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How Does One Cell Build A Body? We're Starting To Get Answers From Mouse Embryosdeveloping mouse embryoHow Does One Cell Build A Body? We're Starting To Get Answers From Mouse Embryosdeveloping mouse embryo

How Does One Cell Build A Body? We're Starting To Get Answers From Mouse Embryos

Gene-editing “typewriters” let scientists trace more than a million cells back toward the single egg they started from.

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AI Griefbots Promise The Chance To Talk To Digital “Ghosts”. Is This Spiritualism In A New Form, Or Something Completely Different?

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We're Zeroing In On The Source Of Unusual Ghost Particles From A Supermassive Black Hole

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One Of The World’s Most Unusual Humpback Whale Populations Sings A Song Unique To The Arabian Sea. Now, Scientists Are Saying It's A New Subspecies

A new study has found the Arabian Sea humpback whales are genetically distinct from the three currently recognized humpback subspecies.

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We Live In A Cold, Dead Universe, Virtually Devoid Of Life. This Is The Most Optimistic Scenario AvailableThe spiral dwarf galaxy NGC 4605.
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We Live In A Cold, Dead Universe, Virtually Devoid Of Life. This Is The Most Optimistic Scenario Available

Take it from someone constantly writing about the Fermi paradox; a cold, dead universe is the best we can hope for.

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A Space Disaster Is Coming Unless We Take Kessler Syndrome Seriously

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A Florida Woman Thought Her AI Chatbot Conversations Were Private. Then The Police Showed Up At Her DoorLee County Sheriff's Office patrol car.
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A Florida Woman Thought Her AI Chatbot Conversations Were Private. Then The Police Showed Up At Her Door

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Bill Gates Warns Really "Bad People" Will Exploit AI To Create "A Lot Of Negative Surprises" In The Next Few Years

An AI takeover is possible in the future, but Gates thinks we should have other concerns in the short term.

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Surfers In The US Are Developing Abnormal Growths On Their Bellies Called "Liposurfomas"

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The Summer's Heat And Humidity Has Transformed Los Angeles Into A Mosquito Nightmare For Residents

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Human Ancestors Shared Their Migration Route Out Of Africa With Enormous Elephants 700,000 Years Ago

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Denisovans Had “Powerful Hunting Physiques”, But There’s One Key Survival Food They Didn’t Eat

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Neanderthals’ Expert Woodworking Skills Revealed By Traces Of “Hidden” TechnologiesClub-like wooden tool made by Neanderthals
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Scanning Anomalies Found At The "Cave of the Venuses," Where Neanderthals Once Lived And Homo Sapiens Made Beautiful Art

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People Ate 2 Meals With The Same Calories And Macros. Scientists Watched As 1 Spiked Their Insulin Much More

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The HPV Vaccine Might Have A Surprising Benefit Far Beyond Its Target: Lower Rates Of Preterm Births

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The Moment When An Endangered Parrot Chick Was Saved From The Grasp Of An Invasive Boa SnakeThe saved Puerto Rican parrot (left) and its close brush with death (right).
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The Moment When An Endangered Parrot Chick Was Saved From The Grasp Of An Invasive Boa Snake

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Hidden In An Arizona Cave, North America's Most Mysterious Mammal Harbors A Genetic Legacy Going Back Thousands Of YearsA spotted bat hanging upside down showing its incredibly long, swooping back ears.
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Hidden In An Arizona Cave, North America's Most Mysterious Mammal Harbors A Genetic Legacy Going Back Thousands Of Years

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Whale Shark Traveling 54,000 Kilometers Is Thought To Have Set The Record For The Longest Shark Movement Ever RecordedA huge whale shark swimming near the ocean surface.
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Whale Shark Traveling 54,000 Kilometers Is Thought To Have Set The Record For The Longest Shark Movement Ever Recorded

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The Super El Niño Is Strongest On Record And It's Only Getting More Powerful

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PLATO, ESA’s Newest Planet-Hunting Telescope, Aims To Find What We Have Missed So-Far: Earth’s Twin

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A Star Getting Shredded Leads To Surprise Discovery Of A Roaming Black Hole 1 Million Times The Mass Of The Sunthe faint outline of a galaxy with little feature and a bright core, and overlayed the x-ray emission of a bright event, offset from the core
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A Star Getting Shredded Leads To Surprise Discovery Of A Roaming Black Hole 1 Million Times The Mass Of The Sun

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Electrified Pickles Glow Orange And Scientists Are Closing In On Why, With Both Leading Theories CombiningA lot of science goes into making a pickle glow, and we're getting close to understand it all
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Electrified Pickles Glow Orange And Scientists Are Closing In On Why, With Both Leading Theories Combining

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Weird Physics Causes This Lonely Martian Cloud To Reappear And Grow Longer Than California Every DayTan-coloured horizontal rectangle showing part of the surface of Mars imaged by an orbiting satellite. Above the curved horizon is space. To the lower right of the image is a volcano. Stretching to the left of the volcano is a long wisp of white cloud, which seems to emanate from the volcano. We also see the shadow of the cloud just below the cloud itself.
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Weird Physics Causes This Lonely Martian Cloud To Reappear And Grow Longer Than California Every Day

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Award-Winning Microscope Video Disqualified From Prestigious Competition For Using Generative AI

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Newly Developed “Invisible” Ink Can Make Colored Tattoos That Appear And Then Disappear On DemandA tattoo artist is inking a tattoo onto someones forearm.
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Newly Developed “Invisible” Ink Can Make Colored Tattoos That Appear And Then Disappear On Demand

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Scientists Uncover "Hidden Rules" That Determine How Fabrics Hold Together

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What If The Addams Family's "Thing" Was Real? Watch A Severed Robotic Hand Creep Around The Floor And Play Golf

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There’s A Surprisingly Simple Way To Reduce Misbehavior In Prisons, But Will Anyone Pay Attention?

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We May Have Been Reading The Voynich Manuscript In The Wrong Order For Over A Century

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Want To Know If Someone Likes You? Science Suggests A Key Vocal Feature Can Reveal Who We Like, And Influence Who Likes Usa man and woman looking at each other
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Want To Know If Someone Likes You? Science Suggests A Key Vocal Feature Can Reveal Who We Like, And Influence Who Likes Us

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Ghost Hunters Are Embracing AI In Surprising Ways, And It’s Changing The Face Of Paranormal Investigation

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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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Skull Of An Extinct Crocodile Found In The Rocks Used To Build The Pyramids, Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Yet Discovered, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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Skull Of An Extinct Crocodile Found In The Rocks Used To Build The Pyramids, Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Yet Discovered, And Much More This Week

All the biggest science news stories of the week.

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The Science Of Fever Dreams: When We’re Sick, Our Dreams Can Get Extra Weird – What’s That All About?A illustrated montage of weird characters, including a clock with a face, a pencil with wings and a genie emerging from a lamp.
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The Science Of Fever Dreams: When We’re Sick, Our Dreams Can Get Extra Weird – What’s That All About?

There are some surprisingly recurrent themes in our fever dreams.

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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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