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20 Years Ago, Pluto Stopped Being A Planet. This Is Why Campaigns To Restore It Aren’t WorkingYou'd have to have a frozen heart not to feel sorry for Pluto, but reinstating it as a planet would cause a lot of other problems20 Years Ago, Pluto Stopped Being A Planet. This Is Why Campaigns To Restore It Aren’t WorkingYou'd have to have a frozen heart not to feel sorry for Pluto, but reinstating it as a planet would cause a lot of other problems

20 Years Ago, Pluto Stopped Being A Planet. This Is Why Campaigns To Restore It Aren’t Working

After pleading failed, some people want to try bullying, but that will probably also fail.

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Can AI Be Conscious? Some Claim It Already Is. An AI Sociologist Cuts Through The HypeA drawing of circuit that become a human face
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Can AI Be Conscious? Some Claim It Already Is. An AI Sociologist Cuts Through The Hype

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Scientists Create Female Clones From Male Mice In "Strange And Fascinating" Experiment That Could Help Endangered SpeciesThe original male donor mouse with male clones (left) and female clones (right).
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Scientists Create Female Clones From Male Mice In "Strange And Fascinating" Experiment That Could Help Endangered Species

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Man's Heart Surgery Cures His Skin Cancer – And Leaves Him With A Brand New Bee Allergy

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Fire May Have Transformed Humans From Daytime Creatures Into 24-Hour Animals… Kind Of Like Lemurs

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This Professor Was The Only Subject In His Own Aging Study, And Ended Up Reducing His Biological Age By 15 YearsBiological Age and Biomarkers
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This Professor Was The Only Subject In His Own Aging Study, And Ended Up Reducing His Biological Age By 15 Years

The regime resulted in several notable improvements.

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Plans For World's First Octopus "Megafarm" Have Been Scrapped After Years Of BacklashThe most widely eaten octopus species globally is the Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris).
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Plans For World's First Octopus "Megafarm" Have Been Scrapped After Years Of Backlash

But don't expect it to be the last you hear about octopus aquaculture.

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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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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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OnlyFans And Crypto Meme Coin Raise Over $120,000 For Marmot Research Faced With Funding-Cut OblivionYellow-bellied marmot on a rock
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OnlyFans And Crypto Meme Coin Raise Over $120,000 For Marmot Research Faced With Funding-Cut Oblivion

$OnlyMarms, because strange times call for even stranger solutions.

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Man's Testosterone Regimen Sends Him Into Psychosis, Hearing The Voice Of God Inside His BodyA molecular model of testosterone.
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Man's Testosterone Regimen Sends Him Into Psychosis, Hearing The Voice Of God Inside His Body

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Watch Live As Millions Of Wildebeest And Zebras Attempt To Cross The Mara River While Avoiding Hungry CrocodilesA herd of wildebeest scramble down a river bank and into muddy water to cross the river.
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Watch Live As Millions Of Wildebeest And Zebras Attempt To Cross The Mara River While Avoiding Hungry Crocodiles

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For The First Time Ever, A Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Has Cleared Phase 3 Trials – And With Flying Colors3D colorful illustration of mRNA encased in lipid nanoparticles
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For The First Time Ever, A Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Has Cleared Phase 3 Trials – And With Flying Colors

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

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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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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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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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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

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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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A World's First Trial Is Curbing Contrails By Re-Routing Planes Over The Atlantic Using AIJet plane aircraft with contrails cruising across blue sky.
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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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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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Newly Discovered Fastest Star In The Galaxy Moves At 8 Percent Of The Speed Of Light, And Will Allow Us To Take An Incredible Black Hole Measurementartist impression shows many orbits with a variety of of inclinations around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy
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Newly Discovered Fastest Star In The Galaxy Moves At 8 Percent Of The Speed Of Light, And Will Allow Us To Take An Incredible Black Hole Measurement

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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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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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Viking Runic Graffiti Can Be Found In A Turkish Mosque Over 2,400 Kilometers From ScandinaviaAerial view of Hagia Sophia Mosque (Ayasofya Cami) in Istanbul TUrkey
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Viking Runic Graffiti Can Be Found In A Turkish Mosque Over 2,400 Kilometers From Scandinavia

Get around, get around, Vikings get around.

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Mantis Shrimp Are The Only Known Animals To See This Kind Of Light, And They Use It To Send Secret Signals Without Alerting Predatorsa mantis shrimp sits in among some rocks, it is very colorful with giant eyes
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Mantis Shrimp Are The Only Known Animals To See This Kind Of Light, And They Use It To Send Secret Signals Without Alerting Predators

If our eyes moved like a mantis shrimp’s, we’d fall over, but it helps them see the world in a whole different light.

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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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