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What Counts As An Ultra-Processed Food? It's A Surprisingly Tricky Question – And It May Not Even Be The Right One To Askillustrations of different types of foods on lilac background, with a hand-drawn gavel over the top in the centreWhat Counts As An Ultra-Processed Food? It's A Surprisingly Tricky Question – And It May Not Even Be The Right One To Askillustrations of different types of foods on lilac background, with a hand-drawn gavel over the top in the centre
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What Counts As An Ultra-Processed Food? It's A Surprisingly Tricky Question – And It May Not Even Be The Right One To Ask

“UPFs have become a new nutritional ‘boogeyman’.”

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Are You Ever In Two Minds? It's Not Surprising, Because The Brain Is Two Organs That Evolved Separately

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

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For The First Time, NASA Is Putting A Trio Of Autonomous Robots On The Moon Without Humans Calling The Shots

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Up To 13% Of Your Personality Comes From Your Genes – But How It Ultimately Turns Out Is Down To Something ElsePeople with different personality traits
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Up To 13% Of Your Personality Comes From Your Genes – But How It Ultimately Turns Out Is Down To Something Else

It's not a perfect correlation, but it's definitely more accurate than your horoscope.

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Wearing Shoes May Explain Why Modern Humans' Feet Are Much Daintier Than Those Of NeanderthalsPair of feet, one in stripy socks and a fancy brogue shoe, the other in a different colour sock, casually crossed at the ankles
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Wearing Shoes May Explain Why Modern Humans' Feet Are Much Daintier Than Those Of Neanderthals

But it's probably not the sole reason.

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New Theory Of Consciousness Suggests The Brain Uses Analog Computing To Create Awareness And ExperienceHuman brain performing computation
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New Theory Of Consciousness Suggests The Brain Uses Analog Computing To Create Awareness And Experience

It's like herding sheep, or performing a Mexican wave.

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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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68 Percent Of Physicists Agree That The Big Bang Does Not Necessarily Mark The Beginning Of Timea pocket watched warped with an overlayed abstract spiralling tunnel
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68 Percent Of Physicists Agree That The Big Bang Does Not Necessarily Mark The Beginning Of Time

If you have been in a room with more than one physicist, the fact that so many agree on something is already surprising.

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FDA Approves First Autonomous Blood-Drawing Robot To Tackle Shortages In The US, And Patients Seem To Like ItA phlebotomists takes a blood sample from a patient arm.
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FDA Approves First Autonomous Blood-Drawing Robot To Tackle Shortages In The US, And Patients Seem To Like It

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Sea Spider Taxi, Anyone? Amphipods Found Clinging To The Long Legs Of Sea Spiders In Boy-Girl Pairs In The Deep Sea

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Birth Of The Diamondiyne Age? New Porous Carbon Structure Could Unite Two Strands Of Nobel Prize-Winning ChemistryProfessor Karl Börjesson at the University of Gothenburg
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Birth Of The Diamondiyne Age? New Porous Carbon Structure Could Unite Two Strands Of Nobel Prize-Winning Chemistry

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This Is The Reconstructed Face Of The Earliest Homo Sapiens We've Ever Found

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Mathematician Corrects One Of The Oldest And Most Enduring Myths In Human History: The Idea That The Parthenon Contains Optical IllusionsThe Parthenon at sunset.
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Mathematician Corrects One Of The Oldest And Most Enduring Myths In Human History: The Idea That The Parthenon Contains Optical Illusions

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Scientists Find Surprisingly Simple Way To Improve People's Grades. All It Costs Is $52 A SemesterA tired student in a red top, looking at his laptop.
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Scientists Find Surprisingly Simple Way To Improve People's Grades. All It Costs Is $52 A Semester

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The Last Neanderthals Kept Returning To This One Cave, Until Our Species Took OverPrado Vargas Neanderthal cave
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The Last Neanderthals Kept Returning To This One Cave, Until Our Species Took Over

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Why Do Some People Get Vaccine Side Effects And Others Don’t? Scientists Find New Clues In The Ways Our Immune Systems Respondman in dressing gown sitting on sofa holding a cold compress to his head
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Why Do Some People Get Vaccine Side Effects And Others Don’t? Scientists Find New Clues In The Ways Our Immune Systems Respond

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For The First Time, More Than 100,000 People In Japan Are Over 100 Years Old – So What's Their Secret?An elderly couple is cooking street food in Tokyo at night in the historic streets of Asakusa, Japan
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For The First Time, More Than 100,000 People In Japan Are Over 100 Years Old – So What's Their Secret?

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Human Mini-Brains Have Been Transplanted Into The Heads Of Mice, Forming New Neural NetworksSide view of a xenocortical mouse brain showing nerve fibers extending from the human graft (colored with green and red fluorescent proteins) through the mouse brain (blue). Scale bar = 1 mm.
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Human Mini-Brains Have Been Transplanted Into The Heads Of Mice, Forming New Neural Networks

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Brain Implant Translates The Gestures People With Paralysis Can’t Make, Along With Their Silenced Wordssci fi-inspired image of woman undergoing EEG with a female scientist looking at data on a see-through screen
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Brain Implant Translates The Gestures People With Paralysis Can’t Make, Along With Their Silenced Words

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Planet Earth Is Physically Changing Shape And Becoming Less Flattened, But Its Gravity Tells A Different Side Of The StoryNASA astronaut Christina Koch, the first woman to ever travel beyond Earth’s orbit in 2026, looks back at a seemingly spherical Earth from the Orion spacecraft.
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Planet Earth Is Physically Changing Shape And Becoming Less Flattened, But Its Gravity Tells A Different Side Of The Story

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First New Cat Species In Over 100 Years Is A Totally Charming Tiny Tiger From BoliviaA small spotted cat sits on a branch at a sanctuary.
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First New Cat Species In Over 100 Years Is A Totally Charming Tiny Tiger From Bolivia

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First Ever Images Of Deep-Sea Canyon Reveal Plastic Trash At Depths Of Up To 3,800 Metersa plastic wrapper found at a depth of 2,109 meters.
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First Ever Images Of Deep-Sea Canyon Reveal Plastic Trash At Depths Of Up To 3,800 Meters

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Seabird Found With 894 Pieces Of Plastic In Its Stomach Shows That The Problem Of Ocean Plastic Is Not Getting Any BetterA shearwater chick being held by a pair of hands over a dish that contains chunks of plastic that have been flushed from its stomach.
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Seabird Found With 894 Pieces Of Plastic In Its Stomach Shows That The Problem Of Ocean Plastic Is Not Getting Any Better

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On The Martian Surface, NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Features "Unlike Quite Anything We Have Seen In The Past"A wide, shallow pit on the surface of Mars, and a dark-toned rock nearby.
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On The Martian Surface, NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Features "Unlike Quite Anything We Have Seen In The Past"

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Planet Less Than A Million Years Old Finally Breaks 4-Way Tie To Become Youngest Known Worldthe illustration shows a tiny planet accreting withing a large gap in the gas disk
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Planet Less Than A Million Years Old Finally Breaks 4-Way Tie To Become Youngest Known World

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The Moon Has A Massive New Crater Over 200 Meters Wide – That’s Larger Than The Colosseumthe crater is bright circular and quite raise above the rest of the dark plains where it is located
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The Moon Has A Massive New Crater Over 200 Meters Wide – That’s Larger Than The Colosseum

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The US Has Admitted For The First Time That It Placed Weapons In Space – What Does This Mean?a satellite shooting a big red laser
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The US Has Admitted For The First Time That It Placed Weapons In Space – What Does This Mean?

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iLands: The New Dystopian AI Farm That Is Filling Everyone's Inboxes With SpamAn email pitching a story for IFLScience via email.
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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?An image showing a man with a very large brain on his head taking a sip from a coffee mug while he looks at a laptop.
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What If We Never Had To Solve The Same Problem Twice?

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YouTuber Uploads Digital Copy Of A Fly's Brain Into Minecraft, And Then It Got WeirdPagoda created in a blocky Minecraft world.
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YouTuber Uploads Digital Copy Of A Fly's Brain Into Minecraft, And Then It Got Weird

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Why The USA Is Building A Massive New $1.2 Billion Magnet Factory In South CarolinaA large walking excavator works in a quarry for the extraction of rare metals. Drone view. Industrial landscape.
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Why The USA Is Building A Massive New $1.2 Billion Magnet Factory In South Carolina

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5,900 New Words Added To English Dictionary As It Attempts To Keep Up With Evolving LanguageFridge magnets with letters on them, and a magnifying glass.
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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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Yet Another Study Suggests The "Autism Epidemic" Is A Mirage Caused By More People Seeking And Receiving Diagnoseshands holding a paper cutout of an infinity symbol coloured in rainbow colours
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Yet Another Study Suggests The "Autism Epidemic" Is A Mirage Caused By More People Seeking And Receiving Diagnoses

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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

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Star Trek At 60 – The Iconic Franchise Changed More Than Science, It Changed Societysilhouette of the starship enterprise overlaid with coloured beams in blue, red, and gold, with a group of people all lined up with their arms around each other facing away from the camera
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Star Trek At 60 – The Iconic Franchise Changed More Than Science, It Changed Society

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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 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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The World's Largest Cemetery Has Over 5 Million Bodies Spanning Over 1,400 YearsWadi-us-Salaam viewed from an aircraft by an American soldier during the Iraq War in 2007.
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The World's Largest Cemetery Has Over 5 Million Bodies Spanning Over 1,400 Years

From ancient prophets to soldiers of the Iraq War, millions of people are laid to rest here.

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We All Know That Cats Are Way More Impressive Than Servile Dogs – Biologically And Culturally – Even If You Won't Admit ItA cat laying in a palace with a crown on
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We All Know That Cats Are Way More Impressive Than Servile Dogs – Biologically And Culturally – Even If You Won't Admit It

Toxoplasma gondii did not make me write this (I think).

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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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