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Security experts crack smartphone PIN using only the motion sensor data. By the third try, the algorithm was 94 percent accurate

The algorithm exploited the motion and orientation data recorded by a smartphone's accelerometer or gyroscope.

Sleeping around makes it hard to speciate by mixing genes, paper shows

I don't even want to speciate.

Comb Jellies may have been the first animals ever

The debate isn't over, but a comprehensive gene study suggests marine jellyfish were the first creatures to diverge. This distinction is commonly attributed to sponges.

Scientists tie antibody escorts on white blood cells' access points to stop HIV dead in its tracks

It's more effective than welding a slab of steel on the Death Star's thermal exhaust port.

Bacterial communities take turns to eat when food becomes scarce

Aww, they have tiny economic agreements, ain't that cute?

Want to know why you are a “night owl”?

It's heritable.

Men trophy hunt to show off to the ladies, new research found

Please don't do it with these people, ladies.

Scientists class the smells of old books in an 'historic paper odor wheel'

The study found that most people think old books smell like 'chocolate'.

Puffins that migrate together make more chicks

Puffins mate for life but when they also travel together, they become better parents.

World's oldest fillings come from the stone age and they're basically asphalt

Sink your teeth into this story.

Falling Fruit map shows where to find free food in and around your town

Money doesn't grow on trees but food does.

Tesla presents a new sleek line of exclusive solar panels built by Panasonic

The American company is looking to position itself as a sustainable energy power house.

Zooplankton are armed to the teeth with spears and ballistic weapons, electron photography shows

+10 attack, -3 inventory space.

Add another perk to eating fruits and veggies: they lower blood pressure

Does this not look delicious to you?

Rome metro workers accidentally find 2,300 year-old aqueduct

They found so many things they're going to open a museum right in the new metro station.

Found: oldest settlement in North America, confirms local tribe history

The ancient stories held some truth after all.

Most Americans believe climate change is real but the media war on science clearly shows its teeth

More and more Americans are waking up to reality but many are still left dazed and confused.

This year's 22 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts are out of this world

It's incredible what humans can do with some funding.

Farms could slash pesticide use without losing any yield or money, new study finds

More and more evidence is piling up against the use of pesticides.

Trying to stay motivated? Shift your strategy from 'do better' to 'avoid worse' mid-game

It's all a matter of perspective.

Dank science: Jerusalem University launches marijuana study center

This new research center is set to deliver quite a buzz.

Climate change will make flights worse too. Severe turbulences may increase by 150%, study finds

There's no reason to panic but what's certain is flights will become more uncomfortable.

Six-month olds like people who protect the weak, suggesting we're born with a love for superheroes

We may be born with an innate sense of right and wrong.

Researchers discover atmosphere around an Earth-like planet

Can we get excited yet? Mmm no, not really.

Using e-charcoal to heat hookah pipes might kill eight times more lung cells than traditional charcoal

Smoking tobacco with hookah pipes is not harmless at all, despite what you might have heard.

How many calories does a human body have? Stone Age cannibals must not have been very satisfied

Cannibalism for food doesn't make much sense a recent study suggests.

Radio observatory equivalent to the size of Earth sets its gaze to the center of the Milky Way to image a supermassive black hole

This was thought to be impossible to undertake until not too long ago.

A reef-killing starfish's pheromones could be harnessed to exterminate them— and help the reefs!

The starfish are worse for the reefs than bleaching and disease combined.

There are now nearly a billion smokers in the world, more than ever despite smoking rates have come down

In 2015, one in ten people died because of smoking.

“Smart” contact lenses could sense your glucose levels in the near future

Results would be conveniently transmitted to your smartphone.

The Mediterranean fish stocks have almost completely collapsed

It is not looking good.

Novel polymer might enable self-healing smartphones and other electronics

Cracked screens and scratches might finally become history.

One in ten pregnant women infected with Zika in the US had babies with birth defects

The report confirms getting infected in the first trimester comes with the most risks.

Mid-century CO2 levels might be as high as they've ever been in 50 million years

We have a pretty solid track record for ignoble milestones.

Europe's first cave fish has been found hiding in southern Germany

Caves are such extreme environments that animals need special adaptations to live there.

Forget Brexit, here's how Britain lost the land bridge that connected it to Europe 160,00 years ago

Two megafloods destroyed a huge land bridge that connected Dover to Calais.

Oldest mammal blood found in 30-million-year-old tick fossilized in amber

The wildest things can get trapped in amber.

Replacing nuclear power with coal plants may have caused babies to be born one-fourth of a pound lighter

From bad to worse.

Humanity is getting another "Doomsday Vault" in the Arctic -- a digital archive for human knowledge

Hopefully nothing happens though.

Unvaccinated children account for majority of pediatric deaths due to the flu

Immunization is important.

Astronauts aboard the ISS will grow crystals for drug development

Space crystals will help us make better drugs on Earth.

It's not you -- Scientific research is harder to read than ever

Science is getting harder and harder to read, and that's a problem.

Intact, 3,800 year-old tomb uncovered in Egypt

It's the 14th family member archaeologists have found in the area.

Graphene-based sieve makes drinking water out of seawater

Desalination might one day be as easy as passing water through a sieve.

Nanoribbons pave the way for switching graphene 'on-off'

A novel and better way to make graphene into a semiconductor.

Teaching smart cars how humans move could help make them safer and better

The hips don't lie.

Newly discovered tyrannosaur species had a delicate face

Tyrannosaurs may have had unexpectedly sensitive faces.

Tiny Scottish island powers itself 100% with community-owned off-the-grid renewable energy system

Lessons to be learned.

Mars' Arsia Mons and the dinosaurs went extinct at the same time. Coincidence?! Definitely

#sync.

New protein can increase yields, save farmers millions every year

A tiny protein which can make a big difference!