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Mixing Silly Putty with graphene creates incredibly sensitive pressure sensors, scientists find

Nothing silly about these findings. Except the putty.

Mutated fish becomes 8,000 times more resistant to toxic waste

Biologists have discovered a fish living off the east coast of the US that evolved to be 8,000 times more resistant to toxic sludge, a new study has found.

Giraffes are facing a silent extinction - and so are other, undiscovered species

A new report published by the IUCN shows that the emblematic giraffe is facing a threatening decline.

To HEK with diabetes: new cell capsule could treat the condition with 0 insulin shots

It's like a pacemaker for your insulin.

Monkeys have the vocal hardware required for speech but lack the brains

A monkey could speak just as well as you or me, were it to have the dedicated neural machinery.

Texas abortion leaflets contain unscientific, misleading information

The pamphlets are disturbing and nonscientific.

How to turn your smartphone into a functional microscope

The whole world is your laboratory.

Revolutionary HIV vaccine to be tested on 600 people next year

We may be zooming in on a vaccine.

Mummified child found in 17th century Lithuanian crypt might crack the mystery of smallpox virus

Though smallpox is now extinct, we need to learn about the origin of the virus.

Light-bending material could bridge quantum and classical physics

We're closer than ever to a Theory of Everything.

The fish that evolved to survive toxic pollution 8,000 times the lethal dose

A mutant success story.

Scientists need you to join the Phi-Lambda mission and make quantum computers work

All you have to do is play Decodoku.

Space loops: NASA shares its GIF collection

A new reaction GIF archive, courtesy of NASA.

Beautiful 99-million-year-old dinosaur feather trapped in amber speaks of feathery evolution

Dinos wore plumage before it was fashionable.

We're trusting a lot of fake news because we're abysmal at weeding it out, study finds

Two articles on fake news in one day?! Yes, we do spoil you.

Why the Earth's core is two and a half years younger than the crust

Because relativity, that's why.

For $20, high school students create medicine which sells for between $35,000 and $110,000

We all know drugs are overpriced, but do you have any idea just how overpriced they are?

MIT researchers develop printable electronics

MIT engineers have developed a fast, reliable and relatively cheap process through which they can print electronic surfaces.

Not too long ago, Greenland stayed ice-free for 280,000 years

The Vikings were late a million years. Back then this was 'really' Greenland.

Half of people 'remember' fake facts that never happened

A new study casts some doubt on something very personal: our memories.

Overdue book returned 120 years later

A book that has been missing from the Hereford school library in England has been returned - after 120 years.

Google to run 100% on renewable energy in 2017

Google announced it will get all its 2017 energy from solar and wind.

Scientists turn the clock back 350 million years to show how humans lost their tails. Twice

Strike two.

How a vital Tequila ingredient could help us adapt to climate change

Climate change is throwing a party. Let's prepare the drinks.

Cosmic dust identified on cities' rooftops for the first time in history

Space -- a pretty dusty place.

Record sea ice retreat in the Arctic and Antarctica. Polar bear populations could drop by a third by 2050

It's not looking too good.

The Earth is spinning slower, making the days longer and longer

Tick tock.

More young people are watching David Attenborough’s "Planet Earth" than the X Factor

It's not often that a nature documentary tops the ratings.

Sea slugs can't remember their dreams -- and here's why you can't, either

At least we have notebooks to write them down. Sea slugs? Not so much.

Startling NASA photo reveals 300-foot-wide rift in Antarctic Ice Shelf

It looks like we're moving closer to a dramatic break-up.

Rivers are overflowing around Syria because there's no one to use them anymore

War is hell.

Thirty years in seconds: Google timelapses show how cities sprung to life in Asia or how ice retreats from Arctic

You can't fool satellites.

Time to update the Paleo Diet -- it was heavy on plants and veggies, archaeologists found

Best enjoyed with a stone fork from a bark plate.

Mummified knees likely belonged to one of Ancient Egypt's most famous queens, Nefertari

Scientists only had her knees to work with but are confident they belonged to the late queen.

There are 30 trillion tons of human-made stuff all over the planet

And it's called the technosphere.

Obi-Wan Kenobi, the goggles-wearing parrot, teaches us a thing or two about flight physics

The experiments proved current animal flight models are inaccurate.

Switzerland votes against strict phase-out of nuclear energy

Switzerland is, as you'd expect, one of the countries with the cleanest energy.

The U.S. public doesn't trust scientists over GMO foods, Pew report says

More like GMOhno!

No, global temperatures aren't "plunging" - fake news is acting up

What can go wrong when loudmouths spread fake information?

The oceans have their own 'bees' too -- tiny crustaceans that pollinate seagrasses

The buzz of the ocean.

All London buses will be green by 2018

This is the end for London's dirty buses.

Scientists take snapshots that show how water conducts electricity

Finally, someone found out how charge is transferred between water molecules.

Startup gets green light to travel to the moon and explore for resources

This is the first company to travel to the Moon and explore its potential for resources.

First edition of Newton's Principia is on auction, poised to become most expensive copy of the book

One of the most important works in human history.

Chinese laws are fuelling animal testing for makeup

Now it's trickier to know if makeup and hygiene products are cruelty-free.

Scientists find the supergene that codes the reproductive traits of flowers

The genes that code sexual diversity in flowers.

NASA plans to build robots that explore frozen worlds from metallic glass so they don't shatter

"Cold enough to shatter robots" is pretty cold in my book.

Russian-launched Progress resupply module crashes on-route to the ISS

Nobody was hurt and no one is starving but it's never fun when this happens.

Highest-living plant discovered more than 6km above sea level in the Himalayas

Hardy little things too.

Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City to ban all diesels by 2025, mayors announce

Maybe VW shouldn't have cheated on their emissions tests.