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Want To Talk To Animals? Maybe It Starts With Listening To Sperm Whales Instead

Could we truly communicate with another species? We find out with Project CETI's Dr David Gruber.

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Autism Diagnosis Risks “Losing Its Meaning," Says Veteran Researcher. Others Say Her Arguments Just Don’t Stack Up

IFLScience spoke to Dame Uta Frith, who has studied autism for 60 years and whose belief that a radical change in diagnosis is needed garnered widespread pushback recently.

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Scientists Tracked The Earth's Center Of Mass Using Satellites, And It's Shifting Around Down There

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Opening The Vault: Uncovering A World Of Strange And Intriguing Science

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Around 7,000 Years Ago, The Genetic Diversity Of Males Crashed: What The Hell Happened?Archaeological excavations at the crime scene, Human remains in the ground. War crime scene. Site of a mass shooting of people. Human remains - bones of skeleton, skulls
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Around 7,000 Years Ago, The Genetic Diversity Of Males Crashed: What The Hell Happened?

Did generations of violent inter-clan warfare nearly decimate the genetic diversity of males?

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One Of The World’s Most Dangerous Jobs Involves Sounding Like Donald Duck For A Month

It takes less time to return from the Moon than it does to decompress from building on the seabed.

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How We Remember: The Neuroscience of Memory Explained

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AI Consciousness Explained: Science vs Philosophy

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Unethical Experiments That Shook The World

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