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- The Venom From This Beautiful Snake Will Murder You Horribly
- Astronomers Find That Titan Is Full of Steep, Liquid-Filled Canyons
- Scientists Have Identified a Part of The Brain Responsible For The Placebo Effect
- WATCH: The Crazy Physics Behind Why Our Skyscrapers Keep Breaking Records
- Scientists Have Built a Nightmare Machine to Generate The Scariest Images Ever
- This New Hypothesis Claims to Solve 5 of The Biggest Problems in Physics
- This Strange, Ancient Water in Canada Could Host 'Alien' Life
- SpaceX Has Finally Narrowed Down The Fatal Flaw That Caused Its Rocket to Explode
- Elon Musk Just Unveiled His Brand New Solar Roof
- The Internet Has Some Wild Ideas About This Newly Discovered Submarine Wreck
- If Global Warming Continues, There Will Be a Desert in Spain
- Archaeologists Are Using X-Rays to Read Inside Egyptian Mummy Coffins
- Scientists Have Discovered a Tiny Bird That Can Fly For 10 Months Straight Without Landing
- This New Immunotherapy Technique Could Prevent All Kinds of Food Allergies
- We Might Finally Know The Weird Reason Earth Experiences an Ice Age Every 100,000 Years
- Archaeologists Have Found The First Ever Fossilised Dinosaur Brain, And It's Surprisingly Complex
- New Research Suggests Cannabis Could Enhance Night Vision
- A New Male Contraceptive Injection Is 96% Effective in Human Tests
- You Need to Stop Trying to Treat Your UTI With Cranberry Juice
- Researchers Say They've Found Hidden Layers in Jesus' Tomb Site
- Here's Why The Expansion of The Universe Is Probably Still Accelerating
- The World's Best Cities Have Been Ranked, And They Aren't What We Think They Are
- What Happens to Your Body After You Die?
- This Strange Mineral Grows on Dead Bodies And Turns Them Blue
- Professional Alien Hunters Are Starting to Investigate The Mysterious 'Alien Megastructure'
- Researchers Just Found a New Source of Renewable Energy in Wood Pulp Waste
- Where Was The Last Place on Earth Discovered by Humans?
- Peter Higgs Says He Wouldn't Have Predicted The Higgs Boson in Today's Academic Climate
- Scientists Just Debunked The HIV Patient Zero Myth
- Nuclear Power Plants Are Still Using Pagers to Communicate, And That's a Big Problem
- Most of The Great Barrier Reef Above This Line Is Now Dead
- A Massive Hole in The Sun's Corona Is Supercharging Aurorae Right Now
- Here's How Entire Forests Can Migrate to Better Environments
- Why Are Venus And Uranus Spinning in The Wrong Direction?
- Renewable Energy Now Exceeds All Other Forms of New Power Generation
- 4 Super-Handy Tech Courses You Can Take Online Right Now
- The Legend of Question Six: One of The Hardest Maths Problems Ever
- Physicists Just Found More Hints of an Elusive Particle That's Its Own Antiparticle
- Elon Musk Just Shared His 4-Step Plan For Mars – Colonists Should Be "Prepared to Die"
- Neanderthal Sex Could Explain Why Europeans And Africans Have Different Immune Systems
- Scientists Have Found a Massive Dome Growing on Top of The World's Largest Active Magma Store
- An English-Speaking Teenager Has Woken Up From a Coma Speaking Fluent Spanish
- Thanks to Quantum Mechanics, This Plant Glows Bright Blue to Survive in The Dark
- Christopher Marlowe Has Officially Been Credited as Co-Author of 3 Shakespeare Plays
- This Smartphone Add-on Claims to Detect Cancer With 99% Accuracy
- Scientists Have Recreated an Ancient Mead From 2,500 Years Ago
- Pacific Islanders Appear to Be Carrying The DNA of an Unknown Human Species
- Scientists Have Published a Roadmap of What We Need to Make a Quantum Computer
- Evidence Is Mounting That Routine Wisdom Teeth Removal Is a Waste of Time
- One of The Most Violent Stellar Battles in The Galaxy Has Finally Been Photographed
- Here's What We Know About The Massive Cyber Attack That Took Down The Internet on Friday
- Americans Say They're More Afraid of Clowns Than Climate Change
- What Would a Parallel Universe Even Look Like?
- Watch This Giant Australian Spider Drag a Mouse Up a Refrigerator And Into Your Nightmares
- Larry Page's 'Flying Car' Has Been Spotted in The Wild, And It Just Looks Like a Tiny Aeroplane
- Saturn's Mysterious Hexagon Has Changed From Blue to Gold – And No One Knows Why
- Elon Musk Is About to Test The 'Trickiest' Part of His Mars Spaceship
- Dozens of Ancient Shipwrecks Have Been Spotted Beneath The Black Sea
- Archaeologists Have Uncovered Signs of an Ancient Roman Battlefield in Jerusalem
- This New Compound Could Help Kill Up to a Quarter of All Cancer Types
- Two Giant, Mysterious Ice Avalanches Have Struck Tibet
- How Many Genes Does It Take to Make a Person?
- The Science of Introverts vs Extroverts
- WATCH: Here's How LEGO Is Helping Blind People to 'See'
- The Science Behind The Magic Eye Craze of The 1990s
- Scientists Discover a Bizarre Two-Headed Shark Growing in The Lab
- No, The Universe Is Not Expanding at an Accelerated Rate, Say Physicists
- This Brilliant Teen Figured Out How to Make Clean Energy Using a Device That Costs $5
- Iceland Is Drilling The Hottest Hole in The World to Get Electricity From Magma
- The Universe Might Have a Delete Button – And It Could Destroy Physics as We Know It
- Experts Claim They Might Have 'Solved' The Bermuda Triangle Mystery
- WATCH: Here's a Hyperloop Pod Levitating For The First Time
- This Japanese Volcano Might Have Stopped an Earthquake
- Bolivia's Melting Glaciers Have Become Ticking Time Bombs
- Scientists Have Discovered a Brand-New Aspect of Our Immune System
- This Hilarious Quiz Makes You Guess Which Physics Papers Are Real or Fake
- New Evidence Suggests a Change of Diet Could Help Blood Cancer And Transplant Patients
- Physicist Says Our Universe Could Have Spawned From a Black Hole
- Australian Nurses Who Spread Anti-Vaccination Messages Will Now Face Prosecution
- These Ancient Teeth Are The First Known Evidence of Right-Handedness
- Scientists Say Data From NASA's 1976 Mars Landing Need to Be Reconsidered For Signs of Life
- Stephen Hawking Says Most of Our History Is "The History of Stupidity"
- These Are The Incredible Winners of The 2016 Wildlife Photographer of The Year Awards
- Rich People Really Do Ignore You When You Walk Past
- Skydiving Dogs Are Helping to Fight Poachers in South Africa
- WATCH: These Are 5 of The Worst Computer Viruses Ever
- Bad News: The Feds Probably Already Have Your Face on File
- This Newly Discovered Icy World Could Be The Key to Finding Planet Nine
- The Orionids Meteor Shower Is About to Hit Its Peak – Here's How to Watch
- Something Made Juno Enter 'Safe Mode' as It Approached Jupiter Last Night
- Adding Seaweed to Cattle Feed Could Reduce Methane Production by 70%
- Astronomers Say These Mysterious Flaring Objects Could Be an Entirely New Phenomenon
- New Discovery Casts Doubt on How The Solar System Formed
- Here's What Scientists Think The World Will Be Like in 2045
- Scientists Have Teamed Up to Stop The Australian Wildlife Crisis From Reaching Breaking Point
- Demolitions Crews Just Uncovered an Epic Time Capsule From Kids in 1968
- Europe Has Lost Contact With Its Mars Lander, And Fears a Fatal Crash
- NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Has Released Crazy New Pictures of Mars
- 10,000 Endangered 'Scrotum Frogs' Have Mysteriously Dropped Dead at Lake Titicaca
- Here's Why Chocolate And Wine Give Some People Migraines
- Scientists Say They've Identified The Physical Source of Depression in The Brain
- Get an MBA Education With This Online Course
- Online Courses You Can Take Right Now to Become a Better Version of Yourself
- Researchers Are Building a New Robot to Help Protect The Great Barrier Reef
- Scientists Just Accidentally Discovered a Process That Turns CO2 Directly Into Ethanol
- Miners Uncover a Huge Jade Stone Worth $170 Million in Myanmar
- A Ghost Pepper Challenge Nearly Killed a Man by Tearing a Hole in His Esophagus
- Get Ready to Watch The Moon 'Occult' One of Our Brightest Stars Tonight
- How We Discovered The 'Higgs Bison', Hiding in Plain Sight in Ancient Cave Art
- We Caught Modern Genital Warts Because Our Ancestors Were Banging Neanderthals
- Pedals, Our Beloved Upright Bear, Has Reportedly Been Killed
- These Plankton Blooms Mean The Ocean Is Responding to Climate Change in a Big Way
- Here's Why You Get Those Annoying Static Electricity Shocks
- It's Official: The World Has Agreed to Phase Out Dangerous Heat-Trapping HFCs
- Tasmanian Devil Milk Kills Several Deadly Superbugs That Are Resistant to Existing Drugs
- Scientists Say These 2 Factors Hugely Impact Whether Antidepressants Will Work For You
- Long-Forgotten Research Suggests a Secondary Bacterium Behind Lyme Disease
- Stephen Hawking's Alien-Hunting Project Is Investigating Strange Signals From 234 Stars
- Scientists Just Broke a New Record For Quantum Computing Stability
- A Hospital Ward Has Been Quarantined After 5 People Fall Ill With Mysterious Hallucinations
- How Many Wind Turbines Would We Need to Power The Planet?
- Researchers Say They've Discovered 2 Mysterious "Cavities" Inside The Great Pyramid of Giza
- Astrophysicists Have Witnessed Plasma Ripples Moving Along Earth's Bow Shock
- Knowingly Taking a Placebo Can Still Reduce Your Pain
- A Change in Diet Could Help Stop Your Migraines
- The Most Empathetic Countries in The World Have Just Been Ranked
- China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Space
- Ancient Tombs Discovered Under Two Maya Pyramids Shed Light on Mysterious 'Snake Kings'
- We Might Have Just Discovered 2 Dark Moons Hidden Near Uranus
- Just 2 Weeks in The Mountains Can Change Your Blood For Months
- Here's Why Eating Only Organic Is Pretty Much a Sham
- Schools Around The US Are Finally Pushing Back Their Start Times – And It's Working
- This Australian Rock Formation Could Be Older Than Stonehenge
- We're About to Get a New Photo of Our Planet Taken Every Day From Space
- The Milky Way's Ancient Heart And 5 More of Our Favourite Science Images From This Week
- Scientists Just Broke a Fusion World Record – And It Lifts The Bar For Clean Energy Potential
- For The First Time, Scientists Have Filmed Chimpanzees Teaching Their Young to Use Tools
- People Ate Each Other in This Cave – And We Still Don't Know Why
- Physicists Think Gravitational Waves Might Permanently Alter Spacetime
- The International Space Station Has Been Recording Detailed Videos of North Korea
- Turns Out Spiders Can Hear You From Across The Room
- We Now Know Which Parts of The US Are at The Highest Risk From a Devastating Solar Storm
- The Largest Iceberg in Decades Broke Free From a North American Glacier – And No One Noticed
- A Rare Hunter's Supermoon Will Appear This Weekend – Here's How to Watch
- A New Antibody Therapy Appears to Have Permanently Blocked HIV Infection in Monkeys
- Astronomers Think They've Finally Figured Out Why The Sky Is Dark at Night
- Fasting Gives Us Longer Life, But It Goes Against Everything We Think of as Healthy
- This New Device Lets You Grow Your Own Food From Plant Cells
- Welcome to Slope Point, Where The Trees Grow Sideways
- Google's AI Can Now Learn From Its Own Memory Independently
- TripAdvisor Will No Longer Sell Tickets For Cruel or Exploitative Animal Attractions
- This Is How a Norwegian Woman Survived The Lowest Body Temperature Ever Recorded
- The Latest Patent For The 'Impossible' EM Drive Has Just Been Made Public – And It's Wild
- Scientists Have Identified a Virus With DNA Stolen From a Black Widow Spider
- These Clever Photos Show How Faces Change as They Age
- New Evidence Could Rewrite The History of China's Terracotta Warriors
- One of The Physicists Behind The Higgs Boson Has Made an Algorithm to Replace The Pill
- Homeopathic Teething Products Are Being Investigated in The Deaths of 10 Babies
- You Can Turn Almost Any Object Into a Computer – And It Could Completely Change AI
- WATCH: This Glorious Earthrise as Seen From The Moon Makes Everything Okay
- An International Group of Scientists Wants You to Join Asgardia – The First Space Nation
- This Ultra-Rare Condition Makes People Believe They're Dead
- We Finally Know Why Naked Mole Rats Are Impervious to Pain
- The Most Remote Village on Earth Is About to Become Self-Sufficient
- Obama Just Explained How NASA Will Get Humans to Mars by The 2030s
- The Ultimate Big Data Course You Can Take Online Right Now
- How to Build a $120,000 a Year Career as a Web Penetration Tester
- This Online Programming Course Lets You Pay What You Think It's Worth
- This Is The Best Way to Add C++ to Your Skillset
- 4 of The Best Tech Courses You Can Take Online Right Now
- A Mystery Space Plane Has Been Orbiting Earth For 500 Days – And We Still Don't Know Why
- The First of Our 3 Billion Heartbeats Happen Much Sooner Than We Thought
- Scientists Just Debunked The 'No Sex Before Sports' Myth
- Scientists Just Developed a Video That Induces The Same Visual Hallucinations in Healthy People
- The Strongest Evidence of The Big Bang Was Almost Mistaken For Pigeon Droppings
- A New Dwarf Planet Has Just Been Discovered in Our Solar System
- China's 'Extinct' Dolphin Has Reportedly Been Spotted in The Yangtze River
- Mathematicians Just Updated The Formula For Happiness
- Researchers Think They Know How to Make Your Brain Learn Like a Kid Again
- Brazil's Biggest Dinosaur Has Been Rediscovered – After Spending 60 Years in a Cupboard
- WATCH: The Science Behind Why We Keep Making The Same Damn Mistakes
- Hundreds of Ancient Human Footprints Have Been Discovered Near an African Volcano
- Alien Life Could Be Sustained on Other Planets by Radiation From Cosmic Rays
- Scientists Just Used Stem Cells From One Monkey to Heal The Hearts of Five Others
- Physicists Just Discovered Electrons Behaving Like Light in Graphene… But Better
- Two Space Agencies Will Attempt an Historic Landing on Mars Next Week
- Physicists Just Witnessed Quasiparticles Forming For The First Time Ever
- Mars-Bound Astronauts Risk Long-Term Brain Damage And Chronic Dementia
- IVF Study Suggests Boys Could Inherit Fertility Problems From Their Dads
- 16 Civil War Cannonballs Have Been Exposed by Hurricane Matthew in South Carolina
- Trees Are Way Better at Cooling The Climate Than We Thought
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Help Nerve Fibres Repair Themselves
- A Single Planetary Smash Could Have Formed Most of Earth's Precious Minerals
- 20 Physicists Who Revolutionised Our Understanding of The World
- Breasts Have Their Own Microbiome – And It Could Influence Your Cancer Risk
- A Weird Patch of "Cold Earth" in China Stays Frozen Through Blazing Summers
- Scientists in California Just Discovered a New Type of Earthquake
- This Tree Trunk Has Been Floating Upright For 120 Years – And No One Knows Why
- First Evidence Emerges That Women's Ovaries Can Grow New Eggs
- How to Find Your Perfect STEM Career Path
- The True Scale of Nuclear Weapons Should Give You Serious Anxiety
- Earth Doesn't Actually Have The Most Water in The Solar System
- This Is Why We Should All Be Covering All Our Buildings With Plants
- A Whale Calf Just Helped Push Its Mother to Freedom After Getting Stranded on a Sandbank
- This World-First Farm Grows Vegetables in The Desert With Nothing But Sun And Seawater
- WATCH: How Advanced Would Aliens Need to Be to Contact Earth?
- Physicists Have Managed to 'Dissolve' Water in an Emerald
- The Strange Number 0.577 Keeps Showing Up in Everything
- Hubble Has Spotted Mysterious Balls of Plasma Shooting From a Star
- We Might Have Finally Figured Out The Mysterious Force That Controls The Sun's Magnetic Field
- WATCH: Here's Why Americans Spell Differently to Australians And Brits
- Scientists Just Developed The World's Smallest Transistor
- These Scientists Are Teaching Kids to Spot Bullsh*t Health Advice
- Our Closest Earthlike Planet Appears to Be "Covered" in Water
- Boeing Says It Will Beat SpaceX to Mars
- Archaeologists Just Found a 2,500-Year-Old Skeleton Wrapped in Cannabis
- These Extremely Rare And Fluffy Wildcats Are Getting Their Own Sanctuary in Siberia
- Panasonic Just Unveiled a New Invisible Television
- New Drugs Are Helping Children With a Fatal Muscle Disease Walk Again
- Blue Origin Just Pulled Off an Amazing Double-Landing to Test Its Rocket Escape System
- This Physicist Just Got The All-Clear to Test His Record-Breaking Ion Drive in Space
- This Gif Illustrates The Mind-Melting Number of Galaxies in The Universe
- Scientists Just Figured Out Where a Massive Chunk of Earth's Crust Disappeared to
- Here's How Three Theorists Scooped The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
- This Massive Black Hole Just Broke Free, And Is Tearing Through Its Own Galaxy
- It's Official: A Rare Orca Has Been Killed by Satellite Tagging Complications
- Doctors in Texas Successfully Transplanted a Uterus From a Living Donor For The First Time
- Scientists Say There's a Limit to The Human Lifespan – And We've Already Hit It
- This 16-Year-Old Kid Fell Behind in Class, So He Built an App to Do It For Him
- The Bigger Your Brain, The Longer You Yawn, Say Scientists
- Our Memory Capacity Could Be 10 Times Larger Than We Thought
- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Contains Even More Trash Than We Thought
- Scientists Have Figured Out How The Brain Makes New Memories While Keeping Old Ones
- There's a Rare Gene Mutation That Makes Some of Us Seek Out Fatty Foods
- WATCH: Here's Why Galaxies And Planets Might Only Exist Thanks to 'Nothingness'
- Get Ready For a Month of Meteor Showers as We Pass Through The Tails of 3 Comets
- Physicists Just Created The World's First Time Crystal
- A SECOND Fault Line Running Parallel to San Andreas Has Just Been Identified
- This Reconstructed 3D Home Reveals Ancient Pompeii Before Vesuvius Struck
- 2 Trees That Were 'Extinct' For Half a Century Have Been Discovered in The Queen's Garden
- Scientists Just Found The Largest Continuous Coral System – And It's Like Nothing We've Ever Seen
- One of The Biggest Dinosaur Footprints EVER Has Just Been Unearthed
- Archaeologists Finally Have Clues About The Identity of The Mysterious 'Face-Down' Skeleton
- Scientists Just Found What Could Be The Biggest Concentration of Mammoth Bones Ever
- A Trade Ban Has Just Been Placed on The World's Most Heavily Trafficked Animal
- Here's Why Scientists Think Only 10% of People Are Left-Handed
- This Is Probably The Lowest Weight You'll Reach All Year
- Our Local Region of The Milky Way Is 4 Times Bigger Than We Thought
- 4 Awesome Programming Courses You Can Take Online Now
- The Internet Is Obsessing Over This 'Impossible' Water Stream
- NASA Releases Terrifying Footage of Hurricane Matthew From Space
- Scientists Discover a Mysterious Prehistoric Shark That Was Related to Megalodon
- Why Doesn't Time Flow Backwards?
- A Mystery Comet Impact Triggered The Evolution of Our Earliest Ancestors, Say Geologists
- Speculation Is Building That Sabotage Was Involved in The Recent SpaceX Explosion
- Two Billionaires Want to Help Break Humanity Out of a Giant Computer Simulation
- How Feasible Are Elon Musk's Mars Plans? A Planetary Scientist Breaks Them Down
- Astronomers Just Caught a Glimpse of Incredible Hidden Stars in Orion's Belt
- 7 Bee Species Have Been Added to The US Endangered Species List
- A New Treatment Appears to Have Erased HIV From a Patient's Blood
- Another of Saturn's Moons Could Be Hiding a Global Ocean – And The Possibility of Life