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Single-atom magnets used to create data storage one million times more dense than regular hard disks

Scaled up, it will likely lose some efficiency -- but will still leave HDDs in the dust.

UK slaps massive 800% tax increase for rooftop solar panels

The UK is taking huge strides -- but in the opposite direction.

Higher emotional intelligence can make you more vulnerable to stress -- if you're a dude

We're still not sure if it happens in women too.

Microbeads: Contaminating Our Fish and Sea Salt?

Microbeads are slowly killing off oceanic wildlife -- and that's affecting us as well.

Astronomers create the most accurate map of dark matter in the Universe

Seeing the unseeable.

UN scientists denounce 'myth' that we need pesticides to feed the world

Can we feed the world without pesticides?

Doctors record brain activity in a deceased patient 10 minutes after death

This is totally not normal and nobody knows for sure what happened.

Porsche's first fully electric vehicle, the Mission E, could charge in only 15 minutes

Electric cars are getting better and better. With style to boot.

Learn how to manipulate people from one of history's most brilliant scientists: Blaise Pascal

Learn it from the man himself!

Celebrating women scientists -- Maria Sibylla Merian, a pioneer in both art and science

An artist and naturalist, a woman who braved a wild continent and tropical diseases for her passion and left behind remarkable works.

From married couples to the hook-up kids, Americans are having less sex across the board

Maybe they're outsourcing this too?

The 'hateback' loop of dehumanization could plunge America into civil violence

Even the nastiest bits of history repeat themselves.

Enhanced vision, and not limbs, may have prompted fish to become the first land animals

This is no chicken or the egg story.

Europeans don't believe climate change deniers and want governments to take action, huge poll reveals

The flag's blue but we're green through and through.

Seaweed might have helped determine who we are today

Feasting on seaweeds is good for your brain -- in fact, it may have been crucial.

Why pandas have dark and white patches: camouflage and communication

Finally, scientists explain what's with the panda's cute black and white patches.

We knew it! Coffee and cocoa cocktail boosts your attention and mood

Chocolate and coffee: it's a match made in heaven!

Fructose is actually produced in the brain, new study finds

It's the first time scientists have shown fructose can be produced in the brain.

Everyone's downloading pirated science papers... and that might be a good thing

In a way, Sci-Hub is a modern Robin Hood for science.

NASA wants to create the coolest spot in the universe

It's cool, and it's totally out there!

Czech researchers turn graphene sheets into the first stable non-metallic magnets

Is there anything graphene can't do?

Check the wheels on that thing: Boston Dynamics' latest robot overlord

One award-winning company is back in style with another crazy robot.

The best-fossilized octopus we've ever found gets recreated in 3D to understand their evolution

They changed surprisingly little.

Revolutionary material can absorb 90 times its weight in spilled oil. It can be squeezed like a sponge and then reused

Oil spills are never a pretty sight but an innovative sponge-like material could make these events far less disastrous.

Have more sex and leave stress at the office to improve your work life

Truth be told, sex improves most experiences.

Sharing taxi rides could significantly reduce cost and emissions. Study suggests it can work in virtually any big city

There's a massive opportunity to clean urban air if people can be convinced to share taxis.

The forests won't fix our CO2 problem -- in fact, they'll scrub less than we assumed

Humanity gives with one hand and takes with the other. We just take a lot more than we give.

A.I. for Texas Hold'em has 10 times the win rate of professional poker players

After the researchers gave the AI "intuition", it blew away most professional human players.

Parasitic wooden cubes level up 1970s Parisian building with more space, more energy efficiency

Companion cubes!

Peculiar ancient skulls have both human and Neanderthal features. Could belong to a new hominid species

Cranial fragments discovered in China can't be pinned down to any known human species. Some speculate it might be Denisovan.

Magnets anchored on Mars' orbit would make the planet a second Earth, NASA says

Shields up!

Israeli company designs anti-radiation body armor to protect astronauts in space

+3 armor +25 radiation resist.

World-first Braille Smartwatch brings all the connectivity of a smartphone to your fingertips

Handy!

Electronic energy meters might be off by almost 600%, Dutch study finds

The electric company isn't trying to scam you -- it's just that technology evolved faster than we adapted.

1962 vaccine breakthrough prevented 4.5 billion cases of polio, measles, rabies, hepatitis A, and many others

This man and his colleagues saved millions of lives. But you've probably never heard of him.

Earth's mantle is much hotter than we thought, scientists learn

For once, it's not something to do with global warming, phew!

Lego celebrates the achievements of the Women of NASA with new set

Starting with science at a young age.

New paper explains why predatory dinosaurs walked on two feet while mammals stayed on all fours

It's all about the tail.

Japanese billionaire wants to raise $100 billion to be among the first to reach the singularity with a 10,000 IQ computer chip

Masayoshi Son wants to be in the front row when the singularity is finally here.

Inside the minds of real-life zombies -- people who think they have a dead brain inside a living body

Cotard's syndrome makes people believe they're dead and that they do not require any food, water, or even hygiene to function.

Volkswagen emission cheats will kill 1,200 people, study finds

Putting a "price tag" in terms of human lives might help us understand just how bad the situation really is.

A major extinction is likely, and we'll also suffer, UN experts warn

If we don't do it, we're just as screwed as them.

Denmark just ran a day entirely on wind energy -- again

'The transition is fully underway. If we are looking for cheap, competitive and reliable, I don’t see much alternative to wind' says Wind Europe spokesman

Woolly mammoths suffered genomic meltdown right before extinction

They were cuter and silkier... but less adapted to a harsh environment.

Operating system and a movie, among others, stored in DNA with no errors. The method can pack 215 petabytes of data in a single gram of DNA

A huge breakthrough might help solve our growing 'big data' storage problem.

Earth-born methanogen bacteria species could survive in Mars' crust, new study shows

Life can be surprisingly hardy.

Rangers in India found an effective yet questionable way of slamming down poaching -- they kill the poachers

Is it really a price worth paying?

In 2015, record temperatures in Antarctica were 17.5°C (63.5°F). Yes, you read that right

Next time you go to Antarctica, pack your shorts.

China will force 67,000 fossil fuel-powered Taxis to switch to electric in order to cut back on pollution

In Beijing and other municipalities, all taxi drivers will be forced to gradually switch to electric.

New method piggybacks data on radio waves to make singing posters and smart cities

Its gonna be a lot of chatter though.