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Autism Diagnosis Risks “Losing Its Meaning," Says Veteran Researcher. Others Say Her Arguments Just Don’t Stack Upcolourful background of different figures overlaid with a black graph with an upward curving arrowAutism Diagnosis Risks “Losing Its Meaning," Says Veteran Researcher. Others Say Her Arguments Just Don’t Stack Upcolourful background of different figures overlaid with a black graph with an upward curving arrow
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Autism Diagnosis Risks “Losing Its Meaning," Says Veteran Researcher. Others Say Her Arguments Just Don’t Stack Up

IFLScience spoke to Dame Uta Frith, who has studied autism for 60 years and whose belief that a radical change in diagnosis is needed...

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For The First Time Ever A Fossil Leg Bone Shows That Even Dinosaurs Had To Deal With Serious Skin InfectionsIguanodon bernissartensis in the National History Museum of Paris. Taken from above looking down on the skeleton.
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For The First Time Ever A Fossil Leg Bone Shows That Even Dinosaurs Had To Deal With Serious Skin Infections

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NASA Wants Bezos’ Blue Origin To Build Next-Gen Communications On Mars – Are We Any Closer To High-Speed Internet On The Red Planet?artist impression of rovers on mars communicating with a satellite that communicates with Earth in the background
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NASA Wants Bezos’ Blue Origin To Build Next-Gen Communications On Mars – Are We Any Closer To High-Speed Internet On The Red Planet?

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A Trick Of Gravity? The Biggest Black Hole Merger Ever Detected May Have Deceived Us All

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Could Telling Stories Around A Campfire Have Sparked The Evolution Of Human Language?

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How Close Are Scientists To Creating "Digital Twins" Of Human Brains? If Technology Can Catch Up, The Uses Could Be Endless

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South America Was Once Home To Megapiranha, Predatory Fish With A Bite Force That Outchomped Megalodona close up of a piranha with jaws open showing sharp teeth, it has a very red/orange eye
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South America Was Once Home To Megapiranha, Predatory Fish With A Bite Force That Outchomped Megalodon

Meanwhile, an Amazon fish alive today has a bite force (relative to size) three-times stronger than an American alligator.

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Forget Mars! If We Want To Send Humans To Another Planet, Venus Is The Way To Goan artist impression of a city in they clouds and then a big forbidden sign over mars
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Forget Mars! If We Want To Send Humans To Another Planet, Venus Is The Way To Go

We can do so much better than a dusty Red Planet. Gives us a real interplanetary adventure!

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200,000 Barrels Of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped In The Atlantic. Decades Later, We’re Finally Learning What Happens When They Leaka barrel on the seafloor has big holes and animals growing on it
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200,000 Barrels Of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped In The Atlantic. Decades Later, We’re Finally Learning What Happens When They Leak

It’s not good news, but it's also not yet terrible news.

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Early Cretaceous Footprints Appear To Come From The Largest Mammal Of The Dinosaur EraArtist's impression of the largest mammal known from the age of the dinosaurs, with a juvenile dinosaur in its mouth
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Early Cretaceous Footprints Appear To Come From The Largest Mammal Of The Dinosaur Era

At over 1.5 meters, maybe not all our mammalian predecessors were near the bottom of a dinosaur-ruled food chain.

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A NASA Spacecraft Is Nearing The Edge Of The Solar System. Its Instruments May Be Shut Off Due To Lack Of FundingSunlight behind Pluto: A thin disk of blue light seen behind the dwarf planet.
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A NASA Spacecraft Is Nearing The Edge Of The Solar System. Its Instruments May Be Shut Off Due To Lack Of Funding

New Horizons' instruments may be shut off before it reaches the Solar System's "termination shock", despite it being fully functional likely into the 2050s.

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Long-Predicted Gravitational Effect Seen In A Quantum Object For The Very First Time – Einstein’s Theory Passes Another Crucial Testneon swirling patterns as a concept for quantum gravity
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Long-Predicted Gravitational Effect Seen In A Quantum Object For The Very First Time – Einstein’s Theory Passes Another Crucial Test

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Fermi Explorer: Sending A Spacecraft On A 55,000-Mile-Per-Hour Mission To Alpha Centauri To Tackle The Fermi ParadoxAlpha Centauri AB; a bright blue light against a backdrop of stars.
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Fermi Explorer: Sending A Spacecraft On A 55,000-Mile-Per-Hour Mission To Alpha Centauri To Tackle The Fermi Paradox

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Saturn Has A New Decagonal-Shaped Wave At Its South Pole To Go With The Hexagon In The NorthA 10-sided atmospheric wave around Saturn's south pole has been shown to extend through layers of Saturn's atmosphere
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Saturn Has A New Decagonal-Shaped Wave At Its South Pole To Go With The Hexagon In The North

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Human Mini Brains Kept Alive For 5 Years, Listen To The Sounds Of An Ancient Jurassic Forest, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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Human Mini Brains Kept Alive For 5 Years, Listen To The Sounds Of An Ancient Jurassic Forest, And Much More This Week

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Wearing Shoes May Explain Why Modern Humans' Feet Are Much Daintier Than Those Of NeanderthalsPair of feet, one in stripy socks and a fancy brogue shoe, the other in a different colour sock, casually crossed at the ankles
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Wearing Shoes May Explain Why Modern Humans' Feet Are Much Daintier Than Those Of Neanderthals

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Unusual 11,000-Year-Old Statue Of A Human Riding A Leopard Discovered At Karahan Tepe, One Of Humanity’s Oldest SettlementsAn ancient carving of a human figure sitting on a leopard.
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Unusual 11,000-Year-Old Statue Of A Human Riding A Leopard Discovered At Karahan Tepe, One Of Humanity’s Oldest Settlements

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"No Place To Hide?": Study Identifies Where You Should Go To Avoid Global Catastrophe, But It Largely Involves Moving To AustraliaWest MacDonnell National Park in Australia. Water in the foreground, with two rock faces in the background.
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"No Place To Hide?": Study Identifies Where You Should Go To Avoid Global Catastrophe, But It Largely Involves Moving To Australia

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Common Sweetener Added To Sugar-Free Desserts Linked To Higher Risk Of Heart Attack And Strokevariety of ice cream scoops and cones on a pink background
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Common Sweetener Added To Sugar-Free Desserts Linked To Higher Risk Of Heart Attack And Stroke

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Two “Revolutionary” Non-Hormonal Male Birth Control Products Could Hit The Market In As Little As 2 Years, Founder Saysillustration of sperm surrounding an ovum with one cell getting closer to the ovum to fertilize it
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Two “Revolutionary” Non-Hormonal Male Birth Control Products Could Hit The Market In As Little As 2 Years, Founder Says

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Are There Body Parts You Can Live Without? You'd Be Surprised How ManyA stylised illustration of the operation game.
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Are There Body Parts You Can Live Without? You'd Be Surprised How Many

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World’s First Live AI-Assisted Brain Surgery Successfully Saves Man’s Vision By Removing TumorWorld's first AI-assisted brain surgery
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World’s First Live AI-Assisted Brain Surgery Successfully Saves Man’s Vision By Removing Tumor

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These Weird Hexagonal Fossils Have Puzzled Scientists For Centuries. Now, We Finally Know What The Maker Of Paleodictyon Looks Likea lump of rock shows a strange imprint of hexagons on its surface
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These Weird Hexagonal Fossils Have Puzzled Scientists For Centuries. Now, We Finally Know What The Maker Of Paleodictyon Looks Like

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Japan Culled Around 12,000 Asian Black Bears Last Year – Potentially Wiping Out 20 Percent Of The Global PopulationA yellow warning sign showing a picture of a bear with the word in Japanese and English reading "beware of bears".
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Japan Culled Around 12,000 Asian Black Bears Last Year – Potentially Wiping Out 20 Percent Of The Global Population

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Tiny Fossil Pawprints Dating Back 54 Million Years Are The First Known Mammal Footprints Ever Found In AntarcticaA small carnivorous mammal by the edge of a ake near a bird nest containing three eggs. There are trees and an active volcano in the background.
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Tiny Fossil Pawprints Dating Back 54 Million Years Are The First Known Mammal Footprints Ever Found In Antarctica

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There Are Lifeforms In Antarctica Found Nowhere Else On Earth, And Like A Miniature Version Of Pokémon, Scientists Want To Catch Them Alla huge mountain in the antarctic landscape
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There Are Lifeforms In Antarctica Found Nowhere Else On Earth, And Like A Miniature Version Of Pokémon, Scientists Want To Catch Them All

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BepiColombo Reaches Critical New Milestone – Here's Why It's The Best Mission You May Not Have Heard Oftwo portions of the spacecraft are seen apart with Mercury in the backgroud
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BepiColombo Reaches Critical New Milestone – Here's Why It's The Best Mission You May Not Have Heard Of

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Could The Moon Have Formed In An Afternoon? New Simulations Say It's Possible – But It Depends On The Temperatures Of Two Colliding Planetsa visualization of a molten moon and earth assembling
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Could The Moon Have Formed In An Afternoon? New Simulations Say It's Possible – But It Depends On The Temperatures Of Two Colliding Planets

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Venus May Once Have Suffered A "Moon-Forming" Impact, But The Resulting Satellite Wouldn't Have Stuck Around For LongThe existance of a large moon around Venus would create a thrilling sight at many times, but never more than during transits of Venus like the one photographed here.
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Venus May Once Have Suffered A "Moon-Forming" Impact, But The Resulting Satellite Wouldn't Have Stuck Around For Long

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"Little Big Bang" At CERN Recreates The Extremes Of The Birth Of The Universe Using The Lightest Atoms Yetartist rendition of the alice experiment with a collisions going on and two inset show a round droplet from the oxygen collision and a fat-bowling-pin droplet in the neon collisions
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"Little Big Bang" At CERN Recreates The Extremes Of The Birth Of The Universe Using The Lightest Atoms Yet

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Man Manages To Access Bitcoin Wallet After 12 Years, Becomes An Instant Millionaire OvernightArtist impression of a Bitcoin.
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Man Manages To Access Bitcoin Wallet After 12 Years, Becomes An Instant Millionaire Overnight

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If You Think Not Owning Your Media Is Bad, Thank The Lord That "Flexplay" Did Not Catch OnA Flexplay DVD: A dark red DVD disk inside a plastic bag.
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If You Think Not Owning Your Media Is Bad, Thank The Lord That "Flexplay" Did Not Catch On

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Purple Clothes Using Nobel-Prize Winning Chemistry Could Keep You Cool With The Power Of Outer Spacethe purple mof material, before it is added to thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)
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Purple Clothes Using Nobel-Prize Winning Chemistry Could Keep You Cool With The Power Of Outer Space

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Flaw In NASA System Found By AI Could Have Been Used To Issue Commands To Active SpacecraftArtist depiction of Voyager looking back at the Solar System.
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Flaw In NASA System Found By AI Could Have Been Used To Issue Commands To Active Spacecraft

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Google Adds "Lake America" To Google Maps For Users All Over The World. Only In Canada Will It Remain "Lake Ontario"Lake Ontario on Google Maps. The lake remains labeled "Lake Ontario".
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Google Adds "Lake America" To Google Maps For Users All Over The World. Only In Canada Will It Remain "Lake Ontario"

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Nostalgia Has Millennials And Gen Z In A Chokehold – Is It Harmless Indulgence Or Evolutionary Necessity?A picture of a polaroid photo of an orange pink sunset.
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Nostalgia Has Millennials And Gen Z In A Chokehold – Is It Harmless Indulgence Or Evolutionary Necessity?

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Why Are Republicans And The Right So Obsessed With Psychedelics Right Now?Donald Trump dancing
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Why Are Republicans And The Right So Obsessed With Psychedelics Right Now?

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X-Files Creator Chris Carter On How Real-Life Head Transplants Inspired The Show’s Scariest MovieA still from the movie showing Mulder and Scully looking at a computer monitor
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X-Files Creator Chris Carter On How Real-Life Head Transplants Inspired The Show’s Scariest Movie

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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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How A PhD Student Found A Large, Ancient, And Lost Maya City On "Like Page 16 Of Google Search"The jungle, seen from the top of an ancient Mayan structure in the foreground.
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How A PhD Student Found A Large, Ancient, And Lost Maya City On "Like Page 16 Of Google Search"

AI overview could never do this.

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I Have An Existential Crisis Every Time I Think About Deep-Sea Abyssal Plains – And I Think You Should TooA deep sea sponge that looks nothing like a sponge. It is a branched, globular structure on a long stick.
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I Have An Existential Crisis Every Time I Think About Deep-Sea Abyssal Plains – And I Think You Should Too

The deep-sea plains beneath Earth's oceans represent a vast span of time and space that has made it virtually unchanged into the present day.

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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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