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JWST’s “Shrodinger’s Galaxy Candidate” Has Astronomers Very PuzzledJWST's first deep field image full of white, orange, yellow and red starsand galaxiesJWST’s “Shrodinger’s Galaxy Candidate” Has Astronomers Very PuzzledJWST's first deep field image full of white, orange, yellow and red starsand galaxies

JWST’s “Shrodinger’s Galaxy Candidate” Has Astronomers Very Puzzled

CEERS-1749 is either the earliest and most distant galaxy ever seen by a long way, or an imposter looking curiously far more distant than...

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Mystery Ingredients For Metal From World’s Oldest Technical Encyclopedia DecipheredAround 2,400 years ago coins in China were shaped like knives and made of bronze. Analysis of their composition, combined with the encyclopedia Kaogong ji's instructions indicate they were made through a two-stage process.
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Mystery Ingredients For Metal From World’s Oldest Technical Encyclopedia Deciphered

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Almost 60 Percent Of Human Infectious Diseases Can Be Worsened By Climate ChangeClimate change may lead to more disease outbreaks
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Almost 60 Percent Of Human Infectious Diseases Can Be Worsened By Climate Change

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NASA Investigates Mysterious Objects Perseverance Caught In Sample System

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Iguanas, Last Seen Thriving By Darwin, Are Back And Breeding On A Galápagos Island

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One Dead And 11 Sick From Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak In Californian City

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Shark Filmed Strolling On Land Like It’s No Big DealA small brown and white shark uses its fins to pull itself over some coral that is above the water level,so the shark is effectively walking
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Shark Filmed Strolling On Land Like It’s No Big Deal

Footage released for Discovery's Shark Week brings the sight of an epaulette shark walking in shallow water and on land to an amazed world.

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Latest COVID Strain Can Cause "Strange" New Symptom At Night, Says ProfessorColorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell infected with a variant strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (green), isolated from a patient sample.
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Latest COVID Strain Can Cause "Strange" New Symptom At Night, Says Professor

"That mix of your immune system and the virus being slightly different might give rise to a slightly different disease –  with strangely enough –  night sweats being a feature," explained Professor Luke O’Neill.

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London Zoo Places Handbag In Crocodile Exhibit To Make An Excellent PointAn empty crocodile enclosure, accompanied by the tweet "London Zoo not pissing around".
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London Zoo Places Handbag In Crocodile Exhibit To Make An Excellent Point

"London Zoo is not pissing around".

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Euthanasia Coaster: The Rollercoaster Actually Designed To Kill YouTwo women ride a rollercoaster. One is happy, the other terrified.
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Euthanasia Coaster: The Rollercoaster Actually Designed To Kill You

The hypothetical rider is given a chance to back out as they wait at the top of the coaster, but once the ride is under way it ends with their demise.

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Thawing Glacier Reveals Unknown Bodies And Plane Wreck In Swiss AlpsMountaineers clamber around the Aletsch glacier, the largest glacier in the European Alps, located in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland.
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Thawing Glacier Reveals Unknown Bodies And Plane Wreck In Swiss Alps

Many of the Alps' glaciers are disappearing – and unearthing grim surprises from the past.

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Astronomers Reveal Most Detailed Radio Image Of A Supermassive Black Hole Jet YetA multifrequency view of the bent jet in J1924-2914. Image Credit: VLBA (Hunt et al. 2021), GMVA (Issaoun et al. 2019), EHT (Issaoun, Wielgus, et al. 2022).
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Astronomers Reveal Most Detailed Radio Image Of A Supermassive Black Hole Jet Yet

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Study Finds Link Between PFAS Exposure And Liver Cancerplastic liver with visible blood vessels being held by person in white lab coat
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Study Finds Link Between PFAS Exposure And Liver Cancer

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Why Do Hammerhead Sharks Have Hammer-Shaped Heads?Great hammerhead shark eyes
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Why Do Hammerhead Sharks Have Hammer-Shaped Heads?

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New Snapshot Of Daily Lives Of The Middle Class Of Pompeii RevealedResearchers in hard hats in Pompeii excavating the site, with blue gloves on, yellow bucket and other tools
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New Snapshot Of Daily Lives Of The Middle Class Of Pompeii Revealed

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Creating Cities Probably Didn’t Shrink Humanity’s Brains, Despite Claimstwo human skulls
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Creating Cities Probably Didn’t Shrink Humanity’s Brains, Despite Claims

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TWIS: A Shark Walked Out Of Water, Ancient Maya Had A Kick-About With Their Rulers' Remains, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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TWIS: A Shark Walked Out Of Water, Ancient Maya Had A Kick-About With Their Rulers' Remains, And Much More This Week

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Why Were Ancient Roman Dice So Janky? A New Study Provides A Divine ExplanationAn ancient urn and three dice
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Why Were Ancient Roman Dice So Janky? A New Study Provides A Divine Explanation

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Man's Hoarseness Turns Out To Be Due To Rare Fungus Lodged In His ThroatRd circles – blastomyce cells – traveling around their host, sometimes separating and duplicating as they move.
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Man's Hoarseness Turns Out To Be Due To Rare Fungus Lodged In His Throat

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New York Health Officials Warn For Every One Case Of Polio, Hundreds Could Be InfectedA artist's impression of the polio virus
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New York Health Officials Warn For Every One Case Of Polio, Hundreds Could Be Infected

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Do I Have COVID Or Hay Fever? Here’s How To TellA woman blowing her nose into a tissue infront of some very yellow pollony-looking trees
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Do I Have COVID Or Hay Fever? Here’s How To Tell

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Two In Five Americans Forced To Choose Between Basic Necessities And Healthcare, Poll ShowsA sad woman looking at a bill
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Two In Five Americans Forced To Choose Between Basic Necessities And Healthcare, Poll Shows

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Another – Yep, Another – Dead Body Has Emerged At Drought-Ridden Lake MeadA photo of lake mead surrounded by high cliffs that show a distinct line that separates the old water levels with the brown cliffs
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Another – Yep, Another – Dead Body Has Emerged At Drought-Ridden Lake Mead

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Jumping Spiders Display REM-Like Sleep Behavior, Suggesting Spiders Dreamdo spiders dream? sleeping jumping spider
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Jumping Spiders Display REM-Like Sleep Behavior, Suggesting Spiders Dream

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Flash Floods Swamp Death Valley In "1,000-Year-Event" DownpourDeath Valley floods
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Flash Floods Swamp Death Valley In "1,000-Year-Event" Downpour

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Blind Spaghetti Worm Has Inflated Tentacles That Make It Look Like A Pom-Pomspaghetti worm
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Blind Spaghetti Worm Has Inflated Tentacles That Make It Look Like A Pom-Pom

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Dwarf Galaxies’ Lack Of Dark Matter Halos Challenges Current Model Of UniverseVery Large Telescope view of the Fornax Galaxy Cluster. Image Credit: ESO. Acknowledgement: Aniello Grado and Luca Limatola
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Dwarf Galaxies’ Lack Of Dark Matter Halos Challenges Current Model Of Universe

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Mars Has Got A Little "Ear" On Its SurfaceThe ear-shaped crater in Chryse Planitia (the golden plane). Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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Mars Has Got A Little "Ear" On Its Surface

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Physicist Shares Spicy “JWST Image” And People Got Mad It Was Actually ChorizoSausage Chorizo sausages on sale at a butcher shop in Spain.
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Physicist Shares Spicy “JWST Image” And People Got Mad It Was Actually Chorizo

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NASA Confirms Launch Date For Artemis I Is A GoArtemis I on the launchpad with the full Moon in the sky. Image Credit: NASA
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NASA Confirms Launch Date For Artemis I Is A Go

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A Sims 4 Update Accidentally Added Incest ModeA number of Sims characters gathered together. One man at the front looks grossed out by what's on his phone.
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A Sims 4 Update Accidentally Added Incest Mode

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New Flying Car On Sale Requires No License To Operateflying car
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New Flying Car On Sale Requires No License To Operate

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New Cheap Carbon Capture Tech Could Be Attached To TailpipesDirty smoke coming out of a car exhaust
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New Cheap Carbon Capture Tech Could Be Attached To Tailpipes

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Earth’s Days Are Getting Longer And No One Really Knows Whya close-up of the Earth's surface in space as the sun peeks out from behind starting a new day
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Earth’s Days Are Getting Longer And No One Really Knows Why

Even though the Earth recently had the shortest day/night period, on average the Earth’s days have recently become longer, but the mechanism remains somewhat puzzling.

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How Do I Donate My Brain To Science?An illustration of a man lookig up at a giant brain in awe
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How Do I Donate My Brain To Science?

Here are the answers to some of the most common questions asked about donating your brain to science.

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IFLScience The Big Questions: How Will The Universe End?The IFLScience Podcast logo: a silhouette of a person with over-ear headphones on and a question mark symbol over the speakers
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IFLScience The Big Questions: How Will The Universe End?

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IFLScience The Big Questions: What Is The Universe Made Of?IFLScience The Big Question Logo. Image Credit: IFLScience
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IFLScience The Big Questions: What Is The Universe Made Of?

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IFLScience The Big Questions: Can We Achieve Unlimited Energy?IFLScience The Big Questions Logo
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IFLScience The Big Questions: Can We Achieve Unlimited Energy?

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