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February 29

• NASA's Testing Its New 'Life-Detection' Drill in The Atacama Desert
• Mysterious Chimpanzee Behaviour Could Be Evidence of 'Sacred' Rituals
• Shame Is a Survival Mechanism That Reins in Behaviour Across Cultures, Scientists Say
• Self-Driving Cars Could Mean The End of Parking Spaces, And That's Great For Cities
• Not Everyone Has The Ability to Compose Music, And Your Genes Could Explain Why
• How a Mistranslation Made You Think Your Tongue Had 'Taste Zones'
• This New Experiment Will Allow Us to 'See' Quantum Entanglement With The Naked Eye
• Here's What Your Instagram Food Pics Reveal About What You're Eating
• Scientists Perform Key Step in The Water-Splitting Reaction With 100 Percent Efficiency
• A Blind Woman Has Regained Sight Following a Controversial Stem Cell Treatment
• NASA Has Invited India to Collaborate on Its Mission to Mars

February 28

• What Causes Autism? What We Know, Don't Know, And Suspect
• WATCH: What Is The Largest Number?
• Here's Why You Should Never Eat Right Before Bed
• The 14 Best Places to Go if The World Is Going to End

February 26

• Neuroscientists Are Figuring Out How Our Brains Would React to Teleportation
• Scientists Have Invented a Solar Cell as Light as a Soap Bubble
• Pluto's Moon Charon Is Bursting at The Seams, Astronomers Find
• Getting Better at Ignoring Things Makes You More Efficient, Study Finds
• This Anti-Microbial Bandage Helps Prevent Infections in Serious Burns Patients
• WATCH: Brian Greene Tells The Late Show Everything You Need to Know About Gravitational Waves
• Watch Rotund Penguins Waddling on Treadmills, Because Science
• NASA's Scott Kelly Is Finally Coming Home After What Feels Like "Camping For a Year"
• Here's How You Can Keep YouTube Playing on Your Phone After You Close The Window
• Driving While Angry or Sad Increases Your Risk of Crashing by Nearly 10 Times
• Scientists Have Made The Best Artificial Sperm Yet, And They're Breeding Mice With It
• New Anti-Bacterial Packaging Doubles The Shelf-Life of Perishable Food
• Nobody Panic, The Universe Won't End For at Least 2.8 Billion Years
• Sorry Guys, That Viral Video of a Knife-Wielding Crab Was a Hoax

February 25

• We Just Got More Evidence of The Troubling Ways Zika May Affect Pregnant Women
• First-Person Shooter Games Could Help Mend Damaged Brains
• This New Danish Supermarket Only Sells Food Past Its Expiry Date
• Consumers Have a Bigger Impact on The Environment Than Anything Else, Study Finds
• A Waterfall in Yosemite Has Turned Into a Glowing 'Firefall'
• Science Shows That Fat Cells Live Longer Than Lean Ones
• Denmark Just Installed Environmentally Friendly Traffic Lights That Give Priority to Bikes And Buses
• Study Finds That, Yes, Other People Also Hear a Voice in Their Head While Reading
• Science Students Get Better Grades When They Know Einstein And Marie Curie Also Struggled
• There's a New Approach to Fighting Cancer: Keeping Cancer Cells Alive
• Pancreatic Cancer Is Really Four Separate Cancers, Scientists Find
• A Scientist Is Turning Every Element in The Periodic Table Into Music
• Scientists Have Discovered a New Herpes Virus in Bats That Could Infect Humans
• Astronomers Have Finally Pinpointed The Origin of a Mysterious Explosion in Space
• What Is Time, And Why Does It Move Forward?
• This New System Will Help Protect Athletes From Hamstring Injuries
• Male Spiders Tie Their Cannibalistic Mates Up to Avoid Getting Eaten

February 24

• Astronomers Just Released a New, 187-Million-Pixel Map of The Milky Way
• Watch The SpaceX Rocket Launch (And Probably Crash) Live NOW
• Scientists Have Figured Out Why Drug-Resistant 'Superbugs' Are So Hard to Kill
• Earth Could Be Unique Among 700 Quintillion Planets in The Universe, Study Finds
• Two Cups of Coffee Can Reduce The Risk of Liver Disease, Study Finds
• Dogs And Some Primates Have Molecues That Might Let Them Perceive Magnetic Fields
• Johnson & Johnson to Pay $72 Million in Case Linking Baby Powder to Ovarian Cancer
• Do We Really Crave The Foods Our Bodies Need?
• Plastic Surgery Has Left a Woman in Brazil With Temporary Kleptomania
• Here's Why You Should Be Careful About Using Public Wi-Fi Hotspots
• The US Is Investigating 14 More Cases of Sexually Transmitted Zika Virus
• This New Type of Wi-Fi Uses 10,000 Times Less Power, So Your Phone Won't Die All The Time

February 23

• WATCH: Is There a Cure For Pimples?
• Two New Studies Suggest This $5 Ring Can Reduce The Risk of HIV
• It's The Birthday of The Tallest Man Who Ever Lived
• Scientists Are Establishing a Rattlesnake Colony on a Remote Island in Massachusetts
• A Man Who Narrated All His Dreams Might Be The Key to Finding Out Why We Sleep Talk
• The First 5% of Weight Loss Offers The Greatest Health Benefits in Obese People, Study Finds
• NASA Has Been Inundated With a Record Number of Astronaut Applications
• Pacific Nation Kiribati Considers Building 'Artificial Islands' to Escape Rising Seas
• China Is Building The Largest Waste-to-Energy Plant in The World
• This Is One of The Most Complete Bronze Age Wheels Ever Found
• This Exercise Routine Could Intensify The Growth And Development of New Brain Cells
• Virgin Galactic Unveils Its New Spaceplane, VSS Unity
• Largest Study of Its Kind Finds There IS a Difference Between Organic And Non-Organic Animal Products
• HPV Has Dropped by Almost Two-Thirds in Teen Girls in The US Thanks to Vaccination Efforts
• The Largest Fireball Since Chelyabinsk Exploded Over The Atlantic – But Nobody Saw It
• Exposure to Air Pollution Makes Rats Put on Weight, Study Finds
• Apollo 10 Astronauts Heard Eerie 'Music' on The Far Side of The Moon, NASA Audio Reveals

February 22

• Financial Stress Can Cause You Physical Pain, Scientists Find
• The First Human Trials of New Technique That Could Restore Sight to The Blind Are About to Begin
• Childhood Lead Exposure Has Been Linked to Aggressive Crime Later in Life
• This Is The Type of Light Bulb to Use if You Want to Avoid Attracting Insects
• There's Little Evidence That The Infamous 'Cat Parasite' Causes Psychological Changes in Humans, Study Finds
• A German City Just Became The First in The World to Ban Single-Use Coffee Pods
• NASA Researchers Are Working on a Laser Propulsion System That Could Get to Mars in 3 Days
• The First HIV-Positive Organ Transplants Are About to Begin in The US
• Report Reveals Which American States Are Getting The Most Sleep

February 21

• This $14-Billion Machine Is Set to Usher in a New Era of Nuclear Fusion Power
• Smart Nanocrystals Could Help Deliver Chemotherapy Drugs More Efficiently

February 20

• Scientists Have Figured Out How to Create a Category 5 Hurricane in a Lab
• Astronomers Think They've Discovered The Longest Stellar Eclipse in The Universe
• These Shape-Shifting Nanoparticles Help Deliver Cancer Drugs to Tumours
• This 51-Year-Old Telescope Is Searching 1,000 Times a Second For One of The Rarest Events in The Universe

February 19

• Sorry, But Big-Brained Mammals Are More Likely to Go Extinct, Researchers Say
• 7 Times Mathematics Became Art And Blew Our Minds
• This Small City Is Being Swallowed Up by a Weird, Hairy Tumbleweed
• WATCH: This Simple Maths Trick Will Get Your Friends Every Time
• A Five-Dimensional Black Hole Could 'Break' General Relativity, Say Physicists
• Researchers Have Reversed Autism Symptoms in Mice
• Look Up! Jupiter Is About to Put on Its Best Show of The Year

February 18

• This Map Shows Where in The World Is Most Vulnerable to Climate Change
• Living With Someone Else Can Cause Your Bodies to Become More Similar
• This Flower Has Been Perfectly Preserved in Amber For 15 Million Years
• WATCH: Here's a Whole Year's Worth of Weather in One Video
• WHO Confirms Genetically Modified Mosquitoes May Be Used to Combat Zika Threat
• Scientists Say They've Solved The Mystery of Antartica's Missing Iron Meteorites
• Screw Barbie, Mattel's Released a 3D Printer So Kids Can Now Make Their Own Toys
• The First Viagra Alternative in 15 Years Is… a Dose of Sound Waves to The Penis
• Russia Wants to Use These Humanoid Robots to Replace Humans on Spacewalks
• Your Parmesan Cheese Could Contain More Wood Pulp Than Parmesan, Studies Suggest
• Scientists Have Found a Mysterious Boiling River Straight Out of Amazonian Legend
• Half The World's Population Will Be Short-Sighted by 2050
• Our Brains Prioritise Playback of High-Reward Memories, Study Finds
• WATCH: You Can Make 'Wonder Material' Graphene in Your Own Home
• Regular Exercise Slows Down The Growth of Cancer in Mice

February 17

• Is Breakfast Really The Most Important Meal of The Day?
• The Facts Behind The Top 5 Misunderstandings About Evolution
• One of World's Longest-Running Experiments Is Buried in a Secret Location in Michigan
• Scientists Identify The Gene Variant That Influences How Much Cannabis Affects You
• This New Shape-Shifting Polymer Can Lift 1,000 Times Its Own Weight
• Headphones That Get You High on Dopamine Are Tipped to Go on Sale Next Month
• Wonder Material Graphene Has Been Turned Into a Superconductor
• Here's Why Leafy Green Vegetables Are Key For Good Digestion
• Singapore Just Launched a Plan to Fill The City With 3D-Printed Homes
• Scientists Have Detected Gases in a 'Super-Earth' Atmosphere For The First Time
• An Incredible 45-Day Storm Turned California Into a 300-Mile-Long Sea… And It Could Happen Again
• Hidden Graffiti Has Been Discovered Inside The Apollo 11 Command Module
• Your College Major Can Be a Pretty Good Indication of How Smart You Are
• If You Think People View You as Untrustworthy, You Probably Are

February 16

• This Tiny Glass Disc Can Store 360TB of Data For 13.8 Billion Years
• What Would Happen if Earth Fell Into a Black Hole?
• Yemen Is Fighting Its Severe Water Shortage by Harvesting Its Fog
• These Lab-Grown 'Mini-Brains' Could Help Replace Animal Testing This Year
• Take a Look at The First Map of Mars Designed For Regular Humans
• Want a Higher Exam Score? Take The Test First Thing in The Morning, Study Finds
• This New 3D Printer Makes Life-Sized Ear, Muscle, And Bone Tissues From Living Cells
• There Are Literally Thousands of Sharks Swimming Off Florida Beaches Right Now
• Archaeologists Have Just Uncovered 5 Long-Lost Roman Roads
• Today's Anti-Vaxxers And Climate Change Deniers Can Be Linked Back to UFO Hysteria
• Report Says Pesticide Is to Blame For Microcephaly Outbreak – Not Zika
• This Mushroom Suit Digests Your Body After You Die

February 15

• Scientists Report "Unprecedented" Success Using T-Cells to Treat Cancer
• Sugar May Be as Damaging to The Brain as Extreme Stress or Abuse
• There's an Evolutionary Reason Why We're Afraid of The Dark
• The Reason People Go Gluten-Free Isn't Because They're Allergic
• Researchers Have Made GPS Accurate to Within a Centimetre
• China Says It'll Have a Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactor Ready by Next Year
• Scientists Discover New Form of Ice With Lowest Density on Record
• FDA-Approved Cancer Drug Shows Signs of Preventing Alzheimer's Symptoms
• Women's Code Rates Better Than Men's, But Is Rejected When Their Gender Is Revealed
• Here's Why You Definitely Shouldn't Set Your IPhone's Date Back to 1970
• Scientists Already Know How to 'Erase' Your Painful Memories… And Add New Ones
• No, You're Definitely Not 'Hardwired' to Stare at Women's Breasts

February 14

• WATCH: Why Are Teenagers So Moody?
• Statistically Speaking, 750,000 People on Tinder Are Infested With Pubic Lice

February 13

• Scientists Say They've Revived an Extinct Sub-Species of Zebra
• It's Time For Us to Say Goodbye to The Philae Lander

February 12

• WATCH: NASA Just Released a Jaw-Dropping 360-Degree Video So You Can Feel Like You're on Mars
• 40-Year Study Suggests The Incidence of Dementia in The US Is Actually Falling
• WATCH: Here Are 5 Cool Ways to Put a Candle Out Using Physics… And Liquid Nitrogen
• Scientists Identify The Brain Cells That Represent Feelings of Isolation
• The 9 Best Internet Reactions to The Gravitational Wave Discovery
• Scientists Just Set The Record For The Fastest Data Transmission Rate EVER
• 1 in 3 Teachers in US Public Schools Are Teaching Climate Change Denial, Study Finds
• This New Mind-Reading Tech Helps You Learn to Play Instruments Faster
• Researcher Illegally Shares Millions of Science Papers Free Online to Spread Knowledge
• US Highway Authorities Concede That Artificial Intelligence Can Legally 'Drive' a Car
• If Carbon Levels Keep Rising Unabated, Earth's Oceans Could Eventually Evaporate
• The Top 10 Parasites That Could Be Lurking in Your Food

February 11

• WATCH: This Is What Gravitational Waves Sound Like
• 8 Charts Reveal The Crazy Numbers Behind NASA's New Monster Rocket
• The Scary, Practical Reason The US Navy Is Once Again Teaching Celestial Navigation
• Data Scientists Map Every Important Character in The Star Wars Universe
• New Graphene Lens Could Help Computers Beam Data at The Speed of Light
• IT'S OFFICIAL: Gravitational Waves Have Been Detected, Einstein Was Right
• These Quotes From Carl Sagan Will Make You Feel at One With The Cosmos
• NASA Just Released More Awesome Space Tourism Posters
• Cotton Candy Machines Could Help Us Make Life-Sized Artificial Organs
• Stubborn And Rebellious Children Tend to Earn Higher Incomes
• Physicists Have Broken The Record For The Most Accurate Clock Ever Built
• WATCH: Opossum Mum Casually Carries 15 Babies on Her Back
• A Science Student May Have Found a Way to Use a Frog to Treat Alzheimer's Disease
• This New Transmitter Could Reportedly Make Your Wi-Fi Connection 10 Times Faster
• Your Horse Can Tell Your Mood From Your Face, Research Finds, And It Responds Accordingly
• This Infographic Shows How Likely It Is You'll Die an Unnatural Death

February 10

• Scientists Are Making Super-Thin, Super-Strong Condoms Out of Grass Fibres
• Here Are 5 Ways to Get a Better Night's Sleep, According to Science
• Mindfulness Meditation Linked to The Reduction of a Key Inflammation Marker
• Bacterial Cells Are Actually The World's Smallest 'Eyeballs', Scientists Discover by Accident
• WATCH: What Are Carbohydrates Doing to Your Body?
• Scientists Have Identified The Time of Year The Human Brain Is Most Active
• A Mammal's Brain Has Been Cryonically Frozen And Recovered For The First Time
• Sleep Deprivation Increases Your Risk of Falsely Confessing to a Crime You Didn't Commit
• Scientists Have Discovered Hundreds of Nearby Galaxies That Were Hidden by The Milky Way
• Physicists Say They've Finally Confirmed The Existence of a 'Four Neutron-No Proton' Particle
• Physicists Will Make Their Big Gravitational Wave Announcement This Thursday!
• Stunning Ultraviolet Photos Show What Happens if You Spend Too Much Time in The Sun

February 9

• Is Your Fear of Death Abnormal?
• An Indian Man Has Reportedly Been Killed by a Falling Meteorite
• This Mind-Controlled 'Bionic Spine' Could See Paralysed Patients Walk Again

February 8

• Sighing Is Actually a Life-Saving Reflex, And Scientists Have Found The Switch That Controls It
• Your Ability to Read This Message Reveals Something Fascinating About The Mind
• 10 Weird Brain Disorders That Totally Mess With Your Perception of Reality
• Here's How The Future of TV Could Involve All Your Senses
• WATCH: Why The Last Star in The Universe Will Be a Red Dwarf
• Sorry Guys, Our Early Human Ancestors Didn't Have Insane, Wood-Eating Jaws
• Nearly 25% of White-Tailed Deer on America's East Coast Have Malaria
• Disabled Violinist Uses Thoughts to Make Music For The First Time in 27 Years
• New Rainforests Absorb 11 Times as Much Carbon as Old-Growth, Study Finds
• Scientists Are Making Better Batteries Derived From Bee Pollen
• China's Nuclear Fusion Machine Just Smashed Germany's Hydrogen Plasma Record
• An Indian Company Says They Have Two Zika Vaccine Candidates Ready For Pre-Clinical Trials
• Researchers Have Just Added a Second Dimension to The Early Chemistry of The Solar System
• Here's What It's Like to Breed One of The World's Largest Insects
• New Mathematical Model Shows How Our Brains Make Complex Decisions
• A Simple Blood Test Could Soon Diagnose 5 Deadly Cancers at Once
• Next Month an Asteroid Will Pass So Close to Earth, We Might See It in The Sky
• Gravitational Waves Rumours Re-Sparked Amid Countdown to Official Announcement
• People Are Saying This Ancient Greek "Laptop" Is Proof of Time Travel

February 7

• WATCH: This Is Probably The Best Way to Memorise The Periodic Table
• Scientists Have Figured Out a Better Way to Extract Rare Earth Elements From Coal Waste
• A Tiny European Country Just Made an Unprecedented Move in The Space Mining Business

February 5

• The World's Biggest Wind Farm Will Soon Be Built Off The UK Coast
• Pluto Reveals Iceberg-Like Water Formations Floating in a Sea of Frozen Nitrogen
• Earth Scores an Unimpressive 82% Chance of Sustaining Life in 'Habitability' Calculation
• This New Airbus Glider Is Set to Become The Highest-Flying Winged Vehicle Ever
• This Common Way of Cooking Broccoli Leeches Out Healthy Compounds, Study Finds
• You Can Now Send a 'Message in a Bottle' That'll Reach The North Star in 434 Years
• Physicists Just Built The World's Smallest Optical Switch – Based on a Single Atom
• A Budget Airline Plans to Power Its Planes Using Hydrogen Fuel Cells
• Some 54 Million 'Overweight' or 'Obese' Americans Are Actually Healthy, Say Scientists
• Important New Properties of Superconductivity Have Been Discovered
• An Expert Panel Just Gave The Go-Ahead For Three-Parent Babies in The US – But Only Boys
• Study Proves The Explorers Club Didn't Really Eat Mammoth at 1950s New York Dinner
• WATCH: Which Is Better For Weight-Loss – Diet or Exercise?
• Did The Vikings Use Crystal 'Sunstones' to Discover America?

February 4

• Brain Scans Could One Day Be a Replacement For Your Passwords
• A 99-Million-Year-Old Erection Has Been Perfectly Preserved in This Fossil
• This Supermassive Black Hole Emits a Beam of Particles Three Times Longer Than The Milky Way
• Bilingual Toddlers Demonstrate Greater Cognitive Flexibility, Study Finds
• NASA Is Keeping 4 People in a Tiny Cabin For a Month, Because Science
• The Awesome Physics Behind How Mirrors Work
• The Niagara Falls Might Be Getting Turned Off… Again
• Scientists Pinpoint The Parts of The Brain That Break Our Ability to Spell
• Turns Out Pigs Could Be Key to Mapping The Spread of Antibiotic Resistance
• Scientists Have Extended The Lifespan of Mice by Up to 35 Percent – With No Adverse Effects
• Strange Clouds Have Suddenly Lit Up The Winter Sky – And Here's Why
• Why Don't We Wipe Mosquitoes Off The Face of The Earth?
• Scientists Sequence Bed Bug Genome to Find Out What Makes Them So Goddamn Unstoppable
• Germany's Massive Nuclear Fusion Machine Just Produced Its First Hydrogen Plasma

February 3

• This New Robotic Exoskeleton Is Helping Paralysed Patients Walk Again
• Two New Exoplanets Have Been Discovered, And They're Twice The Size of Jupiter
• Parents Helping Too Much With Homework Could Be Undermining Their Kids
• This One Factor May Explain Why You're a Morning Person or a Night Owl
• Ketamine Found to Have an "Unbelievable" Effect in Treating Severe Depression
• Microsoft Is Testing Underwater Data Centres on The Ocean Floor
• 9 Foods That Pack More Vitamin C Than an Orange
• Resting Brainwaves Function in Specific Harmonic Patterns, Study Suggests
• Here's What Caused This Weird 'Fireball' Cloud Over a Portuguese Island Last Week
• Antiperspirant Significantly Changes Your Skin's Microbial Ecosystem
• Researchers Are a Step Closer to Creating an Untraceable 'Quantum Internet'
• WATCH: Scientists Have Just Witnessed a Sub-Antarctic Volcano Erupting
• Incredible 'Fire Rainbows' Just Appeared in The Sky Over Britain
• WATCH: Why The Death of Black Holes Is Such a Problem For Physicists
• First Case of Sexually Transmitted Zika Has Been Reported in The US
• A Japanese Company Is Building The World's First Autonomous Farm

February 2

• Are You Fast Enough to Outrun a T. Rex?
• Scientists Say They've Found a Genetic 'Switch' That Could Turn Obesity on or Off
• Here's What Happens to Your Body When You're Dehydrated
• This Artificial 3D Brain Shows How Our Wrinkles And Folds Take Shape
• Lab-Bred Corals Have Successfully Reproduced in The Wild For The First Time
• Someone on Twitter Is Writing About Male Scientists as if They Were Females
• A Kid's DNA Got Him Kicked Out of School in California
• A Hidden Population of Up to 200 Lions Has Been Found in Ethiopia
• Common Alternative to BPA Plastic Is Equally Harmful in Animal Testing, Study Finds
• Earth Is Made Up of Two Planets Fused Together, New Research Suggests
• Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps Per Day?
• WHO Declares Zika Virus a Global Public Health Emergency
• 10 Things You Need to Know About The UK Allowing Genetic Modification of Human Embryos
• The Moon's Phases Really Do Impact Rainfall on Earth, Study Finds

February 1

• The Director of Star Wars: Episode IX Wants to Shoot Scenes in Outer Space
• This New Drug Is as Strong as Morphine, But Without The Side Effects
• This Simple Tip to Learn Maths Equations Actually Works
• WATCH: Electricity Sparks From a Guy's Hand as He Stands on a Frozen Lake
• Google's Planning to Deliver Super-Fast 5G Internet From Solar-Powered Drones
• New Drug Causes Cancer to "Melt Away" in Patients With Advanced Leukaemia
• Here's Why a Walk in The Woods or a Dip in The Ocean Is So Great For Your Health
• NASA's New Light-Based Modem Will Transmit Data Up to 100 Times Faster Than Radio Signals
• A Physicist Has a New Explanation For Why Time Moves Forwards, Not Backwards
• This Self-Filling Water Bottle Harvests Clean Drinking Water From The Air