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January 29

• New Chip Fabrication Technique Points to Incredibly Thin, Flexible Computers
• Researchers Discover a Natural Food Additive That Blocks Skin Cancer Cells
• Fruits High in Flavonoids Are Associated With Less Weight Gain, Study Finds
• This Scientist Shot Himself Underwater, And Science Saved His Life
• The Biggest Myth About Warming Up Your Car in Winter Is Doing Your Engine More Harm Than Good
• Bed Bugs in The US Have Developed Extreme Tolerance to Popular Insecticides
• Why The Reusable Rocket Competition Between SpaceX And Blue Origin Isn't Actually a Competition
• Scientists Produce The Most Realistic Lab-Grown Liver Tissue Yet
• This Ancient Babylonian Map of Jupiter Just Changed History as We Know It
• Scientists Say They've Figured Out Why Exercise on Its Own Won't Make You Lose Weight
• WHO Calls Emergency Meeting With Zika Virus "Spreading Explosively" Through Americas
• The 10 Best Tips For Anyone Who Wants to Work in Science or Engineering
• Antarctic Fungi Survive 18 Months in Mars-Like Conditions on Board The ISS
• Scientists Have Bred Male Mice With No Y Chromosomes – And They Can Still Reproduce
• Here's What to Do if You Wake Up Before Your Alarm And Don't Want to Feel Like Crap
• There's Now Even More Evidence That Alzheimer's Could Be Transmitted Through Medical Procedures

January 28

• WATCH: What Would Happen if You Only Drank Soda?
• 30 Years on: What The Challenger Disaster Meant For Our Race Into Space
• Try to Escape a Black Hole And You'll Be Burnt to a Crisp, New Paper Cautions
• Scientists Are Using Gene Editing to Repair a Mutation That Causes Blindness
• First-of-Its-Kind Wearable Sweat Sensor Monitors Your Perspiration
• 49 Years Ago, Three Astronauts Gave Their Lives in The Pursuit of Space Travel
• Researchers Can Now Convert CO2 From The Air Directly Into Methanol Fuel
• Physicists Are About to Test a Hypothesis That Could Rewrite The Textbooks
• WATCH: Artificial Intelligence Beats Human Go Champion For The First Time
• Yes, Checking Social Media Is Probably Messing With Your Sleep, Say Scientists
• France Just Announced Plans to Help India Land on Mars For The First Time
• The World's Largest Floating Solar Power Plant Is Being Built in Japan
• Massive Study Identifies Single Gene Linked to Highest Schizophrenia Risk For The First Time

January 27

• Here's Why Chess Is Great For Young Brains
• These Bacteria Can Live For Years in Distilled Water, And Cause Abscess, Seizures And Death
• A Physicist Jumped Off The Side of a Building – Here's The Science That Saved His Life
• Scientists Have Discovered The Largest Known Solar System
• Ocean-Based Biology Lab Lets Scientists Study Sea Organisms Up Close
• This Flexible Nano-Sensor Could Help Doctors Detect Breast Cancer
• Engineer Proposes Hypersonic Jet That Could Fly From New York to London in 11 Minutes
• France Will Install 1,000 Km of Solar-Panelled Roads in The Next 5 Years
• Scientists Discover a Key Mechanism That Could Prevent Alzheimer's-Related Memory Loss
• That Epic US Snowstorm Just Smashed All Kinds of Meteorological Records
• The US Could Slash Energy-Production Emissions by 78% in Just 15 Years, Report Shows
• Physicists Might Have Just Solved One of The Big Problems With Light-Based Computers
• Scientists Have Found a Way to Predict Who's Likely to Wake Up During Surgery

January 26

• WATCH: The Hunt For Glueball Particles Explained
• The Doomsday Clock Is Now "Far Too Close" to Midnight
• Young Gorillas Have Learnt How to Dismantle Poachers' Traps in The Wild
• New Algorithm Points The Way Towards Regrowing Limbs And Organs
• Being Frozen Almost to Death Is What Saved This Man's Life

January 25

• Scientists Have Discovered a New Method of Potentially Repairing Nerve Damage
• The 17 Equations That Changed The Course of History
• This Electrically Conductive Concrete Melts Snow Without Chemicals
• Space Junk Accidents Could Trigger Armed Conflict, Study Finds
• WATCH: SpaceX's Dragon 2 Capsule Just Passed The Crucial 'Hover Test'
• Astrophysicist Explains The Most Complex Space Concepts With Simple Recipes
• Australian Scientists to Begin Trialling Fully Implantable Bionic Eye
• Zebra Stripes Aren't Used For Camouflage or Mate Selection, Study Finds
• WATCH: Astronaut Plays Ping Pong With Liquid Droplet on Board The ISS
• Scientists Propose a 'Mirror Universe' Where Time Moves Backwards
• A Protein Found in Human Breast Milk Could Help Kill Drug-Resistant Bacteria
• The Last Time Earth Was This Hot, Hippos Lived in Britain

January 24

• WATCH: Blue Origin Made a Historic Second Landing of Its Reusable Rocket
• Here's How Two Giant, Gravity-Powered Water Tunnels Could Protect California From Drought
• Take The Evolution Pop Quiz Given to First-Year Biology Students

January 22

• By 2050, There'll Be More Plastic Than Fish in Our Oceans
• New Test Predicts a Person's Risk of Dementia Using Family Doctor Records
• Want to Improve The Quality of Your Writing? Type Slower
• South Africa Is Really Close to Lifting The Ban on Rhino Horn Trade
• New Device Warms Up Dam Water Before It's Released to Protect Fish
• All Your Germaphobic Habits Are Pretty Much Useless
• Physicists Have Managed to Tie a Quantum Knot For The First Time
• WATCH: Why We Don't Actually Know How Many Mass Extinctions Have Hit Earth
• Dark 'Noodles' of Matter in Interstellar Gas Clouds Have Been Observed For The First Time
• Aliens Are Silent Because They're Dead, Says New Study
• Rare Tree Frog Is Rediscovered After More Than a Century, Eats Its Mother's Eggs
• Eating Healthily During The Week But Bingeing on Weekends Is Not OK For Your Gut
• Is The David Bowie 'Constellation' a Stellar Hoax?

January 21

• Bearded Men Are Probably More Hygienic, New Research Finds
• The Blizzard Expected to Hit The US East Coast This Weekend Has Meteorologists Freaking Out
• This Bizarre Fish With Legs Has Been Discovered Off The Coast of New Zealand
• The US Military Is Working on Tech That Could Turn Soldiers Into Cyborgs
• 2015 Was Officially The Hottest Year on Record, And 2016 Could Be Even Hotter
• Physicists Propose New Method to Teleport The Memory of a Living Creature
• Honey Could Be Making Us Sick Due to Contamination With Liver-Harming Toxins, Study Suggests
• Neuroscientist Says He's Solved The Mystery of Why Our Brains Use So Much Energy
• Scientists Use Protein-Blocker to Stop The Spread of Leukaemia
• Our Brain's Memory Capacity Is 10 Times Larger Than We Thought
• Here's Why We're Attracted to People of a Similar Height, Scientists Say
• Astronomers Have Found Evidence of Huge Ninth Planet on The Edge of The Solar System
• Humans Have Been Massacring Each Other For at Least 10,000 Years, New Evidence Suggests
• Science Says This Is How Many Friends You Should Have on Social Media

January 20

• For Some of Us, The Internet Could Be Doing More Harm Than Good, Report Finds
• WATCH: Can You Propel a Spacecraft With Nothing But Light?
• Exposure to Algae Toxin Could Increase The Risk of Alzheimer's-Like Illnesses
• Scientists Have Developed a Painless Electric Current That Could Replace The Dentist's Needle
• The CDC Has Released New Safety Guidelines For The Zika Virus
• Stephen Hawking Says a Planetary Disaster on Earth Is a "Near Certainty"
• The Science Behind Why We Love Terrifying Ourselves on Rollercoasters
• Denmark Got 42% of Its Electricity From Wind Last Year, Smashing The World Record
• Cancer Drug Clears Alzheimer's-Related Plaques And Improves Memory Function in Mice
• The Largest Prime Number to Date Has Been Discovered, And It's 22 Million Digits Long
• WATCH: First-Ever Footage of a Seahorse Giving Birth in The Wild
• Extensive Twin Study Finds No Link Between Marijuana Use And IQ Decline in Teens
• Controversial Surgeon Claims He's Performed a Monkey Head Transplant, But Provides No Proof
• Want to Help Design an Actual Space Robot? Here's How You Can.
• WATCH: This Freaky 'Devil Tree' in Ohio Burns From The Inside Out
• WATCH: 5 of The World's Most Dangerous Chemicals

January 19

• This Eerie Chart Predicts How And When You're Likely to Die
• Have Scientists Really Found Something That's Harder Than Diamond?
• Japan Unveils Remote-Control Robot to Dismantle Fukushima Nuclear Plant
• Geckos Are Officially The Largest Animals Capable of Sticking to Smooth Walls
• WATCH: There's a Scientific Reason For Why Plane Windows Are Always Round
• Brain Scans Reveal Physical Link Between Poverty And Childhood Depression
• High Doses of Cocaine Cause Mouse Brain Cells to Eat Themselves
• Incredible 'Space Flowers' Just Bloomed on The International Space Station
• Study Suggests The Internet Really Could Out-Evolve Humanity
• Research Says Back Pain Can Be Caused by Depression
• WATCH: An Epic Fire Tornado in Slow Motion 4K
• New Light-Activated Nanoparticles Kill Over 90% of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
• Physicists Achieve Record-High Efficiency in Key Nuclear Fusion Process
• Cosmic Particles Collected Inside Egyptian Pyramid Could Reveal How It Was Built
• Low-Fibre Diets Could Mess Up Your Gut Microbes, And It Could Be Heritable

January 18

• Great White Shark Claimed to Be 7 Metres (!!) Spotted Off The Coast of Australia
• Watch The SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Land, Tip, And Explode
• The Science of Sleeping in – And How You Can Do It Better
• Scientists Discover an Ancient Gas Cloud That May Contain Remnants of The First Stars
• This Fish Slime Could Help Scientists to Develop Super Hydrogels
• Physicists Have Described a New Type of 'Dancing' Crystal Structure
• A Reverse City Map Randomly Appeared Over The Sky in Finland Last Week
• Five Bright Planets Are About to Align in The Sky For The First Time in More Than 10 Years
• A Frozen Tardigrade Has Been Brought Back to Life After 30 Years
• China Says It Will Land a Probe on The Far Side of The Moon in 2018
• Report Questions The Safety of NASA's Plan to Get to Mars by 2030s
• A Comet Swarm Can't Explain That 'Alien Megastructure' Star After All
• NASA Ups The Competition on SpaceX by Partnering With New 'Dream Chaser' Spacecraft
• This 3-Minute Animation Will Change The Way You See The Universe

January 17

• Diagnosis of Untreatable Zika Virus in Houston Is a Cause For Concern, Experts Say
• Here's Why Speed-Reading Doesn't Actually Work
• SpaceX Just Failed Another Shot at Rocket Landing
• Is Washing Fruit And Veggies Really Necessary?

January 15

• Your Bones Could Soon Heal a Whole Lot Better Thanks to Polymer Nanoshells
• New 'Spermbots' Could Help Solve Infertility by Acting as Bionic Suits For Sperm
• New Ebola Case Confirmed Just Hours After The Epidemic Was Declared Over
• Standing Up at School Improves Students' Cognitive Performance, Study Finds
• NASA's Solar-Powered Juno Breaks Distance Record at 793 Million Km From The Sun
• Scientists Discover That Our Brain Waves Can Be Sent by Electrical Fields
• Two Types of Water Ice Have Been Confirmed on The Surface of Comet 67P
• Scientists Have Improved The Vision of Blind Rats Using Gene Editing
• WATCH: Weird Cloud Formation Makes It Look Like This City Is Underwater
• WATCH: This Virtual Reality Rollercoaster Gives You a Front-Row Seat in Space
• Scientists Have Come Up With an Algorithm to Save You Time at The Airport
• Oestrogen Protects Women From The Flu… But Not Men
• The 2 Most Dangerous Numbers in The Universe Could Signal The End of Physics
• Researchers Kill Drug-Resistant Cancer in The Lab Using 50 Times Less Chemo
• These 'Green Pea' Galaxies Could Have Reheated The Universe After a Cosmic Dark Age
• Scientists Find First Demonstration of Sexual Selection in Dinosaurs
• Astronomers Are Baffled by a Cosmic Explosion That's The Most Powerful Supernova on Record
• Watch: Koala Gets Kicked Out of a Tree And Throws a Tantrum

January 14

• A Strange Hurricane Is Forming And It's Doing Something No Other Storm Has in Over 75 Years
• We Could Be Just Weeks Away From The First Genetically Modified Human Embryos in Britain
• Human-Made Climate Change Has Suppressed The Next Ice Age, Researchers Say
• Obama Has Announced Plans to Cure Cancer in His Final State of The Union
• London Has Reached Its Yearly Pollution Limit in Just 8 Days
• The World's Largest Canyon Is Hidden Under Antarctic Ice, Evidence Suggests
• The Kangaroo in That Viral 'Grieving' Photo Is Actually Just Sexually Aroused
• The Latest Class of NASA Astronauts Is 50% Female
• The Famous Wow! Signal Came From Comets, Not Aliens, Says Astronomer
• Guys, You Can Now Interact With Life-Sized Dinosaurs at an Australian University

January 13

• Your Dog Really Can Recognise Your Emotions, Study Finds
• Scientists Are Using Satellites to Find Untapped Sources of Geothermal Energy Under Cities
• Astronomers Have Discovered 100 of The Fastest-Moving Stars in The Milky Way
• This New Golden Nano-Grid Could Lead to Clearer, More Sensitive Touchscreens
• Scientists Have Started Growing Human Fallopian Tubes in The Lab
• An 11-Year-Old Girl From Britain Just Achieved The Highest Possible IQ Score
• This New Shower Head Flashes When You Start Using Too Much Water
• NASA Forms New Planetary Defence Office to Manage Asteroid Threats
• A Mathematician Has Proposed a Way to Create And Manipulate Gravity
• Our Last Chance to Contact The Philae Comet Lander Probably Failed

January 12

• Giant Icebergs Are Slowing Down The Effects of Climate Change as They Melt
• Watch: How Much Energy Does It Take to Blow Up a Planet?
• Human Trials Will Test Freeze-Dried Poop Pills as a Weight-Loss Treatment
• Rooftops Covered in Plastic Grass Could One Day Power Your Home With Wind Energy
• Scientists Develop a Lithium-Ion Battery That Shuts Down at High Temperatures to Avoid Explosions
• Controlling Brain Inflammation Could Slow Down The Progress of Alzheimer's, Scientists Find
• This New Half-Solid, Half-Liquid Material Can Heal Itself
• New "Light Recycling" Incandescent Bulbs Could Outperform Energy-Efficient LEDs
• Rumours Fly as Physicists Hint at The First Ever Observations of Gravitational Waves

January 11

• We Might Not Exist if Not For This Accident That Happened 600 Million Years Ago
• Watch: The Facts Behind The Most Common Misconceptions About Hiccups
• Here's Why The X Chromosome Evolved to Be So Weird
• Scientists Have Figured Out How Effective Cheap Plywood Barriers Are During Cyclones
• This Extremely Massive Galaxy Cluster Weighs as Much as 500 Trillion Suns
• Scientists Create World's Most Expensive Material, Valued at $145 Million Per Gram
• The Secret to Happiness? Value Your Time More Than Your Money
• SpaceX Will Attempt to Land a Rocket on a Drone Ship This Week
• Stephen Hawking Just Published a New Solution to The Black Hole Information Paradox
• Vitamin D Supplements Are Not Effective, And Could Be Dangerous, Studies Find

January 10

• Watch: Why Immortality Is So Hard For Humans

January 9

• Australian Geologists Have Found a Meteorite That's Older Than Earth
• Newly Discovered Type of Sound Wave Allows For Inhalable Vaccines

January 8

• This New Wearable Skin Patch From L'Oréal Monitors How Much UV You're Getting
• Gradually Reducing Sugar in Sweet Drinks Could Prevent 1 Million Cases of Obesity in The UK, Study Finds
• Here's Why Those Recently Born Identical Triplets Are Far Rarer Than You Think
• New Material Converts CO2 Into Clean Fuel With Unprecedented Efficiency
• A Short Time-Out Could Be All That's Needed to Boost Your Long-Term Memories
• New Material Can Harvest Sunlight by Day And Release Heat at Night
• Ongoing Gas Leak in California Declared an Emergency by Governor Jerry Brown
• Human Impact on The Planet Qualifies as a New Geological Epoch, Say Scientists
• Half The World's Population Lives on 1% of Its Land
• Watch: The Science Behind Motivation

January 7

• You Breathe in More Bugs From Tap Water Than The Toilet Bowl
• The USDA Just Released a Massive New Report on What's Actually Healthy
• The Ability to Control Our Dreams Could Help Us Solve The Mystery of Consciousness
• North Korea Claims It Detonated a Hydrogen Bomb, But Experts Question The Force of The Blast
• These Are The Complicated Rules That Dictate How New Elements Are Named
• Here Are Six Scientifically Proven Tips For More Effective Studying
• Galactic 'Burp' Shows Black Holes Can Also Create, Not Just Destroy
• Study Confirms Link Between Higher Intelligence And Longer Life Expectancy
• The Race to Find Even More New Elements For The Periodic Table Is Now on
• Physicists Achieve Early Stages of a New, Solid State of Hydrogen
• Visible Light Emitted From a Black Hole Has Been Detected For The First Time
• The Formula That's Supposed to 'Prove Beauty' Is Fundamentally Wrong
• From Bosons to Bigfoot: Six Science Mysteries That Might Be Solved in 2016

January 6

• Watch: The Science Behind Why We Burn Astronaut Pee
• Dietitians, Nutritionists, And Psychologists Have Ranked The Best Diets of 2016
• Two Designers Want to Turn Your Body Into a Tree With These Eco Burial Pods
• This Scent-Producing Alarm Clock Wakes You Up With The Smell of Coffee And Croissants
• Delhi Has Banned Half The Cars on Its Roads to Combat Dangerous Pollution
• This New 1,000-Horsepower Electric Concept 'Hypercar' Is Ridiculous
• This Tiny Bioreactor Can Produce Life-Saving Drugs Anywhere
• UK Grants Licence For E-Cigarettes to Be Prescribed as a Quit-Smoking Aid
• Regular Tea Consumption Loosens Arteries to Lower Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
• Here's What We Know About Anhedonia, a Disorder That Makes It Impossible to Feel Pleasure

January 5

• Watch: The Facts Behind The Most Common Misconceptions About Space
• Why Checking Your Emails After Work Is So Bad For Your Health
• The Gap Between Men And Women's Self-Esteem Is Larger in Western Countries, Study Finds
• Neuroscientists Have Figured Out How Your Brain Wakes You Up
• Scientists Develop Hydrogen 'Nano Reactor' by Hiding Bacteria Genes Inside a Virus Shell
• This New Waterless Toilet Can Turn Human Waste Into Power
• State of Emergency Declared as Brazil Faces Virus That Shrinks Babies' Brains
• New Wi-Fi System 'HaLow' Offers Longer Range And Uses Less Power
• This New Brain Implant Has The Potential to Restore Paralysed Limbs
• European Space Agency Announces Plans to Build a 'Moon Village' by 2030

January 4

• Understanding Trypophobia, a Fear of Holes
• The Great Bathroom Debate: Paper Towel or Hand Dryer?
• 'Precision Weight Loss' Tied to Your Genetic Data Could Be Here in 5 Years, Say Experts
• CRISPR Gene Editing Tool Used to Treat Genetic Disease in an Animal For The First Time
• This Hormone Could Help Us Suppress Cravings For Sugar And Alcohol, Studies Find
• Four Elements Have Just Earned a Permanent Spot in The Periodic Table
• 15 Healthy Eating Habits That Work, According to Science
• These Five Islands Could Be Underwater in as Little as 50 Years

January 3

• Watch: The Nearsighted Epidemic Is Real
• First Meteor Shower of 2016 Peaks Tonight And You Can Watch It Live NOW
• Banana Peel Is Just as Nutritious as The Flesh

January 1

• The Brains of Compulsive Gamers Are Wired Differently, Study Finds
• Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Contains Earliest Record of 'Demon Star'