Study finds how to predict which brains respond to placebo treatments
One sugar pill can take away your pain -- if you've got the brain for it.
The GLEAM team shows us how space would look if we could see radio waves
Hint: it would be spectacular.
New method developed to encode huge quantity of data in diamonds
Data is a girl's best friend.
Fossil Friday: the first dino brain (we’ve ever found)
We didn't even think it was possible to find one up to now.
Atom-by-atom chart of living fossil’s shell could hold the key to understanding past climate
These tiny beings could hold a huge store of data.
ISS crew just planted their third lettuce crop, hope to make it a permanent farm
Lettuce have a feast, then!
Europeans picked up a customized immune system by having sex with Neanderthals
"Is that a more pronounced inflammatory response or are you just happy to see me?"
The combined capacity of the renewable energy sector overtakes that of coal
No more black lung.
Some parasitic plants can steal genes then use them against their hosts
That's not very nice.
Here’s why there was no Twitter on Friday — it’s way scarier than you think
Hordes of zombie gadgets had something to do with it.
Study finds viewing selfies on social media can make you miserable or jolly — depending on how you see yourself
Seriously, why are selfies a thing?
Startup plans to fuel our cities by turning windows into power plants
Where there's light, SolarWindow can create power.
Iceland drilling project close to plugging into the Mid-Atlantic ridge
In a few months, Iceland will be drawing power directly from molten rock.
DeepMind can now learn how to use its memories, apply knowledge to new tasks
The AI developed by Alphabet, Google's parent company, just received a new and powerful update.
Hundreds of snow leopards are being killed every year, and that’s unacceptable
One of the most beautiful big cats is dying out -- because of us.
Astronomers may have discovered a new cosmic phenomena — and we don’t really know what it is
What we do know is that it blasts enormously powerful X-rays into the void.
Scientists used brain stimulation to shut off the self-control center
Just a little electricity can change how you make any choice.
For the last 18 years, robotic mussels have been watching over our oceans
They've collected staggering amounts of data.
Portable smartphone laboratory can detect cancer with 99% accuracy
This tiny thing can analyze 8 samples at once.
Finnish appliance grows crops from cells in under a week
This is a berry exciting device.
Study ranks 63 countries by empathy, Ecuador tops the list
How nice are your neighbours?
The UK government is being taken to court over air pollution…again
Canned air looking more and more like a brilliant idea.
Newly discovered Japanese plant doesn’t photosynthesize, pollinates itself
The most self-sufficient plant I know of.
Epinephrine pill might break the EpiPen scandal and give patients their first valid alternative
A simple solution to bypass all the red tape and get where it's needed -- patients.
Skin impression of one of the last dinosaurs found in Spain
Some 60 million years ago, one dinosaur laid down to rest -- creating something unique in the whole of Europe.
Startup designs cast that heals bones, lets you scratch
No more pens stuck in your arm's cast.
The 2016 Nobel Prize run-down
Gotta catch them all!
The 2016 Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Bob Dylan for poems on music
He said "it ain't me babe" -- but the committee proved him wrong.
Greek arts may have led to the creation of the Terracotta Army in ancient China
An army made to last forever.
Google asks Pixar, The Onion writers to make its helper more human-like
Can't wait to see what they come up with.
Ancient stone-carved Greek lease document found in Turkey
Nothing more binding than a document set in stone.
New paper finds WO virus has stolen the Black Widow’s venom gene
One of the most successful bacteria species on Earth is now hunted by venom-wielding-viruses.
ESA transmits ExoMars’ landing commands, eagerly awaits the event
After 8 months in space, ESA's crafts are approaching the martian surface.
Hurricane Matthews exposed a trove of Civil War cannonballs in South Carolina
Oldies but still dangerous.
Watch all the volcanoes and earthquakes since 1960 hit around the world in one app
A stunning app put together by Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Project.
The 2016 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to duo of contract theoreticians
Sign at the bottom for Prize.
Modern humans lost some of their smoke-resistance genes and we don’t know why
So remember, don't smoke kids.
How the brain makes drinking water feel like a pain once you’re hydrated
Drinks for the thirsty, gag reflex for the over-hydrated.
First living-donor uterus transplant in the US performed in Texas
Out of four procedures, one has potential for success.
Squished-booms: looking at the behavior of underwater explosions
Explosions behave quite differently underwater than what you'd see on the surface.
Bees can feel optimism, possibly other ’emotion-like states’ as well, study finds
All it takes to make them happy is some sugar.
Globalization offers us a huge choice of foodstuffs — but we’re not having it
Game theory doesn't apply to farming like it does to other areas of industry.
Romania clamps down on hunting big carnivores for sport
An unexpected move that's gained a lot of public approval -- as well as criticism.
Google’s Neural Machine can translate nearly as well as a human
It all happened because they let the program learn without interference.
The 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to trio of molecular machine pioneers
Tiny gears to start a huge revolution.
“Extinct” elms discovered doing just fine in the Queen’s gardens, Edinburgh
It's good to be Queen. But it's even better to be the Queen's elms.
The 2016 Nobel Prize in physics awarded to trio of topological experts
Bagel physics begets a prize.