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January 31

• Lake Michigan Is a Surreal Frozen World Right Now
• We Now Know The Horrifying Reason Sonar Makes These Whales Beach Themselves
• The Risks of Advanced AI Are Real. We Need to Act Before It's Too Late, Warn Experts
• We Just Got New Clues About The 'Denisovans', Ancient Humans Who Live on in Our DNA
• Is It Safe to Get an MRI if You Have Tattoos?
• Massive Study Shows The 'Us And Them' Division Is a Myth, Don't Buy Into It
• Eating 5-Day-Old Pasta or Rice Can Actually Kill You. Here's How
• Scientists Have Detected an Enormous Cavity Growing Beneath Antarctica
• This Mighty Bird Deserves a Medal For Being Dad of The Year
• Black Hole Jets Could Be Fueled by Strange 'Negative Energy', Astronomers Find
• Scientists Think They've Finally Figured Out How LSD Alters Our Consciousness
• The Difference Between The Sexes Is Written Into Our Bones, Even After Cremation
• This Is What Life in -40 Degrees Actually Feels Like
• Archaeologists Have Discovered a Lost Metropolis in South Africa

January 30

• A Life-Threatening 'Snow Squall' Just Hit The US East Coast – Here's What That Means
• Scientists Have Found a Way to Convert Human Brain Signals Directly Into Speech
• The Scientific Reason Yoda Is Wiser Than Spock
• It Could Take Joshua Tree National Park 300 Years to Recover From The Past 35 Days
• Our Environment Is Turning These Adorable Birds Into Violent, Brain-Eating Killers
• Australia Is So Hot Right Now Snakes Are Seeking Refuge in The Worst Possible Places
• Mind-Altering Cat Parasite Linked to Schizophrenia in Largest Study Yet
• Scientists Are Warning of a Future Parkinson's Pandemic, And We Can No Longer Ignore It
• An Unexpected New Measurement of The Universe Suggests We Need to Update Our Physics
• We Just Got More Evidence That Drinking Too Much Alcohol Could Change Your Genes
• Here's The Real Connection Between The Brutal Polar Vortex And Global Warming
• When This Woman Came Back From Vacation, Something Was Living in Her Forehead

January 29

• Apple Just Shut Down FaceTime Group Calls Due to a Huge Security Flaw
• Antibiotic-Resistant Genes Were Just Found in One of The Most Remote Places on Earth
• Do You Lose All Your Muscles if You Take a Break From The Gym?
• Scientists Invent a Flexible Device That Converts Wi-Fi Signals Into Electricity
• This Experiment Will Run For 500 Years. Now, We Have The Very First Results
• There Are 3 Global Pandemics Threatening Humanity, And They're All Dangerously Linked
• These Intricately Carved Drums May Hold a Geometric Secret From The Time of Stonehenge
• Astronomers Have Detected a Curious Object at The Edge of Our Solar System
• Nobel Prize Winner Reportedly Knew About Gene-Edited Babies Months Before It Was Announced

January 28

• Arctic Landscapes Hidden For More Than 40,000 Years Are Starting to Emerge
• Chickens Have Been Modified to Lay Eggs Containing Anti-Cancer Medicine
• The Polar Vortex Is About to Bring a 'Brutal' And 'Dangerous' Cold to Parts of The US
• Being Born Blind Appears to Somehow Protect People From Getting Schizophrenia
• Don't Kiss or Snuggle Hedgehogs, CDC Researchers Warn
• World's Oldest Nobel Prize Winner Says His New Device Will Give Clean, Cheap Energy
• Is Marie Kondo Good For You? A Psychologist Assesses The KonMari Method of Tidying
• You're Probably Brushing Your Teeth Wrong – Here Are 4 Tips For Better Dental Health

January 27

• Researchers Say They've Figured Out Why People Reject Science, And It's Not Ignorance
• Earth Could Be Crushed to The Size of a Soccer Field by Particle Accelerator Experiments, Says Astronomer

January 26

• Meet The Peculiar Fruit That Could Soon Become as Common as a Strawberry

January 25

• Scientists Create Liquid Fuel That Can Store The Sun's Energy For Up to 18 Years
• We Just Got The Best Photo Yet of The Most Distant Object Humanity's Ever Visited
• These 'Frozen' Alligators Aren't Dead, They're Displaying a Creepy Survival Strategy
• This Genetic Quirk Could Explain Why Some People Stay Thin No Matter What They Eat
• Here's What Happens to Your Body And Brain When You Orgasm
• Astronomers Have Made a Breathtaking Image Staring Deeper Into Space Than Ever Before
• This Daily Meal Plan Could Help Us Sustain 10 Billion People by Mid-Century
• Study Reveals The Types of Human Twitter Users Most Likely to Spread Fake News
• Birds Can See a 'Colour' Humans Can't. Now Scientists Have Revealed This Hidden World
• Exclusive: This Wild Paper Suggests Gravity Is Just a Product of Quantum Mechanics
• Can Species Evolve Backwards? The Strange Science of 'Devolution'
• We May Have Found Earth's Oldest Known Rock. It Was on The Moon
• An Eye Surgery Left This Patient's Cornea Sliced Up Like a Pizza
• I Went to The Pyramids – Here Is The Downside No One Talks About
• A 10-Year-Old Won His Science Fair With The Physics of Why Tom Brady Is a Cheater

January 24

• Scientists Have Figured Out Who Is Most Likely to Die in 'Game of Thrones'
• It's 2 Minutes Left Until Apocalypse, According to the Doomsday Clock… For Now
• This Not-at-All-Creepy New Computer Program Lets Any Camera See Around Corners
• MIT Has Invented Slightly Eerie Lasers That Transmit Whispers Only You Can Hear
• This Ancient Dead Bug Could Change What We Know About Opal Formation
• 500 Years Ago This Culture Sacrificed Hundreds of Children And Llamas. Nobody Knows Why
• An 'Optional' Vaccine Is Helping Protect Women Who Haven't Even Had It Yet
• Report Claims Trump Offered NASA "All The Money" Needed to Land on Mars Quickly
• The Cause of Alzheimer's Could Be Coming From Inside Your Mouth, Study Claims
• Life on Earth Could Have Started Due to an Epic Clash With Another Planet
• Bricks Made From Human Waste Could Be The Future of The Construction Industry
• Chinese Scientists Have Cloned a Genetically Altered Primate For The First Time

January 23

• Sir David Attenborough Warns We've Entered a New Geological Age During His Lifetime
• An Antivax Hotspot Near a Major US City Now Has an Emergency Measles Outbreak
• A Common Daily Medication Raises The Risk of Severe Internal Bleeding, Doctors Warn
• Scientists Have Successfully Done a Controversial 'Gene Drive' Experiment on Mammals
• A DNA Test Just Shattered One of The Most Famous Nazi Conspiracy Theories
• Here's How You Can Easily Keep Yourself Warm, According to a Physiologist
• Modern Humans Are Mutating Slower Than Ever Before, Study Reveals
• It Looks Like a Common Vaccine Is Unintentionally Helping Prevent Type 1 Diabetes
• People Are Now Travelling Across The US to Deliberately Breathe Radioactive Air
• Scientists Recreated a Devastating 'Freak Wave' in The Lab, And It's Weirdly Familiar

January 22

• New Survey Shows Americans Are Finally Coming to Terms With a Pivotal Scientific Truth
• Watch a Meteoroid Smash Into The Moon During Lunar Eclipse in First-Ever Footage
• Here's Why Elon Musk's Extremely Shiny Starship Is Made Out of Stainless Steel
• There's a Water 'Time Bomb' Lurking Beneath The Planet's Surface, Scientists Warn
• You Don't Even Need to Be on Social Media, The Companies Still Have Data on You
• India Is About to Launch The Largest Basic Income Experiment in History
• The First-Ever Photo of a Black Hole Is Almost Ready. Here's What It Might Look Like
• Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Could Be Pointing a Relativistic Jet Right at Us
• Treasured US National Parks Are Being Devastated Due to Government Shutdown
• The Most Important #10YearChallenge Photos Are Probably Not What You Expected
• A Totally New Type of Blood Vessel Has Been Discovered Hidden in Human Bones
• This 'Ancient' Stone Circle in Scotland Has Turned Out to Be… Not Ancient at All

January 21

• There Are People Amongst Us Whose 'Super Poop' Can Treat Serious Diseases
• 'CRISPR Babies' Scientist Faked Ethical Reviews, Say Chinese Authorities
• Insomnia Isn't Just One Disorder, Says New Study
• Scientists Discover Freaky Fish Thriving in Waters We Thought Were Deadly to Life
• We Just Got Lab-Made Evidence of Stephen Hawking's Greatest Prediction About Black Holes
• A Horrible Birth Defect on The Rise in The US Could Be Linked to Opioid Use
• Earth Is Caught in an Epic Asteroid Surge, And You Probably Didn't Even Notice
• The Sugar Pills in Your Birth Control Pack Were Put There to Placate The Pope
• Something Else Instead of Planet Nine Could Be Hiding in The Outer Solar System

January 20

• Disturbing Link Found Between Opioid Overdose Deaths And Big Pharma Gifts to Doctors
• If You Find Cats Antisocial, It's More Likely You Being a Jerk, According to Science
• Remains of Tiny, Strange Creatures Have Been Discovered in a 'Lost' Antarctic Lake
• Change Your Phone Settings So Apple And Google Can't Track Your Movements

January 19

• Why Don't Black Holes Swallow All of Space? This Explanation Is Blowing Our Tiny Minds
• The Most Common Genetic Disease in The Western World Is Still Poorly Understood
• Simple Animations by a NASA Scientist 'Prove' The Speed of Light Is Torturously Slow
• Scientists Have Identified a Specific Diet That Could Save 11.6 Million Lives a Year
• This Animation Nails Why Your Kid Still Needs Vaccines Even if Everyone Else Has Them

January 18

• Biggest Data Breach Yet Has Leaked 773 Million Emails. Here's What You Need to Do Now
• Last Readings From Dead Space Probe Reveal Something Surprising About Saturn's Rings

January 17

• A Scientist Accidentally Found The World's Oldest Surviving Periodic Table
• Physicists Have Built a Machine That Actually Breaks Two Rules of Light
• Sloths Are Better at Adapting Than We Ever Gave Them Credit For
• Scientists Can Now Grow Perfect Human Blood Vessels in The Lab
• Researchers Identify a 2-Minute Trick That Stops You Craving Fatty Foods
• Baby Cuttlefish Have an Incredible Strategy to Avoid Enemies Even Before They Hatch
• Fear of Vaccines Is Officially One of The Most Dire Global Health Threats in 2019
• We No Longer Need These 9 Body Parts
• Satellite That Will Rain Down 'Meteor Showers' on Call Is About to Be Tested in Space
• Some Common Signs of Aging Could Actually Be Due to a Preventable Genetic Disorder
• The 'Super Blood Moon' Eclipse Is Almost Upon Us, Here's How to Watch
• Astronomers Just Found Evidence of a Curious Weather Phenomenon on Titan
• A Man Injected Himself With His Own Semen to 'Cure Back Pain'

January 16

• Most of Our Planet's Wild Coffee Species Are in Danger of Extinction
• You Absolutely Must See These Videos of The Farthest Object We've Ever Reached
• We Have Very Sad News About The First-Ever Moon Plant
• Plants May Not Have Ears, But They Can 'Hear' Way Better Than We Thought
• There's Still One Last Chance to Avoid Total Climate Catastrophe, Says Study
• Largest-Ever US Twin Study Reveals How Your Postcode Could Affect Your Health
• The Sarcastic Fringehead Is a Real Living Thing, And It's Spectacularly Horrifying
• Russian Startup Wants to Put Ads in Low-Earth Orbit to Ruin The Sky For Everybody
• This Freaky Spinning Ice Circle in Maine Looks Like a Giant Alien Landmark
• These 'Habitable Planets' Could Be Missing a Crucial Ingredient For Alien Life
• Ocean Waves Are Officially Getting Stronger as Water Temperatures Rise Each Year
• Astronomers Have Found Evidence of a Big Black Hole Wandering Our Galaxy
• CERN Just Revealed Plans For a New Particle Accelerator, And It's Monstrously Huge
• Who Decided It Was Bad to Be Fat?

January 15

• The 'World's Loneliest Frog' Romeo Finally Has His Juliet
• 100 Years Ago Today, a Deadly Flood of Molasses Tore Through an American Town
• China Just Sprouted The First-Ever Plant on The Moon
• This Totally Real Map Makes It Look Like Australia Is on Fire, And It Kinda Is
• We Might Finally Know How Supermassive Black Holes Get So Impossibly Huge
• Here's Why You Need to Stop Buying Vitamins, And Do This Instead
• These Experts Think There's Only One Type of Energy That Can Truly Save Our Planet
• Here's One Thing You Need to Know About People Who Strongly Oppose GMOs
• Researchers Successfully Turn Breast Cancer Cells Into Fat to Stop Them From Spreading
• You Absolutely Must See The First-Ever Panorama From The Far Side of The Moon
• Antarctica Is Now Rapidly Melting All Over, Including Parts We Thought Were Safe

January 14

• This Harvard Astronomer Is Still Saying That 'Oumuamua Could Be an Alien Probe
• Mathematicians Have Developed a Computing Problem That AI Can Never Solve
• Astronomers Have Found a Mysteriously Shrinking Black Hole
• MIT Scientists Score Breakthrough in Finding Bacteria That Produce Electricity
• 'Father of DNA' James Watson Stripped of Honors Over More Ugly Racism Comments
• This Startup Wants to Feed Maggots to Your Dog, And They Have a Point
• Competitive Culture Is Making Scientists Act Like Awful People
• Ant Colonies Have Memories That Their Individual Members Don't Have
• No, a NASA Scientist Did Not Reveal a 'Secret Sign' of The Apocalypse
• Your Gut Microbiome Could Actually Reveal Your Age, Study Shows

January 13

• These Genius 'Worm Toilets' Backed by Bill Gates Are Changing People's Lives in India
• Elon Musk Releases a Photo of His Latest Rocket, And It's Very Silver
• The 5 Most Addictive Substances on Earth – And What They Do to Your Brain
• This Crazy Steam-Powered Probe Could Pretty Much Explore Space Forever

January 12

• NASA Photo Shows The Wreck of a 'Flying Saucer', But The Real Story Is Even Better
• Don't Look Up: Intense Video Shows The Sky 'Raining Spiders' in Brazil

January 11

• Astronomers Just Discovered Strange Patterns in The Clouds of Venus
• Researchers: Women's Reproductive Rights Are Still Being Controlled on a Large Scale
• Here Are 15 Wild Sci-Fi Predictions About Future Technology That Actually Came True
• Here Are The Signs You're Really Dehydrated And What to Do About It
• People With Schizophrenia Have a Strange, Telling Response to The Epstein Barr Virus
• A Weird Shift of Our Planet's Magnetic Field Is Messing With Navigation
• Flat-Earthers Are Organising a Massive Cruise And The Hypocrisy Is Just Too Much
• Ancient Humans Had Sex With More Than Just Neanderthals, Scientists Find
• You're Probably Not as Bad at Math as You Think. You Might Just Be Traumatised

January 10

• This Generation Shares The Most Fake News on Facebook, Says New Study
• Astronomers Are Closing in on The Source of a Mysterious Explosion Called 'The Cow'
• Scientists Find a Simple Trick For Remembering Pretty Much Anything
• Carrying Extra Belly Fat Has Just Been Linked to a Worrying 'Brain Shrink'
• Your Eye Colour Could Be The Reason You Feel So Down Over Winter
• Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident
• Dental Floss Might Have a Potentially Toxic Impact We Never Knew About
• Leading Doctors Say There's Little Medical Evidence For Limiting Screen Time For Kids
• Physicist Says One of Sci-Fi's Wildest Hyperspace Travel Ideas Could Actually Work
• This Mathematical Concept Could Explain Why Anti-Vaxxers Just Don't Give Up
• Our Sun Will Become a Solid Crystal as It Dies, Joining Billions of Others Out There
• Scientists Discover The Remains of a Whale Inside a Bigger, Ancient Whale
• New Drug Trial Takes Different Approach to Stop Alzheimer's

January 9

• The Chinese Moon Rover Could Be Searching For Interplanetary Fuel
• What's The Deal With Mona Lisa's Ever-Watchful Eyes? Two Scientists Decided to Find Out
• 11 Fitness Misconceptions That Really Need to Stop
• Australia's Facing an Unprecedented Ecological Crisis, But No One's Paying Attention
• Mysterious Repeating Signals Have Been Detected Coming From Space For The Second Time
• Study Lifts The Lid on How Coke Has Infiltrated Chinese Health Policy
• Rare Gemstone Hidden in Ancient Teeth Reveals a Surprising Truth About Medieval Women
• Video Apparently Shows Self-Driving Tesla 'Hitting And Killing' a Robot in Las Vegas
• Astronomers Discover a Rare Exoplanet 2x The Size of Earth That May Host Liquid Water
• Lonely George – a Hawaiian Tree Snail – Has Died, Taking His Species With Him
• Crows Are So Clever They Can Judge Weight Using a Technique We've Only Seen in Humans
• Surprise Discovery Reveals an Ancient, Extinct Giant Hidden Among Ivory in Cambodia

January 8

• IBM Just Unveiled The First Commercial Quantum Computer
• Sinister 'Hunger Stones' With Dire Warnings Surfaced in Europe in 2018
• Only 2 Weeks Into Gov Shutdown, National Parks Are Being Closed Due to Trash
• 'Screams' From a Black Hole's Edge Could Finally Let Us Measure Its Incredible Speed
• New Paper: a 'Mirror Image' of Our Universe Existed Before The Big Bang
• Huge Study Finds a Bizarre Link Between Bottle Feeding And Left-Handedness
• Happiness in America Correlates With One Specific Thing About Where You Live
• We Just Got The Most Detailed Photo Ever of Our Neighbour, The Triangulum Galaxy
• Scientists Just Identified a Universal 'Genetic Formula' For Monogamy
• Scientists Identify The Physical Source of Anxiety in The Brain
• One of The Most Common Assumptions About Autism May Be a Complete Misunderstanding
• A Mysterious Cluster of Neatly Decapitated Skeletons Have Been Unearthed in England

January 7

• 50% of People Who Think They Have a Food Allergy Don't. It Might Be This Instead
• These Tiny 'Jungle Factories' Vent Out 100,000 Times More CO2 Than Surrounding Soil
• Microgravity Appears to Permanently Mutate Bacteria to Make Them Faster Breeders
• Bad Moods May Signal Much More Than Just a Negative State of Mind, New Evidence Finds
• Sperm Could Be a Bigger Factor in Miscarriages Than We've Been Led to Believe
• Haunting Photos Show China's Lunar Rover Set Out Across The Far Side of The Moon
• Look at This Adorable And Extraordinarily Strange Treefrog Just Discovered in Ecuador
• The World's Oldest Woman Was 122 When She Died, But a Researcher Says She Was Lying
• There's One Vast, Ancient Swathe of Ocean That's Actually Getting Colder
• Nightmare in Poland as 'Escape Room' Fire Claims The Lives of 5 Teens
• Scientists Have an Embarrassingly Simple Explanation For The Cuban 'Sonic Attack' Noises

January 6

• Woman in Vegetative State For 10 Years Shocks Carers by Giving Birth
• The Moon Is Upside Down on The Other Side of The World, And It's Freaking Us Out
• Did China's Moon Landing Just Launch a New Space Race?

January 5

• SpaceX Hid a Second, Hidden Payload Aboard Falcon Heavy, And It Sounds Amazing

January 4

• A Review of 6,000 Studies Over Two Decades Delivers Its Verdict on GMO Corn
• Study Spanning Almost a Decade Reveals The Impact Single-Parent Families Have on Kids
• A Physicist Has Calculated The Best Place to Put Your Router
• Juno Caught a Volcano Erupting on Jupiter's Moon, And It's Breathtaking
• Please Don't Do The 'Bird Box' Challenge, Netflix Officials Warn
• There's Evidence Even Dust Is Now Becoming Antibiotic Resistant
• Ancient Druid Healing 'Treatment' Shows Potential For Killing Today's Superbugs
• Removing "Zombie Cells" From The Brains of Mice Helps Treat Anxiety
• Scientists Have Ranked 9 Recreational Drugs From Safest to Most Dangerous

January 3

• Scientists Fix a Crucial Photosynthesis 'Glitch', Boosting Crop Growth by 40%
• Galaxy Coming Our Way Could Wake a Black Hole And Send The Milky Way Flying Into Space
• China Makes History by Landing a Probe on The Far Side of The Moon
• China's War on Air Pollution Has Had a Sinister Side Effect No One Saw Coming
• This New Years' Day, I Learned About Transient Global Amnesia in a Very Personal Way
• Enormous 'Pulse of Death' in The Holocaust Was Far Worse Than We Feared, New Study Finds
• Here's Why 'The Child of Krakatau' Is Still Extremely Dangerous
• Physicists Just Created a Strange New Type of 'Quasicrystal' in The Lab
• Breathtaking NASA Video Shows Jupiter's Moons Race Across Its Great Red Storm
• Viral YouTuber Discovers a Hellish New Benchmark For The Most Agonising Sting Ever
• Police Force Mobilised After Man Overheard Violently Screaming at a Spider

January 2

• First Close-Ups of The Farthest Object Ever Detected Reveal Strange Details
• Out-of-Control Firenadoes Rang in The New Year in The Netherlands
• Some Viewers Are Criticizing 'Bird Box' For How It Depicts Mental Health
• US Surgeon General Shares His Scientific Thoughts on Bird Box
• Why Does Everyone Seem to Get Pregnant Around Christmas? There's a Scientific Reason
• Bill Gates Just Published a Letter Urging US Leaders to Embrace Nuclear Energy
• Here's What Happened When an Alaskan City Took Fluoride Out of Their Drinking Water
• Scientists Just Drilled Through Thousands of Feet of Ice Into a 'Lost' Antarctic Lake
• Mind-Melting Study Says Our Universe Is an Expanding Bubble in Another Dimension

January 1

• Chinese Warship Armed With an Electromagnetic Railgun Appears to Have Set Sail
• We Just Got The First Images of The Most Faraway World Humans Have Ever Encountered
• Brains of 3 People Have Been Successfully Connected, Enabling Them to Share Thoughts
• Scientists Successfully Made Sheep-Human Hybrids in 2018