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- Desperate For a Dip in a Hot Tub? A Quick Sniff Might Change Your Mind
- Cleaning Up Pollution Could Help Prevent The Next 'Silent Pandemic'
- Millions Are at Risk of Flooding Due to Climate Change – But Not Where You'd Think
- Astronomers Pinpoint The Mysterious 'Engine' of a Super-Powerful Intergalactic Light
- JWST Has Accidentally Detected a Tiny Asteroid 'Hidden' Between Mars And Jupiter
- A Seismologist Explains The Science of The Devastating Türkiye-Syria Earthquake
- Ancient Jurassic Predator Emerged From Ghost Ancestor, Scientists Say
- Scientists Are Making Catfish Hybrids With Alligator DNA For Us to Eat
- Neanderthals Hunted Giant Elephants Much Larger Than The Ones Today
- 'Extinct' Coronaviruses Still Thrive in North America, Just Not in Humans
- Rare Genetic Disease Appears to Defend Ashkenazi Jews Against TB
- Hidden Layers of Melting Rock Found Lurking Beneath Earth's Crust
- More Life Than We Ever Realized Could Survive in The Deep Dark of The Ocean
- A Planet Almost Exactly Earth's Size Has Been Found 72 Light-Years Away
- NASA Rover Encounters Spectacular Metal Meteorite on Mars
- Jupiter Overtakes Saturn as The Planet With The Most Known Moons
- Alarming Spread of Bird Flu Continues as More Species Infected
- US Shoots Down Chinese Surveillance Balloon: What Can They Actually See?
- Human Brain Organoids Transplanted Into Rats Just Passed a Major Milestone
- This Supposedly Rare Ancient Fossil Was Actually Made by Something Much More Recent
- Super-Rare Star System Is a Giant Cosmic Accident Waiting to Happen
- Scientists Discover a Weird New Form of Ice That May Change How We Think About Water
- Orcas Are Contaminated With a Forever Chemical Associated With an Unlikely Product
- A Hidden Food Web Exists in The Desert, And It Thrives on Death
- It's Possible Neanderthals Evolved So They Wouldn't Smell Their Own Stink, Study Finds
- A Splash of Milk in Coffee May Have Health Benefits We Didn't Know About
- How a Dead Girl in Paris Wound Up With The Most-Kissed Lips in All of History
- We Can Now Hear The 'Sound' of One of The Most Beautiful Stars
- No One Likes Commutes, But They May Actually Be Good For Mental Health, Study Finds
- Scientists Discover Ants Can Sniff Out Cancer in Urine
- Astronomers Studied More Than 5,000 Black Holes to Figure Out Why They Twinkle
- Astronomers Find What May Be a Habitable World 31 Light-Years Away
- Bar Graphs Induce a Hidden Bias in Interpretation, Experiment Shows
- This Small Australian Marsupial Is Quite Literally Dying For Sex
- 'Polluted Realism': How Monet's Art Mirrors The Evolution of Smog
- We Used to Hate Commuting. Now We Realize We've Lost Something.
- The First Stars May Have Been Heavier Than 100,000 Suns
- An Incredible Thing Happens When Dolphins And Humans Team Up
- A Lost Interview With The 'Father of The Big Bang' Was Just Discovered
- Planting More Trees in Cities Would Save Thousands of Lives, Scientists Say
- The Pandemic Never Ended, WHO Warns
- Fungal Pathogens May Be Adapting Dangerously to Global Warming
- New Prototype Device Generates Hydrogen From Untreated Seawater
- Wildfire Destruction in The Western US Has Doubled in Just 10 Years
- A Billion-Dollar Biotech Company Plans to Bring The Dodo Back to Life
- Scientist Accidentally Discovers The Oldest Brain of Any Vertebrate
- Ancient Goo Spills The Secrets of How The Egyptians Mummified Their Dead
- High-Fat Diets May Break The Brain's Ability to Regulate Calories
- Embers of an Ancient Inferno Pinpoint The Worst Extinction in Earth's History
- Incredible 'Fairy' Robot Sails on The Breeze Like a Floating Dandelion
- Stunning Green Comet Will Be Closest to Earth Today, at Peak Brightness
- AI Predicts We'll Breach Our Climate Goal in Just 10 Years
- Ultra-Processed Food May Exacerbate Cognitive Decline, New Studies Show
- A Mysterious Whirlpool Appeared Over Hawaii, And It Could Be Because of SpaceX
- Scientists Reveal The Most Precise Map of All The Matter in The Universe
- Incredible Footage Shows Planets Circling a Star Light-Years Away
- Bigfoot Has a Very Simple Explanation, Scientist Says
- Astronomers Find 25 Hugely Powerful Fast Radio Bursts That Keep Repeating
- Scientists Create Semi-Living 'Cyborg' Cells That Could Transform Medicine
- AI System Detects Strange Signals of Unknown Origin in Radio Data
- We Are 'Dangerously Unprepared' For Future Pandemics, Experts Warn
- The Mysterious Asymmetry of Jupiter's Asteroids May Finally Be Explained
- Mysterious Medieval City in Africa Had a Genius System to Survive Drought
- Lightning Strikes Create a Strange Form of Crystal Rarely Seen in Nature
- Tiny Radioactive Object Goes Missing in Australia, Sparks Urgent Search
- Inhaling Car Fumes Can Change a Brain's Connectivity in Just 2 Hours, Study Finds
- Intriguing Meteorite From Mars Reveals 'Huge Organic Diversity', Scientists Say
- Could 'The Last of Us' Ever Happen? The Real Risks of a Fungus Pandemic
- Physicists Used Sound Waves to Give a Tiny Sun Its Own Kind of Gravity
- Black Swans Could Be Entirely Wiped Out by a Single Virus, Scientists Warn
- Our Body Temps Have Been Dropping For 160 Years. Gut Microbes May Be Playing a Role
- Study of 500,000 Medical Records Links Viruses to Alzheimer's Again And Again
- Are Your Cats Playing or Fighting? Researchers Think They Can Tell The Difference
- Newly Discovered Fossil Reveals Hundreds of Teeth 'Never Seen Before in a Pterosaur'
- Archaeologists May've Discovered The 'Oldest' And 'Most Complete' Egyptian Mummy Yet
- JWST Has Found Life's Elemental Building Blocks in The Depths of Darkest Space
- Babies May Not Be Born With a Microbiome After All, Scientists Say
- A 17th-Century Aristocrat Had a Crafty Secret For Keeping Her Teeth
- This Physicist Says Electrons Spin in Quantum Physics After All. Here's Why
- It Took Doctors 2 Years to Figure Out Why a Woman Couldn't Stop Vomiting
- Scientists Reveal The Most Distant Galaxy We've Ever Found
- There's a 'Lost City' Deep in The Ocean, And It's Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen
- This Island Appeared Out of Nowhere, With Life Forms Never Seen Before
- Archaeologists Find Hidden Ruins of 'Complete' Roman-Era City in Egypt
- Hypertension Drug Shown to Extend Lifespan And Slow Aging in Animals
- Astronomers Just Discovered a 'Bear' on Mars
- 'Extraordinarily Close' Asteroid About to Zoom Past Earth, NASA Says
- Ripples in Space-Time Could Actually Reveal When Time Began
- Dogs Can Be Aggressive For Lots of Reasons, And One of Them Is You
- Mysterious 'Zone of Uncertainty' Inside The Brain Reveals a Surprise
- Shooting Tiny, High Speed Bullets at a Spacecraft Could Speed Up Travel to The Stars
- People Who Don't Exist Look More Real Than Actual People, Study Finds
- Scientists Create Shapeshifting Humanoid Robot That Can Liquefy And Reform
- One Simple Idea Makes It Much Easier to Manage Your Weight Over Time
- The Human Microbiome Might Be Contagious, Scientists Say
- 'Funky Worm' Fossil Helps Explain The Mysterious Origins of Amphibians
- This Species of Carnivorous Plant Evolved Into a Toilet And Is Now Winning at Life
- Mysterious White Clouds Keep Popping Up Near The Bahamas, And No One Knows Why
- An Expert Explains Why The Radioactive Water Stored at Fukushima Should Be Released
- Bacteria Can Use Plastic Waste as a Food Source, Which Isn't as Good as It Sounds
- Scans of Mummified 'Golden Boy' Reveal He Was Covered in Magical Protections
- Latest Change to The Doomsday Clock Brings Us Closer to Midnight Than Ever
- Major Blow as Experimental HIV Vaccine Fails in Late Clinical Trial
- Sword Mistaken For Replica Is Actually An Ancient 3,000-Year-Old Weapon
- Astronomers Just Realized The Milky Way Is Too Big For Its Surroundings
- This Asteroid Has Survived For 4 Billion Years. That Could Be a Huge Problem
- Scientists Have a Plan to Turn Earth Into a Giant Observatory
- An Iceberg The Size of London Has Broken Free From Antarctica Ice Shelf
- Dozens in 7,000 Year Old Mass Grave Were Carefully Decapitated After Death
- Earth's Inner Core May Right Now Be in The Process of Changing Direction
- Viagra Linked to Much Lower Risk of Death in Men, But Questions Remain
- Physicists Break Record Firing a Laser Down Their University Corridor
- New NASA Nuclear Rocket Plan Aims to Get to Mars in Just 45 Days
- These 5 Traces of Ancient Ancestors Still Exist in Human Bodies Today
- COVID-19 Infection May Induce Fetal Brain Hemorrhages, Scientists Warn
- A Rare Green Comet Can Be Seen in The Sky, And It May Be Our Last Chance
- This Rembrandt Has Been Hiding a Surprising Secret For Centuries
- Losing Focus May Actually Boost Learning, Study Finds
- These Binary Stars Are So Close Together That Their Year Is Only 20.5 Hours Long
- The Latest Milky Way Survey Shows Off an Incredible 3.32 Billion Celestial Objects
- There's a Science to How Often You Should Change Up Your Exercise Routine
- The True Extent of Global Warming Has Been Hidden, Scientists Warn
- Six Minutes of Intense Exercise Boosts a Crucial Molecule in Your Brain
- Scientists Have Built a Macroscopic Tractor Beam Using Laser Light
- Some People's Brains Are Wrinklier Than Others, And Now We Know Why
- 6-Pound 'Monster' Cane Toad Found in Australian Coastal Park
- Great White Sharks Are Being Scared From Their Habitat by Just 2 Predators
- Paranormal Activity Is All in Your Head, And This Could Explain Why
- Excruciating Eye Pain Is Being Inflicted by This Tiny Australian Critter
- Monster Space Rock in Antarctica Is Among The Largest Found in 100 Years
- Education Seems to Protect The Gut, Not Just Make You Smarter
- Millions See The World Through a 'Static' Haze Called Visual-Snow Syndrome
- Couple Captures Rare Footage of a Giant Squid Swimming Off The Coast of Japan
- The Night Sky Is Twice as Bright as It Was Only 8 Years Ago
- Common Vaccinations Could Be One Way to Reduce The Risk of Developing Dementia
- Getting Your Nails Done Frequently Could Damage The DNA in Your Hands
- This Ancient Creature Used a Trident to Joust For Sex 400 Million Years Ago
- A Digital Dissection of Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh Reveals Striking Features
- We're Getting Closer to Understanding Why Our Moment of Death Is So Peaceful
- We Might Have Been Wrong About The Role Rats Played in The Black Death
- Our Muscles Evolved a Clever Way to Keep Us Warm, Even When They're Doing Nothing
- Echidnas Blow Bubbles of Snot to Stay Cool in The Australian Outback
- Record-Breaking Signal From Distant Galaxy Is Furthest of Its Kind Ever Detected
- Obesity Expert Reveals What You Should Do When Weight Loss Plateaus
- One Part of a Chocolate Bar Is More Important Than The Rest For That Perfect Treat
- World's Oldest Runestone Uncovered in Norway Spells Out a Mysterious Word
- The Oldest Styles of Art Were Creative Abstracts, And Probably Not Made by Us
- Mysteriously Deep Snow Covers The Icy Moon Enceladus, But How Did It Get There?
- More Time in Green Spaces Is Linked With Less Use of Prescription Drugs
- Circumcision Appears to Alter The Penis Microbiome, Study Finds
- This Biomarker Can Foreshadow Early Alzheimer's Years Before Symptoms
- Procrastinating Could Be a Sign of Serious Health Problems, Study Finds
- Encouraging People to Retire Early in China Came With a Serious Downside
- Unclassified Documents Say Number of UFO Reports to The Pentagon Is Soaring
- Stunning Images Reveal The Most Detailed Look at The Milky Way in Radio Waves
- Firing a Laser Into The Sky Can Divert Lightning, Experiment Shows
- Fluke Discovery of Ancient Farming Technique Could Stabilize Crop Yields
- These Massive Neutron Stars Existed For Less Than The Blink of an Eye
- The Genius Strategy That Made OpenAI The Hottest Startup in Tech
- This Oft-Repeated 'Fact' About The Moon And The Ocean Is Totally False
- There's a Simple Way to Offset The Health Risks of Sitting All Day
- Huge Study Reveals 4 Eating Patterns Linked to Lower Risk of Early Death
- 'Incurable' Fatal Syndrome May Finally Be Treated By New Drug
- Swimming in Open Water Poses a Serious Risk Few People Know About
- Sloths Are Stronger on Their Left Side And Scientists Have No Idea Why
- NASA Satellite Shows How We Can Track Local CO2 Emissions From Space
- Scientists Have Discovered Almost 1,000 Long-Hidden Maya Settlements in Guatemala
- Erasing Your 'Sleep Debt' Is Trickier Than Just Hitting Snooze on The Weekends
- T. Rex Was a Lot Brainier Than We Thought, Researcher Claims
- Skipping Meals Could Be Much Worse For You Than We Realized
- Vegan Diets For Pets Pose Plenty of Questions, Study Finds
- NASA Just Discovered a Rare Earth-Sized Planet in a Habitable Zone
- The UK Is Poised to Start Cancer Vaccine Tests in The Fall. Here's What to Know
- A Simple, 5-Minute Breathing Technique Is a Powerful Tool to Reduce Anxiety
- 'Irish Giant' Finally Finds Some Privacy 200 Years After Body-Snatching Incident
- Fathers Have Been Older Than Mothers For 250,000 Years, Study Finds
- JWST Just Confirmed Its First Exoplanet, And It's The Size of Earth
- Space Probes Sent by Aliens Could Arrive in Reverse. Here's Why.
- The Fall of The Amazon Could Trigger a Global Cascade of Tipping Points
- Traveling Back in Time Is Possible Inside Universes That Spin
- Cleopatra Wasn't a Hot Topic in 2022, So Why Was Her Wiki Page The Most Popular?
- ExxonMobil Predicted The Climate Crisis 5 Decades Ago, Leaks Show
- Extreme 'Rogue Wave' in The North Pacific Confirmed as Most Extreme on Record
- Oceans Broke Yet Another Heat Record in 2022, Scientists Warn
- This Female Insect Pokes Out a 'Penis' to Penetrate The Male 'Vagina'
- Pasta Is Healthier Than You Think, And It's Even Healthier as Leftovers
- Shattered Skull Details Gruesome Final Moments of a Medieval Murder Victim
- Milky Way's Most Distant Stars Found Half Way to a Neighboring Galaxy
- Russia Confirms Rescue of Stranded Cosmonauts With a Replacement Mission
- Mysterious Quantum Phenomenon Lets Us Peek Inside an Atom's Heart
- This Prescription Drug Appears to Recover Lost Memories in Mice
- The Great Salt Lake Could Vanish Within Just 5 Years, Scientists Warn
- Lab-Grown Retinas to Restore Vision Are a Step Closer to Human Trials
- The Last 8 Years Have Been The Hottest Ever Recorded on Earth
- Study Reveals The Sad Truth of Couples Working From Home
- What's With All The Dead Animals That Our Pets Bring Us?
- Madagascar's Vanishing Biodiversity Could Take Over 20 Million Years to Recover
- One of The Deadliest Human Diseases Is Far Older Than We Ever Realized
- US Approves First Vaccine For Bees Amid Global Pollinator Crisis
- A New Test Could Help Find Hidden Viruses We've Never Seen Before
- Amazing NASA Video Squeezes Over 100 Days on The Sun Into 1 Hour
- Massive Volcanic Outburst Detected on Jupiter's Hellish Moon Io
- Humans Still Have The Genes For a Full Coat of Fur, Scientists Discover
- Anthropologists Reveal Why Women Around The World End Up Working Hardest
- Controversial Proposal to Reduce Global Warming Could Threaten Ozone Regeneration
- The World's Biggest Study on Parasites Has Found Something Terrible. They're Dying.
- COVID Autopsies Reveal The Virus Spreading Through The 'Entire Body'
- Our Mental Picture of Space Seems to Expand Like The Universe
- What Is a Long-Haul Flight Actually Doing to Your Body?
- This Technique Is Revealing a Hidden World of Biology We've Never Seen Before
- FDA Approves New Alzheimer's Drug Designed to Slow Cognitive Decline
- Mysterious Symbols Could Represent The Earliest Writing Ever Found
- Scientists Just Invented an Entirely New Way to Refrigerate Things
- Pets Help to Protect Your Brain as You Get Older, Study Suggests
- Brain Games May Predict How Bad Your Next Cold Will Be
- A Comet Not Seen in 50,000 Years Is Streaking by Earth Soon. Here's When to Look Up
- Astronomers May Have Solved The Mystery of The Bubbles Towering Over The Milky Way
- Monkeys – Not Humans – Made Ancient Sets of Stone Tools in Brazil, Study Finds
- Scientists Gave Penguins a Mirror, And We Have Lots of Questions
- Men's Interest in Sex Linked to Risk of Early Death, Japanese Study Finds
- The Origins of Binary Black Holes May Be Hidden in Their Spins, Study Suggests
- Kids' Incredible Learning May All Be Down to 1 Chemical in The Brain
- Our Brains Aren't Wired to Stick to New Year's Resolutions. Here's What to Do About It
- We Finally Know How Ancient Roman Concrete Was So Durable
- This Frozen Cave Lion Is So Well Preserved You Can Still See Its Whiskers
- COVID Is Doing Something to Our Sleep, And Even to Our Dreams
- Ghost Light From Homeless Stars Glimmered Even in The Early Universe
- Solar Powered Worms Show Us How We Might Live Longer, Healthier Lives
- Half of Earth's Glaciers Will Be Gone By 2100, But We Can Still Save The Rest
- Human Brains Never Truly Grow Up, a Trait We Share With One Other Close Relative
- Scientists Just Uncovered A Whole New Layer of Brain Anatomy
- This Ancient Creature Is a Bizarre Hybrid of Dinosaur And Bird
- The Number of American Kids Eating Cannabis Has Surged Dramatically
- Distant Memories of Fear Lurk in Your Brain, And We May Have Found Their Hiding Place
- Human 'Mini-Brains' Implanted in Mice Respond to Light in Scientific First
- Innovation in Science Is on The Decline And We're Not Sure Why
- Satellite Images Reveal Beavers Are Transforming The Arctic "Like Wildfire"
- Scientists Reverse Erectile Dysfunction in Pigs Using Synthetic Tissue
- We May Be Able to Find Life on Enceladus Without Even Landing
- Not Drinking Enough Water Linked to Serious Health Risks, Study Warns
- Breathtaking Views of Earth, Moon Revealed by Danuri Lunar Orbiter
- One Simple Thing Reduces The Risk of You Having to Go Back to Hospital
- A Nobel Physicist Explained How to Cook Pasta And Now Everybody's Angry
- There's One Thing Dogs Don't Use Their Tail For, Scientists Say
- Don't Like Drinking Water? Here Are 10 Ways to Make It Easier
- An Organism That Can Dine Exclusively on Viruses Has Been Found in a World First
- Cut Marks on Ancient Bones Reveal What Was in Fashion 320,000 Years Ago
- Your Coworking Space May Be Killing Your Creativity, Study Finds
- Earth's Sky Isn't Just Blue, And a Close Look at The Darkness of Night Reveals Why
- We're on The Brink of Hearing The Universe's Background Hum. Here's Why We're Listening
- We Finally Know Why The Southern Hemisphere Is So Much Stormier
- At The Right Levels, Stress Can Have a Surprising Impact on Memory
- Your Blood Type May Affect Your Risk of an Early Stroke, Research Reveals
- Mindfulness Can Rival Antidepressants For Anxiety, Study Finds
- Study Shows How The Universe Would Look if You Broke The Speed of Light, And It's Weird
- A Single Hormone in Men May Predict Their Future Health
- Sometimes Parents Actually Prefer It When Kids Don't Tell The Truth
- Scientists Grew Stem Cell 'Mini Brains' And Then The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes
- The Scary Things That Happen to The Human Body at Mount Everest's 'Death Zone'
- The Color of Wolves Mysteriously Changes Across America. We Finally Know Why
- Ethereal New Plant Species Doesn't Use Photosynthesis – It's Found Something Sneakier