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A pair of puppies can run and play after been treated for their spina bifida

It could be a cure for humans too!

American “mudbug” crabs have invaded Berlin

A strange sight for Berliners who have been wondering what the large crabs, “lobsters”, and “scorpions” are doing in their city.

Disaster as thousands of Atlantic salmon escape from fish farm on the west coast

Potentially catastrophic for Pacific salmon.

Blood DNA sequencing reveals there's a lot more microbes living inside you -- and we've never seen over 99% of them before

What we don't know can't hurt us, right? Right? Guys?..

Adorable pig-nosed frog completely new to science found in India

There's more to it than meets the eye.

Researchers design carbon yarn that generates energy from motion or waste heat

I guess we can all be current benders now!

Ancient 3700-year-old Babylonian tablet may be earliest evidence of trigonometry

It shows Babylonians knew about Pythagorean theorem centuries before Pythagoras was even alive!

A robotic Buddhist priest can now perform funerals in Japan

It can live-stream funerals, too.

Though extinct for centuries, the Dodo's secrets and lifestyle have now come to light

Extinct but not forgotten.

Trees provide hundreds of millions of dollars in services to cities for free, paper reports

Ca-ching!

How mythical creatures can help conservation or, on the contrary, lead to species going extinct

There's a connection between the Loch Ness Monster and keeping wildlife safe.

Astronomers just compiled the most detailed image of an alien star -- and it just looks stunning

This is 620 light-years away!

Dragonfly dual-quadcopter drone proposed to explore Titan to understand how life appeared

The final selection for New Horizons is expected in mid-2019.

The LeverAxe uses physics to finally bring splitting wood to the 21st century

It took a while, but the axe's 8,000-year-old design finally got a much needed revamp.

Google researchers are able to perfectly and simply remove watermarks from photographs

They used their power for good, not evil.

Cyborg bacteria equipped with tiny solar panels outperform photosynthesis

Trees aren't obsolete yet but this hybrid system can do amazing things.

Roadmap aims to supercharge 139 countries to 100% renewable energy by 2050

Going 100% renewable eliminates 4-7 million air pollution deaths each year and creates 24 million long-term, full-time jobs.

Crew of first ever combat submarine, the Confederate Hunley, was killed by their own torpedo

After more than 150 years, an able scientist solved the mystery of the eight sailors who died sinking a Union ship.

Huge asteroid to safely pass by Earth on September 1st, NASA announces

Make sure to wave as it passes by.

This space probe is so small you could lose it in your backpack -- and it just got launched into space

Four grams worth of space explorer.

Knowing more doesn't change false beliefs about science

People often project their religious and political beliefs onto science.

British Royal Mail to start piloting sleek electric trucks

They're sleek, red, and bring your packages on time -- now with zero emissions.

Juice company dumped orange peels in Costa Rican national park in the 90s -- it revived the forest

Orange is the new forest.

Tiniest 'monster trucks' race over a fraction of a width of the human hair in the first NanoRace

This was one exciting event. Now that's a race I'd watch!

Cars or watches with wider faces makes consumers feel more dominant

People generally avoid people with wide faces but seem to be attracted to products with the same trait.

Diamond rain of Neptune and Uranus mimicked in the lab by scientists

Yes, on some planets it rains diamonds!

Waste not, want not: astronauts to turn pee into nutrients, tools on deep-space missions

Stay hydrated up there, ladies and gents.

Book Review: 'Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve'

A must-read book spanning time and science.

Trump Administration reverses ban on plastic water bottles in America's national parks. ‘Corporate agenda is king,' say environmentalists

The latest in a long running-list of anti-environmental measures by the President and team.

Increasing the price of US cigarettes by just one dollar per pack would lead to one million people kicking the habit

A small increase to bring about huge change.

Learning and exploration might drive teenagers' risky, bad decisions, not poor impulse control

Ah, adolescence... so glad I'm over that.

Around 4,500 years ago, Vietnamese stone-age traders traveled hundreds of kilometers to sell their wares

Unsurprisingly, they traded a lot of stone.

Preliminary results suggests probiotic immunotherapy cures peanut allergy four years after treatment

Sometimes you have to fight nuts with nuts (and probiotic).

Scientists use the world's smallest chisel to investigate dagger-wielding bacteria

Amoebophilus doesn't play around.

Finally, a large-scale probiotics trial is successful -- it combats infant sepsis

It's one of the few major trials that actually reported success.

Ocean exploration reveals trove of natural diversity off Cuba's shores

The reefs seem healthier... let's try to keep them that way.

Scientists make healthy sperm in the lab, raising hope for those suffering from genetic male infertility

They started from a mouse's ear tissue cells, which they eventually turned into healthy sperm.

Talking in a foreign language makes our decision more about utility, less about emotion

The language we use really does influence what our brains are doing.

Micro-vehicles move through a mouse stomach, healing its ulcers

The future is here.

Scientists figure out the "recipe" for magic mushrooms

Psilocybin has repeatedly shown promise in treating some mental issues -- this might usher in a new age of testing.

How algae prepared the ground for complex life 650 million years ago

The story of the rise of the algae.

Baby dolphin killed as hundreds of selfish tourists take pictures with it

Please stop taking photos with wild animals!

Untouched 106 year old fruitcake found in the Antarctic -- it's probably still edible

No one touched it for more than a century, not even the penguins.

Gene variant that makes plump, juicy tomatoes identified by scientists

Who doesn't love a plump tomato?

Why adding water to whiskey makes it taste better, or so some scientists claim

Diluting whiskey with a touch of water can enhance its taste.

Drug-resistant candida outbreaks in the UK despite hospital efforts to control it

The CDC deemed this fungus a "serious global health threat."

Missing link dinosaur bridges the gap between vegetarians and meat eating dinosaurs

This missing link provides a glimpse into how different dinosaurs groups split and evolved differently.

Blood test can find cancer even before any symptoms emerge

Genetic sequencing could pave the way for a new age of cancer detection.

Ancient coins reveal when Rome became an empire

Even in science, you can learn a lot of things if you follow the money.

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

Nope, it's not Trump's idea.