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July 31

• Scientists Have Built Synthetic Cells That React to External Cues, Just Like Real Ones
• Divers Uncover Ancient Temple Submerged Within The 'Egyptian Atlantis'
• Teenagers End Up in Intensive Care After Trying to Do '1,000-Squat Challenge'
• Bizarre Star Found Hurtling Out of Our Galaxy Centre Is Fastest of Its Kind Ever Seen
• Finally, We Have Some Good Nature News: Tiger Numbers in India Are Rebounding
• The Planetary Society Is About to Announce Something "Major" About The Solar Sail
• Mosquitoes Have Been Caught Carrying a Deadly Brain Virus in Florida

July 30

• Tesla Just Announced a Giant New Battery System to Store Renewable Energy
• Physicists Just Captured The First-Ever Footage of a Molecule's Spectacular Rotation
• Discovery of a Liver 'Stem Cell' Could One Day Make Liver Transplants Redundant
• A Tectonic Plate Under Oregon Is Being Slowly Ripped Apart
• Mysterious Radioactive Cloud That Blanketed Europe Traced to Russian Nuclear Facility
• An Elusive Particle That Acts as Its Own Antiparticle Has Just Been Imaged
• This Photo Is Black And White. Here's The Science That Makes Your Brain See Colour
• Over 200 Reindeer Have Been Found Dead in Svalbard, Because of Climate Change

July 29

• Finally, Science Has Weighed in on The Correct Way to Pat a Cat
• Unusually High Levels of Sex Hormones in The Womb Linked to Autism Once More
• Japan Approves Groundbreaking Experiment Bringing Human-Animal Hybrids to Term
• Physicists Just Recreated The Sun's Strange, Spiraling Magnetic Field in The Lab
• Strange, Deep-Sea Squid Caught Live on Camera For The First Time in Haunting Footage
• Discovery of 3 Exoplanets in a System Just 73 Light-Years Away Has Scientists Excited
• That Fake Hawaii Missile Threat Had a Bizarre Effect on People's Stress Levels
• We Just Used Up All of Earth's Resources For The Year, And It's Only July
• There Are So Many Grasshoppers in Las Vegas Right Now You Can See Them From Space
• A Woman's Birth Control Implant Moved From Her Arm to Her Lung Without Her Noticing
• Gaze in Wonder at The Incredible Footage of Hayabusa2 Touching Down on an Asteroid
• Mounting Evidence Says Trees – But Not Grass – Improve Our Mental Health. Here's Why

July 28

• A Dead Man Was Cremated in Arizona Without Anyone Realising He Was Radioactive

July 26

• Radiologists Warn of a Serious New Risk For People Getting MRIs: Magnetic Eyelashes
• No, Lyme Disease Isn't An 'Escaped' Military Bioweapon. A Health Expert Explains Why
• Here Are 6 Science-Backed Ways to Keep Buildings Cool Without Air Conditioning
• SpaceX Just Passed a Huge First Test With Its Prototype Mars Spaceship
• Scientists Find Weird, Zombie-Like Tree Being Kept Alive by a Forest 'Superorganism'
• A Huge Dying Star Just Offered an Explosive Glimpse Into The Fate of Our Own Sun
• We Need to Replace Moore's Law to Make Way For Quantum Computers, But What's Next?
• Think Climate Change Isn't Urgent? Look at What It's Already Done to Australia's Coast
• This Robotic Arm Inspired by Luke Skywalker Has Allowed an Amputee to Feel Again
• Think It's Hot in Europe? In These Places The Human Body's Close to Its Thermal Limit
• How You Move Your Phone Can Reveal Insights Into Your Personality, Creepy Study Finds
• Cuban 'Sonic Attack' Survivors Have Structural Changes in Their Brains, Study Finds
• Wildfires Ravaging The Arctic Right Now Are So Intense, You Can See Them From Space

July 25

• Incredible Photo Shows The ISS in Front of a Strangely Spotless Sun
• A Giant Asteroid Just Skimmed Past Earth, And We Barely Noticed in Time
• Solar 'Terminator' Events: One of The Sun's Biggest Mysteries Has Just Been Solved
• This 2,000 Year Old Grave Belongs to The Most Elaborately Buried Warrior Ever Found in England
• A Facebook Privacy Flaw Let Children on Messenger Kids Talk to Strangers
• In The Extreme Space of Our Galaxy's Centre, General Relativity Has Passed a Huge Test
• This Tiny Implant Is Currently Being Trialled For Long Term Protection Against HIV
• New Device That Channels Heat Into Light Could Boost Solar Cell Efficiency to 80%
• "Quantum Darwinism" Sounds Mind-Breaking, But This Theory Is Passing Tests
• Scientists Just Learned How Cannabis Makes Molecules 30x More Effective Than Aspirin
• The Explorer That Found The Titanic Is Starting a New Search For Amelia Earhart
• A Giant 'Heat Dome' Over Europe Is Smashing Temperature Records, And It's on The Move

July 24

• Conspiracy Theorists Are 'Hijacking' Climate Change Concepts on YouTube
• This Incredible Device Removes Almost 100% of Salt From Seawater Using Solar Power
• Mouse Experiment Links a Single Gene to Humans Having Regular Heart Attacks
• Astronomers Have Discovered a Peculiar Rocky Exoplanet With Three Glowing Red Suns
• When It Comes to Dog vs Cat Brains, Science Might Have Found a Clear Winner
• LightSail 2 Just Deployed Its Sails in Space, And It's a Glorious Moment For Science
• Astronomers Just Discovered Two Stars Orbiting Each Other Faster Than Any We've Seen
• Invisible Dance of Earth And Venus Forms a Stunning Pentagrammic Pattern in Space
• There May Be Way More Water on The Moon Than We Thought. It's Time to Go Back
• A Deadly, Drug-Resistant Fungus Could Be The First Infection Spread by Climate Change

July 23

• In Just 2 Years, Scientists Have Effectively Wiped Out Mosquitoes on 2 Chinese Islands
• Think Climate Change Is Normal? In 2,000 Years, Scientists Can't Find Anything Like It
• Millions of People Are Taking Aspirin For The Wrong Reasons, New Study Indicates
• Ethereal 'Pearls' in Fossil Clams Are Evidence of an Ancient Meteorite Hitting Earth
• While We Celebrated The Moon Landing, We Hit a More Critical Science Anniversary
• A 500-Year-Old Shipwreck Has Turned Up Perfectly Intact on Bottom of The Baltic Sea
• Scared of FaceApp Stealing Your Data? It's Not The Creepiest Part of Their Fine Print
• "Only You Know if We Did It": Iceland's Heartbreaking Glacier Memorial For The Future
• There's a Huge Void Near Our Galaxy. Its Mysterious Depths Have Just Been Measured

July 22

• A Swarm of Flying Ants So Big It Could Be Seen From Space Invaded Britain This Week
• A Team of Students Just Set a New Hyperloop Speed Record, And It's Seriously Fast
• India Just Successfully Launched an Ambitious Mission to The Moon
• We Just Learned Baby Birds Communicate With Each Other From Inside Unhatched Eggs
• Cigarette Butts Are a Huge Trash Issue, And Now We Know They're Harming Plant Growth
• Scientist Just Identified a Tiny New Species of Shark That Glows in The Dark
• These Incredible Real Tattoos Change Colour as Biomarkers Like Glucose Levels Shift
• LightSail 2 Just Gifted Us Stunning New Pictures of Our Little Blue Marble From Space
• Scientists Have Made Mice Hallucinate Without Drugs in a Trippy Light Experiment

July 20

• Physicists Have Reversed Time on The Smallest Scale by Using a Quantum Computer
• A 45-Day Storm Turned California Into a 300-Mile-Long Sea, And It Could Happen Again

July 19

• Another Chinese Space Station Just Fell to Earth – Watch It Hit Our Atmosphere
• The First Major Review of Menstrual Cups Has Just Given Its Verdict
• Here's Why Instagram Getting Rid of Likes Could Be a Big Deal For Our Mental Health
• SpaceX's Mars Rocket Prototype Set Off a Fireball, But Musk Says It's Still Working
• This Simple Explanation Puts Into Perspective Just How Far Away The Moon Really Is
• Misshapen Space Voids Can Help Us Accurately Measure The Expansion of The Universe
• A Man Went to The Optometrist With an Irritated Eye. The Doctor Found a Tick
• We Now Have The First-Ever Permanently Magnetic Liquid, And It's Absolutely Trippy
• These 6 Chemicals Found in Food And Makeup Aren't as Dangerous as You Think
• People Are Keeping Parasitic Leeches as Pets, And Letting Them Drink Their Blood
• Just Look at This Animation of How The First Lunar Outpost Is Going to Orbit The Moon
• More Than 28,000 Species Are Now Officially Threatened, But It's Just The Beginning
• Here's Why People Are Protesting Against That Huge Telescope at Mauna Kea

July 18

• A Bizarre Tardigrade Was Found With a Belly Full of Strange, Glittery Material
• Apparently, 7.4 Trillion Tons of Fake Snow Could Save The West Antarctic Ice Sheet
• The Way Our Brain Values Information Suggests It Can Be Addictive, Like Food or Drugs
• Curiosity Has Sent Back Images of The Perfect Spot to Search For Evidence of Life on Mars
• A New Paper Says That One Dark Matter Candidate Hasn't Killed Anyone
• Man Keeps Rock For Years Thinking It's Gold. Turns Out It's a Super Rare Meteorite
• The Russian Photo App That Makes You Look Old Is Probably Keeping Your Data
• Good News, Space Agencies Say That Scary Asteroid Is Not Coming to Kill Us All
• Ebola Outbreak in Congo Has Just Been Declared an "Emergency of International Concern"
• Study Shows The Effect Petting Your Dog or Cat Has on Stress Levels

July 17

• Egypt Is Opening Up Its Ancient 'Bent' Pyramid And Letting People Inside Its Chambers
• 'Second-Hand Drinking' Is The Public Health Problem You've Probably Never Heard of
• Grimes' Bizarre Eye Surgery For Blocking Out Blue Light Is Actually a Thing, Sort of
• Astronomers Found 3 'Zombie' Stars That Came Back to Life After Supernova
• Elon Musk Wants to Put Slightly Creepy Implants Into People's Brains Next Year
• A Man Went Blind in One Eye After Years of Showering With Contact Lenses in
• Quantum Scientists Have Built The First Silicon Two-Qubit Gate Between Atom Qubits
• Seeing Earth From Space Changes Astronauts' Minds Forever. Here's Why
• Parts of The Marshall Islands Are Now More Radioactive Than Chernobyl, Study Finds
• A "Game-Changing" 10,000-Year-Old Neolithic City Has Been Unearthed Near Jerusalem
• The 'Ghosts' of 2 Unknown Extinct Human Species Have Been Found in Modern DNA
• How Fast Is The Universe Expanding? The Hubble Constant Just Took Another Blow

July 16

• We Might Finally Know What Caused The Dramatic SpaceX Explosion Earlier This Year
• There's Another Thing Killing The Coral Reefs, And We Can Actually Fix This Problem
• Scotland Is Now Generating So Much Wind Energy, It Could Power Two Scotlands
• Physicists Just Discovered The First Elusive Candidate For a 3D Quantum Spin Liquid
• That Freaky Discovery of Galaxies With No Dark Matter Seems to Be Debunked
• New Genetic Links Reveal Anorexia Could Be Much More Than a Psychiatric Condition
• We Will Never Get Tired of This Video of Astronauts Falling Over on The Moon
• Pig Fat May Have Played Surprising Role in The Creation of Stonehenge, Study Suggests
• India's Highly Exciting Moon Mission Has Hit a Snag, But All Is Not Lost
• A Mesmerising Jellyfish as Big as a Human Has Been Spotted Off The Coast of The UK
• The US Air Force Has A Warning For The 1.1 Million People Wanting to Storm Area 51
• Britain Honors Computer Scientist Alan Turing As The Face of Their New Bank Note

July 15

• Life Has Been Found Thriving in Ancient Seawater Trapped Below Alaska's Permafrost
• Climate Deniers Are Spreading a Totally Unscientific "Paper" With No Basis in Reality
• Cosmic Ray Particle Scans Reveal Details of a Mysterious Underground Vault in Russia
• For The First Time, Astronomers Detect a Moon-Forming Ring Around a Distant Exoplanet
• This Eerie Material Could Be Key to 'Terraforming' Pockets of Mars
• NASA Has Announced The First Fruit They'll Grow on The ISS, And It's Hot
• We Have The First-Ever Images of Molecules Changing Their Charge State
• Scientists Are Genetically Engineering Plants to Store Carbon Deeper in The Earth

July 13

• Scientists Just Unveiled The First-Ever Photo of Quantum Entanglement
• Scientists Think They Found Missing Evidence That Explains How Life Started on Earth
• Lyme Disease Isn't The Only Tick Borne Illness You Need to Worry About

July 12

• Elon Musk Says SpaceX's About to Launch And 'Hover' a Mars Rocket Prototype
• There's One 'Massively Important' Thing You Can Do About Climate Change Right Now
• The Hubble Telescope Might Have Found The Weirdest Black Hole to Date
• Incredible Animation Reveals How We Found 4,000 Planets Beyond Our Solar System

July 11

• Japan Just Landed a Spacecraft on an Asteroid, And The Photos Are Nuts
• Scientists Might Have Found The Ideal Way to Get Your Toddler to Do What You Want
• A Sunken Nuclear Submarine Is Leaking Radioactive Material Into The Atlantic Ocean
• The Incredible Dust Storms on Mars Are Back And The Images Are a Sight to Behold
• Australian Researchers Have Just Released The World's First AI-Developed Vaccine
• Here's The Safest Hideout in a Zombie Apocalypse, According to Statistics
• Researchers Just Showed Bacteria Can Produce Wonder-Material Graphene
• These Tiny, Weird Worms Make One of The Loudest Sounds Ever Recorded in The Ocean
• 1 in 5 Cities Is About to Have a Climate Unknown to Any Place on Earth
• Astronomers Just Detected 2 Supermassive Black Holes on a Course For Collision
• Here's Why It Would Have Been Impossible to Fake The Moon Landing Footage
• Scientists Capture Spectacularly Rare Footage of a Deep-Sea Fish Eating a Whole Shark
• This Weekend, India Is Launching Its First-Ever Moon Lander
• A New Study Just Revealed That Earth's Core Is Actually Leaking

July 10

• An Ancient Bird With an Insanely Long Toe Has Been Found Preserved in Amber
• Scientists Are Sharing Hilarious Titles of Real Studies, And They Will Make Your Day
• Paralysed by Choice? It Depends on What Kind of Decision-Maker You Are
• Mysterious Skull Found in Greece May Contain A Shocking Twist About Early Human Migration
• 100-Hour-Long MRI of Human Brain Produces Most Detailed 3D Images Yet
• How Our 'Destiny Mindset' Affects The Search For Love
• These 3 Tests Will Help Determine if a Person, Animal or Thing Is Really Conscious
• A Brilliant New Kind of Solar Tech Could Provide Electricity And Clean Water to Millions
• Satellite Pics Show The Demise of Eerie 'Earthquake Mountain' in The Arabian Sea
• Russian Scientist Says 5 Couples Have Agreed to Gene-Editing Babies to Avoid Deafness
• Scientists Are Trying to Make 'Ploonets' a Thing, And We Are Here For It
• 'Moon Trees' Might Just Be One of The Most Epic Apollo Legacies We've Heard of
• Striking NASA Maps Reveal How The California Earthquakes Altered The Planet's Surface
• This Is The Most Important Antarctic Glacier The World Needs to Watch Right Now

July 9

• Teenage Boys in The UK Will Now Be Vaccinated Against Cancer-Causing HPV
• Experts Warn There's a Huge Problem With How Mental Health Problems Are Diagnosed
• An Unexpected Discovery Just Changed The Ranking of Earth's Biggest Volcano
• Eerie Ice 'Spires' Harbor Life Forms in One of The Harshest Environments on Earth
• A Man, a Horse And a Dog Found in Extremely Rare Boat Burial Unearthed in Sweden
• Wild New Paper Claims Our Galaxy Could Have Formed Under Chameleon Theory
• Report: US Officials Are Actively Censoring Press Statements on Climate Change
• Exotic-Looking Bird Found in The UK Turns Out to Be Gull in a Predicament
• There's Something You Really Need to Know About IV Vitamin 'Shots'

July 8

• A Mysterious Universal Pattern in The Fossil Record Might Finally Be Explained
• Snowball The Dancing Cockatoo Invents His Own Moves Without Training, Study Shows
• Experts Are Proposing a New, Slightly Creepy Way of Burying Our Dead
• Here Are 7 Mildly Disturbing Facts You Wish Weren't True But Actually Are
• Neutron Star Smash-Up Just Provided a New Measure of a Fundamental Cosmic Feature
• German Scientists Pull Off Truly Autonomous Aircraft Landing in Stunning Video
• Highest-Energy Photons Ever Detected Have Been Traced to an Enigmatic Source
• If Humans Were Wiped Out, Which Species Would Dominate Our Planet?
• The Apollo Mission Had No Toilet. Here's How The Astronauts Went to The Bathroom
• Earth's Ancient Life Forms Are Awakening After 40,000 Years in Permafrost
• You Simply Must Watch This Weirdly Compelling TED Talk About Sloths

July 7

• Seismologists Have Already Recorded 3,000 Earthquakes in California Since July 4

July 6

• Videos Show The July 4 Earthquake Rippling Across North America
• A Second, Even Bigger Earthquake Has Hit California – And More Aftershocks Could Come
• If You Thought Quantum Mechanics Was Weird, You Need to Check Out Entangled Time

July 5

• Scientists Discover The Largest Seaweed Bloom Ever Found, And It's Still Growing
• You Must See These 29 Surreal Landscapes From Across Our Gorgeous Planet
• Scientists Have a New Idea About Mars' Methane Mystery And Its Implications For Life
• Mysterious Deep-Sea Shark Captured in Incredibly Rare Footage, And It's Breathtaking
• Physicists Find a New Way to Make Hybrid 'Particles' That Are Part-Matter, Part-Light
• Something Is Causing These Stunning And Rare Night-Shining Clouds to Move South
• Here Are Some of The Weird Things Animals Do During Eclipses
• Not All Cultures Use Toothbrushes. But How Effective Are Alternative Methods?
• NASA Telescopes Have Revealed The Atmosphere of a Strange Hybrid Exoplanet
• Eerie 'Xenomorph' Skulls Dating Back Thousands of Years Have Been Discovered in China
• Study Shows Tree Planting Can Actually Fight Climate Change, if We Start Today
• Psychiatrist Argues The 'Sonic Attacks' on Diplomats in Cuba Are Not Mass Hysteria

July 4

• A 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake With Sprawling Aftershocks Just Shook Part of California
• Scientists Have Finally Mapped The Entire Nervous System of a Model Organism
• An Incredibly Rare Type of Lava Lake Was Just Found Hidden in Sub-Antarctica
• This Is When You Should Work Out Each Day to Keep The Weight Off, Study Suggests
• Einstein's Cross Is Helping Measure The Spin of Distant Supermassive Black Holes
• Facebook Is Cracking Down on Bogus Medical 'Cures' With a Deceptively Simple Tactic
• Sorry, But Plants Really Don't Have Consciousness, According to This New Paper
• Last Month Just "Obliterated" Temperature Records as The Hottest June to Date
• A Giant Heat Dome Over Alaska Is Set to Threaten All-Time Temperature Records

July 3

• Here's What Happens in Your Brain When You're Creeped Out by Certain Robots
• There's a 'Desert' in The Middle of The Pacific, And We Finally Know What Lives There
• Heartbreaking Photo Shows a Bird Feeding Its Baby a Cigarette Butt
• Here's a Simple Guide to The Genius Chemistry Behind Firework Colours
• These Ridiculous Photos Prove Just How Skilled Geckos Are at Camouflage
• A Lab-Made Human 'embryo' Has Revealed a Truly Magical Step in Human Development
• Another Mysterious Space Signal Was Just Traced Back to Its Source
• Scientists Used CRISPR to Cure HIV in Mice. But Here's What You Need to Know
• You Must Watch These Insanely Cool Videos of Yesterday's Solar Eclipse From Space
• Officials Warn About 'Crypto', a Parasite That Can Live in a Pool For Days

July 2

• An Arctic Fox Has Been Tracked Walking 2,700 Miles From Norway All The Way to Canada
• Archaeologists at Tigris Uncover Grand Palace Ruins of a Mysterious Ancient Empire
• Mystery of Bizarre Salt Crystals in The Dead Sea Could Finally Be Solved
• Breathtaking Hubble Image Reveals Never-Before-Seen Detail of a Dying Star
• The World Already Has Enough Fossil Fuel Plants to Get Cooked, Study Says
• An Abandoned 'Ghost Base' Is Doing Science Deep in Antarctica Without Any Humans
• The World's Smallest MRI Machine Just Captured The Magnetic Field of a Single Atom
• What Happens When a Country Drowns?
• Freak Summer Hailstorm Dumped 5 Feet of Ice in Mexico And It Looks Unreal

July 1

• The Rules of Gravity Could Be Intrinsically Linked With Building Quantum Computers
• Turns Out We Might Need to Worry About Airplane Contrails – But Not For Those Reasons
• Astronomers Have Analysed Claims 'Oumuamua's an Alien Ship, And It's Not Looking Good
• Vegetarian 'Crocodiles' Evolved More Than Once in Earth's Ancient Waterways
• Some Black Holes Are So Old We Can't Explain Them. This Might Be Where They Came From
• Astronomers Found a Star That Dims So Erratically, They Have No Explanation For It
• Massive Wasp 'Super Nests' Are Appearing in Alabama, Leaving Pest Control Stumped
• NASA Probe Captures Insanely Gorgeous And Moody New Photos of Jupiter
• Here's Why Your PMS Cravings Are Totally Okay, According to Science