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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 backgroundNASA’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

NASA’s New PRIMA Mission Has Big Plans To Look Further And Deeper Into The Universe Using Infrared Than Ever Before

The PRIMA mission is the first of a new class of missions from the U.S. space agency.

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Astrophysical "Ghost Particles" And A Giant IceCube Win 2026 Nobel Prize In PhysicsA boxy bulding connected to a cylindrical structure over the icy landscape of Antarctica
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Astrophysical "Ghost Particles" And A Giant IceCube Win 2026 Nobel Prize In Physics

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Ghost Hunters Are Embracing AI In Surprising Ways, And It’s Changing The Face Of Paranormal Investigation

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Gangkhar Puensum: The Highest Unclimbed Mountain In The World May Never Be Summited

No person in human history has ever climbed its peak, and there's good reason for that.

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Banana Blossom Bathtubs, Fish-Faced Birds, And Wig-Wearing Reptiles: The Best And Most Ridiculous Of The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Finalists 2026

Having a laugh is only natural.

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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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Creepy Study Challenged People To See Into Another Room Through An Out-Of-Body Experience. They Failed, But Then Something Really Weird Happenedillustration of someone leaving their body, a door is opening in the corner
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Creepy Study Challenged People To See Into Another Room Through An Out-Of-Body Experience. They Failed, But Then Something Really Weird Happened

Two study participants offered some unexpected information unprompted.

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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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World's Tallest Wind Turbine Finishes Construction In Germany – Topping Out At An Impressive 365 Meters

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Meet "Yak X," A Newly Discovered Extinct Species Found In Siberia's Famed Denisova Cave

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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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Did Africa Have Multi-Story "Skyscrapers" 2,800 Years Ago? New Research Suggests They Had The TechnologyVirtual landscape model with the Palace of Yeha in the center of the image in a reconstruction variant with eight floors.
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Did Africa Have Multi-Story "Skyscrapers" 2,800 Years Ago? New Research Suggests They Had The Technology

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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

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An Old Paper Really Did Suggest A Mathematical "Doomsday" On 13 November 2026, But There's No Need To WorryThe date "November 13" on wood blocks, outside.
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An Old Paper Really Did Suggest A Mathematical "Doomsday" On 13 November 2026, But There's No Need To Worry

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The Strange Idea That Language And Art Emerged Long Before Human Consciousness, Which Only Appeared In 2000 BCEThe ruins of Ancient Greece, at sunset.
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The Strange Idea That Language And Art Emerged Long Before Human Consciousness, Which Only Appeared In 2000 BCE

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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 KnowPhotomicrograph of a human specimen obtained from a plague patient, revealing numerous rod-shaped bacteria, Yersinia pestis.
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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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Revolutionary Technique That Fixed Memory Loss And Blindness In Mice Wins Nobel Prize In Medicineartist impression of a neuron made of light
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Revolutionary Technique That Fixed Memory Loss And Blindness In Mice Wins Nobel Prize In Medicine

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A Human Gene Stolen By A Poxvirus Is Displaying Never-Before-Seen Behavior

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From Sharks Fleeing The Aquarium To Elephants On High Alert – How Do Animals Know An Earthquake Is Coming?

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Earth Shifted Quickly On Its Axis Four Times In Last 320 Million Years, Including When Dinosaurs ReignedEarth from space with the sun rise peeking out behind
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Earth Shifted Quickly On Its Axis Four Times In Last 320 Million Years, Including When Dinosaurs Reigned

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The Oldest Non-Polar Ice In The World Has Been Frozen For At Least 128,000 Years, Long Before The Ice Age EndedFlags up a tibet china mountain
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The Oldest Non-Polar Ice In The World Has Been Frozen For At Least 128,000 Years, Long Before The Ice Age Ended

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Gorgeous Time-Lapse Satellite Photos Record A Volcano Erupting For The First Time In Nearly 500 Years And Spilling Lava Across The Landscape

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First Ever Detection Of A Phoenix Planet Around A White Dwarf – Born After Its Star Had Died

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Meet The Author: Dr Seven M. Rasmussen Explores The Search For Alien Life In Her New Book “Cloudy With A Chance Of Starships”

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If You Want To Discover A Missing Black Hole In Our Galaxy, This Is Your Chance

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Astronauts Just Set A New Record: The Fastest-Ever Trip To The ISS By An American Spacecraft

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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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iLands: The New Dystopian AI Farm That Is Filling Everyone's Inboxes With SpamAn email pitching a story for IFLScience via email.
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iLands: The New Dystopian AI Farm That Is Filling Everyone's Inboxes With Spam

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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 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 Place

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Monk Starts 12 Years Of Isolation At A Buddhist Temple: What Can Severe Isolation Do To The Human Mind?

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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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Want To Know If Someone Likes You? Science Suggests A Key Vocal Feature Can Reveal Who We Like, And Influence Who Likes Usa man and woman looking at each other
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Want To Know If Someone Likes You? Science Suggests A Key Vocal Feature Can Reveal Who We Like, And Influence Who Likes Us

Interestingly, in works differently for long- and short-term relationships.

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A Space Disaster Is Coming Unless We Take Kessler Syndrome SeriouslyA piece of debris, in orbit around the Earth.
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A Space Disaster Is Coming Unless We Take Kessler Syndrome Seriously

According to a recent analysis, it could plausibly happen in just over a decade. That would not be great.

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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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