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New Detection In Dark Matter Experiment Has Physicists Excited – Is It An Unexpected And Rare Background Or The First Evidence Of Dark Matter?An abstract design that looks like particlesNew Detection In Dark Matter Experiment Has Physicists Excited – Is It An Unexpected And Rare Background Or The First Evidence Of Dark Matter?An abstract design that looks like particles

New Detection In Dark Matter Experiment Has Physicists Excited – Is It An Unexpected And Rare Background Or The First Evidence Of Dark Matter?

The detection is far from the gold standard threshold, but it is also in a mass region that shouldn’t have events.

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Can Godzilla Help Us Understand Donald Trump? Viewed As An Allegory, There's Much We Can Learn From The Giant Monster

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Shrimp-Like Walking Fish From The South China Sea Documented Scuttling Forwards, Backwards, And Sideways For The First Time

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Dolphins Are Learning A Strange New Hunting Technique Using Shells And Seem To Be Teaching It To Others: Watch The First-Ever Footage

Clever girl!

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Listen To The Incredble Sound Of A Bird Perfectly Mimicking The Click Of A Polaroid Camera

Nova has more than just chirps and tweets up his sleeves.

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At over 1.5 meters, maybe not all our mammalian predecessors were near the bottom of a dinosaur-ruled food chain.

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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

Just a year after RFK Jr. cut half a billion of funding for the technology, mRNA vaccines are promising individualized cancer vaccines that cut the chances of recurrence in half.

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Common Sweetener Added To Sugar-Free Desserts Linked To Higher Risk Of Heart Attack And Strokevariety of ice cream scoops and cones on a pink background
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Common Sweetener Added To Sugar-Free Desserts Linked To Higher Risk Of Heart Attack And Stroke

Observational data suggests an association between xylitol and major cardiac events, but it’s too early to say that consumption of the sweetener was the cause.

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New Species Of Ancient, Armored, Armadillo-Like Creature Described After More Than 150 Years Of Mistaken Identity

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Two “Revolutionary” Non-Hormonal Male Birth Control Products Could Hit The Market In As Little As 2 Years, Founder Says

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Farmers Hunted The Tasmanian Tiger To Extinction - Scientists Have Just Proven Their Reason Why Was A Myth

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Human Mini Brains Kept Alive For 5 Years, Listen To The Sounds Of An Ancient Jurassic Forest, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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Wearing Shoes May Explain Why Modern Humans' Feet Are Much Daintier Than Those Of Neanderthals

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Two Airport Workers Die Of Malaria In Frankfurt, Germany, After Mosquito Stows Away On Aircraft

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Louisiana Legalizes Alligator Hunting For First Time In Over 50 Years With Lottery To Select Up To 5,000 Licensed Hunters

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200,000 Barrels Of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped In The Atlantic. Decades Later, We’re Finally Learning What Happens When They Leak

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In 2017, Scientists Journeyed 1,500 Meters Below The Sea In Search Of A Shipwreck. Instead, They Found A Bunch Of Washing Machinesan rov scanning the dark waters along the seabed finds square shapes in the distance
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In 2017, Scientists Journeyed 1,500 Meters Below The Sea In Search Of A Shipwreck. Instead, They Found A Bunch Of Washing Machines

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Delightfully Pointless Problem Of Who Should Go First On Games Night Solved With Custom 60-Sided Dice

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NASA Can’t Save Its Swift Telescope From Crashing To Earth But It’s Not Going Down Without A FightNASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
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NASA Can’t Save Its Swift Telescope From Crashing To Earth But It’s Not Going Down Without A Fight

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Nancy Grace Roman Observatory: T-Rex-Sized Space Telescope Launching This Weekend Will Photograph Exoplanets And Solve Cosmic Mysteries

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Mars Is Hotter On One Side... Under Its South Pole, Adding More Weirdness To Its Planetary “Dichotomy”

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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 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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Flaw In NASA System Found By AI Could Have Been Used To Issue Commands To Active SpacecraftArtist depiction of Voyager looking back at the Solar System.
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Flaw In NASA System Found By AI Could Have Been Used To Issue Commands To Active Spacecraft

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Google Adds "Lake America" To Google Maps For Users All Over The World. Only In Canada Will It Remain "Lake Ontario"Lake Ontario on Google Maps. The lake remains labeled "Lake Ontario".
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Google Adds "Lake America" To Google Maps For Users All Over The World. Only In Canada Will It Remain "Lake Ontario"

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Why Are Republicans And The Right So Obsessed With Psychedelics Right Now?

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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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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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The Apples You Eat From The Supermarket Are All Clones. Some Of Them Go Back Centuries.Granny smith apples, looking particularly green and crisp.
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The Apples You Eat From The Supermarket Are All Clones. Some Of Them Go Back Centuries.

If you've ever eaten a Granny Smith, it came from a tree found in 1868. Other clones are rumored to go back much further than that.

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On June 5, 1944, Meteorologists Made One Of The Most Important Weather Forecasts In History. New Satellite Images Reveal How Tough Conditions WereImage showing the weather on Earth on June 6, 1944.
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On June 5, 1944, Meteorologists Made One Of The Most Important Weather Forecasts In History. New Satellite Images Reveal How Tough Conditions Were

160,000 lives rested on Captain J. M. Stagg's weather report, and the eventual course of the war.

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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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