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Over 20 hectares of Roman ruins discovered submerged off Tunisian coast

An unexpected archaeological finding confirms devastation at the hand of an ancient tsunami.

Human bones in underwater Mexico cave dated to 13,000 years ago -- thanks to a pelvis-stalagmite

Thieves plundered the cave, but they left researchers a bone.

Shared custody is usually less stressful for children, study shows

Shared custody seems to be less taxing than growing up with a single parent.

Trying to resist a yawn makes you more likely to yawn -- because your motor cortex is wired that way

It's ridiculous how many times I've yawned writing this.

Intelligent alien life hunters pick up 15 high-energy bursts far across the universe

The mysterious high-energy signals are unaccounted for. Alien technology is not excluded.

Facebook bans "fake news" from advertising

Perhaps we just give social media too much credit.

Great apes abilities misunderstood in decades of research by human hubris

Sure, we think chimps are clever -- but never as clever as us.

MIT designs robot to be a good pedestrian and not bump into you on the sidewalk

It's had hours upon hours of simulation training to learn the basics.

Stunning triceratops fossil discovered by chance on construction site

It's an exciting and intriguing find.

Ancient whales had sharp predator teeth unlike today's gentle giants

How baleen whale's filter combs appeared is still an intriguing mystery.

MDMA is now officially labelled a "breakthrough treatment" for PTSD

Researchers have been suggesting this for decades.

Pagan ritual hall from 3,200 years ago found in Israel

Canaanites were flourishingly pagan before Joshua came in.

Lonely microbes become resistant against antibiotics more quickly

Being lonely makes you more desperate.

Most shark fins and ray gills sold in Vancouver come from threatened, trade-banned species

We're literally eating the viability of tomorrow's oceans.

Heavily armored dino might've used its plates as status symbols, to attract mates, intimidate rivals

It's all about passing on your genes.

Surprising harmonic structure might be the secret to writing a pop hit, new study finds

People love surprises and music is no exception.

New Technology Could Keep Bees Buzzing for Years to Come

It's high time we do something to protect them.

Rare Amazon monkey spotted for the first time in 80 years

We've found it, but we may soon lose it again to hunting.

World's deepest living fish is the ghostly snailfish. It was spotted 8,178 meters down the Mariana Trench

There's a whole unexplored, almost alien-like world at the bottom of the world's deepest oceans.

Dancing keeps the brain young

Just keep on dancing!

Exxon did know about climate change since the 70s -- and it lied, knowingly

They knew about it and yet they did everything they could to hide it.

The challenges of waste management in the shipping and transportation industry

Individuals and businesses can send and receive shipments from almost anywhere. But there's a hidden cost.

High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) releases endorphins in your brain

Work hard, endorphin hard.

This heroin vaccine might solve part of our growing opioid addiction problems

It works by blocking the drug's 'high' which could lead to breaking the cycle of addiction.

Deadly violence was rampant in the medieval London, and it disproportionately affected the lower class

It was pretty rough.

The first new Thorium salt reactor comes online after 40 years

This could be huge.

A pair of puppies can run and play after been treated for their spina bifida

It could be a cure for humans too!

American “mudbug” crabs have invaded Berlin

A strange sight for Berliners who have been wondering what the large crabs, “lobsters”, and “scorpions” are doing in their city.

Disaster as thousands of Atlantic salmon escape from fish farm on the west coast

Potentially catastrophic for Pacific salmon.

Blood DNA sequencing reveals there's a lot more microbes living inside you -- and we've never seen over 99% of them before

What we don't know can't hurt us, right? Right? Guys?..

Adorable pig-nosed frog completely new to science found in India

There's more to it than meets the eye.

Researchers design carbon yarn that generates energy from motion or waste heat

I guess we can all be current benders now!

Ancient 3700-year-old Babylonian tablet may be earliest evidence of trigonometry

It shows Babylonians knew about Pythagorean theorem centuries before Pythagoras was even alive!

A robotic Buddhist priest can now perform funerals in Japan

It can live-stream funerals, too.

Though extinct for centuries, the Dodo's secrets and lifestyle have now come to light

Extinct but not forgotten.

Trees provide hundreds of millions of dollars in services to cities for free, paper reports

Ca-ching!

How mythical creatures can help conservation or, on the contrary, lead to species going extinct

There's a connection between the Loch Ness Monster and keeping wildlife safe.

Astronomers just compiled the most detailed image of an alien star -- and it just looks stunning

This is 620 light-years away!

Dragonfly dual-quadcopter drone proposed to explore Titan to understand how life appeared

The final selection for New Horizons is expected in mid-2019.

The LeverAxe uses physics to finally bring splitting wood to the 21st century

It took a while, but the axe's 8,000-year-old design finally got a much needed revamp.

Google researchers are able to perfectly and simply remove watermarks from photographs

They used their power for good, not evil.

Cyborg bacteria equipped with tiny solar panels outperform photosynthesis

Trees aren't obsolete yet but this hybrid system can do amazing things.

Roadmap aims to supercharge 139 countries to 100% renewable energy by 2050

Going 100% renewable eliminates 4-7 million air pollution deaths each year and creates 24 million long-term, full-time jobs.

Crew of first ever combat submarine, the Confederate Hunley, was killed by their own torpedo

After more than 150 years, an able scientist solved the mystery of the eight sailors who died sinking a Union ship.

Huge asteroid to safely pass by Earth on September 1st, NASA announces

Make sure to wave as it passes by.

This space probe is so small you could lose it in your backpack -- and it just got launched into space

Four grams worth of space explorer.

Knowing more doesn't change false beliefs about science

People often project their religious and political beliefs onto science.

British Royal Mail to start piloting sleek electric trucks

They're sleek, red, and bring your packages on time -- now with zero emissions.

Juice company dumped orange peels in Costa Rican national park in the 90s -- it revived the forest

Orange is the new forest.

Tiniest 'monster trucks' race over a fraction of a width of the human hair in the first NanoRace

This was one exciting event. Now that's a race I'd watch!