Taxing plastic bags or coffee cups works -- and the rest of the world should follow suit.

The odds of finding alien life are getting slimmer by the day.

Hydrogen and anti-hydrogen are unremarkably the same.

The findings might help piece together the evolution of the universe.

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Bats provide more than $22 billion of indirect value to farmers by controlling pests. When bats fall, so does our...

German researchers reprogramed brain cells to investigate how place memories are formed.

This explains why some people fail exams despite having studied for it.

The extra eyes are called the pineal and parapineal organs.

This was equally awesome and disturbing to watch.

Making new friends take time. A new study quantified how long it takes, on average, for an acquaintance to climb...

Inspired by the pitcher plant and rice leaves, researchers have devised a new method that harvests water straight from the...

The findings are important for food safety, but also materials science.

A drug developed in the 1980s to fight parasites can make human blood toxic to mosquitoes when taken in a...

Marijuana does not reduce the size of gray matter or white matter, unlike alcohol.

The world's largest warm desert grew by 10% since 1920.

This is an easy to use calculator that takes into account all the physical parameters that impact a boiling egg.

The findings suggest that therapy should focus on making people less conscious of perceived mistakes.

Finally, a detailed presentation of what's perhaps the most audacious plan of the century.

But this could spell trouble for some satellites.

Not your typical stellar explosion.

Graduate students are six times likelier to be depressed than the general population.

The tiny sensor provides objective information about a user's diet.

It's not a cure -- but this oral treatment makes people less susceptible to life-threatening allergic reactions.

Cheeky new details concerning the interbreeding between Neanderthals and our own species.

It sounds extreme, but it worked -- with no side effects.

A major breakthrough in physics.

"You are what you eat."

Aquatic bots like SoFi will enable scientists to learn more about some of the most elusive underwater creatures.

This isn't a war helmet -- it's a revolutionary brain scanner!

Kagome is a popular style element in Japanese basket-making characterized by a symmetrical pattern of interlaced triangles.

Meet a shimmering purple ribbon of plasma called Steve.

Another discovery that cements black holes' fundamental role in the evolution of the universe.

This is essentially a new life form with both modern and 'primordial' traits.

This knowledge could be used to improve social interactions in patients with mental disorders.

Marijuana smoke is still smoke -- and it might clog arteries just as bad as tobacco.

It will have time to find just a couple more candidate exoplanets.

Willpower is important for staying committed to a relationship.

Behind the adorable "goo goo ga ga" lies a logical tiny human.

They're after the Moby Dick of space.

Our ancestors interbred both with Neanderthals and Denisovans.

There's a glitch in the Matrix...

Both substances target cannabinoids.

It's a global problem, which means recent U.S. policy might be doomed to fail.

Regardless of their size, all galaxies that just as long to come full circle.

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It's 20 times whiter than paper.

They might not sound fancy, but generics work just as well for a faction of the cost.

Scientists have found a connection between nerve loss and muscle atrophy. They think the process can be reversed.

A strange form of ice is intriguing scientists.