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The Search for Alien Life: We Have Been Looking in the Wrong Places

If there are any, aliens should be less conspicuous and charismatic-looking than most people think.

Russia is planning to offer tourists a trip to the ISS, spacewalks included

It would cost around $100 million a pop, though.

30% of the European Union's electricity came from renewables in 2017

These are encouraging news, but everything is not rosy in Europe.

Humanity killed off mega-herbivores -- but climate change might warrant bringing them back

Turns out eating all the mammoth wasn't that good of an idea.

Researchers pinpoint the brain's anxiety centers

Anxiety is useful, to an extent, but sometimes it can overflow, with devastating consequences.

Lucky paleontologist finds dozens of dinosaur footprints literally in NASA's parking lot

The tracks were made over 100 million years ago.

Research into nugget-forming bacteria paves the way to better gold extraction methods

It's not every day you meet someone who poops solid gold -- but today is one such day.

People are going crazy over face-swapping AI that puts Nicholas Cage's face in any movie in history

The implications are far less humorous, however. Prepare for #FakeNews 2.0.

New cancer vaccine successfully eliminates tumors in mice

This could be BIG.

Amazing fossil shows that Earth's earliest birds evolved just like Darwin's finches

These proto-birds may have evolved just like their modern relatives.

Breathtaking panoramic view of Mars shows how far Curiosity has gone

We're looking at a view from millions of miles away. Take a moment to appreciate this fact.

Jodrell Bank, Earth's oldest radio telescope, nominated as UNESCO Site

The site has had an immense role to play in our understanding of the universe.

Orcas are able to imitate human speech. Here's how it sounds like

These clever marine mammals never cease to amaze us!

We owe the shape of our jaws, at least in part, to our ancestors' love of cheese

Cheese -- it literally made your bones what they are.

Cosmonaut blood reveals that our immune systems grind to a halt in space

This is definitely Not Good™.

Our brains resemble those of our friends, new research shows

Friends think alike.

New report highlights how American CO2 emissions have evolved in the past 15 years

CO2 emissions dropped in 41 states and increased in 9 other states.

Earth's magnetic poles could reverse soon, with potentially devastating consequences if we dont prepare

Modern human civilization is threatened by the magnetosphere's polar mood swings.

New study shows what the most nutritious plant-based milk is

All the plant-based options had fewer calories than cow milk.

Miami launches bacteria-infected mosquitoes to fight Zika virus

If infected male mosquitoes mate with non-infected females, the eggs will not hatch.

Languages with large vocabularies have simple grammar, study suggests

Languages with large vocabularies, such as Mandarin or English, are simpler grammatically, as opposed to complex languages which possess reduced lexicon.

Holograms are so last year: team develops 3D images floating in thin air

Can't wait for this to be turned into a TV.

Japanese Space Agency offers volunteers $3,500 to spend 14 days in a simulated space station

Explore what it's like to be in space, while also getting paid? What's not to like?!

Astrochemists can now study stars' magnetic fields using alcohol

Ah, alcohol. The basis of any sound science.

Hangry, mansplaining, and lactivism added to Oxford Dictionary

Don't be dickish about it -- this is no masstige.

AI may have deciphered the Voynich Manuscript -- the most mysterious coded book in the world

After many failed attempts, artificial intelligence comes to the rescue.

FDA shuts down nicotine addiction study over allegations of "cruel" treatment of animals

The monkeys used in the study will be sent to an animal sanctuary.

Big dinosaur is a big piece of evidence for Africa's geological past

This isn't the last piece of the puzzle -- in fact, it's the very first.

Hackers stole $172 bn. from nearly one billion consumers in 2017

People are way too overconfident that they won't fall victims to cybercrime, report says.

Naked mole-rats live extremely long lives and do not age, study finds

These are wrinkled creatures have some amazing superpowers.

Ecotopia 2121 shows what perfectly eco-friendly cities would look like

It also has an 'evil sister' project!

Scientists discover how Giardia causes one of the world's most common gastric diseases

Giardia uses proteins that are like Trojan Horses for the gut, tricking cells to open up.

A supermoon, a blue moon, and a total lunar eclipse will coincide on the 31st of January. It's the first time in 152 years

It's a stellar trifecta.

Amateur astronomer finds long-lost NASA satellite after 12 years of drifting around Earth's orbit

It just serves to show that hope is never lost.

Astronaut poop could one day be recycled into Marmite-like food

I never liked Marmite.

EPA ends important Clean Air policy, fulfilling request of fossil fuel lobby

Strike another win for the bad guys.

Light pollution from research ship makes Artic zooplankton return to the deep

A team of researchers modified a kayak, equipped it with sensors, a petrol engine, strapped it to a ship, and set out to sea to measure zooplankton's reaction to artificial light.

Unexpected deep-Earth oxidized iron surprises geologists

Apparently, something is rusting at 550 km below the surface.

Marijuana Scientists Are Getting High Wages

By the year 2020, it is predicted the marijuana science industry will be employing about 300,000 individuals.

Veterinarians treat burned bears with fish skin -- and it seems to be working

The unusual treatment might have just saved the bears' life.

France will shut down its coal plants by 2021, two years earlier than initially planned

Say 'non' to coal!

'Solar windows' change from transparent to tinted at high temperatures, blocking the sun while generating electricity

For the smart buildings of the future.

Two men and two women spent 200 days in a virtual Chinese moon base. Here's what happened

Preparations for the moon base are intensifying.

Humans got a brain upgrade less than 200,000 years ago, and it made us what we are today

The brain changes and the skull follows.

Billions of plastic pieces are entangled in the coral reefs, slowly killing them

We have a massive plastic pollution problem, with no solution in sight.

Google's Doodle celebrates the Canadian neurosurgeon who treated epilepsy with the help of a toasty hallucination

Google honors a medical genius who helped countless people with their seizures.

Oldest human fossil outside Africa suggests our species left the continent 100,000 years earlier than thought

A 200,000-year-old human jawbone found in a cave in Israel is rewriting history.

New Zealand startup launches huge 'disco ball' into space. It's now the brightest object in the night sky

It's supposed to be an art project, but you be the judge.

Psychedelic mushrooms boost love for nature and dislike for authoritarianism, study suggests

The secret to fighting illiberalism may be to get everybody trippin'. Well, if it's for the greater good, I guess we'll just have to do it.

Trump wants to withdraw NASA's funding for the ISS as of 2024

It's the earliest date this is possible but this could leave American astronauts stranded on the ground.