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Trump Forest wants to compensate for the POTUS' climate policy by planting 100 new billion trees

Nope, it's not Trump's idea.

Fish farming could cover our demand for seafood one hundred times over, paper estimates

Something smells fishy... Oh wait, it's my lunch.

A history of how computers went from stealing your heart, to stealing your job

They changed our society from the ground up. And will do so again.

Hewlett Packard supercomputer to be delivered to the ISS next Monday

Time to dust off that old Skyrim dvd.

Massive caves in southern Brazil are actually ancient ground sloth burrows

Some are big enough to drive a car through.

Researchers identify anti-hallucination system in our brains

Too bad we don't have one for use against pseudoscience.

Chimpanzees can master circular relationships, rock-paper-scissors about as fast as a 4-year-old

Ah, R-P-S. The only civilized way of deciding who has to go to the store.

Scientists poke at the root of our need for personal space -- using fruit flies

Dopamine seems to be the key.

Tiny, fossilized ape skull brings us closer to the common human-ape ancestor, fuels debate over humanity's place of birth

Not bad for such a small thing.

People find robots that make mistakes more likable, more intelligent

If only I was a robot :(.

Excessive use of dental fixture cream leaves UK man without use of his legs

Always use drugs as per instructions!

Dinosaur discovered in Patagonia back in 2012 is the biggest animal to ever walk the Earth

He was probably a gentle giant. Accent on giant.

Loneliness might become a deadlier public health threat than obesity, researchers warn

Quality relationships can actually make you live longer. And better.

Air pollution wrecks our DNA, makes us more susceptible to heart failure

If you're expecting, taking some time to visit some more pristine areas of the world might do wonders to your baby's health in the long run.

Modern humans might've killed off the Neanderthals by eating all the mammoth

Dibs on the last slice.

We're made of stardust, but heavier elements are made of black-hole-and-neutron-star dust

It's not a contest uranium, jeez.

By 2100, hundreds of thousands of EU nationals will bake to death each year with only 3 degrees global warming

Things are heating up all over the world.

EPA's Office of Water director resigns to protest Trump's choke-hold of the agency

Budget cuts, operational shackling, and having to deal with Pruitt would be enough to make any man resign.

The 2017 Earth Overshoot day is here almost a week earlier than last year

That's, ugh, not good.

Conditions on early-Venus might have allowed for an ocean of liquid water

Well, they don't anymore.

Appetite of Amazonian cities impact wildlife up to 1,000 km away

Lots of mouths to feed.

Chronic cannabis use seems to "blunt" our stress reactivity, paper reports

That's not necessarily a good thing, however.

Norway plans to launch the world's first autonomous, fully electric ship next year

Such a shippy development!

World's first blue chrysanthemums are lab-engineered but look really pretty

More like GMawwww's.

A lost race of hominids left their legacy in the saliva of Sub-Saharan populations

Unlikely discoveries hide in unlikely places.

Neolithic cattle farmers were much more specialized than you'd think

They weren't simple savages.

World's first smiley face found, painted 3,700 years ago on a jug in Turkey

:O

The United States slides towards measles epidemics (again) because people don't vaccinate

Non-medical exemptions and widespread misinformation are to blame.

The Grand Finale: NASA plans to see Cassini off with a trail of fire as it crashes into Saturn

The Cassini spacecraft will get a burial place fit for such a long-trekked explorer: Saturn.

US Senate says White House's proposed DOE budget cuts are "short-sighted," increases funding instead

Hahaha.

Bubble physics can explain why dialects appear and how they evolve

It's a bubble-eats-bubble world out there.

DARPA awards $65 million to make CRISPR safer, more efficient

Money well spent!

Researchers will drill into one of Earth's youngest islands to understand how land forms

It's not even at retirement age yet.

Blogger submits glaringly fake 'Midichlorian' paper to nine journals, three publish it for free, fourth asks for cash

May the odds forever be in your favor, researchers.

First operational laser weapon set to safeguard US ships from menacing drones

Blowing stuff up at the speed of light.

Pangolin poaching is driving the species extinct, despite international trade ban

Please stop.

Plant-like robot can grow 250 times its length, manipulate objects, form complex shapes

Awesome!

France's import of brainpower will likely make it a nexus of climate science

Make the planet great again!

Boiling-acid-proof virus' outer shell structure could inspire better medication, sturdier buildings

Not bad for such a small thing.

Second gene-silencing mechanism found, could lead to viable clones and safer in vitro

It's gotta be pretty important if it has a back-up system in place.

A single 'letter' difference in their DNA made some whales huge, others sleek and predatory

That's one really dramatic typo.

Bamboo sharks really have to put their back into eating -- literally

Specifically, they put their shoulders into it.

Otzi's copper axe offers hints of 'extensive trade networks' in Italy 5,300 years ago

This would make it one of the earliest organized trade networks in the area.

Too much hair, or too little? There's a single mechanism that causes both and we could fix it with meds

And in the future we should be able to control it with a pill.

Give Elon 10,000 sq miles and he'll give you a fully solar-powered US

Sounds like a deal.

What is petroleum, and where does it come from?

You gotta crack some plankton to make crude oil.

The earliest large organisms on Earth were shapeshifters

Nifty trick.

One in five bots sharing fake news during France's presidential election were also involved in the United States'

Oh my, now isn't this a very strange coincidence?

What is pasteurization, and how does it keep milk fresh for 9 months at a time?

What wizardry is this!? Find out here.

The UN calls for an end on the War on Drugs and "prevention and treatment" as a replacement

It just doesn't work.

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