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Seven Sordid Things I Wish I Could Forget About Ducks’ Heinous Sex Livesa male and female duck and a corkscrew between themSeven Sordid Things I Wish I Could Forget About Ducks’ Heinous Sex Livesa male and female duck and a corkscrew between them
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Seven Sordid Things I Wish I Could Forget About Ducks’ Heinous Sex Lives

Evolution went and put corkscrews where one should never put corkscrews.

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Where Have The Blue Whales Gone? El Niño Could Be To Blame As Galápagos Islands Survey Yields No ResultsA blue whale surfaces
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Where Have The Blue Whales Gone? El Niño Could Be To Blame As Galápagos Islands Survey Yields No Results

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Wolf 1130: A Triple Star System Just 54 Light-Years Away From Earth May Go SupernovaWolf 1130, a triple star system seen in a star-filled sky.
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Wolf 1130: A Triple Star System Just 54 Light-Years Away From Earth May Go Supernova

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50 Percent Of A Group Of Long COVID Patients Saw “Meaningful” Improvements Within 3 Years, And A Quarter Fully Recovered

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Deep In The Sudan Desert, A Vast Medieval Cathedral Is Slowly Emerging From The Sand

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Chornobyl's Genetically Unique Dogs Are Likely Caused By Natural Selection, Not Radiation-Scrambled DNA

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How Often Should You Wash Your Bed Sheets? Most People Don't Do It Nearly Enoughsleepy spotted Dog lies on bed under blanket with its owner, young woman is asleep. sleeping with pet in same bed. animal care, warm bed for pet. whippet is resting after walk.
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How Often Should You Wash Your Bed Sheets? Most People Don't Do It Nearly Enough

Around 4 percent will happily leave their bed sheets for two months or more.

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When Corals Are Bleached, Hope Is Not Lost – They Can Recover With A Little Help From Their Healthy FriendsTwo tiny corals held under a light, one is brown and healthy the other is white and bleached
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When Corals Are Bleached, Hope Is Not Lost – They Can Recover With A Little Help From Their Healthy Friends

Bleached corals in direct contact with healthy corals fully recovered within 8 weeks.

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A New Hair Loss Pill Moves Closer To FDA Approval After A Positive Clinical Trial Involving Over 500 Balding MenClose-up of a bald patch on a man's head.
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A New Hair Loss Pill Moves Closer To FDA Approval After A Positive Clinical Trial Involving Over 500 Balding Men

If approved, it will be the first prescription medicine for pattern hair loss in nearly 30 years.

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Euclid Telescope Looked "Above" The Sun, And Found A Previously Unknown Object Within Our Solar System Orbiting On A 345,000 Year TrajectoryComet C/2026 S1 (Euclid): A bright streak in astronomical observations, indicative of a comet.
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Euclid Telescope Looked "Above" The Sun, And Found A Previously Unknown Object Within Our Solar System Orbiting On A 345,000 Year Trajectory

The telescope is designed to observe distant galaxies, but has discovered a new object far closer to home.

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"Cloud Gone" – Two Words In The Hiroshima Bombing Logs May Have Some Disastrous Implications For HumanityAtomic cloud over Hiroshima, taken from "Enola Gay" flying over Matsuyama, Shikoku
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"Cloud Gone" – Two Words In The Hiroshima Bombing Logs May Have Some Disastrous Implications For Humanity

At 10:52 am, around 750 kilometers from the explosion, the navigator wrote the words "cloud gone" in the Enola Gay's logs. Those two words may have helped answer questions about the effect of nuclear bombs on the planet.

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Hubble Observations Challenge Common Wisdom On How The Universe Lifted Its Cosmic Fogartist impression showing the cosmic microwave background the dark ages the reionization epoch and then galaxies in the modern universe
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Hubble Observations Challenge Common Wisdom On How The Universe Lifted Its Cosmic Fog

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Why People Fall For Political Strongmen, Especially In Strange And Uncertain TimesA screen showing Putin with men standing in front of it.
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Why People Fall For Political Strongmen, Especially In Strange And Uncertain Times

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Treacherous Martian Dust Could Get Into The Brains Of Astronauts, Raising More Questions About Future Human ExplorationA panorama taken by perseverance showing sandy dunes and rocks all the way into the distance
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Treacherous Martian Dust Could Get Into The Brains Of Astronauts, Raising More Questions About Future Human Exploration

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Harry Houdini Died On Halloween 100 Years Ago. According To New Investigations By A Former Surgeon, No He Didn't.Harry Houdini in a suit and bow tie.
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Harry Houdini Died On Halloween 100 Years Ago. According To New Investigations By A Former Surgeon, No He Didn't.

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Neanderthals May Have Organized Their Homes Into Bedrooms And Living Rooms… And Taken Out Their TrashA hearth used by Neanderthals
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Neanderthals May Have Organized Their Homes Into Bedrooms And Living Rooms… And Taken Out Their Trash

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How Scientists Used A Zoo Elephant’s Bones To Recreate 30,000-Year-Old Ice Age Mammoth ToolsResearcher splitting an elephant rib
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How Scientists Used A Zoo Elephant’s Bones To Recreate 30,000-Year-Old Ice Age Mammoth Tools

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Some Of The World’s Oldest And Most Spectacular Cave Art Is Protected By An Invisible ShieldChauvet Panel of the Horses
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Some Of The World’s Oldest And Most Spectacular Cave Art Is Protected By An Invisible Shield

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What Do The Brains Of Newborn Babies And People With Alzheimer’s Have In Common? More Than You'd Guess3D digital illustration of a neuron in green on a blue background with other smaller ones floating in the background
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What Do The Brains Of Newborn Babies And People With Alzheimer’s Have In Common? More Than You'd Guess

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Up to 20 Percent Of People Have Reported Having An Out-Of-Body Experience. But Are They Actually Real?An illustration of a person standing in an empty room with a light shining on them casting a long shadow.
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Up to 20 Percent Of People Have Reported Having An Out-Of-Body Experience. But Are They Actually Real?

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Beauty Parlour Syndrome: The Rare But Real Stroke Risk Of Getting Your Hair Washed At The Salonillustration of a person getting their hair washed over a sink
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Beauty Parlour Syndrome: The Rare But Real Stroke Risk Of Getting Your Hair Washed At The Salon

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Psychedelic Substance Derived From Toad Venom Could Treat Major DepressionTwo Colorado river toads sitting next to each other. Zoo Zurich, Switzerland.
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Psychedelic Substance Derived From Toad Venom Could Treat Major Depression

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Overshooting 1.5°C Of Global Warming Could Lock In Centuries Of Damage To Earth's Icy Regionscryosphere: ice flying over Greenland
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Overshooting 1.5°C Of Global Warming Could Lock In Centuries Of Damage To Earth's Icy Regions

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First Confirmed Evidence Of Fossilized Red Blood Cells In Dinosaur Bones Is A Gamechanger In What Fossils Can Reveal About Ancient LifeA diagram showing the red blood cells taken from dinosaur remains
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First Confirmed Evidence Of Fossilized Red Blood Cells In Dinosaur Bones Is A Gamechanger In What Fossils Can Reveal About Ancient Life

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Bull And Male Donkey Share Long-Term Bond That’s Not Just Sexual (But Definitely Is Sexual)black and white bull and donkey standing together between two trees
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Bull And Male Donkey Share Long-Term Bond That’s Not Just Sexual (But Definitely Is Sexual)

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Little "Juggling" Capuchin Monkey Reveals How Clever And Coordinated These Animals Can Be In First For The SpeciesA small black capuchin monkey throws a dried out coconut into the air.
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Little "Juggling" Capuchin Monkey Reveals How Clever And Coordinated These Animals Can Be In First For The Species

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NASA Is Looking For Ways To Save The Hubble Space Telescope From An "Uncontrolled Reentry", And Extend Its Mission Beyond 2032The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit above Earth
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NASA Is Looking For Ways To Save The Hubble Space Telescope From An "Uncontrolled Reentry", And Extend Its Mission Beyond 2032

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Expansion Of The Universe Latest: If There's Weird Physics Going On, It’s Happening Now, Not In The Early UniverseThe colorful emission of light from the different diffuse layer of gas in a supernova remnant
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Expansion Of The Universe Latest: If There's Weird Physics Going On, It’s Happening Now, Not In The Early Universe

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4.1-Billion-Year-Old Martian Meteorite Is A "Rosetta Stone" For The Red Planet's Distant, Watery PastIt doesn't look like much, but these are pieces of a Martian meteorite with features planetary scientists never expected to find
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4.1-Billion-Year-Old Martian Meteorite Is A "Rosetta Stone" For The Red Planet's Distant, Watery Past

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Drake Equation: The "Second Most-Famous Equation In Science" Turns 65 This Week. Is It Still Relevant Today?An abundance of stars in the heart of the Milky Way.
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Drake Equation: The "Second Most-Famous Equation In Science" Turns 65 This Week. Is It Still Relevant Today?

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Genetically Modified, Tech-Equipped Dogs Are Coming To The US Military With New Start-Up "Warhound"Air Force explosives detection dog works with handler Staff Sgt Sirmann Toliver at Air Base 201 in Niger.
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Genetically Modified, Tech-Equipped Dogs Are Coming To The US Military With New Start-Up "Warhound"

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Anthropomorphizing The Mars Rovers Is Fine By Me, But Doing It To A Chatbot Gives Me The Icka postcard from mars reading "greeting from Mars" and "the red planet" with a picture of the Curiosity rover and several heart and like emoji
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Anthropomorphizing The Mars Rovers Is Fine By Me, But Doing It To A Chatbot Gives Me The Ick

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Tesla’s “Flying” Car Raises A Big Question: Would You Need A Pilot’s License?a photoshopped roadster with steam coming out of rockets under the car while flying in the sky
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Tesla’s “Flying” Car Raises A Big Question: Would You Need A Pilot’s License?

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New "Biological Data Center" Uses Millions Of Living Human Brain Cells To Process InformationA microscopic image of differentiating neuroblasts, primitive nerve cells that develop into neurons and glial cells.
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New "Biological Data Center" Uses Millions Of Living Human Brain Cells To Process Information

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Listen To The Earliest Spoken Word Recordings Of An Endangered US Language New Orleans
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Listen To The Earliest Spoken Word Recordings Of An Endangered US Language

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Think Mummification Is Just For The Ancient Egyptians? Think Again. Mummification Is Alive And Well In The Modern DayAn illustration of a person within a science fiction looking glass tube, half of the body looks like an ancient egyptian pharaoh the other half looks like a glowing blue body.
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Think Mummification Is Just For The Ancient Egyptians? Think Again. Mummification Is Alive And Well In The Modern Day

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For 89 Years, People Have Reported Seeing Phantom Lighthouses That Don’t Exist. We Finally Know WhyAn illsutration of a coast at night with a huge dark blue night sky and a lighthouse with light beaming from the top into the night
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For 89 Years, People Have Reported Seeing Phantom Lighthouses That Don’t Exist. We Finally Know Why

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Haunted People Syndrome: What A Family Visited By Ghosts For Over A Decade Taught Scientists About “Paranormal Activity”a ghostly figure standing among some trees
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Haunted People Syndrome: What A Family Visited By Ghosts For Over A Decade Taught Scientists About “Paranormal Activity”

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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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For Centuries, Sailors Reported An Eerie Effect When You Pour "Storm Oil" Into The Sea. Modern Science Shows How It WorksIllustration of a sail ship during a storm.
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For Centuries, Sailors Reported An Eerie Effect When You Pour "Storm Oil" Into The Sea. Modern Science Shows How It Works

The effect didn't get much attention outside of sailing until it was witnessed by Benjamin Franklin during a storm in 1757.

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Europa Vs. Enceladus – Which Icy Moon Is The Most Likely Place For Alien Life To Be Found?Image of europa and enceladus are separated by a vs graphic with a red band like a videogame
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Europa Vs. Enceladus – Which Icy Moon Is The Most Likely Place For Alien Life To Be Found?

What we know about one of them is about to be changed significantly.

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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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