Tattoos are, typically, permanent. This is both the appeal of the body art, but also one of its major drawbacks. www.iflscience.com/newly-develo...

When you’ve had a big lunch and put on your stretchy pants, you might be thankful for the elasticity of the fabric to accommodate your additional girth. www.iflscience.com/scientists-u...

Scientists at ETH Zürich have developed a robotic hand that’s able to creep around the floor using its fingers.
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Pictures taken on Mars are always striking, especially when we allow ourselves to truly appreciate that they come from a whole other planet.
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In the year of 2026, a health influencer is claiming that they have been drinking radioactive water for the past 250 days.
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A 300-year-old book is making waves once more, after people have spotted eerie connections to modern-day artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots.
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The quarry from which they extracted their building materials was home to a crocodylian.
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There was a time finding breakfast meant going foraging.
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Earth’s atmosphere is opaque to X-rays, which is probably good news for life on this planet.
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Increasing numbers of people in central Africa are claiming to have seen a mysterious creature known as the Mokèlé-mbèmbé, the dinosaur of the Congo.
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Just as many suspected, a study concludes that the nerve agent sarin was largely responsible.
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The Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn are the two lines you’ll see above and below the equator.
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Racked by climate change and melting glaciers, the base camp of Mount Everest in Nepal has been forced to move further down the mountain.
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A new kind of scaffold for lab-grown meat might be able to give the cultured proteins the taste of real meat.
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An old legend, dating back to at least 1325, describes an island off the West coast of Ireland called Hy-Brasil.
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