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April 29

• For The First Time, Researchers Have Mapped The Inside of a Pyramid Using Cosmic Rays
• NASA Just Unveiled The James Webb Space Telescope's Huge Golden Mirror
• There's a New Hypothesis About How Earth's Oldest Crystals Were Formed
• Scientists Find 69 Different Factors That Control Your Gut Bacteria
• Astronomers Might Have Finally Detected Where Mysterious, Extragalactic Neutrinos Are Coming From
• Physicists Have Calculated That We're *probably* Not The Only Advanced Civilisation Ever in The Universe
• Physicists Think They've Finally Figured Out How to Locate Planet Nine
• Researcher Thinks He's Figured Out Why So Many People Hate The Word 'Moist'
• WATCH: Can Formula 1 Cars Ever Be Totally Energy Efficient?
• Gravitational Waves Can't Solve Our Black Hole Problems, Physicists Warn
• Japanese Priests Began Recording Climate Data Nearly 600 Years Ago
• The Benefits of Mindfulness Are Probably Overrated, Research Suggests
• WATCH: Is There Actually a Difference Between Name-Brand And Generic Products?
• 93% of Leukaemia Patients in Remission After an Experimental T Cell Therapy
• Scientists Have Used 'Light Echoes' to Measure The Gap Around a Star For The First Time Ever

April 28

• Explorers Just Got Their First Glimpse Inside The Amazon's Mysterious Tepui Mountains
• Scientists Have Just Made Sperm Out of Human Skin Cells
• Sticky Beads That Bind to Sperm Could Offer a New Kind of Contraceptive
• Scientists Just Embarked on a World-First Expedition to Ethiopia's Toxic Hot Springs
• Why Does Your Cat Act So Weird All The Time?
• Just 1 Minute of Intense Exercise Rivals The Benefits of a 45-Minute Workout
• Multiple Computer Viruses Have Been Discovered in This German Nuclear Plant
• Japan Has Approved Gene Editing Using a Fertilised Human Egg
• This Giant 'Brain Dictionary' Reveals Where Your Mind Stores Thousands of Words
• Wikipedia Is Basically Just Another Giant Bureaucracy, Study Finds
• SpaceX Announces It Will Send a Spacecraft to Mars by 2018

April 27

• This Single-Celled, Brainless Slime Can 'Learn' Without a Nervous System
• Astronomers Just Created The Most Powerful Artificial Star in The Sky – Using Lasers
• Chemists Have Developed The World's Tiniest Thermometer Out of DNA
• England's Doctors Just Walked Out of Emergency Wards in Their First-Ever Strike
• This German City Is Installing Traffic Lights in The Pavement For Smartphone Addicts
• Earth's Light Blue Colour Could Be a Signature of Life
• WATCH: Guy Straps Himself Into a Falling Helicopter to Prove They Don't Drop Like Bricks
• Mysterious Blue Flashes in Space And Upside-Down Lightning Have Been Caught on Film
• Physicists Just Debunked One of The Most Promising Candidates For Dark Matter
• Scientists Just Discovered a Monster Black Hole Formed by 3 Colliding Spiral Galaxies
• Scientists Just Captured The Flash of Light That Sparks When a Sperm Meets an Egg
• Your Crappy Old Phone Battery Could Power a Solar Lamp For 3 Years
• You Need to Stop Hugging Your Dog, Study Finds
• This Weird Experiment Is Bringing Us Closer Than Ever to Solving a 100-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery
• It's Official: China Will Launch a Mars Rover in 2020
• Hubble Just Discovered a Moon Hiding at The Back of Our Solar System

April 26

• Why It's Impossible to Actually Be a Vegetarian
• Why Do People Sneeze in a Series of Three?
• The Building Blocks of Life Might Have Emerged From a 'Primordial Puddle' 3.8 Billion Years Ago
• An Ancient Astronomer's Observations of a 1,000-Year-Old Supernova Have Just Been Unearthed
• This Huge Solar Panel Barge Could Be The Future of Ocean-Based Renewable Energy
• Archaeologists Think They've Finally Solved The Mystery of This Mile-Long 'Band of Holes'
• A Massive Lake Underneath Antarctic Ice Could Be Home to Hidden Life Forms
• Archaeologists Have Discovered an Ancient Mosaic Skeleton That Says "Enjoy Your Life"
• We Finally Know All 5 Molecules That Are Attacked in Type 1 Diabetes
• Physicists Have Created a 'Black Hole' in The Lab That Could Finally Prove Hawking Radiation Exists
• The World Is Getting Greener Thanks to Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels
• Researchers Have Accidentally Made Batteries That Could Last 400 Times Longer
• Chernobyl's Milk Is Still Radioactive 30 Years Later, Investigation Reveals
• Scientists Think Anorexia Could Be Caused by a Bacterial Infection
• International Meeting Proves No One Knows How to Regulate Killer Robots
• Corals in Sydney Harbour Have Been Extensively Bleached For The First Time Ever
• CERN Just Dropped 300 TB of Large Hadron Collider Data Free Online

April 25

• Solar Impulse 2 Is Back in The Air And Breaking More World Records
• Scientists Have Pushed Water Molecules Into a Whole New State of Matter
• This Resume For Elon Musk Proves You Never Need to Use More Than One Page
• Scientists Claim They've Completed The First Successful Gene Therapy Against Human Ageing
• What The Universe's Most Elusive Particles Can Tell Us About The Universe's Most Energetic Objects

April 22

• Monkeys Could Have Floated to North America 21 Million Years Ago
• This Autonomous 'Cyber Garden' Rolls Around to Keep Its Plants Alive
• These Trees in Ecuador Are Reportedly 'Walking' Up to 20 Metres Per Year
• NASA Just Announced It's Building an Electric Propulsion System to Take Us Into Deep Space
• Scientists Think They've Finally Figured Out How Birds Outlived The Dinosaurs
• The Sound of Your Skull Could Soon Replace Your Password – Seriously
• Damien Hirst's Controversial Artworks Could Be Leaking Poisonous Chemicals
• WATCH: What's Outside The Universe?
• Here's What Exercise Does to Your Bones
• Here's Why We Sleep So Badly in Unfamiliar Beds
• A Nearby Supernova Explosion Is Dumping Radioactive Metal on Earth
• Scientists Just Discovered a 1,000-Km-Long Coral Reef at The Mouth of The Amazon
• This New Hypothesis Could Explain How The Controversial EM Drive Works
• WATCH: Could You Win The Game of Thrones?

April 21

• San Francisco Has Ruled That All New Buildings Must Install Solar Panels
• Yes, Bacon Has Been Linked to Cancer AGAIN – Here's What You Need to Know
• Magic Leap Has a New Demo Video For Its Jaw-Dropping Augmented Reality System
• The QWERTY Keyboard Is Changing Our Feelings Towards Words
• A US Air Force Sled Just Smashed The Maglev Speed Record – at 633 Mph
• Prescription Drugs End Up in Our Crops Thanks to Our Medicated Pee, New Study Finds
• The 'Midnight Terror Cave' of Belize Was a Child Sacrifice Site, Experts Report
• The Internet Isn't Making Us Smarter, But Here's How We Can Fight Back
• Scientists Are Creating an 'Extreme Universe' in a Lab
• Some Superbugs Literally Explode When They Die, Making Them Even More Deadly
• This New Wi-Fi Chip Doubles Wireless Speed From a Single Antenna
• WATCH: This Is How You Trap a Laser Beam in Water
• NASA Might Have Just Discovered Gravity Waves in Pluto's Atmosphere
• Scientists Just Got a Step Closer to Creating a Universal Allergy Treatment
• New Protein Injection Reverses Alzheimer's Symptoms in Mice in Just One Week
• Researchers Have Developed a Blood Test That Could Detect Parkinson's With 95% Accuracy
• Turmeric Can Improve Memory And Attention in Old Age, Study Finds
• WATCH: This Is Your Brain on Music
• The Most Terrifying Part About Getting Struck by Lightning Is What Happens Afterwards

April 20

• WATCH: Why Every Image of a Black Hole Isn't Real
• NASA Just Discovered a New Lonely Planet With No Host Star
• Insects Are Conscious And Egocentric, Study Finds
• This New Program Can Spot DNA Mutations in a Single Cancer Cell
• An Abandoned Probe Just Discovered Something Weird About The Atmosphere of Venus
• India Says The Cost of Solar Power Is Now Cheaper Than Coal
• This Royal Dress Is One of The "Most Significant" Shipwreck Treasures Ever Found
• Nope, The Moon ISN'T Going to Turn Green on Wednesday Night
• The Sun Might Have Consumed a 'Super-Earth' in Our Solar System
• 93% of The Great Barrier Reef Is Now Damaged by Coral Bleaching
• What Does Your College Major Say About Your Personality?
• Scientists Have Just Found The First Fossilised Heart EVER in a Prehistoric Animal

April 19

• Orbiting Experiment Shows Mammal Embryos Can Develop Fully in Space
• The Most Promising New Treatment For Inflammatory Bowel Disease? Parasitic Worms
• These Two Drugs Can Eliminate One in Five Skin Cancer Tumours
• A $1.3 Billion Mission to Study Gravitational Waves in Space Just Passed an Official "Sanity Check"
• Billions of Cicadas Are About to Erupt From The Ground And Have Sex in Your Backyard
• There's No Scientific Validity to This Dangerous Idea – Yet Most of Us Are Probably Guilty of It
• NASA Just Called Out Climate Change Deniers on Facebook, And It Was Glorious
• The Dinosaurs Were Already Doomed Long Before The Meteorite Hit, Scientists Find
• This Hilarious Twitter Account Uses Lego to Show The Realities of Academia
• NASA Has Detected Strange Signals Coming From The Gravitational Wave Source
• Academics Admit to Embellishing The Impact of Their Research to Get Grants
• This Is What Your Brain Looks Like on Science

April 18

• These Wireless Earbuds Let You Control Which Outside Sounds to Block
• What Would Happen if You Stuck Your Head Inside a Particle Accelerator?
• This New Fabric Can Help Clean Up Oil Spills in The Open Ocean
• AccuWeather Is Now Issuing 90-Day Forecasts And Meteorologists Are Pissed
• These Huge Solar-Powered Machines Can Provide an Entire Village's Water Supply
• This Is Why It's Going to Be So Hard to Create a Zika Vaccine
• Google Is Working on Beaming High-Speed Wireless Internet Into Your Home
• New Study Suggests We Don't Actually Need a Tetanus Booster Every 10 Years
• This Ultra-Thin 'Electronic Skin' Turns Your Body Into an LED Screen
• Astronomers Just Discovered a Huge Galaxy Orbiting Our Own
• It's Official: Boaty McBoatface Is The Winning Name For This $300 Million Research Vessel
• WATCH: The Entire Universe Is Flat, And Here's Why

April 15

• After 36 Years, The Wright Brothers' 'Flying Machine' Patent Has Finally Been Rediscovered
• NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Has Captured Interstellar Dust From Beyond The Solar System
• Researchers Finally Understand Why Bearcats Smell Like Buttered Popcorn
• Scientists Have Just Solved an Ancient Peruvian Mystery From Space
• These Graphene-Based Nanobots Can Suck Pollutants From Our Oceans in Under an Hour
• This Video Game Shows Why Humans Are Better at Quantum Physics Than Supercomputers
• Children Born to Older Mothers End Up Taller And Better Educated, Study Finds
• These Incredibly Creepy Mass Graves Were Just Unearthed in Greece
• Guy Claims He Deleted His Entire Company With Just One Line of Bad Code
• We're Running Out of Universe to Measure, Physicists Caution
• Binge-Watchers Are Responsible For One-Third of All TV Electricity Usage
• NASA Just Gave 13 Crazy, High-Impact Research Projects $100K Each
• The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than The Laws of Physics Can Explain, New Measurements Reveal
• The Evolutionary Origins of Laughter Are Rooted in Survival – Not Enjoyment
• It's Official: Study Finds We Have No Idea What We're Saying When We Use Emojis
• These Are The Top 5 Deadliest Poisons on The Planet
• WATCH: Could You Outrun a Fart?

April 14

• We Could Halve Car Emissions For Good if The Government Supported Electric Cars, Say Experts
• Scientists Have Identified Unexpected Mutations That Might Trigger Cancer
• This Is The Most Sustainable Office in The World
• This Tiny Device Is 12 Times More Effective at Treating Pancreatic Cancer
• Eating Fast Food Could Expose You to Hormone-Disrupting Phthalates
• This Infographic Reveals Whether You Earn More Than Einstein, Curie, or Newton
• Couple Set to Make $100,000 Off a Lump of Whale Vomit Found on a Beach
• Physicists Find a Way to Probe The Quantum Realm Without Wrecking Everything
• Autism Risk Lowered by Taking Carnitine When Pregnant, Say Scientists
• Scientists Have Published The First Definitive Study of Creepiness
• Consciousness Occurs in 'Time Slices' Lasting Only Milliseconds, Study Suggests
• World-First Device Lets Paralysed Man Move His Hand With His Mind
• Judge Rules That Kids Can Sue The US Government For Inaction on Climate Change
• People Are Saying These 1,500-Year-Old 'Adidas Sneakers' Are Proof of Time Travel
• It's Official: Zika Causes Birth Defects, Including Microcephaly
• Billionaire Sean Parker Just Invested $250 Million Into Changing The Way We Fight Cancer

April 13

• This Grad Student Is Developing Strawberries That Can Be Grown in Space
• Meet Triton: a Device That Could Supply a Third of America's Power
• Tumbleweeds Are Out of Control in California And That's a Big Problem
• WATCH: Is Our Universe a Simulation? The Experts Weigh in
• Lab-Grown Human Beta Cells Have Blocked Diabetes in Mice For Good
• Scientists Think They've Found The Key to Making Reversible, Non-Hormonal Male Contraceptives
• Astronomers Have Discovered a Super-Fast Star System That Breaks Current Physics Models
• Here's Richard Feynman's Simple Technique For Sorting Science From Pseudoscience
• Two Aerospace Companies Just Teamed Up to Put an Inflatable Space Hotel in Orbit by 2020
• Sexually Transmitted Infections Could Explain Why Humans Became Monogamous
• Thousands of Radioactive Boars Are Tearing Through Fukushima, And No One Knows How to Stop Them
• Seeing Live Music Could Reduce Your Stress Hormone Levels, Study Finds
• This Could Be The Year We Eliminate One of The Most Tragic Diseases in History
• The Netherlands Is Making Moves to Ban All Non-Electric Vehicles by 2025
• Stephen Hawking And a Russian Billionaire Plan to Send Spacecraft to Alpha Centauri in 20 Years

April 12

• Mounting Evidence Suggests Antibacterial Soaps Do More Harm Than Good
• Exercise During Pregnancy Has Been Linked to More Active Offspring
• This New Nanochip Can Manipulate Twisted Light Better Than Ever Before
• Chlorosulfonic Acid Proves Your Lab Coat Isn't as Tough as You Think It Is
• The World Tiger Population Has Increased For The First Time in 100 Years
• The Bible Was Written Way Earlier Than We Thought, Mathematicians Suggest
• We're in For a Month of Meteor Showers as We Pass Through The Tail of Halley's Comet
• Astronomers Have Discovered a Region in Space Where Black Holes Have Mysteriously Aligned
• The Death of a Partner Can Make Your Heartbeat Irregular
• Scientists Just Got The First Direct Proof of Stable Carbyne – The World's Strongest Material
• Pharmaceutical Giant Gets Rid of All Its Patents in Developing Countries
• Scientists Have Tracked Where Whale Sharks Go After Tourist Season
• For The First Time Ever, Scientists Have Imaged The Brain on LSD
• The Kepler Spacecraft Has Been Brought Back From The Dead
• The Best Way to Wash Your Hands, According to Science

April 11

• WATCH: Can We Really Build a Space Elevator?
• Hubble Just Snapped One of The Best Pictures of The Mysterious 'Red Rectangle' Nebula
• Tylenol Could Make It Harder For Us to Spot Errors, Study Finds
• WATCH: This New Metal Foam Is Strong Enough to Turn Bullets Into Dust
• Chinese Scientists Have Genetically Modified a Human Embryo AGAIN
• Japan Is Designing an Invisible Train to Hit The Tracks by 2018
• A Mathematician Just Solved The Centuries-Old 'Sphere Problem' in Higher Dimensions
• Scientists Need Your Help Looking at Photos of Adorable Penguins. Seriously
• The North Pole Is Slowly Moving Towards London, And Scientists Have Finally Figured Out Why
• Scientists Just Published a List of The 50 Most Incorrectly Used Terms in Psychology
• The Kepler Spacecraft Has Unexpectedly Entered 'emergency Mode'
• WATCH: The Science Behind Why You Shouldn't Pop Your Pimples

April 9

• SpaceX Just Successfully Landed Its Rocket on a Barge in The Ocean

April 8

• Researchers Find That Ribose, The 'R' in RNA, Could Form Naturally in Space
• Curiosity Compels Us to Make Some Pretty Terrible Decisions, Study Finds
• Rosetta's Comet Has Been Changing Colour, Astronomers Say
• Scientists Have Figured Out How to Store Digital Images in DNA
• This Mosquito Egg Trap Made From Old Tyres Could Help Stop Zika
• This Tiny Satellite Could Be Your Own Personal Spacecraft From Just $1,000
• HIV Took Just 2 Weeks to Overcome Our Best Attempt to Edit It Out of Our Cells
• WATCH: Does Infinity Exist in The Real World?
• Researchers Have Invented a Programming Language to Hack Living Cells
• Science Finds Money Can Buy Happiness, if You Spend It Right
• Venezuela Is Switching to a 3-Day Weekend in a Desperate Bid to Save Electricity
• Astrophysicists Have Predicted What Planet Nine Would Be Made of
• Get Ready! Next Month Mercury Will Pass in Front of The Sun in a Rare Event
• Sorry Guys, Everything You Eat Is Made of Chemicals
• WATCH: How to Survive a Grenade Blast, According to Science

April 7

• This Engineer Just Found a Way to 3D-Print Objects Using Mars And Moon Dust
• Scientists Are Developing Graphene Solar Panels That Generate Energy When It Rains
• An 'Expansive' Posture Could Make You More Attractive to Others, Study Finds
• Scientists Are Preparing For a Solar Storm So Powerful, They're Calling It "The Big One"
• Rooftop Solar Could Provide Almost 40 Percent of US Electricity
• Physicists Have Finally Answered The Age-Old Question: Is Rain The Same Everywhere?
• Biologists Just Built a Piece of Software That Can Program Living Cells Like a Computer
• Scientists Still Don't Know Why We Get Freckles
• NASA's Asteroid-Hunter Has Discovered 72 Never-Before-Seen Near-Earth Objects
• Houston's Famous White Alligator Is "Retiring" From Zoo Work
• People Will Pick Up And Use Almost 50% of Random, Discarded USB Drives, Study Finds
• This New Software Allows Scientists to Control What Donald Trump And Vladimir Putin Say
• This New Pen Digitises Your Notebooks as You Write in Them
• A Huge Space Explosion Showered Earth With Radioactive Fallout
• A Baboon Has Survived Nearly 3 Years With a Pig's Heart, Suggesting Humans Could Too
• Samsung Just Patented Smart Contact Lenses With a Built-in Camera
• Science Says Moby Dick Might Have Been Able to Sink Ships 5 Times His Size

April 6

• WATCH: Water Bears Are Still Nature's Toughest Animals
• Scientists Have Found The Key to Productivity – Stay Extra Busy
• Scientists Have Figured Out How to Make Their Own Molecules From Scratch
• The Benefits of Being Bilingual Can Be Seen in 11-Month-Old Babies
• Scientists Find Evidence of 'Anti-Memories', And It Could Change Our Understanding of Neuroscience
• Scientists Need to Stop Swooping in to 'Rescue' Developing Countries From Outbreaks
• Psychologists Have Come Up With an Official Test to Measure Your Need For Drama
• Scientists Just Made The World's Smallest Diode Out of DNA
• Anyone Can Steal 3D-Printed Products by Just Listening to The Sounds The Printer Makes
• Scientists Are Expanding Their Search For Sentient Alien Life
• Touching Robots in Their 'Private Parts' Turns Humans on, Study Finds
• An Optical Illusion Tricked Astronomers Into Thinking There Was an Extra Nebula Here For Years
• WATCH: Is ADHD an Evolutionary Advantage?
• Scientists Have Found a Way to Induce 'Reverse Photosynthesis'

April 5

• A Crew of 'Mousetronauts' Is About to Head Into Space
• These 17 Photos Show What Chernobyl Looks Like Today
• New Stem Cell Treatment Using Fat Cells Could Repair Any Tissue in The Body
• Scotland Generated More Than Half of Its Electricity in 2015 From Renewables
• Scientists Have Just Discovered a New State of Matter
• A Fat, Weird 'Swellshark' Just Appeared in Mexico – And It's Not Supposed to Be This Pink
• The World's First 3D-Printed Drug Has Just Been Unveiled
• Archaeologists Just Found Human Remains in The Mysterious 'Jar Plains' of Laos

April 4

• This New Smart Scalpel Can Automatically Locate Cancerous Tumours in The Brain
• This Lab-Grown Skin Can Sprout New Hairs And Sweats
• Girl Mummy Reveals How Early American Lineages Were Wiped Out by European Migration
• Here's How to Make Super-Cool Magnetic Slime in Your Own Kitchen
• This Scientist Was Almost Jailed For Knowingly Publishing Fraudulent Data
• This Basin Is Our Best Chance of Finding Life on Mars, Say Astrobiologists
• Evidence Emerges That 45% of Common Sunscreen Ingredients Mess With Sperm Function
• You Just Travelled Thousands of Miles Through Space in The Time It Took to Read This
• There Are Now More Obese People Than Skinny People in The World

April 2

• Astronomers Just Found a Stable Planet in a Triple-Star System
• Scientists Have Figured Out How to Turn X-Rays Into Atomic Speed Guns

April 1

• The Discovery of a Mysterious, Ancient Site Could Rewrite The History of Vikings in America
• To Diagnose Autism, We Should Be Watching The Eyes
• How Much Data Does It Take to Make Your IPhone Heavier?
• This Romantic Chart Tells You Whether or Not You're Going to Get Divorced
• This New Wi-Fi Can Prevent Neighbours From Stealing Your Bandwidth
• This Retro Fighting Game Lets You Duke It Out as Your Favourite Scientists
• Ecstasy Could Be Sold as an FDA-Approved Drug Within 5 Years
• Mathematicians Reveal The Main Character in Game of Thrones Isn't Who You Think
• These Two Common Gene Variants Can Shave 3 Years Off Your Life
• Have Scientists Just Detected The First Real Signs of Dark Matter?
• After 70 Years, Physicists Have Finally Figured Out How a Fundamental Aspect of Nuclear Fission Works
• What if The FBI Tried to Crack an Android Phone? We Attacked One to Find Out
• Astronomers Have Discovered The First Star With an Almost Pure Oxygen Atmosphere
• Scientists Have Identified 11 Ways to Achieve a "Good Death"
• Physicists Have Designed a Laser Defence System to Cloak Earth From Bad-Guy Aliens
• Scientists Are Investigating Why People in This Tiny Italian Town Keep Living to 100