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Climate change is coming for Europe's cocoa and coffee

The region relies on agricultural imports from around the world -- and with climate change kicking in, things are not looking well.

Scientists create technology to produce energy from textile waste

Oil, gas and char could be generated from lint-microfibers.

Self-healing concrete plugs cracks with CO2 sucked from the air

The enzyme-based mixture could extend the life of concrete fourfold.

Scientists publish the first 3D map of the heliosphere -- the final boundary between our system and interstellar space

It will help scientists better understand interactions between solar and interstellar winds.

Almost half of the goals scored in football (soccer) have some sort of randomness to them

Football is a surprisingly random game.

AIs can already produce convincing propaganda and disinformation -- but only in tweet-length

“There’s an app for that” is becoming more and more applicable to all walks of life — the latest to that list, according to new research, is publishing disinformation online. Last June, OpenAI showcased an artificial intelligence algorithm capable of writing coherent text by itself. After journalists made the obligatory ‘AI is coming for our […]

Clever crows can grasp the concept of 'zero'

Bird sized but not ‘bird-brained’.

Space pups: mouse sperm stored on International Space Station produces healthy offspring

There are no superpowers but also no genetic damage.

Ice shelf protecting Antarctic glacier is on the verge of collapse

Pine Island connects the center of the western Antarctic ice sheet with the ocean.

Swiss voters say 'no' to carbon tax hike and further climate change measures

This will make it more tricky for the country to reduce its emissions. The Swiss also voted against a ban on certain pesticides in another referendum.

Is it time to prohibit left turns in busy intersections? This transportation engineer thinks so

Research backs up the idea of restricting left turns in busy intersections -- especially those in town and city centers.

Plastic-eating bacteria turns waste into vanilla flavoring

A tasty solution to our plastic waste problem.

Swallowed whole: lobster diver swallowed and spat out by humpback whale

"Oh my God, I'm in a whale's mouth", the diver wrote on Facebook.

The sound of music: violins could soon be designed by Artificial Intelligence

Designing violins is an art -- but it could soon become a science.

Biden's recent executive order shows the US needs to take cybersecurity more seriously

Concerns that

Australian scientists accidentally engineer one of the world's most thermally stable materials. It doesn't expand even when heated by 1,400 °C

The composite material could prove particularly useful in aerospace where temperatures can spike wildly between space and atmospheric re-entry.

Fossil Friday: Australia's largest known dinosaur identified after a decade of work

The land down under can now boast its own Titanosaur.

Blinking Giant Star is a Mystery at the Heart of the Milky Way

A mysterious blinking giant star found at the heart of the Milky Way represents another example of a rare eclipsing binary system.

What you need to know about Joe Biden's student loan 'forgiveness' plan

It's not clear if wide-scale student loan cancellation is even possible from a legal standpoint.

Our most sophisticated radio telescope found over 500 radio signals in the sky in a year

There could be hundreds of such events, unnoticed, every day.

How did the Oort cloud form? A new simulation reveals its origins

A "sea" of clouds from our neighbouring stars and the giant planets’ orbital resonance could explain how it was formed.

Herd of adorable elephants caught on video napping in China

The sweetest thing you'll see all day.

Dome-shaped house in Italy is 3-D printed entirely from local clay

Humans have been building mud dwellings for thousands of years. It's time to go back to the roots.

Second smallpox drug approved by the FDA

The approval was based on studies that involved neither humans nor the variola virus due to ethical considerations.

Emissions from food production are vastly underestimated, a new study claims

The food on our plates is an important contributor to climate change.

Looking 'weird' saves robot lizards from predators

Sometimes being flashy is actually a turn-off to predators. Their loss…

The FDA just approved the first new Alzheimer's drug in almost 20 years

The drug is one of the few major advancements against Alzheimer's, but it is also fraught with controversy.

Taking short breaks while practicing lets our brains review what we're doing -- and get better at it

That’s great, because I love breaks.

We should talk about 'deepfake geography': fake AI-generated satellite images

Nothing is spared by the ongoing AI fraud.

One-way camel trade is keeping another coronavirus at bay, but it could still spark the next pandemic

That’s not a headline I expected to be writing today.

All the SARS-CoV-2 viruses in the world weigh as little as an apple and as much as a small toddler

The estimate could help scientists better understand how the virus infects and mutates inside the human body.

Earth's carbon dioxide levels hasn't been this high in mankind's entire history

It's been almost 5 million years since CO2 levels were this high.

Jeff Bezos will go to space on one of his rockets

Should we be a bit concerned that the world's richest person is going to space?

Humans are worse than jays at spotting magic tricks

Don't believe your eyes.

Galactic neighbourhoods have an influence on stellar nurseries

A newly conducted in-depth cosmic census has revealed that star-forming molecular clouds come in an array of shapes and sizes.

Trained bacteriophages could help us with our drug resistance issues

If you can't beat them -- hire mercenaries.

If you don't align your sleeping patterns to your body clock, you risk depression, lower wellbeing

It's easier for morning people to pull off.

Cattle Could Produce More Methane Than Thought, But Manure Could Be The Answer

A new review of eight existing studies published in the journal Environmental Research Letters has found that livestock farms and feedlots in North America may be emitting far more methane than previously assumed. The researchers from New York University and Johns Hopkins University found that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — which estimates methane from […]

A doctor's best friend: Micro-Diamonds could be the future of medical imaging

Diamonds could allow doctors to make use of the best versions of two imaging techniques -- simultaneously.

Denmark approves construction of artificial island off the coast of Copenhagen

The island will protect the port from rising sea levels and house around 35,000 people.

Scientists find a new way to make virtual stars

Researchers developed a 3D star formation simulation, good enough to make you gaze at the example video for a while.

People who eat more tend to take larger bites or eat faster, study finds

Microstructural behaviors such as eating rate, bite size, and meal duration can determine the size of a person’s meal.

Graphene protective coatings could improve hard disk data storage potential ten-fold

Not bad at all.

Lockdown increased our use of electronic devices (and caused a lot of sleep issues)

It's a big no-no for your sleeping pattern.

Chandra X-ray and MeerKAT data reveal a busy galactic center

The study found magnetic phenomena in the center of the Milky Way that resemble those in our solar system

What makes 'superfoods' so super? New studies dive deep

Scientists have found insights about what makes honey and mangoes so healthy.

We've identified a gene variant that seems to make people immune to the effects of COVID -- but not to catching the virus

We're learning more and more about how the virus spreads, and how our own bodies help that process.

Physicists find definite proof of how auroras are born

We now have definite evidence of how auroras light up the sky in the high latitudes.

Magawa the hero rat retires from mine-detecting job

A well-deserved retirement for an unassuming hero.

World's lakes are losing oxygen rapidly as the planet warms

This is bad news for water quality and biodiversity