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We're killing off the planet's wildlife - quickly.
A new genetic study has revealed that we might have been looking at giraffes the wrong way all along.
Finally!
Power from thin air. Lots and lots of power.
A new report has shown that personal loans are “absolutely corrosive to mental health”.
NASA is preparing for a potentially game-changing mission: intercepting an asteroid and bringing a sample back home.
Weird times ahead.
More park for your buck.
Rats have their part of the blame, but climate change is the main threat.
It could be the key to understanding dark matter.
Some technologies are moving too fast for our ethics to keep up.
It could be a game-changer for law enforcement.
Can't they do what we all do and count on their tentacles?
Bacteria are creating whole new ecosystems in fracking wells.
This freaky phenomenon might prove invaluable in using life-like prosthetics.
Lame, lame, lame.
Humpback whales have made an epic return.
Hands-on experiments will help us finally get to the bottom of this thing.
Still delicious.
We've never seen anything like this before.
A connection between reward and sleep has been found by neuroscientists. New drugs that target this circuit could help insomniacs ease into sleep.
Tiny pollution particles have been discovered in brain samples, a finding described as "dreadfully shocking" by researchers.
Fifteen years from now in a North American suburb.
It took two generations to bring this fossil to light.
Big science going on at the small scale.
As Rosetta's mission draws close to an end, its high-resolution camera snapped a few photos of the Philae lander.
There are absolutely no subsidies which means this is the cheapest power plant in the world.
Mammoth tusks are used as a front to launder illegal elephant ivory smuggling.
It's eclipse season for the Solar Observatory
Pushing the boundaries of life farther in time than ever before.
Starving your crops might seem counterintuitive, but these ants have a pretty good reason for it.
Invasive species - such as pigs, goats, rats and slugs - are destroying Hawaii's flora fast, a new IUCN report states.
Scientists devise the most promising carbon nanotube transistors yet.
While the situation of pandas is improving, the same can't be said about great apes.
Good news: giant pandas rebound!
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a final ruling effectively banning antibacterial soaps as they exist today.
This is the closest we've come to seeing an ancient Egyptian woman.
To be fair, students will do insane things for food.
Knowing the Internet, I'm surprised it took this long.
The European Space Agency's Planck satellite has revealed some information which may force us to rethink the evolution of the early Universe.
Pictures from NASA's Dawn spacecraft seem to indicate that the dwarf planet was much more active than we thought.
They're a really tough species to fight.
Stanford engineers have developed cheap, low-cost textiles that can cool your body much more efficiently than existing clothes.
SpaceX has suffered a serious setback after one of its rockets, carrying a $200 million communications satellite, exploded yesterday.
It's not the full picture, but its a lot more than we knew before.
The synthetic tissue is safer and more reliable than that sourced from dead pigs or human cadavers.
The '60s were very creative.
Clean brain, clean memories.
A stunning new five dollar bill was released by the Australian government.
Africa's elephants might become endangered soon because of widespread poaching.
