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The Science Of Fever Dreams: When We’re Sick, Our Dreams Can Get Extra Weird – What’s That All About?A illustrated montage of weird characters, including a clock with a face, a pencil with wings and a genie emerging from a lamp.The Science Of Fever Dreams: When We’re Sick, Our Dreams Can Get Extra Weird – What’s That All About?A illustrated montage of weird characters, including a clock with a face, a pencil with wings and a genie emerging from a lamp.
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The Science Of Fever Dreams: When We’re Sick, Our Dreams Can Get Extra Weird – What’s That All About?

There are some surprisingly recurrent themes in our fever dreams.

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The Super El Niño Is Strongest On Record And It's Only Getting More PowerfulMoody skies hang over the ocean.
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The Super El Niño Is Strongest On Record And It's Only Getting More Powerful

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New Species Of Waterlily Discovered By Scrolling Instagram May Already Be Critically EndangeredCarlos Magdalena looks out from a boat at the waterlily pads.
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New Species Of Waterlily Discovered By Scrolling Instagram May Already Be Critically Endangered

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Weird Physics Causes This Lonely Martian Cloud To Reappear And Grow Longer Than California Every Day

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Watch Artemis II's Fiery Return To Earth From Inside The Capsule – Among Heaps Of Other New Data Released By NASA

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Human Ancestors Shared Their Migration Route Out Of Africa With Enormous Elephants 700,000 Years Ago

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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

Joël Lapointe was browsing Google Maps when he spotted an unusual spherical structure. It turned out to be a huge find.

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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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Meet Gary and Shaggy, The First Known Domestic Cats With Rare Marfan Syndrometwo ginger and white cats sitting on a table, the one on the left is a shorthair and the one on the right a longhair. They have both had their eyes removed.
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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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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

Experts in the UK have weighed in on the developing situation while the US is monitoring it closely.

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There’s A Surprisingly Simple Way To Reduce Misbehavior In Prisons, But Will Anyone Pay Attention?a photo from inside a prison
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There’s A Surprisingly Simple Way To Reduce Misbehavior In Prisons, But Will Anyone Pay Attention?

Nations spend billions to control prisoner violence, but there might be a cheap and simple way they're not making use of.

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COVID Is Spiking In The UK And Growing in 19 US States As The XFG or Stratus Variant Spreads – Here's What To KnowA white man coughing while wearing a blanket
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COVID Is Spiking In The UK And Growing in 19 US States As The XFG or Stratus Variant Spreads – Here's What To Know

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Criminal Gang Busted For Stealing 2,700 Cats They Were Going To Slaughter For MeatHundreds of cats seized by police in Ho Chi Minh City in June 2026.
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Criminal Gang Busted For Stealing 2,700 Cats They Were Going To Slaughter For Meat

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Denisovans Had “Powerful Hunting Physiques”, But There’s One Key Survival Food They Didn’t EatPrehistoric humans cooking meat
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Denisovans Had “Powerful Hunting Physiques”, But There’s One Key Survival Food They Didn’t Eat

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Neanderthals’ Expert Woodworking Skills Revealed By Traces Of “Hidden” TechnologiesClub-like wooden tool made by Neanderthals
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Neanderthals’ Expert Woodworking Skills Revealed By Traces Of “Hidden” Technologies

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Scanning Anomalies Found At The "Cave of the Venuses," Where Neanderthals Once Lived And Homo Sapiens Made Beautiful ArtCopies of the Venus Figurines found at the Grotta delle Veneri, on display at Museo Castromediano, Lecce
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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 QuestionsThe jaw is one of the bones that differs most between Homo erectus and Paranthropus, and this 2 million-year-old find is definitely not Paranthropus
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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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Oh Great, Flu Season Is Around The Corner And It Seems To Be Picking Up Extra Early This YearInfluenza B virus particles, colorized orange and pink, isolated from a patient sample and then propagated in cell culture.
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Oh Great, Flu Season Is Around The Corner And It Seems To Be Picking Up Extra Early This Year

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Nobel-Winning Technique Restores Some Vision In Patients With Genetic Form Of Blindness In Promising Early Trialmicrograph of layers of different coloured cell types in the mouse retina from small red and green ones to larger purple and pink cells, with some bright green fluorescent ones mixed in. The top left of the image is striations of red staining.
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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 WorldwideColorized transmission electron micrograph of a hepatitis C virion.
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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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The Largest Early Mammal Relative Alive In The Jurassic Looked Like A Cross Between An Otter And A PlatypusA reconstruction of Megacauda showing it bobbing in a river with its head above the water.
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The Largest Early Mammal Relative Alive In The Jurassic Looked Like A Cross Between An Otter And A Platypus

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The US Just Experienced The Hottest September Ever Recorded – And The Trend Is Set To ContinueSunny sunrise over New York, with the silhouette of the statue of Liberty.
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The US Just Experienced The Hottest September Ever Recorded – And The Trend Is Set To Continue

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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 SpeciesGreat Sphinx and Giza Pyramid
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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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We Have Not 1 But 2 New Contestants For World's Loudest Bird, With Screeches As Loud As A Jackhammerbare-throated bellbird with white feathers and bright blue throat sings from a tree top
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We Have Not 1 But 2 New Contestants For World's Loudest Bird, With Screeches As Loud As A Jackhammer

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China's Chang'e-6 Mission To The Moon's Far Side Brought Puzzling Samples Of Gamma Iron Back With ItChang'e-6 on the lunar far side.
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China's Chang'e-6 Mission To The Moon's Far Side Brought Puzzling Samples Of Gamma Iron Back With It

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

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Margaret Hamilton, The Computer Pioneer Whose Work Was Crucial To The Apollo Program, Dies At 90Cropped sepia image of a young Margaret Hamilton, a white woman with long hair and glasses, standing next to a large stack of books as tall as her
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Margaret Hamilton, The Computer Pioneer Whose Work Was Crucial To The Apollo Program, Dies At 90

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NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures A Crisp Martian Dawn From The Side Of Mount Sharpthe nearby crags and distant peaks seen by curiosity as the sky looks white
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures A Crisp Martian Dawn From The Side Of Mount Sharp

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What If The Addams Family's "Thing" Was Real? Watch A Severed Robotic Hand Creep Around The Floor And Play GolfThe robotic hand scuttles across some old weathered stone in Zürich.
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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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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

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The Levitating Magnetic Bearing Just Got A New Incentiveconcept art showing a ball-bearing suspended between a cuboid and a flat disk with a glowing white underside
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The Levitating Magnetic Bearing Just Got A New Incentive

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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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We May Have Been Reading The Voynich Manuscript In The Wrong Order For Over A CenturyA page of the Voynich Manuscript which resembles an astrological chart.
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We May Have Been Reading The Voynich Manuscript In The Wrong Order For Over A Century

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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

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Ghost Hunters Are Embracing AI In Surprising Ways, And It’s Changing The Face Of Paranormal Investigationcollage of images from left to right showing a black and white photo of a seance, a black and white photo of part of a ouija board, a silhouette of a person in a dark forest shining a torch, an EMF meter, and a laptop with an electronic drawing of a robotic chatbot. A logo in the top right reads IFLSCIENCE INVESTIGATES
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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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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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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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Skull Of An Extinct Crocodile Found In The Rocks Used To Build The Pyramids, Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Yet Discovered, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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Skull Of An Extinct Crocodile Found In The Rocks Used To Build The Pyramids, Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Yet Discovered, And Much More This Week

All the biggest science news stories of the week.

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Plants Need To Sun To Make Energy. So What Happens When It's Cloudy, And Are There Any Plants That Can Photosynthesize By Moonlight?A picture of a flower facing the moon.
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Plants Need To Sun To Make Energy. So What Happens When It's Cloudy, And Are There Any Plants That Can Photosynthesize By Moonlight?

And how does cloudy weather affect the process?

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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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