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Climate change has already harmed more than half of all mammals

It's even worse than we thought.

The story behind human growth hormone

Motivated by the "anti-aging" movement, people are placing their faith into all sorts of alleged cures, but does the science back things up?

Ocean acidification may be even worse for corals than previously thought

Sorry, no good news.

Forget eggs: This terrifying 250-million-year-old dinosaur gave birth to live babies

A remarkable 'terrible-headed lizard' fossil found in China shows an embryo inside the mother -- a clear evidence that some dinosaurs were giving birth to live babies.

The British are slowly accepting that climate change is real

Scotland fares particularly well, better than England and Wales.

How Denmark easily reduced their food waste by 25%

Food waste is running rampant throughout the developed world but we can learn a lot from this Scandinavian country.

Nowhere is safe from mankind -- high levels of pollution found even in the deepest oceans

Nowhere on Earth is safe from humanity's impact.

Legendary Nokia 3310 phone might be coming back - this month

The epic, sturdy, almost historic Nokia 3310 might be making an unexpected comeback.

Jobs, eyes and syphilis: creative posters from the 30s and 40s

Some great vintage public announcement posters to start off your day.

Resurrected drug could help us better fight viruses

Stanford researchers are proposing something different: they want to boost our body's defense systems instead of targeting the virus.

#FossilFriday: 34-million-year old wasp fossil

It's as beautiful as it likely was annoying.

This Deep-Sea Fisherman Posts a Trove of Incredible Creatures

The oceans are as beautiful as they are bizarre.

NASA's mission to search for life on Europa takes shape

If we want to look for extraterrestrial life, Europa might be one of the best guesses in the solar system.

416 beached whales send New Zealanders into frantic rescue mission

It was truly haunting.

NASA team to study Kilauea volcano from ground, air, and space

NASA's bringing out the big guns.

We can achieve the 2C objective, but we have to go 100% renewable energy by 2060

It's an optimistic hypothesis, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility.

A bunch of artificial cells just passed the Turing Test

Scientists have built cells that are not living but are so life-like that other cells can communicate with them.

There are now twice as many solar jobs as coal jobs in the US

Regardless of what one fossil-fuel-lover president may do, renewable energy is thriving in the US.

The Book of Civilized Man: The good manners book from the 14th century

"Don't mount your horse in the hall" and "Do not attack your enemy while he is squatting to defecate." Good tips right here.

John Deere announces first electric tractor

The iconic American manufacturer has announced plans to release its first fully electric tractor.

Female genital mutilation falls sharply in Iraq's Kurdish region, gives hope for eradication

The barbaric practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) has dropped sharply in parts of Iraq.

The Netherlands is shutting down prisons. It doesn't have enough criminals, and prisons aren't effective at rehabilitation

While this is a problem for the country's 1,900 prison workers losing their jobs... it's not such a bad problem to have.

The Amazon Stonehenge: Drones discover hundreds of ancient earthworks in the basin

Large, mysterious earthworks built thousands of years ago were discovered in the Amazon basin.

Scientists develop 'lab on a chip' that costs 1 cent to make

The new technology, which costs just $0.01 to build, could usher in a medical diagnostics revolution.

Personality traits are "contagious among children" -- especially good ones

When preschoolers hang out with each other, they tend to borrow each other's personalities, a new study has found.

Fossilized protein found in 195-million-year-old dinosaur bone

Finding fossilized remains of dinosaurs is one thing, but now, paleontologists have discovered proteins dating back to 195 million years ago.

More evidence that aspirin and ibuprofen don't help with back pain

We should pay more attention to over the counter drugs.

French presidential candidate welcomes muzzled US scientists

Voila!

Federal investigators find persistent cracks in SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets

Space is tough -- and SpaceX is learning that first hand.

We sleep to forget things, new study finds

Sleep is as mysterious as it is vital for our wellbeing.

Chinese factory replaces 90% of human workers with robots. Production rises by 250%, defects drop by 80%

After a factory in Dongguan, China, replaced most of its workers with robots, it witnessed a spectacular rise in productivity.

Forget Atlantis -- "lost continent" found under Mauritius

It's all geology, no mystic civilization.

Kilauea volcano in Hawaii creates spectacular lava stream

The Kilauea volcano has created a dramatic "firehose" as molten lava continues to spew out hot lava and ash.

Study finds fluorinated chemicals in one third of fast food wrappers

Bad food packaging, bad!

California scientists urge Trump not to exit Paris Agreement through open letter

"Environmentalism is the biggest threat" they say.

Frog spit is one of the stickiest things you can find

The meager frog employs a very complex mechanism.

Restoring native plants boosts pollination

Removing invasive plants and restoring native ones does a great deal to help pollination, a new study finds.

People are more willing to accept embryonic stem cell research than politicians

As stem cell research continues to be a very divisive topic, a new study has revealed that the general public is much more willing to accept it than politicians.

We dislike hypocrites because they deceive us, not because they do things they disapprove of

No one likes a hypocrite, that's for sure. But honest hypocrites... are almost ok.

More than 100 natural world heritage sites degraded by human activity, study finds

Nothing on Earth is safe from human activity -- not even the sites we ourselves designed for protection and preservation.

Bizarre, ancient, bag-like creature in China is all mouth and spikes

It's also probably related to you.

Bizarre, 100-million-year-old insect trapped in amber might be from a new branch of life

Researchers have found a very old and "alien like" insect and they've decided it doesn't fit anywhere in the current tree of life.

Manchester, UK, plans to plant a tree for every man, woman, and child in the city

Manchester officials have announced plans for a City of Trees: 3 million new trees will be added to the city area over the next 25 years

New gene delivery therapy restores partial hearing, balance in deaf mice

Using an innovative genetic editing technique, researchers have managed to partially restore both heating and balance in mice born with a condition that affects both.

Pristine mountain habitats are also not safe from climate change

Incoming climate change will have a drastic effect on pristine mountain habitats, a new study has found.

"Rogue" National Park Twitter Accounts Emerge After Trump Issues Media Ban

It all started when the official Twitter of the Badlands National Park in South Dakota started tweeting climate change facts.

Harvest in the US to suffer from climate change

As the newly elected president Trump starts his crusade of bashing environmentalism, a new study shows that climate change will affect US agriculture -- whether we admit it or not.

Sex is painful for 1 in 13 women, but no one wants to talk about it

A survey of 7,000 sexually active women aged 16 to 74 found that sex is painful for a lot of women -- they just don't like to talk about it.

Majority of people in the US favour renewables

A divided country still agrees on some things.

Trump orders media blackout at the EPA, tells employees to 'cut climate change webpage'

The Trump administration has effectively banned scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from talking to the media.

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