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February 28

• New Findings Show How Our Brains 'Align' When We Communicate
• Supermassive Black Holes Could Be Killing Way More Stars Than We Realised
• Scientists Have Found a Way to Rapidly Thaw Cryopreserved Tissue Without Damage
• WATCH: Here's the Real Meaning of E = MC2
• Humans Are Being Taught to Echolocate Like Dolphins – And It's Surprisingly Easy
• Physicists Just Found The First Evidence That Superconductivity Can Be Left- or Right-Handed
• The 12 Deadliest Drug-Resistant Bacteria Have Officially Been Ranked
• A Giant Neuron Has Been Found Wrapped Around The Entire Circumference of The Brain
• This Strange Physical Phenomenon Could Help Us Predict Where Massive Earthquakes Strike
• Discovery of a Huge, Mysterious Jade Pendant Could Rewrite Maya History
• A Science Comedy Show Hits Australia This Month, And We All Need Some Intelligent Laughter

February 27

• SpaceX Just Announced it's Sending Two 'Private Citizens' to the Moon
• Chicago Is 1 Day Away From Breaking a Weather Streak That's Lasted 146 Years
• Scientists Have Invented a Hydrogel Fabric That's 5 Times Stronger Than Steel
• Scientists Are Making Personalised Eczema Treatments From People's Own Microbes

• This 'Cyborg Rose' Grows Functioning Electronic Circulatory Inside its Stem and Leaves
• Scientists Warn It's The Killer Winds to Watch Out For When Apocalyptic Asteroids Strike
• Physicists Have Detected a Friction-Like Force in a Perfect Vacuum
• Here's What You Need to Know About The Massive 'Cloudbleed' Data Breach
• Scientists Have Discovered a Flaw in How We Think Graphite Turns Into Diamonds
• This College Student Turned His Honda Civic Into a Self-Driving Car For $700
• The True Story of a Man Who Survived Without Any Food For 382 Days

February 25

• Investigation Reveals That Wikipedia's Bots Are in a Silent, Never-Ending War With Each Other
• It's Officially Dark Times When It Comes to Naming New Discoveries on Pluto And Its Moons
• A 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse Is Happening This Sunday – Here's How to Watch
• Here's What 4 Million Solar Panels in China Look Like From Space

February 24

• A Scientist Explains: What Is VX Nerve Agent And How Does It Work?
• A Fasting Diet Could Reverse Diabetes And Repair The Pancreas, Says New Research
• This Smart AI Can Now Steal Code to Write Its Own Programs
• This Unnerving Video Explains Why We're Not Even Close to Dealing With Robot Rights
• The Blood of Komodo Dragons Could Help Us to Slay Antibiotic Resistance
• Neanderthal DNA Determines Our Health And Appearance Today Way More Than We Thought
• This Creepy Map Shows Just How Early Spring Is Coming to Your City This Year
• These Are The 6 Biggest Meteorites to Ever to Be Found on Earth
• Locals Are Freaking Out Over The Weird-as-Hell Carcasses Washing Up in The Philippines

February 23

• This Is What Earth's Magnetic Field Sounds Like
• Study Shows People Are More Likely to Believe Fake News When They Feel Excluded
• Average Life Expectancy Is Expected to Pass 90 For The First Time Ever
• A Physicist Explained Why The Large Hadron Collider Disproves The Existence of Ghosts
• Rambling And Vague Speech Could Be an Early Sign of Mental Decline
• New DNA Evidence Just Gave Us Unprecedented Insight Into The Mysterious Chaco Civilisation
• Quartz Could Be The Solution to Why Our Magnetic Field Is So Old
• Here's 5 of The Most Explosive Non-Nuclear Chemicals Ever Made
• Want to Grow Your Brand? These Are The Skills You Need to Become a Digital Marketing Guru
• Gut Bacteria Could Be Affecting The Body's Response to a New Type of Cancer Treatment
• NASA Just Released Travel Posters For Our New Sister Solar System, And They're Cool as Hell

February 22

• The World's Only Metallic Hydrogen Sample Has Disappeared
• The 'Doomsday' Seed Vault Just Got a Bittersweet Delivery of 50,000 Seeds
• Creative People Have Better-Connected Brains, Scans Reveal
• Sea Snail Venom Could Provide a New, Long-Lasting Alternative to Opioid Painkillers
• Disney Just Nailed The Future With This New 'Wireless Charging Room'
• BREAKING: NASA Announces The Discovery of a Potentially Habitable 'Sister Solar System'
• WATCH: The Secret Physics That Makes Frog Tongues So Insanely Sticky
• This New Metamaterial Is The First to Reach The Theoretical Limits of Stiffness
• The First Signs of Obesity in Certain Arctic Groups Have Been Linked to Instant Noodles
• Every 200 Years, California Endures a Flood of Epic Proportions – And This Could Be It
• NASA's Announcing a Big Discovery "Beyond Our Solar System" Today
• Most People Would Give Lab-Grown Meat a Try, New Survey Reveals

February 21

• Watch The World's First Rideable Hoverbike in Flight
• Vitamin B Has Shown Signs of Treating Schizophrenia Symptoms
• Scientists Say Induced Hibernation Could Help Us Fight Cancer in The Future
• This Ancient Sea Creature Is So Messed Up, Scientists Can't Stop Arguing Over It
• Start Your Coding Journey With This Mega Python Bundle
• Dust From Martian Moons Could Be Leaving Ghostly Rings Around The Red Planet
• Rogue Cosmic Rays From Outer Space Are Causing Havoc With Our Smartphones
• No One Can Figure Out What's Behind a Mysterious Radiation Spike Across Europe
• We're One Step Closer to Pulling Nuclear Fuel Straight Out of the Ocean
• Giant 'Rivers in The Sky' Are Causing Widespread Chaos in California
• Humans Are Driving a New Burst of Evolution – Including Possibly Our Own

February 20

• Australian Scientists Have Designed a Filter That Removes Arsenic From Drinking Water
• The Culprit of an Unprecedented Bacterial Outbreak in 2005 Has Been Tracked Down
• Life Recovered Faster Than We Thought From Earth's Worst Mass Extinction
• NASA Scientists Have Proposed a New Definition of Planets, And Pluto Could Soon Be Back
• Scientists Just Found Evidence That Neurons Can Communicate in a Way We Never Anticipated
• You're a Completely Different Person at 14 And 77 Years Old, Personality Study Suggests
• New Evidence Links The Collapse of Aztec Society to a Deadly Salmonella Outbreak
• Space X Just Flew a Rocket Back to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
• Strange Life Has Been Found Trapped Inside These Giant Cave Crystals

February 19

• Here's What Happens Inside Your Body When You Flex Your Fingers
• The Results of This 50-Hour Face Transplant Are Incredible

February 18

• This Video Explains The Bizarre Reason Our Sun Is Slowing Down
• A Physicist Explains Why Humans Probably Didn't Pop Into Existence Last Tuesday
• NASA Spots Mysterious Spray of Organic Material on Our Biggest Asteroid

February 17

• Light-Based Computers Will Run at Least 20 Times Faster Than Your Laptop
• Archaeologists Just Made The "Find of a Lifetime" Buried Beneath Scotland
• An Incredible 'Firefall' Is Lighting Up Yosemite Right Now
• The United Arab Emirates Just Released Plans to Build a City on Mars
• NASA Is Planning to Send a Human Crew on The First Launch of Its Most Powerful Rocket Ever
• Master Amazon Web Services With This Bundle of Online Courses
• Oklahoma Just Hit Temperatures of 100 Fahrenheit in The Depths of Winter
• NASA's Picked a Winner For Their 'Space Poop' Disposal Competition
• A Massive 'Blob' of Abnormal Conditions in The Pacific Has Increased Ozone Levels
• Scientists Are About to Switch on a Telescope That Could Photograph a Black Hole's Event Horizon
• Harvard Scientists Say They Could Be Just 2 Years Away From Resurrecting Woolly Mammoth Genes
• Elon Musk Is Officially Out on Flying Cars
• Queens Has More Spoken Languages Than Anywhere on The Planet

February 16

• Bees Make a Ridiculously Cute "Whoop" Noise When They're Startled
• Oxygen Levels in The Ocean Are Dropping, And It's All Because of Us
• Help NASA Find The Mysterious Planet Nine From The Comfort of Your Couch
• India Just Set a New World Record By Launching 104 Satellites In 18 Minutes
• This Unsettling Experiment Shows How Liquefaction Occurs During an Earthquake
• To Tackle Health Myths in a Post-Truth World, We Need to Put Empathy First
• It's Time: Scientists Are Getting Really Close to a Malaria Vaccine
• New Evidence Suggests We Were Wrong About Where Our Bodies Get Their Microbes
• Investigations Into California's Dam Crisis Suggest Thousands More Could Be at Risk
• Churchill's Recently Discovered 'Aliens Essay' Shows Even He Struggled With The Fermi Paradox

February 15

• Earth Has a New Continent Called 'Zealandia', Study Reveals
• This Fossilised Pregnant Reptile Has Scientists Questioning The Evolution of Reproduction
• Elon Musk Says The Future of Humanity Depends on Us Merging With Machines
• The Number of Humans That Can Fit in The World's Biggest Buildings Is Mind-Blowing
• Scientists Have Announced a Plan to 'Refreeze' The Arctic – And It's Wild
• US Scientists Have Cautiously Backed Permanent Gene Editing in Humans
• 28 People Swam Across The Dead Sea to Prove a Point About The Environment
• Brand New Maths Could Finally Explain How Disturbances Propagate Through Space-Time
• Dubai Is Set to Launch The World's First Hover-Taxis Within Months
• Scientists Are Trying to Turn Spit Into an Alternative to Morphine

February 14

• Scientists Might Have Figured Out Why Earth's Super-Hot Core Stays Solid
• These Ancient Clay Jars Could Solve The Mystery of Earth's Magnetic Field
• Hallucinations Are Far More Common Than We've Been Led to Believe, Study Suggests
• "Superspreaders" Caused More Than 60% of Infections During The Ebola Epidemic
• Pay What You Want to Learn How to Master Photoshop And Web Design
• Massive Amounts of Melting Carbon Have Been Found Under The Western US
• Scientists Have Created a Long-Fabled Triangle-Shaped Molecule in The Lab
• Scientists Have Witnessed The Violent Beginnings of a Supernova For The First Time
• Schools in The US Are Beginning to Push Back Their Start Times
• This Infographic Shows The Extraordinary Ancient Genes That Live on in Modern Populations
• "Extraordinary" Levels of Pollution Have Been Found 10 km Deep in the Mariana Trench
• ISIS Has Flattened Two of Syria's Most Iconic Archaeological Monuments

February 13

• California's Dam Crisis Highlights The Deadly History of Hydroelectric Power
• NASA Plans to Send This Robot Lander to Look For Alien Life on Europa
• These Brazilian Red Berries Could Hold The Key to Fighting Deadly Superbugs
• This Battery Runs on Nothing But Dissolved CO2 And Air
• Scientists Are Using Ultra-Res Camera Drones to Survey Australia's 'Other' Great Reef
• Your Next Health Tracker Might Be Powered by Your Own Stomach Acid
• Emergency Evacuations Underway Amid Fears of "Immediate Failure" at America's Tallest Dam
• New Zealand Beach Closed Amid Fears of Hundreds of "Exploding Whales"

February 12

• 6 Ways to Decrease Your Risk of Alzheimer's Disease

February 11

• Cancer Genes Can Exist Outside Our Chromosomes
• Physicists Calculate Long-Lost Signals Emitted Fractions of a Second After The Big Bang
• Scientists Just Found One of The Most Promising Malaria Vaccine Targets to Date
• Look Up! A Bright Green Comet and Penumbral Eclipse Are Lighting up the Sky Right Now
• Surprise! LIGO Can Also Make Gravitational Waves

February 10

• NASA Has Developed Electronics to Withstand The Toxic Hellhole That Is Venus
• Brain Structure Might Explain Why Boys Are 5 Times More Likely to Develop Autism
• Hubble Just Saw a Star Rip Apart The 'Big Brother' of Halley's Comet
• The Success of Horses Suggests a Key Assumption About Evolution Could Be Wrong
• These Images of Eerie 'Blue Jets' Reveal Just How Creepy Being Alone in Space Is
• The World's First Pollinating Drone Could Help Us Survive The Bee-Pocalypse
• Science Shows How Harsh Parenting Can Make Kids Do Worse in School
• SpaceX Is About to Send a Lethal Superbug Into Orbit
• WATCH: Is There Water on The Moon?
• The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative Is Giving $3 Billion to Cure, Manage, or Prevent "All Disease"

February 9

• No, The NOAA Didn't Fake Climate Change Data
• Archaeologists Might Have Just Found Another Dead Sea Scroll Cave
• Why Earth Is Our Cosmic Prison, And How to Escape It
• Astronomers Just Found More Evidence of a New Type of Black Hole
• Humanity's First Nuke Has Revealed Strange Similarities to The Formation of Our Moon
• NASA Suggests Nothing Could Survive on Our Nearest Earth-Like Planet
• Does Hot Water Really Freeze Faster Than Cold Water?
• The First White Dwarf Pulsar in The Universe Has Been Found After Half a Century

February 8

• 6 Tech Courses You Can Take Online Right Now to Freshen Up Your Resume
• This Newly Discovered Gecko Instantly Skins Itself to Flee Predators
• This New Material Can Turn Sunlight, Heat, And Movement Into Electricity – All at Once
• Scientists Have Found The Largest Undersea Landslide on The Great Barrier Reef
• How Painful Are Periods Supposed to Be?
• Sorry, Einstein – Physicists Just Reinforced The Reality of Quantum Weirdness in The Universe
• Tree Rings Suggest an Unexpected Solar Event Occurred 7,000 Years Ago
• El Niño Has an Uncle That Could Send Global Warming Into Overdrive
• Dragonfly Wings Can Rip Apart Bacteria Without Antibiotics

February 7

• New Evidence Could Finally Explain The Amazon's Mysterious 'Stonehenge'
• Physicists Make The Case That Our Brains' Learning Is Controlled by Entropy
• WATCH: These Common Models of Atoms Are Actually Totally Wrong
• Scientists Finally Understand How Pitcher Plants Developed The Taste For Flesh
• Astronomers Have Spotted a Black Hole So Ravenous, It's Pushing The Limits of Physics
• This Mind-Boggling Map Explains How Everything in Mathematics Is Connected
• Elon Musk Has Started Digging a Giant Underground Tunnel in LA
• This Ancient Martian Volcano Erupted Non-Stop For 2 Billion Years
• Forget What You've Learned – Scientists Just Created a Stable Helium Compound
• This Condom-Free Male Birth Control Just Passed Its Toughest Test Yet

February 6

• WATCH: A Bright Green Meteor Just Streaked Above The US
• Scientists Have Figured Out How to Actually Stop an Interstellar Spacecraft
• Solar Storms Could Be Driving Hundreds of Whales to Strand Themselves in Global Die-Off Events
• The Days of Earth's 'Outer Space Treaty' Are Numbered, And Things Could Get Messy
• The Idea That Some People 'Don't Respond to Exercise' Might Just Be a Myth
• Newly Discovered 'Radiation Clouds' Could Pose Extra Risks to Frequent Flyers
• Here's How Parasites Could Be Influencing The Way You Think
• Scientists Have Figured Out How Our Brains Sharpen Our Memories While We Sleep
• WATCH: Sea Cliffs Just Collapsed in on This Hawaii's Ridiculous 'Lava Tube'

February 4

• Astronomers Spot a Strange, Supersonic Space Cloud Screeching Through Our Galaxy
• A Quantum Phase Transition Has Been Observed For The First Time
• Latest Radiation Readings From Inside The Fukushima Reactor Are Unexpectedly High
• Scientists Find Evidence That Aspirin And Ibuprofen Don't Actually Help Spinal Pain
• Study Suggests Working More Than 39 Hours a Week Is Bad For You

February 3

• Experts Have Come Up With 23 Guidelines to Avoid an AI Apocalypse
• Scientists Have Found a Crazy New Way to Print on Paper Using Light

February 2

• Nearby Earthquakes Are Opening Up Africa's 'Gateway to Hell' Volcano
• Fossilised Protein Has Been Discovered Inside a 195-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bone
• WATCH: What Does Your Snot Say About Your Health?
• An Expedition to Search For Antarctica's 'Lost Meteorites' Has Been Approved
• Researchers Are Debating Whether to Privatise Endangered Species
• This Website Lets Anyone Become a Modern-Day Indiana Jones – From Space
• This New Liquid Crystal Can Triple The Sharpness of Tv And Computer Screens
• Get Schooled in Everything From Big Data to AI With This Online Course
• Here's How Scientists Explain Peoples' Obsession With UFOs And 'Alien Abductions'
• New Results From CERN Could Fill One of The Biggest Gaps in The Standard Model of Physics
• NASA's Twin Study Has Found 8 Weird Effects of Long-Term Spaceflight on The Human Body
• Ancient Women Found in a Russian Cave Turn Out to Be Closely Related to The Modern Population
• The First Ever Blueprint For a Mind-Bendingly Massive Quantum Computer Has Been Released
• What's The Actual Difference Between a Hydrogen Bomb And an Atomic Bomb?

February 1

• Swearing Is Actually a Sign of More Intelligence – Not Less – Say Scientists
• Scientists Have a Plan to Replace Fossil Fuels With Nuclear Fusion by 2030
• NASA Has Found Some of The Biggest And Oldest Black Holes We've Ever Seen
• A New Liquid Metal Could Be The Key to Understanding Earth's Weird Magnetic Field
• In a Rare Group Killing, Chimpanzees Abused And Cannibalised Their Former Tyrant's Corpse
• Can't Sleep? A Weekend of Camping Could Reset Your Circadian Rhythm, Study Suggests
• This New Mind-Reading Technology Lets Locked-in Patients Communicate
• Early Results From NASA's Twin Study Are Actually Kinda Unnerving
• Artificial Intelligence Just Owned Some of The World's Best Poker Players
• Scientists Have Turned Cooking Oil Into a Material 200 Times Stronger Than Steel
• Researchers Just Found Evidence of an Ancient 'Lost Continent' Under Mauritius