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Defunct dish turned into a radio telescope in Ghana with the help of Google Maps

Not your typical junkyard story.

Parasitic robot rides turtles in exchange for lunch

One day, this robot will ride you.

Tiny quantum refrigerator keeps quantum computers cool by 'blinking' electrons

Prepare for some quantum madness.

Germany produced 85% of its electricity demand from renewable energy

Germany took the lead in renewable energy for one day.

You can still remember a foreign language even if you think it's forever forgotten

Exposure to a foreign language even at a meager age of six months can stick with you well into adulthood.

In some U.S. counties, life expectancy can vary by as much as 20 years

Overall, life expectancy has increased in the country but not as much as it should have. The gap between many counties supports this argument.

Economic mobility nearly halved in the United States since the 1940s

The American Dream is dying.

Employees in low-level jobs are more stressed than superiors, and this imbalance follows through retirement as well

Stress grows the lower down the ladder you go.

Replacing half the meat we eat with edible insects could could save a third of the world's farmlands

With 10 billion people soon on the horizon, eating meat is out of the question.

SpaceX will launch three times more satellites than there currently are in orbit to give you fast internet

The first satellites could appear in 2019.

Advanced 77,000-year-old Stone Age weapons found in South Africa

Things became very serious at this point.

Watch amazing footage of Cassini diving towards Saturn

It's a one in a lifetime experience.

Medieval Christian monks may have sped up the evolution of the modern chicken

We may have to thank Christian monks for today's chicken.

Be careful when using heart rate apps -- most aren't accurate at all

Don't take heart rate apps too seriously, unless they've been vetted by a health care professional.

Antarctica's Blood Falls sheds its secrets

As is often the case, more questions arose after the mystery was solved.

Cassini heard 'the big empty' when it dived through Saturn and its rings

The song before the 'grand finale'.

If you want a glimpse of an ancient human ancestor, the bonobo might be the closest you'll get

Our cousin, the bonobo, has remarkably changed very little. Anatomically, they're the most similar to a common ancestor out of all the apes.

Patient saved from antibiotic-resistant infection with novel bacteriophage treatment

A dramatic case with a happy ending. Antibiotic resistance is growing and threatens to kill 50 million people by 2050.

Despite spending $200 million, NASA still doesn't have a new space suit and that could delay an important deep space mission

Internal auditors weren't happy with the way NASA is making new space suits.

How science might settle the debate around two famous Munch and da Vinci paintings

Even centuries later, science is able to decrypt some of art's biggest controversies.

Female dragonflies play dead to fool unwanted suitors

An old trick.

Meet the future of construction: MIT prototype 3-D prints entire building

This could revolutionize how we build things both on Earth and other planets.

Scientists make transparent bones to study diseases like osteoporosis

The innovative method could help millions of people who suffer from osteoporosis.

China and Europe have talks to build a 'Moon Village' together

The two are already collaborating on important science projects.

Could Oman's mountains hold the key to reversing climate change?

A billion tons of CO2 have been trapped by these mountains where the only exposed sections of the Earth's mantle are found.

Not even money can sway most people to listen to counter-partisan views

Ultimately, this behavior is what creates dangerous information bubbles.

Novel technique can 3-D print intricate glass objects like a pretzel

You can apply the technique on any existing 3-D printer.

Artificial womb-like environment helps premature lamb mature for 4 weeks

It could save countless severely prenatal human babies

What do marijuana and chili have in common? They both calm the gut, scientists say

The findings suggest that both foods could have a therapeutic effect against diabetes and colitis.

This beekeeper's pest can actually eat plastic waste and turn it into something useful

The waxworm eats plastic faster than any other animal we know of.

The story and science behind a new type of aurora called 'Steve'

That's what you get when the internet names things.

Tesla will double the stations in its Supercharger network by the end of the year

It's not clear if congestion issues will be solved, especially in California.

We're launching a horde of tiny satellites, and that might eventually make space flight unusable

Space junk is cluttering space. One day, we might not be able to launch anything anymore.

To make forests more resilient to climate change we might ironically have to cut some trees

If done early, a thinned young forest can store as much carbon as an un-thinned one despite being heavily outnumbered.

Three African countries chosen for the 1st large-scale malaria vaccine pilot program

Hundreds of thousands of infants will be vaccinated against the mosquito-carried parasite.

How ancient water management by the Chaco or Maya can help modern strategies in the face of climate change

Water management policy needs to adapt to constantly shifting environmental conditions, else we risk repeating the downfall of the Maya.

'Hobbits' didn't evolve from a direct modern human ancestor. They likely originate from Africa instead

The most comprehensive bone analysis of its kind shows Homo floresiensis didn't share important features with Homo erectus.

In the face of rising antibiotic resistance, fungi could be a goldmine for new drugs

Bacteria are getting tougher but scientists are not sitting idle.

Drinking sugary beverages on a daily basis might hurt your brain. Diet soda is no exception

Sugary drinks literally cause the brain to shrink, leading to poorer memory.

Why a startup is making speakers out of concrete

Sculpture or noise box?

'Wonder drugs' might prevent all forms of dementia. One of the drugs is already safe for humans

The drugs were manufactured to treat different conditions but they also seem to block an important pathway linked to brain cell death.

Antarctica is covered in hundreds of meltwater rivers and streams, and we had no idea this was happening

This could have been going for decades but scientists are worried nevertheless.

Newly found exoplanet might be the best place yet to hunt for alien life

Such discoveries keep piling up. We can only rejoice.

Homing pigeons can improve and pass on knowledge across generations, the only non-primate to do so

Homing pigeon have their own form of cumulative culture passing down information about routes do their peers.

Though considered impossible, Harvard physicists have built a time crystal

This new state of matter could be key to building quantum computers.

LHCb finds a deviation from the Standard Model which may hint at a new particle

The little brother of LHC might be on to something big!

Shamanic drug ayahuasca rapidly improves severe depression symptoms, first randomised clinical trial finds

Amazonian shamans have been making the brew for ages. Now, science confirms for the first time its therapeutic potential against depression.

Physicists coax superfluid to have 'negative mass'

The matter flows against the pushing force.

What is antibiotic resistance: everything you need to know

Antibiotic resistance is threatening to undo a centuy's worth of medical progress.

Fractal-etched graphene electrode boosts solar energy supercapacitor storage by 3,000%

This could be a game changer.

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