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Star Trek At 60 – The Iconic Franchise Changed More Than Science, It Changed Societysilhouette of the starship enterprise overlaid with coloured beams in blue, red, and gold, with a group of people all lined up with their arms around each other facing away from the cameraStar Trek At 60 – The Iconic Franchise Changed More Than Science, It Changed Societysilhouette of the starship enterprise overlaid with coloured beams in blue, red, and gold, with a group of people all lined up with their arms around each other facing away from the camera
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Star Trek At 60 – The Iconic Franchise Changed More Than Science, It Changed Society

We focus on futuristic technologies like tablets and voice-activated computers, but the series has had and continues to have a much wider impact.

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Are You In Love Or Limerence? The Psychological Disorder Where A Crush Turns Into Obsession

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Incredible Snaps Of Octopus "Riding" A Dolphin Showcase The Octopus Population Bloom Happening In UK Waters

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Thanks To Earth Speeding Up, We Could Scrap The Leap Second As Early As Next Month – And Gain The First Ever “Leap Hour”

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A Single Particle Of Light From The Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever Known Is Challenging Einstein’s Relativity

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In 2018, Deep-Sea Drilling Caused A Methane Leak 1,766 Meters Below The Sea. Then Along Came The “Worm Bed” To Save The Day

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Do We Really Know More About Space Than The Deep Ocean? Here's What One Of The Few People To Visit Both Says

The mysteries of both are ours to discover, but the challenges are surprisingly uneven.

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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

“We have no time to lose.”

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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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27 Tiny, City-Sized Trans-Neptunian Objects Discovered, Surprising Astronomers With Unexpected Surfacesa sort-of spherical light brown rock in space
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27 Tiny, City-Sized Trans-Neptunian Objects Discovered, Surprising Astronomers With Unexpected Surfaces

One of them was so dim it would be like seeing a swarm of fireflies on the Moon from Earth.

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Tropical Forest Forever Facility Aims To Mobilize $125 Billion To Protect Nature's Greatest Climate Defense – Making Economics Work For Nature, Not Against It

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A Powerful Solar Storm Knocked GPS Off By More Than 10 Meters Across The USThe Sun, imaged today by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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A Powerful Solar Storm Knocked GPS Off By More Than 10 Meters Across The US

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Trump Signs An Executive Order That Could Make It Easier To Hunt Gray Wolves And The Critically Endangered Mexican WolfA pack of grey wolves.
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Trump Signs An Executive Order That Could Make It Easier To Hunt Gray Wolves And The Critically Endangered Mexican Wolf

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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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Weapons In Tombs Once Suggested Male Remains, Then Along Came The Ancient Egyptian Warrior Princesses. When So Little Is Left, How Do We Identify Sex?four layouts of ancient egyptian female remains
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Weapons In Tombs Once Suggested Male Remains, Then Along Came The Ancient Egyptian Warrior Princesses. When So Little Is Left, How Do We Identify Sex?

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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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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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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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California Attempted A First-Of-Its-Kind Ban On Genetically Modified Pets, Including Glow-In-The-Dark RabbitsA tank of different coloured GloFish.
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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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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 ball
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Pygmy Raccoons Spotted Making Paper Footballs In Adorable Footage – But It Reveals Much Bigger Problems For This Critically Endangered Species

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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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Space America? Trump Claims Ownership Of The Moon For The USA In Bizarre Truth Social PostsThe Moon, colored in with the USA flag.
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Space America? Trump Claims Ownership Of The Moon For The USA In Bizarre Truth Social Posts

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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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Fossilized Solar System Magnetic Field Found In Dust Grain From The First 200,000 Years After The Sun’s Birthartist impression of a disk of small rocks around a young stars and magnetic field lines going from the star to the disk
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Fossilized Solar System Magnetic Field Found In Dust Grain From The First 200,000 Years After The Sun’s Birth

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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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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 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

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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 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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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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In The 1970s, Researchers Unearthed Fossils Of A Dinosaur That May Have Been The Largest Ever. Then The Fossils DisintegratedA reconstruction of the largest dinosaur ever, which was a sauropod.
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In The 1970s, Researchers Unearthed Fossils Of A Dinosaur That May Have Been The Largest Ever. Then The Fossils Disintegrated

Was this the largest dinosaur ever to have existed? Without the fossils, we might never know.

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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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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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