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Pygmy Raccoons Spotted Making Paper Footballs In Adorable Footage – But It Reveals Much Bigger Problems For This Critically Endangered SpeciesA small raccoon on a sandy beach next to a little white paper ballPygmy Raccoons Spotted Making Paper Footballs In Adorable Footage – But It Reveals Much Bigger Problems For This Critically Endangered SpeciesA small raccoon on a sandy beach next to a little white paper ball

Pygmy Raccoons Spotted Making Paper Footballs In Adorable Footage – But It Reveals Much Bigger Problems For This Critically Endangered Species

This population of 200 lives only on the Mexican island of Cozumel.

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Amateur MMA Fighter Claims He Has Been Offered Over $500,000 To Fight A Chimpanzee. It Would Be One Hell Of A FuneralA chimp sat on a tree, rubbing its face.
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Amateur MMA Fighter Claims He Has Been Offered Over $500,000 To Fight A Chimpanzee. It Would Be One Hell Of A Funeral

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Should You Bother Closing The Lid To Flush The Toilet? Probably, Unless You Want Microbes Erupting Into Your “Breathing Zone”bathroom with intensely blue tiles everywhere except the floor, with two windows above the toilet, a bath on the right and a sink on the left
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Should You Bother Closing The Lid To Flush The Toilet? Probably, Unless You Want Microbes Erupting Into Your “Breathing Zone”

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Space America? Trump Claims Ownership Of The Moon For The USA In Bizarre Truth Social Posts

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California Attempted A First-Of-Its-Kind Ban On Genetically Modified Pets, Including Glow-In-The-Dark Rabbits

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In The 1970s, Researchers Unearthed Fossils Of A Dinosaur That May Have Been The Largest Ever. Then The Fossils Disintegrated

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Whale Song Appears To Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Sound Without Breaking Einstein's Theory Of Special Relativitya fin whale seen from above at the surface
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Whale Song Appears To Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Sound Without Breaking Einstein's Theory Of Special Relativity

A phenomenon observed in whale song makes soundwaves appear faster than they should be. It's possible in light, too, but despite whales being very smart, they haven't found a way to break the speed limit of the universe… yet.

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South America Was Once Home To Megapiranha, Predatory Fish With A Bite Force That Outchomped Megalodona close up of a piranha with jaws open showing sharp teeth, it has a very red/orange eye
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South America Was Once Home To Megapiranha, Predatory Fish With A Bite Force That Outchomped Megalodon

Meanwhile, an Amazon fish alive today has a bite force (relative to size) three-times stronger than an American alligator.

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200,000 Barrels Of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped In The Atlantic. Decades Later, We’re Finally Learning What Happens When They Leaka barrel on the seafloor has big holes and animals growing on it
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200,000 Barrels Of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped In The Atlantic. Decades Later, We’re Finally Learning What Happens When They Leak

It’s not good news, but it's also not yet terrible news.

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Louisiana Legalizes Alligator Hunting For First Time In Over 50 Years With Lottery To Select Up To 5,000 Licensed HuntersAn American alligator sitting on a grassy bank with its mouth open.
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Louisiana Legalizes Alligator Hunting For First Time In Over 50 Years With Lottery To Select Up To 5,000 Licensed Hunters

Up to 10,000 alligators could be legally harvested by recreational hunters during the October open season.

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The UN Voted To Adopt A New World Map That Shows Africa At Its True Size – The US Voted Against ItThe Mercator projection map
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The UN Voted To Adopt A New World Map That Shows Africa At Its True Size – The US Voted Against It

The resolution was passed with 164 votes in favor. There was only one vote cast against it.

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Scientists Just Found Six Mysterious Structures Deep Inside Earth. Here’s How They Know They’re ThereWhat is deep inside of Earth?
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Scientists Just Found Six Mysterious Structures Deep Inside Earth. Here’s How They Know They’re There

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The World’s Largest Living Reptile “Surfs” Long Distances, Travelling Over 10 Kilometers On Ocean CurrentsA crocodile swimming in Australia.
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The World’s Largest Living Reptile “Surfs” Long Distances, Travelling Over 10 Kilometers On Ocean Currents

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The Largest 2D Map Of The Universe Lets You Explore 4 Billion Astronomical ObjectsWhat's the big deal? The Copeland Septet is seven foreground galaxies plus few dozen in the background out of almost two billion in a map
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The Largest 2D Map Of The Universe Lets You Explore 4 Billion Astronomical Objects

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False Door To Travel Between Worlds Of The Dead And Living Found In New Ancient Egyptian TombEgyptian officials announced the new discoveries at Saqqara on August 29, 2026.
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False Door To Travel Between Worlds Of The Dead And Living Found In New Ancient Egyptian Tomb

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Nazi Archaeologists Tried To Prove That Swedish Rock Art Was The “Holy Scripture” Of A Fictional Race From AtlantisBronze-Age rock art from Bohuslen
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Nazi Archaeologists Tried To Prove That Swedish Rock Art Was The “Holy Scripture” Of A Fictional Race From Atlantis

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Prehistoric Teeth Previously Thought To Belong To A Neanderthal Who Was Eaten By Humans Turn Out To Be Something ElseNeanderthal teeth
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Prehistoric Teeth Previously Thought To Belong To A Neanderthal Who Was Eaten By Humans Turn Out To Be Something Else

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How A PhD Student Found A Large, Ancient, And Lost Maya City On "Like Page 16 Of Google Search"The jungle, seen from the top of an ancient Mayan structure in the foreground.
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How A PhD Student Found A Large, Ancient, And Lost Maya City On "Like Page 16 Of Google Search"

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Pig Kidney Transplant Kept Man Alive For A Record-Breaking 271 Days While He Waited For A Human Organillustration of a pig with a gloved human hand above it holding a kidney
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Pig Kidney Transplant Kept Man Alive For A Record-Breaking 271 Days While He Waited For A Human Organ

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Up To 13% Of Your Personality Comes From Your Genes – But How It Ultimately Turns Out Is Down To Something ElsePeople with different personality traits
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Up To 13% Of Your Personality Comes From Your Genes – But How It Ultimately Turns Out Is Down To Something Else

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Common Sweetener Added To Sugar-Free Desserts Linked To Higher Risk Of Heart Attack And Strokevariety of ice cream scoops and cones on a pink background
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Common Sweetener Added To Sugar-Free Desserts Linked To Higher Risk Of Heart Attack And Stroke

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Two “Revolutionary” Non-Hormonal Male Birth Control Products Could Hit The Market In As Little As 2 Years, Founder Saysillustration of sperm surrounding an ovum with one cell getting closer to the ovum to fertilize it
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Two “Revolutionary” Non-Hormonal Male Birth Control Products Could Hit The Market In As Little As 2 Years, Founder Says

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The UN Issues Warning That The World Needs To Prepare As El Niño Goes "Supersized", On Track To Smash RecordsRainy man walking through rainy carpark
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The UN Issues Warning That The World Needs To Prepare As El Niño Goes "Supersized", On Track To Smash Records

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The American Cheetah Was Not A Cheetah – And Some Of Them Had A Diet Closer To That Of Orcas Than Other Big CatsA reconstruction of an American cheetah hunting an ancient horse.
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The American Cheetah Was Not A Cheetah – And Some Of Them Had A Diet Closer To That Of Orcas Than Other Big Cats

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For The First Time Ever A Fossil Leg Bone Shows That Even Dinosaurs Had To Deal With Serious Skin InfectionsIguanodon bernissartensis in the National History Museum of Paris. Taken from above looking down on the skeleton.
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For The First Time Ever A Fossil Leg Bone Shows That Even Dinosaurs Had To Deal With Serious Skin Infections

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One Of The Deep Sea's Biggest Weirdos Is Back And Stranger Than Ever - Watch Magnapinna's First Live Appearance In The Northeastern Pacific Oceana bigfin squid drifts across the view, it is pinkish with very long arms
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One Of The Deep Sea's Biggest Weirdos Is Back And Stranger Than Ever - Watch Magnapinna's First Live Appearance In The Northeastern Pacific Ocean

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A NASA Spacecraft Is Nearing The Edge Of The Solar System. Its Instruments May Be Shut Off Due To Lack Of FundingSunlight behind Pluto: A thin disk of blue light seen behind the dwarf planet.
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A NASA Spacecraft Is Nearing The Edge Of The Solar System. Its Instruments May Be Shut Off Due To Lack Of Funding

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A Trick Of Gravity? The Biggest Black Hole Merger Ever Detected May Have Deceived Us Alltwo black holes in the process of merging warping their background
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A Trick Of Gravity? The Biggest Black Hole Merger Ever Detected May Have Deceived Us All

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Long-Predicted Gravitational Effect Seen In A Quantum Object For The Very First Time – Einstein’s Theory Passes Another Crucial Testneon swirling patterns as a concept for quantum gravity
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Long-Predicted Gravitational Effect Seen In A Quantum Object For The Very First Time – Einstein’s Theory Passes Another Crucial Test

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NASA Wants Bezos’ Blue Origin To Build Next-Gen Communications On Mars – Are We Any Closer To High-Speed Internet On The Red Planet?artist impression of rovers on mars communicating with a satellite that communicates with Earth in the background
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NASA Wants Bezos’ Blue Origin To Build Next-Gen Communications On Mars – Are We Any Closer To High-Speed Internet On The Red Planet?

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How Close Are Scientists To Creating "Digital Twins" Of Human Brains? If Technology Can Catch Up, The Uses Could Be Endlesstwo human heads illustrated looking away from each other, one brain is full of cogs to illustrate machinery and one is full of squiggles to indicate organic matter
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How Close Are Scientists To Creating "Digital Twins" Of Human Brains? If Technology Can Catch Up, The Uses Could Be Endless

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Man Manages To Access Bitcoin Wallet After 12 Years, Becomes An Instant Millionaire OvernightArtist impression of a Bitcoin.
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Man Manages To Access Bitcoin Wallet After 12 Years, Becomes An Instant Millionaire Overnight

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If You Think Not Owning Your Media Is Bad, Thank The Lord That "Flexplay" Did Not Catch OnA Flexplay DVD: A dark red DVD disk inside a plastic bag.
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If You Think Not Owning Your Media Is Bad, Thank The Lord That "Flexplay" Did Not Catch On

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Purple Clothes Using Nobel-Prize Winning Chemistry Could Keep You Cool With The Power Of Outer Spacethe purple mof material, before it is added to thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)
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Purple Clothes Using Nobel-Prize Winning Chemistry Could Keep You Cool With The Power Of Outer Space

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The Rich More Likely To Snatch Candy From A Baby, A Formal Definition Of Kissing, And Cockroach Milk Win The 2026 Ig Nobel Prizesa man eating cotton candy as two young girls trying to pick some
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The Rich More Likely To Snatch Candy From A Baby, A Formal Definition Of Kissing, And Cockroach Milk Win The 2026 Ig Nobel Prizes

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The World Is About To Vote On Whether To Ditch The Global Map As We Know It And Start Showing Countries’ True SizeAfrica is front and center in this image of Earth taken by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite.
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The World Is About To Vote On Whether To Ditch The Global Map As We Know It And Start Showing Countries’ True Size

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Has The World Already Dropped Below Replacement Fertility Rate? New Analysis Suggests We're Having Fewer Babies Than Ever – Even In The Places We Least ExpectedAn illustration of a push chair going down a slope with a downward trending graph behind it.
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Has The World Already Dropped Below Replacement Fertility Rate? New Analysis Suggests We're Having Fewer Babies Than Ever – Even In The Places We Least Expected

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Autism Diagnosis Risks “Losing Its Meaning," Says Veteran Researcher. Others Say Her Arguments Just Don’t Stack Upcolourful background of different figures overlaid with a black graph with an upward curving arrow
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Autism Diagnosis Risks “Losing Its Meaning," Says Veteran Researcher. Others Say Her Arguments Just Don’t Stack Up

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How To Get More IFLScience: Add Us As A “Preferred Source" On GoogleA logo of IFLScience with a hand pointing towards it
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How To Get More IFLScience: Add Us As A “Preferred Source" On Google

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Unlocking The Future Together: Why IFLScience Is Launching A Membership Modelcollage of images related to science with "iflscience is evolving" written in the centre
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Unlocking The Future Together: Why IFLScience Is Launching A Membership Model

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Opening The Vault: Uncovering A World Of Strange And Intriguing ScienceAn image of the vault doors opening with a screenshot of the IFLScience Vault article.
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Opening The Vault: Uncovering A World Of Strange And Intriguing Science

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So You've Decided To Clone Your Pet For $50,000. Will You Get The Exact Same Animal Back?A pop art style image of a dog in multiple colours.
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So You've Decided To Clone Your Pet For $50,000. Will You Get The Exact Same Animal Back?

We’ve got the tech. Some people have the money. But does that mean we should make version 2.0 of our beloved fluffy companions?

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New Detection Hints At First Evidence Of Dark Matter, We Finally Know What The Maker Of These Weird Hexagonal Fossils Looks Like, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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New Detection Hints At First Evidence Of Dark Matter, We Finally Know What The Maker Of These Weird Hexagonal Fossils Looks Like, And Much More This Week

All the biggest science news stories of the week.

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How We Remember: The Neuroscience of Memory Explainedblue brain image on a black background to the right of yellow text that reads How Does Memory Work?
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How We Remember: The Neuroscience of Memory Explained

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AI Consciousness Explained: Science vs Philosophya robot
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AI Consciousness Explained: Science vs Philosophy

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Unethical Experiments That Shook The WorldThe Tuskegee syphilis study
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Unethical Experiments That Shook The World

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