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"Very, Very Rare" Humpback Whale Birth Captured By Drone Shows Calf's Critical First Moments And Mom's Maternal InstinctsA grey humpback whale calf swims just above its much large dark blue mother at the water's surface."Very, Very Rare" Humpback Whale Birth Captured By Drone Shows Calf's Critical First Moments And Mom's Maternal InstinctsA grey humpback whale calf swims just above its much large dark blue mother at the water's surface.

"Very, Very Rare" Humpback Whale Birth Captured By Drone Shows Calf's Critical First Moments And Mom's Maternal Instincts

This is the first humpback whale birth to be captured from the air.

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One Of The World’s Rarest Amphibians Was Down To Its Last 1,000. Now, 32 Have Been Released Into The Wild In A Top Secret Locationa greyish juvenile newt looks directly at the camera, it's giving Toothless in How To Train Your Dragon
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One Of The World’s Rarest Amphibians Was Down To Its Last 1,000. Now, 32 Have Been Released Into The Wild In A Top Secret Location

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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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Your Personality Isn't As Stable As You Think: This Is How You Will Change As You Age

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The Story Of The Last Surviving Woolly Mammoths And What Might Have Caused Them To Go Extinct

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The USSR Had Nuclear-Powered Lighthouses Lining Its Arctic Coast, And They Became As Big A Problem As You Can ImagineMist and seabirds hang over the Aniva lighthouse in the North Pacific Ocean near Sakhalin, Russia.
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The USSR Had Nuclear-Powered Lighthouses Lining Its Arctic Coast, And They Became As Big A Problem As You Can Imagine

What could go wrong? Quite a lot, it turns out.

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Monkeys Are Creeped Out By The "Uncanny Valley", Just Like We AreMonkey freaked out by weird avatar
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Monkeys Are Creeped Out By The "Uncanny Valley", Just Like We Are

Non-human primates may possess the same social perception mechanisms as us.

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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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For Almost 1,500 Years, The Ancestors Of Modern-Day Native Americans Kept Coming Back To This Sacred Cave To Paint In Complete DarknessPicture Cave rock art
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For Almost 1,500 Years, The Ancestors Of Modern-Day Native Americans Kept Coming Back To This Sacred Cave To Paint In Complete Darkness

But the cave was auctioned off to a private owner in 2021.

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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

According to an independent analysis, the weather station at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has hit a worrying new milestone.

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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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Mammals Crossed Between North And South America For Millions Of Years Before The Continents JoinedSloth swimming in the Amazon river
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Mammals Crossed Between North And South America For Millions Of Years Before The Continents Joined

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How Do Animals Get Their Patterns? Find Out More In Issue 49 Of CURIOUS – Out Now

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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 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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US Government Waives Laws Protecting Native American Graves In Order To Build Border Wall Over 6,000-Year-Old Rock Art SitesRock art mural from Panther Cave
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US Government Waives Laws Protecting Native American Graves In Order To Build Border Wall Over 6,000-Year-Old Rock Art Sites

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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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In September 2025, A Lab Error Left A College Class In Turmoil Thinking They’d Been Exposed To Deadly BacteriaNeisseria meningitidis growing on an agar plate
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In September 2025, A Lab Error Left A College Class In Turmoil Thinking They’d Been Exposed To Deadly Bacteria

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Is Your Kitchen Sponge A Hidden Bacteria Farm? Even The Smell Test Can't Save Youdirty kitchen stove, empty and full bottles of detergents around.
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Is Your Kitchen Sponge A Hidden Bacteria Farm? Even The Smell Test Can't Save You

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Peptides: With Talk Of Looser Restrictions In The US, We Ask If There's A Dark Side To The Internet's Latest Wellness Obsession

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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

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World's Tiniest Buffalo Species Just Welcomed A New Baby – And She's Already A Total Heartbreaker A rare anoa calf has been stepped outside for its first outdoor adventure after being born at Chester Zoo.
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World's Tiniest Buffalo Species Just Welcomed A New Baby – And She's Already A Total Heartbreaker

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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"

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Avocado Trees Start The Day As One Sex And Switch To The Other In The Afternoon. We’ve Only Just Learned HowDr Jeffrey Groh looking at avocado plants, enabling breeders to determine whether a plant will be female in the morning or afternoon before maturity for the first time
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Avocado Trees Start The Day As One Sex And Switch To The Other In The Afternoon. We’ve Only Just Learned How

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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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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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AI Solved A Math Problem That Had Stumped The World For 80 Years. Not Everyone Is Happy About ThatArtificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality concept. 3D human head made of pixels in neon holographic vivid colors on dark background.
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AI Solved A Math Problem That Had Stumped The World For 80 Years. Not Everyone Is Happy About That

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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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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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Trump Administration Unveils Vision For “A New Golden Age” Of Science – Experts Think It Is Anything ButTrump in a suit on a lawn with his index finger pointing up at something off camera
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Trump Administration Unveils Vision For “A New Golden Age” Of Science – Experts Think It Is Anything But

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Halving The Earth's Population To 4 Billion Is The Best Way To Secure A "Pro-Human" Future, A New Study ArguesThe Monster Building is a group of five connected buildings on King's Road,Quarry Bay, Hong Kong.It is a popular location for photography and has been used as inspiration for several filming locations
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Halving The Earth's Population To 4 Billion Is The Best Way To Secure A "Pro-Human" Future, A New Study Argues

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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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There's A Good Chance You're Wearing Something Far Older Than The Sun, And Forged In A Stupidly Powerful EventA neutron star cracking and flaring. Blue jets shoot out of a thick, white/pink crust.
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There's A Good Chance You're Wearing Something Far Older Than The Sun, And Forged In A Stupidly Powerful Event

Please take better care of it, it's older than the Sun.

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Woolly Mammoth DNA Reveals Rare Sex Chromosome Combination, Astronomers Find Bizarre And Beautiful Planet-Wide Rings On Venus, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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Woolly Mammoth DNA Reveals Rare Sex Chromosome Combination, Astronomers Find Bizarre And Beautiful Planet-Wide Rings On Venus, And Much More This Week

All the biggest science news stories of the week.

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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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