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July 31

• If We Ever Found Aliens, Would We Even Understand Them?

July 29

• Here's Why The Truth Really Is Subjective, According to Science
• Chernobyl Could Soon Find a Second Life as a Giant Solar Farm
• English Bulldogs Are at a Genetic Dead End, Study Finds
• How 'Immortal' Plasma Rockets Could Take Us to Mars
• Here's Why Olympic Athletes Keep Wearing That Weird Body Tape
• This Woman Lived 24 Years Without Knowing She Was Missing Her Entire Cerebellum
• The Mathematical Formula That Causes Your Headphones to Tangle
• Astronomers Just Found an Exoplanet That Orbits Three Stars
• Researchers Have Made a Prosthetic Arm Based Off Luke Skywalker's
• This Cheap Material Can Purify Dirty Water And Make It Safe to Drink
• The Earliest Case of Cancer Has Been Found in a 1.7 Million-Year-Old Bone
• This New Gel Patch Unleashes a 'Triple Attack' on Tumours
• Researchers Show Alcohol Can Impact How Happy Couples Are
• This Is The Deadliest Disease in Human History
• A Physicist Has a New Hypothesis to Explain The LHC's Mysterious Results
• The UN Is Finally Going to Declassify Transgender as a Mental Illness
• There's a Super Weird Reason This Star Flashes Every 2 Minutes
• Something's Made Apollo Astronauts Up to 5 Times More Likely to Die From Heart Disease

July 28

• A Huge Fireball Just Burned Up Over Las Vegas And It Probably Came From China
• Researchers Might Have Just Seen a Superluminous Supernova Explode Twice
• The White House Finally Has a Gameplan to Counter a Massive Cyber Attack
• Scientists Just Found a New Antibiotic in Your Nose That Can Treat Drug-Resistant Staph
• Scientists Have Found a Weird, Glowing Purple Blob on The Ocean Floor
• Study Shows Amber-Tinted Glasses Can Reduce Manic Symptoms in Just 3 Days
• Here's What That Ice Bucket Breakthrough Is All About
• Huge 'Hypercarnivorous' Marsupial Used to Roam Australia

July 27

• A Team of Ex-Fighter Pilots Have Invented a New Way For Surgeons Look Inside Brains
• Something's Making The Craters on Ceres Disappear
• This 2,200-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy Binged on Carbs And Sat a Lot
• Scientists Think They've Found a Hormone That Reverses Cell Ageing in Humans
• Why Can't We Remember Anything From When We Were Babies?
• Global Height Study Finds Out Who Grew The Most in The Past 100 Years
• Research Shows Most Americans Still Aren't Ready For Their Bio-Enhanced Future
• The Way You Breathe Could Be Affecting Your Emotions
• New Zealand Says It Will Wipe Out Every Invasive Predator by 2050
• Physicists Observe Brand-New State of Matter in an Unexpected Material
• Jupiter Is So Freaking Massive, It Doesn't Actually Orbit The Sun
• Something's Making Siberia's Tundra Literally Bubble Under People's Feet

July 26

• Scientists Made 4 Clones of Dolly The Sheep – Here's What Happened to Them All
• There's a Pool of Lava Building Up Under San Salvador
• Researchers Have Finally Found a Way to Make People Smarter, But It's Not Pleasant
• Scientists Just Figured Out Continental Plates Can Move Up to 20 Times Faster Than We Thought
• Male Researchers Cite Their Own Academic Papers More Than Women Do
• This Science-Backed Strategy Is The Key to Keeping The Passion Alive in Long-Term Relationships
• Scientists Say We Need a Global Approach to Stop Superbugs in The Meat Industry
• Edward Snowden's Designed a Phone Case That Warns if You're Being Spied on
• Computers Will Require More Energy Than The World Generates by 2040
• I've Spent 7 Years Counting Sharks – The Findings Aren't Good
• Hubble Has Released a Photo of The 'Final Frontier'
• New NASA Image Reveals a Strange Bend in Saturn's Rings
• Scientists Think They've Figured Out The Last Common Ancestor of All Living Things

July 25

• The US Navy Has Been Accused of Pirating 558,000 Copies of VR Software
• Archaeologists Just Uncovered One of The Biggest Viking Axes Ever
• Researchers Have Developed 3D Movie Screens That Don't Require Glasses
• Scientists Spot a Worrying Trend in Kids Who Don't Get Enough Sleep
• Scientists Have Created Milk That Lasts For 9 Weeks Without Going Off
• David Attenborough Narrating Pokémon Go Is Everything You Dreamed And More
• Scientists Have Found a Woman Whose Eyes Have a Whole New Type of Colour Receptor
• China's About to Rewrite Human DNA Using a Revolutionary Tool For The First Time

July 24

• Scientists Have a Fascinating Hypothesis About Why Smart People Should Spend Less Time With Friends

July 23

• Engineer Finds a Huge Physics Discovery in Da Vinci's 'Irrelevant Scribbles'

July 22

• Researchers Trick Our Cells Into Treating UTIs Without Antibiotics
• Welcome to The Deepest Place on Earth
• Which US State Is Closest to Africa?
• Sydney Is Planning to Become The Second City to Offer Free Tampons to Women
• Scientist Says That Your Liver Isn't The Only Thing at Risk From Alcohol
• This Could Explain Why Large Brains Are More Susceptible to Mental Illness
• A New Treatment Stops OCD in Mice in Minutes
• Scientists' Biggest Search For Dark Matter to Date Just Turned Up Nothing
• Bill Gates Just Shared a GIF That Shows How Crazy Far We've Come in Fighting Malaria
• Engineers Just Made a Quantum Computer Chip Work at Room Temperature
• Japan Is About to Test Out Plans For a Real-Life Space Elevator
• Scientists Document Wild Birds 'Talking' With Humans For The First Time
• We'll Only Have One Year's Warning Before a Planet-Devastating Super-Eruption
• Look Up! 5 Planets Will Align in The Night Sky Next Month
• Researchers Have Created This Creepy-as-Hell Model to Promote Road Safety

July 21

• Scientists Have Developed a New Technique That Maps Disease at The Molecular Level
• A Team of Scientists Says They've Found a Way to Reverse Menopause
• These Two Earth-Sized Planets Might Have Atmospheres That Can Support Life
• Researchers Have Found a Clue That Could Help You Deal With Jet Lag
• A Giant X-Shaped Structure Has Been Found at The Centre of The Milky Way
• Google's Quantum Computer Just Accurately Simulated a Molecule For The First Time
• Study Shows Cancer Cells Can 'Hide' in Fatty Tissue
• Scientists Say You Should Order Your Lunch an Hour Earlier
• Watch a Brave Engineer Ignite a Potato Cannon in 20,000 Glorious Frames Per Second
• The US And Russia Are Making Plans to Return to The Moon Together
• This Machine Could Remove Plaque From Your Arteries in Minutes
• This Virtual Reality Technology Could Be The Future of Medical Education
• Scientists Just Identified 97 Brand-New Regions in Our Brains
• World-First Experiment Finds Our Eyes Are Capable of Detecting Individual Photons

July 20

• A Spectacular Meteor Shower Starts Next Week – Here's How to Watch
• A Brand New Telescope Just Discovered 1,300 Galaxies in One Go
• Mysterious Planet Nine Might Have Tilted Our Whole Solar System
• Physicists Just Did The "Impossible" And Created a Quantum Hologram
• The Same Genes Can Make Us Happy or Depressed, Say Psychologists
• Research Shows That Preventable Diabetic Foot Disease Is Costing Governments Millions
• Scientists Find Even Lemurs And Slow Lorises Like Their Alcohol as Strong as Possible
• Working Full-Time Could Be Bad For Your Brain After a Certain Age
• Scientists Find Whales And Dolphins Mourn Their Dead Too
• We Need to Talk About The Bad Science Being Funded
• NASA's Kepler Telescope Just Found Two Planets That Could Support Life
• A Physicist Has Calculated The Probability Melania Trump Didn't Plagiarise Her Speech

July 19

• A US Court Just Ruled That Navy Sonar Harms Whales And Dolphins
• The Sun And Moon Are Linked to Earthquakes Along The San Andreas Fault
• Here's How a Small Ring Might Halve The New Cases of HIV
• This Is Why Using a Period in a Text Message Makes You Sound Angry
• The Strange Effects of Quantum Physics Can Travel Hundreds of Miles, Neutrinos Show
• Physicists Show That Gravity Isn't Affected by The Quantum World
• Scientists Have Written Data One Atom at a Time, Creating Incredibly Efficient Storage
• Scientists Have Discovered Never-Before-Seen Vessels in The Brain
• Nobody Can Explain How a Mystery Case of Zika Spread in Utah
• The Same Dead Whale Keeps Washing Up on Californian Beaches

July 18

• These 4,500-Year-Old Writings Are The Oldest Ever Found in Egypt
• Here Are The Chances of You Having a Doppelgänger
• You Can Now Check How Healthy Your Sperm Is Using Your Smartphone
• WATCH: SpaceX Lands Another Falcon 9 Rocket And Makes It Look Easy
• There Are 1.2 Million Galaxies in This 3D Map of The Universe
• Sexting Might Actually Be a Sign of a Committed Relationship
• Gonorrhoea Might Soon Be Resistant to All Antibiotics
• India Planted 50 Million Trees in Just 24 Hours Last Week
• Scientists Say MDMA Needs to Be Studied, Not Demonised
• Scientists Still Don't Know What Caused The 'Eye of The Sahara'
• Google's Deleted an Artist's Blog, Along With 14 Years of His Work
• Tesla Just Updated Its Mission Statement

July 16

• We Have a Trial Date For Martin Shkreli

July 15

• Researchers Are a Step Closer to Making a Real-Life Invisibility Cloak
• A Mall Security Robot Has Knocked Down And Run Over a Toddler in Silicon Valley
• The First Ever Dementia Vaccine Could Be Trialled in Humans Within 3 Years
• A Tougher Turing Test Shows Chatbots Are Still Pretty Stupid
• There's a Problem With The Way That We're Ranking Scientific Journals
• Scientists Just Figured Out How Much Weed There Is in Your Joint
• Even Scientists Are Now Using Pokémon Go For Their Research
• Russia's Reportedly Building a Nuclear Space Bomber
• Scientists Have Found a Worrying Effect That Constant Light Might Have on Our Bodies
• According to YouTube, NASA Just Covered Up "UFO Evidence"
• Damn, We Missed Out on Buying Einstein's Leather Jacket Yesterday

July 14

• DJ Duo NERVO's New Song Encourages Women to Get Into Engineering
• An 'Extinct' Volcano Appears to Be Waking Up on The Outskirts of Rome
• Early Research Suggests Eating Cinnamon Might Make You Learn More
• Here's How We Might Be Able to Make Meat on Mars
• How We Perceive Time Lies Somewhere Between Reality And Our Expectations
• Spending Hours Playing Video Games Really Does Improve Your Motor Skills
• New Eye Test Can Detect Glaucoma 4 Years Before Current Tests
• WWF Buys $100,000 Shark Fishing Licence to Stop Someone Else From Using It
• Alzheimer's Could Start Affecting Brain Development From as Young as 3
• Watch Astronauts Have The Best Time Ever With Liquid
• For The First Time, Astronomers Have Spotted a Star's 'Snow Line'
• This Company Is Growing Bricks That Fight Climate Change
• Freaky New Evidence Suggests Your Immune System Could Be Controlling Your Behaviour
• Leaked Code Suggests Pokémon Go Is Looking to Partner With McDonald's
• NASA Just Found a Huge Hole Growing on The Surface of The Sun
• $100 Prize Has Been Awarded to a Maths Solution That Takes 10 Billion Years to Read

July 13

• This Document Proves How Much Ear Van Gogh Really Cut Off
• Juno Just Sent Back Its First Photo of Jupiter And 3 Moons
• Here's Why Some Beaches Have Blue Water, Some Have Grey
• An Expert Says He's Found Evidence Humans Are Still Evolving
• Scientists Have Painted Van Gogh's Starry Night Using Folded DNA
• Scientists Just Detected Matter Wobbling Around a Black Hole For The First Time
• Scientists Have Determined The Exact Composition of Your Poo
• Physicists Have Figured Out Why Jet Lag Is Worse When You Fly East
• Meet The Man Who Lives Normally With Damage to 90% of His Brain
• MIT's New Network Promises to Be Even More Secure Than Tor

July 12

• The 'Primitive Machine' That Guarded The Great Pyramid Has Been Reconstructed
• This Is The Most Detailed Image of The Orion Nebula Ever Captured
• Physicists Just Showed That The Big Bang Might Have Been a 'Big Bounce'
• We've Been Imagining T. Rex Roars All Wrong, Study Finds
• Study Shows What Happens When You Swap Fat For Sugar
• Scientists Restore Vision in Mammals For The First Time With Regrown Neurons
• The Way We're Dying Is Changing, And Doctors Can't Figure Out Why
• Kids Who Suck Their Thumbs And Bite Nails Are Less Likely to Develop Allergies
• Scientists Warn There's a "Giant Quake" Building Under Southern Asia
• Astronomers Just Discovered a New Dwarf Planet Beyond Neptune
• The US Is in The Middle of Its Biggest Measles Outbreak This Year
• Scientists Are Painting Eyes on Cows' Butts to Stop Lions Getting Shot
• Pokémon Go Is Reportedly Helping People With Their Depression
• Two Distant Exploding Stars Might Have Changed Life on Our Planet

July 11

• There's a Reason You'll Never See a Great White Shark in an Aquarium
• The Code That Took Astronauts to The Moon Is Now Freely Available Online
• Science Explains Why You Shouldn't Eat on The Go
• NASA Just Upgraded Its Supercomputer So It Can Recreate The Origin of Stars
• An Ancient Cemetery Could Change How We View The Philistines of The Bible
• Scientists Can Now Diagnose Depression Just by Listening to Your Voice
• There's Something in Space That's Ruining Astronauts' Vision
• Scientists Say It's Time to Warn Women of The True Risks of Childbirth
• Astronomers Just Discovered a Morse Code Message in The Dunes of Mars
• A No-Slaughter Leather Startup Just Raised $53 Million
• Scientists Have Finally Found a Way to Protect Dogs From Snake Bites

July 10

• A Malicious Version of Pokemon Go Is Infecting Android Phones

July 8

• This Engineer Created an Enormous 'Megaprocessor' to Play Tetris
• Archaeologists Have Found a 1,600-Year-Old Skeleton With Stone-Encrusted Teeth
• WATCH: This Is How North America Got Its Shape
• An Obscure Virus Spread Through Kissing Has Been Linked to Infertility, Study Finds
• New Evidence Suggests Our Understanding of How Earth's Mantle Moves Is Wrong
• Anti-Prime Numbers Are Real And Surprisingly Awesome
• This Terrifying NASA Image Shows The True Power of Super Typhoon Nepartak
• Here's One Way Astronauts Keep Entertained in Space
• Scientists Have Figured Out There Are Only 6 Core Emotional Arcs in All English Fiction
• A Cancer Drugmaker Has Put Its Trial on Hold After 2 Patients Died Last Week
• WATCH: Why The Speed of Light Is NOT About Light
• Airbus Has Just Created a Jet That Runs on Algae
• The Calcium-52 Isotope Might Have Just Lost Its 'Magic' Status
• Scientists Created a Cyborg Stingray Powered by The Heart of a Rat
• A Leap Second Just Got Added to The End of 2016
• The Curiosity Rover Just Unexpectedly Put Itself Into 'Safe Mode'
• Microsoft Just Stored More Data on DNA Than Ever Before, Using an OK Go Video

July 7

• One of The Oldest New Testament Manuscripts Was Probably Written in Urine-Based Ink
• Multitasking Drains Your Mental Energy Reserves, Neuroscientists Reveal
• This South Korean Cloning Facility Promises to Bring Back Your Dead Dog
• People Are Starting to Believe in UFOs Again, And Here's The Weird Reason Why
• Here's The Science Behind Why Small Talk Is So Awkward – And So Essential
• Astronomers Think They've Detected The First Water Clouds Outside Our Solar System
• A Retired Scientist Explains The Trick to Never Getting a Poison Ivy Rash Again
• Scientists Just Invented a Device That Produces "Non-Stop" Wine
• WATCH: Will This Colour Test Trick Your Brain?
• Here's Why We Still Don't Understand Prime Numbers
• This Company Is Growing Drones in Giant Chemical Vats
• Loneliness Can Increase Your Risk of Mental Health Issues, Scientists Find
• These Are The Signs That Your Cat Will Probably Live a Long Life
• The Most Commonly Used Antidepressants For Young People Don't Work
• Researchers Might Finally Have an Explanation For Awful, Heavy Periods

July 6

• There's a Scientific Reason For Why You Can't Tickle Yourself
• Archaeologists Have Pieced Together an Ancient Shaman's Burial Ritual
• Saturn's Biggest Moon Could Support a New Kind of Alien Life
• NASA Will Purposefully Crash Juno to Protect Alien Life
• Robots Can Crack The Turing Test Just by Staying Quiet
• The World's Largest Vertical Farm Is Set to Open in New Jersey This Year
• Science Shows Why You Really Shouldn't Double Dip
• This Robotic Rectum Lets Doctors Get a Feel For Prostate Exams
• We Might Finally Have a Way to Build Circuits For The World's First Quantum Computers
• Global Hunger Will Drop to Its Lowest Levels Ever This Decade
• The Laws of Physics Make a Human Invisibility Cloak Pretty Much Impossible
• A Bug in FMRI Software Could Invalidate 15 Years of Brain Research
• A Hospital in Argentina Is Using Astrology to Treat Mental Health Patients
• WATCH: This Awesome Illusion Turns Squares Into Circles in The Mirror

July 5

• A Scientist Is Turning Locusts Into Cyborg Bomb Detectors
• Massachusetts Is Being Swallowed by Millions of Hungry Caterpillars
• There Are Now Three Lego Figures Orbiting Jupiter
• Radiation Levels in The Pacific Ocean Are Almost Back to Pre-Fukushima Levels
• Neutrinos Could Be The Reason Why Antimatter Hasn't Blown Up The Universe
• Zapping The Brain's Visual Cortex Can Lead to Improved Vision, Scientists Discover
• Turns Out, 'Quantum' Bounds Aren't So Quantum After All, Say Physicists
• Seriously Guys, Stop Trying to "Rescue" Distressed Animals
• Scientists Might Finally Understand How Prions Spread Infectious Brain Disease
• Dolly The Sheep Scientist Says a Biobank For Endangered Animals Could Be a Real-Life Noah's Ark
• Pasta Isn't Fattening, And Can Actually Help You Lose Weight, Study Finds
• This Glass Igloo Hotel Lets You Watch The Northen Lights in Bed
• China Just Unveiled The Biggest Alien-Hunting Telescope in The World
• New Regenerative Tooth Fillings Heal Your Teeth From The Inside
• Independent Study Proves That This Shark-Repelling Device Really Does Work
• The World's Largest Air Purifier Sucks in Smog And Turns It Into Jewellery

July 4

• Scientists Are Trying to Implant False Visions Into The Mind, Inception-Style
• Scientists Have Spotted a 'Vanishing' Star They Think Could Be Evidence of Aliens
• Is It Okay to Have a Beer After Exercise?
• The Juno Spacecraft Just Recorded These Creepy Sounds Around Jupiter
• This 5-Year-Old Has The Best Explainer of Tornadoes Ever
• An Ancient Shrine That Could Contain Buddha's Skull Has Been Found in China
• Scientists Have Found a Supplement That Can Switch Off Junk Food Cravings
• Scientists Just Discovered We've Been Looking at Cancer Growth All Wrong
• Scientists Have Built a Microbial Fuel Cell That Runs Without External Power
• Watch Live as NASA's Juno Mission Attempts to Enter Jupiter's Orbit

July 1

• These Creepy Carnivorous Worms Make Caves Look Like The Night Sky
• People Who Meditate Appear to Be More Aware of Their Unconscious Mind
• This Artificial Pancreas Could Be Available to Diabetics as Soon as 2018
• The Top Six Dinosaur Myths, Debunked
• Researchers Have Discovered a New Life Form in Our Saliva, And It's Linked to Human Disease
• Science Has Found a Motivational Trick That Actually Improves Your Performance
• This Simple Experiment Shows You Whether Your Microwave Is (Safely) Leaking
• Teenagers on Work Experience End Up Discovering 2 Exoplanet Candidates
• The Science Is in: Exercise Won't Help You Lose Much Weight
• Physicists Have Discovered What Looks Like an Entire Family of New Particles in The LHC
• The Internet Is Claiming These 'Mutant' Frogs Have Been Discovered in Russia
• Scientists Are Meeting to Discuss Looking For Life on Enceladus
• The Ozone Hole Is Finally Closing Up
• WATCH: Could We Actually Create Artificial Gravity?
• These Are The Top 10 Countries For Social Progress