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- New Chip Fabrication Technique Points to Incredibly Thin, Flexible Computers
- Researchers Discover a Natural Food Additive That Blocks Skin Cancer Cells
- Fruits High in Flavonoids Are Associated With Less Weight Gain, Study Finds
- This Scientist Shot Himself Underwater, And Science Saved His Life
- The Biggest Myth About Warming Up Your Car in Winter Is Doing Your Engine More Harm Than Good
- Bed Bugs in The US Have Developed Extreme Tolerance to Popular Insecticides
- Why The Reusable Rocket Competition Between SpaceX And Blue Origin Isn't Actually a Competition
- Scientists Produce The Most Realistic Lab-Grown Liver Tissue Yet
- This Ancient Babylonian Map of Jupiter Just Changed History as We Know It
- Scientists Say They've Figured Out Why Exercise on Its Own Won't Make You Lose Weight
- The 10 Best Tips For Anyone Who Wants to Work in Science or Engineering
- WHO Calls Emergency Meeting With Zika Virus "Spreading Explosively" Through Americas
- Antarctic Fungi Survive 18 Months in Mars-Like Conditions on Board The ISS
- Scientists Have Bred Male Mice With No Y Chromosomes – And They Can Still Reproduce
- Here's What to Do if You Wake Up Before Your Alarm And Don't Want to Feel Like Crap
- There's Now Even More Evidence That Alzheimer's Could Be Transmitted Through Medical Procedures
- WATCH: What Would Happen if You Only Drank Soda?
- 30 Years on: What The Challenger Disaster Meant For Our Race Into Space
- Try to Escape a Black Hole And You'll Be Burnt to a Crisp, New Paper Cautions
- Scientists Are Using Gene Editing to Repair a Mutation That Causes Blindness
- First-of-Its-Kind Wearable Sweat Sensor Monitors Your Perspiration
- 49 Years Ago, Three Astronauts Gave Their Lives in The Pursuit of Space Travel
- Researchers Can Now Convert CO2 From The Air Directly Into Methanol Fuel
- Physicists Are About to Test a Hypothesis That Could Rewrite The Textbooks
- WATCH: Artificial Intelligence Beats Human Go Champion For The First Time
- Yes, Checking Social Media Is Probably Messing With Your Sleep, Say Scientists
- France Just Announced Plans to Help India Land on Mars For The First Time
- The World's Largest Floating Solar Power Plant Is Being Built in Japan
- Massive Study Identifies Single Gene Linked to Highest Schizophrenia Risk For The First Time
- Here's Why Chess Is Great For Young Brains
- These Bacteria Can Live For Years in Distilled Water, And Cause Abscess, Seizures And Death
- A Physicist Jumped Off The Side of a Building – Here's The Science That Saved His Life
- Scientists Have Discovered The Largest Known Solar System
- Ocean-Based Biology Lab Lets Scientists Study Sea Organisms Up Close
- This Flexible Nano-Sensor Could Help Doctors Detect Breast Cancer
- Engineer Proposes Hypersonic Jet That Could Fly From New York to London in 11 Minutes
- France Will Install 1,000 Km of Solar-Panelled Roads in The Next 5 Years
- Scientists Discover a Key Mechanism That Could Prevent Alzheimer's-Related Memory Loss
- That Epic US Snowstorm Just Smashed All Kinds of Meteorological Records
- The US Could Slash Energy-Production Emissions by 78% in Just 15 Years, Report Shows
- Physicists Might Have Just Solved One of The Big Problems With Light-Based Computers
- Scientists Have Found a Way to Predict Who's Likely to Wake Up During Surgery
- WATCH: The Hunt For Glueball Particles Explained
- The Doomsday Clock Is Now "Far Too Close" to Midnight
- Young Gorillas Have Learnt How to Dismantle Poachers' Traps in The Wild
- New Algorithm Points The Way Towards Regrowing Limbs And Organs
- Being Frozen Almost to Death Is What Saved This Man's Life
- Scientists Have Discovered a New Method of Potentially Repairing Nerve Damage
- The 17 Equations That Changed The Course of History
- This Electrically Conductive Concrete Melts Snow Without Chemicals
- Space Junk Accidents Could Trigger Armed Conflict, Study Finds
- WATCH: SpaceX's Dragon 2 Capsule Just Passed The Crucial 'Hover Test'
- Astrophysicist Explains The Most Complex Space Concepts With Simple Recipes
- Australian Scientists to Begin Trialling Fully Implantable Bionic Eye
- Zebra Stripes Aren't Used For Camouflage or Mate Selection, Study Finds
- WATCH: Astronaut Plays Ping Pong With Liquid Droplet on Board The ISS
- Scientists Propose a 'Mirror Universe' Where Time Moves Backwards
- A Protein Found in Human Breast Milk Could Help Kill Drug-Resistant Bacteria
- The Last Time Earth Was This Hot, Hippos Lived in Britain
- WATCH: Blue Origin Made a Historic Second Landing of Its Reusable Rocket
- Here's How Two Giant, Gravity-Powered Water Tunnels Could Protect California From Drought
- Take The Evolution Pop Quiz Given to First-Year Biology Students
- By 2050, There'll Be More Plastic Than Fish in Our Oceans
- New Test Predicts a Person's Risk of Dementia Using Family Doctor Records
- Want to Improve The Quality of Your Writing? Type Slower
- South Africa Is Really Close to Lifting The Ban on Rhino Horn Trade
- New Device Warms Up Dam Water Before It's Released to Protect Fish
- All Your Germaphobic Habits Are Pretty Much Useless
- Physicists Have Managed to Tie a Quantum Knot For The First Time
- WATCH: Why We Don't Actually Know How Many Mass Extinctions Have Hit Earth
- Dark 'Noodles' of Matter in Interstellar Gas Clouds Have Been Observed For The First Time
- Aliens Are Silent Because They're Dead, Says New Study
- Rare Tree Frog Is Rediscovered After More Than a Century, Eats Its Mother's Eggs
- Eating Healthily During The Week But Bingeing on Weekends Is Not OK For Your Gut
- Is The David Bowie 'Constellation' a Stellar Hoax?
- Bearded Men Are Probably More Hygienic, New Research Finds
- The Blizzard Expected to Hit The US East Coast This Weekend Has Meteorologists Freaking Out
- This Bizarre Fish With Legs Has Been Discovered Off The Coast of New Zealand
- The US Military Is Working on Tech That Could Turn Soldiers Into Cyborgs
- 2015 Was Officially The Hottest Year on Record, And 2016 Could Be Even Hotter
- Physicists Propose New Method to Teleport The Memory of a Living Creature
- Honey Could Be Making Us Sick Due to Contamination With Liver-Harming Toxins, Study Suggests
- Neuroscientist Says He's Solved The Mystery of Why Our Brains Use So Much Energy
- Scientists Use Protein-Blocker to Stop The Spread of Leukaemia
- Our Brain's Memory Capacity Is 10 Times Larger Than We Thought
- Here's Why We're Attracted to People of a Similar Height, Scientists Say
- Astronomers Have Found Evidence of Huge Ninth Planet on The Edge of The Solar System
- Humans Have Been Massacring Each Other For at Least 10,000 Years, New Evidence Suggests
- Science Says This Is How Many Friends You Should Have on Social Media
- For Some of Us, The Internet Could Be Doing More Harm Than Good, Report Finds
- WATCH: Can You Propel a Spacecraft With Nothing But Light?
- Exposure to Algae Toxin Could Increase The Risk of Alzheimer's-Like Illnesses
- Scientists Have Developed a Painless Electric Current That Could Replace The Dentist's Needle
- The CDC Has Released New Safety Guidelines For The Zika Virus
- Stephen Hawking Says a Planetary Disaster on Earth Is a "Near Certainty"
- The Science Behind Why We Love Terrifying Ourselves on Rollercoasters
- Denmark Got 42% of Its Electricity From Wind Last Year, Smashing The World Record
- Cancer Drug Clears Alzheimer's-Related Plaques And Improves Memory Function in Mice
- The Largest Prime Number to Date Has Been Discovered, And It's 22 Million Digits Long
- WATCH: First-Ever Footage of a Seahorse Giving Birth in The Wild
- Extensive Twin Study Finds No Link Between Marijuana Use And IQ Decline in Teens
- Controversial Surgeon Claims He's Performed a Monkey Head Transplant, But Provides No Proof
- Want to Help Design an Actual Space Robot? Here's How You Can.
- WATCH: This Freaky 'Devil Tree' in Ohio Burns From The Inside Out
- WATCH: 5 of The World's Most Dangerous Chemicals
- This Eerie Chart Predicts How And When You're Likely to Die
- Have Scientists Really Found Something That's Harder Than Diamond?
- Japan Unveils Remote-Control Robot to Dismantle Fukushima Nuclear Plant
- Geckos Are Officially The Largest Animals Capable of Sticking to Smooth Walls
- WATCH: There's a Scientific Reason For Why Plane Windows Are Always Round
- Brain Scans Reveal Physical Link Between Poverty And Childhood Depression
- High Doses of Cocaine Cause Mouse Brain Cells to Eat Themselves
- Incredible 'Space Flowers' Just Bloomed on The International Space Station
- Study Suggests The Internet Really Could Out-Evolve Humanity
- Research Says Back Pain Can Be Caused by Depression
- WATCH: An Epic Fire Tornado in Slow Motion 4K
- New Light-Activated Nanoparticles Kill Over 90% of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
- Physicists Achieve Record-High Efficiency in Key Nuclear Fusion Process
- Cosmic Particles Collected Inside Egyptian Pyramid Could Reveal How It Was Built
- Low-Fibre Diets Could Mess Up Your Gut Microbes, And It Could Be Heritable
- Great White Shark Claimed to Be 7 Metres (!!) Spotted Off The Coast of Australia
- Watch The SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Land, Tip, And Explode
- The Science of Sleeping in – And How You Can Do It Better
- Scientists Discover an Ancient Gas Cloud That May Contain Remnants of The First Stars
- This Fish Slime Could Help Scientists to Develop Super Hydrogels
- Physicists Have Described a New Type of 'Dancing' Crystal Structure
- A Reverse City Map Randomly Appeared Over The Sky in Finland Last Week
- Five Bright Planets Are About to Align in The Sky For The First Time in More Than 10 Years
- A Frozen Tardigrade Has Been Brought Back to Life After 30 Years
- China Says It Will Land a Probe on The Far Side of The Moon in 2018
- Report Questions The Safety of NASA's Plan to Get to Mars by 2030s
- A Comet Swarm Can't Explain That 'Alien Megastructure' Star After All
- NASA Ups The Competition on SpaceX by Partnering With New 'Dream Chaser' Spacecraft
- This 3-Minute Animation Will Change The Way You See The Universe
- Diagnosis of Untreatable Zika Virus in Houston Is a Cause For Concern, Experts Say
- Here's Why Speed-Reading Doesn't Actually Work
- SpaceX Just Failed Another Shot at Rocket Landing
- Is Washing Fruit And Veggies Really Necessary?
- Your Bones Could Soon Heal a Whole Lot Better Thanks to Polymer Nanoshells
- New 'Spermbots' Could Help Solve Infertility by Acting as Bionic Suits For Sperm
- New Ebola Case Confirmed Just Hours After The Epidemic Was Declared Over
- Standing Up at School Improves Students' Cognitive Performance, Study Finds
- NASA's Solar-Powered Juno Breaks Distance Record at 793 Million Km From The Sun
- Scientists Discover That Our Brain Waves Can Be Sent by Electrical Fields
- Two Types of Water Ice Have Been Confirmed on The Surface of Comet 67P
- Scientists Have Improved The Vision of Blind Rats Using Gene Editing
- WATCH: Weird Cloud Formation Makes It Look Like This City Is Underwater
- WATCH: This Virtual Reality Rollercoaster Gives You a Front-Row Seat in Space
- Scientists Have Come Up With an Algorithm to Save You Time at The Airport
- Oestrogen Protects Women From The Flu… But Not Men
- The 2 Most Dangerous Numbers in The Universe Could Signal The End of Physics
- Researchers Kill Drug-Resistant Cancer in The Lab Using 50 Times Less Chemo
- These 'Green Pea' Galaxies Could Have Reheated The Universe After a Cosmic Dark Age
- Scientists Find First Demonstration of Sexual Selection in Dinosaurs
- Astronomers Are Baffled by a Cosmic Explosion That's The Most Powerful Supernova on Record
- Watch: Koala Gets Kicked Out of a Tree And Throws a Tantrum
- A Strange Hurricane Is Forming And It's Doing Something No Other Storm Has in Over 75 Years
- We Could Be Just Weeks Away From The First Genetically Modified Human Embryos in Britain
- Human-Made Climate Change Has Suppressed The Next Ice Age, Researchers Say
- Obama Has Announced Plans to Cure Cancer in His Final State of The Union
- London Has Reached Its Yearly Pollution Limit in Just 8 Days
- The World's Largest Canyon Is Hidden Under Antarctic Ice, Evidence Suggests
- The Kangaroo in That Viral 'Grieving' Photo Is Actually Just Sexually Aroused
- The Latest Class of NASA Astronauts Is 50% Female
- The Famous Wow! Signal Came From Comets, Not Aliens, Says Astronomer
- Guys, You Can Now Interact With Life-Sized Dinosaurs at an Australian University
- Your Dog Really Can Recognise Your Emotions, Study Finds
- Scientists Are Using Satellites to Find Untapped Sources of Geothermal Energy Under Cities
- Astronomers Have Discovered 100 of The Fastest-Moving Stars in The Milky Way
- This New Golden Nano-Grid Could Lead to Clearer, More Sensitive Touchscreens
- Scientists Have Started Growing Human Fallopian Tubes in The Lab
- An 11-Year-Old Girl From Britain Just Achieved The Highest Possible IQ Score
- This New Shower Head Flashes When You Start Using Too Much Water
- NASA Forms New Planetary Defence Office to Manage Asteroid Threats
- A Mathematician Has Proposed a Way to Create And Manipulate Gravity
- Our Last Chance to Contact The Philae Comet Lander Probably Failed
- Giant Icebergs Are Slowing Down The Effects of Climate Change as They Melt
- Watch: How Much Energy Does It Take to Blow Up a Planet?
- Human Trials Will Test Freeze-Dried Poop Pills as a Weight-Loss Treatment
- Rooftops Covered in Plastic Grass Could One Day Power Your Home With Wind Energy
- Scientists Develop a Lithium-Ion Battery That Shuts Down at High Temperatures to Avoid Explosions
- Controlling Brain Inflammation Could Slow Down The Progress of Alzheimer's, Scientists Find
- This New Half-Solid, Half-Liquid Material Can Heal Itself
- New "Light Recycling" Incandescent Bulbs Could Outperform Energy-Efficient LEDs
- Rumours Fly as Physicists Hint at The First Ever Observations of Gravitational Waves
- We Might Not Exist if Not For This Accident That Happened 600 Million Years Ago
- Watch: The Facts Behind The Most Common Misconceptions About Hiccups
- Here's Why The X Chromosome Evolved to Be So Weird
- Scientists Have Figured Out How Effective Cheap Plywood Barriers Are During Cyclones
- This Extremely Massive Galaxy Cluster Weighs as Much as 500 Trillion Suns
- Scientists Create World's Most Expensive Material, Valued at $145 Million Per Gram
- The Secret to Happiness? Value Your Time More Than Your Money
- SpaceX Will Attempt to Land a Rocket on a Drone Ship This Week
- Stephen Hawking Just Published a New Solution to The Black Hole Information Paradox
- Vitamin D Supplements Are Not Effective, And Could Be Dangerous, Studies Find
- Australian Geologists Have Found a Meteorite That's Older Than Earth
- Newly Discovered Type of Sound Wave Allows For Inhalable Vaccines
- This New Wearable Skin Patch From L'Oréal Monitors How Much UV You're Getting
- Gradually Reducing Sugar in Sweet Drinks Could Prevent 1 Million Cases of Obesity in The UK, Study Finds
- Here's Why Those Recently Born Identical Triplets Are Far Rarer Than You Think
- New Material Converts CO2 Into Clean Fuel With Unprecedented Efficiency
- A Short Time-Out Could Be All That's Needed to Boost Your Long-Term Memories
- New Material Can Harvest Sunlight by Day And Release Heat at Night
- Ongoing Gas Leak in California Declared an Emergency by Governor Jerry Brown
- Human Impact on The Planet Qualifies as a New Geological Epoch, Say Scientists
- Half The World's Population Lives on 1% of Its Land
- Watch: The Science Behind Motivation
- You Breathe in More Bugs From Tap Water Than The Toilet Bowl
- The USDA Just Released a Massive New Report on What's Actually Healthy
- The Ability to Control Our Dreams Could Help Us Solve The Mystery of Consciousness
- North Korea Claims It Detonated a Hydrogen Bomb, But Experts Question The Force of The Blast
- These Are The Complicated Rules That Dictate How New Elements Are Named
- Here Are Six Scientifically Proven Tips For More Effective Studying
- Galactic 'Burp' Shows Black Holes Can Also Create, Not Just Destroy
- Study Confirms Link Between Higher Intelligence And Longer Life Expectancy
- The Race to Find Even More New Elements For The Periodic Table Is Now on
- Physicists Achieve Early Stages of a New, Solid State of Hydrogen
- Visible Light Emitted From a Black Hole Has Been Detected For The First Time
- The Formula That's Supposed to 'Prove Beauty' Is Fundamentally Wrong
- From Bosons to Bigfoot: Six Science Mysteries That Might Be Solved in 2016
- Watch: The Science Behind Why We Burn Astronaut Pee
- Dietitians, Nutritionists, And Psychologists Have Ranked The Best Diets of 2016
- Two Designers Want to Turn Your Body Into a Tree With These Eco Burial Pods
- This Scent-Producing Alarm Clock Wakes You Up With The Smell of Coffee And Croissants
- Delhi Has Banned Half The Cars on Its Roads to Combat Dangerous Pollution
- This New 1,000-Horsepower Electric Concept 'Hypercar' Is Ridiculous
- This Tiny Bioreactor Can Produce Life-Saving Drugs Anywhere
- UK Grants Licence For E-Cigarettes to Be Prescribed as a Quit-Smoking Aid
- Regular Tea Consumption Loosens Arteries to Lower Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
- Here's What We Know About Anhedonia, a Disorder That Makes It Impossible to Feel Pleasure
- Watch: The Facts Behind The Most Common Misconceptions About Space
- Why Checking Your Emails After Work Is So Bad For Your Health
- The Gap Between Men And Women's Self-Esteem Is Larger in Western Countries, Study Finds
- Neuroscientists Have Figured Out How Your Brain Wakes You Up
- Scientists Develop Hydrogen 'Nano Reactor' by Hiding Bacteria Genes Inside a Virus Shell
- This New Waterless Toilet Can Turn Human Waste Into Power
- State of Emergency Declared as Brazil Faces Virus That Shrinks Babies' Brains
- New Wi-Fi System 'HaLow' Offers Longer Range And Uses Less Power
- This New Brain Implant Has The Potential to Restore Paralysed Limbs
- European Space Agency Announces Plans to Build a 'Moon Village' by 2030
- Understanding Trypophobia, a Fear of Holes
- The Great Bathroom Debate: Paper Towel or Hand Dryer?
- 'Precision Weight Loss' Tied to Your Genetic Data Could Be Here in 5 Years, Say Experts
- CRISPR Gene Editing Tool Used to Treat Genetic Disease in an Animal For The First Time
- This Hormone Could Help Us Suppress Cravings For Sugar And Alcohol, Studies Find
- Four Elements Have Just Earned a Permanent Spot in The Periodic Table
- 15 Healthy Eating Habits That Work, According to Science
- These Five Islands Could Be Underwater in as Little as 50 Years
- Watch: The Nearsighted Epidemic Is Real
- First Meteor Shower of 2016 Peaks Tonight And You Can Watch It Live NOW
- Banana Peel Is Just as Nutritious as The Flesh