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In Defense Of The Mola Mola, Arguably The World’s Worst Fish – But Maybe Also The Best Fish?mola mola's comically panicked face as it's launched out of the water in a sea lion attackIn Defense Of The Mola Mola, Arguably The World’s Worst Fish – But Maybe Also The Best Fish?mola mola's comically panicked face as it's launched out of the water in a sea lion attack
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In Defense Of The Mola Mola, Arguably The World’s Worst Fish – But Maybe Also The Best Fish?

In an era of relentless optimization, sunfish remind us: there's more than one way to crush it in this world.

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“Revived” Protein Dating Back To The Dawn Of Mammal Evolution, 160 Million Years Ago, Hints At New Way Of Tackling Antibiotic Resistancerows of agar plates with different coloured microorganisms growing on them
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“Revived” Protein Dating Back To The Dawn Of Mammal Evolution, 160 Million Years Ago, Hints At New Way Of Tackling Antibiotic Resistance

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The Shark In The “Jaws” Movie Poster? Yeah, Not A Great White. The Real Specimen Behind The Illustration Was An Entirely Different Beasta photo of a shortfin mako next to that of a great white shark
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The Shark In The “Jaws” Movie Poster? Yeah, Not A Great White. The Real Specimen Behind The Illustration Was An Entirely Different Beast

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Step Back In Time 165 Million Years, Relax, And Listen To The Sounds Of An Ancient Jurassic Forest

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Shark Graveyard Discovered In The Desert Shows How Much The World Has Radically Changed In 100 Million Years

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1,000 Years Older Than Stonehenge, A Prehistoric Structure Aligned To The Moon And Solstices Has Been Unearthed In Central Europe

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A New Longest-Living Fish? Sturgeon Could Top 400 Years – Far Longer Than Scientists Believed, But Something Indigenous Communities Had Long Understoodtwo adults hold a sturgeon, it's very long and heavy
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A New Longest-Living Fish? Sturgeon Could Top 400 Years – Far Longer Than Scientists Believed, But Something Indigenous Communities Had Long Understood

Some sturgeon alive today were swimming around when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776.

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JWST Image Trick Finally Reveals Compact Galaxies Around Mysterious Little Red Dotsa red dot is seen brightly at the center and faint disks over lap around it creating the impression of the structure
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JWST Image Trick Finally Reveals Compact Galaxies Around Mysterious Little Red Dots

"This gives us a much clearer picture of what these mysterious objects actually are and provides an important new clue to understanding how galaxies and their central black holes were growing together in the early Universe.”

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New Excavations At Göbekli Tepe Are Challenging Old Theories About The 11,600-Year-Old SiteGobeklitepe in Sanliurfa, Turkey. The Ancient Site of Gobekli Tepe is The Oldest Temple of the World. UNESCO World Heritage site.
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New Excavations At Göbekli Tepe Are Challenging Old Theories About The 11,600-Year-Old Site

This may change what we know about the purpose of humanity's first known monumental structure.

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For The First Time Ever, A Nurse Shark Has Filmed A Great White Shark Swimming Around A ReefGreat white shark
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For The First Time Ever, A Nurse Shark Has Filmed A Great White Shark Swimming Around A Reef

We hear they're screening the film in the sea-nema.

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Planets Must Form Quickly Or Not At All – JWST Observations Reveal The Limited Window Of Formation In 72 Baby Systemsthe background of the image is filled with stars. In the center a large, mostly stright jet that looks like flames is visible. smaller jets criss cross this one.
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Planets Must Form Quickly Or Not At All – JWST Observations Reveal The Limited Window Of Formation In 72 Baby Systems

Jets, winds, and blasts of light tend to get rid of the building blocks of planets before they have a chance to assemble.

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Fall Is Coming And A Super El Niño Is Strengthening, But The Seasonal Weather Forecasts Are Surprising

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Geomagnetic Storm Gives North Americans An Opportunity To Catch an Aurora Alongside This Week's Partial Lunar Eclipsethe sun in ultraviolet wavelenghts with a clear chunk of the sun atmosphere missing where the coronal hole is
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Geomagnetic Storm Gives North Americans An Opportunity To Catch an Aurora Alongside This Week's Partial Lunar Eclipse

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This Is The First Przewalski's Horse Born In The Steppes Of Central Kazakhstan For 200 YearsHappy foal, happy mom: the first Przewalski's horse foal with their mother.
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This Is The First Przewalski's Horse Born In The Steppes Of Central Kazakhstan For 200 Years

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The Ancient Civilizations From Greek Mythology Made Bling From MeteoritesMycenaean ring made of meteoritic iron
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The Ancient Civilizations From Greek Mythology Made Bling From Meteorites

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Cryptic Engravings On 9,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Hint At Unique Neolithic Traditions, But Archaeologists Can’t Figure Out What They MeanPrehistoric obsidian arrowhead
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Cryptic Engravings On 9,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Hint At Unique Neolithic Traditions, But Archaeologists Can’t Figure Out What They Mean

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Desert-Dwelling Neanderthals? Extinct Human Relatives May Have Ventured Into Arabia 55,000 Years Ago, Way Further South Than ThoughtA family of camels in the Nafud desert in Arabia
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Desert-Dwelling Neanderthals? Extinct Human Relatives May Have Ventured Into Arabia 55,000 Years Ago, Way Further South Than Thought

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Hominin Taxonomy Is A Hot Mess, See The Before And After Of SpaceX's Collision On The Moon, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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Hominin Taxonomy Is A Hot Mess, See The Before And After Of SpaceX's Collision On The Moon, And Much More This Week

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Record-Breaking Human Mini Brains Kept Alive For 5 Years And Appear To Age Like The Real ThingA composite mosaic of human brain organoids that have been immunolabelled for different cell type markers.
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Record-Breaking Human Mini Brains Kept Alive For 5 Years And Appear To Age Like The Real Thing

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Flu Vaccines Reimagined: Scientists Unveil World-First Process To Make Universal Flu Shots In Less Than Half The Timeyeast cells under a microscope
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Flu Vaccines Reimagined: Scientists Unveil World-First Process To Make Universal Flu Shots In Less Than Half The Time

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Man's Testosterone Regimen Sends Him Into Psychosis, Hearing The Voice Of God Inside His BodyA molecular model of testosterone.
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Man's Testosterone Regimen Sends Him Into Psychosis, Hearing The Voice Of God Inside His Body

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Scientists Create Female Clones From Male Mice In "Strange And Fascinating" Experiment That Could Help Endangered SpeciesThe original male donor mouse with male clones (left) and female clones (right).
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Scientists Create Female Clones From Male Mice In "Strange And Fascinating" Experiment That Could Help Endangered Species

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Iceland's Struggling Whaling Industry Sees Fresh Opportunity In Whale-Based Iron SupplementsA fin whale surfacing in waters around Greenland
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Iceland's Struggling Whaling Industry Sees Fresh Opportunity In Whale-Based Iron Supplements

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Stunning "Golden Trees" Of Coral Found Growing From Carpet Of Brittle Stars Get "Lord Of The Rings"-Inspired NameLarge golden coral rises up from a pink mat of hundreds and hundreds of brittle stars that cover the bottom of the coral.
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Stunning "Golden Trees" Of Coral Found Growing From Carpet Of Brittle Stars Get "Lord Of The Rings"-Inspired Name

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It's Time For The Annual Waterlily Weigh Off! These Plants Can Hold An Adult Human – And We Just Proved ItA man in waders stands on top of a large lily pad with another man next to it both celebrating inside Kew Gardens.
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It's Time For The Annual Waterlily Weigh Off! These Plants Can Hold An Adult Human – And We Just Proved It

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OnlyFans And Crypto Meme Coin Raise Over $120,000 For Marmot Research Faced With Funding-Cut OblivionYellow-bellied marmot on a rock
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OnlyFans And Crypto Meme Coin Raise Over $120,000 For Marmot Research Faced With Funding-Cut Oblivion

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Complex System Of Four Orbiting Stars Creates A Series Of Eclipses We've Never Seen Beforetwo pairs of stars orbit each other shown here with twisty orbital paths
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Complex System Of Four Orbiting Stars Creates A Series Of Eclipses We've Never Seen Before

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Whale Song Appears To Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Sound Without Breaking Einstein's Theory Of Special Relativitya fin whale seen from above at the surface
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Whale Song Appears To Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Sound Without Breaking Einstein's Theory Of Special Relativity

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Turning A Fireball Into A Meteorite Takes 7 Steps – Definitely More Than We Thoughta fireball in the evening sky, appearing among some clouds
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Turning A Fireball Into A Meteorite Takes 7 Steps – Definitely More Than We Thought

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Earth’s Shadow Will Almost Entirely Cover The Moon This Friday – With North And South America Getting Front Row Seats To This Exciting Partial Eclipsethe moon almost completely red during an eclipse
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Earth’s Shadow Will Almost Entirely Cover The Moon This Friday – With North And South America Getting Front Row Seats To This Exciting Partial Eclipse

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Purple Clothes Using Nobel-Prize Winning Chemistry Could Keep You Cool With The Power Of Outer Spacethe purple mof material, before it is added to thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)
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Purple Clothes Using Nobel-Prize Winning Chemistry Could Keep You Cool With The Power Of Outer Space

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Flaw In NASA System Found By AI Could Have Been Used To Issue Commands To Active SpacecraftArtist depiction of Voyager looking back at the Solar System.
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Flaw In NASA System Found By AI Could Have Been Used To Issue Commands To Active Spacecraft

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One Of The Coldest Places In The Universe Is Now A Fridge In New YorkThe first two modules of the IBM’s scalable and modular cryogenic system are two metal boxes with copper structures inside
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One Of The Coldest Places In The Universe Is Now A Fridge In New York

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Can AI Be Conscious? Some Claim It Already Is. An AI Sociologist Cuts Through The HypeA drawing of circuit that become a human face
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Can AI Be Conscious? Some Claim It Already Is. An AI Sociologist Cuts Through The Hype

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X-Files Creator Chris Carter On How Real-Life Head Transplants Inspired The Show’s Scariest MovieA still from the movie showing Mulder and Scully looking at a computer monitor
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X-Files Creator Chris Carter On How Real-Life Head Transplants Inspired The Show’s Scariest Movie

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Ever Struggle To Sleep On Your First Night Somewhere New? Be Grateful – Your Brain Is Just Looking Out For Youwoman sitting up in bed in a dark room with some yellow fairy lights in the window
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Ever Struggle To Sleep On Your First Night Somewhere New? Be Grateful – Your Brain Is Just Looking Out For You

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The Mathematical Reason Why No Voting System Can Ever Be Totally Fairan illustration of hands holding voting slips
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The Mathematical Reason Why No Voting System Can Ever Be Totally Fair

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When A Disease Scare Fizzles Out, Did Scientists Just Get It Wrong? What We Can Learn From The Pandemics That Weren'ttwo posters that are ripped at the edges, the one on the left shows an illustration of a pig sneezing with viruses nearby, the other is a biohazard warning poster. A logo in the top right hand corner reads IFLScience Viral Summer.
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When A Disease Scare Fizzles Out, Did Scientists Just Get It Wrong? What We Can Learn From The Pandemics That Weren't

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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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Antarctic Krill Fishing Season Fills Quota Months Early For Second Year Running, Raising Fears Intensive Fishing Is Putting Ecosystems At Riska group of penguins scattered across a beach in Antarctica
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Antarctic Krill Fishing Season Fills Quota Months Early For Second Year Running, Raising Fears Intensive Fishing Is Putting Ecosystems At Risk

“This is alarming because Antarctic krill is a keystone species and the foundation of the Antarctic food web.”

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Only Two Full Viking Age Helmets Have Ever Been Discovered, So Where Are The Rest? And Where Are Their Horns?The Gjermundbu helmet was found in Norway and dates to the peak of the Viking Age.
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Only Two Full Viking Age Helmets Have Ever Been Discovered, So Where Are The Rest? And Where Are Their Horns?

To find out, IFLScience asked an archaeological expert from the Museum of the Viking Age.

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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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