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Demand for Impossible Burgers is so large that the producer can't keep up

Chow down.

Fossil Friday: earliest known millipede found in piece of Burmese amber

It's nearly 100 million years old.

Feathered dinosaurs may have accidentally developed flying -- while running

Fake it till you make it.

Children prefer simple objects over toys because they're "not limited" to being a single thing

Sometimes, less is more. But for a few years in our lives, less can be everything.

There are arsenic-breathing microbes in the tropical Pacific, a new study finds

Oxygen? In this economy?! Pffff.

This one gene seems to underpin pancreatic cancers in mice

A gene that helps our pancreata repair can also lead to sickness.

Facebook might have more dead users than alive by 2100

This.... this is a novel problem.

Researchers identify the triggers for compulsive smartphone use

One moment, I got a text.

Climate change may make the oceans belch out CO2, study warns

Oh, how the waters have turned.

Fossil Friday: newly-discovered Callichimaera perplexa is an adorable, weird crab

How is it possible for something with those eyes to ever go extinct? How? Why?!

Researchers figure out how coffee can boost (some) solar cells

Oh great, more competition for my morning coffee.

Ocean dwellers are hit twice as hard by climate change as land-based species

Definitely not good.

NASA and partners will be holding an asteroid impact exercise at conference next week

Duck and cover!

Chinese Moon Station planned for 'in about ten years'

"Hey, I can see my house from here!"

Researchers unveil the most comprehensive atlas of coral reefs to date

Maps to the rescue.

What are the different types of energy

Don't let your boss find out, but in a physical sense, energy is defined as the ability to do work.

Fossil Friday: massive, ancient African carnivore found in a drawer in Kenya

It pays to stick your nose in museum drawers!

Plastic crystals identified as a solid, safe alternative to our refrigerants

A cool, solid research paper.

New research takes a look into how superstitions develop and enshrine themselves

They're cultural cheat-sheets.

AI developed to tackle physics problems is really good at summarizing research papers

"Researchers have developed a new representation process on the rotational unit of RUM, a recurrent memory that can be used to solve a broad spectrum of the neural revolution in natural language processing." A machine wrote those words.

Two newly-discovered Egyptian tombs look almost as fresh as the day they were painted

Jewels in the desert.

After a 300% surge in global cases, WHO and UNICEF directors say we're facing a 'measles crisis'

The moral of the story, kids, is get vaccinated.

New species of duck-billed dinosaur discovered in the Gobi Desert

"We hope that it will be very useful material for further study of the evolution of hadrosauroids, iguanodintians and ornithopods as well," the authors write.

Why is snow white?

...because it can't get a tan.

NASA research says ground-based global warming measurements are sound

"Both data sets demonstrate the earth's surface has been warming globally over this period, and that 2016, 2017, and 2015 have been the warmest years in the instrumental record," the authors explain.

This new approach to spotting incoming asteroids should keep our planet safe

"With the [new method] we can spot objects regardless of their surface color, and use it to measure their sizes and other surface properties," said the researchers.

Indicators of despair on the rise for Gen X-ers entering middle age, paper reports

"The increase in despair that occurs across the 30s is generalized to the entire cohort, regardless of race, ethnicity, education, and geography," the authors write.

First reliable evidence for 'social acceleration' comes from our shorter collective attention spans

Uuu, shiny.

Taking short breaks to reinforce memories is key to learning new skills or re-learning old ones

The secret to success is to take a short break, often.

New research says traffic exhaust is giving millions of kids asthma all around the world

That's a lot of kids.

Our immune systems may actually help create cavities, a new study finds

Is this mutiny?!

Fossil Friday: new study says Texas used to be a 'veritable Serengeti' 11 to 12 million years ago

If you like cool photos of fossils, we've got just the paper for you!

Why do pets like pats?

I mean... 'cause they're awesome.

The Alps will lose all their glaciers by 2100 if we don't do something about it

This is not the de-icing you are looking for.

Primate males with more ornamentation seem to have smaller testes, a new study finds

Don't judge a book by its cover; nor an orangutan by his cheek flanges.

Researchers estimate the monetary and health cost associated with particulate matter

Oh boy, it's not pretty.

New research produces a viable, biodegradable alternative to plastic

This might help us clamp down on plastic pollution.

Cold plasma reactor neutralizes 99.9% of airborne viruses in new study

Breathe in deep -- it's safe.

The International Space Station is teeming with bacteria and fungi

Step 1: live on hairless primate. Step 2: wait for said primate to go to space. Step 3: PROFIT!

Different personalities help species face and adapt to threats, environmental changes

Divided we stand!

Researchers are looking into giving AI the power of reading soldiers' minds -- to help them in battle

Cool research, even if its purpose is somewhat troubling.

Two-thirds of new energy installed in 2019 was renewable

Yay!

Sugar rushes just aren't a thing, researchers say

Can this bitter myth just go away already?

Fossil Friday: Jurassic crocodile shows us how the scaly killers came to be

The team says it looked more like a dolphin than a crocodile.

Bacteria coaxed into making high-performance proteins for space missions

The National Aeronautics and Spider Silk Administration is very excited about this study.

The hippocampus is the curator of our memories, new study suggests

The brain has an auto-complete feature for your memories. The hippocampus handles it.

We thought depression arises from just 18 genes -- we were wrong, new study finds

"We are not saying that depression is not heritable at all. It is. What we are saying is that depression is influenced by many many variants, and individually each of those has a miniscule effect."

New research sheds light into how our brains handle metaphors

Whether you break an egg or break into dance, our brain handles the word "break" the same.

Shooting stars: a look at the world's speediest jet aircraft

Some of these planes fly so high they break off rivets.

Researchers identify clump of neurons that block, or allow, frightful memories into our minds

Fear is the mind killer.

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