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Support gets you to start working out but competition powers you to the end, study finds

Some pretty impressive results for team competition.

Study finds how to predict which brains respond to placebo treatments

One sugar pill can take away your pain -- if you've got the brain for it.

The GLEAM team shows us how space would look if we could see radio waves

Hint: it would be spectacular.

New method developed to encode huge quantity of data in diamonds

Data is a girl's best friend.

Fossil Friday: the first dino brain (we've ever found)

We didn't even think it was possible to find one up to now.

Atom-by-atom chart of living fossil's shell could hold the key to understanding past climate

These tiny beings could hold a huge store of data.

ISS crew just planted their third lettuce crop, hope to make it a permanent farm

Lettuce have a feast, then!

Europeans picked up a customized immune system by having sex with Neanderthals

"Is that a more pronounced inflammatory response or are you just happy to see me?"

The combined capacity of the renewable energy sector overtakes that of coal

No more black lung.

Some parasitic plants can steal genes then use them against their hosts

That's not very nice.

Here's why there was no Twitter on Friday -- it's way scarier than you think

Hordes of zombie gadgets had something to do with it.

Archaeologists and brewers recreate 2,500 year old funeral drink from residues found in a tomb

A drink to die for.

Study finds viewing selfies on social media can make you miserable or jolly -- depending on how you see yourself

Seriously, why are selfies a thing?

Startup plans to fuel our cities by turning windows into power plants

Where there's light, SolarWindow can create power.

Iceland drilling project close to plugging into the Mid-Atlantic ridge

In a few months, Iceland will be drawing power directly from molten rock.

DeepMind can now learn how to use its memories, apply knowledge to new tasks

The AI developed by Alphabet, Google's parent company, just received a new and powerful update.

Hundreds of snow leopards are being killed every year, and that's unacceptable

One of the most beautiful big cats is dying out -- because of us.

Astronomers may have discovered a new cosmic phenomena -- and we don't really know what it is

What we do know is that it blasts enormously powerful X-rays into the void.

Scientists used brain stimulation to shut off the self-control center

Just a little electricity can change how you make any choice.

For the last 18 years, robotic mussels have been watching over our oceans

They've collected staggering amounts of data.

Portable smartphone laboratory can detect cancer with 99% accuracy

This tiny thing can analyze 8 samples at once.

Finnish appliance grows crops from cells in under a week

This is a berry exciting device.

Study ranks 63 countries by empathy, Ecuador tops the list

How nice are your neighbours?

The UK government is being taken to court over air pollution...again

Canned air looking more and more like a brilliant idea.

Newly discovered Japanese plant doesn't photosynthesize, pollinates itself

The most self-sufficient plant I know of.

Epinephrine pill might break the EpiPen scandal and give patients their first valid alternative

A simple solution to bypass all the red tape and get where it's needed -- patients.

Second generation EM drive is just around the corner, patent made public on Friday

No gas? No problem!

Skin impression of one of the last dinosaurs found in Spain

Some 60 million years ago, one dinosaur laid down to rest -- creating something unique in the whole of Europe.

Startup designs cast that heals bones, lets you scratch

No more pens stuck in your arm's cast.

The 2016 Nobel Prize run-down

Gotta catch them all!

The 2016 Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Bob Dylan for poems on music

He said "it ain't me babe" -- but the committee proved him wrong.

Greek arts may have led to the creation of the Terracotta Army in ancient China

An army made to last forever.

Google asks Pixar, The Onion writers to make its helper more human-like

Can't wait to see what they come up with.

Ancient stone-carved Greek lease document found in Turkey

Nothing more binding than a document set in stone.

New paper finds WO virus has stolen the Black Widow's venom gene

One of the most successful bacteria species on Earth is now hunted by venom-wielding-viruses.

ESA transmits ExoMars' landing commands, eagerly awaits the event

After 8 months in space, ESA's crafts are approaching the martian surface.

Hurricane Matthews exposed a trove of Civil War cannonballs in South Carolina

Oldies but still dangerous.

Watch all the volcanoes and earthquakes since 1960 hit around the world in one app

A stunning app put together by Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Project.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to duo of contract theoreticians

Sign at the bottom for Prize.

Modern humans lost some of their smoke-resistance genes and we don't know why

So remember, don't smoke kids.

How the brain makes drinking water feel like a pain once you're hydrated

Drinks for the thirsty, gag reflex for the over-hydrated.

First living-donor uterus transplant in the US performed in Texas

Out of four procedures, one has potential for success.

Squished-booms: looking at the behavior of underwater explosions

Explosions behave quite differently underwater than what you'd see on the surface.

Bees can feel optimism, possibly other 'emotion-like states' as well, study finds

All it takes to make them happy is some sugar.

Five genes could give dogs their unique human interaction -- and they share four with us

Woof.

Globalization offers us a huge choice of foodstuffs -- but we're not having it

Game theory doesn't apply to farming like it does to other areas of industry.

Romania clamps down on hunting big carnivores for sport

An unexpected move that's gained a lot of public approval -- as well as criticism.

Google's Neural Machine can translate nearly as well as a human

It all happened because they let the program learn without interference.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to trio of molecular machine pioneers

Tiny gears to start a huge revolution.

"Extinct" elms discovered doing just fine in the Queen's gardens, Edinburgh

It's good to be Queen. But it's even better to be the Queen's elms.

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