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Riches make your happiness about yourself, a tight budget makes it about others

Ironically, if you don't make enough € you probably have more pressing concerns than making art.

Human touch can feel molecule-thin differences, according to new study

Receptors in our ligaments, knuckles, wrist, elbow, and shoulder likely also play a part in our sense of touch.

"Exceptional" mammoth skeleton sold for over half a million dollars in France

He's fat AND big boned. Well, was. Now he's just big boned.

Old-growth forests offer safe haven to bird species struggling with climate change

They're really nice cool places for raising baby birds -- or fo rest!

Mulgaras emerge in Australia's south-west after over a century of being considered extinct

So CUTE!

Functional hydrogen-boron fusion could be here "within the next decade", powered by huge lasers

Stable fusion is the holy grail of energy production.

Fracking linked to low-weight, less healthy babies

Run for the hills! Or at least 2 miles away, as that seems to be the 'danger radius'.

Shatter-proof smartphones are one step closer as researchers tame glass on the atomic level

Rejoice, ye clumsy-fingered!

Jupiter is still a ridiculously beautiful place judging from Juno's pics, and here's how it does it

A dash of chemistry, a stroke of physics, all mixed in with behemothian mass.

Human-use anesthetics also knock out plants, weirdly, teaching us a lot about such drugs

It's funny to realize that we've been using anesthetics for at least a century now, but we still don't *really* know why they work.

Ancient amber reveals that ticks dined on feathered dinosaurs, too

No respite from the bite.

Ancient tomb filled with stunning, pillaged bronze vessels, found in China

Ever seen a wine bottle shaped like a deer?

Right whales face extinction if humans don't intervene fast, NOAA researchers warn

The ocean will be less without them.

The difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells

Big differences hide in tiny things.

Woman burns her retinas looking at the eclipse and doctors take the first-ever pictures of such damage

Don't look at the sun!

Wildfires roar through Southern Cali as NASA and ESA satellites watch, powerless to intervene

Immense devastation has been wrought upon California this year.

World's oldest eye found in a fossil in Estonia is very similar to today's eyes

Not much has changed for the eye.

Google's AlphaZero surpassed the sum of human chess knowledge -- in 4 hours

Feeling outdated yet?

Biology can help patch the flaws in our robots, metastudy reports

Life to the rescue!

3D-printed "living tattoo" turns bacteria into sensors and computers you can wear

Handy!

First all-electric cargo ship built in China will start its career drenched in irony

Cool achievement, ignoble task.

Europa's tectonics might be powered by salt, could sustain life on the moon

Different causes, same effect.

Drones to offer faster, cheaper monitoring of Antarctica's ecosystems

Their job will be to take pictures of fat seals and I'm so, so envious.

Recurring nightmares likely stem from unfulfilled basic psychological needs

Everyone needs to cope -- even brains.

With Flink, researchers will be able to 3D print living minifactories

Ever needed a tiny, living factory? Of course you did, you just didn't know it.

Rising seas risk washing tens of thousands archaeological sites clean off the map in the US alone

Children in the future will have a much soggier view of their roots.

DNA just got a major update, with readable synthetic nucleotides

Half-synthetic life isn't sci-fi any longer.

What was the Indus Valley Civilization: the forgotten superpower of the ancient world

One of the most advanced civilizations on Earth at its time, the Harappans tragically never made it out of Antiquity.

UK archaeologists unearth "nationally important" collection of Iron Age artifacts

Among the most intriguing findings are a group of (likely ceremonial) cauldrons that show signs of long-term use and repair.

Artificial origami-inspired muscle can lift up to 1,000 times its own weight

When researchers from Harvard and MIT work together on something, it's probably going to be awesome. Case in point.

Swedish company builds food-laden 'Plantscaper' to feed the cities of the future

A skyscraper filled with food? Sign me up!

Brexit was fueled by xenofobia and a desire to dominate others in society, new paper reports

It's disturbingly reminiscent of "sentiments stirred by the Nazis in Germany."

US brewery wants to make beer on Mars -- so they're space-testing barley seeds next week

How do you go 'bottoms up' when there's no 'up' in space?!

"Ecological air conditioning" keeps species cool for now, but it won't last

Bad news. Bad, bad news.

"Felting" carbon nanotubes could finally allow us to use the wonder-material at large

Carbon nanotubes are one of the most promising materials humanity is looking into today -- problem is, they tend to break when mixed with anything else.

8,000 years old rock art in Saudi Arabia documents the earliest known use of dog leashes

Woof.

This startup plans to end rhino poaching by counterfeiting illegal goods -- and it could work

3D printed fake horns could drive the poachers out of a job.

A Chinese AI passed the national medical licensing exam, so technically it's a doctor

Move over, WebMD.

Neandethals in Spain outlived their kin by thousands of years thanks to a big river and an Italian volcano

The research suggests that human interbreeding was more of a 'step-by-step' event.

Chimps get grossed out too, pointing to the origins of disgust in humans

Nobody seems to like touching moist, soft stuff.

How much you'd pay for something depends on what prices you've seen recently

Well, that and how broke you are.

Huge treasure of medieval silver and gold unearthed at the Cluny Abbey, France

Somebody was absolutely minted back in medieval France!

NASA releases atmospheric simulation of this year's hurricane season

Cool and pretty at the same time!? NASA gets the best things!

4,000 year-old clay prenup mentions surrogate mothers and divorce taxes

The more things change the more they stay the same.

BMW pledges to 100% renewable power by 2020, at COP23

BMW is going green-er!

Why does hot water freezes faster than cold water? Enter the Mpemba effect

Physics, the original troll.

London put its most important Roman ruins back underground to make an innovative museum

First discovered in a bomb crater, the Mithraeum has had a long journey back underground.

At climate talks, Canada steps up while the US steps down

There's no such thing as clean coal.

Humanity gets its second Warning: We're crippling the planet

We need to take corrective measures fast or we risk losing the only home we've ever known.

Europe will get 10,000 EV charging points and an 'electric highway' to connect Italy to Norway by 2020

Old world, new tricks.

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