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Google's AlphaZero surpassed the sum of human chess knowledge -- in 4 hours

Feeling outdated yet?

Scientists name 245-million-year-old Horseshoe crab after Darth Vader

The force is strong with this one.

Biology can help patch the flaws in our robots, metastudy reports

Life to the rescue!

Researchers 3D-print shockingly realistic human organ models

This could soon pave the way for real, functioning organs.

Swarm AI correctly predicted TIME's Person of the Year

The swarm intelligence found the #MeToo movement as the clear winner. It's the second time in a row it guessed TIME's POTY.

Oldest black hole found by astronomers -- the gargantuan object lies 13 billion light years away from us

It's the farthest, oldest, and perhaps most mysterious object we've ever discovered.

With a 3-D printed attachment, your laundry bottle could order more detergent when it's running low

Smart or lazy?

Newly discovered amphibious dinosaur had swan-like body but killer raptor claws

A crazy dino chimera.

Squeezing crystals from plant waste generates electricity

A biodegradable plant protein can be crushed to directly generate electricity.

3D-printed "living tattoo" turns bacteria into sensors and computers you can wear

Handy!

Palm oil deforestation is slowly killing the Sumatran Tiger

Future generations may live in a world without this majestic animal.

First all-electric cargo ship built in China will start its career drenched in irony

Cool achievement, ignoble task.

Ginormous hydrogen clouds whizz around the Milky Way at phenomenal speeds

Scientists gain new insight into mysterious cloud formations traveling around the galaxy.

Bronze Age people used meteorites to create iron weapons

Bronze Age people used space weapons. Well, a few of them did.

Robot learns like a toddler to predict future outcomes in its environment

Taking inspiration from babies, this machine learns to predict seconds into the future.

ISS bacteria is almost the same as in your home, and that's a good thing

Microbes seem at home in the space lab.

Win-Win: Eat healthy for yourself but also for the environment

If you want to do the environment and yourself a favor, just eat healthily. There will be fewer emissions and less land use.

Europa's tectonics might be powered by salt, could sustain life on the moon

Different causes, same effect.

Amniotic fluid contains a wealth of stem cells that can be safely and non-invasively extracted

They could help many more patients in need of cell therapy.

Morally outraged tweets spread better, but largely stay within 'red' and 'blue' bubbles

A graph that speaks 1,000 words about how ideology is trapped in the same bubble on social media.

Ice Age era caves found below the Canadian city of Montréal

An interesting discovery!

One in two abortions worldwide not deemed safe. Most take place in countries with restrictive abortion laws

Illegal abortions are correlated with dangerously unsafe abortions.

Drones to offer faster, cheaper monitoring of Antarctica's ecosystems

Their job will be to take pictures of fat seals and I'm so, so envious.

Fishing banned in the thawing Arctic for the next 16 years in historic pact

Sometimes, the world can work together for the common gold.

Scientists track and study sharks by analyzing environmental water DNA

The method could open a breakthrough for shark research.

Recurring nightmares likely stem from unfulfilled basic psychological needs

Everyone needs to cope -- even brains.

Five weeks of Zumba makes you not only fitter but also happier, study reports

Physical activity does wonders not only for your body but for your mind as well.

The first migrane-specific drugs to show promise in late-stage clinical trials

A new class of drugs might save you a lot of headaches.

With Flink, researchers will be able to 3D print living minifactories

Ever needed a tiny, living factory? Of course you did, you just didn't know it.

Google now runs 100% on renewable energy -- 3.0 gigawatts of it

Leading by example, Google invests more and more into renewable energy.

Being overweight is even more harmful than we thought, new study shows

We knew that extra pounds are bad for your health, but a new study claims that we may have underestimated the effect.

NYC's uptown and downtown rats don't mix, new study found

A young graduate student spent years studying the genes of NYC rats.

Huge exoplanet ten times more massive than Jupiter has unique carbon monoxide atmosphere

There's no water in its stratosphere -- a first that might change what scientists think Hot Jupiters form.

NASA algorithm and citizen scientists allow biologists to track whale sharks

The research could help us better understand and protect these gentle giants.

Antidepressants that make it past water treatment cause fish to fear predators less

Our human medication is affecting the behaviour of animals that live in the water.

A lot of eggs in one basket: Paleontologists discover pterosaur egg bonanza

They say don't put your eggs in one basket, but what about putting your eggs in the same bedrock?

The unfabulous reason why glitter should be banned 

Scientists glitter can be a health hazard for wildlife once it ends up in waterways.

Volcano in Bali has been erupting for over a week, and things might get even worse

Things are really heating up in Bali.

Supervolcano eruptions might be more common than we thought -- but there's still no need to panic

If it happens, it happens -- there's not that much we can do about it.

Rising seas risk washing tens of thousands archaeological sites clean off the map in the US alone

Children in the future will have a much soggier view of their roots.

Price of new solar energy plummets by 26% in one single year

It's more profitable to start deploying new solar now than operating currently existing coal or nuclear plants.

DNA just got a major update, with readable synthetic nucleotides

Half-synthetic life isn't sci-fi any longer.

Particle accelerator peers inside rare Egyptian-Roman mummy

This is one of only 100 such portrait mummies ever found in the world.

Prehistoric women had strong, bulky arms -- more powerful than today's athletes

Think you're buffed today? Well, I've got some news for you...

World's smallest fidget spinner is no bigger than a human hair

3-D printing just got a lot sexier.

What was the Indus Valley Civilization: the forgotten superpower of the ancient world

One of the most advanced civilizations on Earth at its time, the Harappans tragically never made it out of Antiquity.

NASA's new 2020 rover will look a lot like Curiosity but with some important tweaks

Those are some big wheels to fill.

Deepest fish in the sea is the undisputed king of the Mariana Trench

A ghostly, tiny fish dominates the deepest layers of the ocean.

Archaeologists find first ever evidence of Julius Caesar invading Britain

Caesar's incursion in Britain might have been more successful than we thought.

"Yeti" samples have been DNA tested and they actually come from Asian bears

Not so abominable.