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The First Ever Leg Bones Of The Mysterious Denisovans Have Been Identified From Fossils Dredged From The Seafloora mysterious abtract human face, with red coloringThe First Ever Leg Bones Of The Mysterious Denisovans Have Been Identified From Fossils Dredged From The Seafloora mysterious abtract human face, with red coloring

The First Ever Leg Bones Of The Mysterious Denisovans Have Been Identified From Fossils Dredged From The Seafloor

Thought extinct humans would be shorter than us? That might not be the case.

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Highs Of 35°C In Siberia: Temperatures In The Arctic Circle Have Been Getting A Little Out Of HandA photo of meltwater and a forest taken in Chupa, Karelia, Russia
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Highs Of 35°C In Siberia: Temperatures In The Arctic Circle Have Been Getting A Little Out Of Hand

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Have We Learned The Right Lessons To Deal With The Next Pandemic? Disease X Is Coming Sooner Or LaterScientists are researching vaccines in clinical laboratories that focus on diagnosing the Nipah virus, with an emphasis on medical research, disease detection, and healthcare preparedness.
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Have We Learned The Right Lessons To Deal With The Next Pandemic? Disease X Is Coming Sooner Or Later

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Incredibly Complete 30-Million-Year-Old Dog Fossil From The US Revealed To Have Been A Very Good Boy

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Weather Forecasts Have A Theoretical Limit Of 129 Days – And You Can Blame Quantum Mechanics

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US Government Waives Laws Protecting Native American Graves In Order To Build Border Wall Over 6,000-Year-Old Rock Art SitesRock art mural from Panther Cave
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US Government Waives Laws Protecting Native American Graves In Order To Build Border Wall Over 6,000-Year-Old Rock Art Sites

Authorities plan to use dynamite at the ancient sites, where Indigenous communities created complex murals over thousands of years.

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Mysterious Masked Monkey Is The Fifth Discovered In Africa In 75 Years. And It May Already Be EndangeredA black monkey with an orange face and pink lips sits n a tree looking down.
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Mysterious Masked Monkey Is The Fifth Discovered In Africa In 75 Years. And It May Already Be Endangered

The species was first heard about in 2008 but not properly described until now.

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Men Evolved A Unique Pelvis That Puts A Spring In Their Step, But Women Have The Same Pelvis As NeanderthalsHuman pelvis
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Men Evolved A Unique Pelvis That Puts A Spring In Their Step, But Women Have The Same Pelvis As Neanderthals

This upgrade may have helped men become better hunters – but that doesn't mean women didn't hunt too.

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World's Tiniest Buffalo Species Just Welcomed A New Baby – And She's Already A Total Heartbreaker A rare anoa calf has been stepped outside for its first outdoor adventure after being born at Chester Zoo.
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World's Tiniest Buffalo Species Just Welcomed A New Baby – And She's Already A Total Heartbreaker

Cutest buffalo you'll see this week, guaranteed.

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In The Darkest Depths Of Lake Superior, “Zombie Fish” Are On The Rise. Is It A Natural Event – Or Something Else?the zombie emaciated fish is very skinny compared to the normal fish that looks almost like it has a big belly
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In The Darkest Depths Of Lake Superior, “Zombie Fish” Are On The Rise. Is It A Natural Event – Or Something Else?

Scientists are searching for the cause of this unsettling transformation in the lake’s top predators.

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Lake Mead, The Largest Reservoir In The US, Has Just Reached Its Lowest Level Ever RecordedLake Mead as seen from Stewarts Point, Nevada. This photo was taken from a spot previously under water.
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Lake Mead, The Largest Reservoir In The US, Has Just Reached Its Lowest Level Ever Recorded

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Life On Earth Appeared Not Once But Twice, Both Times Evolving From A Common Genetic CodeA hot spring in Yellowstone National Park, with a deep blue interior and bands of yellow and red radiating out.
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Life On Earth Appeared Not Once But Twice, Both Times Evolving From A Common Genetic Code

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US Lab Finds A Faster Way To Make Californium-252, A Nuclear Isotope Worth Millions Per Gram Not Found Naturally On EarthTechnicians look into a hot cell in the Radiochemical Engineering Development Center where Cf-252 is produced.
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US Lab Finds A Faster Way To Make Californium-252, A Nuclear Isotope Worth Millions Per Gram Not Found Naturally On Earth

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Why Can’t Everybody Sing Well? Turns Out, There’s Hope For Most Of Us Lousy SingersA pop-art style illustration of a mouth wide opening, teeth and tongue on displaying, singing its heart out, as deomstrated by the sound waves drawn coming from it and distorting the checked background
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Why Can’t Everybody Sing Well? Turns Out, There’s Hope For Most Of Us Lousy Singers

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Scientists Used AI To Produce A Bacteria-Killing Virus, “A Little Bowel Movement” 540 Million Years Ago Sparked An Evolutionary Explosion, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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Scientists Used AI To Produce A Bacteria-Killing Virus, “A Little Bowel Movement” 540 Million Years Ago Sparked An Evolutionary Explosion, And Much More This Week

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55,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones Showing Signs Of Butchery May Hint At Repeated Episodes Of CannibalismNeanderthal skull
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55,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones Showing Signs Of Butchery May Hint At Repeated Episodes Of Cannibalism

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Putting This Neanderthal Gene In Mouse Cells Helped Them Grow. It Seems To Make Modern Humans Bigger And More Muscular TooModel of a Neanderthal Dusseldorf, Germany, February 16, 2024, Neanderthal Museum
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Putting This Neanderthal Gene In Mouse Cells Helped Them Grow. It Seems To Make Modern Humans Bigger And More Muscular Too

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Over 600 New Cancer Models Unveiled After 10-Year Project With Help From 2,800 Patients – And They're Publicly Available TooA view of a cancer cell under a microscope. The image shows coils of structures on a blue/white spectrum with negative space appearing as white and more dense parts as increasingly darker blue.
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Over 600 New Cancer Models Unveiled After 10-Year Project With Help From 2,800 Patients – And They're Publicly Available Too

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A Deadly Fungal Superbug Spreading In Over 20 US States Hides In Hair Follicles To Evade The Immune SystemAn illustration of pathogenic fungus.
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A Deadly Fungal Superbug Spreading In Over 20 US States Hides In Hair Follicles To Evade Immune Systems

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First-Ever mRNA Flu Vaccine Finally Approved By FDA In Time For 2026 Season – After They Initially Refused To Review It Digitally-colorized transmission electron microscopic image of virions from a 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus isolate. The spherical virus particles contain cross-sections through the viral nucleocapsids, seen as dots, enclosed by a distinct viral envelope surrounded by prominent spikes.
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First-Ever mRNA Flu Vaccine Finally Approved By FDA In Time For 2026 Season – After They Initially Refused To Review It

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The Average Person Carries Between 8 And 12 Dormant Viruses In Their Body. Now It Seems COVID-19 Can Wake Them Up Again3D illustration of cytomegalovirus particles in shades of pink, red, and purple
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The Average Person Carries Between 8 And 12 Dormant Viruses In Their Body. Now It Seems COVID-19 Can Wake Them Up Again

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Pearls May Look Like Gemstones, But They’re Actually Made By Irritated MollusksPearl
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Pearls May Look Like Gemstones, But They’re Actually Made By Irritated Mollusks

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This Year's Super El Niño Is Far Beyond Anything Scientists Have Seen Before: “We're In Uncharted Territory"Aerial view of wildfires and smoke across the landscape
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This Year's Super El Niño Is Far Beyond Anything Scientists Have Seen Before: “We're In Uncharted Territory"

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Animals’ Reactions To Solar Eclipses Suggest The One That Behaves The Strangest Is… Us?the sun's light is being almost totally blocked by the moon
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Animals’ Reactions To Solar Eclipses Suggest The One That Behaves The Strangest Is… Us?

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World’s First Dogs Genetically Engineered To Remove Allergy-Causing Protein Celebrate Their Second BirthdayNon-allergenic puppies Alfie and Bailey
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World’s First Dogs Genetically Engineered To Remove Allergy-Causing Protein Celebrate Their Second Birthday

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NASA Pulls Off Smart Move To Prolong Lifespan Of Aging Voyager 2 As It Flies 21.37 Billion Kilometers From EarthIllustration of Voyager spacecraft in space
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NASA Pulls Off Smart Move To Prolong Lifespan Of Aging Voyager 2 As It Flies 21.37 Billion Kilometers From Earth

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We Finally Have The First Pictures Of The SpaceX Rocket Crash Site On The Moon – And It Did In Fact Leave A Markan inset show a dark splotch on the surface of the Moon the impact traces of the SpaceX falcon 9 rocket
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We Finally Have The First Pictures Of The SpaceX Rocket Crash Site On The Moon – And It Did In Fact Leave A Mark

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NASA’s Curiosity Likes Big Buttes – But Only On Mars, As Captured In This Incredible PanoramaNASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this butte, nicknamed “Miraflores,” estimated to be around 6 meters (20 feet) tall, on June 11, 2026.
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NASA’s Curiosity Likes Big Buttes – But Only On Mars, As Captured In This Incredible Panorama

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For The First Time Ever We've Photographed Earth Being Hidden Behind A Martian MoonThe Perseverance rover was designed to look down and ahead, but when it looks up, sometimes it sees amazing things
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For The First Time Ever We've Photographed Earth Being Hidden Behind A Martian Moon

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In A World First, Scientists Used AI To Generate A Genome And Produced A Functional, Bacteria-Killing VirusBiotech and DNA analysis technology concept with glowing digital double helix structure connected to circuit board on dark blue background. Futuristic low poly style, abstract vector illustration.
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In A World First, Scientists Used AI To Generate A Genome And Produced A Functional, Bacteria-Killing Virus

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Sam Altman Suggested A New Use For ChatGPT And It Has People Saying "Jesus This Is Bleak"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in front of a sign which reads "OpenAI".
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Sam Altman Suggested A New Use For ChatGPT And It Has People Saying "Jesus This Is Bleak"

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History Professor Catches 32 Out Of 35 Students Cheating On Their Exam By Including One Hidden Line In The QuestionA building with large white pillars at Alcorn State University.
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History Professor Catches 32 Out Of 35 Students Cheating On Their Exam By Including One Hidden Line In The Question

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The Wreck Of A Plane That Changed Aviation Forever Has Been Found At The Bottom Of The Sea After 74 YearsAn archival image of Clipper Endeavor, highlighting features that were seen on the Atlantic seabed during this latest expedition.
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The Wreck Of A Plane That Changed Aviation Forever Has Been Found At The Bottom Of The Sea After 74 Years

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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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Your Personality Isn't As Stable As You Think: This Is How You Will Change As You AgeHeraclitus in his river, thinking about how correct he is.
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Your Personality Isn't As Stable As You Think: This Is How You Will Change As You Age

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People Are More Likely To Be Your Friend If You Seem Like A Good Hunter-GathererGroup of friends
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People Are More Likely To Be Your Friend If You Seem Like A Good Hunter-Gatherer

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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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Most Of The World’s Aluminum Starts Out As This Strange-Looking Rockbauxite is a natural mixture of aluminum oxides. Used in the production of alumina, cement and other industrial products
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Most Of The World’s Aluminum Starts Out As This Strange-Looking Rock

RIP Napoleon III, you would have hated how common aluminum has become.

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How COVID-19 Went From The 3rd Leading Cause Of Death In The US To 15th In Just 4 Years – And Where That Leaves Us NowNEW YORK - CIRCA AUGUST 2020: Crowd of people wearing a mask walking street during coronavirus pandemicNEW YORK - CIRCA AUGUST 2020: Crowd of people wearing a mask walking street during coronavirus pandemic
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How COVID-19 Went From The 3rd Leading Cause Of Death In The US To 15th In Just 4 Years – And Where That Leaves Us Now

Only six years ago, the virus was infecting tens of thousands of people per day. The situation now is very different, but the virus hasn't entirely gone away.

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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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