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Researchers send drones to active volcanoes to improve early warning systems

Technology can help warn us of an upcoming eruption.

Newly-discovered fossil lizard shows how uncertainty can lead to better science

Sometimes, it's best to admit that we simply don't know the right answer (yet).

Researchers pinpoint the brain area that ultimately governs attention and focus

Mine keeps letting me down.

Neanderthal milk teeth show their babies were raised and weaned similar to us

Tree ring-like growth lines in baby Neanderthal teeth suggest they were first weaned at around 6 months of age.

STIs are on the rise in Italy despite the lockdown

Oh you naughty, naughty kids.

Slovakia wants to test its entire population for coronavirus, but the project is challenging

Logistical and technical issues make the project difficult to carry out.

Americans are responsible for much more plastic waste than previously thought

The US produces the most plastic waste in total and per capita, a new study found.

Early SpaceX Starlink users claim they're 'streaming 4K with zero buffering'

Beta testers for SpaceX's internet satellite network are reporting good connections so far.

Texting and watching TV at the same time? It might make your memory worse, according to this new study

It’s called “media multitasking,” and it may lead to poor attention and memory loss in young adults.

Ancient DNA shows dogs are humans' oldest friends

Dogs are not only our best friends but also our oldest ones.

Australia's wildfires created a 'record-breaking' smoke plume in the upper atmosphere

Can’t have smoke without fire.

Hospital floors are full of bacteria, posing a risk to patients' health

Better watch where you step-- or even what you touch -- in a hospital.

Fossil Friday: leg fragment points to huge, toothy bird with a wingspan of up to 21 feet

Imagine how many nuggets you could make from one of these.

Giving up the Ghost: Science Takes on the Supernatural

This Halloween, you are invited to spend the evening in a haunted house with a difference. At ZME Manor the supernatural meets the scientific. Which will survive? And what will be left of it?

Growing food with Martian soil is challenging but it's not impossible

Geologists mimicked conditions in soil from Mars and found growing plants could prove difficult.

Taiwan just went 200 days without a single domestic coronavirus case

No other place has reached such a milestone.

Common fabrics can make effective masks against the viral particles, but they're harder to breathe through

You should be well protected if you use a home-made face mask.

Google-Alphabet balloon breaks record for longest flight in the stratosphere

It spent 312 days in the air.

Let more big fish sink -- it can help tackle climate change

Ocean fishing releases a lot of CO2 that would otherwise be locked on the sea floor.

Big-eyed spiders that cast nets like gladiators can hear prey despite lacking ears

These freaky looking spiders can sense incoming prey from more than two meters away.

Recycling smartphones: yes, it's a thing. Here's what you need to know

With Black Friday and the winter holidays just around the corner, we’re in no short supply of good deals during this time of the year. Many people around the world (myself included) will take advantage of these and swap in their phones for a newer model. Granted, with the way 2020 has been going, it’s […]

Melting caused by global warming creates more melt and it's a dangerous vicious cycle

Less ice means more melt which means less ice.

For some wild mammals, home is now your backyard, not the forest

People often provide food and shelter that these animals have learned to use.

Astronomers scout metal-rich asteroid thought to be worth 10,000 quadrillion dollars

Its astronomical value is another reason why we should invest more in space.

Modern graffiti leads scientists to 27,000-year-old cave art in Spain

The Gravettian art culture famous for stone age Venus statues was more widespread than previously thought.

Gourmet pterosaurs constantly improved their flight -- until they were wiped out by killer asteroid

These flying reptiles dominated the skies until they were wiped out by a killer asteroid.

Lenders are 'bankrolling extinction': businesses linked to biodiversity destruction took $2.6 trillion in loans last year

Money matters. A lot.

New mesothelioma treatment involves tiny tubes of gold and lasers

Killing cancer with style.

A medieval scribe curses a cat for peeing on his manuscript

Cats ruining things: a tale as old as time.

They took our jobs... but we're okay with it? AI-related job growth linked to improved social welfare

Well, this is unexpected.

Aerosol microdroplets aren't very good at carrying COVID-19, new laser study shows

The risk is real, but not very large, researchers say.

Better health care can help prevent tropical deforestation

An accessible health clinic for communities in Indonesia helped bring down local deforestation rates.

Stronger, longer-lasting perovskite solar panels could be on the way

This could mean less pollution and cheaper energy for us all

Another study connects COVID-19 to a lack of Vitamin D

80% of COVID-19 patients have vitamin D deficiency, a Spanish study found, compared to 40% for the general population

The Mediterranean Sea is packed with plastic waste and it could get worse soon

We need to take action to protect the Mediterranean from plastic waste.

Even vampire bats social distance when they get sick

The COVID-19 pandemic has taught millions of people across the world at least one valuable lesson: the single most important thing that one can do to stave off the spread of an infectious disease is to practice social distancing. As long as infected hosts are in limited contact with healthy hosts, a pathogen can’t spread […]

The mystery of coronavirus loss of smell may be rooted in the brain

Changes in the metabolism of sugar in the brain may be responsible for the characteristic loss of sense of smell.

NASA finds water in cold traps on the moon -- and it could sustain a lunar base

The moon is much wetter than we thought -- not one, but two papers show it.

The pandemic winter wave is well and truly upon us

Winter is coming, and with it, the scenario epidemiologists were fearing: pandemic fatigue and a global surge of cases.

World's smallest boat is so tiny it could sail inside of a human hair

It's super cute, too!

If all Americans wore masks, 130,000 lives could be saved

We're probably headed for a grim winter, a new study concludes. But there are ways to alleviate that.

Water Found on the Moon's Sunlit Surface

NASA has announced that water is more common on the Moon than previously believed, with traces now discovered at its sunlit Lunar South Pole. This is an area that has been traditionally considered free of water.

Recycling is important. It's also overrated. Here's what truly makes a dent in environmental pollution

Always remember the 3Rs: reduce, reuse, and recycle. But in this order!

Old used cars are being exported to poor nations, increasing air pollution and traffic collisions

Most of them are being shipped to countries with weak regulation.

New ceramic catalyst sponge promises to turn waste organic matter into cheap biofuel, medicine

Don’t throw away that rancid oil, we can top up the car with it!

NASA's asteroid sampling mission ran into a problem: they sampled too much asteroid

Suffering from success.

Japan, the sixth-largest emitter, pledges to become carbon neutral by 2050

Question still remain on how this target will be met.

These are the droids we're looking for: A new robot can assemble a pizza in under a minute

The aptly named PizzaBot 5000 can crank out pizzas all day long.

Book Review: "Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral & Drive Major Economic Events"

Could economies be driven by what people believe, not by cold facts? One book says “probably”.