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Living near a crowded street seems to increase dementia risk

Move away from the busy roads.

Paleontologists find 'incredibly rare' 52 million year-old fossilized berry

Geoscientists working in South America have uncovered an ancient berry.

Revenge is sweet because it repairs mood after becoming rejected or hurt in some way

Being aggressive to people around you can enhance mood after feeling rejected. You should know better, though.

Physical activity, whether or not it's exercise, makes you happier

Move if you want to be happy!

A minority of women go through extreme PMS - and now we know why

Researchers have discovered that a minority of women go through severe premenstrual syndrome (PMS) symptoms due to a hormonal abnormality.

Human teenagers and young worms can be just as ambivalent and erratic

According to this study, teenage brains are more flexible.

Ants craft tiny sponges to make it easier to carry food

"Ants are smarter than we give them credit for" is something we seem to write a lot - and yet it happened again.

China's north is crippled by winter smog crisis. People advised to stay indoors because 'The snow is very dirty!'

One city in China registered an air quality index of 999, which is literally off the charts.

Memories for opposing behaviors are stored in the same parts of the brain, study finds

One step closer to understanding memory.

Critical version of 'Mein Kampf' a huge hit in Germany

Some books shouldn't be banned, but fought head on.

The surprisingly colorful underwater ecosystem beneath Antarctica's sea ice

Simply stunning!

NASA selects two more missions to explore the solar system

NASA has just selected two missions to study the early solar system.

Western civilization could collapse within a decade due to political in-fighting

By crunching math and history together, some scientists hope to warn us of the future.

CO2 trapped in soil is leaking, exacerbating global warming

If the paper is right, then 17 percent more emissions will be released into the atmosphere by 2050.

The dead center of North America is serendipitously located in a small town called Center, North Dakota

This was actually very challenging to pinpoint.

What shape is the Universe, really?

The Universe is flat, according to modern research. But what does that mean?

Sci-fi buffs everywhere, rejoyce! The UK military is developing laser weapons

The prototype should be delivered in 2019.

Exotic carbon molecule has six bonds, breaking the four-bond limit

This molecule doesn't play by the rules.

Seahorses have the fastest evolving genome

Seahorses are even more spectacular than we thought.

Why there is no global warming hiatus -- new study confirms the obvious

The planet is still warming , and fast.

Rubies and sapphires rain down on huge planet

Still a hellish planet, but a beautiful hellish planet at that.

Can you catch a bullet like you can catch a cold? Intriguing study looks at gun violence under epidemiology lens

Is gun violence contagious?

Why putting cotton swabs and other 'pointy' things inside your ear is a bad idea

Seriously, don't.

Meet the new organ of the human body: the mesentery

It's the 79th organ in the human body.

Slimy cell blob can learn and teach

Even without a brain, this cell blob can not only learn, but also pass on its experiences.

Scientists use Pokemon to show how to improve human memory

Gotta remember them all!

Dinosaur eggs may have needed as much as half a year to incubate. Too long for their own good

Unlike birds, dinosaurs spent a lot of time incubating their eggs.

Scientists are closer to bringing back enormous, ancient cow

Scientists are trying to de-extinct ancient cows called aurochs.

Thinking with your hands can help you find new ways to solve problems

An innovative study challenges the idea that all thinking is done in the head.

Renewables just surpassed coal as the largest source of new electricity

It's been a long and crazy ride, but coal's time seems to be finally fading away.

Mice cells get reprogrammed. The rodents aged slower and lived longer

Cell() { Turn_Younger('happier_rodents'; null); }

Renewable energy could generate up to 500,000 jobs in Morocco by 2040

Morocco's taking the right steps.

Your brain might have a specific circuit for political arguments

Almost all political arguments are futile. Here's why.

The world's most lightning-prone areas. The top spot gets zapped more than 200 times/square kilometer

A famous lake in Venezuela is where you'll find the most zaps per unit area.

Ugly, marred apples are more nutritious than their 'perfect' counterparts

They're just as - if not even more - delicious.

Finland starts basic income trial with 2,000 citizens. Each will get US$587/mo to spend as they wish

The new year kicked off with a historic pilot program in Finland.

Frequent sauna seems to protect from dementia and Alzheimer's, new study shows

Finnish people sure love their sauna - and there could be a good reason for that.

Sprinting towards extinction: cheetahs number plunge

The cheetahs can't outrun humanity.

Installing solar was cheaper than fossil fuels in 2016

It's happening - renewables are becoming cheaper than fossil fuels!

Researchers translate bat language. Turns out, they argue a lot

Turns out they argue. A lot.

How to grow food with hydroponics

Ditch the soil for faster growing veggies that use less water.

Baby Cardinal fish follow the magnetic field back home, scientists find

Fee-shee go home.

Brain network that picks words from the background noise revealed

Our brains are really good at sifting through information.

US and Canada ban offshore drilling in the Arctic

Obama hopes the move will be hard to undo for his successor.

For the first time in 37 years, it snowed in Sahara

Yes, it actually snowed in Sahara.

Six big pharmaceutical companies accused of price fixing

Big pharma has a bad name... and they seem to want to keep it.

Extremely rare, unlikely crystal found in Russian meteorite

They were once thought to be impossible.

Non-toxic spray stops mosquitoes from reproducing, halts spread of malaria

We now have a new weapon against the malaria-causing parasite.

Physicists observe the light spectrum of antimatter for the first time

Physicists just fulfilled one of their long-standing goals.

Leonardo Da Vinci's to-do list from 1490 makes you look like a pleb

Every day in this man's life seemed to have been remarkable.