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- 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