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The World’s Smallest Crocodile Lives In A Cave, With Orange Skin So Thin You Can See Its Skeleton – Life In “AFRICA: Earth’s Wild Home”orange crocodile next to a grey-brown crocodileThe World’s Smallest Crocodile Lives In A Cave, With Orange Skin So Thin You Can See Its Skeleton – Life In “AFRICA: Earth’s Wild Home”orange crocodile next to a grey-brown crocodile
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The World’s Smallest Crocodile Lives In A Cave, With Orange Skin So Thin You Can See Its Skeleton – Life In “AFRICA: Earth’s Wild Home”

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Japan's Full-Stack Quantum Computer That Works At Room Temperature Has Just Gone Live, Powered By 50 Qubits

Shunkai has gone live, no refrigeration required.

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Hubble is already checking the galaxy for any signs of the returning explosion.

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Wild African Elephants Found To Self-Medicate And Feed Their Calves Immunization Smoothies

Those famous memories come in useful when a member of the herd is sick.

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JWST Teaches Us More About ‘Extreme Debris Disks’ – Young Planetary Systems Where Mars-Sized And Moon-Sized Worlds Collide

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Neutron Star Collisions Might Be The Source Of Mysterious Cosmic X-Ray Flashes

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First Full Ultraviolet View Of Northern Lights Marks Early Success For European-Chinese Mission

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Smelly Belly Buttons Could Suggest Whether People Have Parkinson’s Disease

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Scientists Studied A Teenager With One Of The Rarest Memory Abilities Humans Can Have. Here’s What They Foundphoto album scrapbook with images, flowers, and washi tape
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Very Slow Running May Be Enough To Boost Your Mood And Enhance Your Focus

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Exceptionally Well-Preserved Feathered Dinosaur Reveals More About The Evolution Of FlightReconstruction image of Norellraptor on the right size looking like magpie with for wings. On the left a close up photo of the bones showing very long sharp talons.
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Gas Spotted Swirling Around Baby Exoplanet In First Image Of Its Kind

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NASA's Swift Space Telescope Prepares For Last Observations As It Sinks Toward Oblivion

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In 1855, Astronomers Saw Signs Of A Giant Planet Around 70 Ophiuchi. 171 Years Later, Astronomers Have Ruled It Outblack and white photo of a grey circle with two very small points of light almost at its center
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In 1855, Astronomers Saw Signs Of A Giant Planet Around 70 Ophiuchi. 171 Years Later, Astronomers Have Ruled It Out

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Happy New Year, Mars! Today The Red Planet Entered Its 39th Year Since Its Calendar Began In 1955A photo of Mars with a party hat and fireworks behind it
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Happy New Year, Mars! Today The Red Planet Entered Its 39th Year Since Its Calendar Began In 1955

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Researchers Let Grok And ChatGPT Drive A Real Car, And The Good News Is Nobody DiedA phone loaded with ChatGPT, held by a hand in a car.
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Anthropic Says Its AI Has Discovered A CRISPR-Like Enzyme System – But The Company Isn't Yet Certain How It Works

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Sexting Could Be Good For Your Relationship, But Research Suggests There's A CatchA womans legs up ona bed
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Sexting Could Be Good For Your Relationship, But Research Suggests There's A Catch

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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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Where Do The Photons Actually Go When You Turn The Light Off?A single naked lit light bulb.
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Where Do The Photons Actually Go When You Turn The Light Off?

You turn the light off and the room does instantly dark. So where did all the light go?

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Gangkhar Puensum: The Highest Unclimbed Mountain In The World May Never Be Summited

No person in human history has ever climbed its peak, and there's good reason for that.

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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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