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• How Ambient Noise, the OG Productivity Trick, Helps Human Brains Focus on Work
• A Comet as Old as Earth Is Heading Our Way After a 4 Billion-Year Cryogenic Sleep
• The Fuel-Efficient T6 Ion Thrusters Will Send BepiColombo to Mercury by 2024
• CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland Is Shut Down by a Weasel
• New Satellite Will Put Einstein's Theory of Relativity to Test
• NASA's Valkyrie Robot Will Start Testing at MIT
• Where Are the Dead Baby Dinosaur Fossils? Hiding in Plain Sight, It Turns Out
• Stop Saying That Dinosaurs Went Extinct. They Didn't and You Sound Ignorant.
• Why Eating Bugs Won't Save Us, but Letting Them Chew Up Awful Food Systems Will
• This Rare X-Ray Binary Star Passes Gas at a Quarter of the Speed of Light
• How the Diphenhydramine in Benadryl Makes Allergy Season Better and Pupils Tiny
• Drake Equation Revision Hugely Ups Odds of Intelligent Alien Life
• NASA Released This Zika Forecast Map Today
• This Futuristic Urban Park Harnesses Energy From Bouncing Children
• The Universe Was Born on This Day in 4977 B.C., According to Kepler's Ballsy Math
• Plants and Single-Celled Organisms Have the Ability to Learn, Studies Say
• Archaeologists Discover Ancient Skeleton Meme-Mural Saying "Be Cheerful and Live Your Life"
• NASA and ESA Want to Avoid "Armageddon" by Smashing a Satellite Into an Asteroid
• For National Pretzel Day: 8 Great Unsolved Math and Science Brain Twisters
• Mitsubishi Cheated Emissions Tests for 25 Years, but Volkswagen's Con Was Still Worse
• Ethiopia's Worst Skinnydipping Spot Teaches Scientists About Microbial Aliens
• NASA's Kjell Lindgren Just Returned From 5 Months on the ISS and He's Over Earth
• Sea Shepherd Goes After Illegal Tuna Operations Off the Coast of Africa
• You Want Tickets to See This Smoky Mountains Spring Gathering of Fireflies
• Climate Change Will Make Wet Hot American Summers Dangerous If We Don't Spend Now
• Help CERN by Playing With 300 Terabytes of Public Large Hadron Collider Data
• Accidental "Infinite" Battery Life Discovery Could Make Future iPhone Resilient
• 30 Photos of Modern-Day Chernobyl on the 30th Anniversary of the Disaster
• Scientists Release New Images of Mars In Unparalleled Resolution
• "No Good Can Come of Radioactive Fires” in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
• Watch a Soyuz Rocket Launch a Climate Change Satellite Into Orbit
• Stephen Hawking Drops Sick Election Burn in Breakthrough Starshot Passover Toast
• Hubble Turns 26, and the End Is Near
• Tim Peake Sets New Record for Fastest Marathon run in Space
• What Time Will the Solar Plane Land? 11:00 p.m Is Latest Guess
• The Cheap Meteorite Market Is Booming but Billionaires Are Ignoring Space Rocks
• Why Do We Need Astrogeologists? Asteroids and Comets Are Natural Resources Too
• Play Paleontologist at These 5 Fossil-Filled Civilian Dinosaur Dig Sites
• NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Kepler Telescope Is Operational Again
• Solar Impulse Plane Gets Through First Night of 62-Hour Fuel-Free Pacific Flight
• What Killed the Dinosaurs? Scientists Look to Deep Space Dark Matter for Answers
• Stars in the Milky Way's Core Are 10 Billion Years Old and a Bulge Is Not a Halo
• Leonardo DiCaprio's UN Speech: "No More Ten-Year Studies" About Climate Change
• The Paris Climate Compact Can't Come Soon Enough: 2016 Hottest Year on Record
• NASA Will Test a Solar Electric Propulsion System on the Asteroid Redirect Mission
• Gene Therapy Makes BioViva CEO Elizabeth Parrish Younger, Blunter, and Resolute
• NASA's Space Apps Challenge Begins Today, Asks Average Humans to Build Solutions
• When We Cure Love, Psychiatrists Will Finally Have to Be Honest About Heartbreak
• Watch Solar Impulse Plane Soar to California in Fuel-Free Trip Around the World
• This Supernova Continues to Dump Cosmic Rays on Earth
• Does Justin Trudeau's Hotness Matter? Yes, Fitness Makes Him Fit to Lead
• How to Study Tiny Satellite-Shredding Meteoroids Using a Gravity Wave Detector
• Watch ESA Launch Sentinel 1-B on Friday, Its 4th Climate-Observing Satellite
• Brain Emulations Pose Three Massive Moral Questions and a Scarily Practical One
• NASA Wants Designs for Longterm, Deep-Space Living on Mars
• NASA Might Send Spherical, Bouncing Tensegrity Robots to Explore Mars
• Queen Guitarist Brian May on Earth Being Hit by Asteroid: "We Need to Know"
• The Paris Agreement: After Signing Ceremony Friday, What's Next?
• Make Better Decisions With Bayesian Probability, the Smart Way to Consider Risk
• Mice Breeding Chinese Scientists Say Making Babies in Space Is Possible
• Moon Express Wants to Commercialize the "Eighth Continent" By 2017
• Watch Seth MacFarlane's Breakthrough Starshot Interstellar Spaceflight Hype Video
• NASA Orders a New Solar-Powered Ion Engine to Explore Deep Space and Go to Mars
• Scientists Weigh Plans to Explore Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa 
• Future Apple MacBooks May Have Diamond Trackpads With "Wood Surface" Feel
• Why Uber Eats Dropped "Instant Delivery" in New York City
• What Did Dinosaurs Look Like? Tom Kaye Finds Answers, Feathers With Lasers
• Zinc-Manganese Battery Yields Large-Scale, Affordable Energy Storage Breakthrough
• Plasma Charged Spaceships May Stall the Mission to Mars Because Electricity Kills
• Watch Mexico's Popocatépetl Volcano Erupt Next to a Major City
• Watch This Mesmerizing GIF of a Solar Flare
• The Best Time to See Mercury Is Just After Sunset Tonight
• Why the U.K. Research Vessel 'Boaty McBoatface' Should Be Allowed to Sail
• NASA Detects Gamma Rays From Gravity Wave-Producing Black Hole Merger
• When Will We Be Able to Bet on Rocket Launches?
• Sea Shepherd Announces the Destruction of an Illegal Antarctic Fishing Fleet
• Yuri Milner's Starshot Won’t Find Alien Life, but Will Open the Final Frontier
• Mars Will Be Closer to Earth Than It Has in a Decade
• Cold Fusion Is News Again, but the Search for the Energy Holy Grail Ain't Over
• Physicists Built a Super Tiny Engine Powered by a Single Calcium Atom
• In Wake of Massive Japan Earthquake, Leveled Buildings and Crinkled Roads
• When Climate Change Is a National Security Issue, Geoengineering Is a Disaster
• The Sun’s Golden Arches Make McDonald's Look Like Nothing in New NASA Video
• I Watched America's Pro-Science Party Abandon Research at the Democratic Debate
• The Starshot Breakthrough Light Beam Is Really a Million Lasers, Which Is Insane
• Why Alpha Centauri? Breakthrough Starshot and NASA Search for Alien Life Nearby
• The Cluster of Asian Earthquakes Doesn't Mean a Tectonic Apocalypse Is Coming
• Does Eating Cancer Tumors Give You Cancer? Probably Not, but Put the Burger Down
• These 5 Invasive Species Are the Responsible, Delicious Future of Seafood
• Astronomers Find a Dwarf Dark Galaxy Hiding in Space
• 3 Ways NASA Might Solve the Very Loud Problem of Supersonic Travel
• The First Forms of Life on Mars? These 5 Micro-Organisms Are Ready to Leave Earth
• Greenland's Icecaps Melted So Fast on Monday Scientists Thought Their Data Was Wrong
• Apocalyptic Fears Drive Stephen Hawking's Support for Breakthrough Starshot
• 5 Big Questions About the Starshot Nanocraft Technology
• Will Breakthrough Starshot's Spaceship Pushing Laser Field Be in Colorado? Tibet?
• How Soviet Bomb Maker Andrei Sakharov Inspired Starshot's Search for Alien Life
• Why More Moose? Climate Change Lets Megafauna Retake Alaska and Absolves Hunters
• Groundbreaking New Photos of the Fornax Cluster Reveals a Cannibal Galaxy
• Apollo 13's "Houston, We've Had a Problem Here," 46 Years Later
• Stephen Hawking Says He's Not a Cultural Icon Till He's "Been on 'The Kardashians'"
• NASA Announces When It Will Install Inflatable BEAM Living Module to the ISS
• Breakthrough Starshot Announces Plan to Send Nanocrafts to Alpha Centauri in 20 Years
• How NASA Trains Its Astronauts to Be Professional Space Photographers
• Disney Parks Food Study Shows the Problems With Corporate Science, Not Hot Dogs
• How Much Is an Asteroid Worth? Not as Much as You Think (or a Lot More)
• I Went to a Morning Showing of Andrew Wakefield's 'Vaxxed' and Made Weird New Friends
• Scientists Make an Artificial Comet, Get Ingredients for DNA
• Can Neural Gum Help You Write?
• Can You Cure Pedophilia? Researchers Propose a Vaccination Based on Cancer Drug
• Scientists Say We Might Find More Gravity Waves Within Five Years
• 'Batman v Superman' v. Psychology: Fans Ignore Movie Critics but Theaters Don't 
• Humans Have Been Coming to Terms With Pig Heart Transplants for a Long Time
• 5 Robot Animals You Need to Know About
• Carolyn Porco Goes to Washington Because Enceladus Might Host Alien Life
• Discovery Channel's Search for Astronaut Gordon 'Cooper's Treasure' Isn't a Stunt