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How Does A Lion Cub Become King? We Spoke To The Makers Of New Docuseries “Lion” About A Record-Breaking Journey In The Maasai Mara

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

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100-Million-Year-Old Beetle Preserved In Amber Has A Structure That Scientists Have Never Seen Before In Any Animal Living Or Extinct

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The Milky Way Merged With Another Galaxy In The Distant Past, 1.8 Billion Years Before Its Collision With The Infamous Sausage Galaxy

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Boyajian's Star Doesn’t Have An Alien Megastructure After All, But It May Be Orbited By A Massive Planet Or Brown Dwarf

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World's Largest Electric Aircraft Just Took Its Maiden Flight Using $5 Worth Of Electricity

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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 Science

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Some Think GLP-1s Could Be The Next Treatments For Alzheimer’s. So Far, Drug Trial Results Are A Mixed Bag3D illustration of a human brain next to a bottle of pills in a glowing, digital style
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Some Think GLP-1s Could Be The Next Treatments For Alzheimer’s. So Far, Drug Trial Results Are A Mixed Bag

Recent trials of two GLP-1s, semaglutide and liraglutide, reported very different results in Alzheimer’s disease patients.

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South America Was Once Home To Megapiranha, Predatory Fish With A Bite Force That Outchomped Megalodon

Meanwhile, an Amazon fish alive today has a bite force (relative to size) three-times stronger than an American alligator.

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How We Remember: The Neuroscience of Memory Explained

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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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