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Facebook: where relationship builders, town criers, window shoppers, and selfies come to chat

Which one are you?

Extremely high doses of vitamin D help with sunburns, reduce inflammation, heal skin cells

By 'extremely high' I mean 100-500 times the daily recommended dose.

The lid stays shut on methane emissions despite Pruitt's wishes, Columbia Court of Appeals judges rule

A major blow for the Trump administration.

Curious what a Tesla battery rack looks like inside? Watch these guys throw one off the roof to find out

I mean, it's a pretty solid method.

Chinese pandas will slash over 2.74 tons of CO2 emissions in the next 25 yeas -- because they're solar plants

Best. Story. Ever.

This video ISS astronauts shot of the norther lights is just the thing to brighten up your day

Nature, being ridiculously cool since forever.

Supermassive black hole spotted struggling with its galactic meal

Sometimes, even a black hole can choke on its meal.

Researchers quantify basic rules of ethics and morality, plan to copy them into smart cars, even AI

Be good, drive good.

Aztec tower of skulls unearthed in Mexico City

That's... That's a lot of skulls.

Early Europeans may have survived the Ice Age because of arthritis

Ok, but can it go away now?

Your voice will always sound funny when talking to someone you think is your superior

Hear how unthreatening I am!

Corrected satellite data shows 2.4 times faster warming than previously indicated

It also debunks one of climate deniers most cited argument.

Climate-change-induced heat will kill tens of thousands of Americans every year by 2090

Or as the experts call it, Chinese-hoax-induced heat.

Is lighting up the answer to America's opioid epidemic?

Opiates kill pain -- but they also kill people.

Chocolate can keep your brain in good working order -- but don't overindulge

Science at its tastiest.

Older fathers tend to raise geekier children

Age matters!

Chinese province runs on 100% renewable energy for a week, saves half a million tonnes of coal

Bye bye coal.

What is the Wilson Cycle? The builder and slayer of supercontinents

There're two ways you can find out how supercontinents form. Reading this is the one where you don't have to wait millions of years.

Society will buckle under 2 billion climate-refugees by 2100 as rising oceans displace whole cities

The short of it keeps popping up in all kinds of studies: stop emissions!

Who do you spend most of your time with? The answer might surprise you

Birds of one feather flock together.

Coral reefs barely survived bleaching, will be gone within the century unless we act

And the world will be less without them.

Emmanuel Macron and the Terminator team up to "make the planet great again"

Better than the original slogan by a mile.

You're dumber when your smartphone is within reach

Uh-oh.

The UN expects Earth's 10 billionth inhabitant sometime in the early 2050s

We are legion!

Lensless camera designed to be paper-thin and do anything a traditional camera does

Except being bulky.

Meaning is better than repetition when you're trying to memorize

Try it for finals.

Computer chip can mimic human neurons using only beams of light

Just MIT doing a bit of light thinking.

Steaming fish makes for a healthier meal with fewer toxins

If you boil it, don't drink the fish stock.

Why wheelie suitcases wobble out of control and what you can do to stop them

Ah, wheeled luggage -- a necessary evil.

Stress as a child may leave you unable to cope with stress and depression later on

Stress -- it's never good for you. But sometimes, it's worse.

Cute animal therapy can be exactly what you need to put the spark back into your marriage

Then again, do you really need a reason to take "cute animal therapy"?

Bound around the axe: what is fascism and why do societies turn to it

It's never the same everywhere.

German researchers release open-source tomato and wheat seeds to boost research

Nice!

Papr works like Tinder but with pre-prints instead of people

"That's one hot abstract!"

The CDC warns that "chronic Lyme" is bogus and the treatments are horrifying and deadly

The only thing 'chronic' about chronic Lyme is the suffering treatments will cause you.

Solar paint makes hydrogen fuel from solar energy and water vapor

Power from thin-ish air!

Broccoli-derived compound could become a new treatment for type 2 diabetes

If there's something strange with your blood sugar levels, who you gonna call? Bro-ccoli!

There will be no renegotiation of the Paris agreement, EU Parliament tells Trump

Uh-oh.

Drones in Sweden carry defibrillators to save cardiac arrest victims

They reduced response times by over 75% during trials.

Viral infections impair our muscles' and skeleton's ability to regenerate, scientists report

That's not very nice of them.

Salem Fire Department veteran explains basic fire behavior with a burning dollhouse

Know how it acts and stay safe.

Cash 4 Weight Loss programme shown to work and make people excited about exercise

That sounds more like wizardry than science.

Scientists map out the bits of DNA damaged by smoking

The method can be used for any type of damage where the cell has to replace bits of DNA.

Germany, Belgium, Denmark, pledge to quintuple the EU's offshore wind in a decade

No halfsies!

IBM puts its technological might to work solving world problems under the Science for Social Good initiative

I B very happy with this.

Green living at home: a list of techs to hack your house into clean energy

If you're looking to power your home cleanly, here's a good place to start.

New fossil proves there was life on Earth hundreds of millions of years earlier than we've though

Not your everyday find.

As Trump alienates the US from the rest of the world, California Gov. takes up climate talks with China

When life gives you lemons..

Endowing AI with confidence and doubt will make it more useful, paper argues

More like us, in other words.

EpiPen still expensive and critics should go "copulate with themselves," Mylan chairman thinks

But they, you know, "care about the patient" and stuff.

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