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February 28

• We Just Got The First Geological Evidence of a Planet-Wide Groundwater System on Mars
• A Rover Has Found Strange Bacteria in One of Earth's Most Alien Places
• There's Even More Evidence Planet Nine Is Out There. Here's Where It Might Be Hiding
• A Wildly Popular Video Game Is Adding Anti-Vaxxers in The Next Deadly Plague
• This Crazy Optical Effect Turns Plain Water Into Dazzling Iridescent Colours
• These Twins Have Strange Semi-Identical DNA, in Only The Second Case Ever Discovered
• A 'Miracle' Stem Cell Cure Keeps Landing People in Hospital With Nasty Infections
• Scientists Warn a California Mega-Storm Could Do More Damage Than The Next Big Quake

February 27

• Scientists Have Beaten Elon Musk to a Fake News Solution, And It's Gaining Traction
• It's Official: Scientists Can Now Make The Cannabis Psychoactive Without The Plant
• A Huge Amount of Children Worldwide Are Dying From Cancer For a Bitterly Sad Reason
• A Failed Space Probe Meant For Venus Might Soon Come Crashing Down to Earth
• Antibiotics in Childhood Have Been Linked to an Increased Risk of Mental Illness
• Artist's Life-Like Sculpture of Roman Emperor Nero Shows a Neckbearded Jerkface
• There's a Troubling Link Between Believing Conspiracy Theories And Petty Crime
• A Dead Man Was Cremated in Arizona, But Nobody Knew He Was Radioactive
• Astronomers Have Scanned The Weird 'Megastructure' Star For Signs of Alien Lasers
• Scientists Have Found an Efficient Way to Turn Carbon Dioxide Back Into Coal
• A Man's Blood Turned So Thick And White, It Almost Killed Him

February 26

• It's Official: Human-Caused Climate Change Has Now Reached 'Gold Standard'
• Here's The Important Scientific Difference Between Keto And The Whole30 Diet
• People Say a Weird Aspect of Nokia's New Smartphone Is Triggering Their Trypophobia
• At High Enough CO2 Levels, Clouds Will Start to Physically Break Apart
• This Is Fine: The UK Just Recorded Its Hottest Winter Day Since Records Began
• NASA Astrobiologists Have Recreated The Deep-Sea Origins of Life in The Lab
• Fatal Crash And Fire Killed a Tesla Driver After Door Handles Allegedly Didn't Work
• New Evidence Suggests CRISPR Babies Scientist May Not Have Acted Alone
• All Publicly Funded Research Could Soon Be Free For All of Us Taxpayers to Read
• Facebook Moderators See Such Awful Content They're Experiencing PTSD-Like Symptoms

February 25

• We Just Got an Insane Photo From Japan's Spacecraft After Sampling an Asteroid
• A Dead Whale Has Been Found on The Edge of The Amazon Jungle
• US Poison Control Is Being Inundated With Calls About an Opioid-Like Herb
• Something Strange Happens to Our Brains And Bodies When We Sleep in Shifts
• If Your Cat's Neurotic, Scientists Say It's Probably Just Mirroring You
• These Ghoulish Icefish Have Antifreeze in Their Veins, And Now We Know How That Works
• Stunning Images Show Evidence That Vast Rivers Once Flowed Across Mars
• Here's What We've Learned From That Missile Attack in Hawaii That Never Happened
• YouTube Is Taking a Huge Step Against 'Dangerous' Anti-Vax Videos
• Astronomers Just Detected The Most Distant Solar System Object Ever Seen
• White House Is Forming a Panel to 'Reassess' The Government's Climate Change Consensus

February 24

• We Just Got The Most Detailed Image of The Farthest Object Ever Explored by Humans
• NASA's Curiosity Rover Entered 'Safe Mode' Last Week, And We're Still Not Sure Why
• An Archaeologist Says He's Figured Out The Secret of The Pyramids' Peculiar Alignment

February 23

• Finally, We Know What Killed Sea Life in The Deadliest Mass Extinction in History
• Scientists Have Witnessed a Single-Celled Algae Evolve Into a Multicellular Organism

February 22

• Virgin Galactic Just Successfully Launched Its First Passenger Past The Edge of Space
• 14-Year-Old Kid Has Reportedly Become The Youngest Person to Achieve Nuclear Fusion
• NASA Is Launching a Submarine to Hunt For Life in The Mysterious Depths of The Sea
• Antarctica Is About to Unleash an Iceberg Twice The Size of New York City
• How to Be The Most Effective Advocate For Vaccination You Can Be
• Forest Fires in Indonesia a Decade Ago May Have Stunted The Growth of Children Today
• For The First Time, Bacteria Seen Entering Strange 'Zombie' Mode to Survive Starvation
• This New AI Draws Grotesquely Warped Cats And We Can't Stop Looking
• The World's Insects Are Vanishing – What Does That Really Mean For Humans?
• Turns Out The Fearsome T. Rex Evolved From a Ridiculously Tiny Ancestor
• This Waterfall Sometimes Glows Like Lava And It Looks Absolutely Incredible
• Don't Have Time to Exercise? Here's a Simple Trick Anyone Can Squeeze in
• We Have a New Development in The Mysterious Case of The Desert 'Fairy Circles'
• Scientists Have Just Thrown a Massive Spanner Into The Story of Dinosaur Extinction
• The Only Mammal Native to Great Barrier Reef Has Gone Extinct, And We Know The Culprit
• For The First Time, Scientists Have Made Synthetic DNA With 4 Additional Letters

February 21

• Leprosy Is Still a Health Problem to This Day, Even Though It's Been 'Cured'
• Bill Gates Is Investing in Diet Research That Could Fix Our Gut Microbiomes And Obesity
• A Rare Giant Tortoise Has Been Found in Galapagos For The First Time Since 1906
• The World Just Got Closer to a Controversial Mosquito 'Wipe Out' Experiment
• Scientists Just Mapped The Great White Shark's Genome in Search For Healing Powers
• Earth's Atmosphere Is Bigger Than We Thought – It Actually Goes Past The Moon
• Physicists Are Rethinking a Fundamental Quantum Law to Help Us Understand Reality
• This Humongous Bee Species Was 'Lost' For Decades, Beats Us How They Missed It
• Chilling New Research Shows How Dire a Smallpox Bioterror Attack Could Actually Get
• Scientists Put Horses in Costumes to Find Out Why Zebras Are Stripy
• Carbon Emissions Are Now 10x Higher Than When The Arctic Had Crocodiles And Palm Trees
• Physicists Have Finally Solved a Fundamental Mystery Concerning The Insides of Atoms

February 20

• Elon Musk's 'Bleeding' Rocket Could Be Under Serious Threat From Bird Poop
• Scientists Have Proven That The 'Disputed' Female Viking Warrior Really Did Exist
• Insanely Powerful Jet Stream Boosts an Airliner to Top Speed of Over 800 Mph
• MIT Scientists Are Making Flexible Superhero Body Armor Inspired By… Lobsters
• This New Optical Device Could One Day Detect Plant Life on Distant Alien Worlds
• These Two Industries Literally Kill More People Than They Employ
• Astronomers Have Discovered an Incredibly Small Object Orbiting Neptune
• We Can Blame YouTube And Ourselves For The Rise in Flat-Earthers, Says Study
• Scientists Have Pinpointed The Mysterious Origins of Stonehenge's Epic Bluestones
• Astronomers Just Found 300,000 Hidden Galaxies in Just a Tiny Patch of Sky

February 19

• Cervical Cancer Could Be Wiped Out in Most Countries by The End of The Century
• The FDA Is Actually Warning Against The Use of Young People's Blood to Prevent Aging
• Here's Why You Don't Want to Miss Tonight's 'Super Snow Moon'
• Somebody Left Buckets of Radioactive Uranium Ore in a Popular Grand Canyon Attraction
• Exciting Study Shows Some Immune Cells Can Fight Every Known Flu Virus
• There's a Dangerous, Common Form of Depression People Don't Talk About Enough
• Scientists Developed an AI So Advanced They Say It's Too Dangerous to Release
• Wolves in Germany Are Making a Comeback, And The Military Is Weirdly Helping
• Disturbingly Black Snow Has Blanketed Several Towns in Siberia
• Astronomers Have Detected a Previously Unnoticed 'River of Stars' Flowing Past Earth
• The Latest Reported Measles Outbreak Could Basically Be Blamed on Andrew Wakefield

February 18

• We May Have Been Wrong About Why Grapes Make Plasma in The Microwave
• Will Eating Nuts Make You Gain Weight?
• Genius Material Kills 99.9% of Bacteria in Drinking Water Using Nothing But Sunlight
• New AI Generates Freakishly Realistic People Who Don't Actually Exist
• We Finally Have Evidence on Whether Microdosing LSD Can Help With Your Work
• Neuroscientists Say They've Found an Entirely New Form of Neural Communication
• This Trail Runner Fought an Attacking Mountain Lion With His Bare Hands. He Survived
• This Simple Optical Illusion Could Actually Cause a Delay in Your Brain
• This Spider Has Been Dead For 110 Million Years, But Its Eyes Still Shine in The Dark
• How Many Push-Ups You Can Do Could Predict Your Risk of Heart Disease
• This Footprint on Gibraltar Could Have Been Made by One of The Last Neanderthals

February 17

• Don't Be Fooled – Your Voice Assistant Isn't Really Working For You
• Here's a Simple Thing We Can Do to Cancel Out Years of CO2 Emissions
• Experimental Anti-Aging Treatment That Kills Old Cells Has Passed First Human Trial
• An Asteroid Will Block Our Brightest Star on Monday, And Astronomers Need Your Help
• The Real Reason Anti-Vax Beliefs Spread So Fast Online Isn't About Facts
• Elon Musk Says SpaceX Is Developing a Complex 'Bleeding' Heavy-Metal Rocket Ship

February 16

• China Is Reportedly Building a Solar Power Station in Space
• Psychologist Explains a Common Reason Relationships Fail That No One Likes to Discuss
• The Great Barrier Reef Was Just Hit By A Flood of Polluted Water Visible From Space

February 15

• NASA Just Announced More Strange Results From Its Ambitious 'Twin Study'
• Here's What Happened When an Alaskan City Took Fluoride Out of Their Drinking Water
• The Creature That Killed Off The Giant Megalodon Might Still Live in Our Oceans Today
• Scientists Just Made It Possible to Predict The Weather Further Ahead Than Ever Before
• This Politician Says Porn Is a "Public Health Crisis". Uh, Here's The Science
• Researchers Made an AI Whose Performance Increases if They Let It Sleep And Dream
• Our Oceans Are Full of Nurdles, And They're Not as Cute as They Sound
• What Are Gravitational Waves?
• Faulty Cell Cleanup in The Brain Could Contribute to Alzheimer's, Study Shows
• Astronomers Detect a Stellar Flare 10 Billion Times Brighter Than Ones From Our Sun
• What Is Schizophrenia?
• How Do Quantum Computers Work?
• People Keep Finding Human Feet on The Shores of This Peaceful Canadian Province
• Huge Earthquake in Bolivia Has Revealed Vast Mountain Ranges Below Earth's Surface
• Turns Out We Were Wrong About When Our Galaxy Will Collide With Andromeda

February 14

• Teenage Marijuana Use Has Been Linked to Adult Depression in a Major New Review
• Pregnant Women Are Being Targeted by Antivax Ads Online During a Measles Outbreak
• Deadly Disease Caused by Raw Milk Has Already Put 19 US States on High Alert
• Hidden Passengers on Insects Could Give Us The New Antibiotics We Desperately Need
• One of The Most Remote Parts of The Ocean Has an Origin We've Never Seen Before
• This Newly Discovered African Tarantula Has a Rude-Looking Horn on Its Back
• 2-Year Universal Basic Income Trial Shows One of The Most Common Worries Is Unfounded
• New Map of Dark Matter Spanning 10 Million Galaxies Hints at a Flaw in Our Physics
• We Just Got Evidence That Mars Could Have Volcanic Activity
• Early Tests Show a New Technique Could Turn 25% of Our Plastic Waste Into Fuel
• Russia Is Preparing to Disconnect The Entire Country From The Internet
• You Must See This Incredibly Rare Black Leopard Caught on Camera in Kenya
• This Bizarre Australian Slug Has Such Sticky Slime, It Can 'Superglue' Its Enemies
• There's a Weird Similarity Between Chimp Communication And Human Language

February 13

• The Female Body Has a Surprisingly Sophisticated Way to Block Weak Sperm
• Facebook Is Scrambling to Stop Anti-Vaxxer Conspiracies, But It's Not Working
• NASA Finally Lets Go of Its Opportunity Rover After 15 Years on Mars
• There's Another Massive Impact Crater Lurking Under Greenland's Ice
• Don't Miss This Newly Discovered, Bright Green Comet Streaking Past Earth This Week
• Some Foods Really Are Linked With a Higher Rate of Death, Study Finds
• FDA Is Cracking Down on Suspicious Supplements. Here's What You Need to Know
• Startling Interactive Map Shows What Climate Change Will Do to Your City by 2080
• Finally, We Have Some Good News About Those Lakes in The Arctic
• Is a Vegan Diet Better Than Others For Heart Health, According to Science?

February 12

• Earth's Magnetic Field Does Something Weird When Plasma Smashes Into It
• Ex-NASA Astronaut Is Running For US Senate to Champion "Science And Data"
• Harrison Ford Urges World to Stop Giving Power to Science Haters And Deniers
• All of Europe's Mysterious, Massive Stone Structures May Have One Origin Source
• These 7 Rules Could Be The Universal Moral Code Shared by Every Culture, Study Finds
• These 2.1 Billion-Year-Old Slimy Things Could Be Earth's Earliest Moving Organisms
• The World's Oldest Known Bird Is Almost 70, But Don't Let That Stop Her

February 11

• Remember Mars One? Yeah, So, It's Gone Bankrupt
• Mass Invasion of Starving Polar Bears Is Terrorising This Island Town
• This Simple Advance in Medicine Has Already Saved Nearly Half a Million Lives
• A New Mass Extinction Has Started, And Its First Victims Are Disappearing Fast
• Artificial Intelligence Has Found an Unknown 'Ghost' Ancestor in The Human Genome
• European Contact Killed So Many Indigenous Americans It Changed The Climate, Says Study
• This New 'Trojan Horse' Drug Successfully Treated 6 Types of Cancer Tumor
• This Newly Discovered Bug May Have Been Around Since The Last Ice Age
• That Viral 'Boiling Water Challenge' Is Landing People in Hospital, Just Stop, Please
• Scientists Have Grown Primate Brains-in-a-Dish on an Unprecedented Scale
• Teens With Antivax Parents Are Turning to Reddit For Advice on Getting Vaccinated

February 10

• These Crows Are So Smart, They Plan 3 Steps Ahead When Using Tools
• "We've Never Seen Something Like This Orbiting The Sun": Ultima Thule Is Still Weird

February 9

• Watch a Single Cell Become an Entire Organism in 6 Achingly Beautiful Minutes

February 8

• UK Startup Reveals Impressive Images of The World's Largest 3D Printed Rocket Engine
• A Cat Has Been Revived After Being Frozen, Covered in Ice
• The Pill Could Be Subtly Affecting Women's Social Cognition, Study Claims
• The 10,000 Steps a Day Goal Was Based on Marketing, Not Evidence. But Does It Work?
• Researchers Have Found a Section of The Brain That Seems to Be 'Immune' to Alzheimer's
• This Study on Nearly Half a Million People Has Bad News For The Keto Diet
• A Rare Asteroid Has Been Spotted Orbiting The Sun Closer Than Venus
• Babies Who Get Cuddled More Seem to Have Their Genetics Changed For Years Afterwards
• Vaccinations Soar by 500% in US County Where Measles Is Out of Control
• Breast Implants Have Been Linked to a Rare Cancer in Even More Cases
• To Start Life at The Nearest Star System, This Is How Big a Spaceship We Would Need
• Earth Is 'Missing' at Least 20 Ft of Sea Level Rise. Antarctica Could Be The Time Bomb
• Scientists Think They've Found a Reason So Many People Believe in Psychic Powers
• What Are Negative Ions And Why Are There So Many Studies on Their 'Health Benefits'?
• This Zoo Is Offering to Turn Your Ex Into The Cockroach They Are And 'Kill' Them, Too

February 7

• Here's Why Rosalind Franklin Is The Perfect Name For ESA's New Mars Rover
• These Are The Fingers of a Professional Yo-Yo Performer After Years of Repetitive Use
• Chinese Researchers May Have Used Organs Stolen From Prisoners, Study Claims
• We Are Eating The Planet's Last 'Megafauna' to Extinction
• Astronomers Detect Organic Molecules Around a Newborn Star 1,300 Light-Years Away
• Breathtaking Photo Shows The Far Side of The Moon And Earth in a Single Shot
• Watch a Swarm of Maggots Devour an Entire Pizza in Just 2 Hours, For Science
• NASA's Lunar Satellite Has Spotted China's Lander on The Far Side of The Moon
• This Incredible Bird Is Half Male, Half Female And Totally Real
• Yet Another Study Shows Why We Really Need to Stop Blaming Mental Illness For Gun Violence
• Is This Your USB Stick Found Buried in Seal Poop? Scientists Want to Know
• Neuroscientists Say They've Identified The Unique Brain Patterns of Consciousness
• Physicists Are Recreating 'Black Holes' in The Lab With Surprising Simplicity
• This Is The Last Full View The Kepler Spacecraft Saw Before It Shut Down Forever
• The 2016 US Election Had a Profound Impact on Women's Contraceptive Choices

February 6

• Congratulations, You Just Survived The 5 Hottest Years on Record
• Bees Can Use Abstract Symbols to Do Unexpectedly Sophisticated Math
• Harvard Study Links Marijuana to Sperm Count in an Unexpected Way
• Scientists Have Made Mice Partially Regrow Amputated Toes by Adding Just 2 Proteins
• Diseases From The 1800s Are Making a Disturbing Comeback in The UK
• 5 Times People Thought a Science Idea Was Crackpot, And Were Proven Spectacularly Wrong
• Elon Musk Has Shared Jaw-Dropping Images of The Latest 'Starship' Tests
• We Just Got New Sketches of Russia's 'Secret' Uncrewed Spacecraft
• Meet The Latest Diet Fad, It's Called Peganism
• Indonesia's Deadly 2018 Earthquake Appears to Have Been a Rare 'Supershear' Event
• Hidden in This Glorious Image Is a Major Discovery About Star Formation
• This Eerie Marshmallow Carcass Keeps Coming Back to Haunt Hawaii
• Earth's Magnetic North Pole Has Shifted So Much We've Had to Update GPS

February 5

• Spiritual Beliefs Are Linked to a 'Protective' Effect Against Depression in The Brain
• Here's The Simple Way to Lose Weight And Keep It Off, According to Science
• Scientists Have Found Hidden Evidence of Ancient Ice Streams in The African Desert
• Scientists Are Investigating Building a Space Station Inside a Giant Asteroid
• Disturbing Video Footage Reveals How Tasers Can Actually Set a Person on Fire
• Scientists Just Defied Chemistry Basics by Flipping 'Left-Handed' Molecules With Light
• What Are Black Holes?
• What Is Superconductivity?
• What Is Diabetes?
• This Is The Real Problem With Constantly Posting About Your Kids Online
• Muddy Potato Found in Chip Factory Turns Out to Be Possibly Deadly WWI Hand Grenade
• Cancer Growth Could Originate From a Single Cell – Now It's Time to Target It
• Badass Dinosaur With a 'Mohawk' of Spikes Uncovered in Patagonia
• Female Brains Appear to Be More Youthful Than Male Ones, Study Suggests
• Australians Warned About Crocs And Snakes in 'Unexpected Areas' After Heavy Floods

February 4

• Climate Change Will Soon Change The Colour of Our Oceans. Here's How
• 'Magic Mushrooms' May Soon Be Decriminalised in Parts of The US
• 'First' Fossil Feather Might Have Been Linked to The Wrong Species This Whole Time
• Planes Don't Make 'Chemtrails', But They Can Create Something Else in Their Wake
• We Just Discovered The Milky Way Isn't Actually a Flat Disc After All
• Almost 40% of American Kids Are Making This Simple Toothpaste Mistake, CDC Says
• A Harvard Professor Says We Waste 5-Minute Chances to Be Happier Every Single Day
• For The First Time, Scientists Turn Human Stem Cells Into Insulin-Producing Cells
• 4 Years Ago, This Stunning Island Didn't Exist. Now, It's Teeming With Life
• This Genetic Testing Company Just Gave FBI Access to Its DNA Data
• Here's How Extreme Cold Can Create Freaky Thundersnow And 'Smoking' Oceans
• Incredibly Rare Footage Shows a Newborn Humpback Whale Less Than 20 Minutes After Birth

February 3

• Scientists Have Built a Real Star Trek 'Replicator' That Builds Objects With Light
• Isolation Has Profound Effects on The Human Body And Brain. Here's What Happens
• Are Big Dogs Smarter Than Small Ones? Scientists Finally Have an Answer
• 9 Phenomena That Science Still Can't Explain

February 2

• NASA Astronomer Has a Potential Explanation For Strange Interstellar Object Oumuamua
• We Might Have Been Wrong About Ocean Circulation, And It Will Have Big Impacts

February 1

• Seals Took Over a California Beach During The Government Shutdown, And Won't Leave
• Quitting Facebook Has an Unexpected Positive Side Effect, Study Suggests
• NASA Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought
• For The First Time Ever, Scientists Have Produced Fractal Light From Lasers
• 5 Heartbreaking Maps Reveal How Shockingly Little Wilderness Remains on Earth
• Astronomers Have Accidentally Discovered a Tiny Galaxy Right in Our Backyard
• Researchers Have Found a Way to Disagree Productively About Politics And Religion
• 'It Is Colder Than Mars' Right Now, But That's Not as Big of a Deal as You Think
• There's a Scientific Reason You Always Overcommit to Future Plans
• After 6.5 Years on Mars, Scientists Have Discovered a New Way to Use Curiosity
• It's So Cold, Chicago Appears to Be Experiencing 'Frost Quakes'