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As An “Eclipse Hunter”, This Was My Third Total Solar Eclipse And I Was Just As In Awe Of This Celestial Spectaclethe sun is completely covered by the Moon and the light is visible only at the edgeAs An “Eclipse Hunter”, This Was My Third Total Solar Eclipse And I Was Just As In Awe Of This Celestial Spectaclethe sun is completely covered by the Moon and the light is visible only at the edge

As An “Eclipse Hunter”, This Was My Third Total Solar Eclipse And I Was Just As In Awe Of This Celestial Spectacle

I had planned this trip two years ago, and I was not disappointed!

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T-Maxxing And A "High-T" US Military – Everywhere You Look, Men Are Being Sold Testosterone And "It's Very Frightening"Muscular male torso and testosterone formula. Concept of hormone increasing methods
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T-Maxxing And A "High-T" US Military – Everywhere You Look, Men Are Being Sold Testosterone And "It's Very Frightening"

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Early Birds Might Have Used Their Thicc Thighs To Hop Away From Predators Before Taking FlightA artists reconstruction of the ancient dinosaur Archaeopteryx.
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Early Birds Might Have Used Their Thicc Thighs To Hop Away From Predators Before Taking Flight

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A Particle Made Mostly Of Force And Very Little Matter May Have Finally Been Discovered. Introducing: Glueballs

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COVID Excess Deaths Study Retracted By Journal For Misinformation Weeks After Author's US Senate Testimony On Vaccines

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There’s Something Odd About This Year’s Solar Eclipses: Why Flat Maps Are To BlameThe 2024 solar eclipse, like and others moved from west to east across the Earth, during which this photo was taken, but on maps of this year's eclipses it looks like it is doing the opposite
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There’s Something Odd About This Year’s Solar Eclipses: Why Flat Maps Are To Blame

We can’t quite pin this one on Flat Earthers, but if you squint you can see a connection.

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"You Can't Unsee The Muppet Show" – Meet The Sea Muppets, Mysterious New Species That Have Never Been Seen Alive

Only 8 specimens of these sea Muppets exist in the world and no one has seen them in their natural habitat.

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Men Evolved A Unique Pelvis That Puts A Spring In Their Step, But Women Have The Same Pelvis As NeanderthalsHuman pelvis
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Men Evolved A Unique Pelvis That Puts A Spring In Their Step, But Women Have The Same Pelvis As Neanderthals

This upgrade may have helped men become better hunters – but that doesn't mean women didn't hunt too.

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There's A Rumor Earth Will Lose Gravity For 7 Seconds On August 12, 2026, Killing Millions Of People – Here's Why It's Total JunkMan diving through the air, appearing to float, with a sunny blue sky background
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There's A Rumor Earth Will Lose Gravity For 7 Seconds On August 12, 2026, Killing Millions Of People – Here's Why It's Total Junk

"NASA knows. They're preparing but won't tell us why," said the TikToker.

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A Different POV: Watch A Shadow Crawl Across Earth As The Total Solar Eclipse Is Captured From Spacethe total solar eclipse in Lerma with a frw people watching and taking pictures
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A Different POV: Watch A Shadow Crawl Across Earth As The Total Solar Eclipse Is Captured From Space

A very literal way to put an eclipse into perspective.

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These 2,000-Year-Old Painted Murals Were Made With Human Blood, Possibly Spilled During ChildbirthZuojiang Huashan Rock Art
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These 2,000-Year-Old Painted Murals Were Made With Human Blood, Possibly Spilled During Childbirth

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AI Fail Of The Week: Farmer Asks Chatbot For Advice, Ends Up Destroying 100,000 Square Meters Of CropsA crop of sesame, ready to harvest.
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AI Fail Of The Week: Farmer Asks Chatbot For Advice, Ends Up Destroying 100,000 Square Meters Of Crops

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For The First Time Ever, A Nurse Shark Has Filmed A Great White Shark Swimming Around A ReefGreat white shark
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For The First Time Ever, A Nurse Shark Has Filmed A Great White Shark Swimming Around A Reef

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The First Ever Leg Bones Of The Mysterious Denisovans Have Been Identified From Fossils Dredged From The Seafloora mysterious abtract human face, with red coloring
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The First Ever Leg Bones Of The Mysterious Denisovans Have Been Identified From Fossils Dredged From The Seafloor

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Why Can’t Everybody Sing Well? Turns Out, There’s Hope For Most Of Us Lousy SingersA pop-art style illustration of a mouth wide opening, teeth and tongue on displaying, singing its heart out, as deomstrated by the sound waves drawn coming from it and distorting the checked background
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Why Can’t Everybody Sing Well? Turns Out, There’s Hope For Most Of Us Lousy Singers

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Scientists Used AI To Produce A Bacteria-Killing Virus, “A Little Bowel Movement” 540 Million Years Ago Sparked An Evolutionary Explosion, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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Scientists Used AI To Produce A Bacteria-Killing Virus, “A Little Bowel Movement” 540 Million Years Ago Sparked An Evolutionary Explosion, And Much More This Week

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55,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones Showing Signs Of Butchery May Hint At Repeated Episodes Of CannibalismNeanderthal skull
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55,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones Showing Signs Of Butchery May Hint At Repeated Episodes Of Cannibalism

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Ebola’s Fastest-Growing Outbreak Has Now Killed 2,000 People In The Democratic Republic Of The CongoExpansion works taking place at the Ebola treatment centre at the General Referral Hospital in Lita. The 40-bed treatment centre constructed by WHO is being expanded to 80 bed capacity, with the support of partners such as ALIMA, WFP, UNICEF and MONUSCO.
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Ebola’s Fastest-Growing Outbreak Has Now Killed 2,000 People In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo

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Trump’s New “Gold Standard” Vaccine Executive Order Draws On Tired Antivax Misinformation And Sparks Outrage From ExpertsPresident Donald J. Trump signs an Executive Order regarding childhood vaccines in the Oval Office, Monday, August 10, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)
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Trump’s New “Gold Standard” Vaccine Executive Order Draws On Tired Antivax Misinformation And Sparks Outrage From Experts

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Have We Learned The Right Lessons To Deal With The Next Pandemic? Disease X Is Coming Sooner Or LaterScientists are researching vaccines in clinical laboratories that focus on diagnosing the Nipah virus, with an emphasis on medical research, disease detection, and healthcare preparedness.
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Have We Learned The Right Lessons To Deal With The Next Pandemic? Disease X Is Coming Sooner Or Later

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How COVID-19 Went From The 3rd Leading Cause Of Death In The US To 15th In Just 4 Years – And Where That Leaves Us NowNEW YORK - CIRCA AUGUST 2020: Crowd of people wearing a mask walking street during coronavirus pandemicNEW YORK - CIRCA AUGUST 2020: Crowd of people wearing a mask walking street during coronavirus pandemic
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How COVID-19 Went From The 3rd Leading Cause Of Death In The US To 15th In Just 4 Years – And Where That Leaves Us Now

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Watch The First-Ever Footage Of A Fish With A See-Through Head Filmed In The Twilight Zone, 710 Meters Below The Seathe barreleye is swimming upwards. we can see through its head, revealing the large eyeballs. it also has a tiny mouth
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Watch The First-Ever Footage Of A Fish With A See-Through Head Filmed In The Twilight Zone, 710 Meters Below The Sea

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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 FootageA female dolphin "shelling" along the coast of Queensland, Australia, in July 2025.
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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

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Why Were There No Mouse-Sized Dinosaurs? New Model Suggests Our Distant Mammalian Ancestors Are To BlameA set of five kids plastic toy dinosaurs on a wooden table.
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Why Were There No Mouse-Sized Dinosaurs? New Model Suggests Our Distant Mammalian Ancestors Are To Blame

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The Vegetables Of Planet Earth Are Disappearing, And That's Very Bad News For HumansThe merchant in wooden boat made alms to the monk at Damnoen Saduak Floating Market the tourists by boat popular tourist attraction on canals of Thailand
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The Vegetables Of Planet Earth Are Disappearing, And That's Very Bad News For Humans

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The Difference Between My Eclipse Photos And My Colleague’s Makes Me Want To CryOn the left: A gorgeous photo of the eclipse, with the Sun glowing red behind the Moon, and a visible solar prominence on the left of the Moon. On the right: A terrible eclipse-shaped shadow, projected onto the inside of a car door.
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The Difference Between My Eclipse Photos And My Colleague’s Makes Me Want To Cry

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We’ve Just Discovered A Brand New Object At The End Of The Universe – Meet A “Black Hole Star”An artist's somewhat imaginative portrayal of a supermassive black hole surrounded by dense layers of gas in a ball with a radius the size of Neptune's orbit
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We’ve Just Discovered A Brand New Object At The End Of The Universe – Meet A “Black Hole Star”

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"Dolor De Ojos": As Is Traditional, There Was A Spike In Concerning Google Searches After The EclipseAn image of yesterday's eclipse, with a solar prominence at the left-hand side. Overlayed is a graph showing interest in the search term "my eyes hurt", spiking around the time of the eclipse.
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"Dolor De Ojos": As Is Traditional, There Was A Spike In Concerning Google Searches After The Eclipse

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First Discovery Of Three Supermassive Black Holes In A Galaxy 12.5 Billion Light Years Away Changes Our View On Early Black Hole FormationFinding two supermassive black holes getting close to merging, as depicted in this simulation is not unusual, but a third addition is much more unexpected
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First Discovery Of Three Supermassive Black Holes In A Galaxy 12.5 Billion Light Years Away Changes Our View On Early Black Hole Formation

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China’s Record-Breaking Maglev Train Can Hit 800 Kilometers Per Hour In The Time It Takes To Read This HeadlineA non-record-breaking Maglev train zips out of a station in Shangai, China
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China’s Record-Breaking Maglev Train Can Hit 800 Kilometers Per Hour In The Time It Takes To Read This Headline

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US Lab Finds A Faster Way To Make Californium-252, A Nuclear Isotope Worth Millions Per Gram Not Found Naturally On EarthTechnicians look into a hot cell in the Radiochemical Engineering Development Center where Cf-252 is produced.
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US Lab Finds A Faster Way To Make Californium-252, A Nuclear Isotope Worth Millions Per Gram Not Found Naturally On Earth

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In A World First, Scientists Used AI To Generate A Genome And Produced A Functional, Bacteria-Killing VirusBiotech and DNA analysis technology concept with glowing digital double helix structure connected to circuit board on dark blue background. Futuristic low poly style, abstract vector illustration.
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In A World First, Scientists Used AI To Generate A Genome And Produced A Functional, Bacteria-Killing Virus

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Sam Altman Suggested A New Use For ChatGPT And It Has People Saying "Jesus This Is Bleak"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in front of a sign which reads "OpenAI".
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Sam Altman Suggested A New Use For ChatGPT And It Has People Saying "Jesus This Is Bleak"

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The Mathematical Reason Why No Voting System Can Ever Be Totally Fairan illustration of hands holding voting slips
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The Mathematical Reason Why No Voting System Can Ever Be Totally Fair

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When A Disease Scare Fizzles Out, Did Scientists Just Get It Wrong? What We Can Learn From The Pandemics That Weren'ttwo posters that are ripped at the edges, the one on the left shows an illustration of a pig sneezing with viruses nearby, the other is a biohazard warning poster. A logo in the top right hand corner reads IFLScience Viral Summer.
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When A Disease Scare Fizzles Out, Did Scientists Just Get It Wrong? What We Can Learn From The Pandemics That Weren't

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Your Personality Isn't As Stable As You Think: This Is How You Will Change As You AgeHeraclitus in his river, thinking about how correct he is.
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Your Personality Isn't As Stable As You Think: This Is How You Will Change As You Age

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People Are More Likely To Be Your Friend If You Seem Like A Good Hunter-GathererGroup of friends
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People Are More Likely To Be Your Friend If You Seem Like A Good Hunter-Gatherer

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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 Modelcollage of images related to science with "iflscience is evolving" written in the centre
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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 Mullaperiyar Dam Is 130 Years Old, Rapidly Aging, And In An Earthquake Hotspot: What Could Go Wrong?A bridge of diverted water from the Mullaperiyar Dam on the Kollam–Theni Highway in southern India.
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The Mullaperiyar Dam Is 130 Years Old, Rapidly Aging, And In An Earthquake Hotspot: What Could Go Wrong?

It's been called "a ticking time bomb.”

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Overdiagnosed? Over-Treated? Completely Made Up? What Experts Think About ADHD, And The Moral Panic Sweeping The Nationoutline drawing of human head with wavy line coming off it leading to a paper aeroplane
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Overdiagnosed? Over-Treated? Completely Made Up? What Experts Think About ADHD, And The Moral Panic Sweeping The Nation

“No one ever talks about, you know, what are the risks of not getting treatment or delaying treatment. They're huge, right? They're just, they're just huge.”

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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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