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

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

Two of the study’s authors talked us through the innovative process using yeast, a “new concept” for flu viruses.

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Could You Turn A Flamingo Blue? | IFLScience We Have QuestionsA picture of flamingos coloured blue overlaid with a mobile phone displaying the We Have Questions logo.
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Could You Turn A Flamingo Blue? | IFLScience We Have Questions

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One Of Our Most Detailed Views Yet Of Betelgeuse Reveals Unexpected Long-Lasting Structures In Its Inner Atmospherethe star is roughly circular but lumpy. two bright region are visible compared to the rest
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One Of Our Most Detailed Views Yet Of Betelgeuse Reveals Unexpected Long-Lasting Structures In Its Inner Atmosphere

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JWST Image Trick Finally Reveals Compact Galaxies Around Mysterious Little Red Dots

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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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Astronauts And Cosmonauts Have A Pooping Problem In Microgravity, And New Research May Have Figured Out Why

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Dolphins Are Learning A Strange New Hunting Technique Using Shells And Seem To Be Teaching It To Others: Watch The First-Ever FootageA female dolphin "shelling" along the coast of Queensland, Australia, in July 2025.
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Dolphins Are Learning A Strange New Hunting Technique Using Shells And Seem To Be Teaching It To Others: Watch The First-Ever Footage

Clever girl!

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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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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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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

Usually you want lighter clothes to stay cool in summer weather, but these purple threads have even more cooling power despite their color.

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If Humans Visit The Lunar South Pole, Microbes We Leave Behind May Survive There Surprisingly WellThe next time we land on the Moon it could be at a location much more suited to the survival of the microbes we bring with us than previous missions
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If Humans Visit The Lunar South Pole, Microbes We Leave Behind May Survive There Surprisingly Well

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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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New “Mega-Earth” Is Massive, On a Very Strange Orbit, And Shouldn't Really ExistArtist's impression of a Mega-Earth, which a new discovery reveals as a real category
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New “Mega-Earth” Is Massive, On a Very Strange Orbit, And Shouldn't Really Exist

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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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Fire May Have Transformed Humans From Daytime Creatures Into 24-Hour Animals… Kind Of Like Lemurs2477 activity pattern
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Fire May Have Transformed Humans From Daytime Creatures Into 24-Hour Animals… Kind Of Like Lemurs

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At 3,200 Years Old, These Painted Ceramics May Be The World’s First Sought After “Brand”Pottery belonging to the Qurayyah Painted Ware brand
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At 3,200 Years Old, These Painted Ceramics May Be The World’s First Sought After “Brand”

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Hominin Taxonomy Is A Hot Mess. One Anthropologist Proposes A Shake-Up Of Our Family TreeA picture of the human family tree on display at the Natural History Museum, London.
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Hominin Taxonomy Is A Hot Mess. One Anthropologist Proposes A Shake-Up Of Our Family Tree

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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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Man's Heart Surgery Cures His Skin Cancer – And Leaves Him With A Brand New Bee AllergyA honey bee flying directly at the camera head on.
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Man's Heart Surgery Cures His Skin Cancer – And Leaves Him With A Brand New Bee Allergy

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For The First Time Ever, A Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Has Cleared Phase 3 Trials – And With Flying Colors3D colorful illustration of mRNA encased in lipid nanoparticles
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For The First Time Ever, A Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Has Cleared Phase 3 Trials – And With Flying Colors

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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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Watch Live As Millions Of Wildebeest And Zebras Attempt To Cross The Mara River While Avoiding Hungry CrocodilesA herd of wildebeest scramble down a river bank and into muddy water to cross the river.
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Watch Live As Millions Of Wildebeest And Zebras Attempt To Cross The Mara River While Avoiding Hungry Crocodiles

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Jodie Foster The 4.5-Meter-Long Reticulated Python Receives Pioneering Electrochemotherapy For Mouth Tumor In World FirstAs snakes mouth is propped open as gloved hands work on her tumor.
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Jodie Foster The 4.5-Meter-Long Reticulated Python Receives Pioneering Electrochemotherapy For Mouth Tumor In World First

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Mantis Shrimp Are The Only Known Animals To See This Kind Of Light, And They Use It To Send Secret Signals Without Alerting Predatorsa mantis shrimp sits in among some rocks, it is very colorful with giant eyes
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Mantis Shrimp Are The Only Known Animals To See This Kind Of Light, And They Use It To Send Secret Signals Without Alerting Predators

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20 Years Ago, Pluto Stopped Being A Planet. This Is Why Campaigns To Restore It Aren’t WorkingYou'd have to have a frozen heart not to feel sorry for Pluto, but reinstating it as a planet would cause a lot of other problems
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20 Years Ago, Pluto Stopped Being A Planet. This Is Why Campaigns To Restore It Aren’t Working

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What Is The Black Drop Effect? How An Optical Phenomenon Frustrated Astronomers And May Have Changed Australia’s HistoryThis photograph taken during the Transit of Venus in 2004 shows the black drop effect, with the area of darkness appearing to bulge out where Venus's touches the edge of the Sun
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What Is The Black Drop Effect? How An Optical Phenomenon Frustrated Astronomers And May Have Changed Australia’s History

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You Can Now See The Before And After Of The SpaceX Collision On The Moonthe cratered surface of the Moon and in the middle two overlapping crater with one of them showing fresh streaks of dark and bright material
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You Can Now See The Before And After Of The SpaceX Collision On The Moon

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Newly Discovered Fastest Star In The Galaxy Moves At 8 Percent Of The Speed Of Light, And Will Allow Us To Take An Incredible Black Hole Measurementartist impression shows many orbits with a variety of of inclinations around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy
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Newly Discovered Fastest Star In The Galaxy Moves At 8 Percent Of The Speed Of Light, And Will Allow Us To Take An Incredible Black Hole Measurement

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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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Jazz Musicians Leave Hidden “Fingerprints” In Their Work – Newly Trained Computer Models Can Identify Them With Over 90 Percent Accuracyvintage-looking upright piano against a brick wall
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Jazz Musicians Leave Hidden “Fingerprints” In Their Work – Newly Trained Computer Models Can Identify Them With Over 90 Percent Accuracy

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AI Offloading: Legitimate Threat To Our Brains Or Overblown Moral Panic? We Asked A Neuroscientist For His Takerepresentation of human with the top of the skull removed and a logo that resembles an AI company or human brain, on a background with nebula-like swirls of blue and orange
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AI Offloading: Legitimate Threat To Our Brains Or Overblown Moral Panic? We Asked A Neuroscientist For His Take

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World's Largest Electric Aircraft Just Took Its Maiden Flight Using $5 Worth Of ElectricityHeart Aerospace’s battery-electric X1 demonstrator banks east toward the rising sun during its first flight near Plattsburgh, New York, in August 2026, with Lake Champlain in the distance.
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World's Largest Electric Aircraft Just Took Its Maiden Flight Using $5 Worth Of Electricity

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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 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 Bronze Age Oak Coffin Containing Hair, Teeth, Nails, And Brain Matter: The Extraordinary Story Of The Egtved GirlA picture of the Egtved Girl burial as it now is, showing the furs and clothing within a log coffin.
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A Bronze Age Oak Coffin Containing Hair, Teeth, Nails, And Brain Matter: The Extraordinary Story Of The Egtved Girl

An accidental discovery revealed one of the most incredible Bronze Age burials.

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Do We Really Know More About Space Than The Deep Ocean? Here's What One Of The Few People To Visit Both SaysAn illisustration of a large yellow moon rising over the sea casting a yellow reflection on its surface at night
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Do We Really Know More About Space Than The Deep Ocean? Here's What One Of The Few People To Visit Both Says

The mysteries of both are ours to discover, but the challenges are surprisingly uneven.

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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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