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Highest Resolution Images Of The Sun’s Surface Reveal Vortices That Could Explain Explosive Solar ActivitySwirls on the Sun caused by bubbles of plasma look like breaking waves at a previously impossible resolutionHighest Resolution Images Of The Sun’s Surface Reveal Vortices That Could Explain Explosive Solar ActivitySwirls on the Sun caused by bubbles of plasma look like breaking waves at a previously impossible resolution

Highest Resolution Images Of The Sun’s Surface Reveal Vortices That Could Explain Explosive Solar Activity

The work could help resolve two of our biggest questions about the Sun: the original cause of solar storms, and why its upper atmosphere...

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A SpaceX Rocket Has Probably Just Crashed Into The Moon – Now We Wait To See If Anyone Was Lucky Enough To Snap A Photo Of The CollisionA shot of the Moon and our old friend planet Earth, taken by the Artemis II crew in April 2026.
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A SpaceX Rocket Has Probably Just Crashed Into The Moon – Now We Wait To See If Anyone Was Lucky Enough To Snap A Photo Of The Collision

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"You Can't Unsee The Muppet Show" – Meet The Sea Muppets, Mysterious New Species That Have Never Been Seen AliveThree examples of the new species, two on the left beloning to Australyichthys aegis and the final one on the right is Australyichthys minotaur. All are orangey yellow and quite small.
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"You Can't Unsee The Muppet Show" – Meet The Sea Muppets, Mysterious New Species That Have Never Been Seen Alive

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Brain Preservation Paradox Solved: How Some Human Brains Survived For Over 10,000 Years While The Body Decayed

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Dinosaurs Had Rocks In Their Bellies. We’ve Found A Bunch Of Them, But We’re Only Now Realizing How Many Juicy Details They Contain

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The First New Ice Age Toad From La Brea Tar Pits – North America's Second Ice Age Amphibian – Is Helping Us Understand Climate Change

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The Birth Of A Seafloor: Scientists Witness New Oceanic Crust Forming Through Earth Splitting Apart For First TimeHydrothermal vents on the ocean floor
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The Birth Of A Seafloor: Scientists Witness New Oceanic Crust Forming Through Earth Splitting Apart For First Time

Like a snake shedding its skin, Earth's crust is constantly being remade.

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How The Anus May Have Triggered The World’s First Mass Extinction Event And Other “Evolution” Wisdom With Chris Packhamchris packham holds the replica skull of Simocetus rayi, an ancient early toothed whale.
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How The Anus May Have Triggered The World’s First Mass Extinction Event And Other “Evolution” Wisdom With Chris Packham

“Life on Earth didn't have a head until it had an arse,” Packham tells IFLScience.

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Meet Simon And Garfunkel: Rare Two-Headed Gecko Doing Well At 1 Month Old, Even If "The Left Head Is A Bit More Grumpy"A two headed gecko in two photos showing off the heads.
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Meet Simon And Garfunkel: Rare Two-Headed Gecko Doing Well At 1 Month Old, Even If "The Left Head Is A Bit More Grumpy"

Sometimes two heads are better than one, but not usually when they share a body.

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Falcon 9 Rocket Stage "Abandoned" In High-Earth Orbit Is About To Slam Into The Moon, With The Energy Of 11.8 GigajoulesA topographical map of the Einstein crater on the Moon. Circles around a central impact crater.
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Falcon 9 Rocket Stage "Abandoned" In High-Earth Orbit Is About To Slam Into The Moon, With The Energy Of 11.8 Gigajoules

The Moon is about to get a new crater courtesy of Elon Musk, and astronomers are ready to watch it happen.

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Linear Structures Found Near The Red Pyramid Hint At How Ancient Egyptians Built These Colossal Monuments Over 4,500 Years Agoancient Egyptian pyramids viewed from the side
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Linear Structures Found Near The Red Pyramid Hint At How Ancient Egyptians Built These Colossal Monuments Over 4,500 Years Ago

Before you build a pyramid, you must build one of these.

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Sam Altman Suggested A New Use For ChatGPT And It Has People Saying "Jesus This Is Bleak"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in front of a sign which reads "OpenAI".
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Sam Altman Suggested A New Use For ChatGPT And It Has People Saying "Jesus This Is Bleak"

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Sunshades And Orbital Engineering: How Earth's Creatures Could Survive The End Of The Sun And Watch The Universe Die OutArtist depiction of a Dyson swarm; tiny spacecraft surrounding a star.
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Sunshades And Orbital Engineering: How Earth's Creatures Could Survive The End Of The Sun And Watch The Universe Die Out

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Watch The Dramatic Moment A Gigantic Iceberg Flips Over Right Next To A Town In GreenlandA large iceberg, which can be seen above and reflected in the water.
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Watch The Dramatic Moment A Gigantic Iceberg Flips Over Right Next To A Town In Greenland

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Homo Erectus And Hobbit Humans May Have Had To Protect Their Helpless Babies From Leopards, Tigers And Komodo DragonsArtist's impression of Homo erectus parents caring for baby and child
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Homo Erectus And Hobbit Humans May Have Had To Protect Their Helpless Babies From Leopards, Tigers And Komodo Dragons

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Footprints On A 1.43-Million-Year-Old Shoreline Have Anthropologists Questioning If We’ve Underestimated Early Hominin’s SizeThis 1.43-million-year-old hominin footprint from Koobi Fora, Kenya is either from a H. erectus with surprisingly splayed toes, or a giant Paranthropus
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Footprints On A 1.43-Million-Year-Old Shoreline Have Anthropologists Questioning If We’ve Underestimated Early Hominin’s Size

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Identities Of Mysterious "Ghost Lineages" – Groups Of Ancient Hominins That Bred With Our Ancestors – Narrowed Down By New TechniqueSculpture of a human walking among the clouds
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Identities Of Mysterious "Ghost Lineages" – Groups Of Ancient Hominins That Bred With Our Ancestors – Narrowed Down By New Technique

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Two Tiny Ivory Figurines Dating Back 40,000 Years Add To Enduring Mystery Of Why There Are So Few Birds Depicted In Ice Age ArtTwo ivory figurines of birds. The one on the left has its back to us showing patterned feathers on its wings, the one of the right is flatter and has a little beak and eyes.
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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

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Innovative New Cancer Vaccine Weaponizes The Body's Memory Of COVID-19 To Mount A “Coordinated, Supercharged Immune Attack”Cellular architecture of normal human skin imaged by whole mount tissue microscopy. Human skin has a rich network of white blood cells (specifically dendritic cells, T cells and macrophages) which form sheaths around blood vessels. In this image, blood vessels (string-like structures stained for CD31; red), lymphatic vessels (ribbon-like structures stained for LYVE-1; blue) and dendritic cells (stained for CD11c; green) can be seen. Macrophages (stained for LYVE-1; blue) are also present.
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Innovative New Cancer Vaccine Weaponizes The Body's Memory Of COVID-19 To Mount A “Coordinated, Supercharged Immune Attack”

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A Little-Known Tick-Borne Virus Discovered Just 12 Years Ago Has Been Detected In New York For The First TimeLone star ticks (Amblyomma americanum) are the vectors of of several pathogens affecting
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A Little-Known Tick-Borne Virus Discovered Just 12 Years Ago Has Been Detected In New York For The First Time

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The Tragic Story Of Clarence Madison Dally, Thomas Edison's Assistant And The World's First Victim Of X-Ray ExposureThomas Edison looking through a calcium tungstate flouroscope at an assistant's hands.
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The Tragic Story Of Clarence Madison Dally, Thomas Edison's Assistant And The World's First Victim Of X-Ray Exposure

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As Measles Cases Hit Record 35-Year Highs In The US, We Ask An Expert: What Can Be Done To Combat Re-Emerging Diseases?Measles infection in a brain cell nucleus.
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As Measles Cases Hit Record 35-Year Highs In The US, We Ask An Expert: What Can Be Done To Combat Re-Emerging Diseases?

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Wild Monkeys Were Introduced To An AI Computer System In The Jungle, Revealing Insights Into Their Cognitive PowersTwo capuchin monkeys with a computer in the Taboga Forest Reserve of Costa Rica.
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Wild Monkeys Were Introduced To An AI Computer System In The Jungle, Revealing Insights Into Their Cognitive Powers

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Sperm Whales Produce Loudest Sound Ever Made By A Mammal And It Can Travel Whopping 70 Kilometers, But No One Knows WhyA large sperm whale with its mouth open near the surface of the water
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Sperm Whales Produce Loudest Sound Ever Made By A Mammal And It Can Travel Whopping 70 Kilometers, But No One Knows Why

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There Were Actually Two Mass Extinctions During The Cretaceous, And The First One Is Looking Very FamiliarBy comapring vast numbers of foramanifera samples collected from the ocean floor at different ages, Dr Jonathon Chen established the cause of the second worst extinction of these calcifying plankton
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There Were Actually Two Mass Extinctions During The Cretaceous, And The First One Is Looking Very Familiar

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Long-running London Weather Station May Have Seen First Calendar Month With No Rain Since 1871A simple rain gauge: A test tube with a funneled top.
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Long-running London Weather Station May Have Seen First Calendar Month With No Rain Since 1871

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The Largest Galaxy In The Universe Is Even Bigger Than We Thought… And It Hasn't Finished GrowingThe galaxy looks a yellow elliptical collection of stars with a bright center
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The Largest Galaxy In The Universe Is Even Bigger Than We Thought… And It Hasn't Finished Growing

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Asteroid (44) Nysa Is A World Like No Other – It’s The First Known 3-Lobed Space Object And Even Has Its Own Moonthe asteroid looks like a bulbous arch from this vantage point
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Asteroid (44) Nysa Is A World Like No Other – It’s The First Known 3-Lobed Space Object And Even Has Its Own Moon

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Curiosity Finds "Sea Of Polygons" On Mars. But Photos Of The Rover Itself Show Its Back Wheel Isn't In Great ShapePolygonal structures on the red, Martian surface. Circled in yellow is the wheel of the Curiosity rover, looking extensively damaged.
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Curiosity Finds "Sea Of Polygons" On Mars. But Photos Of The Rover Itself Show Its Back Wheel Isn't In Great Shape

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Astronomers Looking Through Forgotten Observations Find Bizarre And Beautiful Planet-Wide Rings On VenusTwo images of Venus. Left shows a featureless planet, imaged in all light. Right shows polarized light, with concentric circles layered throughout the planet.
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Astronomers Looking Through Forgotten Observations Find Bizarre And Beautiful Planet-Wide Rings On Venus

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History Professor Catches 32 Out Of 35 Students Cheating On Their Exam By Including One Hidden Line In The QuestionA building with large white pillars at Alcorn State University.
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History Professor Catches 32 Out Of 35 Students Cheating On Their Exam By Including One Hidden Line In The Question

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The Wreck Of A Plane That Changed Aviation Forever Has Been Found At The Bottom Of The Sea After 74 YearsAn archival image of Clipper Endeavor, highlighting features that were seen on the Atlantic seabed during this latest expedition.
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The Wreck Of A Plane That Changed Aviation Forever Has Been Found At The Bottom Of The Sea After 74 Years

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One Of The Earliest "Online" Games Took Place In 1897, And Was An Attempt To Ease Tensions Between The US And Great BritainA poster promoting a telegraph chess game in 1898.
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One Of The Earliest "Online" Games Took Place In 1897, And Was An Attempt To Ease Tensions Between The US And Great Britain

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Invisible Drones: A New Flying Robot Spins So Fast It Hides In Plain SightLow-visibility drone flying in front of a plant
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Invisible Drones: A New Flying Robot Spins So Fast It Hides In Plain Sight

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Your Personality Isn't As Stable As You Think: This Is How You Will Change As You AgeHeraclitus in his river, thinking about how correct he is.
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Your Personality Isn't As Stable As You Think: This Is How You Will Change As You Age

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People Are More Likely To Be Your Friend If You Seem Like A Good Hunter-GathererGroup of friends
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People Are More Likely To Be Your Friend If You Seem Like A Good Hunter-Gatherer

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Dunning-Kruger And The Calamitous Lemon Juice Bank Robbery That Launched A New Cognitive Biasan open bag filled with dollar notes
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Dunning-Kruger And The Calamitous Lemon Juice Bank Robbery That Launched A New Cognitive Bias

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The Dead Coexisted With The Living In The Deep Past. Now Scientists Want To Understand Why We Stopped Burying Our Loved Ones At Homea cemetery including several cross-shaped tombstones
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The Dead Coexisted With The Living In The Deep Past. Now Scientists Want To Understand Why We Stopped Burying Our Loved Ones At Home

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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 Modelcollage of images related to science with "iflscience is evolving" written in the centre
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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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Living Magnets: Meet the Bacteria That Can Sense Earth's Magnetic FieldA coloured microscope image showing different coloured blobs of bacteria.
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Living Magnets: Meet the Bacteria That Can Sense Earth's Magnetic Field

Long before animals evolved magnetic navigation, bacteria were using microscopic compasses to thrive in a world of varied oxygen levels.

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Deep Inside A Cave, Neanderthals Built A Circular Structure Made Of Stalagmites Around 176,500 Years AgoThe ring structures built in Bruniquel cave by Neanderthals using broken stalagmites
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Deep Inside A Cave, Neanderthals Built A Circular Structure Made Of Stalagmites Around 176,500 Years Ago

Archaeologists have described the work at Bruniquel Cave as "unprecedented" for a bunch of reasons.

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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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