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World-First 3D-Preserved Fossil Shows This 570-Million-Year-Old Animal Was Essentially A "Goo-Filled Bag"A 3D charnia fossil showing the feather-like structure but with deep grooves. World-First 3D-Preserved Fossil Shows This 570-Million-Year-Old Animal Was Essentially A "Goo-Filled Bag"A 3D charnia fossil showing the feather-like structure but with deep grooves.

World-First 3D-Preserved Fossil Shows This 570-Million-Year-Old Animal Was Essentially A "Goo-Filled Bag"

Found in a sheep field, these are some of the oldest 3D fossils and represent an exciting insight into how ancient Charnia looked in...

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First Confirmed Arm Bone Of A Denisovan Discovered In Chinese Cave, Adding A Fascinating Piece To The Prehistoric Puzzle

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Smokers Are At Lower Risk Of Parkinson’s Disease – No One Knows Why, But New Findings Hint At A Surprising Answer

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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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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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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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Scientists Popped Open 778 Tiger Shark Stomachs To See What They Could Find. The List Of Contents Got Really Weird, Really Quickly

An antelope, porcupine, and a lot of trash. Where do the “garbage cans of the sea” find it all?

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What's The Next Frontier In Dementia Research? | IFLScience The Big Questions

Join us on a journey through some emerging and innovative aspects of dementia research.

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A Baby Dinosaur That Never Made It Out Of The Egg Has Helped Palaeontologists Piece Together How Troodon Grew From Embryo To Adult

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The Distant World Of Chariklo's Ring System Has Changed In A Matter Of Years, And Astronomers Are Not Sure Why

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Newly Discovered Mysterious X-Rays Objects Are A Missing Population Of Cosmic Beacons

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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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These Small Yellow Growths Around Your Eyes Could Be A Sign Of Heart Attack And Stroke Risk

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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 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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In 2018, Deep-Sea Drilling Caused A Methane Leak 1,766 Meters Below The Sea. Then Along Came The “Worm Bed” To Save The Daylots of worms and a mussel on the seabed
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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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Tropical Forest Forever Facility Aims To Mobilize $125 Billion To Protect Nature's Greatest Climate Defense – Making Economics Work For Nature, Not Against Itan elephant in the tropical forests of africa's congo basin
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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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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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Incredible Snaps Of Octopus "Riding" A Dolphin Showcase The Octopus Population Bloom Happening In UK WatersOne arm of an octopus clings around the fin of a risso's dolphin at the surface of the water.
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Incredible Snaps Of Octopus "Riding" A Dolphin Showcase The Octopus Population Bloom Happening In UK Waters

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A Spacecraft Could Chase Down One Of The Most Famous Comets In Human History. We've Known About It For At Least 2,000 YearsHalley's Comet, seen in the closest view humanity has ever had. It looks like a rock protruding from a cloud.
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A Spacecraft Could Chase Down One Of The Most Famous Comets In Human History. We've Known About It For At Least 2,000 Years

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27 Tiny, City-Sized Trans-Neptunian Objects Discovered, Surprising Astronomers With Unexpected Surfaces

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A Single Particle Of Light From The Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever Known Is Challenging Einstein’s Relativityartist impression showing a bright source of light shining across two grids
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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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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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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 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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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 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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Switzerland Has Over 370,000 Nuclear Bunkers, Enough To Host Every Person In The CountryA ventilation system in a Swiss nuclear shelter.
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Switzerland Has Over 370,000 Nuclear Bunkers, Enough To Host Every Person In The Country

"One shelter space per inhabitant" has been the rule in the country since the Cold War. With recent rising tensions, Switzerland has reaffirmed its commitment to offering citizens this last-resort protection.

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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 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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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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