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The secret to the albatross sustained flight: staying crosswind at all times

The bird can effortlessly travel up to 500 miles in a single day just by occasionally flapping its formidable wings.

Gaping hole larger than the Netherlands opens up in icy sea off Antarctica

Scientists caution that it's too early to involve climate change in this instance.

Surge in pest resistance is making biotech crops worldwide less effective

Some crops fare much better than others so there's a lot of lessons we can learn.

What gives durian, the world's smelliest fruit, its distinctive pungent scent

Their aroma has been described as "terrible" and "foul". Now we know why.

Scientists coax bacteria to assemble into a pressure sensor

Living electronics could be a game changer.

How dirty, soot-covered birds can track down pollution over a whole century

Back in the day when Chicago and Pittsburg were the world's Beijing and New Delhi.

We could power the whole of human civilization with wind turbines in the open sea

Offshore wind farms could provide three times more power than land-based turbines

Revolutionary optical upgrade enables ground-based telescopes to hunt for alien planets

This could be a game changer.

Obscure 3,200-year-old stone inscription finally gets deciphered -- tells of Troy prince conquests and 'Sea People'

Troy is back in the limelight with a story written in a long-forgotten language.

Reversing a current's flow is theoretically possible in a quantum system

More weird quantum physics.

Elusive stick insect thought extinct for 80 years is still alive and kicking

The amazing story of an insect presumed dead for decades.

Early modern humans formed complex social networks to avoid inbreeding as early as 34,000 years ago

The findings partially explain why humans were more successful than Neanderthals.

The moon once had an atmosphere seeded by volcanic eruptions

It must have looked like a weird sight from Earth's vantage point.

Neonicotinoid pesticides found in 75 percent of honey worldwide

The pesticide is heavily linked with the dramatic collapse of bee populations around the world.

Scientists discover 15 new gecko species in Myanmar

They're all adorable. Alas, some could already be threatened.

Just 3% of Americans own 50% of the country's guns

About 7.7 million American 'superusers' own between eight and 140 firearms.

Marijuana use among teenagers drops to lowest since 1994, despite widespread legalization

Legal or not, teens aren't that interested in cannabis anymore.

A woman's reaction to a 15-year-old tattoo nearly fooled doctors it was cancer

The story brings into discussion the often overlooked issue of tattoo ink safety.

Scientists make first quantum video call. It's supposedly unhackable

Sharing sensitive data will never be the same.

Roll-out solar panels that unfurl like a carpet electrify tiny British island

The system can fit 10 times as much power output than traditional panels in a given container.

Musk's argument that we live in a simulation doesn't hold water, quantum physicists say

The blue pill or the red pill?

World's first molecular robot could usher in a whole new age of miniaturization

Nanoscience just got a whole lot more interesting.

Scientists add asphalt to lithium batteries that charge up to 20 times faster

You could say these researchers took a faster road.

Cassini's farewell photo of Saturn's dark side

An eerily view of Saturn.

Meteorites may have seeded life in Darwin's 'warm little ponds'

The primordial soup theory for the origin of life comes back in the spotlight.

Methane bubbles may have kept Mars warm enough for liquid water billions of years ago

Burping methane may have bought Mars some extra time before it turned into a wasteland.

Raccoons solve ancient Greek puzzle showing they can understand water displacement

They're as wise as crows in this respect. A tasty treat helped, of course.

Powerful solar storm sparks the brightest Auroras on Mars we've recorded

The aurora was triggered by a solar storm which doubled radiation levels on the planet's surface.

Some sharks and rays live twice as long as we thought

The implications could be important for fish stock estimates.

Some galaxy types are brighter due to 'hungrier' black holes, and this could fundamentally change how we study galaxies

We've been looking at some galaxies wrong all along.

Modern humans emerged up to 350,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought

That moment when you realize you've grown really old.

Elon Musk proposes landing rocket on Mars by 2022. The same system will also get you anywhere on Earth in less than 30 minutes

The serial entrepreneur is at it again with yet another audacious claim.

Marine biologist finds gaping blue hole in Great Barrier Reef using Google Maps

He dived into the blue hole himself and inside found striking coral species.

Bed bugs love your dirty laundry, and this has helped them travel the globe

Human laundry is a magnet for bed bugs.

Ancient cosmic collissions between small bodies could explain quirk of early solar system formation

Early Earth could have lost as much as 40% of its mass during collisional growth.

Another iceberg, quadruple the size of Manhattan, breaks free from Antarctica

Not good. No, not good at all!

Why we can't remember things before age 3-4

Ever tried really hard to pinpoint your very first memory? Doctors say it has something to do with hippocampus overload.

Shock therapy partially wakes man out of 15-year-old vegetative state

Even in total darkness, someone is still there.

Eco-designer turns landfill waste into 'plasma rock' -- a sustainable, all-purpose material

Landfill waste is given a second life by blasting it with plasma hotter than the sun. Now that's a project we love!

Fish can have individual personalities too, new study says

Some Trinidadian guppies are far braver than others.

Neanderthal and modern humans shared long childhoods

Yet another sign that the two species from the same Homo genus were very similar to one another.

Mysterious high-energy cosmic rays fire from outside the galaxy

The brightest cosmic rays don't seem to be from the same neighborhood.

You don't need a brain to sleep, and we have snoozing jellyfish to prove it

Sleep could be as old as life itself.

Newly-described hermit crab species makes permanent homes out of coral -- a first

This hermit crab is no hobo.

The Milky Way might not be your typical spiral galaxy but is it unique?

The Milky Way just got an ego boost.

Biologists find genetic master switch for the butterfly's wing color

Only two genes code both the canvas and paintbrush for the intricate butterfly wing patterns.

Artificial muscle lifts 1,000 times its own weight, brings us closer to humanoid bots

A step closer to forging our new robotic overlords.

Ancient frog with a big appetite may have preyed on small dinosaurs

It bit with the force of wolves or female tigers.

Not too big and not too small: when faced with extinction, it pays off to be just the right size

Big and small animals are the most threatened by extinction.

After exploring Venus' dark side, scientists find unexpected weather

Strange things happen in the dark.

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