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Nostalgia Has Millennials And Gen Z In A Chokehold – Is It Harmless Indulgence Or Evolutionary Necessity?A picture of a polaroid photo of an orange pink sunset. Nostalgia Has Millennials And Gen Z In A Chokehold – Is It Harmless Indulgence Or Evolutionary Necessity?A picture of a polaroid photo of an orange pink sunset.
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Nostalgia Has Millennials And Gen Z In A Chokehold – Is It Harmless Indulgence Or Evolutionary Necessity?

It has people in 2026 watching Friends and buying CDs, but it’s a feeling humans have been having – and even needing – for...

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NASA Can’t Save Its Swift Telescope From Crashing To Earth But It’s Not Going Down Without A Fight

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Humans Are Not The Only Animals That Make Art. Other Animals Are Creative Too

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You’ve Heard Of mRNA, Now There’s tRNA – Potential Gene Therapy Of The Future For Thousands With Incurable Diseases

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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 Close Are We To Talking To Animals? | IFLScience The Big Questions

If we learned the language of another species, could we one day talk to aliens?

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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 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

Just a year after RFK Jr. cut half a billion of funding for the technology, mRNA vaccines are promising individualized cancer vaccines that cut the chances of recurrence in half.

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200,000 Barrels Of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped In The Atlantic. Decades Later, We’re Finally Learning What Happens When They Leaka barrel on the seafloor has big holes and animals growing on it
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200,000 Barrels Of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped In The Atlantic. Decades Later, We’re Finally Learning What Happens When They Leak

It’s not good news, but it also not yet terrible news.

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World’s First Live AI-Assisted Brain Surgery Successfully Saves Man’s Vision By Removing TumorWorld's first AI-assisted brain surgery
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World’s First Live AI-Assisted Brain Surgery Successfully Saves Man’s Vision By Removing Tumor

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The World’s Most Intelligent Octopuses Have A Molecular Quirk That Could Help Explain How Their Brains Increase 100-Fold In Their Lifetimesa coconut octopus uses a shell for camouflage/shelter
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The World’s Most Intelligent Octopuses Have A Molecular Quirk That Could Help Explain How Their Brains Increase 100-Fold In Their Lifetimes

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A Blanket of Snow Covers The Atacama As Intense Winter Storms Cause Flooding And Mudslides In The Usually Arid Regionsnow blankets the atacama in this MODIS image from NASA
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A Blanket of Snow Covers The Atacama As Intense Winter Storms Cause Flooding And Mudslides In The Usually Arid Region

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Wearing Shoes May Explain Why Modern Humans' Feet Are Much Daintier Than Those Of NeanderthalsPair of feet, one in stripy socks and a fancy brogue shoe, the other in a different colour sock, casually crossed at the ankles
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Wearing Shoes May Explain Why Modern Humans' Feet Are Much Daintier Than Those Of Neanderthals

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Unusual 11,000-Year-Old Statue Of A Human Riding A Leopard Discovered At Karahan Tepe, One Of Humanity’s Oldest SettlementsAn ancient carving of a human figure sitting on a leopard.
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Unusual 11,000-Year-Old Statue Of A Human Riding A Leopard Discovered At Karahan Tepe, One Of Humanity’s Oldest Settlements

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"No Place To Hide?": Study Identifies Where You Should Go To Avoid Global Catastrophe, But It Largely Involves Moving To Australia

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1,000 Years Older Than Stonehenge, A Prehistoric Structure Aligned To The Moon And Solstices Has Been Unearthed In Central EuropeArcheologists are only just starting to uncover the buried site.
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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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20,000 People In Oregon Have Now Received Legal Psilocybin Therapy, And The Outcomes Are Overwhelmingly Positive

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Two Airport Workers Die Of Malaria In Frankfurt, Germany, After Mosquito Stows Away On Aircraftanopheline mosquito in a cut out next to an aeroplane flying in a sunset sky
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Two Airport Workers Die Of Malaria In Frankfurt, Germany, After Mosquito Stows Away On Aircraft

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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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Two Unvaccinated People Die Of Measles In Pennsylvania Amid Worst Outbreak In Decadesa poster at prostest in washington that simply says vaccines save lives
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Two Unvaccinated People Die Of Measles In Pennsylvania Amid Worst Outbreak In Decades

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Why The Internet Thinks Robert Pattinson Is “Obsessed” With Bracelet-Wearing Moss Balls That Move In Herds

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Early Cretaceous Footprints Appear To Come From The Largest Mammal Of The Dinosaur EraArtist's impression of the largest mammal known from the age of the dinosaurs, with a juvenile dinosaur in its mouth
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Early Cretaceous Footprints Appear To Come From The Largest Mammal Of The Dinosaur Era

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Scientists Got Clownfish To Watch A VR Horror Movie – Their Reaction Revealed How Artificial Light At Night Changes Their Physiologya clownfish head-on looks very frightened
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Scientists Got Clownfish To Watch A VR Horror Movie – Their Reaction Revealed How Artificial Light At Night Changes Their Physiology

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How Many Legs Is Too Many? Because This 324-Million-Year-Old Insect Had 24Palaeoecological reconstruction of Chosha praecursor, showing it as a shrimp like creature on a rock above a pond.
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How Many Legs Is Too Many? Because This 324-Million-Year-Old Insect Had 24

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Nancy Grace Roman Observatory: T-Rex-Sized Space Telescope Launching This Weekend Will Photograph Exoplanets And Solve Cosmic Mysteriesthe telescope is overlayed over galaxies and purple filaments to reprenset the cosmic web
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Nancy Grace Roman Observatory: T-Rex-Sized Space Telescope Launching This Weekend Will Photograph Exoplanets And Solve Cosmic Mysteries

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Mars Is Hotter On One Side... Under Its South Pole, Adding More Weirdness To Its Planetary “Dichotomy”a sliced version of the red planet with a mantle that looks hotter in the south
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Mars Is Hotter On One Side... Under Its South Pole, Adding More Weirdness To Its Planetary “Dichotomy”

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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

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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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Man Manages To Access Bitcoin Wallet After 12 Years, Becomes An Instant Millionaire OvernightArtist impression of a Bitcoin.
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Man Manages To Access Bitcoin Wallet After 12 Years, Becomes An Instant Millionaire Overnight

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If You Think Not Owning Your Media Is Bad, Thank The Lord That "Flexplay" Did Not Catch On

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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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Why Are Republicans And The Right So Obsessed With Psychedelics Right Now?Donald Trump dancing
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Why Are Republicans And The Right So Obsessed With Psychedelics Right Now?

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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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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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Are There Body Parts You Can Live Without? You'd Be Surprised How ManyA stylised illustration of the operation game.
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Are There Body Parts You Can Live Without? You'd Be Surprised How Many

Some make it really difficult to let go, though.

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Human Mini Brains Kept Alive For 5 Years, Listen To The Sounds Of An Ancient Jurassic Forest, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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Human Mini Brains Kept Alive For 5 Years, Listen To The Sounds Of An Ancient Jurassic Forest, And Much More This Week

All the biggest science news stories of the week.

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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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