Scientists have updated the official guidelines for what to do if we ever detect a signal from aliens, and the top recommendation is simply not to reply.

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  katie1992

  Our official strategy is leaving aliens on read like a guy who just isn't ready for something serious.

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Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable planet just 25 light years away that could be one of Earth's closest cosmic neighbors

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  calmforest370

  Mars is about 140 million miles away. This thing is around 147 trillion miles away. Calling it Earth's “Next-door neighbor” is a big stretch. 😂

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Archaeologists have discovered a well preserved lost Maya city hidden deep in the Mexican jungle

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  brittany.butler

  I just want them to find a new Maya calendar so I know whether to renew my gym membership or not.

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers ‘Origin-of-Life’ Molecules Never Before Seen on Mars

Researchers claim intelligent alien life exists out there, and its technology could destroy us in a microsecond

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  ashley1989

  The aliens probably haven't destroyed us yet because they're impressed how well we are destroying ourselves.

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Scientists Tickled Apes and Found Their Laughter Shares a Rhythm With Humans

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  realmaxbell

  The study finally ended when one of the gorillas started tickling back and the scientist found out his rhythm was very different.

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A new study suggests that small, carefully timed cloud-seeding could theoretically nudge hurricanes like Sandy away from land before they cause catastrophic damage

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  boldwolf

  A conspiracy theorist somewhere just took a screenshot of this headline and sent it to every person who's ever blocked them.

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Scientists have found the oldest known evidence of plague in 5,500-year-old teeth

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  axis360

  Between COVID, Hantavirus and Ebola, perhaps now is not the ideal moment to poke around these ancient infected teeth.

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Researchers have created a car paint that absorbs 99.9% of visible light, making the car look almost invisible

Neil deGrasse Tyson is telling the government to just show us the alien already after the latest UFO files were released.

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  paul_barnes

  Imagine Neil gets to finally meet the alien and it claims it's from "Planet" Pluto. Neil would lose it.

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Scientists have identified the largest scorpion ever found, a 3 foot long monster with 6 inch claws that roamed the UK around 415 million years ago

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  thevagabond

  So this is what was chasing the spiders that made them evolve to be huge and terrifying.

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A new study found that reading printed books may help your brain process story details better than reading on a screen.

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  boldcobra392

  Another study found people who read printed books can work it into a conversation about literally anything within 9 seconds.

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A scientist thinks volcanic metal disrupted navigation and may explain the Bermuda Triangle mystery

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  zenstorm

  A century of spooky documentaries undone by the same thing that ruins hotel room keys.

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A Japanese company raised $5.3 million to advance human trials of a drug that could regrow real teeth

NASA astronauts may soon be wearing Prada after the luxury brand unveiled new gear for the Artemis IV mission.

Scientists detected unusual methane coming from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, and a Harvard scientist says it could be a sign of alien life

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  finn_patterson

  Somewhere out there, an alien civilization is mastering interstellar travel and still can't crack the science of holding it in.

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A new study found that sperm can't find their way in microgravity, raising concerns about reproduction in future space colonies

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  beth_75

  NASA spent millions to confirm that men's sense of direction is genetic down to the cellular level.

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A new study finds that mosquitoes can learn to associate DEET with a blood meal, which could turn the repellent into an attractant.

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  laura.brooks

  My bug spray is now basically a dinner bell with a citrus scent.

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A major survey of 1660 physicists found deep disagreement on nearly every fundamental question in physics

A rare blue micromoon this weekend will look like the smallest full moon of the year, with Antares glowing right next to it

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  ed.kelly

  I told my wife I'd do the dishes once in a blue moon, and now she's standing at the window with a calendar and a frying pan.

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A new study suggests T. rex evolved tiny arms because its skull grew so massive that its jaws took over as the main weapon, leaving the arms nearly useless.

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  lucas_70

  Imagine being the apex predator of the planet and still needing a stepstool to change a lightbulb.

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Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, wolves, bears, and rare wild horses have reclaimed the radioactive exclusion zone

Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Serum That Activates a Dormant Ability to Regrow Lost Limbs in Mammals

Scientists are questioning whether a $600,000 lab-grown handbag marketed as T-rex leather is actually made from dinosaur tissue

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  steve_89

  A bag stitched from chicken feathers would have more dinosaur DNA than this thing.

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An Oxford physicist argues that quantum mechanics splits you into parallel versions of yourself with every interaction

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  clairecampbell49

  My therapist sent me this article and told me finding the real me is gonna take a while because now we have to search the whole universe.

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