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It's like storing lightning in thunder.
It's the 'blackest' planet we've found.
It's like getting tasered -- nine times. At the same time. Professor Catania has the measurements to prove it.
The author wishes this photo 'didn't exist'.
We had a good run!
A strikingly different take on the asteroid belt's origin.
The intelligent animals have responded to poaching by shifting their foraging patterns.
There's less water than in Earth's driest deserts. But that's still a lot more than we used to hope.
Not good news for interplanetary travel.
The backlash was intense. Harsh words were not spared.
This may be crazy enough to work.
This will set you back $100k.
Top universities admit more 1% earners than the bottom 60% combined.
Dementia is a syndrome while Alzheimer's is a disease. More key differences between the two after the jump.
Space flight just got a lot sexier.
Drug control treaties had their time and place. A scholar now argues these are massively outdated.
Plants too experience internal nutrient traffic jams, and they're fantastic at responding to them.
A rather glaring design flaw was recently discovered.
Someone send Samsung the memo.
Despite traveling more than ten billion miles in four decades, Voyager-1 is still at it.
"It's amazing no-one had thought of it before," said one of the scientists involved.
Gene variants linked to Alzheimer's or heavy smoking are being gradually weeded out by natural selection.
It will shine three times brighter than Mars in the night's sky. It might also cause an unpleasant stir in the Oort cloud...
A popular Japanese flower was used to demonstrate the power of CRISPR.
Neanderthals were far more complex than meets the eye.
Feeling cold all the time isn't necessarily a bad thing but there are things you can do to raise temperature.
This year is shaping up as SpaceX's best one yet.
Scientists are now desperately seeking government approval for the 2019 clinical trial.
A new study overturns a classic textbook theory.
A huge elephant used to roam the Middle East up to 300,000 years ago.
An unexpected archaeological finding confirms devastation at the hand of an ancient tsunami.
The mysterious high-energy signals are unaccounted for. Alien technology is not excluded.
Sure, we think chimps are clever -- but never as clever as us.
How baleen whale's filter combs appeared is still an intriguing mystery.
People love surprises and music is no exception.
There's a whole unexplored, almost alien-like world at the bottom of the world's deepest oceans.
It works by blocking the drug's 'high' which could lead to breaking the cycle of addiction.
It was pretty rough.
There's more to it than meets the eye.
It shows Babylonians knew about Pythagorean theorem centuries before Pythagoras was even alive!
Extinct but not forgotten.
There's a connection between the Loch Ness Monster and keeping wildlife safe.
This is 620 light-years away!
It took a while, but the axe's 8,000-year-old design finally got a much needed revamp.
Trees aren't obsolete yet but this hybrid system can do amazing things.
Going 100% renewable eliminates 4-7 million air pollution deaths each year and creates 24 million long-term, full-time jobs.
After more than 150 years, an able scientist solved the mystery of the eight sailors who died sinking a Union ship.
This was one exciting event. Now that's a race I'd watch!
People generally avoid people with wide faces but seem to be attracted to products with the same trait.
Yes, on some planets it rains diamonds!
