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Turns out "I'm hangry" is a legitimate excuse after all.
The Italian physicist had a close shave with the Inquisition -- but he couldn't fool them twice.
Having more individuals of the opposite sex at work may be too tempting for some.
When in doubt, hibernate.
A newly describe elephant bird species takes the crown for world's largest bird ever.
A small device to tackle a huge problem.
An understudied phenomenon may double the amount of methane released into the atmosphere by the thawing Arctic permafrost.
Speak your mind, but don't be a jerk.
We've come a long way from being scared, scrawny apes in the savannah.
This is an observational study and, as such, the findings cannot be used to establish a cause-effect relationship -- but it does raise some important questions.
Glyphosate may not be harmless to animals after all.
It's not magic -- it's science.
It's the third Solar System body, in addition to Earth and Mars, where dust storms have been observed.
Thanks, plants!
Since the early 20th century, Earth's axis has shifted by more than 10 meters.
They're heating up twice as fast as everywhere else.
The work has only been tested in the lab but, so far, the results are encouraging.
An experimental spacecraft designed to solve our growing space junk problem was a sound success.
A problem that turned out to have more sides than initially thought.
The new insurance scheme -- dubbed "Modicare" -- will offer free medical services to 500 million citizens.
The technology initially developed for space is remarkably common in everyday life applications on Earth.
This could be huge.
We don't often think about mathematics as being beautiful, but perhaps we should.
Is this what the future will look like?
Life goes on after death.
Finally!
Hey, grandpa!
The researchers also recreated the brewing process in the lab -- for science, of course.
The figures suggest that one in five men and one in six women will develop the disease in their lifetime.
Autonomous aircraft could save energy or study migratory birds using this machine learning tech.
This could help scientists uncover the origin of social behavior in all animals.
Cooperation is the key to success!
Maybe generosity isn't as fixed as we thought it to be -- an important lesson from an indigenous tribe.
Talk about a bold strategy.
It's a mind-perplexing 10 billion times stronger than steel.
There are not many people I dislike as intensely as ivory poachers.
Wasps are actually useful.
These bright blue trains are the greenest around.
The cane toad is an old species, but this is the first time its genome was sequenced.
There's some good news, but also a lot of bad news.
Ultimately, what the mosquito eats, we eat as well.
Do you like sweet yogurt? You might want to read this.
It's not only about what you eat -- it's also about how you use that food.
Intelligent behavior emerging from a group of relatively unintelligent organisms.
The connection between nutrition and the risk of cancer remains a complex and intricate topic.
Go Cali, go!
It sounds a lot like wishful thinking.
This is a growing problem which needs to be addressed as soon as possible -- otherwise, we all lose out.
Several countries are already doing it.
Ceres just got a heck of a lot more interesting to researchers.
