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Tesla's new solar roof will cost as much as a shingle roof and electricity bill

Exciting news from Elon Musk.

Wax, water, and heat: how leaves survive in extremely hot environments

Ever wondered how plants manage to survive in ungodly high temperatures?

Using an electric toothbrush is actually better, new study finds

Which kind of toothbrush do you use?

How much would you pay to eliminate child slavery from your cocoa?

Three percent, ten percent, forty-seven percent -- what's a reasonable price?

You're eating a credit card's worth of plastic each week, study says

We each consume about five grams of microplastics each week.

Birds also prefer fancier neighborhoods -- as long as there's enough green space

The "luxury effect" also propagates across animals.

Skinny seals and hungry cod point to trouble in the Baltic Sea

They're running out of food -- and climate change seems to be involved.

Dolphins can form long bonds over shared interests

Yet another testament to how smart and socially advanced dolphins are.

These fishes get sad when their partner is away -- pointing to the roots of romantic love

Hear that? That's the sound of an itsy-bitsy fishy heart breaking apart and it's tragic.

Bitcoin's energy consumption is the same as a small country

Did you know that Bitcoin is a significant contributor to global warming?

Ridiculous DeepFake video of Mark Zuckerberg stretches Facebook's fake news policies to the limit

Social networks will be bombarded with similar fake content in the future.

Vengeful gods may be the product of complex societies

All powerful religious figures are useful in keeping large populations in check.

Abortions don't harm women's health but denying them does

Pro-life groups seem to be wrong with this one.

You do have a type when it comes to dating, study finds

Oh, this explains a lot.

Researchers develop recyclable films for food packaging

This is not only sustainable and recyclable but also cost-effective

EmDrive propulsion that 'breaks laws of physics' will soon be put to the test

Interstellar travel requires some impossible physics.

Mysterious gravitational anomaly in Moon's South Pole could be a massive metal deposit

It was 'imported' from space via a meteorite impact.

Nitrate pollution in US tap water causes 12,500 cancers each year

Agricultural pollution causes a concerning number of cancers, a new study finds

Researchers find salamander-eating plants in Canadian provincial park

Shouldn't it go the other way around?

Old forests are better at dealing with climate change, study finds

Old age doesn't mean 'frail'.

Caught red-handed: emissions from ammonia fertilizer plants were 100 times higher than the industry’s self-reported estimate

This is bad.

This small change could cut halve your diet's environmental impact

You don't even need to become a vegetarian.

Humans and monkeys respond differently to music and speech

Our ability to detect pitch may have been integral to the development of language and music.

A grape variety used to produce wine today can be traced back 900 years to an ancestral plant

Who doesn't love a glass of wine?

Why do people care about ancestry and how to check it

It's never been easier and more popular to look for your family tree.

Eating while standing makes food taste worse

Eating while standing can be uncomfortable, distracting our attention from the enjoyment of food.

Tides are turning in earthquake discoveries

It seems there was a connection between tides and earthquakes after all.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Could Help Solve One of the Mysteries of Our Sun

The temperature around the sun is millions of times hotter than the sun's surface itself.

The oldest known meteorite in the UK struck about 1.2 billion years ago

It's one of the oldest meteorite impacts ever discovered.

New study maps what the world is drinking

What are you drinking right now?

Not eating enough fruits and veggies kills millions of people every year

You should probably eat more fruits and vegetables.

Meet the fish that can hold its breath underwater

A deep-sea creature is the first fish that we know of that holds its breath underwater.

Dogs mirror owners' stress levels, new study says

Dogs are deeply empathetic creatures.

New threat looms for snow leopards: infection

As if snow leopards didn't have enough to deal with.

There's a limit to human endurance -- and once you cross it, the body starts eating itself

There's a breaking point in your head -- but also in your gut.

The ocean has much more plastic than we thought

There's more plastic in the deep than there is on the surface.

New mathematical model describes the growth pattern of plant leaves

The beauty of math is embedded in nature.

Researchers want free, open-access science -- science publishers, not so much

Something needs to change in science publishing.

Researchers copy off of polar bear fur to create new, powerful insulator

Learning from the best.

Heart-repairing patches poised for human trials, researchers report

But can they fix a broken heart?

Along came Alongshan virus, a new tick-borne disease

Data so far suggests that the virus can cause severe illness.

Honey bee colonies dropped by 16% worldwide in the winter of 2017-18

Out of the 544,879 colonies these beekeepers managed, 89,124 were lost over the winter of 2017-18.

Working landscapes can be used for species conservation alongside economic activities

Forest patches are opportunities to conserve wildlife

Bees can not only count, and understand the concept of zero -- they also grasp the concept of numerical symbols

Bees pack a lot of neural hardware in their tiny bodies.

Archaeologists discover ancient cereal rings in Austria

Prehistoric cereal rings? Sounds delicious!

May 2019 sets new record for highest average atmospheric CO2 levels in history

Please, tell me again how this has nothing to do with emissions.

Brushing your teeth could prevent Alzheimer's and other diseases

Bacteria causing gingivitis can migrate from the gums to the brain, causing Alzheimer's disease.

Scientists find new dinosaur species in glittering opal-encrusted fossils

Dino fossils trapped in gemstones reveal new insights about Cretaceous life.

Targeted online advertising offers little value to publishers

The adtech landscape is too opaque and complex -- and this new study shows that something needs to be done.

Researchers write grant proposals differently depending on their gender, and it can lead to bias

The findings also have interesting implications for automated text-analysis software, which will increasingly take on tasks like this in the future.