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An eerily view of Saturn.
The primordial soup theory for the origin of life comes back in the spotlight.
Burping methane may have bought Mars some extra time before it turned into a wasteland.
They're as wise as crows in this respect. A tasty treat helped, of course.
The aurora was triggered by a solar storm which doubled radiation levels on the planet's surface.
The implications could be important for fish stock estimates.
We've been looking at some galaxies wrong all along.
That moment when you realize you've grown really old.
The serial entrepreneur is at it again with yet another audacious claim.
He dived into the blue hole himself and inside found striking coral species.
Human laundry is a magnet for bed bugs.
Early Earth could have lost as much as 40% of its mass during collisional growth.
Not good. No, not good at all!
Ever tried really hard to pinpoint your very first memory? Doctors say it has something to do with hippocampus overload.
Even in total darkness, someone is still there.
Landfill waste is given a second life by blasting it with plasma hotter than the sun. Now that's a project we love!
Some Trinidadian guppies are far braver than others.
Yet another sign that the two species from the same Homo genus were very similar to one another.
The brightest cosmic rays don't seem to be from the same neighborhood.
Sleep could be as old as life itself.
This hermit crab is no hobo.
The Milky Way just got an ego boost.
Only two genes code both the canvas and paintbrush for the intricate butterfly wing patterns.
A step closer to forging our new robotic overlords.
It bit with the force of wolves or female tigers.
Big and small animals are the most threatened by extinction.
Strange things happen in the dark.
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.
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.
