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Roman fish salting workshops reveal two whale species lost from the Mediterranean

The discovery stands to change our understanding of the Roman fishing industry and the history of two endangered whale species.

Emotional support, rather than offering solutions, makes couples happier

Instead of offering informational support, just saying "I know how that feels" might be a lot better.

Grasslands could overtake forests as the most reliable carbon sink ecosystems

But this doesn't mean we should stop focusing on forests -- on the contrary.

On the many mysteries of yawning

What’s behind a yawn, why does it occur?

How cross-species jumping genes might have driven our evolution

Some genes 'jump' from one genome to the other, and even from plants to bats.

Judges give harsher penalties when their favorite football team loses unexpectedly

We all get cranky for silly reasons sometimes, but this is a life-changing sentence we're talking about.

Couples who eat more seafood really do have more sex

Bon Appétit!

Anticipating stress makes you function worse throughout the day, even if nothing stressful happens

Waking up on the wrong side of the bead is a real thing.

Your car's vibrations are making you a lousier driver -- by lulling you to sleep

Naptastic.

Artificial Intelligence is now beating us at shooter games

What will they do next?

Spiders balloon by riding electric fields in the atmosphere

This is so electric!

Robots might soon be sanitizing hospital rooms, killing far more bacteria than humans

Robots do a much better job at sanitizing than humans ever could.

How the cryptocurrency boom could make or break Iceland's economy

Iceland is welcoming a new generation of miners.

Adobe is using machine learning to help you spot Photoshopped pictures

Trust not your eyes.

Here's why you should never stare into a laser pointer

Your mom was right.

Scientists zoom in on likely site of next San Andreas earthquake

Scientists have managed to see the unseen.

Rising seas, rising costs: some $14 trillion worldwide per year by 2100

Maybe start saving up?

Somalian Jihadist movement bans plastic bags to protect the environment

This sure took a strange turn.

Scientists control aggressive and criminal tendencies by zapping the brain

It's a sort of reverse lobotomy.

Novel system allows robots to learn new skills just by looking at you do it

Can it teach them how to love, though?

Comet 67P harbors oxygen molecules as old as the Solar System

I wonder if it smells stale.

China breaks quantum entanglement record at 18 qubits

Imagine reading a library at once rather than one book at a time -- that's what quantum computers can do.

Rumors of Opportunity's death "very premature", despite three-weeks silence

Hang in there, buddy!

Wind power could be harvested on Mars -- and this might be a game changer

This could be a game changer.

New U.S. Center to research how viruses can help us overcome drug resistance

If you can't beat them -- infect them!

How cycling races could help scientists study the effects of climate change

It's another piece of evidence documenting the effects of climate change.

CRISPR was used to change a butterfly's wing color

A switch from brown to yellow.

In a warming world, air conditioning only makes things worse

Researchers also propose a solution: switching to clean energy.

Testosterone boost makes men more likely to buy luxury brands

The hormone drives men to enhance their status.

Broadband equipment could be used to study faults and other geological features

Cables could do much more than offer you internet.

Most objects in the asteroid belt come from a handful of wrecked ancient planets

Asteroids have families too.

Tiny, new-generation robot can walk on land, water, or swim -- while being downright adorable

This cutesy bot hides a lot of potential.

Uranus may have collided with a cosmic body twice the size of Earth, explaining its unusual tilt

The icy gas giant likely collided with a massive cosmic body about 4 billion years ago.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was 8 years ago. The ocean is still struggling to recover

The damage is still going.

Mongolian herders were the first horse dentists, 3,000 years ago

Horses continue to be central to Mongolian daily life even thousands of years later.

Owls perceive moving objects like we do, suggesting bird and human vision are quite similar

The findings suggest that this ability evolved before the human neocortex appeared.

Hawaii Authorities: Please don't swim near erupting volcano

Shocking, really.

Air pollution seems to promote diabetes -- even at officially 'safe' pollution levels

Don't breathe too hard.

Astronomers capture first images of an exoplanet forming

All babies are adorable, right?

The world's first animals also caused the first global warming event -- but it took 100 million years

There's a metaphor here, and an important lesson for ourselves.

Many people 'cherry-pick' their genetic ancestry data tests

Another example of how people will choose to believe whatever they want.

We're still far away from finding a limit to human lifespan

The study suggests that people who might reach the maximum human lifespan haven't been born yet.

Researchers find rare hydrothermal vent off the coast of Portuguese islands

It's one of the most unique ecosystems on Earth.

Scientists mapped how many places we spend our lives in -- and the number is pretty small

What are your 25 places?

Indiana's health officials warn of West Nile virus spotted in mosquitoes in Elkhart, Carroll County

There's no need to panic, no human cases have yet been reported.

The Milky Way seems to be full of toxic 'space grease'

The universe is stickier than scientists used to think.

Earth is much more rivery than we've suspected, satellite data reveals

Earth's rivers cover an area roughly the size of Texas, the team reports.

New Caledonian crows can make tools from memory

The study suggests the crows learn by cultural transmission.

AI is starting to beat us at our favorite games: Dota2

AI killed the video game star.

Researchers use machine learning algorithm to detect low blood pressure during surgery

Technology enters the surgery room.