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Amazing pictures of Saturn's rings up close and personal

Eye candy!

Blueprint for large scale supercomputer could open the road for billion-qubit machine, and the secrets of the universe with it

Quantum computers today are ineffective but this is set to change.

Forget Atlantis -- "lost continent" found under Mauritius

It's all geology, no mystic civilization.

Superdense-coded logo of an oak leaf sets new record for transfer rate over optic cable

Downloading...

Kilauea volcano in Hawaii creates spectacular lava stream

The Kilauea volcano has created a dramatic "firehose" as molten lava continues to spew out hot lava and ash.

Thought 4K was impressive? New tech can triple the sharpness of TVs and other displays while reducing power demand

The resolution density of today's displays is nearing its limits but a novel technology could change all that.

Study finds fluorinated chemicals in one third of fast food wrappers

Bad food packaging, bad!

NASA's twin astronaut study shows living in space can change our biology

An unusual, one of a kind study reveals the strange influence living in space has on our genes.

Deadly, mysterious child disease in India caused by skipping meals and lychee, study finds

Don't skip on meals!

Mind-reading device enables completely locked-in paralyzed patients to communicate with the outside world

These patients can't even blink voluntarily. They're completely locked in their bodies. Now, they have a way to communicate.

Tinder-like app for orangutans lets females in zoos chose who they mate with

Swipe, swipe, swipe, banana.

How to cook graphene using only soybean oil. Seriously, these scientists did it

The process takes 30 minutes and is 10 times faster than previous methods.

Frog spit is one of the stickiest things you can find

The meager frog employs a very complex mechanism.

Restoring native plants boosts pollination

Removing invasive plants and restoring native ones does a great deal to help pollination, a new study finds.

People are more willing to accept embryonic stem cell research than politicians

As stem cell research continues to be a very divisive topic, a new study has revealed that the general public is much more willing to accept it than politicians.

We dislike hypocrites because they deceive us, not because they do things they disapprove of

No one likes a hypocrite, that's for sure. But honest hypocrites... are almost ok.

More than 100 natural world heritage sites degraded by human activity, study finds

Nothing on Earth is safe from human activity -- not even the sites we ourselves designed for protection and preservation.

A novel website lets you become a space archaeologist -- just by looking at pictures

It's way better than Facebook.

Earth's oxygen has been emigrating to the Moon for billions of years, study finds

Who wouldn't?

First images of the Amazonian reef released by Greenpeace

More like Amazingonian reef, am I right?

Masaya Nakamura, the "father of Pac-Man" dies at age 91

His work touched millions of lives.

Just half an hour of moderate aerobic exercise can do wonders for the brain

A new study suggests a moderate workout improves neuroplasticity.

Bizarre, ancient, bag-like creature in China is all mouth and spikes

It's also probably related to you.

Bill gates warns against denying climate change

Gates didn't shy away from discussing Trump.

Bizarre, 100-million-year-old insect trapped in amber might be from a new branch of life

Researchers have found a very old and "alien like" insect and they've decided it doesn't fit anywhere in the current tree of life.

Rows of Tesla batteries will keep Southern California's lights on during the night

And charge up using daylight. Elegant!

Children can become closer to pets than to siblings, study finds

Because no one wants to feed and wash their siblings.

Artificial intelligence is just as good at spotting skin cancer as doctors. Could be turned into an app

This machine could save thousands of lives.

Manchester, UK, plans to plant a tree for every man, woman, and child in the city

Manchester officials have announced plans for a City of Trees: 3 million new trees will be added to the city area over the next 25 years

New gene delivery therapy restores partial hearing, balance in deaf mice

Using an innovative genetic editing technique, researchers have managed to partially restore both heating and balance in mice born with a condition that affects both.

Hydrogen turned into a metal for the first time. Technology and spaceflight might never be the same

If confirmed, this could be one of the most revolutionary material of the century

Genes responsible for tomato flavour identified. We might finally get our tasty tomatoes back

Will farmers take note, though?

Pristine mountain habitats are also not safe from climate change

Incoming climate change will have a drastic effect on pristine mountain habitats, a new study has found.

Time's ticking out for us on the Doomsday Clock -- we've got 150 seconds to midnight

The night is dark and full of terror. But we won't be around to see it.

"Rogue" National Park Twitter Accounts Emerge After Trump Issues Media Ban

It all started when the official Twitter of the Badlands National Park in South Dakota started tweeting climate change facts.

Ireland votes to divest the country's €8 bn. sovereign wealth fund away from fossil fuels

The bill's introduction is only a formality away from making history.

Solar employs nearly twice as many people in U.S. electricity generation than oil, gas, and coal combined

Green tech doesn't kill jobs. On the contrary.

Harvest in the US to suffer from climate change

As the newly elected president Trump starts his crusade of bashing environmentalism, a new study shows that climate change will affect US agriculture -- whether we admit it or not.

Wearing NASA's new Starliner space suit is reason enough to become an astronaut

Guaranteed to maintain awesomeness even at 0 atm.

D-Wave upgrades quantum chip to 2,000 qubits, gets first customer for its $15 million machine

No everyone is convinced this machine can actually perform quantum operations, though.

Powerful sound blasters can render tsunamis dead in the water, new study shows

Fus-ro-dah!

Meet the most frustrating programming language ever. It's called 'Brainfuck' and it's purposely designed to make you cry

Continue at your own risk.

Sex is painful for 1 in 13 women, but no one wants to talk about it

A survey of 7,000 sexually active women aged 16 to 74 found that sex is painful for a lot of women -- they just don't like to talk about it.

Paleontologists find 6.2 million year old wolf-sized otter

It was adorable, but also terrifying.

Majority of people in the US favour renewables

A divided country still agrees on some things.

Smart glasses auto-focus on what the person is seeing, whether it's close or far away

Bye-bye to swapping reading glasses.

Women really are better multi-taskers, study finds

I can't even walk and text without hitting lamp posts.

HummingWhale turns millions of Android devices into ad-playing zombies

Cheeky.

Parasite wasp manipulates another wasp species to work for it, then drills through the host's head

#NatureIsMeta

The link between premature menopause and a woman's reproductive history

Women who had their first period before age 12 seem predisposed to premature or early menopause.