Watch SpinLaunch's Giant Slingshot Fling a NASA Payload into the Sky

It's an out-there plan, but it might just work. | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 1 year ago

Man Freed from Prison After 35 Years, Thanks to an Old Episode of Mythbusters

After 21 years in prison, Galvan happened upon an episode of Mythbusters that would help secure his release. | Continue reading


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The Words You Should Never Google, According to People Who Have

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Is the Future of Farming Underwater?

Join Rachael Funnell and Luca Gamberini as they discuss the benefits and complexities of farming underwater. | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 1 year ago

Three People Believing They Were Jesus Were Once Brought Together for Experiment

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Jumping Spiders Display REM-Like Sleep Behavior, Suggesting Spiders Dream

The sleeping spiders' legs twitched like a dog's as they snoozed. | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 1 year ago

Tens of Millions Would Die in the First Few Hours of a Nuclear War (Simulation)

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An AI May Have Just Invented “Alternative” Physics

An AI shown videos of physical phenomena and instructed to identify the variables involved produced answers different from our own. | Continue reading


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In 1983, a Professor Gave a Urology Conference Presentation Nobody Would Forget

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A Crack Opened in Earth’s Magnetic Field Thursday and Stayed Open for 14 Hours

What did it let in or out? | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 1 year ago

Nothing to Worry About: DALL-E Has Created a New Cryptid Named Crungus

Crungus is awake. | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 1 year ago

All Smartphones Must Use the Same Charger by 2024 Says EU, UK Will Not Follow

Apple must conform to the universal solution by 2024 if they wish to sell in the EU. | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 1 year ago

Neutrons in the Double-Slit Experiment Do Individually Take Both Paths

An important principle of quantum mechanics has been confirmed via a variation of a thought experiment suggested by Einstein, made possible by technologica | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 1 year ago

AI Can Identify Race from Just X-Rays and Scientists Have No Idea How

In another display that AI can see things that humans inherently can’t, researchers have discovered that AI may be able to identify race from X-ray images, | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 1 year ago

Lots of Frogs and Toads Mate with Things They Shouldn't, from Boots to Corpses

An amphibian mounting a boot in a sex attempt gone wrong, known as “misdirected amplexus”, was what led researchers to ask 'How could a behavior like this | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 1 year ago

Microplastics Found in Live Human Lung Tissue

From the top of the tallest mountain to the depths of the ocean floor, this planet of ours is now pretty much covered in a thin layer of plastic. Tiny frag | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Scientists Are Working on “Contagious Vaccines”

Around the world, several teams of scientists are looking to create 'contagious vaccines', that would spread by themselves, giving herd immunity to populat | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Record-Breaking Qubit Storage Brings Quantum Telecommunication Closer

For decades, scientists have chased the dream of quantum computing, which would transform information processing. An accompanying dream is long-distance qu | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Drug-Discovery AI Designs 40k Chemical Weapons in 6 Hours

Of the things artificial intelligence is good at, trawling through thousands of chemical compounds to identify drug candidates is easily one of the best. H | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Scientists have created plane that flies using ion thrusters and no fuel

Scientists have taken a major step towards creating an aircraft of the future, one powered by an ion drive rather than using moving parts and fuel like con | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

The Origin of All Humanity

Almost all of us, if we go back far enough in our family trees, come from somewhere else. Maybe it was your mom or dad; maybe it was a distant ancestor who | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Hacked Russian military number station rickrolling radio

The infamous Russian number station UVB-76, thought to be a tool of the Russian state to communicate with agents, has begun broadcasting strange messages, | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Fish Cleaning Themselves in a Mirror May Have Just Demonstrated Self-Awareness

Cleaner fish with parasite tattoos will try to scrape them off if they catch sight of themselves in a mirror, indicating that these fish have mirror self-r | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Linguistic Expert Recommends the Best Opening Wordle Word

A linguistics expert has revealed what he believes is the best word to open with in Wordle.There's a good chance you've come across Wordle already, the ho | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

US Navy Footage Shows Spherical UFO Flying Around Before Diving into Sea

In a video captured by the US Navy, an unidentified flying object is seen dancing across the screen before crashing into the ocean, capturing the imaginati | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Man Creates Traffic Jams by Wheeling Around 99 Cell Phones in a Trailer

A man has created traffic jams by walking around town, wheeling a big trailer full of cell phones behind him.Google Maps is incredibly useful. It tells yo | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Man Searches Through Landfill for 8 Years for $350M Lost Bitcoin Wallet

Whilst doing some Spring cleaning back in 2013, a man threw his old PC hard drive into the trash, which quickly joined the mountain of rubbish at his local | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Unearthed 1997 Wired Article Predicted the 21st Century with Insane Accuracy

Once in a blue moon, a decades-old piece of media that seems to have predicted the future with unnerving accuracy is unearthed. Unexpectedly, the most prom | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Cat Knows Where You Are Even When They Can't See You

Is your cat a total creep? Do you wonder how it is they always know where you are, and why they're looking at you like that? Well, now science has an answe | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

What Happens When You Eat Mostly Ultra-Processed Foods for a Month

Recent surveys have indicated that children in some developed countries now receive two-thirds of their calories from ultra-processed foods, leading to con | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Siri Shortcut That Records Police Interactions When Getting Pulled Over

“Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over.”Those six simple words hold the power to activate an installable shortcut on iPhones that automatically records any in | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

New Record for Coldest Temperature Is Getting Close to Absolute Zero

The record for the coldest temperature ever achieved has been broken with the cooling of rubidium gas to 38 picokelvins (3.8 * 10-11 K). The work could lea | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Researchers Claim That Boys Are Better at Physics Because They Pee Standing Up

In an article for the Times Educational Supplement, researchers Anna Wilson, Kate Wilson, and David Low claim that boys might have an advantage over girls | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

An Algorithm Has Created Every Possible Musical Melody So No One Can Ever Sue

New music is no longer a thing, thanks to a pair of lawyers who created an algorithm to write every single musical melody that can possibly exist. Rather t | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Strangely Accurate AI Predictions from Blurry Medical Scans Alarms Researchers

New research has found that artificial intelligence (AI) analyzing medical scans can identify the race of patients with an astonishing degree of accuracy, | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Why So Many People Are Setting Their iPhone's Location to France

People on the Internet appear to be setting their iPhone's location to France, despite not living there, in an attempt to speed up their devices. The 'hack | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

US History's Biggest Biological Attack Was Committed by a Hippy Cult

When someone uses the phrase 'biological attack' your mind doesn't immediately leap to hippy cults, but the biggest attack of this kind in US history was c | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

New glass that's harder than diamonds

There’s a reason we use diamonds as the benchmark for hardness. The sparkly gemstones have the highest confirmed Vickers hardness (VH) of any natural mater | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Universe 25: The Mouse “Utopia” Experiment That Turned into an Apocalypse

Over the last few hundred years, the human population of Earth has seen an increase, taking us from an estimated one billion in 1804 to seven billion in 20 | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Reddit Spotted a UFO from the ISS Live Stream. The Explanation Involves Squid

A strange cluster of lights has been spotted this week in live footage from the International Space Station, prompting a flurry of excitement in online ufo | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Scientists Recover 15,000-Year-Old Human DNA Just from Dirt

Archeologists have typically had to get their hands on skeletal remains to obtain the ancient DNA of a human, but a remarkable new study has managed to seq | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

A Man Who Had Constant Hiccups for 68 Years Straight

Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, has been hospitalized due to hiccups that have lasted for 10 days, accompanied by abdominal pain. “I apologize to | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

China announces Pandas no longer endangered in the wild

The conservation community is enjoying some good news as it’s been announced that giant pandas are no longer endangered in the wild in China. The announcem | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Israel Used First AI-Guided Swarm of Combat Drones in Gaza Attacks

In the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has deployed AI and supercomputers to identi | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Malaria Has Officially Been Eliminated in China, WHO Declares

China has officially eliminated malaria. On June 30, an official certification of malaria elimination from the World Health Organization (WHO) was awarded | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

TikTok User Smells Pretty Flower, Doses Herself with “Scariest Drug”

Ah, TikTok. You’ve given us so much over the years, even if most of it has been baffling, NSFW, or a sea shanty.And then there’s the genre of viral conten | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Delta Variant Infected Dozens at a Party – Except the Six Vaccinated People

The super-contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 infected everyone who attended a recent party in Sydney, Australia – except for the six people who were vacc | Continue reading


@iflscience.com | 2 years ago

Two Juvenile Raccoons Broke into a Bank in California

A visitor to a cash machine outside a bank in California was surprised one morning to see intruders inside the building before it had opened for the day. T | Continue reading


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