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Around 40% of gun owners don't keep guns at home hidden or locked

This straight-up isn't safe, people.

What's the link between music, pleasure, and emotion?

It's basically just sound, so why can it influence us as it does?

Fossil Friday: teeny tiny T. rexes showcase the predator's teenage years

"It's not just a phase, mom!"

African grey parrots will help their peers without expecting anything in return

Isn’t that nice?

Cooperation and polarization have the same root, study finds

With great social ability comes great responsibility.

People will happily donate their personal data for a good cause

I'm happy to share my data, just not for someone to profit off of it.

Predators can change their prey's brains

Somewhere in Trinidad, killifish are growing more brain cells to avoid predators.

Decommissioning coal-fired plants saved lives and improved crop yields in the US

Natural gas, while not ideal, is still less dirty to burn than coal.

Cut down half the forest and the rest quickly follows suit

Deforestation for agriculture is the leading cause of man-made landscape shifts.

Birds and bats have very weird gut bacteria, and it's likely linked to flying

If you wanna fly, sacrifices must be made; mostly in the gut.

We're one step closer to printing functional human ovaries

That's not something you hear every day.

Wildlife is doing just fine at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster site

The team found that the "level of human activity, elevation and habitat type" had a larger effect on wildlife than radiation.

Venus might still be volcanically active, according to its infrared emissions

Earth's sister planet might also enjoy a bit of volcanism.

Helping others helps your brain feel less pain

Altruism and pain management seem to go hand in hand.

Video games can be the path to mindfulness if you design them right

A new game aims to change "how people think or process information they're trying to learn."

Malaria-bearing mosquitoes are evolving insecticide-resistant feet

But we now know how to stop it.

Tomorrow's fossils will be human skeletons "lined up in rows," domestic animals, and not much else

"The future mammal record will be mostly cows, pigs, sheep, goats, dogs, cats, etc., and people themselves," the authors note.

A clock error spoiled NASA's Christmas mission -- but the craft just landed, safe and sound

The mission was a bust -- but we got the spaceship back!

In the Earth's core, it's snowing iron

Seasonally appropriate news.

How asbestos makes people sick

Asbestos is a really useful mineral but it's also incredibly dangerous to handle.

More atmospheric CO2 could reduce cognitive ability, especially in children

Students could see a 50% decline in cognitive capacity by 2100 if CO2 emissions don't drop.

Most people think they're doing more for the environment than everyone else -- but that's not how averages work

Ironically, it makes us put in less and less effort.

Better diets could save billions in U.S. health care costs

Eating well is good for you and the national budget.

One in two American adults could be obese by 2030 -- and one in four severely obese

"Prevention is going to be key to better managing this epidemic," the authors explain.

Password meters may actually help make your data less secure by offering 'misleading' advice

'Password1!' isn't a good password.

The rise and fall of hemp -- and how we can make it great again

This humble plant has a long history, and an even longer list of uses.

Australia records its hottest day ever -- while burning from a thousand bushfires

A nationwide average temperature of 40.9 degrees Celsius this Tuesday set a new record for the land down under.

Frank Force wins Best Illusion of 2019 award with a simple, but effective shape

I know what he's doing, but it still works.

Obesity and undernutrition now come together -- over 1 in 3 poor and middle-income countries struggle with both

You can starve on too much food.

Tasty moths try to evade predators -- unappetizing moths don't really bother

Moths that employ chemical defenses aren't in a hurry to avoid predatory bats.

In 2019, Brazil cut down twice as much of the Amazon as it did in the previous year

All in all, some 563 square kilometers (217 square miles) of forest were cut down in November.

When trying out creative ideas, go for your second choice, a new study finds

"We're probably all killing a lot of our best ideas early in the creative process without knowing it," says the author.

Food availability acts as a cap for whales's maximum size

Both baleen and toothed whales grew as large as their food allowed.

A new study says oxygen buildup on Earth was "inevitable," and maybe on other planets, too

The findings offer renewed hope of finding oxygen on alien worlds.

Artwork in Indonesia might be the new 'oldest' hunting scene by modern humans

Indonesia may be the home of the oldest cave paintings of hunting bands found in the world. A new study reports on what appears to be a depiction of human-like figures hunting wild buffalo and pigs at the Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 site in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It was dated to be approximately 43,900-years old. […]

Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than in the 1990s

On current trends, Greenland ice melting will cause 100 million people to be flooded each year by 2100.

Ancient whale fossil show how the mammals moved to life in the ocean

The fossil might represent a transitional stage between foot-powered and tail-powered swimming in modern whales.

Climate change is destroying jobs in New England's fisheries

"As we see more warm winters off the New England coast, fewer fishermen stay in business," the authors say.

New fossil rewrites the evolutionary history of sea lilies

"It's not very often that we're challenging ideas that are almost two hundred years old," says the team.

We create 'fake news' when facts don't match our biases

Don't believe everything you think

The European Union can and must decarbonize its transport sector: here's how

A business-as-usual scenario is no longer viable, according to the EU's Science Advisory Council.

We have the first genetic evidence of human self-domestication

Our ancestors screened partners for 'niceness' -- and our genomes reflect that.

Language forms spontaneously, and fast

People love to communicate -- there are over 7,000 languages in use today.

Is that bowl of ramen giving you a stroke? A study says 'maybe'

The high salt content of ramen could increase your chances of having a stroke.

Carbon emission growth rates go down, overall emissions reach record highs (again)

"When the good news is that emissions growth is slower than last year, we need help," the researchers explain.

Most people struggle to read cats' expressions, but "cat whisperers" don't

It's a skill that can likely be trained, the team explains.

NASA and amateur space enthusiast find lost Indian moon lander

Parts from the craft landed in almost two dozen locations spanning several kilometers.

European satellites track climate shifts using ocean salinity

The team is currently working with climate scientists to compare the new dataset with in situ observations and with the output from salinity models.

Mortality rates are rising among working-age Americans, but not in other countries

The study represents one of the most comprehensive analyses of U.S. mortality rates among the 50 states.

Fossil Friday: this meat-eating dino could grow a fresh tooth in 60 days

It takes me longer to even decide to go to the dentist.

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