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Zookeepers Dress Up As A Crowned Crane To Protect Pip, An Endangered Chick, And It's As Adorable As You'd Expecta small chick looks at a giant hand puppet made to look like its crowned crane parentZookeepers Dress Up As A Crowned Crane To Protect Pip, An Endangered Chick, And It's As Adorable As You'd Expecta small chick looks at a giant hand puppet made to look like its crowned crane parent

Zookeepers Dress Up As A Crowned Crane To Protect Pip, An Endangered Chick, And It's As Adorable As You'd Expect

Raising a chick with puppets prevents young animals from imprinting on humans. Plus, it’s fun.

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As RFK Jr. Opens Inquiry On Disputed Health Effects Of Cellphone Radiation, What Does Science Tell Us About Radiofrequency Emissions?

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How Useful Is A Quantum Computer? Now We Have A Benchmark To Assess Just That

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A Single Particle Of Light From The Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever Known Is Challenging Einstein’s Relativity

That single photon shouldn't have reached Earth. But surprisingly, it did.

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Casper The “Ghost” Lobster Is 1-In-100-Million, With A Shell So Fancy It Has To Be Seen To Be Believed

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Tutankhamun’s Tomb May Contain Hidden Chambers Housing The Body Of His Predecessor, Queen Nefertiti

Researchers hope to finally peek inside later this year.

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First New Cat Species In Over 100 Years Is A Totally Charming Tiny Tiger From Bolivia

Welcome to the party, Leopardus tilcayo.

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A Two-Month-Long Meteor Shower Has Just Started, And Now's Also A Good Time To Watch Neptune At Its Brightest

The next few weeks offer plenty of celestial spectacles for the amateur astronomers among you to enjoy.

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Early Galaxies Were Already Enriched In Heavy Elements And Spewing Them Out, Significantly Changing Our Understanding Of The Early Universe

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A “Ghost Dolphin” Washed Up On A Beach In Brazil. Its Wounds Revealed The First-Ever Record Of It Being Hunted By An Unlikely Predator

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Pre-Inca Warriors In “The Most Violent Place In The Andes” Never Bothered Inventing The Bow And Arrow

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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

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The First Human Burials Have Been Excavated At Göbekli Tepe, Challenging Old Theories About The 11,500-Year-Old Site

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A New Fragment Of The World’s Oldest Peace Treaty Has Been Found With A Message About War Refugees

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Very Slow Running May Be Enough To Boost Your Mood And Enhance Your Focus

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Two Indigenous Amazon Groups Have Very Low Dementia Rates, But Can A Shorter Life Expectancy Explain It?

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Red-Eyed Sea Spiders With Hairy Legs And Three-Lipped Mouths Discovered In The Salish Sea, The First In Almost 100 Years

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Secret Cameras Reveal How Mother Chimpanzees Teach Their Young To Hunt Ants, Crack Fruits, And Forage For Algae

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For The First Time, Scientists Have Looked Inside Living Antarctic Cells And Found Their Incredible Adaptations Antarctic spiny plunderfish cell culture
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For The First Time, Scientists Have Looked Inside Living Antarctic Cells And Found Their Incredible Adaptations

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Asteroid Bennu Formed From A Mixture Of Inner And Outer Solar System Material Potentially Stirred Up By Jupiter

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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Now 1,770,000,000 Kilometers From Earth. What New Things Have We Learned From Its Visit?

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For The First Time Ever We've Seen A Neutron Star Gobbling The Solar Wind From Its Companion

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Ancient Mars Had A Very Complex Water System With Lakes, Groundwater, And Hydrothermal Events

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iLands: The New Dystopian AI Farm That Is Filling Everyone's Inboxes With Spam

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What If We Never Had To Solve The Same Problem Twice?

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Why The USA Is Building A Massive New $1.2 Billion Magnet Factory In South Carolina

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Chasing Likes And Page Views: Why Is Modern Life So Exhausting?

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5,900 New Words Added To English Dictionary As It Attempts To Keep Up With Evolving Language

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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 Science

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One Of The First Ancient Humans To Leave Africa Had Just One Tooth, Yet Somehow SurvivedThe skull of a 1.77-million-year-old hominin with just one tooth
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One Of The First Ancient Humans To Leave Africa Had Just One Tooth, Yet Somehow Survived

It may have stayed alive by eating brains, and perhaps received a little help from its friends.

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There Are Pumas In North Wales And Nothing You Can Tell Me About Sustainable Big Cat Populations Will Convince Me Otherwise

Scientists are always arguing that we should pay more attention to local knowledge, all I'm saying is that should also be applied to the Welsh.

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How We Remember: The Neuroscience of Memory Explained

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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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