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- Dire Once-in-a-Century Storms Could Become Annual Events Soon, Scientists Warn
- Incredible Hubble Photo Shows Jets Blasting Across Space in Rare Celestial Phenomenon
- Scientists Monitoring New Coronavirus Variant With Unusually High Mutation Rate
- Female Octopuses Throw Things at Irritating Males, And Look, We Totally Get It
- New Cracks on The International Space Station Stoke Fears of Fissures Spreading
- UN Declares Milestone Victory as Leaded Petrol Is Officially Eradicated
- Scientists Figured Out How Much Exercise You Need to 'Offset' a Day of Sitting
- Scientists Identify The Ideal Level of Exercise Intensity For Boosting Fitness
- At Least a Quarter of All Sun-Like Stars May Have Devoured One of Their Own Planets
- Brutal Wounds of The Dead Speak of Ancient Violence in Earth's Driest Desert
- What Is Ivermectin? A Short Guide on Everything You Must Know
- This Is How Tardigrades Walk, And We Were Not Ready For The Footage
- Radioactive Snakes Could Help Scientists Track Fallout From The Fukushima Disaster
- Making 1 Simple Substitution For Table Salt Could Save Millions of Lives, Study Shows
- Animal Expert Shares 5 Things That Will Help Your Dog Live a Longer, Healthier Life
- Baby Shark Born in All-Female Tank Could Be The First 'Virgin Birth' For Its Species
- Not All Cultures Are Equally Mindful of Strangers – Here's How Your Country Ranks
- Volcanoes Could Be Responsible For The First Puffs of Oxygen on Earth
- More Americans Are Finally Coming Around to Accepting The Science of Evolution
- How Our Sense of Smell Could Be Nudging Us to a More Balanced Diet
- World's Northernmost Island Was Just Discovered But It May Not Be on The Map For Long
- Weird 'Water Blisters' Can Tell Us What's Going on Underneath Greenland's Ice Sheets
- African Mountain Forests Store More Carbon Than We Thought But They're Vanishing Fast
- Astronomers Think They Finally Know The Source of The Milky Way's Cosmic Rays
- How a Volcanic Surge 56 Million Years Ago Cut Off The Arctic Ocean From The Atlantic
- Elusive Shark Known For Its Fearsome Teeth Has an Unexpected Diet
- Knowing This Specific Gene Can Cause Endometriosis Could Lead Us to Better Treatments
- We Can Make Powerful Nature-Inspired 'Pesticides' Without Poison, Scientists Say
- A COVID-19 Patient Lost Vision in One Eye. Here's How They Could Be Connected
- Scientists Find Fossilized Ancestor of All Scaled Reptiles, And It's Absolutely Tiny
- Male Hummingbirds Are So Annoying, Females Wear Disguises to Not Be Harassed
- For The First Time, Physicists Observed a Quantum Property That Makes Water Weird
- Australia's Invasive Cane Toads Are Turning Into Increasingly Ruthless Cannibals
- It Might Sound Fun, But a 'Fruitarian' Diet Is Actually Pretty Bad For You
- 95% of Earth's Ocean Surface Is on Track to Change For The Worse if We Don't Act Now
- Men And Women Had Different Diets in This Ancient Roman Town Destroyed by a Volcano
- How Often Should You Exercise to Get in Shape, According to Science?
- Police Raid in Brazil Saves The Most Detailed Pterosaur Fossil Discovered to Date
- This Fast Radio Burst Repeats in a Strict Pattern, And We Still Can't Figure Out Why
- Here's The Real Meaning of 'Comirnaty', The Strange Name Pfizer Gave Their Vaccine
- Mercury's Surface Is a True Hellscape – Here's How Human Technology Could Survive It
- More And More Humans Are Growing an Extra Artery, Showing We're Still Evolving
- Neuroscientists Detect Remarkable 'Brain Waves' in Lab-Grown Mini Brains
- 2,000-Year-Old Offering to Serpent God Found Preserved Under Mexican Pyramid
- This New Panoramic Tour of Mars Is The Perfect Escape Right Now
- Fragmented Nature Means Wildlife Can't Survive in The Long Term, Scientists Warn
- We Could Discover Alien Life on This New Class of 'Hycean' Exoplanets, Study Says
- 1,500-Year-Old Lovers Uncovered in China, Locked in an Eternal Embrace
- 7,200-Year-Old Human DNA With Unique Denisovan Ancestry Has Been Found in Indonesia
- Biologists Discover an Unexpected Feature We Never Noticed About Certain Wasps
- A 'Good' Life Doesn't Necessarily Have to Be Happy, New Psychology Research Shows
- Antarctica Just Narrowly Avoided a Massive Iceberg Collision
- If Everyone Planted a Tree Each Year For 20 Years, How Would It Affect The Climate?
- Scientists Have Calculated The Probability of Another COVID-Level Pandemic Emerging
- Newly Discovered Space Rock Loops The Sun Quicker Than Any Known Asteroid
- Savage Megalodon Attack Millions of Years Ago Preserved in Ancient Tooth
- How Will Delta Evolve Next? A Scientist Predicts What The Future Could Look Like
- Thousands of New Radio Signals Have Been Detected From Nearby Cosmic Sources
- For The First Time, a Tortoise Has Been Filmed Going in For The Kill… Very Slowly
- What You Think of as 'Food Allergy' Might Be Something Else Instead. Here's Why
- Some Rare Diamonds Form Out of The Remains of Once-Living Creatures, New Study Finds
- A Huge Number of Rogue Supermassive Black Holes Are Wandering The Universe
- Sweden's Highest Mountain Is Shrinking, And The Reason Is All Too Predictable
- SpaceX Now Claims They Might Return Humans to The Moon Even Before 2024
- Giant Centipedes Caught Eating Thousands of Baby Birds on an Australian Island
- The First Delivery of 'Green Steel' Suggests Its Future Is Not Far Off
- The Grand Canyon Is Missing a Billion Years' Worth of Rocks. Scientists May Know Why
- Turns Out It's Not Possible to Time Travel Just by Flying Really Fast
- 12,000 Years of Human Burials Reveal The Steady Rise of Lead Pollution
- We May Finally Know The Secret of The Geminids Asteroid's Weird Comet-Like Tail
- Scientists Have Measured Earth's Ancient Magnetic Field From Stone Age Artifacts
- Some Key Mental Abilities Seem to Improve as We Get Older, Proving Aging Isn't All Bad
- Here's Why That 'Tip-of-The-Tongue' Feeling Seems Contagious When You're in a Group
- Hubble Captures a Stunning 'Einstein Ring' Magnifying The Depths of The Universe
- There's a Surprising Similarity Between The Babble of Baby Bats And Human Infants
- 15-Year Study Has Good News For Mothers Who Need Antipsychotic Meds During Pregnancy
- It Just Rained on Greenland's Summit For The First Time in Recorded History
- The World's Most Famous Violins Were Treated With a Secret Chemical Mix, Study Shows
- The Science of Recurring Dreams Is More Fascinating Than We Ever Imagined
- Our Galaxy Has a Weird 'Break' in One of Its Arms, And Astronomers Don't Know Why
- Even When Wildfires Are Far Away, The Smoke Can Still Hurt Your Health. Here's How
- A Never-Before-Seen System For Burning 'Deep Fat' Has Been Found in Mouse Studies
- Here's Why The Penis Worm Deserves Your Love
- Ancient Lava Reveals Earth's Magnetic Field Really Does Have a Cycle of 200M Years
- Gigantic 400-Year-Old Coral Is The Widest Ever Seen in The Great Barrier Reef
- Breathtaking New Images Reveal Several Distant Galaxies in Unprecedented Detail
- 2D 'Supersolid' That Flows Without Friction Has Been Made For The First Time
- Extinct 'Hobbit' Creature Found in Wyoming Emerged in The Wake of The Dinosaurs
- A Chinese Satellite Mysteriously Shattered in Space. Now We May Know Why
- Many Mammal Species Are Unexpectedly Growing Bigger, And It's All Because of Us
- A Deadly Brain Tumor Has Been 3D-Printed in The Lab For The First Time
- Moderna's Experimental HIV Vaccine Could Begin Human Trials as Soon as This Week
- Archaeologists Discover Stunningly Preserved Mummy Entombed in Ancient Pompeii
- Giant Reservoir to Limit Water Supply For Millions of Americans After Chronic Drought
- Physicists in California Achieve 'Historic' Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough
- The Avoided World: How The Montreal Protocol Saved Us From a Scorched Earth
- Long COVID Might Be The Manifestation of a Different Virus Reawakened in The Body
- The Incredible Brains of Cuttlefish Hold Memories That Never Seem to Fade
- Scientists Are Proposing a Radical New Framework to Redefine Life on Earth
- Scientists Grew Stem Cell 'Mini Brains'. Then, The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes
- In All of Human History, Have Any Societies Truly Lived Underground?
- Dyson Spheres Around Black Holes Could Reveal Alien Civilizations, Scientists Say
- 3 Out of 4 People Believe Earth Is Nearing Irreversible Tipping Points, Poll Shows
- Ripples in Saturn's Rings Reveal a Giant, 'Fuzzy' Core Hidden Beneath The Surface
- Scientists Just Broke The Record For Calculating Pi, And Infinity Never Felt So Close
- A Simple Diet Can Send Type 2 Diabetes Into Remission, According to Science
- Social Media Is Training Us to Unleash More Moral Outrage And Vitriol, Study Reveals
- This Eerie Star Nursery Shows How The Solar System Got Radioactive Elements
- One Living People Today Show More Traces of The Mysterious Denisovans Than Any Others
- Why Don't Black Holes Swallow All of Space? This Explanation Is Blowing Our Minds
- Giant Lair of Bones, Including Human, Discovered in Gruesome Saudi Arabian Cave
- Rare Natural Event in Alaska Sees 3 Volcanoes Erupting at The Same Time
- A Simple Crystal Could Finally Give Us Large-Scale Quantum Computing, Scientists Say
- Hottest Month Ever Recorded on Earth? We Just Lived Through It, Says US Agency
- New Study Finds We Probably Can't Take Credit For The Diversity of Dogs' Coats
- Peppers' Spicy Scents Coevolved With Certain Bats to Make Sure Both Survived
- Deforestation Can Cause Rapid Evolutionary Changes in Insects, New Zealand Case Shows
- Legal Researchers Weigh in on How Future Laws Should Deal With The Rise of The Sexbots
- A Chunk From The Sunken Continent of Zealandia Is Twice as Old as We Thought
- We Finally Know Why Older Sunflowers Keep Facing East (And Why It's a Good Thing)
- The First Excavations Near The Mysterious Arthur's Stone Have Revealed Its True Origin
- Oldest Fossilized Land Plant Spores Have Scientists Rethinking How Plants Evolved
- Toxins in Plastic Pollution Could Be Confusing Hermit Crabs Into Thinking It's Food
- Huge Study Finds Our Metabolism Changes With Age, But It's Not When You Think
- Massive New Analysis Confirms Just How Many COVID-19 Cases Are Truly Asymptomatic
- Hidden Magnetic Patterns Inside Meteorites Reveal Secrets of The Early Solar System
- An Antibody That Traps Sperm. Could This Be a New Non-Hormonal Contraceptive?
- Scientists Discover How to Make Glass So Hard, It Can Even Scratch Diamond
- Mesmerizing New NASA Video Catches Sunlight Gleaming Off The Clouds of Venus
- Hottest Temperature in Europe's History May Have Just Hit Italy Due to 'Lucifer'
- NASA May Have Solved The Weird Mystery of Perseverance's Missing Rock Sample
- We Just Got Closer to Understanding Why Ketamine Is Such a Powerful Antidepressant
- An Ancient Woolly Mammoth Trekked So Far, It Could Have Circled The Globe Twice
- This Giant, Hazardous Asteroid Almost Certainly Won't Hit Us, Probably, NASA Says
- Nearby Star Looks Just Like a Baby Sun, And Could Tell Us How Life Emerged on Earth
- AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immunity Impossible. Here's Why
- Astonishing Photo Reveals Fish Stuck Inside Translucent Jellyfish
- Cute Experiment Reveals How Your Cat Probably Wants Its Meals Served
- US Kids Are Eating More Ultra-Processed Food Than Ever Before, Startling Data Reveals
- Curiosity's Wandered The Same Giant Crater For 9 Years. It May Not Be What We Thought
- Anxious About Climate Change? This Interactive Atlas Lets You Explore The Future
- Apes Have Been Observed Starting And Ending Interactions Just Like Humans Do
- You Won't Believe These 10 Incredible Photos Are Pictures of Earth
- Epic Nova Eruption From Rare Star Is So Bright You Can See It With The Naked Eye
- Italy's Mount Etna Volcano Just Keeps Growing, And Now It's Taller Than Ever
- 'Blob' of Slime Mold Blasts Off Into Space For Extraordinary ISS Experiment
- COVID-19 Could Disrupt The Fight-or-Flight Response For Months, Study Suggests
- Physicists Detect Strongest Evidence Yet of Matter Generated by Collisions of Light
- The 'Second Brain' in Your Gut Might Have Evolved Before The Brain in Your Head
- Even Minor Volcanic Eruptions Could Trigger Global Catastrophe, Scientists Warn
- We Have 4 Years Left to Keep Warming to 1.5 °C. Here's How We Can Do It
- Can The World Ever Eradicate COVID-19? Scientists Crunched The Numbers
- We Can't Stop Looking at These Stunning Impact Craters on Mars
- Scientists Reversed Aging in Mouse Brains With Poo Transplants From Young Mice
- 'Dark Asteroid' Was Behind The Dinosaur-Killing Chicxulub Impact, Scientists Say
- A Common North American Plant Was Just Discovered to Be Secretly Carnivorous
- A Key Hallmark of Motor Neurone Disease Has Been Reversed in The Lab
- Key Findings You MUST Know From Just-Released IPCC Climate Change Report
- A Terrifying 'Dragon' Was The Largest Known Flying Reptile of Ancient Australia
- Want to Spend a Year on Mars? This Epic New NASA Mission Is The Stuff of Dreams
- Astronomers Identify Supernova Shrapnel Flung So Fast, It's Going to Leave Our Galaxy
- A Simple Blood Test Could Reveal a Rare Yet Deadly Pregnancy Condition
- Could a Highly Dangerous COVID Mutation Emerge in Our Pets? Here's The Science
- NASA's Perseverance Just Had a Unique Problem While Digging Up Its First Mars Rock
- These Toxic Critters Have Evolved a Surprising Way to Avoid Poisoning Themselves
- 12 Countries Could 'Lose' Almost 5 Million Women in The Next Decade, Warn Scientists
- Newly Designed 'Smart' Insulin Could Majorly Improve Type 1 Diabetes Treatment
- Here's What You Need to Know About The UN's Upcoming 'State of The Climate' Report
- Scientists Shorten Daddy Long-Legs' Iconic Limbs to Figure Out How They Got So Gangly
- Frozen Cave Lion Cub Is So Well Preserved You Can Still See Its Whiskers
- Scientists Just Simulated Quantum Technology on Classical Computing Hardware
- These Synthetic Neurons Use Ions to Hold Onto 'Memories', Just Like Our Brains Do
- For The First Time, Researchers Just Watched How Plants Slurp Up Water
- Ready to Make a Career Change? An AI Can Help You With That
- Two Weird Red Rocks Live in The Asteroid Belt, And They Don't Belong There
- Scientists Identify Extremely Tough Bacterial Species That Thrive Inside… Concrete
- Astronomers Detected a Huge New Structure in The Milky Way, And Don't Know What It Is
- Friends of Conspiracy Theorists May Help Reduce Vaccine Hesitancy, Study Shows
- Huge X-Ray Rings Around a Black Hole Reveal The Hidden Dust Between Stars
- New Signs Indicate a Major Ocean Current Is on The Edge of Collapse Right Now
- Agriculture Is Killing Way More Bees Than We Realized, Huge Study Reveals
- Yellowstone Just Recorded Over 1000 Earthquakes in One Month. Should We Be Worried?
- Astronomers Find Dancing Cosmic 'Ghosts' Spawned by The Wild Weather of Black Holes
- Nearby Planetary System Could Hold a Habitable Super-Earth, Astronomers Say
- Chronic Pain Has 9 Distinct Types, According to a Large New Body Mapping Study
- A Dazzling Meteor Cluster Was Just Captured Live on Camera in Hawaii
- Long-Lost Fragment of Stonehenge Gives Unprecedented Glimpse Inside Ancient Monument
- WHO Calls For a Stop to COVID Vaccine Boosters, as Rich Countries Roll Them Out
- Bizarre, Limbless Amphibians Discovered in The US For The First Time
- The Pentagon Is Experimenting With AI That Can Predict Events 'Days in Advance'
- New Discovery Indicates Machu Picchu Could Be Decades Older Than We Realized
- Mysterious Oxygen Burst Was Tied to Earth's Biggest Mass Extinction, Scientists Say
- This 3,700-Year-Old Tablet Shows The Oldest Known Example of Applied Geometry
- Emperor Penguins on Pathway to 'Quasi-Extinction' This Century, Scientists Warn
- Fully Vaccinated Still at Considerable Risk of Getting COVID, Giant UK Study Shows
- A Woman Developed a Mass in Her Armpit After Giving Birth. Then It Started Lactating
- The Global Pandemic Could Be Causing More Shortsightedness in Kids Than Ever Before
- Startling Discovery Suggests 40% of Wild Deer in The US Have Had The Coronavirus
- Math Ability Can Be Predicted by Neurotransmitter Levels in The Brain, Study Finds
- 'A Chronic Lack of Fire': The Paradox Fueling Megafires in The US
- Surprise! Turns Out Giraffes Have Highly Complex Social Lives Akin to Elephants
- What Is Planet Nine, And Does It Even Exist?
- The Moon's 'Roughness' Could Be Hiding Water in Shadows, NASA Says
- Californians Warned of Plague Risk After Pathogen Found in Infected Chipmunks
- This Controversial Cave Art Really Was Painted by Neanderthals, Study Confirms
- Extreme Food Insecurity Is About to Spike in 23 Hotspots Around The World, UN Warns
- Experiment Reveals Why Getting More Sleep Isn't Always Beneficial
- Earth's Rotation Is Slowing Down, And It Could Be Why We Have Oxygen For Life
- High Testosterone Doesn't Actually Make Men More Successful, New Study Hints
- Nearly 14,000 Scientists Warn That Earth's 'Vital Signs' Are Rapidly Worsening
- Neanderthals Had Blood Types Just Like We Do, Surprise Discovery Reveals
- These Shameless Birds Steal Hair From Live Predators Like It's No Big Deal
- Think Coffee Boosts Your Exercise Performance? Here's What Science Has to Say
- A 'Massive Melting Event' Has Struck Greenland Due to Northern Hemisphere Heatwave
- Limiting Global Warming Will Create Millions of New Jobs, And We Need to Act Now
- Trust in Science Can Ironically Lead to False Beliefs. Luckily, There's a Solution
- Obesity Is a Far More Complex Question Than a Simple 'Obesity Gene', Experts Say