Data from a defunct NASA mission has led to exciting new info about Mars. www.iflscience.com/marsquakes-r...
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Data from a defunct NASA mission has led to exciting new info about Mars. www.iflscience.com/marsquakes-r...
“We're Insisting That Brain Death Is Something That It Isn't” Dive into The Vault to explore how we determine death. www.iflscience.com/were-insisti...
Homo Naledi May Have Buried Its Dead After All, Peer Reviewer Accepts www.iflscience.com/homo-naledi-...
A New Blue Zone? Researchers Find Another Region Where People Live Exceptionally Long Lives www.iflscience.com/a-new-blue-z...
Why Have Some Gel Nail Polishes Just Been Banned In Europe? www.iflscience.com/why-have-som...
What’s The Largest Egg Of Any Animal? Clue: It Doesn't Come From An Ostrich www.iflscience.com/whats-the-la...
On Sunday, 7 billion people will see the Moon turn red. But who will see The Blue Band? 🔭 www.iflscience.com/on-sunday-7-...
A new study looking at a "treatise on unexplained phenomena" written between 1355 and 1382 has found references to the infamous "Shroud of Turin". www.iflscience.com/670-year-old...
One of the most extreme engines in the world uses electric fields and a levitating glass bead. www.iflscience.com/microscopic-...
Gerrymandering Explained: How Math Is Used For Political Gain To Win Elections www.iflscience.com/gerrymanderi...
The Crypt of Civilization was sealed 85 years ago, with instructions not to open it until the year 8113 CE. www.iflscience.com/the-crypt-of...
Only discovered a few weeks ago, asteroid 2025 QD8 is set to make its closest approach in over 100 years. 🔭 www.iflscience.com/watch-as-an-...
40 Years Since Titanic's Wreck Was Found, Watch The Rare Footage Of Its Discovery www.iflscience.com/40-years-sin...
Clouds are not just water, and they might need a helping hand from cosmic rays to form. www.iflscience.com/how-outer-sp...
Lion Cubs Seen In Africa’s Bamingui-Bangoran National Park For The First Time In Decades www.iflscience.com/lion-cubs-se...
Contender, The Largest Male Great White Shark In The North Atlantic, Prowls Off The US Coast www.iflscience.com/contender-th...
These spiders use fireflies like a neon sign to trap other insects. www.iflscience.com/sneaky-spide...
Most Detailed Geologic Map Of The US To Date Lets You Explore Country’s Ancient History www.iflscience.com/most-detaile...
Innovation might trump tradition when it comes to finding an Earth twin. www.iflscience.com/alien-life-c...
Rain At Burning Man? Prepare For The Return Of The Three-Eyed Dinosaur Shrimp www.iflscience.com/rain-at-burn...
The small, faraway world we call Quaoar is pretty peculiar. It is egg-shaped, and it also possesses a moon and two rings. In particular, the rings are where no ring should be. 🔭 www.iflscience.com/distant-dwar...
The mark left by the hail storm can even be seen from space by satellites. www.iflscience.com/supercell-st...
New Liquid Crystal COVID-19 Test Could Be Quicker And More Accurate Than Lateral Flow www.iflscience.com/new-liquid-c...
“I Never Thought I'd Get To See A Blue Lobster In Person”: Meet Neptune, He’s 1-In-2-Million www.iflscience.com/i-never-thou...
Polar bears do not truly hibernate, which might seem unusual for a giant predator that has to endure brutally cold temperatures, scarce prey, and a constant battle for survival in one of the harshest environments on Earth. www.iflscience.com/why-dont-pol...
Three countries have united to protect America’s second-largest nature reserve. www.iflscience.com/welcome-to-e...
How Old Is The Solar System? (And How Can We Tell?) www.iflscience.com/how-old-is-t...
Next Week, A Record-Breaking Over 7 Billion People Will See The Total Lunar Eclipse www.iflscience.com/next-week-a-...
Strap in, we’re going full goblin mode with one of the world’s weirdest sharks: the goblin shark 😱 www.iflscience.com/the-goblin-s...
Do animals have a sense of humor? What do other worlds smell like? All this and more exclusively in the latest issue of our e-magazine. www.iflscience.com/are-space-ma...
An Alien-Like Fish With A See-Through Head And Green Eyes Lurks In The Ocean's Dark Depths www.iflscience.com/an-alien-lik...
* Stares in Alien: Earth * www.iflscience.com/new-species-...
AI Aliens: What If Extraterrestrial Life Is Artificially Intelligent? www.iflscience.com/ai-aliens-wh...
Happy "throw a baby puffin off a cliff" season to those who celebrate. www.iflscience.com/people-are-t...
"It may be the earliest ever example of fake news.” www.iflscience.com/the-biblical...
Go on, you know you want to see the birthing posture of a toad. www.iflscience.com/do-any-frogs...
Sleep evolved in animals at least 450 million years ago, before any creatures crawled out of the ocean. www.iflscience.com/do-fish-slee...
And in true Canadian fashion, it’s got a very wholesome message behind it. www.iflscience.com/canada-is-ho...
In the last 20 years, nearly 120,000 people have been displaced, with millions more threatened. www.iflscience.com/giant-city-s...
In the past few centuries, scientists have conducted countless experiments that have revolutionized our understanding of the universe. This one didn't quite go to plan. www.iflscience.com/michelson-an...
We're finally beginning to understand what these extinct hominins looked like. www.iflscience.com/yet-another-...
Human activities certainly killed them off, but we were one factor in a longer, more complex story. www.iflscience.com/tasmanian-ti...
Doctors who treat dying patients or experience death more frequently have wishes that differ from their patients'. www.iflscience.com/a-good-death...
Massive Review Of 19 Alternative Autism "Treatments" Finds No Strong Evidence And Lack Of Safety Data www.iflscience.com/massive-revi...
This week's Break It Down: ✅ Glowing plants ✅ The WOW! Signal update ✅ Awesome ankylosaur ✅ Surviving a proton beam to the head .. and more! www.iflscience.com/glowing-plan...
Even dogs can do better than some quantum algorithms! www.iflscience.com/dog-named-sc...
Our current methods for warning about hurricane risks are not sufficient. It's time to introduce Category 6. www.iflscience.com/20-years-aft...
Astronomers witness the birth of a planet! www.iflscience.com/outstanding-...
New research suggests younger people are already experiencing worse mental health, instead of a spike in midlife. www.iflscience.com/gen-z-might-...
An international team of researchers has provided new insights into the interior of Mars. If Mars were a praline, its mantle would be nougat! www.iflscience.com/marss-interi...
A "Good Death": How Do Doctors Want To Die? www.iflscience.com/a-good-death...
The new study reveals US education to be riddled with inaccuracies and to be inconsistent across the country. www.iflscience.com/only-19-us-s...
I can't get over how awesome this bat looks 🥰 www.iflscience.com/meet-the-spe...
Looking at DNA at an arena turned into a mass grave at the epicenter of the outbreak, scientists found a familiar old foe. www.iflscience.com/the-plague-o...
It goes to show how life on Earth can dwell under the most extreme and bizarre circumstances. www.iflscience.com/scientists-w...
Ever wondered why they say don't stick your head inside particle accelerators? www.iflscience.com/a-physicist-...
World's Tallest Bridge Over "Crack In The Earth" Gets Daunting Load Test By Fleet Of 96 Trucks www.iflscience.com/worlds-talle...
In most countries, people have a belief about where they'd end up if they dug their way through the center of the Earth and popped up on the other side, more technically known as the "antipode". www.iflscience.com/the-pacific-...
A new study suggests there are factors that put albino animals at a disadvantage that go beyond just vulnerability to being eaten. www.iflscience.com/scientists-c...
Three Incredible Telescopes Looked At The Butterfly Nebula To Learn Where Earth Came From 🔭 www.iflscience.com/three-incred...
Scientists toying with the afterglow of phosphor particles were stunned to see how uniformly they could diffuse across succulent plants when injected into their leaves. www.iflscience.com/it-was-reall...
What Will The Fossils Of The Future Look Like? www.iflscience.com/iflscience-t...
Future remakes of Jaws might be a lot less scary if they reflect reality, but that won’t be a good thing. www.iflscience.com/shark-teeth-...
Just as you've explained to your kids how rainbows work, they go and invent a new one. www.iflscience.com/monochrome-r...
Although distinct burials have not been found, this does not mean Neanderthals in this region did not have funerary practices. www.iflscience.com/neanderthals...
The World Map As You Know It Is Misleading – Now Africa Wants To Change That www.iflscience.com/the-world-ma...
“It’s Totally Wacky”: Oldest Known Ankylosaur Had A Kind Of Armor Never Seen In Any Vertebrate – Living Or Extinct www.iflscience.com/its-totally-...
It pays to be weird in the fish-eat-fish world of the sea. www.iflscience.com/why-do-hamme...
JWST observes “One Of The Most Unusual Comets Ever Seen” 🔭 www.iflscience.com/jwst-observe...
A Woman Injected Crushed Black Widow To Get High, And It Was A Very Bad Trip www.iflscience.com/a-woman-inje...
Wasp “Riding A Broomstick” Among Fantastic Finalists Of Wildlife Photographer Of The Year www.iflscience.com/wasp-riding-...
The Greatest Prank Ever Pulled In Space Really Fooled NASA’s Mission Control www.iflscience.com/the-greatest...
Finally, A Successful Starship Launch – What This Means For The Moon Landings www.iflscience.com/finally-a-su...
Japan’s first osmotic power plant has gone live in Fukuoka City, providing the local region with electricity using the difference in salt concentration between seawater and fresh water. www.iflscience.com/what-is-osmo...
A new project has looked at unpublished data from the most intriguing signal in SETI history and found a few intriguing surprises. www.iflscience.com/the-wow-sign...
The Largest Ancient Whale Graveyard In The World Is In The Middle Of… A Desert? www.iflscience.com/the-largest-...
Reports of glowing seafood have included a wide range of marine species. www.iflscience.com/why-does-sea...
Rare White Kiwi Seen Scampering Back To Its Burrow In Broad Daylight In New Zealand www.iflscience.com/rare-white-k...
On August 2, 2027, viewers in Europe, North Africa, and parts of the Middle East will view a total eclipse of the Sun, with totality lasting around 6 minutes and 23 seconds. www.iflscience.com/in-1973-a-ha...
Prehistoric sled dogs in the Siberian Arctic ate a mix of fish, reindeer and polar bear, according to a new analysis of 9,000-year-old turds. www.iflscience.com/9000-year-ol...
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has been a game-changer. It has delivered some of the highest resolution views we have ever taken of the Sun. Now, it has provided the highest resolution observations of coronal loops during a solar flare. www.iflscience.com/watch-the-hi...
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Remember something your grandma said about sticking a teaspoon in the neck of the bottle to keep champagne fizzy? That can’t work, surely? www.iflscience.com/does-putting...
IFLScience investigates why the key to alien life in the cosmos may lie deep underground on Earth. www.iflscience.com/why-scientis...
Our science stops making sense a fraction of a second after the Big Bang 💥 www.iflscience.com/new-approach...
Today is #InternationalDogDay - we'd love to see photos of your dogs! 🥰
Beneath our feet lies a hidden world of staggering scale, a deep ecosystem brimming with billions of microorganisms. www.iflscience.com/miles-below-...
Over 91,000 people in the US die early every year due to air pollution from oil and gas, says a new study. www.iflscience.com/air-pollutio...
Did you know polar bear fur isn't actually white? Our director of conservation outreach & staff scientist Alysa McCall gives insight on polar bear fur & discusses how climate change is affecting polar bear populations on the @iflscience.com podcast.
It is not a trick of the camera! Enceladus is creating a rainbow across Saturn's thick and wide E ring 🌈
The northward creep of this flesh-eating maggot has authorities in the US concerned. www.iflscience.com/new-world-sc...
It would be an odd but great coincidence that two asteroids we visited come from the same destroyed world. www.iflscience.com/asteroids-be...
Australia Has Its Very Own "Area 51" www.iflscience.com/australia-ha...
If someone tells you past models exaggerated how bad things would be, they’re wrong. www.iflscience.com/climate-mode...
Meet The Spectral Bat, The Largest Carnivorous Bat Species In The World www.iflscience.com/meet-the-spe...
Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound are pretty much household names at this point. But what does science actually know about these drugs? www.iflscience.com/glp-1s-your-...
Do humans have pheromones? 🤔 www.iflscience.com/iflscience-w...
We regret to inform you, but penis fractures are a thing. 😣 www.iflscience.com/we-regret-to...
The Earth’s Lagrange points are vital for the future of astronomy, possibly space exploration and some even say preventing a climate disaster. So what are they? www.iflscience.com/what-are-lag...