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02-08-26 (10:10)   How Do Animals Get Their Patterns? Find Out More In Issue 49 Of CURIOUS - Out Now
01-08-26 (23:56)   Homo Erectus And Hobbit Humans May Have Had To Protect Their Helpless Babies From Leopards, Tigers And Komodo Dragons
01-08-26 (12:56)   The Birth Of A Seafloor: Scientists Witness New Oceanic Crust Forming Through Earth Splitting Apart For First Time
01-08-26 (12:10)   People Are More Likely To Be Your Friend If You Seem Like A Good Hunter-Gatherer
01-08-26 (11:56)   Woolly Mammoth DNA Reveals Rare Sex Chromosome Combination, Astronomers Find Bizarre And Beautiful Planet-Wide Rings On Venus, And Much More This Week
01-08-26 (11:10)   In 2009, Scientists Drilled 183 Meters Beneath An Antarctic Ice Shelf And Found A Surprising Lifeform
31-07-26 (19:56)   World's Tiniest Buffalo Species Just Welcomed A New Baby - And She's Already A Total Heartbreaker
31-07-26 (19:39)   Footprints On A 1.43-Million-Year-Old Shoreline Have Anthropologists Questioning If We've Underestimated Early Hominin's Size
31-07-26 (18:56)   The Largest Galaxy In The Universe Is Even Bigger Than We Thought... And It Hasn't Finished Growing
31-07-26 (18:39)   Asteroid (44) Nysa Is A World Like No Other - It's The First Known 3-Lobed Space Object And Even Has Its Own Moon
31-07-26 (16:10)   Identities Of Mysterious "Ghost Lineages" - Groups Of Ancient Hominins That Bred With Our Ancestors - Narrowed Down By New Technique
31-07-26 (16:10)   Two Tiny Ivory Figurines Dating Back 40,000 Years Add To Enduring Mystery Of Why There Are So Few Birds Depicted In Ice Age Art
31-07-26 (15:39)   Meet Simon And Garfunkel: Rare Two-Headed Gecko Doing Well At 1 Month Old, Even If "The Left Head Is A Bit More Grumpy"
31-07-26 (13:39)   The Tragic Story Of Clarence Madison Dally, Thomas Edison's Assistant And The World's First Victim Of X-Ray Exposure
31-07-26 (13:10)   Were The Mysterious "Sea Peoples" Lurking Throughout Nolan's The Odyssey Real? We Asked The Experts
31-07-26 (12:56)   Avocado Trees Start The Day As One Sex And Switch To The Other In The Afternoon. We've Only Just Learned How
31-07-26 (12:39)   Do Animals Have Pets? Monkey Friendships With Squirrels, Pigs, And Dogs Could Explain Why We Love Our Animal Pals So Much
30-07-26 (18:56)   US Government Waives Laws Protecting Native American Graves In Order To Build Border Wall Over 6,000-Year-Old Rock Art Sites
30-07-26 (18:39)   Curiosity Finds "Sea Of Polygons" On Mars. But Photos Of The Rover Itself Show Its Back Wheel Isn't In Great Shape
30-07-26 (17:10)   Ancient DNA Reveals Woolly Mammoth With A Sex Chromosome Combination Never Before Seen In An Extinct Species
30-07-26 (16:39)   Astronomers Looking Through Forgotten Observations Find Bizarre And Beautiful Planet-Wide Rings On Venus
30-07-26 (15:56)   As Measles Cases Hit Record 35-Year Highs In The US, We Ask An Expert: What Can Be Done To Combat Re-Emerging Diseases?
30-07-26 (15:39)   Never-Before-Seen Material Was Forged In "Gigantic Accidental Laboratory" Created By Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Explosion
30-07-26 (15:39)   Are "Natural Disasters" On The Rise? | IFLScience The Big Questions
30-07-26 (14:10)   We're One Step Closer To Using Whole Of The Freaking Moon As A Gravitational Wave Detector
30-07-26 (13:56)   Dunning-Kruger And The Calamitous Lemon Juice Bank Robbery That Launched A New Cognitive Bias
30-07-26 (13:39)   300-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Wood Tells Us More About Geologic History Than Anyone Imagined
30-07-26 (10:39)   The Dead Coexisted With The Living In The Deep Past. Now Scientists Want To Understand Why We Stopped Burying Our Loved Ones At Home
29-07-26 (20:10)   Neptune's Inner Moons And Rings Might Be Left Over From A Cosmic Game Of Marbles Caused By The Capture Of Triton
29-07-26 (20:10)   Incredible Marine Reptile Fossil Preserves Its Internal Organs In Such Detail That Its Liver Is Still A "Reddish Color"
29-07-26 (18:56)   The USSR Had Nuclear-Powered Lighthouses Lining Its Arctic Coast, And They Became As Big A Problem As You Can Imagine
29-07-26 (18:56)   The First-Ever Photo Of A Solar Eclipse Is Probably Older Than You Think - And Still Better Than Many Modern Ones
29-07-26 (18:39)   For Almost 1,500 Years, The Ancestors Of Modern-Day Native Americans Kept Coming Back To This Sacred Cave To Paint In Complete Darkness
29-07-26 (18:39)   Three-Way Chomp-Fest Between Ancient Species Shows Who Was Eating Who in The Lower Cretaceous
29-07-26 (18:10)   Dinosaurs "Charbroiled" To Death, Giving A Harrowing Reminder Of How Much Devastation Can Happen On A Planetary Scale In Just A Few Hours
29-07-26 (17:56)   Scientists Create G-Rated "OnlyMarms" To Save World's Second-Longest Wild Animal Observation Project
29-07-26 (17:39)   Trump Administration Unveils Vision For "A New Golden Age" Of Science - Experts Think It Is Anything But
29-07-26 (17:10)   Lasers Uncover 400 Hidden Structures From A Lost Amazon Civilization That Once Boasted 3 Million People
29-07-26 (15:56)   A Spacecraft Sent To Rescue NASA's Swift Telescope From Falling To Earth Has Begun An Uncontrollable Spin
29-07-26 (15:39)   Clever Girl: Humpback Whales Recorded Feeding Cooperatively At Night In An Entirely New Way
29-07-26 (14:39)   In September 2025, A Lab Error Left A College Class In Turmoil Thinking They'd Been Exposed To Deadly Bacteria
28-07-26 (18:56)   Betel-Buddy, Betelgeuse's Long-Suspected Companion, Is Real And Surprisingly Large
28-07-26 (18:56)   A Massive Black Hole Destroyed A Star In An Unexpected Location, Providing More Evidence That These Giants Can Wander
28-07-26 (18:39)   Falcon 9 Rocket Stage "Abandoned" In High-Earth Orbit Is About To Slam Into The Moon, With The Energy Of 11.8 Gigajoules
28-07-26 (18:39)   Is Your Kitchen Sponge A Hidden Bacteria Farm? Even The Smell Test Can't Save You
28-07-26 (17:56)   Peptides: With Talk Of Looser Restrictions In The US, We Ask If There's A Dark Side To The Internet's Latest Wellness Obsession
28-07-26 (17:39)   If The Bodies Of Pompeii Are Casts, Why Do Some Have Teeth? The City Is So Well Preserved, Even "The Archaeology Has Its Own Archaeology"
28-07-26 (17:10)   Halving The Earth's Population To 4 Billion Is The Best Way To Secure A "Pro-Human" Future, A New Study Argues
28-07-26 (16:56)   A Chinese Gene-Editing Trial Led To A Young Girl's Death. Now Her Parents Are Calling For Accountability
28-07-26 (10:10)   Roleplaying The End Of The World: Can "Playing Pandemic" Help Prevent The Apocalypse? Real Simulation Exercises Suggest Yes, It Can
27-07-26 (18:56)   Earliest Known Heating Of Gas Around Quasars Shows How Galaxy Clusters Get Their "Atmospheres"
27-07-26 (18:56)   Eagle Unknowingly Incubates Goose Eggs Alongside Her Own In An "Extraordinary Case Of Nest Usurpation". A Parent Trap That Had Mixed Results
27-07-26 (18:56)   Rubies, Sapphires, Opals, Garnets - How Mars's Gemstones Could Keep A Record Of Ancient Life
27-07-26 (18:39)   The Wreck Of A Plane That Changed Aviation Forever Has Been Found At The Bottom Of The Sea After 74 Years
27-07-26 (18:39)   Where Would Astronomers Go If A Spacecraft Could Break The Laws Of Physics? We Asked Them
27-07-26 (16:56)   How These Invasive Snakes Led To Bird Extinctions And A Spider Explosion On An Island The Size Of Chicago
27-07-26 (15:56)   Amid The Fastest Ebola Outbreak Ever, First Person Receives World's First Bundibugyo Vaccine Developed In Just Months
27-07-26 (13:39)   Why Do 8 Million Pickled Fish Sit In Louisiana's WWII Bunkers? | IFLScience We Have Questions
27-07-26 (12:39)   At The Time Of The Odyssey, Mediterranean Civilizations Collapsed And A Climatic Coincidence Explains Why
25-07-26 (12:56)   Plans For World's First Octopus "Megafarm" Have Been Scrapped After Years Of Backlash
25-07-26 (12:56)   Rare Footage Captures Arctic Bobtail Squid Swimming Somewhere It's Never Been Seen Before - Complete With 50-Strong Egg Sac
25-07-26 (11:56)   Orcas Ram Sunfish So Hard They Explode, Astronomers Find Evidence Of Moon-Like Object Beyond Our Solar System, And Much More This Week
24-07-26 (19:56)   Global Cancer Cases May Double By 2050, WHO Report Says - But It Doesn't Need To Be Inevitable
24-07-26 (19:39)   Musk Suggests The Impact Of USAID Cuts Was Overstated, But New Research Tells A Very Different Story
24-07-26 (18:56)   In 2005, Scientists Built A "Haunted" Room By Manipulating Electromagnetic Fields. Things Certainly Got Weird - But Not How You'd Think
24-07-26 (18:39)   Rituals For Magic And Healing Have Been Performed In An Australian Cave For 25,000 Years
24-07-26 (18:10)   The "Face On Mars" At 50: The Face That Launched A Thousand Conspiracies
24-07-26 (17:56)   We're In A Golden Age Of Citizen Science - AI Slop Is Threatening Everything It Achieved
24-07-26 (17:56)   Watch As A Seizure Speeds Through A Brain In Fascinating, First-Of-Its-Kind Video
24-07-26 (17:10)   Prehistoric Rock Art Has An "Organizational Grammar", And May Have Been Used For Communicative And Ritual Purposes
24-07-26 (16:39)   The Ancient Idea That Vision Worked By Shooting Elemental Fire Out Of Your Eyeballs, And Touched The Objects You Were Seeing
24-07-26 (16:39)   "Exceptionally" Preserved Cretaceous Snake Fossil Allows For The Reconstruction Of Its Brain
24-07-26 (14:10)   One Of The Earliest "Online" Games Took Place In 1897, And Was An Attempt To Ease Tensions Between The US And Great Britain
24-07-26 (13:56)   First Humanoid Robot Surgeries Have Been Performed On Live Animals - Why It Could Make Spaceflight Safer
24-07-26 (13:39)   NASA's Juno Probe Has Seen Inside The Solar System's Most Volcanic World, And It's Pretty Hellish In There
24-07-26 (12:39)   Tuna Rarely Show Up In Public Aquariums, And There Are A Bunch Of Good Reasons Why That's The Case
24-07-26 (01:39)   First SETI Survey Using ALMA Looked For Aliens Where We've Never Looked For Them Before
24-07-26 (00:10)   Sperm Whales "Regularly" Toot Gas To Hang Motionless In The Ocean While They Sleep
23-07-26 (20:10)   Humans Once Spoke Tens Of Thousands Of Languages, But Now They're Mostly Extinct Thanks To Colonialism And Imperial Expansion
23-07-26 (18:56)   The Dangers Of Cystic Fibrosis Are Enhanced By An Alliance Of Bacteria Sharing Antibiotic Resistance Genes
23-07-26 (17:39)   Three Kids With Incurable Brain Tumors Have No Evidence Of Disease Thanks To Breakthrough, First-Of-Its-Kind Clinical Trial
23-07-26 (16:39)   Discovery Of Exoplanet With One Of The Longest Orbits Yet Heralds Seismic Change In Search For Earth-like Worlds
23-07-26 (16:39)   Just Like Us, The Great Barrier Reef Has A Unique Microbiome Made Up Of Over 300,000 Viruses And 500 New Bacteria
23-07-26 (13:39)   Brain Training That Really Works? First-Ever Clinical Proof That Science-Backed Exercises Can Reduce Levels Of Key Alzheimer's Marker
23-07-26 (06:10)   Orcas Ram Sunfish So Hard They Explode "Into Thousands Of Pieces" And No, We're Not Joking
22-07-26 (21:10)   Even Though We Can Now Make Our Own "Fake" Eclipses, They Can't Beat Mother Nature. This Is Why Studying Real Ones Is Still Vital
22-07-26 (18:56)   The Cloaca - A Butthole That Does It All - Has Been Missing A Chapter In Its Evolution. This 294-Million-Year-Old Tailprint Could Change That
22-07-26 (18:39)   Astronomers Have Found Clearest Evidence Yet Of First Moon-Like Object Beyond Our Solar System - But It's Nothing Like The Moons Back Home
22-07-26 (17:56)   How Do You Name A Species? A Palaeontologist With A Dinosaur Named After Him Spills The Beans
22-07-26 (17:56)   Why Is The Egyptian God Thoth Depicted As An Ibis And A Baboon? The Answer To The Baboonification Could Lie In The Brightness Of The Moon
22-07-26 (17:39)   One-Of-A-Kind Helium Nova Shot Never-Before-Seen Oxygen-Rich Bullets At 30 Million Kilometers Per Hour
22-07-26 (16:56)   New "Demon" Cavefish Discovered To Only Live In One Single Cave System On Earth - Making It One Of The Rarest Fish Ever Found
22-07-26 (15:39)   Did The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Cause The Evolution Of Tuna? It's Not As Simple As That
22-07-26 (13:56)   John Scott Haldane: The Scientist Who Huffed Dangerous Gas Like It Was Going Out Of Fashion
22-07-26 (12:56)   Overlapping Nebulae Are First Evidence Of Binary System Where Both Stars Went Supernova
22-07-26 (12:39)   How An Ancient Murder Was Solved Using Flies: The World's First Case Of Forensic Entomology In 13th Century China
21-07-26 (18:56)   Collision With "Sausage Galaxy" Might Have Rotated The Milky Way By More Than 90 Degrees
21-07-26 (18:56)   These 5,000-Year-Old Spear-Throwers Are The Oldest In The Andes And May Have Been Used To Hunt Ancient Llama Ancestors
21-07-26 (18:39)   This Astonishing Image Of A Chimp Tells Us A Lot About The Evolution Of Animal Culture
21-07-26 (17:56)   Pompeii: Archaeologist Reveals What Really Happened Following The 79 CE Eruption Of Vesuvius, One Of History's Most Catastrophic Natural Disasters