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Bio-engineered Arctic apples coming soon to a supermarket near you

A Canadian biotechnology company has modified apples to resist browning for a longer time.

Just like humans, old bonobos suffer from long-sightedness

Stop blaming your computer.

WMO's "Global Climate in 2011-2015" report published, proves we need to act now

Hot, droughty, floody, deadly.

Scientists launch new survey of Yellowstone to make the most accurate map of the park's subsurface

The goal is to identify the pathways hot water uses to travel to the surface.

Damned Rivers: The Story of Pristine Rivers About to be Shackled for Energy

These rivers are absolutely damned.

Carbon dating confirms poachers are on a killing spree: 90% of ivory seized since 2002 is three years old

Forensic techniques suggest elephant massacres in Africa are as bad as we thought.

Machine learning identifies suicidal patterns with 93 percent accuracy

Machines can tell when someone is contemplating suicide.

Atomic-sandwich material could make computers 100 times more energy efficient

Don't need a calculator to know that's a lot.

Unlikely cooperation: Coyote and badger spotted hunting together

They're cute, smart, and extremely dangerous.

Oil & gas lobby shouldn't have a full seat at the climate table

The wolves, dining with the sheep.

World leaders convene for COP22 in Marrakech to turn promises into action

All eyes are on Marrakesh for the next two weeks as the most important climate event of the year unfolds.

China's new Five Year Plan calls for environmental protection, more clean energy

China has been making great progress, but there's still a ways to go.

New study might explain why winters have been more horrid in recent years

Researchers might have an explanation for why winters have gotten so horrendous.

Study looks at what makes some song stick in your head, while others don't

Don't read this if you're not in the mood to sing to yourself. Seriously.

There's a strange similarity between your cells and neutron stars

Researchers have found an intriguing resemblance between the human cells and neutron stars.

White House announces plan to cover 25,000 miles of highways in 35 states with EV charging stations

Better late than never.

A huge black hole is zipping 'naked' through the universe, and it's not phased one bit by it

What an astronomical flasher.

Cooking nuclear waste into glass and ceramic materials could provide safe, efficient containment

Vitrification is the way to go.

Presenting the electron kaleidoscope: the first ever colour electron microscope

This new technique could be revolutionary for science.

Smoking one pack a day causes your lung cells' DNA to mutate 150 times every year

It's not just your lungs either.

In 2014, the Ebola virus mutated to infect people more efficiently

Viruses are mutating and adapting to the human body.

Russian scientists stumble upon secret Nazi base in the Arctic

They did Nazi that coming.

Self-healing battery pulls itself back together if you cut it in half -- still delivers electricity

These electronics just won't die.

NASA celebrates 16 years of International Space Station with 16 amazing GIFs

16 years of a glorious experiment.

From Paris to Marrakech: The world is taking steps to curb climate change, but it's not nearly enough

Last year, world leaders gathered in Paris for a UN summit which could be decisive in humanity's history.

This 50,000-year-old settlement found in Australia's barren interior shows Aboriginal ancestors were skilled survivors

Right in the middle of nowhere, ancient humans ventured to start a new life.

Mount St. Helens, the deadliest volcano in the U.S., has cold feet

This powerful volcano is more bizarre than meets the eye.

This salty lake beneath the sea just kills everything inside it

They call it the "Jacuzzi of Despair" and rarely has a name been so fitting.

New method developed to create biocrude oil from wastewater

From your toilet to the gas tank.

ClientEarth vs UK Gov. verdict announced, officials have to tackle the problem

Their previous plans to clean the air were ruled to fall illegally short of the mark.

The biggest space telescope in the world, the JWST, is finally complete. It will launch in 2018

The James Webb Space Telescope can see a bumblebee a moon's distance away.

Curiosity finds weird metallic meteorite on Mars

While taking its usual stroll on Mars, the Curiosity Rover found something unexpected: a dark, smooth meteorite.

NASA's pumpkin competition absolutely smashes everything else

It's out of this world.

Chain-smoking robot lights up 12 cigarettes like a gatling gun for science

The real-life Bender could be a life saver.

New laser tech could be the life-sniffing 'nose' for NASA's next Mars rover

An innovative technology could drastically up our chances of finding alien life inside the solar system.

Wild cats' brains evolve to a different tune than those of primates, study finds

Same organ, different needs.

This might be the most accurate map of the world

It looks strange, but it's really accurate.

A new model to explain the Moon's weird orbit suggests a much more violent genesis

It doesn't answer everything -- but it's a good point to start from.

Jesus Christ's burial tomb sees light of day for the first time in 500 years

Hundreds gathered in Jerusalem's Old Town to witness a historic moment.

New thought framework could help psychologists understand mental illness

All that day-dreaming might be working in your favor.

Southern Europe might become a desert by 2100, which is really bad news

The paper's authors think it unlikely that we'll be able to prevent it.

Chinese leader pressures Trump to uphold milestone climate change pact if he's elected

Trump might jeopardize the most important climate change text in history.

Spinach doped with carbon nanotubes turns into explosive detector

The next generation of monitor sensing could be half plant, half machine.

Amazing photos of Exp 49 astronauts touching down on Earth after 115 days in space

One skilled photographer shows what coming to Earth feels like.

Arousal makes us more confident in what we perceive, study finds

Stressed, excited, or scared -- our brain kicks perception up a notch when we're aroused.

Support gets you to start working out but competition powers you to the end, study finds

Some pretty impressive results for team competition.

Newly proposed particles might solve five of physics' biggest problems, including dark matter

This may be the holy grail of physics we've all been waiting for.

Astronomers shoot incredible image of Jupiter-sized alien planet and its parent star 1,200 light-years away

A glimpse from outer space.

Study finds how to predict which brains respond to placebo treatments

One sugar pill can take away your pain -- if you've got the brain for it.

The GLEAM team shows us how space would look if we could see radio waves

Hint: it would be spectacular.