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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 marsForget 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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20 Years Ago, Pluto Stopped Being A Planet. This Is Why Campaigns To Restore It Aren’t WorkingYou'd have to have a frozen heart not to feel sorry for Pluto, but reinstating it as a planet would cause a lot of other problems
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20 Years Ago, Pluto Stopped Being A Planet. This Is Why Campaigns To Restore It Aren’t Working

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Do We Really Know More About Space Than The Deep Ocean? Here's What One Of The Few People To Visit Both SaysAn illisustration of a large yellow moon rising over the sea casting a yellow reflection on its surface at night
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Do We Really Know More About Space Than The Deep Ocean? Here's What One Of The Few People To Visit Both Says

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Scientists Create Female Clones From Male Mice In "Strange And Fascinating" Experiment That Could Help Endangered Species

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New “Mega-Earth” Is Massive, On a Very Strange Orbit, And Shouldn't Really Exist

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Desert-Dwelling Neanderthals? Extinct Human Relatives May Have Ventured Into Arabia 55,000 Years Ago, Way Further South Than Thought

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For The First Time Ever, A Nurse Shark Has Filmed A Great White Shark Swimming Around A ReefGreat white shark
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For The First Time Ever, A Nurse Shark Has Filmed A Great White Shark Swimming Around A Reef

We hear they're screening the film in the sea-nema.

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Do Animals Have Pets? Monkey Friendships With Squirrels, Pigs, And Dogs Could Explain Why We Love Our Animal Pals So Muchon the left is a tufted langur, it is stroking a squirrel splooted on the branch they're both sitting on
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Do Animals Have Pets? Monkey Friendships With Squirrels, Pigs, And Dogs Could Explain Why We Love Our Animal Pals So Much

If we are looking at the evolutionary origins of pets, it begs the question: Why would an animal want to look after something it’s not related to?

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Frog That "Gave Birth” Out Of Its Mouth Went Extinct In 1983. Could The "Lazarus Project" Bring It Back With A 40-Year-Old Frozen Specimen?a froglet can be seen crawling out of the mouth of an adult gastric-brooding frog
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Frog That "Gave Birth” Out Of Its Mouth Went Extinct In 1983. Could The "Lazarus Project" Bring It Back With A 40-Year-Old Frozen Specimen?

“It appears we were able to have the ‘dead’ DNA replicate.”

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COVID Excess Deaths Study Retracted By Journal For Misinformation Weeks After Author's US Senate Testimony On Vaccinesperson in full protective gear taking a swab for a COVID test
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COVID Excess Deaths Study Retracted By Journal For Misinformation Weeks After Author's US Senate Testimony On Vaccines

The study drew criticism when it was originally published two years ago around claims that excess COVID-era deaths could be linked to vaccines.

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Cryptic Engravings On 9,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Hint At Unique Neolithic Traditions, But Archaeologists Can’t Figure Out What They MeanPrehistoric obsidian arrowhead
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Cryptic Engravings On 9,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Hint At Unique Neolithic Traditions, But Archaeologists Can’t Figure Out What They Mean

Out of thousands of arrowheads, only 54 are decorated.

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Fire May Have Transformed Humans From Daytime Creatures Into 24-Hour Animals… Kind Of Like Lemurs2477 activity pattern
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Fire May Have Transformed Humans From Daytime Creatures Into 24-Hour Animals… Kind Of Like Lemurs

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OnlyFans And Crypto Meme Coin Raise Over $120,000 For Marmot Research Faced With Funding-Cut OblivionYellow-bellied marmot on a rock
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OnlyFans And Crypto Meme Coin Raise Over $120,000 For Marmot Research Faced With Funding-Cut Oblivion

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Man's Testosterone Regimen Sends Him Into Psychosis, Hearing The Voice Of God Inside His BodyA molecular model of testosterone.
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Man's Testosterone Regimen Sends Him Into Psychosis, Hearing The Voice Of God Inside His Body

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At 3,200 Years Old, These Painted Ceramics May Be The World’s First Sought After “Brand”Pottery belonging to the Qurayyah Painted Ware brand
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At 3,200 Years Old, These Painted Ceramics May Be The World’s First Sought After “Brand”

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Hominin Taxonomy Is A Hot Mess. One Anthropologist Proposes A Shake-Up Of Our Family TreeA picture of the human family tree on display at the Natural History Museum, London.
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Hominin Taxonomy Is A Hot Mess. One Anthropologist Proposes A Shake-Up Of Our Family Tree

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New Excavations At Göbekli Tepe Are Challenging Old Theories About The 11,600-Year-Old SiteGobeklitepe in Sanliurfa, Turkey. The Ancient Site of Gobekli Tepe is The Oldest Temple of the World. UNESCO World Heritage site.
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New Excavations At Göbekli Tepe Are Challenging Old Theories About The 11,600-Year-Old Site

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Ancient “Influencers” Carrying Art May Have Driven The Greatest Dispersal In Human HistoryA plaque found at Wetar Island shows a design commonly painted on the cliff faces of the area
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Ancient “Influencers” Carrying Art May Have Driven The Greatest Dispersal In Human History

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For The First Time Ever, A Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Has Cleared Phase 3 Trials – And With Flying Colors3D colorful illustration of mRNA encased in lipid nanoparticles
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For The First Time Ever, A Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Has Cleared Phase 3 Trials – And With Flying Colors

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American Red Cross Calls For Donations Amid Second-Ever National Blood Supply Crisis In 150-Year Historyamerican red cross logo
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American Red Cross Calls For Donations Amid Second-Ever National Blood Supply Crisis In 150-Year History

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Some Think GLP-1s Could Be The Next Treatments For Alzheimer’s. So Far, Drug Trial Results Are A Mixed Bag3D illustration of a human brain next to a bottle of pills in a glowing, digital style
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Some Think GLP-1s Could Be The Next Treatments For Alzheimer’s. So Far, Drug Trial Results Are A Mixed Bag

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Miniature Rotor Made With DNA “Origami” Lets Researchers Watch Life's Essential Spina visualization of the orbit dna rotor
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Miniature Rotor Made With DNA “Origami” Lets Researchers Watch Life's Essential Spin

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Watch Live As Millions Of Wildebeest And Zebras Attempt To Cross The Mara River While Avoiding Hungry CrocodilesA herd of wildebeest scramble down a river bank and into muddy water to cross the river.
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Watch Live As Millions Of Wildebeest And Zebras Attempt To Cross The Mara River While Avoiding Hungry Crocodiles

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Jodie Foster The 4.5-Meter-Long Reticulated Python Receives Pioneering Electrochemotherapy For Mouth Tumor In World FirstAs snakes mouth is propped open as gloved hands work on her tumor.
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Jodie Foster The 4.5-Meter-Long Reticulated Python Receives Pioneering Electrochemotherapy For Mouth Tumor In World First

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North America Had A Continent-Spanning “Mega-Escarpment” A Kilometer High, And It Might Explain The Grand Canyon’s Great MysteryA view across the grand canyon showing its pinky-orange cliffs.
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North America Had A Continent-Spanning “Mega-Escarpment” A Kilometer High, And It Might Explain The Grand Canyon’s Great Mystery

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Crocodile Ancestors Were Once Warm-Blooded But Re-Evolved Cold-Bloodedness To Suit Their Sinister Lifestyleocodile lies on the ocean floor, mouth partially ajar,
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Crocodile Ancestors Were Once Warm-Blooded But Re-Evolved Cold-Bloodedness To Suit Their Sinister Lifestyle

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You Can Now See The Before And After Of The SpaceX Collision On The Moonthe cratered surface of the Moon and in the middle two overlapping crater with one of them showing fresh streaks of dark and bright material
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You Can Now See The Before And After Of The SpaceX Collision On The Moon

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Newly Discovered Fastest Star In The Galaxy Moves At 8 Percent Of The Speed Of Light, And Will Allow Us To Take An Incredible Black Hole Measurementartist impression shows many orbits with a variety of of inclinations around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy
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Newly Discovered Fastest Star In The Galaxy Moves At 8 Percent Of The Speed Of Light, And Will Allow Us To Take An Incredible Black Hole Measurement

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Newly Discovered State Of Matter Is Like Mixing Water And Oil: Meet The Quantum Droplets Of Bosons And Fermionsa water droplet on the surface of a cd with light shingin through it showing funky little refractions
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Newly Discovered State Of Matter Is Like Mixing Water And Oil: Meet The Quantum Droplets Of Bosons And Fermions

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The Milky Way Merged With Another Galaxy In The Distant Past, 1.8 Billion Years Before Its Collision With The Infamous Sausage GalaxyA small bright galaxy is colliding with a much larger one
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The Milky Way Merged With Another Galaxy In The Distant Past, 1.8 Billion Years Before Its Collision With The Infamous Sausage Galaxy

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One Of The Coldest Places In The Universe Is Now A Fridge In New YorkThe first two modules of the IBM’s scalable and modular cryogenic system are two metal boxes with copper structures inside
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One Of The Coldest Places In The Universe Is Now A Fridge In New York

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Jazz Musicians Leave Hidden “Fingerprints” In Their Work – Newly Trained Computer Models Can Identify Them With Over 90 Percent Accuracyvintage-looking upright piano against a brick wall
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Jazz Musicians Leave Hidden “Fingerprints” In Their Work – Newly Trained Computer Models Can Identify Them With Over 90 Percent Accuracy

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AI Offloading: Legitimate Threat To Our Brains Or Overblown Moral Panic? We Asked A Neuroscientist For His Takerepresentation of human with the top of the skull removed and a logo that resembles an AI company or human brain, on a background with nebula-like swirls of blue and orange
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AI Offloading: Legitimate Threat To Our Brains Or Overblown Moral Panic? We Asked A Neuroscientist For His Take

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World's Largest Electric Aircraft Just Took Its Maiden Flight Using $5 Worth Of ElectricityHeart Aerospace’s battery-electric X1 demonstrator banks east toward the rising sun during its first flight near Plattsburgh, New York, in August 2026, with Lake Champlain in the distance.
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World's Largest Electric Aircraft Just Took Its Maiden Flight Using $5 Worth Of Electricity

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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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Ever Struggle To Sleep On Your First Night Somewhere New? Be Grateful – Your Brain Is Just Looking Out For Youwoman sitting up in bed in a dark room with some yellow fairy lights in the window
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Ever Struggle To Sleep On Your First Night Somewhere New? Be Grateful – Your Brain Is Just Looking Out For You

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The Mathematical Reason Why No Voting System Can Ever Be Totally Fairan illustration of hands holding voting slips
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The Mathematical Reason Why No Voting System Can Ever Be Totally Fair

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When A Disease Scare Fizzles Out, Did Scientists Just Get It Wrong? What We Can Learn From The Pandemics That Weren'ttwo posters that are ripped at the edges, the one on the left shows an illustration of a pig sneezing with viruses nearby, the other is a biohazard warning poster. A logo in the top right hand corner reads IFLScience Viral Summer.
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When A Disease Scare Fizzles Out, Did Scientists Just Get It Wrong? What We Can Learn From The Pandemics That Weren't

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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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Hominin Taxonomy Is A Hot Mess, See The Before And After Of SpaceX's Collision On The Moon, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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Hominin Taxonomy Is A Hot Mess, See The Before And After Of SpaceX's Collision On The Moon, And Much More This Week

All the biggest science news stories of the week.

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Viking Runic Graffiti Can Be Found In A Turkish Mosque Over 2,400 Kilometers From ScandinaviaAerial view of Hagia Sophia Mosque (Ayasofya Cami) in Istanbul TUrkey
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Viking Runic Graffiti Can Be Found In A Turkish Mosque Over 2,400 Kilometers From Scandinavia

Get around, get around, Vikings get around.

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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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