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Just How Queer Is The Natural World? | IFLScience The Big QuestionsA picture of two male lions rubbing their heads together affectionately, overlaid with the image of mobile phone showing The Big Questions logo.Just How Queer Is The Natural World? | IFLScience The Big QuestionsA picture of two male lions rubbing their heads together affectionately, overlaid with the image of mobile phone showing The Big Questions logo.

Just How Queer Is The Natural World? | IFLScience The Big Questions

Our understanding of queer natural history goes back much longer than you might think.

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The First Human Burials Have Been Excavated At Göbekli Tepe, Challenging Old Theories About The 11,500-Year-Old Site

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Secret Cameras Reveal How Mother Chimpanzees Teach Their Young To Hunt Ants, Crack Fruits, And Forage For Algae

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Human Mini-Brains Have Been Transplanted Into The Heads Of Mice, Forming New Neural Networks

The scientists believe their “xenocortical mice” could help unravel the mysteries of autism, schizophrenia, and more.

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Man Who Had Stress-Induced Amnesia For 6 Years Recovered His Memories After Switching To An Easier JobAn MRI scan of a healthy brain.
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Man Who Had Stress-Induced Amnesia For 6 Years Recovered His Memories After Switching To An Easier Job

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First New Cat Species In Over 100 Years Is A Totally Charming Tiny Tiger From Bolivia

Welcome to the party, Leopardus tilcayo.

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This Is The Reconstructed Face Of The Earliest Homo Sapiens We've Ever Foundreconstruction of the appearance of the jebel irhoud hominins
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This Is The Reconstructed Face Of The Earliest Homo Sapiens We've Ever Found

Researchers thought these fossils belonged to late Neanderthals, until they realized they were our own kind.

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Beautiful Flowers Bloom Over The World's Driest Hot Desert Thanks To The Record-Smashing Super El NiñoA vast field of purple wildflowers covering the Atacama Desert during the rare desert bloom season in Chile
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Beautiful Flowers Bloom Over The World's Driest Hot Desert Thanks To The Record-Smashing Super El Niño

While El Niño threatens to bring weather havoc to the world, it offers the Atacama Desert a vibrant gift.

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Asteroid Bennu Formed From A Mixture Of Inner And Outer Solar System Material Potentially Stirred Up By Jupiter

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When The First Neanderthals Were Discovered In The 19th Century, People Had Some Wild Ideas About What They WereA Neanderthal from Gibraltar
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Very Slow Running May Be Enough To Boost Your Mood And Enhance Your Focus

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The Gen Z “Sex Recession” Is Real, Says New Survey. As Modern Life Inflates The Price Tag On Dating, Is Safety Falling By The Wayside?

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Record-Breaking Bundibugyo Ebola Outbreak "Still Serious" And Not Fully Controlled, Despite Officials Claiming It's Past Its PeakIn Bunia, Ituri Province, WHO strengthened the capacities of members of the 32nd Military Region in infection prevention and control (IPC) following the confirmation of three positive Ebola cases in a detention facility. Activities included general information about the disease, alert identification and reporting, standard IPC precautions, PPE use and surface decontamination. A hygiene committee was also established to strengthen prevention and readiness to respond to potential cases.
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Record-Breaking Bundibugyo Ebola Outbreak "Still Serious" And Not Fully Controlled, Despite Officials Claiming It's Past Its Peak

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Two Indigenous Amazon Groups Have Very Low Dementia Rates, But Can A Shorter Life Expectancy Explain It?

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For Over 5 Years, Animals Have Been Trapped On A Predator-Free Island In Kenya. It's Not The Paradise You're Picturing

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Ancient Plesiosaur Vomit Reveals The Marine Reptiles Came Into Shore To Barf Up Shellfish RemainsA pleisosaur with blue striped body vomits in shallow water
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Ancient Plesiosaur Vomit Reveals The Marine Reptiles Came Into Shore To Barf Up Shellfish Remains

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The Record-Breaking "Super El Niño" Just Keeps Getting Gnarlier, With Warnings Of Over 451,000 Deaths WorldwideHuge isolated Monsoon storm at sunset
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The Record-Breaking "Super El Niño" Just Keeps Getting Gnarlier, With Warnings Of Over 451,000 Deaths Worldwide

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This Is An Amoeba Reproducing At 63°C, The Highest Temperature Ever Recorded For A Complex Cellarticle image
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This Is An Amoeba Reproducing At 63°C, The Highest Temperature Ever Recorded For A Complex Cell

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For The First Time Ever We've Seen A Neutron Star Gobbling The Solar Wind From Its Companion

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Ancient Mars Had A Very Complex Water System With Lakes, Groundwater, And Hydrothermal Eventsreddish and grey rocks are visible in the image with several smoothed by water
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Ancient Mars Had A Very Complex Water System With Lakes, Groundwater, And Hydrothermal Events

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Revolutionary Roman Observatory Starts Testing Its Instruments – And Will Operate For Twice As Long Thanks To Incredible Fuel-Saving Maneuverartist impression of the telescope using its retrorockets
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Revolutionary Roman Observatory Starts Testing Its Instruments – And Will Operate For Twice As Long Thanks To Incredible Fuel-Saving Maneuver

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Scientists Tracked The Earth's Center Of Mass Using Satellites, And It's Shifting Around Down ThereA visualization of the Earth, with a piece removed like a segment of an orange.
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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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iLands: The New Dystopian AI Farm That Is Filling Everyone's Inboxes With Spam

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What If We Never Had To Solve The Same Problem Twice?

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YouTuber Uploads Digital Copy Of A Fly's Brain Into Minecraft, And Then It Got WeirdPagoda created in a blocky Minecraft world.
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YouTuber Uploads Digital Copy Of A Fly's Brain Into Minecraft, And Then It Got Weird

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Why The USA Is Building A Massive New $1.2 Billion Magnet Factory In South CarolinaA large walking excavator works in a quarry for the extraction of rare metals. Drone view. Industrial landscape.
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Why The USA Is Building A Massive New $1.2 Billion Magnet Factory In South Carolina

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A City Built On Innovation Will Welcome The Future Of Science In 2027

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5,900 New Words Added To English Dictionary As It Attempts To Keep Up With Evolving Language

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Yet Another Study Suggests The "Autism Epidemic" Is A Mirage Caused By More People Seeking And Receiving Diagnoseshands holding a paper cutout of an infinity symbol coloured in rainbow colours
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Yet Another Study Suggests The "Autism Epidemic" Is A Mirage Caused By More People Seeking And Receiving Diagnoses

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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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There Are Pumas In North Wales And Nothing You Can Tell Me About Sustainable Big Cat Populations Will Convince Me OtherwiseA poster asking you to look out for pumas in north Wales, overlayed on a map of Wales.
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There Are Pumas In North Wales And Nothing You Can Tell Me About Sustainable Big Cat Populations Will Convince Me Otherwise

Scientists are always arguing that we should pay more attention to local knowledge, all I'm saying is that should also be applied to the Welsh.

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Want To Talk To Animals? Maybe It Starts With Listening To Sperm Whales InsteadA sperm whale swims just underneath the waters surface with its mouth open.
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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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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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