Here's Why
- After 36 Years, The Wright Brothers' 'Flying Machine' Patent Has Finally Been Rediscovered
- NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Has Captured Interstellar Dust From Beyond The Solar System
- Researchers Finally Understand Why Bearcats Smell Like Buttered Popcorn
- Scientists Have Just Solved an Ancient Peruvian Mystery From Space
- These Graphene-Based Nanobots Can Suck Pollutants From Our Oceans in Under an Hour
- This Video Game Shows Why Humans Are Better at Quantum Physics Than Supercomputers
- Children Born to Older Mothers End Up Taller And Better Educated, Study Finds
- These Incredibly Creepy Mass Graves Were Just Unearthed in Greece
- Guy Claims He Deleted His Entire Company With Just One Line of Bad Code
- We're Running Out of Universe to Measure, Physicists Caution
- Binge-Watchers Are Responsible For One-Third of All TV Electricity Usage
- NASA Just Gave 13 Crazy, High-Impact Research Projects $100K Each
- The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than The Laws of Physics Can Explain, New Measurements Reveal
- The Evolutionary Origins of Laughter Are Rooted in Survival – Not Enjoyment
- It's Official: Study Finds We Have No Idea What We're Saying When We Use Emojis
- These Are The Top 5 Deadliest Poisons on The Planet
- WATCH: Could You Outrun a Fart?
- We Could Halve Car Emissions For Good if The Government Supported Electric Cars, Say Experts
- Scientists Have Identified Unexpected Mutations That Might Trigger Cancer
- This Is The Most Sustainable Office in The World
- This Tiny Device Is 12 Times More Effective at Treating Pancreatic Cancer
- Eating Fast Food Could Expose You to Hormone-Disrupting Phthalates
- This Infographic Reveals Whether You Earn More Than Einstein, Curie, or Newton
- Couple Set to Make $100,000 Off a Lump of Whale Vomit Found on a Beach
- Physicists Find a Way to Probe The Quantum Realm Without Wrecking Everything
- Autism Risk Lowered by Taking Carnitine When Pregnant, Say Scientists
- Scientists Have Published The First Definitive Study of Creepiness
- Consciousness Occurs in 'Time Slices' Lasting Only Milliseconds, Study Suggests
- World-First Device Lets Paralysed Man Move His Hand With His Mind
- Judge Rules That Kids Can Sue The US Government For Inaction on Climate Change
- People Are Saying These 1,500-Year-Old 'Adidas Sneakers' Are Proof of Time Travel
- It's Official: Zika Causes Birth Defects, Including Microcephaly
- Billionaire Sean Parker Just Invested $250 Million Into Changing The Way We Fight Cancer
- This Grad Student Is Developing Strawberries That Can Be Grown in Space
- Meet Triton: a Device That Could Supply a Third of America's Power
- Tumbleweeds Are Out of Control in California And That's a Big Problem
- WATCH: Is Our Universe a Simulation? The Experts Weigh in
- Lab-Grown Human Beta Cells Have Blocked Diabetes in Mice For Good
- Scientists Think They've Found The Key to Making Reversible, Non-Hormonal Male Contraceptives
- Astronomers Have Discovered a Super-Fast Star System That Breaks Current Physics Models
- Here's Richard Feynman's Simple Technique For Sorting Science From Pseudoscience
- Two Aerospace Companies Just Teamed Up to Put an Inflatable Space Hotel in Orbit by 2020
- Sexually Transmitted Infections Could Explain Why Humans Became Monogamous
- Thousands of Radioactive Boars Are Tearing Through Fukushima, And No One Knows How to Stop Them
- Seeing Live Music Could Reduce Your Stress Hormone Levels, Study Finds
- This Could Be The Year We Eliminate One of The Most Tragic Diseases in History
- The Netherlands Is Making Moves to Ban All Non-Electric Vehicles by 2025
- Stephen Hawking And a Russian Billionaire Plan to Send Spacecraft to Alpha Centauri in 20 Years
- Mounting Evidence Suggests Antibacterial Soaps Do More Harm Than Good
- Exercise During Pregnancy Has Been Linked to More Active Offspring
- This New Nanochip Can Manipulate Twisted Light Better Than Ever Before
- Chlorosulfonic Acid Proves Your Lab Coat Isn't as Tough as You Think It Is
- The World Tiger Population Has Increased For The First Time in 100 Years
- The Bible Was Written Way Earlier Than We Thought, Mathematicians Suggest
- We're in For a Month of Meteor Showers as We Pass Through The Tail of Halley's Comet
- Astronomers Have Discovered a Region in Space Where Black Holes Have Mysteriously Aligned
- The Death of a Partner Can Make Your Heartbeat Irregular
- Scientists Just Got The First Direct Proof of Stable Carbyne – The World's Strongest Material
- Pharmaceutical Giant Gets Rid of All Its Patents in Developing Countries
- Scientists Have Tracked Where Whale Sharks Go After Tourist Season
- For The First Time Ever, Scientists Have Imaged The Brain on LSD
- The Kepler Spacecraft Has Been Brought Back From The Dead
- The Best Way to Wash Your Hands, According to Science
- WATCH: Can We Really Build a Space Elevator?
- Hubble Just Snapped One of The Best Pictures of The Mysterious 'Red Rectangle' Nebula
- Tylenol Could Make It Harder For Us to Spot Errors, Study Finds
- WATCH: This New Metal Foam Is Strong Enough to Turn Bullets Into Dust
- Chinese Scientists Have Genetically Modified a Human Embryo AGAIN
- Japan Is Designing an Invisible Train to Hit The Tracks by 2018
- A Mathematician Just Solved The Centuries-Old 'Sphere Problem' in Higher Dimensions
- Scientists Need Your Help Looking at Photos of Adorable Penguins. Seriously
- The North Pole Is Slowly Moving Towards London, And Scientists Have Finally Figured Out Why
- Scientists Just Published a List of The 50 Most Incorrectly Used Terms in Psychology
- The Kepler Spacecraft Has Unexpectedly Entered 'emergency Mode'
- WATCH: The Science Behind Why You Shouldn't Pop Your Pimples
- Researchers Find That Ribose, The 'R' in RNA, Could Form Naturally in Space
- Curiosity Compels Us to Make Some Pretty Terrible Decisions, Study Finds
- Rosetta's Comet Has Been Changing Colour, Astronomers Say
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Store Digital Images in DNA
- This Mosquito Egg Trap Made From Old Tyres Could Help Stop Zika
- This Tiny Satellite Could Be Your Own Personal Spacecraft From Just $1,000
- HIV Took Just 2 Weeks to Overcome Our Best Attempt to Edit It Out of Our Cells
- WATCH: Does Infinity Exist in The Real World?
- Researchers Have Invented a Programming Language to Hack Living Cells
- Science Finds Money Can Buy Happiness, if You Spend It Right
- Venezuela Is Switching to a 3-Day Weekend in a Desperate Bid to Save Electricity
- Astrophysicists Have Predicted What Planet Nine Would Be Made of
- Get Ready! Next Month Mercury Will Pass in Front of The Sun in a Rare Event
- Sorry Guys, Everything You Eat Is Made of Chemicals
- WATCH: How to Survive a Grenade Blast, According to Science
- This Engineer Just Found a Way to 3D-Print Objects Using Mars And Moon Dust
- Scientists Are Developing Graphene Solar Panels That Generate Energy When It Rains
- An 'Expansive' Posture Could Make You More Attractive to Others, Study Finds
- Scientists Are Preparing For a Solar Storm So Powerful, They're Calling It "The Big One"
- Rooftop Solar Could Provide Almost 40 Percent of US Electricity
- Physicists Have Finally Answered The Age-Old Question: Is Rain The Same Everywhere?
- Biologists Just Built a Piece of Software That Can Program Living Cells Like a Computer
- Scientists Still Don't Know Why We Get Freckles
- NASA's Asteroid-Hunter Has Discovered 72 Never-Before-Seen Near-Earth Objects
- Houston's Famous White Alligator Is "Retiring" From Zoo Work
- People Will Pick Up And Use Almost 50% of Random, Discarded USB Drives, Study Finds
- This New Software Allows Scientists to Control What Donald Trump And Vladimir Putin Say
- This New Pen Digitises Your Notebooks as You Write in Them
- A Huge Space Explosion Showered Earth With Radioactive Fallout
- A Baboon Has Survived Nearly 3 Years With a Pig's Heart, Suggesting Humans Could Too
- Samsung Just Patented Smart Contact Lenses With a Built-in Camera
- Science Says Moby Dick Might Have Been Able to Sink Ships 5 Times His Size
- WATCH: Water Bears Are Still Nature's Toughest Animals
- Scientists Have Found The Key to Productivity – Stay Extra Busy
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Make Their Own Molecules From Scratch
- The Benefits of Being Bilingual Can Be Seen in 11-Month-Old Babies
- Scientists Find Evidence of 'Anti-Memories', And It Could Change Our Understanding of Neuroscience
- Scientists Need to Stop Swooping in to 'Rescue' Developing Countries From Outbreaks
- Psychologists Have Come Up With an Official Test to Measure Your Need For Drama
- Scientists Just Made The World's Smallest Diode Out of DNA
- Anyone Can Steal 3D-Printed Products by Just Listening to The Sounds The Printer Makes
- Scientists Are Expanding Their Search For Sentient Alien Life
- Touching Robots in Their 'Private Parts' Turns Humans on, Study Finds
- An Optical Illusion Tricked Astronomers Into Thinking There Was an Extra Nebula Here For Years
- WATCH: Is ADHD an Evolutionary Advantage?
- Scientists Have Found a Way to Induce 'Reverse Photosynthesis'
- A Crew of 'Mousetronauts' Is About to Head Into Space
- These 17 Photos Show What Chernobyl Looks Like Today
- New Stem Cell Treatment Using Fat Cells Could Repair Any Tissue in The Body
- Scotland Generated More Than Half of Its Electricity in 2015 From Renewables
- Scientists Have Just Discovered a New State of Matter
- A Fat, Weird 'Swellshark' Just Appeared in Mexico – And It's Not Supposed to Be This Pink
- The World's First 3D-Printed Drug Has Just Been Unveiled
- Archaeologists Just Found Human Remains in The Mysterious 'Jar Plains' of Laos
- This New Smart Scalpel Can Automatically Locate Cancerous Tumours in The Brain
- This Lab-Grown Skin Can Sprout New Hairs And Sweats
- Girl Mummy Reveals How Early American Lineages Were Wiped Out by European Migration
- Here's How to Make Super-Cool Magnetic Slime in Your Own Kitchen
- This Scientist Was Almost Jailed For Knowingly Publishing Fraudulent Data
- This Basin Is Our Best Chance of Finding Life on Mars, Say Astrobiologists
- Evidence Emerges That 45% of Common Sunscreen Ingredients Mess With Sperm Function
- You Just Travelled Thousands of Miles Through Space in The Time It Took to Read This
- There Are Now More Obese People Than Skinny People in The World
- Astronomers Just Found a Stable Planet in a Triple-Star System
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Turn X-Rays Into Atomic Speed Guns
- The Discovery of a Mysterious, Ancient Site Could Rewrite The History of Vikings in America
- To Diagnose Autism, We Should Be Watching The Eyes
- How Much Data Does It Take to Make Your IPhone Heavier?
- This Romantic Chart Tells You Whether or Not You're Going to Get Divorced
- This New Wi-Fi Can Prevent Neighbours From Stealing Your Bandwidth
- This Retro Fighting Game Lets You Duke It Out as Your Favourite Scientists
- Ecstasy Could Be Sold as an FDA-Approved Drug Within 5 Years
- Mathematicians Reveal The Main Character in Game of Thrones Isn't Who You Think
- These Two Common Gene Variants Can Shave 3 Years Off Your Life
- Have Scientists Just Detected The First Real Signs of Dark Matter?
- After 70 Years, Physicists Have Finally Figured Out How a Fundamental Aspect of Nuclear Fission Works
- What if The FBI Tried to Crack an Android Phone? We Attacked One to Find Out
- Astronomers Have Discovered The First Star With an Almost Pure Oxygen Atmosphere
- Scientists Have Identified 11 Ways to Achieve a "Good Death"
- Physicists Have Designed a Laser Defence System to Cloak Earth From Bad-Guy Aliens
- Scientists Are Investigating Why People in This Tiny Italian Town Keep Living to 100