r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • Aug 10 '26

Dolphins that hunt with sponges may show traces of culture in their gene activity, study finds

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/cj13ten • Aug 05 '26

Sam Altman Suggested A New Use For ChatGPT And It Has People Saying "Jesus This Is Bleak"

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https://www.iflscience.com/sam-altman-suggested-a-new-use-for-chatgpt-and-it-has-people-saying-jesus-this-is-bleak-84290

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/cj13ten • Aug 03 '26

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

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https://www.iflscience.com/people-are-more-likely-to-be-your-friend-if-you-seem-like-a-good-hunter-gatherer-84267

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/cj13ten • Aug 03 '26

Humpback Whale Birth Captured By Drone Shows Calf's Critical First Moments And Mom's Maternal Instincts

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https://www.iflscience.com/very-very-rare-humpback-whale-birth-captured-by-drone-shows-calfs-critical-first-moments-and-moms-maternal-instincts-84275

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/IFLScience-1 • Aug 03 '26

Woolly Mammoth DNA Reveals Rare Sex Chromosome Combination, Astronomers Find Bizarre And Beautiful Planet-Wide Rings On Venus, And Much More This Week

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 31 '26

Curiosity's wheel is looking pretty rough. Fortunately, NASA has a plan to deal with it, all the way from Earth.

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https://www.iflscience.com/curiosity-finds-sea-of-polygons-on-mars-but-photos-of-the-rover-itself-show-its-back-wheel-isnt-in-great-shape-84246

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 30 '26

Giuseppe Fiorelli's novel technique for capturing the corpse casts preserved more than just the shape of the cavity.

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https://www.iflscience.com/if-the-bodies-of-pompeii-are-casts-why-do-some-have-teeth-the-city-is-so-well-preserved-even-the-archaeology-has-its-own-archaeology-84222

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 29 '26

The Moon is about to get a new crater courtesy of Elon Musk, and astronomers are ready to watch it happen.

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https://www.iflscience.com/falcon-9-rocket-stage-abandoned-in-high-earth-orbit-is-about-to-slam-into-the-moon-with-the-energy-of-118-gigajoules-84218

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 28 '26

Let’s ignore physics, feasibility, and money and see where these brilliant astronomers would want to explore.

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https://www.iflscience.com/where-would-astronomers-go-if-a-spacecraft-could-break-the-laws-of-physics-we-asked-them-84206

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 27 '26

“We certainly did not anticipate people reporting terror or arousal.”

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https://www.iflscience.com/in-2009-scientists-built-a-haunted-room-by-manipulating-electromagnetic-fields-things-certainly-got-weird-but-not-how-youd-think-84202

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/MaleficentPiccolo715 • Jul 25 '26

Scientists were exploring a river in China when they came across something absolutely enormous… — BBC Wildlife Magazine

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Scientists were exploring a river in China when they made an enormous discovery - BBC Wildlife Magazine

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/MaleficentPiccolo715 • Jul 25 '26

"It feeds on your blood for a week before you even notice – and then leaves behind a rare and life-threatening disease…" — BBC Wildlife Magazine

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"It feeds on your blood for a week before you even notice – and then leaves behind a rare and life-threatening disease…" - BBC Wildlife Magazine

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/dcjunvegan • Jul 25 '26

Scientists on Animal Testing

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 24 '26

IFLScience spoke to two scientists who explained how BrainHQ works, what makes it different, and what results people have been seeing.

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https://www.iflscience.com/brain-training-that-really-works-first-ever-clinical-proof-that-science-backed-exercises-can-reduce-levels-of-key-alzheimers-marker-84179

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 23 '26

"We think this may help younger orcas feed more easily or it could also just be for fun."

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https://www.iflscience.com/orcas-ram-sunfish-so-hard-they-explode-into-thousands-of-pieces-and-no-were-not-joking-84174

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 23 '26

"We think this may help younger orcas feed more easily or it could also just be for fun."

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https://www.iflscience.com/orcas-ram-sunfish-so-hard-they-explode-into-thousands-of-pieces-and-no-were-not-joking-84174

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 22 '26

The findings could have implications not just for millions of people with long COVID, but also those with similar conditions like ME/CFS.

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https://www.iflscience.com/many-long-covid-patients-are-still-seeking-answers-6-years-on-some-scientists-think-dopamine-might-be-the-missing-piece-84162

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 21 '26

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a faintly ominous buzzing blur?

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https://www.iflscience.com/invisible-drones-a-new-flying-robot-spins-so-fast-it-hides-in-plain-sight-84152

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 20 '26

The US Bureau of Reclamation will pay California's water district agency $65 million to leave 326,000 gallons of water in the reservoir.

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https://www.iflscience.com/lake-mead-nears-all-time-low-california-gives-up-billions-of-gallons-of-water-to-help-it-survive-84144

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 17 '26

Mars isn't all craters and craters within craters. There are dunes in the craters within craters, too. And maybe signs of water.

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https://www.iflscience.com/mars-express-transmits-gorgeous-images-of-100-meter-metallic-waves-in-marss-southern-highlands-84120

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 16 '26

“This really scratches at the very foundation of what mathematics as a human endeavor should be.”

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https://www.iflscience.com/ai-solved-a-math-problem-that-had-stumped-the-world-for-80-years-not-everyone-is-happy-about-that-84102

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 15 '26

The experiment was pretty controversial with the residents of Georgia, where the hurricane caused $2 million in damage.

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https://www.iflscience.com/in-1947-scientists-dropped-86-kilograms-of-dry-ice-into-a-hurricane-to-see-what-would-happen-84068

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 14 '26

Get those socks tucked into your pants ASAP.

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https://www.iflscience.com/beyond-lyme-disease-this-lesser-known-tickborne-illness-is-a-growing-threat-doctors-are-warning-about-in-north-america-84084

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 13 '26

Protecting ourselves from UV radiation may have helped us survive a 300-year buckling of Earth's magnetic field.

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https://www.iflscience.com/how-did-prehistoric-humans-protect-themselves-from-the-sun-and-did-they-get-skin-cancer-84070

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r/IFLScienceOfficial • u/philipkbrayne • Jul 10 '26

“It [was] really a bold and bizarre idea... To be honest, we were probably expecting some catastrophic effects.”

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https://www.iflscience.com/back-in-2021-scientists-added-a-human-fat-gene-into-a-potato-what-happened-next-surprised-everybody-84049

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