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Cars or watches with wider faces makes consumers feel more dominant

People generally avoid people with wide faces but seem to be attracted to products with the same trait.

Diamond rain of Neptune and Uranus mimicked in the lab by scientists

Yes, on some planets it rains diamonds!

Waste not, want not: astronauts to turn pee into nutrients, tools on deep-space missions

Stay hydrated up there, ladies and gents.

Book Review: 'Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve'

A must-read book spanning time and science.

Trump Administration reverses ban on plastic water bottles in America's national parks. ‘Corporate agenda is king,' say environmentalists

The latest in a long running-list of anti-environmental measures by the President and team.

Increasing the price of US cigarettes by just one dollar per pack would lead to one million people kicking the habit

A small increase to bring about huge change.

Learning and exploration might drive teenagers' risky, bad decisions, not poor impulse control

Ah, adolescence... so glad I'm over that.

Around 4,500 years ago, Vietnamese stone-age traders traveled hundreds of kilometers to sell their wares

Unsurprisingly, they traded a lot of stone.

Preliminary results suggests probiotic immunotherapy cures peanut allergy four years after treatment

Sometimes you have to fight nuts with nuts (and probiotic).

Scientists use the world's smallest chisel to investigate dagger-wielding bacteria

Amoebophilus doesn't play around.

Finally, a large-scale probiotics trial is successful -- it combats infant sepsis

It's one of the few major trials that actually reported success.

Ocean exploration reveals trove of natural diversity off Cuba's shores

The reefs seem healthier... let's try to keep them that way.

Scientists make healthy sperm in the lab, raising hope for those suffering from genetic male infertility

They started from a mouse's ear tissue cells, which they eventually turned into healthy sperm.

Talking in a foreign language makes our decision more about utility, less about emotion

The language we use really does influence what our brains are doing.

Micro-vehicles move through a mouse stomach, healing its ulcers

The future is here.

Scientists figure out the "recipe" for magic mushrooms

Psilocybin has repeatedly shown promise in treating some mental issues -- this might usher in a new age of testing.

How algae prepared the ground for complex life 650 million years ago

The story of the rise of the algae.

Baby dolphin killed as hundreds of selfish tourists take pictures with it

Please stop taking photos with wild animals!

Untouched 106 year old fruitcake found in the Antarctic -- it's probably still edible

No one touched it for more than a century, not even the penguins.

Gene variant that makes plump, juicy tomatoes identified by scientists

Who doesn't love a plump tomato?

Why adding water to whiskey makes it taste better, or so some scientists claim

Diluting whiskey with a touch of water can enhance its taste.

Drug-resistant candida outbreaks in the UK despite hospital efforts to control it

The CDC deemed this fungus a "serious global health threat."

Missing link dinosaur bridges the gap between vegetarians and meat eating dinosaurs

This missing link provides a glimpse into how different dinosaurs groups split and evolved differently.

Blood test can find cancer even before any symptoms emerge

Genetic sequencing could pave the way for a new age of cancer detection.

Ancient coins reveal when Rome became an empire

Even in science, you can learn a lot of things if you follow the money.

Trump Forest wants to compensate for the POTUS' climate policy by planting 100 new billion trees

Nope, it's not Trump's idea.

Researchers hijack plant to produce polio vaccine

Anti-vaxxers finally have a natural option.

Fish farming could cover our demand for seafood one hundred times over, paper estimates

Something smells fishy... Oh wait, it's my lunch.

What does 5-sigma mean in science?

In science, there's no room for certainty. But we can get close enough by using statistical significance.

Knee arthritis has doubled since 1950, and we don't really know why

Aging and obesity alone cannot explain it.

Popular pesticides are killing of bumblebees by preventing them from laying eggs

It's time to face it: our pesticides are killing off bees -- and bumblebees.

New tectonic plate discovered off the cost of Ecuador

We might be missing a few more.

Same-sex couples have no influence on child's gender identity

It's a prejudice that just has to go.

New insights into testicular macrophages, the guardians of male fertility

Meet the testis police!

Nanotech makes solar panels literally green, hopefully making them more appealing

What's your excuse now for not using solar energy?

Chicago tree map reveals intriguing pattern: trees seem to reduce crime rate

The benefits that trees provide -- both in terms of the environment and our health -- should not be understated.

UN declares Somalia polio-free

Soon, we might truly eradicate polio.

Scientists find 91 new volcanoes miles beneath Antarctica's thick ice sheet

Exciting but scary news at the same time.

Pakistan just planted one billion trees to tackle deforestation and climate change

Talk about pulling your weight!

Why were there three cows on Antarctica in 1933?

It wasn't just for the milk...

Feeling bad about feeling bad makes you feel even worse

Turn that frown upside down? No, just accept that sometimes it's OK to feel bad.

A history of how computers went from stealing your heart, to stealing your job

They changed our society from the ground up. And will do so again.

Why sea levels around Finland and Sweden are dropping while the rest of the world is drowning

Earth is not a bathtub and some places actually experience a sea level drop due to climate change.

Arizona fleas now carrying the plague, doctors warn

Yes, THE plague.

We can form new memories while we're asleep but not the meaningful kind

The implications aren't clear yet but you won't learn French in your sleep anytime soon.

A $550 handheld spectral analyzer could usher in new medical revolution

Hi-tech is getting smaller and cheaper.

Elon Musk's AI just beat the pros at Dota 2 -- one of the most popular and complex computer games

Robots are now beating us at computer games.

Goldfish make alcohol to survive the winter without oxygen

Go home goldfish, you're drunk.

Chocolate files: from the early days to today's dark pleasure

Chocolate is… who am I kidding — we all know what chocolate is. It’s sweet, delicious pleasure. But chocolate, this seemingly simple product has a rich and complex history which stems for almost 4,000 years. Before it took the beloved form we know today, chocolate had medicinal and ritualistic uses. The Early Mesoamerican days The Aztecs […]

Hewlett Packard supercomputer to be delivered to the ISS next Monday

Time to dust off that old Skyrim dvd.