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06-11-26 (19:10)   Could A Human Brain Be Preserved And Brought Back In The Future? US Doctor Survey Estimates A 25.5 Percent Probability It Could Work
06-11-26 (18:39)   Stockpiling Is All The Rage Right Now. Here's Why It Feels Like Everyone's Talking About It, And What You Really Need
06-11-26 (18:39)   22,000-Year-Old DNA From Cave Sediment Helps Reveal Identity Of Ice-Age Hunter-Gatherers
06-11-26 (17:56)   Microplastics From The Great Pacific Garbage Patch May Be Changing The Color Of The Ocean
06-11-26 (17:25)   Meet The Giant Prehistoric Rodent That Roamed Thailand's Freshwater Swamps 35 Million Years Ago
06-11-26 (16:39)   In 2023, Scientists Diving 4,000 Meters In The Clarion-Clipperton Zone Spotted A Squid Doing Something We Had Never Seen Squid Do Before
06-11-26 (16:39)   The Roots Of Human Music-Making May Stretch Back At Least 135,000 Years - If Not Millions Of Years Before That
06-11-26 (16:10)   COVID-19 Vaccines Paid For All Their Costs Many Times Over Within The First Year
06-11-26 (14:25)   Vast Collection Of Stunning Ice Age Engravings Discovered Beneath Modern Graffiti In Spanish Cave
06-11-26 (13:39)   New AI "Missing Pet" Scam Goes International, Prompting Warning From US Police
05-11-26 (22:10)   Escape Artist Octopuses Can Squeeze Through Impossibly Small Holes. Now, Scientists Have Figured Out How They Do It
05-11-26 (18:56)   Earth's Geological Record Is Missing Hundreds Of Millions Of Years. They May Have Been Erased By Ancient Continents
05-11-26 (18:56)   Critically Endangered Species Shouldn't Be Written Off, They Can Bounce Back If Given Enough Support
05-11-26 (18:10)   Is It Better Stand Up Or Sit Down To Pee? Let's Talk About Raw Firepower For A Moment
05-11-26 (18:10)   Volunteers Took Cold Showers For A 12-Week Experiment, And The Results Make Us Want To Give It A Try
05-11-26 (17:10)   Should More People Be Taking GLP-1s? New Effects Keep Cropping Up, But "They're Not The Panacea"
05-11-26 (16:56)   No, Your Allergies Aren't Caused By Urban Planners Who Prefer Male Trees
05-11-26 (16:56)   Earth Has A Tiny New Mini-Moon. It's So Small, At First We Thought It Was Just A Piece Of Junk
05-11-26 (16:56)   Iron Age Barbarian King Who Triggered Roman Invasion Of Britain Was Actually A Woman, Historian Argues
05-11-26 (16:56)   What's It Like Being Stuck In Antarctica? | IFLScience The Big Questions
05-11-26 (16:25)   Rice Krispies No Longer Using Rice In The UK - A Sign Of The Times? Major Journal Calls For Urgent Research Into Climate Crisis Food Security
05-11-26 (13:25)   Mars's Volcanoes May Not Be Dead But Merely Sleeping. Could A Volcano Erupt On Mars Someday?
04-11-26 (19:10)   Astronomers Thought This Object Was A Galaxy In The Very Early Universe, Then It Started To Move
04-11-26 (18:39)   Watch The End Of The Cosmic Dark Ages As Stars And Galaxies Are Born In Incredible New Simulation
04-11-26 (18:39)   Early Humans Avoided This Lush Paradise For Thousands Of Years, And A 1,500-Kilometer Journey Explains Why
04-11-26 (18:25)   Insects Use Their Genitals For Defense. This Story Of Hawkmoth Vs. Bat Perfectly Demonstrates How Such Bizarre Adaptations Come About
04-11-26 (18:25)   European Space Agency's Hera Mission Will Soon Witness The Aftermath Of How We Moved Two Asteroids
04-11-26 (18:25)   Using Ancient DNA To Track Origins Of Language Reveals Surprising Anglo-Saxon And Viking Connection
04-11-26 (17:25)   "Cloud Gone" - Two Words In The Hiroshima Bombing Logs May Have Some Disastrous Implications For Humanity
04-11-26 (16:39)   50 Percent Of A Group Of Long COVID Patients Saw "Meaningful" Improvements Within 3 Years, And A Quarter Fully Recovered
04-11-26 (16:10)   Deep In The Sudan Desert, A Vast Medieval Cathedral Is Slowly Emerging From The Sand
04-11-26 (15:25)   Where Have The Blue Whales Gone? El Niño Could Be To Blame As Galápagos Islands Survey Yields No Results
04-11-26 (12:25)   Wolf 1130: A Triple Star System Just 54 Light-Years Away From Earth May Go Supernova
04-11-26 (10:25)   Seven Sordid Things I Wish I Could Forget About Ducks' Heinous Sex Lives
03-11-26 (18:56)   Hubble Observations Challenge Common Wisdom On How The Universe Lifted Its Cosmic Fog
03-11-26 (18:56)   Why People Fall For Political Strongmen, Especially In Strange And Uncertain Times
03-11-26 (18:39)   Treacherous Martian Dust Could Get Into The Brains Of Astronauts, Raising More Questions About Future Human Exploration
03-11-26 (16:56)   A New Experimental Vaccine Targets Rogue Genes Linked To 90 Percent Of Pancreatic Cancers
03-11-26 (16:25)   For Centuries, Sailors Reported An Eerie Effect When You Pour "Storm Oil" Into The Sea. Modern Science Shows How It Works
03-11-26 (15:39)   Europa Vs. Enceladus - Which Icy Moon Is The Most Likely Place For Alien Life To Be Found?
03-11-26 (13:56)   Overshooting 1.5°C Of Global Warming Could Lock In Centuries Of Damage To Earth's Icy Regions
03-11-26 (13:39)   NASA Is Looking For Ways To Save The Hubble Space Telescope From An "Uncontrolled Reentry", And Extend Its Mission Beyond 2032
03-11-26 (13:10)   Artificial Intelligence Resurrections Are Becoming Big Business, But Who Really Benefits From Bringing Back The Dead?
02-11-26 (21:25)   First Confirmed Evidence Of Fossilized Red Blood Cells In Dinosaur Bones Is A Gamechanger In What Fossils Can Reveal About Ancient Life
02-11-26 (19:10)   Expansion Of The Universe Latest: If There's Weird Physics Going On, It's Happening Now, Not In The Early Universe
02-11-26 (18:56)   Nobody Spotted What Was Wrong With This Skyscraper Until Cars Across The Street Started To Melt
02-11-26 (18:25)   Bull And Male Donkey Share Long-Term Bond That's Not Just Sexual (But Definitely Is Sexual)
02-11-26 (17:56)   What Do The Brains Of Newborn Babies And People With Alzheimer's Have In Common? More Than You'd Guess
02-11-26 (17:10)   Little "Juggling" Capuchin Monkey Reveals How Clever And Coordinated These Animals Can Be In First For The Species
02-11-26 (16:25)   Listen To The Earliest Spoken Word Recordings Of An Endangered US Language
02-11-26 (16:25)   A Dying Brain May Explain Near-Death Experiences, But What's Happening With "Shared Death Experiences"? A Strange And Common Phenomenon That Impacts The Living
02-11-26 (14:10)   4.1-Billion-Year-Old Martian Meteorite Is A "Rosetta Stone" For The Red Planet's Distant, Watery Past
31-10-26 (13:25)   Scientists Confirm "Spiders Do Sleep" For The First Time, Ancient Egypt's First Female King Finally Recognized, And Much More This Week
31-10-26 (12:39)   Drake Equation: The "Second Most-Famous Equation In Science" Turns 65 This Week. Is It Still Relevant Today?
31-10-26 (12:10)   Harry Houdini Died On Halloween 100 Years Ago. According To New Investigations By A Former Surgeon, No He Didn't.
31-10-26 (11:25)   Think Mummification Is Just For The Ancient Egyptians? Think Again. Mummification Is Alive And Well In The Modern Day
31-10-26 (10:10)   Up to 20 Percent Of People Have Reported Having An Out-Of-Body Experience. But Are They Actually Real?
30-10-26 (17:56)   The Swift Space Telescope Is About To Fall Down To Earth. Its Science Will Be Used For Decades To Come
30-10-26 (17:56)   Chornobyl's Genetically Unique Dogs Are Likely Caused By Natural Selection, Not Radiation-Scrambled DNA
30-10-26 (17:56)   Neanderthals May Have Organized Their Homes Into Bedrooms And Living Rooms... And Taken Out Their Trash
30-10-26 (17:10)   Giant Primeval Crane Believed To Have Gone Extinct Thousands Of Years Ago May Never Have Existed
30-10-26 (17:10)   Beauty Parlour Syndrome: The Rare But Real Stroke Risk Of Getting Your Hair Washed At The Salon
30-10-26 (17:10)   NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Communications After Glitch - Weeks Away From 1 Light-Day Milestone
30-10-26 (16:39)   How "Zombie Bacteria" Keep Making DNA Even When They're Dead
30-10-26 (16:10)   Mushrooms Vs. Plants, Which Are Deadlier? From Fatal Fungi To "Death Apple" Trees, It's A Close Call
30-10-26 (15:56)   How Scientists Used A Zoo Elephant's Bones To Recreate 30,000-Year-Old Ice Age Mammoth Tools
30-10-26 (15:56)   Over 2,000 New Galaxies Discovered Just 54 Million Light-Years From Us In Revolutionary Survey
30-10-26 (14:10)   These Frogs Have Dazzling Golden Eyes That Are So Unique, They Can Be Used To Identify Them Like Fingerprints
30-10-26 (12:56)   For 89 Years, People Have Reported Seeing Phantom Lighthouses That Don't Exist. We Finally Know Why
29-10-26 (18:56)   This Star System Has A Cat-Like Tail That's Over 200 Trillion Cats Long - Colliding Planets Might Be To Blame
29-10-26 (18:56)   Some Of The World's Oldest And Most Spectacular Cave Art Is Protected By An Invisible Shield
29-10-26 (18:39)   Two New Trojan Asteroids - And A Possible Third - Discovered Trailing Behind Neptune With Vera Rubin Observatory
29-10-26 (18:39)   Psychedelic Substance Derived From Toad Venom Could Treat Major Depression
29-10-26 (18:39)   Don't Believe Claims About Ancient Occupations Of North America, Australia And New Zealand - Particularly When They Involve 30-Foot Giants
29-10-26 (18:10)   What Actually Is A Fossil? A Palaeontologist Explains How These "Miracles" Are Made, And What They Leave Behind
29-10-26 (17:25)   China's Mysterious Spaceplane Seen In Orbit And Docked With An Unidentified Satellite In Newly Unclassified US Military Photo
29-10-26 (16:56)   These 27 Exoplanets Might Soon Be Seen Directly By The First-Ever Private Space Telescope
29-10-26 (16:25)   Ancient Medical Remedy Made From Egyptian Mummies May Actually Protect Cells Against Flu Viruses
29-10-26 (16:25)   When Corals Are Bleached, Hope Is Not Lost - They Can Recover With A Little Help From Their Healthy Friends
28-10-26 (18:56)   Plastic Tea Bags Can Dose Your Brew With Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals And Thousands Of Microplastics
28-10-26 (18:25)   Rubin Observatory May Have Just Found The Solar System's 6th Dwarf Planet, Hiding Just Beyond Pluto
28-10-26 (18:25)   A Legendary Ocean Liner Is About To Be Purposely Sunk And Turned Into The World's Largest Artificial Reef
28-10-26 (17:39)   Deep-Sea Weirdo Klaxon! Barreleye Fish With A See-Through Head And Giant Googly Eyes Makes A Rare Appearance Off Monterey Bay
28-10-26 (17:39)   Rare Nanotyrannus Jodi Joins Dinosaurs "Lost To Science" Following $47.3 Million Auction Sale To Private Collector
28-10-26 (16:39)   Humans Have Canceled The Next Ice Age For The Following Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years
28-10-26 (15:56)   Climate Change Is A Global Health Emergency And We're Not Doing Enough About It, Major Report Warns
28-10-26 (15:25)   Comets Are Unlikely To Have Seeded Earth With The Building Blocks Of Life - But They Might Have Done So On Mars
28-10-26 (12:10)   I Am Deeply Offended By Human Reproduction And I Think Aphids Have The Better System
27-10-26 (19:10)   Revenant Planets - One As Big As Pluto - Discovered In The Debris Disk Of A White Dwarf
27-10-26 (18:39)   Over 4,000 Years Ago, A Dog Left Its Paw Print In This House Brick Found In Turkey
27-10-26 (18:10)   Shed Tail Of An Ancient Lizard Preserved In Fossilized Amber From 100 Million Years Ago
27-10-26 (18:10)   Why Has The Antimatter Gone? A Peculiar And Hypothetical Ghostly Particle Might Be To Blame
27-10-26 (17:25)   Euclid Telescope Looked "Above" The Sun, And Found A Previously Unknown Object Within Our Solar System Orbiting On A 345,000 Year Trajectory
27-10-26 (17:25)   Shiny Happy Lava Planet Somehow Kept Its Atmosphere Against All Models' Expectations
27-10-26 (16:39)   Teeny Tiny Bat The Weight Of Two US Nickels Can Fly Over 2,000 Kilometers In Record-Breaking Migration
27-10-26 (16:10)   Haunted People Syndrome: What A Family Visited By Ghosts For Over A Decade Taught Scientists About "Paranormal Activity"
27-10-26 (16:10)   New Batch Of Declassified UFO Files Detail A "Matte Black Triangular Shape" Over US Airspace In 2026
27-10-26 (15:25)   Frequent Star Collisions Could Explain The Universe's Mysterious Little Red Dots
27-10-26 (13:39)   Demons, Alchemists, and Algorithms - Is There Something Esoteric About Artificial Intelligence?
27-10-26 (12:25)   New Species Of Funky Fruit-Eating "Hell Chicken" May Be the First Known Dinosaur Frugivore