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December 31
- An Amateur Astronomer Discovered a New Exploding Star on Christmas Day
- Look Up! Your Guide to Some of The Best Meteor Showers For 2016
- Scientists Just Discovered a Weird New Shark That Glows in The Dark
- Why Groups of People Can Remember Something That Didn't Happen
- These Are The Bugs That Are Lurking in Your Swimming Pool
- Should I Throw Away Food Once a Fly Has Landed on It?
- These Were The Top 10 Space Events of 2015
- Physicists Think They've Figured Out How to Retrieve Information From a Black Hole
- The First Brits to Clone a Dead Pet Are Expecting Two Clone Puppies on Boxing Day
- This New Injectable Foam Can Repair And Regrow Degenerating Bones
- 9 Science-Backed Reasons to Own a Dog
- Now's Your Last Chance to See Comet Catalina in Your Lifetime
- Astronomers Say Giant Comets Pose a Greater Threat to Earth Than Asteroids
- Don't Freak if You Can't Solve a Math Problem That's Gone Viral
- Here's Why Eating When You Should Be Sleeping Can Cause Problems For Your Brain
- Watch: Why December Has The Longest Days
- The Domestication of Dogs Has Caused Harmful Genetic Changes, Study Finds
- US Adds African Lions to Endangered Species List After Cecil Controversy
- A New Circadian Clock Takes Over When We Get Older, Study Finds
- China's Rover Has Discovered a New Type of Moon Rock
- It Looks Like a Worldwide Coffee Shortage Is Inevitable
- Scientists Are Attempting to Grow Potatoes on a Simulated Mars
- NASA Wants to Give Everyone The Chance to Journey to Mars… Via Virtual Reality
- The World's First Website Just Turned 25 Years Old
- Water Bears Turn Into Glass When They Dry Out
- Watch: This Killer Whale Punted a Seal 30 Metres in The Air Like It Was Kicking a Field Goal
- Drug That Boosts The Brain's 'Garbage Disposal' Slows Alzheimer's in Mice
- Watch: This New Car Drives on Wheels Carved Out of Ice
- Here's How to Avoid Gaining Weight This Christmas, According to Science
- Japanese Mathematician Claims to Have Solved a Notorious Maths Problem, But Nobody Understands It
- Two 'Extinct' Sea Snakes Just Appeared Off The Coast of Australia
- SpaceX Makes History With The First-Ever Orbital Rocket Landing
- Europe Is Preparing Its Railways For Extreme Space Weather
- Don't Believe Everything You Hear About The Saddest Day of The Year
- Scientists Have Discovered Brain Networks Linked to Intelligence For The First Time
- A New Transparent Metal Has Been Developed For Smartphone And TV Displays
- Here's Why Some of Us Develop an Allergy to Sunlight
- Watch: Why Do Men Have Nipples?
- Dry Ice, Rather Than Flowing Water, Could Have Sculpted Mars's Mysterious Gullies
- Watch: The Life And Death of Black Holes Explained
- Here's Why Evolution Might Be More 'Intelligent' Than We Think It Is
- King Tutankhamun's Wet Nurse Was His Sister, Archaeologist Claims
- Scientists Identify Potentially Harmful Bacteria in Espresso Machines
- Scientists Have Discovered Four Genes That Could Help You Live Beyond 100
- Look Up! An Asteroid Will Be Zooming Past Earth on Christmas Eve
- Bone Discovery Suggests Mysterious 'Red Deer Cave People' Survived Much Longer Than We Thought
- Here's Why Virgin Birth Is Scientifically Possible
- Lead Found in Children's Blood Has Seen a State of Emergency Declared in Michigan
- Watch: Why Do Rivers Have Deltas?
- Scientists Have Invented a New Glass Coating For Omnidirectional Solar Panels
- Your Sleeping Position Affects What You Dream About More Than You Think
- A 'Flesh-Eating' Disease Is Currently Spreading Across Syria
- NASA's Global Air Quality Map Shows We Have The Power to Reduce Pollution
- Restricted Meal Times Might Not Be The Best Idea For Dieters, Study Suggests
- Stress Could Increase The Risk of Cognitive Impairment Preceding Alzheimer's, Study Finds
- Fish Oil Turns Fat-Storage Cells Into Fat-Burning Cells in Mice, Study Finds
- A Common Face Cream Ingredient Might Help Us Live Longer, Study Finds
- External Factors Contribute Heavily to Cancer, Study Finds, But Scientists Are Divided
- Feeling Bad About Your Body Can Actually Be More Unhealthy Than Being Overweight
- Scientists Are Developing Road Surfaces That Can De-Ice Themselves
- This New Airbus Carbon Fibre Plane Is Designed to Beat Jetlag
- Scientists Have Built a Functional 'Hybrid' Logic Gate For Use in Quantum Computers
- People in China Are Buying Cans of Fresh Air From Canada
- Controversial Price-Gouging Pharma CEO Martin Shkreli Has Been Arrested on Charges of Fraud
- Dogs Give Food to Their 'Friends' in First-of-Its-Kind Study
- Watch: Why Do We Age And How Can We Stop It?
- Evidence of Autism Shows Up in The Brain's Blood Vessels, Study Finds
- Watch: Why Sugar in Apples Is Way Better Than Sugar in Soft Drink
- This New Algorithm Can Tell You How Memorable (or Forgettable) Your Selfies Are
- SpaceX Is Launching Its Most Powerful Rocket Yet This Weekend
- Astronomers Discover Closest Potentially Habitable Planet: Wolf 1061c
- Here's Why Different Painkillers Are Only Effective For Certain Types of Pain
- China Has Turned to Mist Cannons to Blast Pollution From The Sky
- Here's What Happens When You Pour Molten Aluminium Into a Tank of Water Polymer Beads
- Researchers Are Figuring Out How Our Brains Cope With So Much Data
- Milk Taken From Cows at Night Shows Potential as a Powerful Sleeping Aid
- Watch: Remarkable Footage of Emperor Penguins 'Mourning' Dead Chick
- Here's Why Humans Evolved to Sleep Shorter And Deeper Than Our Closest Animal Relatives
- Supercharged LHC Finds Hints of Entirely New Particle
- Study Calls For International Action to Prevent a 'Zombie Apocalypse'
- A Bodybuilding Diet Could Help in The Treatment of Schizophrenia, Study Finds
- Scientists Are Trialling 'Hydricity' – a New Power Source That Combines Solar Energy And Hydrogen
- Science Says That People Who Curse a Lot Have Better Vocabularies Than Those Who Don't
- Watch: Three Astronauts Just Docked at The International Space Station
- This Bomb-Proof Bag Can Suppress Explosions on Aircraft
- Vegetarian And 'Healthy' Diets May Actually Be Worse For The Environment, Study Finds
- Here's What Happens When You Develop an Allergy to Water
- Terrafugia's Flying Car Model Has Been Approved For Tests in US Airspace
- How Exactly Does a Human Embryo Form?
- The World's Largest Smartphone Battery Lasts Up to 15 Days on a Single Charge
- Study Says Antidepressants Increase Autism Risk by 87%, But That's Not The Whole Story
- Watch: The Fascinating Physics of Car Crashes
- Here Are The Top Five Candidates For 'Dark Matter'
- The First Language You Learn Affects How You Hear All Others, Study Finds
- Here's How Checking Your Phone Could Be Ruining Both Your Body And Your Mind
- A Quirk in The Laws of Physics Is The Basis of a Fast New Blood Test
- These Urine-Fuelled Socks Generate Enough Power to Transmit Wireless Signals
- Here's Why 'Hoverboards' Are So Dangerous
- Here's Your Chance to Do Some Science Experiments Over The Holidays
- Research Suggests You Can Train Your Brain to Be Better at Multitasking
- This Simple Shaking Technique Can Remove Dangerous Impurities From Water
- Here Are Five Scary Things That Can Happen to The Human Body
- US Town Rejects Solar Farm Amid Worries It Would "Suck Up All The Energy From The Sun"
- Scientists Are Discovering Frozen Meteorites in The Antarctic
- This Year's Geminid Meteor Shower Is a True Spectacle
- What Is The Likelihood That You Exist?
- Elon Musk Launches US$1 Billion AI Company to "Benefit Humanity" And Avoid Robot Wars
- Here's What You Need to Know About The New Paris Climate Deal
- The US Is Set to Ban Soaps And Body Washes Containing Microbeads
- This 78-Page Book on Physics Is Selling More Copies Than 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
- This New 'Skyscraper' Chip Could Make Computers Run 1,000 Times Faster
- Watch: Are Perpetual Motion Machines Possible?
- Adidas Created This 3D-Printed Shoe Out of Plastic From The Ocean
- This New Non-Toxic Repellent Could Help Make Your Clothes Water-Proof
- Everybody Has a Distinct 'Memory Style' That Affects How We Recall Things
- Brain Scans Are Helping Scientists Create a Condom That Feels Better Than Nothing at All
- Leading NASA Official Says The US Is Abandoning Its Post on The ISS For a Very Good Reason
- These Adorable Marsupials Have Nearly Wiped Themselves Out Because They Won't Stop Eating Toads
- Scientists Have Produced The World's First 100% Recyclable Biopolymer
- Here's How to Build a Real Lightsaber, According to Science
- Scientists Have Developed an Algorithm That Learns as Fast as Humans
- The Internet Is Causing Us to Doubt What We Think We Know
- These Are The World's First Puppies Born Through IVF
- Germany Just Switched on a Revolutionary Nuclear Fusion Machine
- Here's How a Lack of Sleep Can Mess With Your Emotions
- Watch: Here's What The Inside of Your Stomach Looks Like When You Eat
- Watch: Here's How You Turn Gravity Into Light
- Scientists Have Developed a Patch That Could Fix Your Peanut Allergy Problem
- Watch: The Science of Boobs
- Playing 3D Video Games Can Boost Your Memory, Study Finds
- Scientists Have Figured Out How a Parasite Transmitted by Cats May Alter Our Behaviour
- This New Painkilling Patch Releases Ibuprofen Over 12 Hours
- For The First Time, Researchers Have Proved That a Fundamental Physics Problem Is Actually Unsolvable
- Losing Just 1 Gram of Fat in The Pancreas Can Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
- Dogs Show Signs of Self-Consciousness in New 'Sniff Test'
- How Happy or Sad You Are Has No Effect on How Long You'll Live, Study Finds
- Sending Humans to Mars Could Uncover a Disturbing Truth About One of Life's Greatest Mysteries
- Astronomers Have Finally Solved The Mystery of Those Weird Bright Spots on Ceres
- Arnie Says He Doesn't Give a Damn if You Don't Believe in Climate Change
- Total Recall Sounds Great, But Some Things Should Be Forgotten
- Running Long Distances Can Cause Your Brain to Shrink, Study Finds
- This Sponge-Filled Syringe Can Plug a Gunshot Wound in 20 Seconds
- Watch: Here's How to Save Spoiled Wine With Chemistry
- Five Surprising Findings About Death And Dying
- Google's Quantum Computer Is 100 Million Times Faster Than Your Laptop
- Scientists Have Figured Out What We Need to Achieve Secure Quantum Teleportation
- Sleeping With Your Pet Could Help You Get a Better Night's Rest
- Scientists Discover Chemical That Breaks Down Alzheimer's Plaques in Mice
- GM Crops Can Benefit Organic Farmers Too
- How to Beat Anyone at Rock-Paper-Scissors, According to a Mathematician
- Chinese Researchers Unveil a New Mind-Controlled Car
- More Than 75% of E-Cigarettes Tested Contain The Chemical Linked to 'Popcorn Lung'
- Here's The Official Cost of Sending a Letter to Mars
- Astronomers Have Spotted Signs of a Galaxy From The Earliest Moments of The Universe
- Highest Levels of Fukushima Radiation Detected Off The US West Coast
- Greenpeace Sting Operation Exposes Academics Paid to Cast Doubt on Climate Science
- Watch: This Is Quantum Computing in a Nutshell
- Six Ways Scientists Know Climate Change Is Happening
- Women Can Navigate Better When Given Testosterone, Study Finds
- This Stretchy, Drug-Delivering Gel Could Be The Band-Aid of The Future
- Carbon Emissions Slowed Down in 2015, But They Likely Haven't Peaked Yet
- Here's How This Amazing New Camera Can See Around Corners
- Stonehenge Might Have Been Built in Wales First, New Evidence Suggests
- This 1-Minute Animation Will Change Your Perception of Life in The Universe
- Researchers Have Developed a Low-Cost Surgical Device That'll Help Reduce Chronic Back Pain
- Samsung Just Filed a Patent For Foldable Smartphones
- What to Look For When Buying a Telescope
- Beijing Has Declared Its First Ever Red Alert For Pollution as Smog Engulfs City
- America's First Penis Transplant Will Be Performed Within Months
- The Magnetic Field Outside Our Black Hole Has Been Studied For The First Time
- Watch: The Most Common Misconceptions About Eyesight Busted by Science
- New Research Casts Doubt on The Claim That Tardigrades Get 1/6 of DNA From Other Species
- Watch: New Images Show The Closest View Ever of Pluto's Incredible Surface
- Scientists Have Figured Out How 'Resurrection Grass' Comes Back From The Dead
- Scientists Have Helped a Woman Experience Pain For The First Time Ever
- Scientists Have Figured Out How Your Body Fights Your Attempts to Lose Weight
- Living Together Has The Same Emotional Benefits as Getting Married, Says New Study
- A Citizens' Tribunal Will Investigate Monsanto For "Crimes Against Nature And Humanity"
- Google's Filed a Patent For a Watch That Takes Your Blood Without Needles
- Look Up! One of The Year's Best Meteor Showers Will Peak This Weekend
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Store Electricity in 'Paper'
- The Sun Could Produce Solar Flares 1,000 Times More Powerful Than Previously Recorded
- Uruguay Has Shifted to Getting 95% of Its Electricity From Renewables in Less Than 10 Years
- New Study Reveals The Most Common Misconceptions Worldwide
- New Drug Trial Could See Your Dog Live Up to 5 Years Longer
- Scientists Debate The Future of Humanity at International Gene-Editing Summit
- Here's How Your Genes Could Be Making It Harder For You to Quit Smoking
- The Air in Your Office Is Probably Damaging Your Health
- Twin Civilisations? How Life on an Exoplanet Could Spread to Its Neighbour
- Physicists Confirm That Time Moves Forward Even in The Quantum World
- Watch: Here's What 400 Very Happy Rocket Scientists Looks Like
- Watch: Italy's Mount Etna Erupts With Spectacular Natural Fireworks
- Why Does Hot Water Freeze Faster Than Cold Water?
- Floating Gondolas Could Be The Solution to Mexico City's Traffic Problems
- Watch: What Does Your Uvula Do?
- Watch: How to Forget Things on Purpose
- An Engineer Has Calculated The True Cost of Destroying The Death Star
- Having a Dog Can Reduce Anxiety And Stress in Children, Study Finds
- This Image Shot From Space Shows The Full Extent of China's Pollution Problem
- Why Do You Sweat More Than Everyone Else?
- Scientists Have Developed Liquid-Metal 'Nano-Terminators' to Target Cancer Cells
- Mysterious Cosmic Radio Waves Could Have Come From a Starquake, Study Finds
- This Simple Physics Trick Will Stop You Getting Shocked Every Time You Get Out of a Car
- Nicaragua's Momotombo Volcano Has Just Erupted For The First Time in 110 Years
- Universities Australia Urges Major Investment in Innovation And Science
- This Video Shows Why It's So Important to Fund University Research in Australia
- 9 Surprising Australian Innovations That Changed The World
- World's Richest 10% Is Responsible For Half Our Global Fossil Fuel Emissions, Report Finds
- Here's How to Get More Women Promoted to Top Jobs in Universities
- The World Has Lost a Third of Its Farmable Land in The Last 40 Years
- What's It Like to Wake Up With Sleep Paralysis?
- New Global Alliance Signs on 121 'Sun-Drenched' Countries to Fund Solar Power Tech
- Link Found Between Low Intelligence And Falling For Pseudo-Profound Statements
- Your Christmas Lights Could Be Interfering With Your Wi-Fi Connection
- A Mission to Drill Right Through Earth's Crust Begins This Week
- Study of Massive Colombian Family Reveals The Genes That Delay Alzheimer's
- Broccoli Pills Could Help Fight Existing Cancers, Health Experts Say
- Scientists Confirm They've Found 80-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Blood Vessels
- Your Brain Connections Can Predict How Well You Can Pay Attention
- Scientists Have Identified The Genes Responsible For Ageing And a Longer Lifespan
- These Are The Countries With The Best Internet Connections in The World
- China Says It Will Launch Carbon-Tracking Satellites Into Space Next Year
- Astrophysicists Say Both Russia And Turkey Are Lying About The Shot-Down Jet
- Study Reveals There's No Such Thing as 'Male' or 'Female' Brains
- What Exactly Are The Ethics of Robot Love?
- Watch: Diver Helps Unhook Dangerous Porcupinefish
- Which Apocalypse Scenario Is The Most Likely, According to Science?
- Here's How Graphene Mics Could Detect Sounds Beyond The Range of Human Hearing
- Watch: This Is What Happens When You Shoot an AK-47 Underwater in Slow Motion
- Scientists Develop Super-Absorbent Sponge Material to Soak Up Oil Spills
- A Common Diabetes Drug Will Be Trialled as an Anti-Ageing Elixir From Next Year
- A Key Ingredient in Aspirin Blocks Cell Death From Alzheimer's And Parkinson's Disease
- Bill Gates Has Teamed Up With Mark Zuckerberg to Form Multi-Billion-Dollar Clean Energy Fund
- World's Largest Cloning Factory in China Set to Produce Cattle, Racehorses And Sniffer Dogs
- Just Adding Sugar to Water Is as Good as or Better Than Energy Drinks, Study Finds
- New Study Confirms That Bananas Are Being Driven to Extinction
- A Brand New Phase of Carbon Has Been Discovered
- Scientists Have Figured Out The Crazy Physics Behind a Bursting Balloon