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- Watch: What Are Quarks?
- Male And Female Mice Process Pain Differently, Study Finds
- World's First 'Bee Highway' Is Being Constructed in Norway
- Why You Should Sign The Asteroid Day Declaration (And Maybe Save The Planet)
- These Trippy Images Show How Google's AI Sees The World
- An Australian University Has Turned The Rainforest Into a Giant Climate Change Experiment
- Watch: Do We Really Have to Get Old And Die?
- Australian Dragon Reverses Its Sex as Temperatures Rise, Study Reveals
- Researchers Create Holograms You Can Touch Using High-Powered Lasers
- New Device Will Let Electric Car Owners Sell Extra Battery Charge to The Grid
- US Internet Adoption Plateaus at 84% Among Adult Americans
- Want That Job? Make Sure The Recruiter Hears Your Voice
- New Memory Test Can Predict Alzheimer's Risk 18 Years Before Diagnosis
- Researchers Predict The Existence of a Liquid That's as Flat as Graphene
- Watch: The Way This Camera Zooms in on The Moon Is Mind-Blowing
- Contact Lenses Worn by Sleeping Children Can Prevent Short-Sightedness
- World's First Commercial Jetpack Will Go on The Market Next Year
- Scientists Have Built Artificial Neurons That Fully Mimic Human Brain Cells
- Watch: Sir David Attenborough in Conversation With President Obama
- SpaceX Failed at Its Third Attempt to Make History: Its Rocket Just Exploded
- Here's How Eggs Can Super-Charge Your Salads
- Here's Why Heavy Metal Is Good For You
- Study Shows Kids With Better Memories Make Better Liars
- Pro-Choice Activists Prepare "Abortion Drone" For Maiden Flight
- Google's Self-Driving Cars Are Now Cruising The Streets of California
- Scientists Are Joining Forces With Cigarette Companies So You Can Vape Safely
- A Flood Plain in Australia Is Crawling With 25,000 Tarantulas
- Paralysed People Have Learnt to Control Robots Remotely With Their Thoughts
- This New Roof Material Stays Colder Than The Air Around It – Even in Summer
- Google Wants to Line Your City Streets With Wi-Fi
- Human Volunteers Will Receive Lab-Made 'Synthetic Blood' Transfusions
- Results of 3-Year Clinical Trial Show The Bionic Eye Safely Restores Vision
- Blood Pressure Drug Erases Memories of Addiction
- Here's What Happens to a McDonald's Cheeseburger in Hydrochloric Acid
- There Are Now More Obese Americans Than Overweight Americans
- LEGO to Kill Off Plastic Bricks in a Move to Sustainable Materials
- MRI Scans Reveal What Almost Dying in a Plane Crash Does to Your Brain
- Fertilisation Discovery Points to New Contraceptive For Men
- Children of Same-Sex Couples Experience No Negative Impact, Study Finds
- Here's What Riding Elon Musk's Hyperloop Train Could Look Like
- This New Gadget Can Help Blind People 'See' Using Their Tongues
- Here's Why Corn Is a Fruit, Capsicums Are Berries, And Rhubarb's a Vegetable
- Lexus Claims It's Made a New, Fully Functioning Hoverboard
- Medical Marijuana Labels Are Only Accurate in 17% of Cases
- Students Invent a Condom That Changes Colour if You Have an STI
- This New Insulin Patch Could Soon Replace Injections For Diabetics
- The Gates-Backed 'Toilet of The Future' Is Now Being Trialled in India And China
- WATCH: What Really Killed Off Earth's Giant Mammals?
- Here's How to Turn Your IPhone Into a 20-Megapixel Super Camera
- Scientists Have Grown a Mini Human Placenta on a Chip
- Here Are The Educational Apps That Actually Work, According to Science
- This Teenager Has Made a Gadget to Stop Alzheimer's Patients Getting Lost
- An Australian Woman Was Hospitalised Because of Too-Tight Skinny Jeans
- Meet The New, Ethically Made Smartphone That You Can Fix/Upgrade Yourself
- Material With Superfast Electrons Displays Mind-Blowing Magnetoresistance
- NASA's New Horizons Reveals First-Ever Colour Images of Pluto
- Here's How to Make Carbon Nanoparticles With Honey And a Microwave
- WATCH: This Plant Feasts on More Than 6,000 Insects an Hour
- Here's How We're Fighting Cancer in a Completely New Way
- Activating a Single Gene Reverses Colon Cancer Growth in Mice in Just 4 Days
- China's Commitment to Renewables Has Seen CO2 Emissions Stalled
- BMW Wants to Turn Street Lights Into Electric Car Charging Stations
- Sitting Down All The Time Is Making Us More Anxious, Study Suggests
- It's Official: Scientists Say We're Entering Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction
- Look Up! Jupiter And Venus Are About to Converge in The Night Sky
- Here's What a Psychologist Learned From Interviewing Killers
- New Invention Stops The Spread of Bacteria on Bathroom Door Handles
- Watching Cat Videos Lowers Stress And Makes You Happy, Study Suggests
- Huge Bats Used to Walk Around New Zealand on Four Limbs, Fossils Reveal
- New Paper Explains What REALLY Happens if You Touch a Black Hole
- Engineers Have Designed High Heels That You Can Actually Walk in
- WATCH: Can You Transfer Your Consciousness to Another Body?
- What Love Does to Your Body And Mind
- A Deep Learning Machine Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test
- Here's Why You (Probably) Hate The Sound of Your Own Voice
- Artificial Happy Memories May Become The Next Big Weapon Against Depression
- WATCH: Is Climate Change Just a Bunch of Hot Air?
- Bill Gates Is Working on a Single-Dose, Long-Lasting Contraceptive For Women
- This New Technology Lets You Change The Channel With Your Mind
- The Pope Confirms That The Catholic Church Wants Action on Climate Change
- Scientists Gain 'Unprecedented' Insight Into a 25,000-Year-Old Earthquake
- WATCH: Jurassic World Science Feat. Chris Pratt And Palaeontologist Jack Horner
- New Drug Has The Potential to Ward Off Malaria With a Single Dose
- Humans Aren't The Only Animals That Are Self-Aware, New Study Suggests
- We May Have Finally Found The Structure That Lets Animals Detect Earth's Magnetic Field
- Here's What You Should Be Drinking After a Workout, According to Science
- Scientists Create The Coldest Molecules Ever Recorded
- WATCH: First Trailer For Veritasium's New Documentary on Uranium
- WATCH: Here's How 7 Molten Metals React in Water
- New Font Shows People What It's Like to Have Dyslexia
- Researchers Explain Why Quantum Behaviour Doesn't Occur in Everyday Life
- Grad Student Develops Collapsing Furniture That Vanishes in Seconds
- NASA Spacecraft Is 4 Weeks And 32 Million Km Away From Pluto
- Blood Donors in Sweden Get a Text Message Whenever They Save a Life
- Researchers Find a Way to Harvest Electricity From Evaporating Water
- WATCH: Work on This Real-Life Transformer Robot Is Already Underway
- WATCH: Are We Really 99% Chimp?
- Autonomous Robot Arms Are Going to 3D-Print a Bridge in Amsterdam
- Scientists Have Used Graphene to Produce The World's Thinnest Light Bulb
- New Avocado-Based Drug Targets Leukaemia Stem Cells
- Researchers Have Worked Out How to Mind Control Cockroaches
- Microsoft Is Building a Drone Army to Catch Mosquitoes And Stop Epidemics
- WATCH: Here's What Happens When a Dry Ice Bomb Goes Off Underwater
- Extroverts Are Less Likely to Adopt Green Lifestyles, Study Suggests
- Yes, University of Cambridge Is Hiring a LEGO Professor
- Ancient DNA Reveals How Europeans Developed Light Skin And Lactose Tolerance
- Recipient of The World's First Penis Transplant Is Going to Be a Dad!
- A New Smartphone Attachment Can Perform Eye Exams From Anywhere in The World
- This Origami-Style Battery Could Double The Life of Wearable Gadgets
- WATCH: GoPro Falls From Space And Captures Spectacular Footage of Earth
- WATCH: Will Humans Ever Find Aliens? Solutions to The Fermi Paradox
- Mathematicians Think They've Worked Out What Happened to Flight MH370
- Experts Now Say We Need at Least 7 Hours of Sleep to "Sustain Health"
- This Ancient Egyptian Practice Can Cheaply Purify Dirty Water
- These Tiny Plastic Chips Can Deliver Therapeutic Genes Into Cells
- This Map Tells US Citizens How Filthy Their Neighbourhood Is
- A New Drug Has Been Found That Fast-Tracks Tissue Regeneration
- These Five Companies Control More Than Half of Academic Publishing
- Female Scientists Fire Back Hilariously After Tim Hunt's Sexist Comments
- Researchers Have Worked Out How to Make Jet Diesel From Sugarcane
- First Baby Born From Ovary Tissue Frozen During Mother's Childhood
- Biology's Holy Grail: The Species And Its Controversial Recent History
- Four Easy Tips to Make Your Batteries Last Longer
- 15-Year-Old Discovered a New Planet That's 1,000 Light Years From Earth
- Dinosaur Fossil Found That Appears to Contain 75-Million-Year-Old Blood Cells
- Australian Man's Blood Donations Have Saved 2 Million Lives
- Scientists Have Come Up With The Formula For The Perfect Fire
- WATCH: Here's What Happens When You Mix Coke And Molten Lead
- World-First Prosthetic Leg Lets Amputee 'Feel' His Foot.
- Facebook Scraps Secret Plans For a Satellite to Beam Cheap Internet
- Injectable Electronics Now Exist That Could One Day Help Treat Paralysis
- General Anaesthetic Before The Age of 4 Has Been Linked to Slight IQ Decline
- The Month You're Born May Affect Your Disease Risk, Research Suggests
- Engineers Have Created a Computer That Operates on Water Droplets
- You Can Now Custom-Print Instruments That Play Any Notes in Existence
- A Genetic Link Has Been Found Between Mental Illness And Creativity
- A Camera Has Successfully Been Powered Using Spare Wi-Fi Signals
- Science Explains Why We're Constantly Tempted to Check Facebook
- Computer Solves 120-Year-Old Biology Problem That Had Scientists Stumped
- Bill Nye's LightSail Overcomes Battery Glitch to Finally Deploy Its Sail
- Physicists Have Observed Virtually Frictionless Motion at The Nanoscale
- WATCH: What Does Your Pee Say About Your Health?
- Damn, The Parachute That'll Help Land Humans on Mars Just Failed Again
- Poor Sleep Might Be The Mechanism That Triggers Alzheimer's Memory Loss
- Google Releases Amazing Underwater Street View For World Oceans Day
- New Vaccines Effective Against H5N1, H7N9 Avian Influenza Strains
- Trolling Our Confirmation Bias: One Bite And We're Easily Sucked in
- WATCH: Hockey Puck Survives a Red-Hot Nickel Ball
- Here's What Happens to Your Brain on The Way to Mars
- Here's How Your Phone Can Harvest Its Own Radio Waves to Boost Battery
- The World's First Skull And Scalp Transplant Is a Success!
- Poor Lifestyle Choices Can Be Passed Onto Future Generations Through DNA
- Scientists Produce The First Lab-Grown Limb
- WATCH: Man Plays The Beatles on Guitar While Undergoing Brain Surgery
- The FDA Has Just Backed a Drug to Improve Female Sex Drive
- Science Says Jurassic Park Gets The Dinosaurs Mostly Right
- 10 Mind-Melting Optical Illusions That Will Make You Question Reality
- WATCH: What if You Stopped Drinking Water?
- WATCH: We Were Once All Female
- Light-Based Computers Will Be Even More Awesome Than We Thought
- Your Genes Influence When You Have Your First Child, Study Finds
- WATCH: Should You Use The SNOOZE Button?
- The Latest Use For Drones: Spotting Exam Cheats
- The US Air Force Is Building a Hypersonic Jet to Cross The States in 30 Minutes
- WATCH: What Happens When You Pour Melted Aluminium Into a Lava Lamp
- Scientists May Have Worked Out How Life Evolved From Building Blocks on Earth
- Exercise Linked to Lower Risk of Lung And Breast Cancer in Women
- Cancer Drug Combination Shrinks Tumours by Almost 60%
- This New $2.50 Device Extends Disposable Battery Life by 800%
- WATCH: The Truth About Toilet Swirls
- Google's New AI Can Count Food Calories From a Photo
- A One-Hour Treatment Has Reversed Insomnia in 73% of Participants
- Look Up! NASA Is Going to Be Testing a Flying Saucer Over Hawaii
- A Low-Protein, High-Carb Diet Could Be Just as Effective as Cutting Calories
- This Professor Thinks He Has The Key to Controlling Your Home With Your Mind
- Five Chemistry Inventions That Enabled The Modern World
- New App Lets You Control Exactly How Much Energy Each Appliance Uses
- WATCH: Meet The Real-Life Upside-Down Mountains
- Sawfish Are Avoiding Extinction by Reproducing Without Sex
- Rooftop Solar Is Now Cheaper Than Grid Electricity in These 6 US Cities
- California Faces a Real Tsunami Risk, Scientists Caution
- Google Plans on Turning Your Clothes Into Touchscreens
- The Himalayas Have Shrunk After The Nepalese Earthquake
- WATCH: This Map Shows How Indo-European Languages May Have Evolved
- NSA Leak Confirms Skynet Is For Real
- Panda Gut Bugs Haven't Kept Up With Evolution, Study Finds
- Reality Doesn't Exist Until We Measure It, Quantum Experiment Confirms
- Scientists Have Made Soft, Light Batteries From Wood Pulp
- This Picture Book Grows Into a Tree When You're Done Reading It
- Scientists Find Two New Marsupial Species That Mate Themselves to Death
- Here's How Smartphones And Tweets Can Be Used to Count Crowds
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Pit Viruses Against Superbugs
- A Woman Has Thrown Out a $200k Apple-1 Computer
- These Blue Aurorae Would Have Been Visible to The Naked Eye on Mars
- WATCH: Here's an Explanation For That Floating Black Ring Above Argentina
- Tomorrow's Battery Technologies That Could Power Your Home