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The world’s first 3D-printed school just opened up in Malawi

Students have already started taking their first lessons in the new building.

Planting trees can increase rainfall across Europe -- and this is important for climate change

This could come in handy as temperatures continue to rise -- but there are also downsides, researchers warn.

Outdated WiFi routers may pose a huge security risk to millions of people

If you haven't updated your router in years you're not alone -- and that's not good.

Study finds Leonardo da Vinci's family tree spans 21 generations, including 14 living male descendants

The newly documented genealogy could help scientists identify Leonardo's long-lost DNA.

Dragonflies drop their bling when it gets too hot -- and climate change spells trouble

The wing bling could be making male dragonflies too hot for their own good.

This 51,000-year-old Neanderthal bone carving may be one of the world's oldest works of art

More and more evidence suggests that Neanderthals were just as feeling and thinking creatures as humans.

COVID-19: kids are using soft drinks to fake positive tests – I’ve worked out the science and how to spot it

Can you really fake a covid test with soft drinks? Well... kind of.

Iceland tried a four-day work week. It was an overwhelming success

Over 2,500 people participated and the results were highly positive.

Is the 'Dragon Man' a new species of human? Here's what we know so far

Some scientists believe we've found our long-lost sister lineage. But not everyone is entirely convinced.

Cows could help us in the plastic crisis -- with the bacteria in their guts

Cows giveth, cows taketh away.

EU’s plastic ban officially comes into force. Here’s what you should know

The bloc wants to transform its economy into a circular model

Scientists pinpoint brain circuit for spirituality

Spirituality may be “deeply woven into our neuro-fabric,” researchers claim.

UK to release beavers in London as part of urban rewilding

They used to be native but they were hunted down. Now, Britain wants them back.

Researchers develop cheap, simple, on-demand water disinfection process

All it needs is electricity, air, and a gold-palladium catalyst.

Researchers discover a new species of ancient beetle inside fossilized poop

Well, that's one way to last forever, I guess.

Neuroscientists find evolutionary origin of near-death experiences

Animals have been feigning death as a defence mechanism for eons. Humans took it to the next level.

Bezos picks aerospace pioneer Wally Funk to join him on space flight

They are scheduled to launch on July 20 on the New Shepard rocket

The UK's per capita emissions haven't been this low in 150 years

Britain's greenhouse gas emissions haven't been this low since the Industrial Revolution -- and the difference maker is coal.

Scientists develop world’s thinnest technology – only two atoms thick

It could be ground-breaking for modern tech devices

Some fish are warm-blooded -- and it lets them swim faster

However, it also leaves them more vulnerable to climate change.

Spray-on treatment could keep roads strong for longer while also making cities cooler

Less roadwork and livable temperatures? Sign me up.

We've found a dead star that's about as large as the Moon, but weighs more than the Sun

Space is full of surprises.

Convertible flying car makes pilot flight between airports in Slovakia

In turns from a supercar into an two-seat airplane in under three minutes.

Wild boar-pig hybrids now roaming radioactive Fukushima wasteland

The wild boars have no predators and have interbred with domestic pigs left behind by humans.

This 5,000-year-old-man may have been the “oldest” plague victim

A contender for "patient zero" for the plague.

Asia´s new coal plans are jeopardizing world’s climate targets

It makes little sense both financially and environmentally.

Study dismisses possibility of life in the clouds of Venus

Don't worry, there could still be life in the clouds of other planets

Feed the birds without worrying, new study says -- they won't get addicted to your food

You can keep on using the feeder in your backyard

Ancient weights show markets were already globalizing a few thousand years ago

Turns out people always loved shopping.

A startup proposes using autonomous microreactors fueled by nuclear waste to produce energy

It would also, conveniently, take care of our nuclear waste.

Pets offer better emotional support to grieving people than humans

They really are man’s best friend.

Ayahuasca relieves depression and anxiety, finds study on nearly 12,000 users

Although Ayahuasca is classified as a Schedule I drug, recent research suggests it has medical value.

Extinct Australian rodent is re-discovered, alive, after 150 years

Always good news to hear!

We've identified the genetic roots of OCD, pointing the way towards new treatments

Around half of patients are resistant to our current treatment options.

Neutron Star and Black Hole's Final Dance Observed for the First Time

You wait ages to spot a merger between a neutron star and a black hole and then the two come along at once.

5,000 burgers a day: World’s first lab-grown meat factory opens up in Israel

It can produce up to 500 kilograms of cultured products per day.

Electric bikes outstrip electric car sales in the UK in 2020

An e-bike is sold every three minutes in the United Kingdom.

Anglo-Saxons were largely a group of immigrants unified by language and culture -- not genetics

Being an Anglo Saxon was more a cultural thing than a genetic thing.

Pets seem to have benefited from the pandemic overall, and cats may have benefited the most

Well, to be fair, they always land on their feet.

A blood test that can detect early-stage cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out

It could be a game changer in our fight against cancer

We can now track ocean microplastics from space, by looking at how winds and water interact

Our technique is not perfect yet but we’re working on it.

Futuristic planned tower in China would feature 99 floating islands

I think we're in the future now.

Scotland is building a massive plant capable of removing one million tons of CO2 from the air every year

The technology won't save us from climate change -- but it can play a role.

Scientists peer back in time to find the birth of the first stars

Call it the Cosmic Dawn.

CRISPR could save billions of male chicks every year. Here's how

It's an invention that could end a tsunami of animal suffering.

New research calculates exactly how much trees can help cool down cities

The short of it is -- a lot, as long as you actually plant trees.

Fossil Friday: 1,000-year-old egg found whole in a cesspit in Israel

Just goes to show: even when you're in deep, there's always hope of enduring.

Researchers find a previously unknown type of ancient human

Remains with combination of Neanderthal and early human features date back 100,000 years.

Scientists may have found how migrating birds sense Earth’s magnetic field

No GPS needed -- just use quantum chemistry.

An AI algorithm just completed a famous Rembrandt painting

... and they say computers can't create art.