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You can still remember a foreign language even if you think it's forever forgotten

Exposure to a foreign language even at a meager age of six months can stick with you well into adulthood.

CERN celebrates completion of Liniac 4, its most powerful linear accelerator

In about three years from now, the LHC will receive its most powerful linear accelerator yet.

Public is skeptical of all research tied to a company, new study shows

It's the corporations, man, I'm telling you!

Scientists report new trove of information on Homo naledi, the newly discovered humanoid species

A primitive Homo species with some surprising skills.

Biology imparts us with instinctive color categories -- culture only shapes them

Color is hardwired into the brain.

In some U.S. counties, life expectancy can vary by as much as 20 years

Overall, life expectancy has increased in the country but not as much as it should have. The gap between many counties supports this argument.

EPA dismisses climate change scientists 'to replace them with industry reps'

Things are getting scarier and scarier.

Wild dolphins' immune systems are failing because of ocean pollution

Things are not looking good.

Economic mobility nearly halved in the United States since the 1940s

The American Dream is dying.

Our perception of a character comes not from their actions, but from how they compare to others

There's a thin line between hero and villain -- one we redraw quite liberally.

Unmanned US plane lands after two-year secret mission

Its purpose still remains a mystery.

Silica rains helped form Earth's crust four and a half billion years ago

Talk about hailstone, right?

Employees in low-level jobs are more stressed than superiors, and this imbalance follows through retirement as well

Stress grows the lower down the ladder you go.

Stephen Hawking revises his deadline for humans escaping Earth -- it's now just 100 years

Darn.

Replacing half the meat we eat with edible insects could could save a third of the world's farmlands

With 10 billion people soon on the horizon, eating meat is out of the question.

Oxford student creates the first synthetic retina from soft, biological materials

A synthetic retina developed from soft materials offers new hope for the visually impaired.

World's heaviest woman drops over 300 kgs (713 Pounds) after ambitious surgery

She weighed more than 500 kilograms!

Cell maps reveal how the body fights off cancer

Bunch up!

It's not just the poor: all Americans eat fast food about as often

Bite into this study.

SpaceX will launch three times more satellites than there currently are in orbit to give you fast internet

The first satellites could appear in 2019.

Researchers find 6,500 genes expressed differently in men and women

The genes, it's all in the genes.

Want to work on NASA's software and get paid for it? You'll love this challenge

Enter the High Performance Fast Computing Challenge.

"Last African Dinosaur" discovered in Morocco mine

A new study sheds new light on one of the last living African dinosaurs, from 66 million years ago.

Speech and language deficits aren't to blame for autistic children's tantrums

Knowing what it's not brings us one step closer to understanding what it is.

Advanced 77,000-year-old Stone Age weapons found in South Africa

Things became very serious at this point.

Watch amazing footage of Cassini diving towards Saturn

It's a one in a lifetime experience.

Yoga might help ease your menstrual pain, new review of study finds

Yoga might greatly reduce menstrual pain.

People with good memory get bored faster

The reason is pretty simple.

Guess what? Homeopathy doesn't work on cows, either

I wish people would stop trying to milk homeopathy already.

Medieval Christian monks may have sped up the evolution of the modern chicken

We may have to thank Christian monks for today's chicken.

EPA removes climate science website to "reflect the priorities... of President Trump and Administrator Pruitt"

The new age of censorship.

Be careful when using heart rate apps -- most aren't accurate at all

Don't take heart rate apps too seriously, unless they've been vetted by a health care professional.

New technique extracts plastics and antioxidants on the cheap from wheat bran

Bran new.

Antarctica's Blood Falls sheds its secrets

As is often the case, more questions arose after the mystery was solved.

Each language you speak in alters your perception of time, study finds

The pen is mightier than the clock too, it seems.

Cassini heard 'the big empty' when it dived through Saturn and its rings

The song before the 'grand finale'.

Atlanta lawmakers commit the city to 100% renewable energy by 2035

Green's the best, orange's a pest!

If you want a glimpse of an ancient human ancestor, the bonobo might be the closest you'll get

Our cousin, the bonobo, has remarkably changed very little. Anatomically, they're the most similar to a common ancestor out of all the apes.

There are now more than 9.4 million people working in the renewable energy sector

According to a new report released by an environment and energy consultancy, 9.4 million people globally work in renewable energy, more than at any other point in history.

Morning glory seeds are hardy enough to survive in space, experiment reveals

Seeds -- the tiny bunkers of life.

Testosterone makes men more confident in their instincts, less likely to question their impulses

We got this.

Human cartilage has been successfully 3D printed

Making new tissue could become as easy as bio-printing it.

Patient saved from antibiotic-resistant infection with novel bacteriophage treatment

A dramatic case with a happy ending. Antibiotic resistance is growing and threatens to kill 50 million people by 2050.

Time travel is proven possible -- but we'll likely never be able to build the machine, author says

He named his machine the TARDIS -- bonus points for that.

Google is shifting their focus from Search to artificial intelligence, CEO says

There's a lot of data to be had -- and Google wants it.

Despite spending $200 million, NASA still doesn't have a new space suit and that could delay an important deep space mission

Internal auditors weren't happy with the way NASA is making new space suits.

Depressed? It might be because your neurons got their branches tangled up

Keep it tidy, neurons.

How science might settle the debate around two famous Munch and da Vinci paintings

Even centuries later, science is able to decrypt some of art's biggest controversies.

Female dragonflies play dead to fool unwanted suitors

An old trick.

Dairy has been greatly underestimated and is an "excellent" protein source for children, study finds

Pass me that milk!