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Ancient stone-carved Greek lease document found in Turkey

Nothing more binding than a document set in stone.

New exoskeleton helps disabled people get back on their feet

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the future is here.

UK successfully transmits data via the national electricity grid, in a global premiere

Smart grids, smart cities.

Hurricane Matthews exposed a trove of Civil War cannonballs in South Carolina

Oldies but still dangerous.

Silkworms spin super silk after eating carbon nanotubes and graphene

Worms + graphene = great silk.

Modern humans lost some of their smoke-resistance genes and we don't know why

So remember, don't smoke kids.

How the brain makes drinking water feel like a pain once you're hydrated

Drinks for the thirsty, gag reflex for the over-hydrated.

Scientists create the smallest transistor ever

Smallest. Transistor. Ever

Bees can feel optimism, possibly other 'emotion-like states' as well, study finds

All it takes to make them happy is some sugar.

Five genes could give dogs their unique human interaction -- and they share four with us

Woof.

Globalization offers us a huge choice of foodstuffs -- but we're not having it

Game theory doesn't apply to farming like it does to other areas of industry.

Gold growing on trees offers a new prospecting tool

Who said money doesn't grow on trees? Take this grandpa!

"Extinct" elms discovered doing just fine in the Queen's gardens, Edinburgh

It's good to be Queen. But it's even better to be the Queen's elms.

Archaeologists unearth a huge dinosaur footprint in the Gobi desert

A titanic footprint from a titan of a beast.

Drugs clear HIV from British patient's system, offering hope for a cure

Five UK universities working together hope to bring an end to HIV.

Fossil Friday: the earliest known shells from 809 million years ago

Shifting ocean chemistry and predatory pressure made organisms bunker up for the first time.

First case of Zika transmitted through touch in Utah was a freak occurrence, paper finds

A lot of things worked together to allow infection via casual touch alone.

Mark Zuckerberg just shared pictures from Facebook's Data Center, and it's like a dystopian sci-fi

It's scary and awesome at the same time.

Bad news for cancer cells -- your immune system immunity has been revoked

Scientists discovered how cancerous cells hide from immune system -- and how to make them targets again.

A WHO report says 92% of humans breathe dangerously polluted air

Canned air doesn't seem like such a publicity stunt now, does it?

How one Japanese used Deep Learning to sort his parents' cucumbers

You don't need to change the world for deep learning to have a meaningful impact in your life.

Ancient Chinese skeletons found in London could hint at unknown ancient community and trade

Archaeologists are still divided on what the finding actually means.

Mercury will join the Solar System's "tectonically active" planet club

Scientists found several faults with its application.

China launches FAST, the largest radio-telescope in the world

Big country, big telescope.

Scientists develop a ridiculously cheap acoustic tractor beam

It can manipulate objects in complex patterns for only 10 bucks.

Scientists use technology to peer into charred ancient biblical scroll

Scientists have unraveled the secrets of a 1,700-year-old scroll too old and damaged to unfurl.

Centaurs break apart to get rings, astrophysicists now believe

Not big enough to capture material, the centaurs supply their own.

Browse the brain one cell at a time in the most detailed atlas ever made

And the Allen Brain Atlas is free to use. Hurray!

Here's why your drinking buddies are ruining your liver

When out for drinks, we're careful not to be the drunkest -- beyond that, anything goes.

Oldest fishing hooks ever found show humans were fishing for longer than we've thought

Found on the island of Okinawa, these hooks show fish has been on the menu longer than we've though before.

Scientists may have witnessed how memories form in real time -- a first

A new study offers insight into how neurons work together to make us remember stuff.

This 3D printing of a female clitoris shows how much you don't know about female genitalia

Take a look at this image. What do you think it is?

Gran-jeans: 6,000-year-old indigo dyed cotton found in Peru

Blue-dyed cotton has always been in.

ESA's Gaia observatory sends back first star chart showing a billion new stars

Seeing is believing.

One it ten UK species faces extinction, State of Nature report warns

You can't take 10% out of something and still expect it to work.

Largest database of crystal surfaces and shapes can help researchers design better materials

Crystal lovers rejoice - researchers have created the largest database of elemental crystal surfaces and shapes to date.

New star-shaped polymer can shred bacteria membranes to bits, offering alternative to antibiotics

The new stars in bug-killing.

Scientists may have seen a black hole being born for the first time ever

Awww, it has your....mass.

The Universe expands equally in all directions -- and this is bad news for Einstein's equations

Zoom out far enough, and the Universe is a pretty homogenous place.

Physicists think they might have found a dark boson -- a dark matter particle

It could be the key to understanding dark matter.

Cuttlefish can count at least up to five, new study finds

Can't they do what we all do and count on their tentacles?

Fracking-only bacteria discovered in two separate wells hundreds of miles apart

Bacteria are creating whole new ecosystems in fracking wells.

What causes phantom limb -- it's all in the brain

This freaky phenomenon might prove invaluable in using life-like prosthetics.

The 'Impossible EmDrive' will soon be tested in outer space

Hands-on experiments will help us finally get to the bottom of this thing.

Farmer ants still struggle with undomesticated crops, study finds

Starving your crops might seem counterintuitive, but these ants have a pretty good reason for it.

Book review: ‘A Survival Kit for Doctoral Students and Their Supervisors’

A book that offers perspective, where perspective is needed.

Miami Beach mosquitoes are carrying Zika, tests confirm

They're a really tough species to fight.

Stanford researchers develop the coolest clothes - literally

Stanford engineers have developed cheap, low-cost textiles that can cool your body much more efficiently than existing clothes.

Milky Way's missing matter traced back to an explosion in its core 6 million years ago

It's not the full picture, but its a lot more than we knew before.

An antibody that clears Alzheimer's patients' brains of plaque could be the treatment we've been waiting for

Clean brain, clean memories.

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