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Hominin Taxonomy Is A Hot Mess. One Anthropologist Proposes A Shake-Up Of Our Family TreeA picture of the human family tree on display at the Natural History Museum, London. Hominin Taxonomy Is A Hot Mess. One Anthropologist Proposes A Shake-Up Of Our Family TreeA picture of the human family tree on display at the Natural History Museum, London.

Hominin Taxonomy Is A Hot Mess. One Anthropologist Proposes A Shake-Up Of Our Family Tree

If only letting more ancient ancestors into our definition of human would stop the relentless efforts to deny the humanity of groups of living...

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At 3,200 Years Old, These Painted Ceramics May Be The World’s First Sought After “Brand”Pottery belonging to the Qurayyah Painted Ware brand
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At 3,200 Years Old, These Painted Ceramics May Be The World’s First Sought After “Brand”

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Crocodile Ancestors Were Once Warm-Blooded But Re-Evolved Cold-Bloodedness To Suit Their Sinister Lifestyleocodile lies on the ocean floor, mouth partially ajar,
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Crocodile Ancestors Were Once Warm-Blooded But Re-Evolved Cold-Bloodedness To Suit Their Sinister Lifestyle

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Listen To The Incredble Sound Of A Bird Perfectly Mimicking The Click Of A Polaroid Camera

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What Is The Black Drop Effect? How An Optical Phenomenon Frustrated Astronomers And May Have Changed Australia’s History

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A World's First Trial Is Curbing Contrails By Re-Routing Planes Over The Atlantic Using AI

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For The First Time Ever, A Nurse Shark Has Filmed A Great White Shark Swimming Around A ReefGreat white shark
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For The First Time Ever, A Nurse Shark Has Filmed A Great White Shark Swimming Around A Reef

We hear they're screening the film in the sea-nema.

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Wild Monkeys Were Introduced To An AI Computer System In The Jungle, Revealing Insights Into Their Cognitive PowersTwo capuchin monkeys with a computer in the Taboga Forest Reserve of Costa Rica.
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Wild Monkeys Were Introduced To An AI Computer System In The Jungle, Revealing Insights Into Their Cognitive Powers

"Something to be noted about capuchins besides their exploratory nature is their persistence.”

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There's A Rumor Earth Will Lose Gravity For 7 Seconds On August 12, 2026, Killing Millions Of People – Here's Why It's Total JunkMan diving through the air, appearing to float, with a sunny blue sky background
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There's A Rumor Earth Will Lose Gravity For 7 Seconds On August 12, 2026, Killing Millions Of People – Here's Why It's Total Junk

"NASA knows. They're preparing but won't tell us why," said the TikToker.

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A Rockfall Blocked This Cave Entrance, Preserving A Stone Age Dwelling Exactly As It Was Left 17,000 Years AgoStructures of the Zone IV from the Lower Gallery of La Garma.
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A Rockfall Blocked This Cave Entrance, Preserving A Stone Age Dwelling Exactly As It Was Left 17,000 Years Ago

A time capsule of human life during the Ice Age.

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North America Had A Continent-Spanning “Mega-Escarpment” A Kilometer High, And It Might Explain The Grand Canyon’s Great MysteryA view across the grand canyon showing its pinky-orange cliffs.
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North America Had A Continent-Spanning “Mega-Escarpment” A Kilometer High, And It Might Explain The Grand Canyon’s Great Mystery

Explaining where the missing billion years went would be nice, but it’s awe-inspiring just to imagine the escarpment’s scale.

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Michigan, A Last Refuge For A Butterfly On The Brink, Announces It’s Saved A Species From Extinction. Welcome Back, Poweshiek Skipperlingsa close-up of the poweshiek skipperling butterfly, it has a very fuzzy body and short antennae
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Michigan, A Last Refuge For A Butterfly On The Brink, Announces It’s Saved A Species From Extinction. Welcome Back, Poweshiek Skipperlings

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You Can Now See The Before And After Of The SpaceX Collision On The Moonthe cratered surface of the Moon and in the middle two overlapping crater with one of them showing fresh streaks of dark and bright material
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You Can Now See The Before And After Of The SpaceX Collision On The Moon

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American Red Cross Calls For Donations Amid Second-Ever National Blood Supply Crisis In 150-Year Historyamerican red cross logo
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American Red Cross Calls For Donations Amid Second-Ever National Blood Supply Crisis In 150-Year History

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New Excavations At Göbekli Tepe Are Challenging Old Theories About The 11,600-Year-Old SiteGobeklitepe in Sanliurfa, Turkey. The Ancient Site of Gobekli Tepe is The Oldest Temple of the World. UNESCO World Heritage site.
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New Excavations At Göbekli Tepe Are Challenging Old Theories About The 11,600-Year-Old Site

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Ancient “Influencers” Carrying Art May Have Driven The Greatest Dispersal In Human HistoryA plaque found at Wetar Island shows a design commonly painted on the cliff faces of the area
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Ancient “Influencers” Carrying Art May Have Driven The Greatest Dispersal In Human History

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Why Were There No Mouse-Sized Dinosaurs, Temperatures In The Arctic Circle Reach 35°C, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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Why Were There No Mouse-Sized Dinosaurs, Temperatures In The Arctic Circle Reach 35°C, And Much More This Week

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These 2,000-Year-Old Painted Murals Were Made With Human Blood, Possibly Spilled During ChildbirthZuojiang Huashan Rock Art
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These 2,000-Year-Old Painted Murals Were Made With Human Blood, Possibly Spilled During Childbirth

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Miniature Rotor Made With DNA “Origami” Lets Researchers Watch Life's Essential Spina visualization of the orbit dna rotor
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Miniature Rotor Made With DNA “Origami” Lets Researchers Watch Life's Essential Spin

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Rare “Alice In Wonderland Syndrome” Triggered By Viral Infection Is First-Of-Its-Kind Casehand holding pop-up book with an illustration of Alice from Alice in Wonderland when she grows too large to fit inside a house
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Rare “Alice In Wonderland Syndrome” Triggered By Viral Infection Is First-Of-Its-Kind Case

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A Fridge-Free Tetanus/Diphtheria Vaccine Inspired By The Desert “Resurrection Plant” Just Completed Its First Ever Human Trialvials of vaccine on a reflective surface, with a spotlight on the front one so that the label "SPVX02" is visible
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A Fridge-Free Tetanus/Diphtheria Vaccine Inspired By The Desert “Resurrection Plant” Just Completed Its First Ever Human Trial

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Summer Surge Of COVID On US West Coast Driven By Mutated “Cicada” VariantA electron micrograph of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle.
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Summer Surge Of COVID On US West Coast Driven By Mutated “Cicada” Variant

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World’s Largest Luminous Vertebrate Is A Shark With A Sparkly Tummy – All The Better To Hunt WithTwo images of a kitefin shark showing the glowing blue patches along its stomach, fins and tail.
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World’s Largest Luminous Vertebrate Is A Shark With A Sparkly Tummy – All The Better To Hunt With

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How The Tusk Got Its Twist: The Mystery Of The Narwhal’s Spiral Tooth Is Finally SolvedA close up picture of a narwhal swimming underwater showing its tusk twisting.
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How The Tusk Got Its Twist: The Mystery Of The Narwhal’s Spiral Tooth Is Finally Solved

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How Does A Lion Cub Become King? We Spoke To The Makers Of New Docuseries “Lion” About A Record-Breaking Journey In The Maasai Maraa lion cub looks into the distance
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How Does A Lion Cub Become King? We Spoke To The Makers Of New Docuseries “Lion” About A Record-Breaking Journey In The Maasai Mara

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The Giant AMOC Ocean Currents Act Like A “Heat Valve” On Earth’s Temperature GaugeVisualization of ocean currents in the North Atlantic showing sea surface temperature (orange and yellow are warmer, green and blue are cooler).
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The Giant AMOC Ocean Currents Act Like A “Heat Valve” On Earth’s Temperature Gauge

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Newly Discovered State Of Matter Is Like Mixing Water And Oil: Meet The Quantum Droplets Of Bosons And Fermionsa water droplet on the surface of a cd with light shingin through it showing funky little refractions
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Newly Discovered State Of Matter Is Like Mixing Water And Oil: Meet The Quantum Droplets Of Bosons And Fermions

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The Milky Way Merged With Another Galaxy In The Distant Past, 1.8 Billion Years Before Its Collision With The Infamous Sausage GalaxyA small bright galaxy is colliding with a much larger one
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The Milky Way Merged With Another Galaxy In The Distant Past, 1.8 Billion Years Before Its Collision With The Infamous Sausage Galaxy

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Boyajian's Star Doesn’t Have An Alien Megastructure After All, But It May Be Orbited By A Massive Planet Or Brown DwarfWe still don't know why Boyajian's star has changed its brightness so dramatically, but if comets are responsible, we might know what is stirring them up
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Boyajian's Star Doesn’t Have An Alien Megastructure After All, But It May Be Orbited By A Massive Planet Or Brown Dwarf

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Scientists Have Found A Surprising Number Of “Extraterrestrial Amino Acids” Never Before Seen On Eartha shiny grey jagged rock is visible in this image
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Scientists Have Found A Surprising Number Of “Extraterrestrial Amino Acids” Never Before Seen On Earth

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Jazz Musicians Leave Hidden “Fingerprints” In Their Work – Newly Trained Computer Models Can Identify Them With Over 90 Percent Accuracyvintage-looking upright piano against a brick wall
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Jazz Musicians Leave Hidden “Fingerprints” In Their Work – Newly Trained Computer Models Can Identify Them With Over 90 Percent Accuracy

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AI Offloading: Legitimate Threat To Our Brains Or Overblown Moral Panic? We Asked A Neuroscientist For His Takerepresentation of human with the top of the skull removed and a logo that resembles an AI company or human brain, on a background with nebula-like swirls of blue and orange
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AI Offloading: Legitimate Threat To Our Brains Or Overblown Moral Panic? We Asked A Neuroscientist For His Take

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World's Largest Electric Aircraft Just Took Its Maiden Flight Using $5 Worth Of ElectricityHeart Aerospace’s battery-electric X1 demonstrator banks east toward the rising sun during its first flight near Plattsburgh, New York, in August 2026, with Lake Champlain in the distance.
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World's Largest Electric Aircraft Just Took Its Maiden Flight Using $5 Worth Of Electricity

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AI Fail Of The Week: Farmer Asks Chatbot For Advice, Ends Up Destroying 100,000 Square Meters Of CropsA crop of sesame, ready to harvest.
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AI Fail Of The Week: Farmer Asks Chatbot For Advice, Ends Up Destroying 100,000 Square Meters Of Crops

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X-Files Creator Chris Carter On How Real-Life Head Transplants Inspired The Show’s Scariest MovieA still from the movie showing Mulder and Scully looking at a computer monitor
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X-Files Creator Chris Carter On How Real-Life Head Transplants Inspired The Show’s Scariest Movie

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Ever Struggle To Sleep On Your First Night Somewhere New? Be Grateful – Your Brain Is Just Looking Out For Youwoman sitting up in bed in a dark room with some yellow fairy lights in the window
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Ever Struggle To Sleep On Your First Night Somewhere New? Be Grateful – Your Brain Is Just Looking Out For You

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The Mathematical Reason Why No Voting System Can Ever Be Totally Fairan illustration of hands holding voting slips
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The Mathematical Reason Why No Voting System Can Ever Be Totally Fair

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When A Disease Scare Fizzles Out, Did Scientists Just Get It Wrong? What We Can Learn From The Pandemics That Weren'ttwo posters that are ripped at the edges, the one on the left shows an illustration of a pig sneezing with viruses nearby, the other is a biohazard warning poster. A logo in the top right hand corner reads IFLScience Viral Summer.
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When A Disease Scare Fizzles Out, Did Scientists Just Get It Wrong? What We Can Learn From The Pandemics That Weren't

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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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Clues Hidden In Ancient Egyptian Princesses’ Remains Show They Were “Active Ritual Agents,” Hunters, And Enforcers Of Divine Ordera dagger with an ornate blue handle and a row of arrows
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Clues Hidden In Ancient Egyptian Princesses’ Remains Show They Were “Active Ritual Agents,” Hunters, And Enforcers Of Divine Order

Far from decorative figures, their bodies were hardened by disciplined training historically attributed to male figures.

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Some Think GLP-1s Could Be The Next Treatments For Alzheimer’s. So Far, Drug Trial Results Are A Mixed Bag3D illustration of a human brain next to a bottle of pills in a glowing, digital style
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Some Think GLP-1s Could Be The Next Treatments For Alzheimer’s. So Far, Drug Trial Results Are A Mixed Bag

Recent trials of two GLP-1s, semaglutide and liraglutide, reported very different results in Alzheimer’s disease patients.

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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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