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Trump’s New “Gold Standard” Vaccine Executive Order Draws On Tired Antivax Misinformation And Sparks Outrage From Experts

President Donald J. Trump signs an Executive Order regarding childhood vaccines in the Oval Office, Monday, August 10, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)

Trump’s New “Gold Standard” Vaccine Executive Order Draws On Tired Antivax Misinformation And Sparks Outrage From Experts

The recommendations once again reawaken debates over splitting the MMR shot and the removal of aluminum adjuvants, both of which have been repeatedly debunked...

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Sloth The Manatee Can’t Blink One Eye. Now, ZooTampa Is Trying Out Acupuncture As A Complementary Therapy For His Complex Injury

Sloth's head rests on a pool needle as electrodes delivery his therapy

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Sloth The Manatee Can’t Blink One Eye. Now, ZooTampa Is Trying Out Acupuncture As A Complementary Therapy For His Complex Injury

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First Discovery Of Three Supermassive Black Holes In A Galaxy 12.5 Billion Light Years Away Changes Our View On Early Black Hole Formation

Finding two supermassive black holes getting close to merging, as depicted in this simulation is not unusual, but a third addition is much more unexpected

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First Discovery Of Three Supermassive Black Holes In A Galaxy 12.5 Billion Light Years Away Changes Our View On Early Black Hole Formation

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There's A Rumor Earth Will Lose Gravity For 7 Seconds On August 12, 2026, Killing Millions Of People – Here's Why It's Total Junk

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An Oyster With Teeth? The Curious Tale Of One Of Smithsonian's Strangest Specimens That Sparked A Local Scandal

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Have We Learned The Right Lessons To Deal With The Next Pandemic? Disease X Is Coming Sooner Or Later

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Trump’s New “Gold Standard” Vaccine Executive Order Draws On Tired Antivax Misinformation And Sparks Outrage From Experts

Sloth The Manatee Can’t Blink One Eye. Now, ZooTampa Is Trying Out Acupuncture As A Complementary Therapy For His Complex Injury

First Discovery Of Three Supermassive Black Holes In A Galaxy 12.5 Billion Light Years Away Changes Our View On Early Black Hole Formation

There's A Rumor Earth Will Lose Gravity For 7 Seconds On August 12, 2026, Killing Millions Of People – Here's Why It's Total Junk

An Oyster With Teeth? The Curious Tale Of One Of Smithsonian's Strangest Specimens That Sparked A Local Scandal

Have We Learned The Right Lessons To Deal With The Next Pandemic? Disease X Is Coming Sooner Or Later

Meet Simon And Garfunkel: Rare Two-Headed Gecko Doing Well At 1 Month Old, Even If "The Left Head Is A Bit More Grumpy"

Amazonian "Zombie-Ant" Fungus Just Got Even Weirder As Scientists Discover It’s Been Living A Secret Double Life Inside An Entirely Different Host

Men Evolved A Unique Pelvis That Puts A Spring In Their Step, But Women Have The Same Pelvis As Neanderthals

World's Tiniest Buffalo Species Just Welcomed A New Baby – And She's Already A Total Heartbreaker

The Vegetables Of Planet Earth Are Disappearing, And That's Very Bad News For Humans

In 1938, This Incredible Woman Discovered A Species Thought To Be Extinct For 66 Million Years

The Moonfish, AKA Opah, Is The World's Only Fully Warm-Blooded Fish That’s 5°C Hotter Than Its Environment

The First Ever Leg Bones Of The Mysterious Denisovans Have Been Identified From Fossils Dredged From The Seafloor

Why Can’t Everybody Sing Well? Turns Out, There’s Hope For Most Of Us Lousy Singers

Scientists Used AI To Produce A Bacteria-Killing Virus, “A Little Bowel Movement” 540 Million Years Ago Sparked An Evolutionary Explosion, And Much More This Week

55,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones Showing Signs Of Butchery May Hint At Repeated Episodes Of Cannibalism

Putting This Neanderthal Gene In Mouse Cells Helped Them Grow. It Seems To Make Modern Humans Bigger And More Muscular Too

Over 600 New Cancer Models Unveiled After 10-Year Project With Help From 2,800 Patients – And They're Publicly Available Too

A Deadly Fungal Superbug Spreading In Over 20 US States Hides In Hair Follicles To Evade Immune Systems

First-Ever mRNA Flu Vaccine Finally Approved By FDA In Time For 2026 Season – After They Initially Refused To Review It

The Average Person Carries Between 8 And 12 Dormant Viruses In Their Body. Now It Seems COVID-19 Can Wake Them Up Again

Weather Forecasts Have A Theoretical Limit Of 129 Days – And You Can Blame Quantum Mechanics

Highs Of 35°C In Siberia: Temperatures In The Arctic Circle Have Been Getting A Little Out Of Hand

Incredibly Complete 30-Million-Year-Old Dog Fossil From The US Revealed To Have Been A Very Good Boy

Lake Mead, The Largest Reservoir In The US, Has Just Reached Its Lowest Level Ever Recorded

Meteorites From Mars Are Rare. A Meteorite Brought To The Surface From The Planet's Interior 1.27 Billion Years Ago Is Something Else

There’s Something Odd About This Year’s Solar Eclipses: Why Flat Maps Are To Blame

This Week's Total Solar Eclipse Will Occur On The Perseids Meteor Shower Peak – For The First Time In Recorded Science History

NASA Pulls Off Smart Move To Prolong Lifespan Of Aging Voyager 2 As It Flies 21.37 Billion Kilometers From Earth

US Lab Finds A Faster Way To Make Californium-252, A Nuclear Isotope Worth Millions Per Gram Not Found Naturally On Earth

In A World First, Scientists Used AI To Generate A Genome And Produced A Functional, Bacteria-Killing Virus

Sam Altman Suggested A New Use For ChatGPT And It Has People Saying "Jesus This Is Bleak"

History Professor Catches 32 Out Of 35 Students Cheating On Their Exam By Including One Hidden Line In The Question

The Mathematical Reason Why No Voting System Can Ever Be Totally Fair

When A Disease Scare Fizzles Out, Did Scientists Just Get It Wrong? What We Can Learn From The Pandemics That Weren't

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

People Are More Likely To Be Your Friend If You Seem Like A Good Hunter-Gatherer

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Unlocking The Future Together: Why IFLScience Is Launching A Membership Model

Opening The Vault: Uncovering A World Of Strange And Intriguing Science

Ever Struggle To Sleep On Your First Night Somewhere New? Be Grateful – Your Brain Is Just Looking Out For You

A Rockfall Blocked This Cave Entrance, Preserving A Stone Age Dwelling Exactly As It Was Left 17,000 Years Ago

How We Remember: The Neuroscience of Memory Explained

AI Consciousness Explained: Science vs Philosophy

Unethical Experiments That Shook The World