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June 30

• These 100-Year-Old Photos Were Uncovered From The Antarctic Ice
• Officials Just Announced The End For Your Favourite Comet-Orbiting Probe
• Astronomers Might Have Finally Figured Out What Ceres' Weird Bright Spot Is Made of
• Sony Says Their New Robots Will Form Emotional Bonds With Us
• Here's How Space Affects Men And Women Differently
• These 50-Cent Strips Can Detect Cancer And Malaria From Home
• We've Missed Our Chance to Seriously Stop Climate Change, Study Finds
• This 6,000-Year-Old Tomb Might Have Been The World's First Astronomy Telescope
• Scientists Are Using Tiny Mirrors to Capture The Most Detailed 3D Images of Cell Structures Ever
• Scientists Want to Use Parasitic Worms to Treat Multiple Sclerosis
• San Francisco Just Banned All Polystyrene Products in The City
• This Illusion Lets You 'Feel' The Invisible Force Field Around Your Body
• 107 Nobel Laureates Just Signed a Letter Slamming Greenpeace Over GMOs
• A Huge Internet Cable Connecting The US And Japan Is About to Go Live
• Baby Cuteness Isn't Just a Visual Thing, Say Scientists
• Turns Out Dung Beetles Navigate Using The Stars
• Here's Why People Make Bad Decisions And Don't Listen to Experts
• WATCH: This Simple Triangle Will Change The Way You Think About Maths Forever
• These Mushrooms Eat Plastic Waste – And Then You Can Eat Them
• AI Just Defeated a Human Fighter Pilot in an Air Combat Simulator

June 29

• Whoa, Scientists Are Making Lava in The Lab So They Can Blow It Up
• This Robot Keeps Trying to Escape a Lab in Russia
• WATCH: The First Video of a Great White Shark Sleeping
• This Is What The Best-Before Dates on Your Food Actually Mean
• Mercury Could Be Made From a Rare Type of Meteorite, Say Astronomers
• Light Pollution Might Be Making Spring Start a Week Early, Scientists Find
• This 5,000-Year-Old Artefact Shows Ancient Workers Were Paid in Beer
• Two Zika Vaccines Are Gearing Up For Human Trials After Success in Mice
• NASA Just Tested The Rocket Booster That'll Take Us to Mars
• Scientists Say They've Developed Aspirin That Crosses The Blood-Brain Barrier
• Researchers Just Linked Chronic Fatigue to Changes in Gut Bacteria
• WATCH: The Physics Behind This Crazy Stringless Yo-Yo
• 99-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bird Wings Found Preserved in Amber

June 28

• Researchers Think They've Finally Figured Out What Causes Migraines
• Astronomers Just Discovered a "Stealth Black Hole" Hiding Inside Our Galaxy
• Girls Are Going Through Puberty Earlier Than Ever Before, With Long-Term Health Risks
• Scientists Just Showed You Can Hack an Offline PC by Listening to Its Fans
• Scientists Think They Finally Know How Dogs Sniff Out Diabetes
• Scientists Just Discovered a Massive Field of Precious Helium Gas in Africa
• Scientists Just Found a Huge Reservoir of Water Below California
• This Rainbow Corn Actually Exists. Here's How
• Scientists Just Found a Way to Make Broccoli Even Healthier
• This Was The First Music Ever Played on a Computer

June 27

• Researchers Have Developed a Formula to Explain Why Some People Are Such Jerks
• Scientists Find a Way to Make Computers Generate Totally Random Numbers
• Researchers Think We Might Need to Live in Cities of 'Bone' in The Future
• Scientists Show Dogs Are a Wonderful Source of Comfort After a Tragedy
• Scientists Claim The US Government Is Still Limiting Cannabis Research
• Smartphone Users Experience Temporary Blindness After Checking Their Screens in Bed
• Scientist Claims He's Discovered a Magnetic 'Sixth Sense' in Humans
• Just 30 Minutes of Nature a Week Could Reduce Your Risk of Depression And Heart Disease

June 24

• WATCH: This Is Humanity's Origin Story
• Hubble Just Found a 'Dark Vortex' on Neptune
• Why Asteroid Mining Could Dictate Our Entire Future in Space
• How General Relativity Is Helping Scientists Map The Universe
• Gas Giants Could Have a Layer of Mysterious 'Dark Hydrogen'
• Here's Everything That Happens on The Internet in a Single Second
• Here's How Dangerously Bad We Are at Guessing The Speed of Oncoming Trains
• Scientists Are Finally Figuring Out Why You Only Get Mitochondrial DNA From Your Mum
• Physicists Just Used a Quantum Computer to Simulate Antimatter Creation

June 23

• WATCH: Here's How to Destroy Things With Liquid Nitrogen
• Astronomers Just Switched on a Device That Lets Them Observe The Milky Way's Black Hole
• 'Brain Training' Is Just The Placebo Effect Working, Study Finds
• Scientists Discover The First Contagious Cancer That Can Spread Between Species
• Our Universe Could Be Crowded With Way More Black Holes Than We Thought
• Mens' Willingness to Use Condoms Might Depend on How Hot Their Partner Is
• Scientists Have Invented a Mind-Reading Machine That Visualises Your Thoughts
• WATCH: This Flaming Crater Has Been Burning For More Than 40 Years
• This Topographically Accurate 'Lunar Globe' Is The Coolest Way to Explore The Moon
• Looks Like Pluto's Got Liquid Water Ocean Hidden Beneath The Surface
• Massive Study of Australia's Gun Laws Shows One Thing: They Work
• Hundreds of Genes Spring to Life Up to 4 Days After Death, Scientists Find
• Scientists Just Found a Compound That Kills 98% of a Drug-Resistant Bacteria

June 22

• India Just Launched 20 Satellites in 26 Minutes And Made History
• Scientists Want to Use Bacteria to Clean Up Oil Spills – And It Could Actually Work
• Meet Mosha, The First Elephant to Receive a Prosthetic Leg
• The ISS Just Installed a Network to Form an 'Internet' For The Solar System
• A Promising Anti-Ageing Drug Is About to Undergo Human Trials For The First Time
• A Federal Panel Just Gave The Green Light to Use Gene Editing on Humans
• For The First Time, a US College Had More Female Engineering Graduates Than Men
• Astronomers Discover 'Wind Nebula' Around The Most Powerful Magnet in The Universe
• Elon Musk's New Company Is Developing Robots to Do Your Housework
• A Strange, Low-Pitched Sound Is Coming From The Caribbean Sea
• Experts Says a 'Space Base' Halfway Between The Moon And Earth Could Be Built in 10 Years
• Microsoft Just Demonstrated How Bad Chrome Is For Your Laptop's Battery

June 21

• Scientists Are Applying Naked Mole-Rats' Cancer Resistance to Humans
• These Newborn Planets Are Two of The Youngest Ever Detected
• Astronomers Have Successfully Crowdfunded an 'Alien Megastructure' Study
• A UK Zoo Has Been Releasing Hundreds of Huge Spiders Into The Wild
• Iceland's Been Named The Most Peaceful Place on Earth For 6 Years Running
• Scientists Just Cut 20% of The Fat Out of Chocolate Using Electrical Fields
• Scientists Have Developed Solar Cells 100 Times Thinner Than a Human Hair
• Breast Cancer Growth Is Halted by Osteoporosis Drug, Study Finds
• This Researcher Is Developing an App to Stop Domestic Violence Attitudes in Teens
• Researchers Find Genes in Algae That Could Stop Coral Bleaching
• Tim Peake Says He's Got The "World's Worst Hangover" After 6 Months in Space
• The FDA Just Approved The First Human Trials of a Zika Vaccine
• Scientists Have Invented a Tiny Flying Robot That Can Perch to Save Energy
• WATCH: Why The Solar System Is Almost Entirely Flat

June 20

• 93% of Mammals Were Likely Killed Off With The Dinosaurs
• Exercise Really Can Boost Your Memory, Study Finds
• Here's Why Humans Have an Innate Desire to Get High
• Scientists Just Unveiled The World's First 1,000-Processor Computer Chip
• Physicists Just Sent 'Twisted Light' 143 Kilometres to Set a New World Record
• Astronomers Have Figured Out How Black Hole Jets Burst Through Their Galaxies
• Look Up! This Week's Solstice Coincides With a Strawberry Moon
• Small Trial Shows Memory Loss From Alzheimer's Disease Can Be Reversed
• China Is Predicted to Announce The World's First 100 PetaFLOPS Computer Tomorrow
• Scientists Just Turned Plastic Bottles And Bags Into Liquid Fuel
• A Mysterious Object Just Made a Dent in One of Saturn's Rings

June 17

• Canada's Forests Might Be More Resilient to Global Warming Than We Thought
• Glow-in-The-Dark Cement Could Soon Light Up a City Near You
• There Are Now 234 Pregnant Women in The US With Confirmed Zika Virus
• NASA's Juno Spacecraft Is Almost at Jupiter
• Want to Drink Better-Tasting Coffee? Freeze Your Beans, Say Scientists
• WATCH: How Do You Tell Time in The Universe?
• This Massive Blanket of Crabs Crawled Right Out of Your Nightmares
• You Can Now Send Your Fam The Universe With an Envelope of Constellations
• Scientists Have Created Living Concrete That Repairs Itself
• Scientists Just Detected The Most Distant Oxygen in The Universe
• Physicists Say They've Figured Out How to 'See' Inside a Black Hole
• These 38 Colleges Are Getting Rid of Textbooks to Save Students Money
• WATCH: This Guy Used 1,000 Bedbugs to Give Himself a Tattoo

June 16

• This Is The First Photo of an Exoplanet Candidate 1,200 Light-Years Away
• Scientists Have Finally Figured Out What Causes Volcanic Lightning
• Hyperloop One Is Taking Its Crazy Transport System Underwater
• Earth Has a Second, 'Mini' Moon, Says NASA
• Here's Why Listening to Sad Music Makes You Feel Better
• Scientists Are Using Brain-Opening 'Microbubbles' to Make Chemo More Effective
• Playing This Simple Game Boosts The Mathematical Ability of Five-Year-Olds
• This Is The End of The Fossil Fuel Age as We Know It, Says Report
• This Is Probably Your Only Chance to See This Super-Rare Mole Above Ground
• WATCH: This Is The Crazy Supercomputer That Controls Formula 1 Cars
• WATCH: Here's How Engineers Are Turning CO2 Into Stone
• Scientists Have Invented a Machine That Lets Us Communicate With Plants
• Scientists Just Discovered Methyl Alcohol in a Nearby Planet-Forming Disc
• Physicists Suggest We Might Have Just Found Dark Matter While Detecting Gravitational Waves
• New Paper Claims That The EM Drive Doesn't Defy Newton's 3rd Law After All
• WATCH: 3 Simple Ways to Time Travel (Plus 3 Complicated Ones)
• What's The Point of Theoretical Physics?
• The FDA Just Approved This Gross Weight-Loss Device That Sucks Food From Your Stomach

June 15

• This 2,100-Year-Old Computer Could Predict Eclipses
• These Are The Trees NASA Predicts Will Get Hit Hardest by Climate Change
• Coffee Doesn't Cause Cancer, But Extremely Hot Drinks Might, Says WHO
• This Mysterious Object Could Be The First 'Extinct' Meteorite Ever Found
• Scientists Accidentally Created Nanorods That Harvest Water From The Air
• It's Official: May Is Now Earth's Hottest on Record
• Cats Seem to Use The Simple Laws of Physics to Hunt Down Prey
• Physicists Just Detected Gravitational Waves For The Second Time Ever
• This Is The First Mammal to Go Extinct Because of Human-Caused Climate Change
• Researchers Have Produced a New Type of Sonic Boom to Turn Energy Into Light
• Scientists Just Detected This Life-Forming Molecule in Interstellar Space For The First Time
• WATCH LIVE: SpaceX Is About to Launch One of Its Most Ambitious Missions So Far
• US Egg Farmers Say They'll Finally Stop Culling Millions of Newborn Male Chicks
• Physicists Have Mixed Matter And Light at Room Temperature For The First Time
• We'll Need to Wait 1,500 Years Before Alien Contact Becomes Likely, Scientists Say

June 14

• Here's How to Live Stream This Friday's Blue Origin Launch (And Crash Landing)
• An Irish Worker Just Found a 2,000-Year-Old Lump of 'Bog Butter' That's Still Edible
• Curiosity Just Found Evidence of Ancient Monster Volcanoes on Mars
• Sorry, Sleeping More Won't Necessarily Fix Your Bad Memory
• This Is The Watery Grave The ISS Will Plummet Into
• This Crazy New Material Can Trap And Recycle Radioactive Nuclear Fuel
• Astronomers Say There Could Be at Least 2 More Mystery Planets in Our Solar System
• WATCH: What Colour Is a Mirror?
• Chemists Say They Finally Know How to Make Soft, Delicious Gluten-Free Bread
• Scientists Might Have Finally Figured Out Where The Rarest Crystals on Earth Formed
• Scientists Just Discovered The Largest 'Tatooine' Planet Yet Orbiting Two Suns
• Depressing Paper Suggests Cancer's an Evolutionary Mechanism to 'Autocorrect' Our Gene Pool
• WATCH: A Sh*tty Explanation of The Theory of Everything
• A Professor Explains How 1980s Game Theory Could Explain How Morality Evolved
• A Major Assumption About How The Brain Processes Depression Could Be in Question

June 13

• 5 Obstacles We Need to Overcome Before Head Transplants Can Become a Thing
• A Third of Us Can't See The Milky Way Anymore, And It's Messing With Our Health
• Meet The Terrifying New Robot That Was Built Just to Stab People
• Human 'Body Farm' Reveals We Need to Stop Using Pigs to Establish Time of Death
• Sorry Guys, Practice Alone Won't Make You Good at Sports
• Scientists Have Produced a New Kind of Particle That Carries Energy
• Laser Technology Reveals Huge Medieval Cities Hidden in The Cambodian Jungle

June 10

• People Who Value Time Over Money Are Happier, Study Finds
• Autism Isn't Just a Brain Condition, New Evidence Suggests
• Archaeologists Think They Finally Know What Happened to These 14 Headless Corpses
• This New Drug Is Super Effective at Clearing Up Severe Psoriasis, Trials Find
• Scientists Have Figured Out How to Use Bacteria as Living Hard Drives
• An Extreme New Treatment Has Cured Patients of MS
• Physicists Just Quantum Entangled 10 Photon Pairs And Set a New World Record
• Scientists Discover That This Victoria's Secret Perfume Repels Mosquitoes
• Australian Spiders Try to Flee Floods, Cover Town With a Giant Web Instead
• Astronomers Have Discovered a Potential New Planet Locked in a Death Spiral
• Explainer: How to Find an Exoplanet
• A New Patent Means Google Glass Might Soon Have Night Vision
• These Simple Water Bottle Lamps Are Bringing Light to Those in Need
• Black Holes Could Be 'Back Doors' to Another Universe, Say Physicists
• This Fish Tank Is Filled With Ingenious 3D-Printed Coral
• Scientists Have Figured Out How to Turn CO2 Into Solid Rock Within Months
• This Seagull Turned Bright Orange After Falling Into a Vat of Chicken Tikka Masala
• Here's The Longest People Have Survived Without Air, Food, Water, Sunshine, or Sleep

June 9

• Scientists Are Using Mobile Mitochondria to Repair Damaged Nerve Cells
• WATCH: Here's What Happens When You Shoot a Gun in Space
• Scientists Just Discovered a Worm Living Inside Poisonous, Sulphur Caves
• Elon Musk Says We're Going to Need Brain Implants to Compete With AI
• Astronomers Just Caught Rain Falling on a Black Hole For The First Time Ever
• This Abandoned Town Has Been Filling With Sand For 50 Years
• Scientists Found Something Strange When They Looked at The Brains of Pot Smokers
• Scott Kelly Says His Feet Still Hurt 3 Months After His Year in Space
• Scientists Have Developed a Blood Test That Detects Early Alzheimer's Disease
• Physicists Confirm There's a Second Layer of Information Hidden in Our DNA
• This Gigantic Sinkhole in Ottawa Just Took Out a 4-Lane Road
• The 4 Newest Elements on The Periodic Table Have Just Been Named
• 4-Year-Year Olds Should Be Learning About Robots at School, Says Expert

June 8

• This New Blood Test Could Personalise Depression Treatments For The First Time
• Here's Why There Are No Monkeys Native to North America
• Scientists Just Successfully Measured Movement Smaller Than an Atom in Space
• The US Government Is Running The Biggest Earthquake Simulation Ever
• We're Getting Closer Than Ever to Replacing Animal Testing With Computer Chips
• Scientists Have Figured Out How to Embed Light-Emitting Nanoparticles Into Glass
• Study Reveals Which Celebrities Are Paid Millions to Endorse Junk Food And Soda
• This NASA Legend Just Unveiled a Tech Startup to Beat Intel And Google
• Scientists Just Found The Remains of a 700,000-Year-Old 'Hobbit'
• It's Official: There Are No More 'Untouched' Places Left on Earth
• Physicists Hint at a Mysterious New 'Particle X' Messing With Our Universe
• This Fish Trapped Inside a Jellyfish Is Probably Having a Worse Day Than You

June 7

• Here's Why New York City Smells So Rancid in The Summer
• The Entire US Healthcare System Is Taking Advantage of You. Here's How
• WATCH: This Is What Lightning Looks Like at 7,000 Frames Per Second
• Scientists Have Recorded This Eerie 'Music' From 13-Billion-Year-Old Stars
• Scientists Might Have Just Solved The Riddle of How Old Earth's Magnetic Field Is
• Physicists Are Using This New Algorithm to Take The First-Ever Image of a Black Hole
• Stop Your Computer From Overheating by Stacking Copper Coins on It
• WATCH: Don't Be Fooled by These Common Physics Misconceptions
• Researchers Have Created a Super-Strong Optical Material Based on Butterfly Wings
• WATCH: This Floating Home Lets You Travel Across The World Off-Grid
• Renewable Energy Now Supplies Almost a Quarter of The World's Power Needs
• The US Is Close to Approving The First Ever Private Moon Mission For 2017
• Should You Worry About That Mole? Here's How to Tell

June 6

• Why Do We Get a Lump in Our Throat When We're Sad?
• Researchers Are Attempting to Grow Human Organs Inside Pigs
• Norway Could Become The First Country to Ban Gas-Powered Cars
• There Could Be a Disc of Dark Matter Cutting Through Our Galaxy
• Scientists Have Found a Way to Regenerate Failing Livers in Mice
• New Treatment Improves Pancreatic Cancer Survival Rate For The First Time in a Decade
• The Trolley Dilemma: Would You Kill One Person to Save Five?
• A Mathematician Has Built a Machine That Can Beat The Odds in Roulette
• Scientists Have Found a Human Protein That Blocks Zika Replication And Prevents Cell Death
• Scientists Discover Magma Building Up Below a Town in New Zealand
• WATCH: The Blackest Material on Earth Can Make Dense Metal Float
• Why High School Stays With Us Forever

June 3

• Scientists Are Using VR to Explore a Hydrothermal Vent at The Bottom of The Ocean
• Greece's Underwater 'Lost City' Is Actually a Naturally Occurring Rock Formation
• Researchers Have Finally Peered Behind Jupiter's Colourful Clouds
• We Can Now 'Cut And Paste' RNA in Addition to DNA, And It Could Disable Viruses
• Chile Is Producing So Much Solar Power, It's Giving It Away For Free
• After a Secret Meeting, Scientists Announce They Are Making Synthetic Human Genomes
• Dogs Were Domesticated Twice in Separate Parts of The World, Study Finds
• This New Synthetic Dog Breathes, Bleeds, And Dies For Veterinary Students
• This 90-Second Video Will Totally Change The Way You See The World
• Here's How to Make It Through The Winter Blues, According to Science
• Could Computers Replace Humans in Maths Research?
• Astronomers Just Picked Up a Hydrogen Signal From This Galaxy 5 Billion Light-Years Away
• Elon Musk Says We're Probably Characters in Some Advanced Civilisation's Video Game
• Stroke Patients Are Walking Again After Being Injected With Stem Cells
• WATCH: Does Your Body Really Regenerate Itself Every 7 Years?
• The Universe Is Growing Faster Than We Thought, And Could Rip Itself Apart

June 2

• Pluto's Famous Heart Is 'Beating', Astronomers Find
• The First Gene Therapy For Children Has Just Been Approved in Europe
• This Crazy 'Einstein Ring' Has Just Been Discovered 10,000 Million Light-Years From Earth
• Scientists Discover Extinct Snail-Eating Marsupials, Confirm Australia's Animals Are The Weirdest
• The First Babies With Zika Virus Have Been Born in Continental US
• This 12-Year-Old Just Trolled Anti-Vaxxers in The Most Brilliant Way
• We Asked a Scientist About That "Impossibly Large" Alligator
• WATCH: This Is How Formula 1 Engines Turn Exhaust Fumes Into Power
• Scientists Are About to Turn on a System That Converts Atmospheric CO2 Into Fuel
• Scientists Have Created The First Water-Repellant Metal
• This School Bus Takes Kids on a Virtual Trip to Mars
• Harambe The Gorilla's Genes Can Still Live on After His Death
• Scientists Have Performed The First Trials of a 'Universal Cancer Vaccine'

June 1

• Slovenia's Ultra-Rare 'Dragon Eggs' Are Hatching as We Speak
• Orcas Are The First Non-Human Creatures That Evolved Through Culture
• X-Rays Reveal That King Tut Was Buried With a Space Dagger
• Gravitational Waves Could Reveal a Stringy Universe, Say Physicists
• Scientists Think a Leaky Blood-Brain Barrier Could Lead to Alzheimer's
• What's The Mass of The Entire Milky Way? Astrophysicists Finally Have an Answer
• Physicists Think They Know What Planet Nine Is: an Exoplanet Stolen From Another Star
• Huge Study Shows That Teens Smoke Less Weed The More It's Legalised
• WATCH: Here's How SpaceX Plans to Land on Mars in 2018
• WATCH: You Are Actually Two Brains Living in One Person
• Scientists Have Developed a New Kind of Protein That Induces Cancer Cells to Self-Destruct
• The Case For Black Holes Being Nothing But Holograms Just Got Even Stronger
• More Than 2,000 People Have Contracted HIV Through Blood Transfusions in India
• Watch a Chick Develop And Hatch Outside of The Egg
• The Real Tragedy About The Shooting of Harambe The Gorilla