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Ancient cave paintings and genetics help find the 'Higgs bison' missing link

Thanks to prehistoric humans and modern DNA tools, scientists have cracked a mystery of science.

German U-boat found off the coast of Scotland

They say a giant sea creature destroyed it.

Why the dryer shrinks your clothes

I hate it when this happens.

World's biggest solar power plant might be built in Nevada -- it's supposed to power 1 million homes or as much as Hoover Dam

A huge concentrated solar power plant might open in Nevada, 2020 onward.

Study ranks 63 countries by empathy, Ecuador tops the list

How nice are your neighbours?

Mouse eggs engineered entirely in the lab for the first time -- later lead to healthy adults

Everyone says this is a massive breakthrough in biology.

Just days in the mountains can improve your blood for months

Just a few hours in the mountains can significantly change your bloodstream

The UK government is being taken to court over air pollution...again

Canned air looking more and more like a brilliant idea.

Meet Sawyer, the friendly robot that wants to disrupt manufacturing and education

Sawyer can do just about anything, even 'wink'.

Gut bacteria can aid recovery from spinal cord injury, researchers find

Your gut bacteria may be more important than we thought.

Scotland joins the "fully renewable" energy club

Scotland joins a select group of nations.

Astronomers may have just discovered two new moons around Uranus

Two dark shapes discovered around Uranus.

Ancient fish solves one of your childhood mysteries about teeth

A tale of milk teeth and ancient fish.

Newly discovered Japanese plant doesn't photosynthesize, pollinates itself

The most self-sufficient plant I know of.

By the time they're 12 years old, children's notions of truth and lies become more nuanced

Parents tell their children that 'lying is bad' but not everyone takes their word for it.

Epinephrine pill might break the EpiPen scandal and give patients their first valid alternative

A simple solution to bypass all the red tape and get where it's needed -- patients.

Heads of states from 170 countries sign deal that bans global warming chemicals used in refrigerators and AC

Yet another historic climate accord was signed this Saturday, right on the heels of the Paris Agreement coming into force.

Another Chinese EV manufacturer wants a piece of the cake -- can the Atvus sedan take on Tesla?

Get ready for yet another billion-dollar Chinese electric car company.

Second generation EM drive is just around the corner, patent made public on Friday

No gas? No problem!

Full-color 3-D holograms made with atomic-sized nanomaterials

Tiny metal films helped researchers made holograms with the whole color range.

Google's Artificial Intelligence algorithm just navigated London's underground without any prior knowledge

Google's DeepMind algorithm just got one step closer to behaving like a human.

Tasmanian devil milk might be the secret weapon against superbugs we've been waiting for

Watch out, bugs, the devil's out for ya!

New record gets us closer to fusion energy

We're one step closer to clean, virtually limitless energy.

Doctors Without Borders just refused a 1-million-vaccine donation from Pfizer, and this is probably a good thing

Doctors Without Borders has a strong message for giant pharma company Pfizer.

Awesome satellite imagery shows surprising images of North Korea

What a time to be alive.

Comet collision caused rapid carbon rise in ancient times

There may have been a bang.

Universe has 2 trillion galaxies, 20 times more than we thought, new study claims

We may have dramatically underestimated what lies in the Universe.

Scientists zoom into Chicxulub, the "dinosaur crater"

Geologists are getting an unprecedented glimpse into the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Skin impression of one of the last dinosaurs found in Spain

Some 60 million years ago, one dinosaur laid down to rest -- creating something unique in the whole of Europe.

This Japanese humanoid robot probably does more push-ups than you. Its secret: it can sweat

A robot that was made to mock us.

Startup designs cast that heals bones, lets you scratch

No more pens stuck in your arm's cast.

Latest census finds ten times more galaxies in the Universe -- that's nearly two trillion

More mind-boggling than ever.

Despite lacking ears, spiders can hear you talk across the room

Tingling spider senses.

Missing chunk of India found deep in the Earth, contradicting "101 of geology"

Going down, in a blaze of glory.

Higgs Boson physicist develops a fertility app to replace the pill. It's 99.5% effective

Safe sex, no pregnancy, and an app. My kind of technology.

The 2016 Nobel Prize run-down

Gotta catch them all!

Oldest avian voice box suggests quacking sounds filled the air during the age of dinosaurs

We don't know how dinosaurs sounded like but I'll tell you this much: they didn't honk.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Bob Dylan for poems on music

He said "it ain't me babe" -- but the committee proved him wrong.

Greek arts may have led to the creation of the Terracotta Army in ancient China

An army made to last forever.

Marilize Legajuana: most Americans support lifting cannabis ban. Only a decade ago the reverse was true

It's high time we made pot legal, say most Americans.

Hundreds of prehistoric human footprints found near African volcano tell unique story

A prehistoric walk in the park

Scientists find new dwarf planet in our solar system

Astronomers have found a cosmic friend for Pluto.

Proxima Centauri is more like Earth than we thought, might host habitable planet

It's a star party.

Google asks Pixar, The Onion writers to make its helper more human-like

Can't wait to see what they come up with.

No, Baby Boomers don't work harder than X-ers, Y-ers or Millennials. Work is just as hard for everyone

Old or young, there's not much difference in work ethic.

Ancient stone-carved Greek lease document found in Turkey

Nothing more binding than a document set in stone.

TripAdvisor bans ticket sales to attractions which include wild animal contact

It's a good move, but there's still much to be done.

New paper finds WO virus has stolen the Black Widow's venom gene

One of the most successful bacteria species on Earth is now hunted by venom-wielding-viruses.

Some Tibetan asses employ sneaky tactics to sweep away females from other males

Watch out, guys, these are real asses!

Human-driven global warming responsible for half of burned forests in the Western U.S.

The planet is on fire.