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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.

Evolution in a lab flask: scientists witness virus speciating into two distinct species

Real-time evolution, what more proof do you need?

UK scientists inch closer to three-parent babies

We're living in the future.

British researchers on the hunt for world's oldest ice

As the Antarctic spring comes to an end and the "summer" enters into force, a team of geoscientists is seeking 1.5-million-year ice.

Flints and bone from at least 300,000 years ago could be the first non-dietary tool use

Digs at one of the most amazing anthropological sites in the world come across something big.

FDA approves final trial before Ecstasy can be prescribed for PTSD

MDMA is no longer 'just a party drug.'

Scientists find 2.5-billion-year-old fossils of bacteria -- there was no oxygen in the atmosphere then

Who needs oxygen when you got ... sulfur?

After the Earthquake: Stunning Photos Show Huge Rock Walls Rising from Below

A sight to behold.

In times of turmoil, academics stand up, develop code of conduct and reaffirm fight against racism, misogyny and climate change denial

In times of political turmoil, academics are often the first to react.

Poor sleep costs U.S. economy $411 billion

How to make money in your sleep -- just do it.

Water trapped in carbon nanotubes starts freezing at the temperature it should be boiling

The weirdest ice.

What China's latest X-ray positioning satellite means for deep-space exploration

Made in China might become a stamp for innovation, not replication.

China is building a huge solar plant at Chernobyl

When one door closes, another one opens.

New high-tech shelter reminds us that Chernobyl is still deadly, thirty years after the meltdown

The new one is much better than the last one though.

The world's oldest person (and only one still born in the 1800s) celebrates 117th birthday

When Emma Morano was born, Umberto I was still reigning over Italy.

Book Review: 'Microbes from Hell'

The intellectual reward of Microbes from Hell is a pleasure, despite an occasionally challenging journey.

Dallas will turn Dangerous Floodplains into the nation's Biggest Urban Park -- 10,000 acres of nature

Things are moving in the right direction in Texas.

That ATM keyboard you've touched earlier is covered in germs from all over town

Tap, tap, microbe map.

Michigan's biggest energy provider will phase out coal, despite Trump

The coal industry seems to be singing its swan song, despite political efforts to save it.

How a self-driving car sees the world

The road through the eyes of a self-driving car.

World's poorest countries pledge to 100% renewable energy

They're leapfrogging developed countries.

Chromosomes turn out to be half genes, half mysterious coating

That's a lot of coat.

We should prepare for bad surprises in the Arctic climate, new report finds

Unless we start reducing fossil fuel consumption drastically and fast, irreversible changes will happen in the Arctic and that will affect all of us.

According to the FBI, there are 7 types of protesters

Which one are you?

Canada set to join US in banning microbeads

An important move for protecting wildlife and the environment.

Boom Supersonic XB-1 unveiled: the aircraft that will take you from NYC to London in 3.15 hours

Fashionable supersonic flight is back!

Theory of Evolution might be in for an overhaul. Top biologists discuss much needed update

The Theory of Evolution has not been proven wrong once -- that's not to say it's perfect.

Bendy artificial muscle is made of pure nylon, still stronger than you

Even nylon is getting ripped and I still won't hit the gym.

That urge to complete other people's sentences? Turns out the brain has its own Auto Correct

In the hippocampus -- which is weird, because we didn't think it had anything to do with talking.

West Antarctic ice sheet is melting from the inside, signaling an accelerated collapse

The ice shelf is far more fragile than we hoped.

Scientists answer longstanding question: why is the surface of ice wet?

Some simple questions have deceivingly complicated answers.

In 1975, a physicist co-authored a paper with his cat. He did it for a very good reason

F.D.C. Willard, also known as Chester, is a cat who co-authored a high-quality physics paper in 1975

Fiji ants were the first plant farmers some three million years ago

Most ants scavenge your picnic, but these ones don't need anything.

Parents might soon watch their unborn babies grow up in 3D

Modern technology is impressive, extremely useful, and sometimes a bit disturbing.

Depression and anxiety cause stomach and skin issues, respectively

They mess up your brain, and they mess up your body.

When it comes to the world of viruses, we're just scratching the surface

We've only seen the tip of the surface.

Comprehensive study finds that sustainable eating could save the planet

Cutting down on meat could drastically reduce global warming.

Finland plans to completely ban coal use by 2030. Decision soon to come in front of Parliament

A completely radical approach to fighting the dirtiest energy source.

Scientists coax bacteria towards silicon-based life

Silly bacteria, carbon-based life is best life!

Why worms can actually taste sunshine

A photoreceptor related to odor proteins was found inside the worms -- it could lead to a new generation of better sunscreens.

Evidence of water 1,000 kilometers under the surface found locked inside a diamond

Water isn't only skin deep.

Mysterious, Stonehenge-like, 1,500 year old monument found in Kazakhstan

Archaeologists have discovered a gigantic, 1,500-year-old stone monument in Kazakhstan.

Stay away from the coconut crab's pincers. It's crushing force is almost the strongest of all land animals

Only alligators carry a heavier clamping force.

Scientists are trapping more and more CO2 into volcanic basalt

Storing CO2 underground might be one pivotal for our climate future.

Stunning photos of uncontacted Amazon tribe emerge - just as they're threatened by illegal gold miners

Spectacular images of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon have emerged, but conservationists and indigenous populations fear that the villagers are in grave danger.

The Cormorant UAV offers a glimpse of the flying taxis of the future

The world from the Fifth Element is closer than you thought.

The giant asteroid impact that wiped out dinosaurs made the rock beneath behave like a liquid

For a moment, the ground beneath parts of Mexico behaved like a fluid.

It's official: NASA's "impossible" EM drive has been peer-reviewed and published

Complicated physics, impossible results.

New Zealand town builds a 25 meter long tunnel to save blue penguins

Blue penguins were facing a perilous transit to their nests, so a New Zealand city decided to build an underpass to protect them.