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Three Never-Before-Seen Galaxies Discovered By Student While Still In High Schoola full view of the area of the sky with four inset one showing the beautiful spiral that is the pinwheel. the other three showing some amorphous pale concentrations of starsThree Never-Before-Seen Galaxies Discovered By Student While Still In High Schoola full view of the area of the sky with four inset one showing the beautiful spiral that is the pinwheel. the other three showing some amorphous pale concentrations of stars
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Three Never-Before-Seen Galaxies Discovered By Student While Still In High School

They are a new type of object: backsplash galaxies!

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The Dream Of Limiting Climate Change To 1.5°C Is Looking Very, Very Unlikelya coal power plant bellows out smoggy emissions.
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The Dream Of Limiting Climate Change To 1.5°C Is Looking Very, Very Unlikely

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7,300 Years Ago, An "Apocalyptic" Volcanic Eruption Almost Annihilated Japan’s Hunter-Gatherers – Yet Somehow They Survived

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Tiny Human “Mini-Brains” That Can “Read” Braille Give Us A Glimpse Into The Future Of Biohybrid Computers

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An Unusual Source Of Gamma Rays Might Come From The First Neutron Star Collision Known In Our Galaxy

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Cats And Their Owners Share A Hormonal Connection That May Boost Both Their Moods

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We Have Not 1 But 2 New Contestants For World's Loudest Bird, With Screeches As Loud As A Jackhammerbare-throated bellbird with white feathers and bright blue throat sings from a tree top
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We Have Not 1 But 2 New Contestants For World's Loudest Bird, With Screeches As Loud As A Jackhammer

Turns out, the birds with the widest mouths squawk the loudest.

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Sophisticated Irrigation System Discovered At 7,500-Year-Old Site Hailed By The Sumerians As The World’s First CitySumerian King List
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Sophisticated Irrigation System Discovered At 7,500-Year-Old Site Hailed By The Sumerians As The World’s First City

In Sumerian mythology, Eridu was the home of the first kings to descend from the heavens.

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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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A Space Disaster Is Coming Unless We Take Kessler Syndrome SeriouslyA piece of debris, in orbit around the Earth.
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A Space Disaster Is Coming Unless We Take Kessler Syndrome Seriously

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Scientists Kept Finding The Same Mysterious DNA In Their Samples. It Turns Out That The Marine Microbe It Belongs To Has The Smallest Genome Ever DiscoveredA person using a pipette to take samples.
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Scientists Kept Finding The Same Mysterious DNA In Their Samples. It Turns Out That The Marine Microbe It Belongs To Has The Smallest Genome Ever Discovered

This tiny marine organism may demonstrate just how little genetic material a cell needs to survive.

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The Nineteenth-Century “Castaway Camp” Of Shipwrecked Penguin Hunters May Have Been Found On Island Off Patagonia

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El Niño Is Pushing European Salmon Farmers To Start Feeding Their Fish Chicken

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Identity Of Man Found Dead In Barrel At Lake Mead Solved Using DNA And Forensics

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Fatally Wounded Neanderthal May Be The Oldest Example Of A Human Killed By A Spear

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Botticelli's "Birth Of Venus" May Contain Subtle Clues To The Death Of La Bella Simonetta In 1476Botticelli's Birth of Venus. Venus's eyes are highlighted with a red circle.
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Botticelli's "Birth Of Venus" May Contain Subtle Clues To The Death Of La Bella Simonetta In 1476

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Did Neanderthal-Human Hybrids Really Roam The Middle East 100,000 Years Ago?A skull from Skhul Cave, classified as an early Homo sapiens
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Did Neanderthal-Human Hybrids Really Roam The Middle East 100,000 Years Ago?

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World's Oldest Ever Shipwreck Discovered In The Mediterranean, Dating To Over 4,400 Years OldA researcher from the Mediterranean Archaeology Association observes one of the sunken amphorae and a rogue lionfish.
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World's Oldest Ever Shipwreck Discovered In The Mediterranean, Dating To Over 4,400 Years Old

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When Microplastics Interact With Water, They May Produce Particles With The Potential To Cause "Biological Damage"A human finger on which are a range of brightly coloured tiny pieces of plastic.
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When Microplastics Interact With Water, They May Produce Particles With The Potential To Cause "Biological Damage"

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Surfers In The US Are Developing Abnormal Growths On Their Bellies Called "Liposurfomas"Woman during surfing with morning light. Surf girl on surfboard.
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Surfers In The US Are Developing Abnormal Growths On Their Bellies Called "Liposurfomas"

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

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As A 6th Person Reportedly Dies In Pennsylvania, Measles Continues To Rage In The USADemonstrators at a pro-science march, one is holding a black sign that reads "REMEMBER, SCIENCE GOT US TO THE MOON" and the the other is holding a white sign that reads "DEATH BY MEASLES? THERE'S NO REASON! SCIENCE SAVES LIVES!"
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As A 6th Person Reportedly Dies In Pennsylvania, Measles Continues To Rage In The USA

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Wolves React To The Smell Of Human Fear Just Like Dogs Do, Suggesting This Ability May Predate Domestication

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Colossal's Dodo De-Extinction Project Has Announced An Update With New AI Platform To Hunt For The Necessary GenesAn artist's impression of the dodo in a moody forest.
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Colossal's Dodo De-Extinction Project Has Announced An Update With New AI Platform To Hunt For The Necessary Genes

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Newly Discovered Tiger-Sized Dinosaur Is The First Of Its Kind Found In EuropeAn artists impression of Invictibellatrix eating an early mammal while standing in floodplain with sauropods and iguandons walking in the background.
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Newly Discovered Tiger-Sized Dinosaur Is The First Of Its Kind Found In Europe

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Elephant Fall: Researchers Returned To The Site Of An Elephant's Death After A Decade, And Describe What They Found As "Insane"The site of an elephant's death. Bones lie in a barren patch of land, surrounded by grass.
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Elephant Fall: Researchers Returned To The Site Of An Elephant's Death After A Decade, And Describe What They Found As "Insane"

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Decaying Beauty Particles Show Intriguing Hints At Physics Beyond The Standard Modeltest
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Decaying Beauty Particles Show Intriguing Hints At Physics Beyond The Standard Model

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Scientists Take Step Towards "Schrödinger’s Cat In Real Life", Moving A One Centimeter Diamond Using A Quantum EffectA diamond suspended by a graphite rod, above a magnet.
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Scientists Take Step Towards "Schrödinger’s Cat In Real Life", Moving A One Centimeter Diamond Using A Quantum Effect

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Most Megaconstellation Satellites Are Way Brighter Than Guidelines Have Requested – Ruining The Night Sky For AllThe silouhtted mountains with an observatory on top and above in the sky counteless stars and the milky way. everywhere across the sky there are satellites lines.
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Most Megaconstellation Satellites Are Way Brighter Than Guidelines Have Requested – Ruining The Night Sky For All

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Detection Of Neutral Hydrogen Signal Crucial Stepping Stone To Solve Dark Energy And Study The Universe Before Stars Were BornA view of CHIME at night, with the Milky Way in the background
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Detection Of Neutral Hydrogen Signal Crucial Stepping Stone To Solve Dark Energy And Study The Universe Before Stars Were Born

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Tesla’s “Flying” Car Raises A Big Question: Would You Need A Pilot’s License?a photoshopped roadster with steam coming out of rockets under the car while flying in the sky
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Tesla’s “Flying” Car Raises A Big Question: Would You Need A Pilot’s License?

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New "Biological Data Center" Uses Millions Of Living Human Brain Cells To Process InformationA microscopic image of differentiating neuroblasts, primitive nerve cells that develop into neurons and glial cells.
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New "Biological Data Center" Uses Millions Of Living Human Brain Cells To Process Information

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Bill Gates Warns Really "Bad People" Will Exploit AI To Create "A Lot Of Negative Surprises" In The Next Few YearsBill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and one of the big brains behind the personal computer revolution, pictured here in October 2023.
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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

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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?elderly woman appearing as a ghost superimposed over letters from a oujia board fading into a digital representation with neon lines and a robot face on the opposite side of the image. In the top right there's a black and white logo that says IFLSCIENCE INVESTIGATES with a flashlight symbol
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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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The Words "Bouba" And "Kiki" Have An Odd Effect On Humans. A New Study Finds Dogs Experience It Tooa dog with large floppy ears
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The Words "Bouba" And "Kiki" Have An Odd Effect On Humans. A New Study Finds Dogs Experience It Too

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Think People Who Ghost You Don’t Feel Guilty? Think Againcartoon ghost next to a cartoon mobile phone with three messages and no replies. The messages read "Hi", "U there?", and "Hey?" and the last one is an ellipsis to indicate the same person typing
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Think People Who Ghost You Don’t Feel Guilty? Think Again

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Why Science Conferences Still Matter In A Digital WorldScientists standing around tables at the Pittcon party 2026, some wearing light up cowboy hats.
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Why Science Conferences Still Matter In A Digital World

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There’s A Surprisingly Simple Way To Reduce Misbehavior In Prisons, But Will Anyone Pay Attention?a photo from inside a prison
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There’s A Surprisingly Simple Way To Reduce Misbehavior In Prisons, But Will Anyone Pay Attention?

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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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Millions Of Us Could Develop Dementia In The Coming Years – 3 Experts Weigh In On Where The Science Is Headingillustration of a human head facing to the left in white on a blue background. The brain is illustrated in pink and there is a pencil erasing part of it.
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Millions Of Us Could Develop Dementia In The Coming Years – 3 Experts Weigh In On Where The Science Is Heading

Where will dementia research be in 10 years’ time?

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The Euclid Mission, The Dark Universe Hunter, Is Trying To Solve The Cosmos' Biggest Mysteries – We Explore How The Team Sets Out To Release Its First Data BatchThe spacecraft is a circulqar tube with a flat shield on one side and a polygonal strcutre at the back. In the background the Milky Way
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The Euclid Mission, The Dark Universe Hunter, Is Trying To Solve The Cosmos' Biggest Mysteries – We Explore How The Team Sets Out To Release Its First Data Batch

There is so much we do not know about the universe, but ESA is doing something about it.

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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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