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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.

Humans consume around 100,000 microplastics a year

It's not exactly clear what health effects this plastic has on human health.

Eggs might not be that bad for you after all, new study finds

Eggs are probably alright -- as long as you're healthy and don't eat too many saturated fats.

Miami dredging caused "extensive coral mortality and critical habitat loss" for the US' only continental reef

It's nothing short of a tragedy.

Physicists save Schrödinger's cat and bring us closer to quantum computers

The quantum jump that kills Schroedinger's cat isn't as sudden or random as previously believed. There is hope for our kitty yet!

Acting out: mathematical model predicts the future of actors' careers

Being an actor isn't easy -- at least for 90% of those trying to make it.

New research paints the history of East Africa's farmers, and how they evolved to eat dairy

It's a surprisingly rich history.

Researchers make chicken cells resist bird flu by snipping out a tiny bit of their DNA

There's still a long way to go before we have a full chicken, though.

Slothbot slowly, but surely monitors the environment

Scientists were inspired by the sloth -- the master of energy conservation -- to design a hyper-energy-efficient robot.

Lab engineered meat? How about lab-grown insect meat?

Would you eat lab-grown insect meat?

Prehistoric stone tools were invented multiple times before becoming a staple

It was a crucial and defining moment in human evolution.

Lobbying against climate action costs billions in expected damage, study says

It's the first study that quantified the effects of lobbying on climate change policy.

Global food production is already being impacted by climate change, paper reports

There's been a 1% decline in the quantity of consumable food calories produced by the world's top 10 crops.

Researchers spot the first coronal mass ejection outside our solar system -- it was massive

It was tens of thousands of times more massive than the ones our Sun puts out.

Simple meditation app can make people more attentive in less than two months, new study finds

An 'East meets West' success story.

Number of fishing vessels doubles while fish stocks crumble

There is fewer fish in the ocean -- and we're sending more ships to catch them than ever.

Sea sponges can act like surveillance cameras for the oceans

Call it underwater CCTV.

Agrochemicals harm bees even at 'safe' levels, and collapse whole colonies

We should bee more concerned about their health.