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Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Yet Discovered – It Traveled For More Than 10 Billion Years To Reach Usartist impression of the burst with the signal from it reaching one meerkat antenna and jwst honeycomb structre is overlayed in the skyMost Distant Fast Radio Burst Yet Discovered – It Traveled For More Than 10 Billion Years To Reach Usartist impression of the burst with the signal from it reaching one meerkat antenna and jwst honeycomb structre is overlayed in the sky

Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Yet Discovered – It Traveled For More Than 10 Billion Years To Reach Us

The light of this event left its source billions of years before the Earth existed!

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What If The Addams Family's "Thing" Was Real? Watch A Severed Robotic Hand Creep Around The Floor And Play Golf

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Are Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Safe? | IFLScience The Big Questions

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Adorable, Rare Andean "Ghost" Cat Captured On Camera Trap Proves Conservation Measures Can Work

By working with local farmers measures can be implemented to protect both livestock and the cats.

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Planet Earth Is Physically Changing Shape And Becoming Less Flattened, But Its Gravity Tells A Different Side Of The Story

The gnarly potato of Earth continues to shape-shift.

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Meet Gary and Shaggy, The First Known Domestic Cats With Rare Marfan Syndrome

The brothers made waves in the world of feline genetics.

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Scientists Have Found A Weird Physical Sign That Someone Is Interested In You RomanticallyA man and a woman drinking hot drinks, on a date.
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Scientists Have Found A Weird Physical Sign That Someone Is Interested In You Romantically

Oddly, it predicts interest in a long-term relationship, but not short-term relationships.

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A Florida Woman Thought Her AI Chatbot Conversations Were Private. Then The Police Showed Up At Her DoorLee County Sheriff's Office patrol car.
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A Florida Woman Thought Her AI Chatbot Conversations Were Private. Then The Police Showed Up At Her Door

On September 26 and September 27, Heller is alleged to have sent several concerning messages to Claude. On September 30, she was arrested.

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The Levitating Magnetic Bearing Just Got A New Incentive

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NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures A Crisp Martian Dawn From The Side Of Mount Sharp

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Skull Of An Extinct Crocodile Found In The Rocks Used To Build The Sphinx And The Pyramids Turns Out To Be A New Species

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Scanning Anomalies Found At The "Cave of the Venuses," Where Neanderthals Once Lived And Homo Sapiens Made Beautiful Art

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Oldest Ever Homo Erectus Fossils Dating To 2 Million Years Old Rewrites Our Ancestors’ Origins And Raises New Questions

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When Did People First Settle In The Americas? An Intriguing Argument Suggests A Key Window During The Ice AgeAncient people against the evening landscape.
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When Did People First Settle In The Americas? An Intriguing Argument Suggests A Key Window During The Ice Age

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Trump's Border Wall Project Destroyed A Geoglyph That May Be Older Than The Egyptian Pyramids And StonehengeAn ancient geoglyph in the shape of a fish. A giant streak of a bulldozer runs through its center.
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Trump's Border Wall Project Destroyed A Geoglyph That May Be Older Than The Egyptian Pyramids And Stonehenge

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Nobel-Winning Technique Restores Some Vision In Patients With Genetic Form Of Blindness In Promising Early Trial

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A Health Influencer Claims He Has Been Drinking Radioactive Water For 250 Days Straight, To A Frightening 13.5 Thousand LikesAn antique jug labeled "Revigator".
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A Health Influencer Claims He Has Been Drinking Radioactive Water For 250 Days Straight, To A Frightening 13.5 Thousand Likes

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Infectious Diseases Caused 2 Million Cancer Cases In 2024 – That's 1 In 8 Of All New Diagnoses Worldwide

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Scientist At Russian Plague Lab Dies And 200 More Are Under Observation. Here's What We Know

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We Finally Know How Jonathan The Tortoise, The World's Oldest Land Animal, Is Still Alive And Kicking At 194

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Incredibly Rare “Jodi” The Nanotyrannus At The Center Of Heated T. Rex Debate Goes Up For Auction At Sotheby’sA large theropod dinosaur skeleton mounted as if it is walking.
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Incredibly Rare “Jodi” The Nanotyrannus At The Center Of Heated T. Rex Debate Goes Up For Auction At Sotheby’s

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A Man Was Looking For A Place To Camp On Google Maps. Instead, He Made A 390-Million-Year-Old DiscoveryA spherical structure in Quebec, Canada. Labels show a crater rim, and a burned area from an ancient meteor impact.
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A Man Was Looking For A Place To Camp On Google Maps. Instead, He Made A 390-Million-Year-Old Discovery

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When Did Animals First Evolve? New Evidence From Mongolia Suggests It Could Be As Far Back As 800 Million Years AgoA reconstruction of early animal life, showing weird feather and tube-like forms.
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When Did Animals First Evolve? New Evidence From Mongolia Suggests It Could Be As Far Back As 800 Million Years Ago

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First-Ever Thorium-Based Nuclear Atomic Clock Is A New Tool To Probe Fundamental Forces – And Even Hunt For Dark Mattera metal hook holds a little crystal as a laser light shines through it
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First-Ever Thorium-Based Nuclear Atomic Clock Is A New Tool To Probe Fundamental Forces – And Even Hunt For Dark Matter

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The Solar System Might Be Doomed After All – And This Time We Can Blame The Sun For Itartist impression of a molten world under an expanding star
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The Solar System Might Be Doomed After All – And This Time We Can Blame The Sun For It

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes To Researchers Who Discovered How To Make "Left- And Right-Handed" Molecules At WillAn artist impression of the same chiral molecule mirrored
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes To Researchers Who Discovered How To Make "Left- And Right-Handed" Molecules At Will

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NASA’s New PRIMA Mission Has Big Plans To Look Further And Deeper Into The Universe Using Infrared Than Ever BeforeThe space telescope is seen with a shining infrared nebula in the background
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NASA’s New PRIMA Mission Has Big Plans To Look Further And Deeper Into The Universe Using Infrared Than Ever Before

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World's Tallest Wind Turbine Finishes Construction In Germany – Topping Out At An Impressive 365 MetersThe GICON high-altitude wind turbine looms over the landscape of Schipkau in the State of Brandenburg, eastern Germany
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World's Tallest Wind Turbine Finishes Construction In Germany – Topping Out At An Impressive 365 Meters

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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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Researchers Let Grok And ChatGPT Drive A Real Car, And The Good News Is Nobody Died

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Anthropic Says Its AI Has Discovered A CRISPR-Like Enzyme System – But The Company Isn't Yet Certain How It WorksAI identifies CRISPR-like enzyme system
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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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How Useful Is A Quantum Computer? Now We Have A Benchmark To Assess Just Thata golden plate is showed with several group of delicate fiber optics going into it
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How Useful Is A Quantum Computer? Now We Have A Benchmark To Assess Just That

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Between Burnout And Bed Rotting, Some Humans Spend 86 Percent Of The Day Not Moving. Just 15 Minutes Could Turn Things Aroundwoman drawing the curtains it's a great day to get outside
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Between Burnout And Bed Rotting, Some Humans Spend 86 Percent Of The Day Not Moving. Just 15 Minutes Could Turn Things Around

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A Fear Of Spiders Might Make Sense. But How Do People Develop A Phobia For Beards, Clowns Or Balloons?

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A 1998 Study Asked A Man To Read A Number During An “Out-Of-Body Experience”. In A Freaky Turn Of Events, He Saw Something Else Entirelya man is lying on a bed looks like his ghost is leaving his body
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A 1998 Study Asked A Man To Read A Number During An “Out-Of-Body Experience”. In A Freaky Turn Of Events, He Saw Something Else Entirely

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The Disaster At Pompeii, And The Writings Of Pliny, May Help Us Pinpoint When Other Ancient Catastrophes Took PlacePlaster casts of victims at Pompeii.
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The Disaster At Pompeii, And The Writings Of Pliny, May Help Us Pinpoint When Other Ancient Catastrophes Took Place

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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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A 300-Year-Old Novel Eerily Foresaw The Rise – And Issues – Of Modern AI ChatbotsPainting of Gulliver meeting a giant Brobdingnag Farmer.
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A 300-Year-Old Novel Eerily Foresaw The Rise – And Issues – Of Modern AI Chatbots

As well as a spookily prescient section about a knowledge-generating machine, the book "predicted" two moons around Mars, 151 years before they were discovered.

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How Queer Is The Animal World? We Haven't Looked As Hard As We Could, But Nature Is Still More Diverse Than You ThinkTwo laysan albatrosses, close up with their bills crossed looking directly at each other
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How Queer Is The Animal World? We Haven't Looked As Hard As We Could, But Nature Is Still More Diverse Than You Think

A surprising number of non-human animals engage in queer behavior, and it's probably common across many more species than we've documented so far.

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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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