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Monitoring Volcanic Craters with Infrasound “Music”

Volcanic craters act as giant horns that emit intense low-frequency sounds.

Scientists have a closer look at a vaccine for stress

In the future, humans might be protected by vaccines against stress like they are now from the flu.

Ceramics Trace a 14th Century Indonesian Tsunami

A tsunami-devastated region has a long historical precedent.

Table salt found on Jupiter's satellite Europa, sparks debate about potential life

A crucial ingredient for life was found on Europa.

Some 600 years ago, a massive tsunami struck Sumatra -- in the same place as the 2004 tsunami

Lightning may not strike two times in the same place -- but tsunami sure does.

Spending just 2 hours a week in nature promotes health and wellbeing

Spend some time in nature this weekend.

Tilting your head down will make you seem more dominant -- but also more aggressive

Keep your head high. Unless you want to be scary. Then keep it low.

Humans started cooking and eating starch 120,000 years ago

Mankind has been cooking starches for a long, long time.

Researchers test Alzheimer's vaccine in mice

Finally, the world may soon have a vaccine against the devastating disease.

Lab-grown dairy hints at the future of food

Technology is driving the industry toward providing alternatives to conventionally produced food products.

The military is the largest emitter in the US Gov't -- in fact, it's the world 55th largest polluter

War isn't clean, it would seem.

Replacing red meat with a plant-based diet increases longevity

Yet another important study that suggests red meat is very bad for our health.

Researchers zoom in on 'lost' Doggerland settlement, find submerged forest

We're getting closer to one of archaeology's Holy Grails.

Warming climate means more, hotter armed conflicts, paper reports

Things are heating up.

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.