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The Only American Not On Earth During 9/11 Photographed The Devastation From SpaceNew york from space with a thing cloud of dust stretching from down town manhattanThe Only American Not On Earth During 9/11 Photographed The Devastation From SpaceNew york from space with a thing cloud of dust stretching from down town manhattan

The Only American Not On Earth During 9/11 Photographed The Devastation From Space

You can read the poignant letter astronaut Frank Culbertson wrote upon seeing the terrorist attack from orbit.

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Largest Viking Silver Hoard In Danish History Contains 700 Pieces Of Treasure, Including Jewelry, Coins, And Silver BarsSilver viking treasure discovered by archeologists
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Largest Viking Silver Hoard In Danish History Contains 700 Pieces Of Treasure, Including Jewelry, Coins, And Silver Bars

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Incredible Video Of Black Hole Jet Took 30 Years Of Data To Make And Is Highest Definition View YetA still from the video showing the changing shape and structure of the jet
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Incredible Video Of Black Hole Jet Took 30 Years Of Data To Make And Is Highest Definition View Yet

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Rats Make A Special Happy Noise When Munching Tasty Food Like Chocolate, And Honestly Same

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New Theory Of Consciousness Suggests The Brain Uses Analog Computing To Create Awareness And Experience

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2026 Has Not Had A Single Hurricane In The Atlantic So Far – And The Supersized El Niño Is To Blame

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The UN Issues Warning That The World Needs To Prepare As El Niño Goes "Supersized", On Track To Smash RecordsRainy man walking through rainy carpark
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The UN Issues Warning That The World Needs To Prepare As El Niño Goes "Supersized", On Track To Smash Records

“We have no time to lose.”

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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

The mysteries of both are ours to discover, but the challenges are surprisingly uneven.

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Scientists Popped Open 778 Tiger Shark Stomachs To See What They Could Find. The List Of Contents Got Really Weird, Really QuicklyA tiger shark / Niuhi (Galeocerdo cuvier), seen going for a bite out of an unsuspecting Laysan Albatross / Moli, off of Lisianski Island in Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument
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Scientists Popped Open 778 Tiger Shark Stomachs To See What They Could Find. The List Of Contents Got Really Weird, Really Quickly

An antelope, porcupine, and a lot of trash. Where do the “garbage cans of the sea” find it all?

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Amateur MMA Fighter Claims He Has Been Offered Over $500,000 To Fight A Chimpanzee. It Would Be One Hell Of A FuneralA chimp sat on a tree, rubbing its face.
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Amateur MMA Fighter Claims He Has Been Offered Over $500,000 To Fight A Chimpanzee. It Would Be One Hell Of A Funeral

While we're doubtful that this fight will actually go ahead, we're equally doubtful of the confidence of Cole Johnson.

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Cloud-9: New Deep Space Images Strengthen The Case For A Galaxy Without Starsa zoomed in version of the area of the sky where Cloud-9 is showing just more distant objects and no stars in there
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Cloud-9: New Deep Space Images Strengthen The Case For A Galaxy Without Stars

New deep observations still can't find a star in this cosmic clump of gas and dark matter.

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Love False Lashes? Me Too, Says Microscopic Arachnid That Lives On Your Facedemodex face mite on human eyelash
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Love False Lashes? Me Too, Says Microscopic Arachnid That Lives On Your Face

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A 520-Million-Year-Old Whodunit Has Been Solved By Looking At The Bite MarksAn illustration of Amplectobelua.
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A 520-Million-Year-Old Whodunit Has Been Solved By Looking At The Bite Marks

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Group Of Worms That Have One Head But Many Butts Has Just Gained 10 New SpeciesWorm’s body has one head and many, many tails.
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Group Of Worms That Have One Head But Many Butts Has Just Gained 10 New Species

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Wealthy Owners Of 1,800-Year-Old Roman Villa Had A Cat Called Emerald And Dog Called Ocean - And Immortalized Them Both In A MosaicRoman-era mosaic in Adramytteion
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Wealthy Owners Of 1,800-Year-Old Roman Villa Had A Cat Called Emerald And Dog Called Ocean - And Immortalized Them Both In A Mosaic

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Ötzi The Iceman Died 5,300 Years Ago, But Now He's Got A "Digital Twin"The digital twin of Ötzi the Iceman.
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Ötzi The Iceman Died 5,300 Years Ago, But Now He's Got A "Digital Twin"

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In Search Of Perfection: 4,000 Years Ago, Builders Dragged 25-Tonne Rocks For Miles To Make The Devil's ArrowsTwo of the Devil's Arrows
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In Search Of Perfection: 4,000 Years Ago, Builders Dragged 25-Tonne Rocks For Miles To Make The Devil's Arrows

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25,000-Year-Old "Addict" With A Betel Nut Habit Is The Earliest Evidence Yet Of Drug Use In HumansSkull of prehistoric betel nut sucker
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25,000-Year-Old "Addict" With A Betel Nut Habit Is The Earliest Evidence Yet Of Drug Use In Humans

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Smokers Are At Lower Risk Of Parkinson’s Disease – No One Knows Why, But New Findings Hint At A Surprising Answerclose up of lit cigarette and plume of smoke
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Smokers Are At Lower Risk Of Parkinson’s Disease – No One Knows Why, But New Findings Hint At A Surprising Answer

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These Small Yellow Growths Around Your Eyes Could Be A Sign Of Heart Attack And Stroke RiskA xanthelasma on a man's eyelid; a slightly yellow lump under the skin.
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These Small Yellow Growths Around Your Eyes Could Be A Sign Of Heart Attack And Stroke Risk

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Should You Bother Closing The Lid To Flush The Toilet? Probably, Unless You Want Microbes Erupting Into Your “Breathing Zone”bathroom with intensely blue tiles everywhere except the floor, with two windows above the toilet, a bath on the right and a sink on the left
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Should You Bother Closing The Lid To Flush The Toilet? Probably, Unless You Want Microbes Erupting Into Your “Breathing Zone”

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Pig Kidney Transplant Kept Man Alive For A Record-Breaking 271 Days While He Waited For A Human Organillustration of a pig with a gloved human hand above it holding a kidney
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Pig Kidney Transplant Kept Man Alive For A Record-Breaking 271 Days While He Waited For A Human Organ

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Hybrid Woolly Rhinos Stomped Around The Ice Age After Canoodling With Extinct Merck’s RhinoReconstruction of the woolly rhinoceros thriving in the temperate Eurasian grassland.
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Hybrid Woolly Rhinos Stomped Around The Ice Age After Canoodling With Extinct Merck’s Rhino

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Female Tree Frogs Experience "Choice Overload" When Too Many Males Are CallingTree frogs in amplexus, a mating embrace.
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Female Tree Frogs Experience "Choice Overload" When Too Many Males Are Calling

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The Most Perfectly Preserved Feather From The Age Of Dinosaurs Has Been Discovered Inside Fossilized Tyrannosaur Poop Dating Back 66 Million YearsDavid DeMar, Jr. holding the exposed fossil feather in the coprolite fragment on the day of its discovery in 2016.
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The Most Perfectly Preserved Feather From The Age Of Dinosaurs Has Been Discovered Inside Fossilized Tyrannosaur Poop Dating Back 66 Million Years

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New Species Of Jurassic Squid-Like Creature Discovered. About The Length Of A Skateboard, It’s The “Chunkiest” Belemnite On Recordan illustration of the big chunky belemnite next to its fossil
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New Species Of Jurassic Squid-Like Creature Discovered. About The Length Of A Skateboard, It’s The “Chunkiest” Belemnite On Record

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Mercury Is Shrinking Faster Than Thought, New Analysis Of Its Many Wrinkles RevealsThe antenna of Bepicolombo is visible. Just behind almost a full disk is the cratered surface of Mercury
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Mercury Is Shrinking Faster Than Thought, New Analysis Of Its Many Wrinkles Reveals

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The Sun Might Have Destroyed A Super-Earth Planet Early In Its Life – And There Might Be Clues Within Our Stara star is seen surrounded by a spiral orbit as it engulfs a planet
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The Sun Might Have Destroyed A Super-Earth Planet Early In Its Life – And There Might Be Clues Within Our Star

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SETI Resurrects Decades-Old Concept: Searching Through The Lunar Soil For Signs Of Galactic AliensA boot print on the Moon, belonging to Buzz Aldrin.
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SETI Resurrects Decades-Old Concept: Searching Through The Lunar Soil For Signs Of Galactic Aliens

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Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Could Be The Crucial Tool For Studying Undetected Matter In The Universeartist impression of a signal passing through a galaxy cluster and becoming a rainbow
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Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Could Be The Crucial Tool For Studying Undetected Matter In The Universe

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How Close Are Scientists To Creating "Digital Twins" Of Human Brains? If Technology Can Catch Up, The Uses Could Be Endlesstwo human heads illustrated looking away from each other, one brain is full of cogs to illustrate machinery and one is full of squiggles to indicate organic matter
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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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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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The UN Voted To Adopt A New World Map That Shows Africa At Its True Size – The US Voted Against ItThe Mercator projection map
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The UN Voted To Adopt A New World Map That Shows Africa At Its True Size – The US Voted Against It

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The Rich More Likely To Snatch Candy From A Baby, A Formal Definition Of Kissing, And Cockroach Milk Win The 2026 Ig Nobel Prizesa man eating cotton candy as two young girls trying to pick some
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The Rich More Likely To Snatch Candy From A Baby, A Formal Definition Of Kissing, And Cockroach Milk Win The 2026 Ig Nobel Prizes

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The World Is About To Vote On Whether To Ditch The Global Map As We Know It And Start Showing Countries’ True SizeAfrica is front and center in this image of Earth taken by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite.
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The World Is About To Vote On Whether To Ditch The Global Map As We Know It And Start Showing Countries’ True Size

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Has The World Already Dropped Below Replacement Fertility Rate? New Analysis Suggests We're Having Fewer Babies Than Ever – Even In The Places We Least ExpectedAn illustration of a push chair going down a slope with a downward trending graph behind it.
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Has The World Already Dropped Below Replacement Fertility Rate? New Analysis Suggests We're Having Fewer Babies Than Ever – Even In The Places We Least Expected

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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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In 1961, 90 Percent Of Doctors Said They Would Avoid Telling Their Patients They Had Cancer. Back Then, That Was The NormMedical staff at a hospital, in an old black and white photograph.
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In 1961, 90 Percent Of Doctors Said They Would Avoid Telling Their Patients They Had Cancer. Back Then, That Was The Norm

Patient surveys show that the overwhelming majority of people would like to know if they have cancer. For decades, it was not the standard practice to tell you.

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Switzerland Has Over 370,000 Nuclear Bunkers, Enough To Host Every Person In The CountryA ventilation system in a Swiss nuclear shelter.
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Switzerland Has Over 370,000 Nuclear Bunkers, Enough To Host Every Person In The Country

"One shelter space per inhabitant" has been the rule in the country since the Cold War. With recent rising tensions, Switzerland has reaffirmed its commitment to offering citizens this last-resort protection.

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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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