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A few million years ago, this giant saber-toothed cat hunted rhinos in North America

Not your average cat.

Cats love to sit in boxes. Even in invisible ones

Even if it's an optical illusion, 'if it fits, I sits'.

Climate change is making tea worse

It's reducing the yield as well.

Ukraine seizes spirit made from apples grown near the Chernobyl nuclear site

The company hopes to get it soon on the UK market.

Exercise can also help shed your liver fat

Exercise is really good for the body. Your liver will be among the first to say 'thanks!'

A simple sneeze guard could make full-capacity airplanes safer from COVID-19 spread

While vaccination is still far away for people in many parts of the world, airlines will need to take measures to reduce the risk of transmission.

How Tibbles the cat possibly caused an entire species to go extinct

A cautionary tale we've failed to heed more than a century later.

China's emissions now exceed all developed countries combined

It's a massive country with massive emissions.

EU high court confirms ban on bee-harming neonicotinoid pesticides

Three pesticides proven to harm bees can't be used any more in EU countries.

Fossil Friday: private collector wanted a dinosaur skull, but got a huge, fossilized bony fish lung

Haven't we all fallen for this at one point in our lives?

Spanish companies team up to create the first paella-cooking robot

Maybe, uhm, robots aren't so bad after all.

The world's donkeys are threatened by demand for Chinese traditional medicine

Donkeys are undergoing their worst crisis ever.

Researchers create bizarre floating gadget that could save millions of seabirds

It's a floating buoy that has big looming eyes

Income inequality is driving wildlife trade around the world

The rich are paying the poor for wildlife. Maybe there's a lesson here.

A song of gods and dragons: What's behind the animals carved in Norway's stave churches

It's one of the most bizarre (and beautiful) kind of church you can see -- and it hides quite the history.

Magnetic field readings point to the structure of Saturn's interior

Until we can put a person on Saturn to check, we can't confirm these findings.

Genomic studies uncover the tale of the first Bronze Age civilizations in Europe

Their customs and advances still shape our lives today.

Climate change is coming for our bananas

Climate change used to be good for bananas. Not anymore.

Bats' superpower: they innately know the speed of sound

Maybe they're born with it... no, they're definitely born with it.

Does cryptocurrency need governance? These researchers say so

Bitcoin has done a lot for some people, but what has it really done for society?

The new climate normal: The US is already one degree hotter

Climate change is kicking stronger than many expected.

Citrus fruit stands poised to make transparent wood more sustainable, stronger, and more transparent

This is a whole new level of 'when life gives you lemons'.

All eyes are on a Chinese rocket -- because it's falling from space and we don't know when or where

Um, oopsie?

Pesticides are widely damaging soil's organisms, new review finds

We rely on them to keep soils healthy but we are damaging them with pesticides

Bitcoin has an energy problem. Now what?

By 2024, the bitcoin network is set to use as much energy as a medium-sized country like Italy.

Researchers use machine learning to build 3D maps from historical maps

Literally adding a new dimension to old maps.

Algae-based material could revolutionize the fashion industry

Soon, your future shirts or pants might be made of algae.

Florida men find mammoth bone while scuba diving

The odds of a fossil being near you is never quite zero.

Genetically modified grass saves soils destroyed by military target practice

GMOs to the rescue!

Amateur sports show how people with foreign-sounding names are discriminated against

A new study maps discrimination in Europe through a field experiment in amateur sports.

After three successful flights, NASA's Mars helicopter soars to higher ambition

After completing its fourth flight, Ingenuity is now looking to an even more ambitious mission.

Inactive oil wells are a big source of methane emissions

Uncapped oil wells could be leaking millions of kilograms of methane into the atmosphere and surface water each year.

This is the world's most "instagrammable bird" -- and you'd never guess it

Researchers looked at almost 27,000 photos on the social media network to come to this conclusion.

Fish have been eating plastic since the 1950s. And it's getting worse

The consequences of our reliance on plastics

India sets grim record of 400,000 coronavirus cases per day

Experts fear even this is an undercount.

France to start using algorithms to detect terrorists -- but are algorithms that good?

The arms race between terrorists and officials is going online.

Ancient Maya ruins digitized by laser aerial survey

These look like renderings from a video game. Only they're real!

Off to a rocky start: Deep-sea mining robot got stranded in the ocean during trials

The activity has been questioned by scientists and environmentalists -- and the problems just keep piling on.

German top court hands climate advocates important win

The government now has until the end of 2022 to update its legislation accordingly.

Wild donkeys and horses dig wells in the desert, help life thrive

The wells are often the only source of water for miles in the middle of a scorching desert.

Daytime sleepiness may be slowly killing you

Scientists have found a link between shortened telomeres and excessive sleepiness.

Google expands its earthquake detection system to Greece and New Zealand

It's only available for Android phones, though

Just like bees, wasps are highly valuable insects, study finds

They are pollinators, pest controllers, and could provide us with new medicine.

China launches first module in its new Space Station

Space is getting more and more crowded.

Satellite data shows that the Earth's glaciers are melting faster than ever before

This doesn't make it high on the idealio scale.

The COVID-19 variant in India: what we know so far

As the coronavirus continues to dangerously mutate, we're in a vaccination arms race against it.

Farming algae could surprisingly help stave off deadly algae blooms

If you can't beat them... sow them? In water? Could work.

What's the real US lightning capital? These researchers say it's not Florida

Florida seems to be losing it's thundery crown.

Adult T-Rexs likely couldn't keep up with their offspring, judging from their paw prints

Parents everywhere can probably relate.

Tackling climate change is a great way to alleviate extreme poverty, new study shows

The two work hand in hand.