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Speed breeding LED technique grows food six times faster than conventional farming

A welcomed solution to our growing food problems.

Not so dry after all: Mars lost much of its water to the crust

Mars might be abundant in water. The problem is its trapped in minerals inside the planet's crust.

Warming climate linked to more, bigger volcanic eruptions

It might take a while though before the effects settle in.

Exercising improves nicotine withdrawal symptoms, helps to quit smoking

If you want to quit smoking, you should definitely try physical exercise more.

Elon Musk shows off Falcon Heavy one month before its maiden flight

The stunning pictures capture the might of the soon-to-be 'most powerful rocket' in operation.

Vets caution dog owners about chocolate poisoning spike around Christmas

Chocolate can be very dangerous for dogs.

Air pollution is now the biggest killer in Africa

Air pollution kills twice as many Africans as HIV/AIDS.

The earliest life forms could be these 3.5-billion-year-old microbes

The amazing discovery suggests that alien life might actually be common.

Woman gives birth to 'snowbaby' who was frozen as embryo for 24 years

Technically, the baby is older than its mother by one year.

Medical cannabis helps one third of chronic pain patients quit prescription opioid drugs

Herb could prove a worthy ally in our fight against opioid drugs.

Warm rock beneath New England hints of upcoming volcanic eruption millions of years from now

New England residents shouldn't panic, though. There won't be a volcanic eruption in their backyard anytime too soon.

Scientists find primitive 3.5-million-year old bear with a sweet tooth for berries

Oral infections have a long evolutionary history in bears.

Ketamine rapidly reduces suicidal thoughts, positive effects linger on for at least six weeks

Besides rapidly reducing depression symptoms, ketamine seems to keep suicidal thoughts at bay as well.

Glowing plants imbued with firefly enzymes might one day replace lamps

A bright idea!

What Greenland's landscape looks like without any ice

Let's hope this landscape is never in the open.

Longest-living vertebrate might be a 512-year-old Greenland shark

That's older than the United States.

Novel gene therapy may have cured hemophilia A

It could positively change the lives of thousands of people around the world.

Sierra Nevada rose an inch due to water loss from California drought

It was that bad.

Blue Origin makes first test flight in over a year, tests new Crew Capsule

The booster sent the unmanned crew capsule to the edge of space. They both soft landed on Earth later.

Digital avatars for schizophrenic auditory hallucinations make the voices go away

Lending a face to the tormenting voices trapped in the minds of schizophrenics can make them disappear.

Intriguing optical illusion proves most humans have 'curvature blindness'

Can your brain handle this?

Ancient man-sized penguin found in New Zealand beach

It was a big one.

A newly formed island in the Pacific might resemble Martian volcanoes

New landforms on Earth could tell us about how ancient ones on Mars formed.

Tasmanian tiger genome reveals new clues about its extinction but also surprising kinship to kangaroo

It was also particularly vulnerable to disease well before humans arrived in Australia.

Martian atmosphere is not threatened by solar wind

The findings imply that we don't really know how Mars' water disappeared.

The Earth whispers in a low hum that's now been recorded for the 1st time underwater

This planet is restless to its core.

The story of human dispersal out of Africa started 60,000 years earlier than previously thought

The history of mankind's humble beginnings has been rewritten.

The International Space Station is mounting a new device to protect it from space junk

It's a sensor that will tell scientists how common small, but dangerous debris are.

Scientists find gut to brain connection that controls hunger -- and switch it off

The insight could prove useful to battle obesity.

Scientists name 245-million-year-old Horseshoe crab after Darth Vader

The force is strong with this one.

Swarm AI correctly predicted TIME's Person of the Year

The swarm intelligence found the #MeToo movement as the clear winner. It's the second time in a row it guessed TIME's POTY.

Newly discovered amphibious dinosaur had swan-like body but killer raptor claws

A crazy dino chimera.

Squeezing crystals from plant waste generates electricity

A biodegradable plant protein can be crushed to directly generate electricity.

Ginormous hydrogen clouds whizz around the Milky Way at phenomenal speeds

Scientists gain new insight into mysterious cloud formations traveling around the galaxy.

Robot learns like a toddler to predict future outcomes in its environment

Taking inspiration from babies, this machine learns to predict seconds into the future.

ISS bacteria is almost the same as in your home, and that's a good thing

Microbes seem at home in the space lab.

Win-Win: Eat healthy for yourself but also for the environment

If you want to do the environment and yourself a favor, just eat healthily. There will be fewer emissions and less land use.

Morally outraged tweets spread better, but largely stay within 'red' and 'blue' bubbles

A graph that speaks 1,000 words about how ideology is trapped in the same bubble on social media.

One in two abortions worldwide not deemed safe. Most take place in countries with restrictive abortion laws

Illegal abortions are correlated with dangerously unsafe abortions.

Fishing banned in the thawing Arctic for the next 16 years in historic pact

Sometimes, the world can work together for the common gold.

The first migrane-specific drugs to show promise in late-stage clinical trials

A new class of drugs might save you a lot of headaches.

NYC's uptown and downtown rats don't mix, new study found

A young graduate student spent years studying the genes of NYC rats.

Huge exoplanet ten times more massive than Jupiter has unique carbon monoxide atmosphere

There's no water in its stratosphere -- a first that might change what scientists think Hot Jupiters form.

The unfabulous reason why glitter should be banned 

Scientists glitter can be a health hazard for wildlife once it ends up in waterways.

Price of new solar energy plummets by 26% in one single year

It's more profitable to start deploying new solar now than operating currently existing coal or nuclear plants.

Particle accelerator peers inside rare Egyptian-Roman mummy

This is one of only 100 such portrait mummies ever found in the world.

World's smallest fidget spinner is no bigger than a human hair

3-D printing just got a lot sexier.

NASA's new 2020 rover will look a lot like Curiosity but with some important tweaks

Those are some big wheels to fill.

Deepest fish in the sea is the undisputed king of the Mariana Trench

A ghostly, tiny fish dominates the deepest layers of the ocean.

Cobalt-blue tarantula and 30 other species discovered in Guyana rainforest

The brilliant findings underscore the importance of conservation in the area, especially for invertebrates which are often overlooked.

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