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Elephants increasingly become more nocturnal to evade poachers

The intelligent animals have responded to poaching by shifting their foraging patterns.

Gemstones prove asteroid impact was the hottest event ever recorded on Earth

That spot is not a lake in cold, snow-covered Canada.

New record: on Monday, 20% of Europe's energy came from wind

Gone with the wind.

The first water map on the moon shines hope for human colony

There's less water than in Earth's driest deserts. But that's still a lot more than we used to hope.

Climate change might cause a coffee crisis, but there's still hope

Is it really that bad?

Bacteria shapeshift in space in response to antibiotics, becoming far more resilient

Not good news for interplanetary travel.

Volkswagen is investing 70 billion Euros into electric vehicles

Time to make amends, VW.

ISS astronaut photographs hurricanes from space -- and it's mind-bending

Like the all-seeing eye, Bresnik takes impressive photos of ungodly storms.

An image is not always worth a thousand words, researchers say

Go with text if you really want to involve people.

Ugly Unicorn: Metal-tipped prehistoric ant drank the blood of its victims for dinner

Stabby stabby!

Wrapping paper-like spacecraft might one day collect junk and throw it into Earth's atmospheric shredder

This may be crazy enough to work.

Death of a dynasty: west North America lost over 95% of its monarch butterflies in 35 years

One of the continent's most dazzling displays dies with them.

Global warming will kill a third of the world's parasites, and that's not even a good thing

Parasites are a hard sell, but we would certainly gain a lot by understanding their threats.

Burger-flipping robot will grill meat in 50 fast food restaurants

This will set you back $100k.

U.S. News rankings driving economic inequality on campus

Top universities admit more 1% earners than the bottom 60% combined.

What's the difference between Alzheimer's and Dementia?

Dementia is a syndrome while Alzheimer's is a disease. More key differences between the two after the jump.

Egyptian Archaeologists find 3,500 year old multi-tomb in Luxor

You thought we found everything, didn't you?

Elon Musk shares full-body pic of SpaceX's sleek astronaut suit

Space flight just got a lot sexier.

The simple reason why climate change is affecting hurricanes

It's pretty simple math.

British archaeologists find Roman cavalry barracks loaded with weapons and valuables

It's like winning the lottery.

Researchers find warm oasis beneath Antarctica's frozen wasteland

You could wear a T-shirt in these caves under the Antarctic.

International drug treaties need an urgent revamp as more countries legalize cannabis

Drug control treaties had their time and place. A scholar now argues these are massively outdated.

People know mythical creatures better than real life beasts, study suggests

What's real, a gruffalo, or a hirola?

Hurricane Irma: 90% of the buildings on the Caribbean Island of Barbuda "destroyed by storm"

Our thoughts go to the victims.

Tapwater around the world is full of microplastics, study reveals

It's literally everywhere.

What plants can teach us about solving traffic jams

Plants too experience internal nutrient traffic jams, and they're fantastic at responding to them.

Hurricane Harvey pushed Houston's crust down by 2 cm

The 275 trillion pounds of water are taking their toll.

Popular voice assistants like Siri or Alexa easily hacked with ultrasonic commands

A rather glaring design flaw was recently discovered.

Swiss scientists say they've invented a new type of chocolate -- the first one after 80 years

I'll take my chances with it!

Hurricane Irma already being picked up by seismographs -- instruments that detect earthquakes

It might be even worse than Harvey.

Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks have been completely digitized -- and you can read them for free

It's a challenging but very rewarding read.

African wild dogs sneeze their way into democratic decisions

Bless you!

New water-based lithium-ion battery will never explode in your face

Someone send Samsung the memo.

Macaques may have just entered the Stone Age

Crack open a nutty one.

Scotland to ban petrol and diesel cars by 2032, eight years earlier than the rest of the UK

A great move for the Scotts.

Voyager-1 spacecraft: 40 years of history and interstellar flight

Despite traveling more than ten billion miles in four decades, Voyager-1 is still at it.

How northern lights and stranded whales might strangely be connected

The northern lights might be a brilliant spectacle for some, but they spelled doom for some unfortunate sperm whales.

About DACA: Study shows 83% of America's top high school science students have immigrant parents

The abnormal seems to have become normal in the White House.

Revolutionary new quantum computer design might be the breakthrough we've all been waiting for

"It's amazing no-one had thought of it before," said one of the scientists involved.

Hurricane Irma is the strongest ever recorded in the Atlantic. It's set to make landfall in the US

If you thought Harvey was bad, Irma promises to be even worse.

Diverse landscape are more resilient and productive in the face of climate change

If we want to save the planet, we need to keep it diverse.

More problems in Texas -- Chemical plants start leaking after Harvey

Everything is bigger in Texas -- floods and pollution included.

Scientists catch human evolution in the making

Gene variants linked to Alzheimer's or heavy smoking are being gradually weeded out by natural selection.

Too much innovation wrecks weak economies, too much competition paralyzes strong ones, paper reports

Moderation is key.

Birmingham design student crafts cool, fully recyclable furniture -- from cow dung

You could say she... manurefactures them.

More than a million years from now, our solar system will briefly house two stars

It will shine three times brighter than Mars in the night's sky. It might also cause an unpleasant stir in the Oort cloud...

CRISPR used for first time to change flower color in Japanese ornamental plant

A popular Japanese flower was used to demonstrate the power of CRISPR.

Starting school half an hour later could help students and save $9 billion / year

How is 8AM school time still a thing?

Insects see in much better resolution than we thought

I spy, with my little thousand eyes...

Researchers find tantalizing evidence of mid-sized black hole in the Milky Way

If confirmed, this could indicate a remarkable progress in modern physics.