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October 31

• Astronomers Find That Titan Is Full of Steep, Liquid-Filled Canyons
• Scientists Have Identified a Part of The Brain Responsible For The Placebo Effect
• WATCH: The Crazy Physics Behind Why Our Skyscrapers Keep Breaking Records
• Scientists Have Built a Nightmare Machine to Generate The Scariest Images Ever
• This New Hypothesis Claims to Solve 5 of The Biggest Problems in Physics
• This Strange, Ancient Water in Canada Could Host 'Alien' Life
• SpaceX Has Finally Narrowed Down The Fatal Flaw That Caused Its Rocket to Explode
• Elon Musk Just Unveiled His Brand New Solar Roof

October 30

• NASA's New Warning System Has Spotted an Incoming Asteroid

October 28

• The Internet Has Some Wild Ideas About This Newly Discovered Submarine Wreck
• If Global Warming Continues, There Will Be a Desert in Spain
• Archaeologists Are Using X-Rays to Read Inside Egyptian Mummy Coffins
• Scientists Have Discovered a Tiny Bird That Can Fly For 10 Months Straight Without Landing
• This New Immunotherapy Technique Could Prevent All Kinds of Food Allergies
• We Might Finally Know The Weird Reason Earth Experiences an Ice Age Every 100,000 Years
• Archaeologists Have Found The First Ever Fossilised Dinosaur Brain, And It's Surprisingly Complex
• New Research Suggests Cannabis Could Enhance Night Vision
• A New Male Contraceptive Injection Is 96% Effective in Human Tests
• You Need to Stop Trying to Treat Your UTI With Cranberry Juice
• Researchers Say They've Found Hidden Layers in Jesus' Tomb Site
• Here's Why The Expansion of The Universe Is Probably Still Accelerating
• The World's Best Cities Have Been Ranked, And They Aren't What We Think They Are

October 27

• What Happens to Your Body After You Die?
• This Strange Mineral Grows on Dead Bodies And Turns Them Blue
• Professional Alien Hunters Are Starting to Investigate The Mysterious 'Alien Megastructure'
• Researchers Just Found a New Source of Renewable Energy in Wood Pulp Waste
• Where Was The Last Place on Earth Discovered by Humans?
• Peter Higgs Says He Wouldn't Have Predicted The Higgs Boson in Today's Academic Climate
• Scientists Just Debunked The HIV Patient Zero Myth
• Nuclear Power Plants Are Still Using Pagers to Communicate, And That's a Big Problem
• Most of The Great Barrier Reef Above This Line Is Now Dead
• A Massive Hole in The Sun's Corona Is Supercharging Aurorae Right Now

October 26

• Here's How Entire Forests Can Migrate to Better Environments
• Why Are Venus And Uranus Spinning in The Wrong Direction?
• Renewable Energy Now Exceeds All Other Forms of New Power Generation
• 4 Super-Handy Tech Courses You Can Take Online Right Now
• The Legend of Question Six: One of The Hardest Maths Problems Ever
• Physicists Just Found More Hints of an Elusive Particle That's Its Own Antiparticle
• Elon Musk Just Shared His 4-Step Plan For Mars – Colonists Should Be "Prepared to Die"
• Neanderthal Sex Could Explain Why Europeans And Africans Have Different Immune Systems
• Scientists Have Found a Massive Dome Growing on Top of The World's Largest Active Magma Store
• An English-Speaking Teenager Has Woken Up From a Coma Speaking Fluent Spanish

October 25

• Thanks to Quantum Mechanics, This Plant Glows Bright Blue to Survive in The Dark
• Christopher Marlowe Has Officially Been Credited as Co-Author of 3 Shakespeare Plays
• This Smartphone Add-on Claims to Detect Cancer With 99% Accuracy
• Scientists Have Recreated an Ancient Mead From 2,500 Years Ago
• Pacific Islanders Appear to Be Carrying The DNA of an Unknown Human Species
• Scientists Have Published a Roadmap of What We Need to Make a Quantum Computer
• Evidence Is Mounting That Routine Wisdom Teeth Removal Is a Waste of Time
• One of The Most Violent Stellar Battles in The Galaxy Has Finally Been Photographed
• Here's What We Know About The Massive Cyber Attack That Took Down The Internet on Friday
• Americans Say They're More Afraid of Clowns Than Climate Change
• What Would a Parallel Universe Even Look Like?
• Watch This Giant Australian Spider Drag a Mouse Up a Refrigerator And Into Your Nightmares
• Larry Page's 'Flying Car' Has Been Spotted in The Wild, And It Just Looks Like a Tiny Aeroplane
• Saturn's Mysterious Hexagon Has Changed From Blue to Gold – And No One Knows Why

October 24

• Elon Musk Is About to Test The 'Trickiest' Part of His Mars Spaceship
• Dozens of Ancient Shipwrecks Have Been Spotted Beneath The Black Sea
• Archaeologists Have Uncovered Signs of an Ancient Roman Battlefield in Jerusalem
• This New Compound Could Help Kill Up to a Quarter of All Cancer Types
• Two Giant, Mysterious Ice Avalanches Have Struck Tibet
• How Many Genes Does It Take to Make a Person?
• The Science of Introverts vs Extroverts
• WATCH: Here's How LEGO Is Helping Blind People to 'See'
• The Science Behind The Magic Eye Craze of The 1990s
• Scientists Discover a Bizarre Two-Headed Shark Growing in The Lab
• No, The Universe Is Not Expanding at an Accelerated Rate, Say Physicists
• This Brilliant Teen Figured Out How to Make Clean Energy Using a Device That Costs $5
• Iceland Is Drilling The Hottest Hole in The World to Get Electricity From Magma
• The Universe Might Have a Delete Button – And It Could Destroy Physics as We Know It

October 23

• NASA's Released Images of Mars That Could Show The Obliterated Remains of Europe's Lander

October 21

• Experts Claim They Might Have 'Solved' The Bermuda Triangle Mystery
• WATCH: Here's a Hyperloop Pod Levitating For The First Time
• This Japanese Volcano Might Have Stopped an Earthquake
• Bolivia's Melting Glaciers Have Become Ticking Time Bombs
• Scientists Have Discovered a Brand-New Aspect of Our Immune System
• This Hilarious Quiz Makes You Guess Which Physics Papers Are Real or Fake
• New Evidence Suggests a Change of Diet Could Help Blood Cancer And Transplant Patients
• Physicist Says Our Universe Could Have Spawned From a Black Hole
• Australian Nurses Who Spread Anti-Vaccination Messages Will Now Face Prosecution
• These Ancient Teeth Are The First Known Evidence of Right-Handedness
• Scientists Say Data From NASA's 1976 Mars Landing Need to Be Reconsidered For Signs of Life
• Stephen Hawking Says Most of Our History Is "The History of Stupidity"
• These Are The Incredible Winners of The 2016 Wildlife Photographer of The Year Awards

October 20

• Rich People Really Do Ignore You When You Walk Past
• Skydiving Dogs Are Helping to Fight Poachers in South Africa
• WATCH: These Are 5 of The Worst Computer Viruses Ever
• Bad News: The Feds Probably Already Have Your Face on File
• This Newly Discovered Icy World Could Be The Key to Finding Planet Nine
• The Orionids Meteor Shower Is About to Hit Its Peak – Here's How to Watch
• Something Made Juno Enter 'Safe Mode' as It Approached Jupiter Last Night
• Adding Seaweed to Cattle Feed Could Reduce Methane Production by 70%
• Astronomers Say These Mysterious Flaring Objects Could Be an Entirely New Phenomenon
• New Discovery Casts Doubt on How The Solar System Formed
• Here's What Scientists Think The World Will Be Like in 2045
• Scientists Have Teamed Up to Stop The Australian Wildlife Crisis From Reaching Breaking Point
• Demolitions Crews Just Uncovered an Epic Time Capsule From Kids in 1968

October 19

• Europe Has Lost Contact With Its Mars Lander, And Fears a Fatal Crash
• NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Has Released Crazy New Pictures of Mars
• 10,000 Endangered 'Scrotum Frogs' Have Mysteriously Dropped Dead at Lake Titicaca
• Here's Why Chocolate And Wine Give Some People Migraines
• Scientists Say They've Identified The Physical Source of Depression in The Brain
• Get an MBA Education With This Online Course
• Online Courses You Can Take Right Now to Become a Better Version of Yourself
• Researchers Are Building a New Robot to Help Protect The Great Barrier Reef
• Scientists Just Accidentally Discovered a Process That Turns CO2 Directly Into Ethanol
• Miners Uncover a Huge Jade Stone Worth $170 Million in Myanmar
• A Ghost Pepper Challenge Nearly Killed a Man by Tearing a Hole in His Esophagus
• Get Ready to Watch The Moon 'Occult' One of Our Brightest Stars Tonight
• How We Discovered The 'Higgs Bison', Hiding in Plain Sight in Ancient Cave Art

October 18

• We Caught Modern Genital Warts Because Our Ancestors Were Banging Neanderthals
• Pedals, Our Beloved Upright Bear, Has Reportedly Been Killed
• These Plankton Blooms Mean The Ocean Is Responding to Climate Change in a Big Way
• Here's Why You Get Those Annoying Static Electricity Shocks
• It's Official: The World Has Agreed to Phase Out Dangerous Heat-Trapping HFCs
• Tasmanian Devil Milk Kills Several Deadly Superbugs That Are Resistant to Existing Drugs
• Scientists Say These 2 Factors Hugely Impact Whether Antidepressants Will Work For You
• Long-Forgotten Research Suggests a Secondary Bacterium Behind Lyme Disease
• Stephen Hawking's Alien-Hunting Project Is Investigating Strange Signals From 234 Stars
• Scientists Just Broke a New Record For Quantum Computing Stability
• A Hospital Ward Has Been Quarantined After 5 People Fall Ill With Mysterious Hallucinations
• How Many Wind Turbines Would We Need to Power The Planet?
• Researchers Say They've Discovered 2 Mysterious "Cavities" Inside The Great Pyramid of Giza

October 17

• Astrophysicists Have Witnessed Plasma Ripples Moving Along Earth's Bow Shock
• Knowingly Taking a Placebo Can Still Reduce Your Pain
• A Change in Diet Could Help Stop Your Migraines
• The Most Empathetic Countries in The World Have Just Been Ranked
• China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Space
• Ancient Tombs Discovered Under Two Maya Pyramids Shed Light on Mysterious 'Snake Kings'
• We Might Have Just Discovered 2 Dark Moons Hidden Near Uranus
• Just 2 Weeks in The Mountains Can Change Your Blood For Months

October 16

• Here's Why Eating Only Organic Is Pretty Much a Sham
• Schools Around The US Are Finally Pushing Back Their Start Times – And It's Working

October 14

• This Australian Rock Formation Could Be Older Than Stonehenge
• We're About to Get a New Photo of Our Planet Taken Every Day From Space
• The Milky Way's Ancient Heart And 5 More of Our Favourite Science Images From This Week
• Scientists Just Broke a Fusion World Record – And It Lifts The Bar For Clean Energy Potential
• For The First Time, Scientists Have Filmed Chimpanzees Teaching Their Young to Use Tools
• People Ate Each Other in This Cave – And We Still Don't Know Why
• Physicists Think Gravitational Waves Might Permanently Alter Spacetime
• The International Space Station Has Been Recording Detailed Videos of North Korea
• Turns Out Spiders Can Hear You From Across The Room
• We Now Know Which Parts of The US Are at The Highest Risk From a Devastating Solar Storm
• The Largest Iceberg in Decades Broke Free From a North American Glacier – And No One Noticed
• A Rare Hunter's Supermoon Will Appear This Weekend – Here's How to Watch
• A New Antibody Therapy Appears to Have Permanently Blocked HIV Infection in Monkeys
• Astronomers Think They've Finally Figured Out Why The Sky Is Dark at Night

October 13

• Fasting Gives Us Longer Life, But It Goes Against Everything We Think of as Healthy
• This New Device Lets You Grow Your Own Food From Plant Cells
• Welcome to Slope Point, Where The Trees Grow Sideways
• Google's AI Can Now Learn From Its Own Memory Independently
• TripAdvisor Will No Longer Sell Tickets For Cruel or Exploitative Animal Attractions
• This Is How a Norwegian Woman Survived The Lowest Body Temperature Ever Recorded
• The Latest Patent For The 'Impossible' EM Drive Has Just Been Made Public – And It's Wild
• Scientists Have Identified a Virus With DNA Stolen From a Black Widow Spider
• These Clever Photos Show How Faces Change as They Age
• New Evidence Could Rewrite The History of China's Terracotta Warriors
• One of The Physicists Behind The Higgs Boson Has Made an Algorithm to Replace The Pill
• Homeopathic Teething Products Are Being Investigated in The Deaths of 10 Babies
• You Can Turn Almost Any Object Into a Computer – And It Could Completely Change AI

October 12

• WATCH: This Glorious Earthrise as Seen From The Moon Makes Everything Okay
• An International Group of Scientists Wants You to Join Asgardia – The First Space Nation
• This Ultra-Rare Condition Makes People Believe They're Dead
• We Finally Know Why Naked Mole Rats Are Impervious to Pain
• The Most Remote Village on Earth Is About to Become Self-Sufficient
• Obama Just Explained How NASA Will Get Humans to Mars by The 2030s
• The Ultimate Big Data Course You Can Take Online Right Now
• How to Build a $120,000 a Year Career as a Web Penetration Tester
• This Online Programming Course Lets You Pay What You Think It's Worth
• This Is The Best Way to Add C++ to Your Skillset
• 4 of The Best Tech Courses You Can Take Online Right Now
• A Mystery Space Plane Has Been Orbiting Earth For 500 Days – And We Still Don't Know Why
• The First of Our 3 Billion Heartbeats Happen Much Sooner Than We Thought
• Scientists Just Debunked The 'No Sex Before Sports' Myth
• Scientists Just Developed a Video That Induces The Same Visual Hallucinations in Healthy People
• The Strongest Evidence of The Big Bang Was Almost Mistaken For Pigeon Droppings
• A New Dwarf Planet Has Just Been Discovered in Our Solar System
• China's 'Extinct' Dolphin Has Reportedly Been Spotted in The Yangtze River
• Mathematicians Just Updated The Formula For Happiness

October 11

• Researchers Think They Know How to Make Your Brain Learn Like a Kid Again
• Brazil's Biggest Dinosaur Has Been Rediscovered – After Spending 60 Years in a Cupboard
• WATCH: The Science Behind Why We Keep Making The Same Damn Mistakes
• Hundreds of Ancient Human Footprints Have Been Discovered Near an African Volcano
• Alien Life Could Be Sustained on Other Planets by Radiation From Cosmic Rays
• Scientists Just Used Stem Cells From One Monkey to Heal The Hearts of Five Others
• Physicists Just Discovered Electrons Behaving Like Light in Graphene… But Better
• Two Space Agencies Will Attempt an Historic Landing on Mars Next Week
• Physicists Just Witnessed Quasiparticles Forming For The First Time Ever
• Mars-Bound Astronauts Risk Long-Term Brain Damage And Chronic Dementia
• IVF Study Suggests Boys Could Inherit Fertility Problems From Their Dads

October 10

• 16 Civil War Cannonballs Have Been Exposed by Hurricane Matthew in South Carolina
• Trees Are Way Better at Cooling The Climate Than We Thought
• Scientists Have Figured Out How to Help Nerve Fibres Repair Themselves
• A Single Planetary Smash Could Have Formed Most of Earth's Precious Minerals
• 20 Physicists Who Revolutionised Our Understanding of The World
• Breasts Have Their Own Microbiome – And It Could Influence Your Cancer Risk
• A Weird Patch of "Cold Earth" in China Stays Frozen Through Blazing Summers
• Scientists in California Just Discovered a New Type of Earthquake
• This Tree Trunk Has Been Floating Upright For 120 Years – And No One Knows Why
• First Evidence Emerges That Women's Ovaries Can Grow New Eggs
• How to Find Your Perfect STEM Career Path

October 9

• The True Scale of Nuclear Weapons Should Give You Serious Anxiety
• Earth Doesn't Actually Have The Most Water in The Solar System

October 7

• This Is Why We Should All Be Covering All Our Buildings With Plants
• A Whale Calf Just Helped Push Its Mother to Freedom After Getting Stranded on a Sandbank
• This World-First Farm Grows Vegetables in The Desert With Nothing But Sun And Seawater
• WATCH: How Advanced Would Aliens Need to Be to Contact Earth?
• Physicists Have Managed to 'Dissolve' Water in an Emerald
• The Strange Number 0.577 Keeps Showing Up in Everything
• Hubble Has Spotted Mysterious Balls of Plasma Shooting From a Star
• We Might Have Finally Figured Out The Mysterious Force That Controls The Sun's Magnetic Field
• WATCH: Here's Why Americans Spell Differently to Australians And Brits
• Scientists Just Developed The World's Smallest Transistor
• These Scientists Are Teaching Kids to Spot Bullsh*t Health Advice
• Our Closest Earthlike Planet Appears to Be "Covered" in Water

October 6

• Boeing Says It Will Beat SpaceX to Mars
• Archaeologists Just Found a 2,500-Year-Old Skeleton Wrapped in Cannabis
• These Extremely Rare And Fluffy Wildcats Are Getting Their Own Sanctuary in Siberia
• Panasonic Just Unveiled a New Invisible Television
• New Drugs Are Helping Children With a Fatal Muscle Disease Walk Again
• Blue Origin Just Pulled Off an Amazing Double-Landing to Test Its Rocket Escape System
• This Physicist Just Got The All-Clear to Test His Record-Breaking Ion Drive in Space
• This Gif Illustrates The Mind-Melting Number of Galaxies in The Universe
• Scientists Just Figured Out Where a Massive Chunk of Earth's Crust Disappeared to
• Here's How Three Theorists Scooped The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
• This Massive Black Hole Just Broke Free, And Is Tearing Through Its Own Galaxy
• It's Official: A Rare Orca Has Been Killed by Satellite Tagging Complications
• Doctors in Texas Successfully Transplanted a Uterus From a Living Donor For The First Time

October 5

• Scientists Say There's a Limit to The Human Lifespan – And We've Already Hit It
• This 16-Year-Old Kid Fell Behind in Class, So He Built an App to Do It For Him
• The Bigger Your Brain, The Longer You Yawn, Say Scientists
• Our Memory Capacity Could Be 10 Times Larger Than We Thought
• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Contains Even More Trash Than We Thought
• Scientists Have Figured Out How The Brain Makes New Memories While Keeping Old Ones
• There's a Rare Gene Mutation That Makes Some of Us Seek Out Fatty Foods
• WATCH: Here's Why Galaxies And Planets Might Only Exist Thanks to 'Nothingness'
• Get Ready For a Month of Meteor Showers as We Pass Through The Tails of 3 Comets
• Physicists Just Created The World's First Time Crystal
• A SECOND Fault Line Running Parallel to San Andreas Has Just Been Identified
• This Reconstructed 3D Home Reveals Ancient Pompeii Before Vesuvius Struck
• 2 Trees That Were 'Extinct' For Half a Century Have Been Discovered in The Queen's Garden
• Scientists Just Found The Largest Continuous Coral System – And It's Like Nothing We've Ever Seen

October 4

• One of The Biggest Dinosaur Footprints EVER Has Just Been Unearthed
• Archaeologists Finally Have Clues About The Identity of The Mysterious 'Face-Down' Skeleton
• Scientists Just Found What Could Be The Biggest Concentration of Mammoth Bones Ever
• A Trade Ban Has Just Been Placed on The World's Most Heavily Trafficked Animal
• Here's Why Scientists Think Only 10% of People Are Left-Handed
• This Is Probably The Lowest Weight You'll Reach All Year
• Our Local Region of The Milky Way Is 4 Times Bigger Than We Thought
• 4 Awesome Programming Courses You Can Take Online Now
• The Internet Is Obsessing Over This 'Impossible' Water Stream
• NASA Releases Terrifying Footage of Hurricane Matthew From Space
• Scientists Discover a Mysterious Prehistoric Shark That Was Related to Megalodon
• Why Doesn't Time Flow Backwards?
• A Mystery Comet Impact Triggered The Evolution of Our Earliest Ancestors, Say Geologists
• Speculation Is Building That Sabotage Was Involved in The Recent SpaceX Explosion
• Two Billionaires Want to Help Break Humanity Out of a Giant Computer Simulation

October 3

• How Feasible Are Elon Musk's Mars Plans? A Planetary Scientist Breaks Them Down
• Astronomers Just Caught a Glimpse of Incredible Hidden Stars in Orion's Belt
• 7 Bee Species Have Been Added to The US Endangered Species List
• A New Treatment Appears to Have Erased HIV From a Patient's Blood
• Another of Saturn's Moons Could Be Hiding a Global Ocean – And The Possibility of Life