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- Science Says You Should Do Your Most Important Work First Thing in The Morning
- New Project Plans to Plant One Billion Trees a Year Using Drone Technology
- New 3D-Printed Implants Save Three Babies From Life-Threatening Illness
- Scientists Have Created an Organic Farm That Stores More Carbon Than It Emits
- WATCH: US Scientists Have Developed Long-Distance Homing Bullets
- Mathematicians Argue That The 'Golden Ratio' Is NOT The Formula For Beauty
- Salty Groundwater Has Been Discovered in Antarctica's Largest Ice-Free Valley
- Scientists Develop Synthetic Blood Vessels That Could Replace Donations
- WATCH: The Science Behind The Palaeo Diet
- WATCH: Here's How Thinking Hard CAN Make You Burn Calories
- Shedding New Light on The Search For The 'Invisible' Dark Matter
- Back Pain Might Mean Your Spine Is Shaped Like a Chimp's
- Scientists Get First X-Ray of Exploding Lithium Ion Battery
- Depression Can Physically Change Your DNA, Study Suggests
- Volunteers Are Mapping Crucial Data Points to Help Aid Workers in Nepal
- World's First Malaria Vaccine Shows Promising Results in Human Trials
- Gamers Have More Grey Matter And Better Brain Connectivity, Study Suggests
- New Research Suggests That Our Universe Could Be a Giant Hologram
- Scientists Have Found a Reset "Button" For Our Body Clock
- WATCH: The Psychological Phenomenon That Stops Us Taking Control of Our Lives
- WATCH: Are Space And Time an Illusion?
- How The Language You Speak Changes Your View of The World
- The World's Most Polluted Bird Was So Toxic It Was "Flameproof"
- Young Spiders Cannibalise Mum to Get a Leg-Up on Life
- Exploding Stars Could Help Predict Lightning During Thunderstorms
- Second Ever Super-Rare Pocket Shark Discovered
- Scientists Are Turning Salt Water Into Drinking Water Using Solar Power
- There Are Seven Types of Near-Death Experiences, According to Research
- Audi Has Successfully Made Diesel Fuel From Carbon Dioxide And Water
- New Mitochondrial DNA Editing Technique Prevents Genetic Diseases in Mice
- Japan Will Land an Unmanned Probe on The Moon in 2018
- WATCH: The Mind-Bending Science Behind The Backwards Bicycle
- Stephen Hawking Appeared at The Sydney Opera House Via Hologram, Makes Star Trek Exit
- These 26 Baby Turtles Are About to Become Scientific Pioneers
- World First Images of Taste at Work on The Tongue
- There's WAY More Magma Below Yellowstone Than Previously Thought
- Yes! Researchers Have Created Glasses-Free 3D Holograms Using Graphene
- WATCH: Here's What a Space Doughnut Tastes Like, According to Swedish People
- Bees Are Getting Addicted to Harmful, Nictotine-Like Insecticides, Study Suggests
- Woman's Brain Tumour Turns Out to Be Her "Embryonic Twin", Surgeons Find
- New System Monitors Heart Rate And Muscle Activity to Detect Driver Fatigue
- Mosquitoes Target Certain People Thanks to Genes That Control Body Odour
- WATCH: We Can Now See Exactly How Heavy Metals Pass Through Aquatic Animals
- WATCH: Just How Big *is* The Sun?
- This Alarm Wakes You With Warm Beams of Light, And Lets Your Partner Sleep in
- Australian Researchers Are Using 4D Printing to Create Self-Folding Objects
- Scientists Find Possible Cause of Asthma, And How to Prevent an Attack
- WATCH: The Six Most Incredible Extinctions Ever
- World's Most Powerful Telescope Set to Launch in 2018
- Chinese Scientists Just Admitted to Tweaking The Genes of Human Embryos
- Cane Toads Are Eating The Dung Beetles That Keep Australia Clean
- Two Enormous Floating Solar Power Plants Have Just Opened in Japan
- Brain Region That Causes Anxiety During Nicotine Withdrawal Has Been Identified
- Australia Could Have Zero Emissions And 100% Renewable Energy by 2050, New Study Finds
- WATCH: Why Are There Clouds?
- Upgraded Atomic Clock Is The Most Accurate Timekeeper in The World
- Australian Scientists Have Found a Way to Breath Test For Malaria
- World's Largest Vertical Farm Opens This Year in The US
- A Judge Just Temporarily Gave Chimpanzees Human Rights For The First Time
- New Theory Lowers The Speed Limit For Information Processing in Quantum Computing
- Gene Therapy Using HIV-Derived Vector Has Cured Rare Condition
- Study of 95,000 Children Finds No Link Between MMR Vaccines And Autism
- New Drug Helps Patients With Melanoma Live "Significantly" Longer
- These Shoes Expand Five Sizes So Kids Don't Grow Out of Them
- The Largest Known Structure in The Universe Is a Hole 1.8 Billion Light-Years Across
- Sydney's Gale-Force Winds Meet Tropical Cyclone Criteria, Experts Say
- WATCH: Amazing Footage of Huge Shark Swimming Alongside Waterfront Residence
- Scientists Revert Pancreatic Cancer Cells in Mice Back to Normal, Healthy Cells
- Thousands of Earthworms Have Been Raining Down on Norway
- Australian Researchers Have Found a Treatment For as-Yet Incurable Hepatitis B
- Kids With ADHD Need to Move in Order to Learn, Research Reveals
- NASA's Messenger Spacecraft Will Soon Crash Into The Surface of Mercury
- March Was The Hottest on Global Record Since 1880
- This New Painless And Self-Administred Blood Test Could Replace Needles
- New Method of Artificial Photosynthesis Can Turn Waste CO2 Into Fuels
- A Wedding Dress Designer Has Helped Engineer a Better Ebola Suit
- Maple Syrup Extract Could Help Fight Bacterial Infections
- WATCH: Gorilla Cracks Glass Enclosure in Response to Little Girl's 'Chest-Beating'
- Twilight Colours, And Not Just Fading Light, Help Us Tell The Time of Day
- Japan's Maglev Bullet Train Breaks 12-Year Speed Record
- WATCH: A Terrifying Landslide Mows Down Power Lines, Trees And Roads
- Man Trapped in an 8-Year "Groundhog Day" Loop Baffles Scientists
- WATCH: The Hypnotic Recrystallisation of 4-Hydroxybenzaldehyde
- A Link Has Been Found Between Bad Teeth And The Risk of Heart Disease
- Dogs Use The Parent-Child Bonding Mechanism to Make Us Love Them
- WATCH: Get to Know The Strange Location of Your Second Brain
- Scientists Have Made People More Creative Using Electrical Stimulation
- New Blood Test Can Predict Breast Cancer Five Years Before It Develops
- WATCH: World's First Self-Powered Camera Can Film Forever
- Here's a Simple, Science-Backed Tactic For Getting Better Sleep
- NASA Map Reveals Where Lightning Occurs Most on The Planet
- Big News: Dark Matter May Not Be as Dark as We Originally Thought
- Unmotivated at School? Your Genes Could Be to Blame
- This New Mesh Captures Oil, But Lets Water Filter Through
- Researchers Have Worked Out What Happens When You Crack Your Knuckles
- New Treatment Halts Alzheimer's Development And Memory Loss in Mice
- We May Soon Have The Building Blocks For Brain-Like Computers
- WATCH: Do Human Races Really Exist?
- The Maths Problem That's Gone Viral: When The Hell Is Cheryl's Birthday?
- Your Genes Could Influence Whether You Respond to Placebos or Not
- Comets Don't Have Magnetic Fields After All, Rosetta Discovers
- Scientists May Have Just Spotted The Only Black Flamingo in The World
- WATCH: Here's What Earth Would Look Like if All The Ice Melted
- WATCH: This Billboard in Peru Sucks Water Out of The Air to Grow Vegetables
- Marijuana Extract Could Reduce The Frequency of Epileptic Seizures
- Saturn's Mysterious White-Spot Storms Could Be Due to Atmospheric Water
- Oldest Human Tools Discovered in Africa, Dated to 3.3 Million Years Ago
- New Cancer Treatment Halts The Growth of Aggressive Melanoma in Mice
- WATCH: How to Tell if You're Smart, According to Science
- WATCH: Which of These Identical Balls Is Heavier?
- Brain Scans Reveal How Gamers Justify Violence
- Scientists Find Link Between Muscle-Building Supplements And Testicular Cancer
- WATCH: How to Eat a Rotting Carcass And Not Get Sick
- First Evidence of Liquid Water Discovered on Mars
- SpaceX Will Resupply The ISS And Try to Land Its Falcon 9 Rocket at Sea Today
- Whoa. This Is What Happens Underground During a Meteor Strike
- WATCH: NASA Astronauts Took a GoPro on a Spacewalk, And The Footage Is Incredible
- Here's What NASA Plans to Do if an Astronaut Dies in Space
- Here's Where The Most Threatened Mammals Are in The World
- New Synthetic Muscle For Space Robots to Be Tested at The ISS
- Habitual Procrastination Can Lead to Heart Problems, Study Suggests
- Being Too Skinny in Middle Age Could Increase Your Risk of Dementia
- Australian Parents Will Lose Government Payments For Not Vaccinating Their Kids
- WATCH: An Octopus in New Zealand Is Taking Photos of Its Visitors
- Researchers Achieve Electrical Control of Quantum Bits, Paving The Way For Quantum Computers
- New Study Finds Significant Genetic Basis For Sex Offending
- These Are The Top 10 Myths About The Human Brain
- WATCH: We're Totally Humbled by This Glorious Solar Time-Lapse
- WATCH: How Do Planes Stay in The Sky?
- New Antibody 'Significantly' Suppresses HIV in First Human Trial
- Genetically Engineered Bacteria Could Prevent Obesity
- Plucking Hair in a Specific Pattern Could Encourage Five Times More Growth
- Liquid Armour Is Now a Thing, And It Stops Bullets Better Than Kevlar
- WATCH: The Science Behind Why We Cheat on People We Love
- Brain 'Gender' Is More Fluid Than Originally Thought, Research Reveals
- Scientists Breed Bluefin Tuna in Captivity For The First Time
- A Boy Has Become Allergic to Fish And Peanuts After a Blood Transfusion
- Burgers And Fries, in Small Doses, Can Be Just as Good as Post-Workout Supplements
- Turns Out You Really Can Tell Whether a Battery Is Dead by Bouncing It
- WATCH: This Nightmare Bird Sounds Like a Video Game And a Robot Assassin
- Good Long Distance Runners Have Better Reproductive Fitness
- NASA's Chief Scientist Predicts We'll Find Signs of Alien Life by 2025
- Amazing Chart Shows The Planet's Longest-Living Animals
- This 3D Imaging Device Is Set to Be Integrated Into Smartphones
- Psychedelic Tea Could Help Treat Depression
- Australian Scientists Are Designing a Condom That Actually Feels Good
- Culling Feral Cats Actually Increases Their Numbers, New Study Finds
- Why #IAmAScientistBecause Is The Greatest Hashtag This Year
- Salt Probably Isn't as Bad For You as The Government Says – And Here's Why
- Breast Milk Bought Online Found to Be Tainted With Cow Milk
- IBM to Invest $3 Billion on The Internet of Things
- WATCH: These Brain Tricks Will Teach You About Slow And Fast Thinking
- The Brontosaurus Is Officially a Dinosaur Again
- Scientists Have Found a Promising Alzheimer's Drug, And It's Already on The Market
- The Pale Blue Dot And Other 'Selfies' of Earth
- An 11-Year-Old Autistic Boy Drew This Incredible World Map From Memory
- Top Space Agencies Team Up to Shoot an Asteroid Out of The Sky
- Blind Rats With Compass Brain Implants Behave Like They Can See
- Researchers Figure Out How to Regrow Heart Muscle
- Switching to 100% Renewables by 2050 Would Save Major Economies $500 Billion
- This New Aluminium Battery Can Charge Your Phone in 60 Seconds
- Scientists Discover Two California Fault Lines Are Connected, Meaning Larger Earthquakes
- These New Smartphone Cameras Could Tell You What an Object Is Made of
- WATCH: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Orgasms
- Drug-Resistant Food Poisoning Has Arrived in The US
- The Very First Human Trial of a New Approach to Cancer Treatment Has Scientists Excited
- New Study Links Childhood ADHD to Secondhand Smoke
- How Rare You Like Your Steak Could Be Linked to Your Dementia Risk
- WATCH: A Time-Lapse of Saturday's Total Lunar Eclipse
- WATCH: Here's Why You Get Allergies Every Spring
- WATCH: A CD Ripped Apart by Rotational Force at 170,000 Frames Per Second
- WATCH: Do You See Einstein or Marilyn Monroe in This Photo?
- Ancient Egyptian Beer-Making Pottery Found in Israel
- Scientists Have Designed Boots That Let You Walk Using 7% Less Energy
- Human Ancestor Candidates Lucy And Little Foot Walked Together, New Study Suggests
- Astronaut Scott Kelly Will Drink 730 Litres of His Own Sweat And Urine During His Year in Space
- WATCH: Mice Twitter Like Songbirds, And Now We Can Finally Hear Them
- Researchers Have Created Google Maps For The Human Body
- Eyeliner in Your Inner Eyelid Increases Risk of Vision Problems
- Cost of Lab-Grown Burger Patty Drops From $325,000 to $11.36
- WATCH: Jane Goodall Come Up With The Best Chimp Name Ever
- Scientists Discover New Type of Fat Cell That Converts Bad Fat to Good Fat
- The Smell of Rain: How CSIRO Invented a New Word
- Infographic: What Does The Colour of Your Snot Say About Your Health?
- Public Wi-Fi in The US Is About to Get 5,000 Times Faster
- Scientists Have Launched The First Open-Access Database For Neurons
- Date Syrup Has Antibacterial Compounds That Are More Effective Than Honey
- Everything We Eat Both Causes And Prevents Cancer
- WATCH: Why Have Humans Evolved Such Large Penises?
- WATCH: Here's How to Make Bismuth Crystals at Home
- Female Embryos at a Higher Risk of Death During Pregnancy, Study Suggests
- Glow-in-The-Dark Tampons Are Being Used to Detect Sewage in Rivers
- Pesticide Residue on Fruits And Vegetables Could Lower Sperm Counts
- Sorry Guys, Your Urine Isn't Actually Sterile
- Good News! Japanese Scientists Have Created a Tearless Onion
- You Can Play Pac-Man in Google Maps Right Now