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Uber and Lyft have made traffic much worse in San Francisco

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Throughout the ocean, climate change is forcing plankton to move, shifting toward the poles, so their distribution is now different from before significant human influence

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Amber preserves rare snapshot of coastal life 99 million years ago, including the first ammonite, a marine animal, preserved in amber, with at least 40 other individual organisms

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Store-bought tomatoes taste bland, and scientists have discovered a gene that gives tomatoes their flavor is actually missing in about 93 percent of modern, domesticated varieties

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Scientists found a new species of tyrannosaur from the American Southwest that stood just 3 feet tall at the hip. The T

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An enormous, linear corridor of exposed water ice was found on Saturn’s moon Titan that stretches for some 4,000 miles - nearly half the moon’s surface

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Male Animals Might Benefit from Infecting Their Female Partners with STDs

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The science behind Dragonglass: Our ancestors created tools from the volcanic rock obsidian for 1.7 million years, because it's easy to shape and has a razor-sharp edge

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Scientists found the 22 million-year-old fossils of a giant carnivore they call "Simbakubwa" sitting in a museum drawer in Kenya

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A tiny earthquake hits Southern California once every 174 seconds on average

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Scientists have discovered the oldest footprint ever found in the Americas, dating back some 15,600 years

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Yesterday, for just the second time ever, LIGO detected gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger, sending astronomers searching for light signals from a potential kilonova, or an object 1,000 times brighter than normal novas

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Nearly one-in-four Japanese people between ages 18 and 39 are still virgins, reports their National Fertility Survey

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Scientists restored working memory in senior citizens by stimulating their minds using weak electrical currents, according to a new study in Nature Neuroscience

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Scientists discovered why the Chinese "Terracotta Army" is so well preserved after 2,000 years

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Researchers created an algorithm that can predict with 85 percent accuracy whether a Hollywood star’s golden years have passed or are still yet to come, in a study in Nature Communications that analyzed the profiles of over 2.4 million actors and actresses in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

Supernovas may have helped make humans bipedal by triggering wildfires which turned forests to savannas in Africa several million years ago, a new paper suggests.

Coca-Cola pours millions of dollars into university science research

In 1980, a monk found a jawbone high up in a Tibetan cave

A new study finds that some traders in prehistoric Europe made fake amber beads to cheat rich people

Scientists have found "supercorals" in Hawaii’s Kāne’ohe Bay, where a reef is thriving despite development, dredging, sewage and high temperatures

The future of refrigeration may rely on “plastic crystals” instead of harmful gas, making it more adaptable, efficient and environmentally friendly, suggests a new study in Nature

Uber and Lyft have made traffic much worse in San Francisco

Throughout the ocean, climate change is forcing plankton to move, shifting toward the poles, so their distribution is now different from before significant human influence

Amber preserves rare snapshot of coastal life 99 million years ago, including the first ammonite, a marine animal, preserved in amber, with at least 40 other individual organisms

Store-bought tomatoes taste bland, and scientists have discovered a gene that gives tomatoes their flavor is actually missing in about 93 percent of modern, domesticated varieties

People in rural areas are gaining weight much faster than city dwellers, finds a new study looking at 112 million adults around the world

Scientists found a new species of tyrannosaur from the American Southwest that stood just 3 feet tall at the hip. The T

An enormous, linear corridor of exposed water ice was found on Saturn’s moon Titan that stretches for some 4,000 miles - nearly half the moon’s surface

Male Animals Might Benefit from Infecting Their Female Partners with STDs

Researchers invented a self-driving robotic catheter and used it to complete 83 heart surgeries in a group of live pigs

Scientists invented a way to turn thoughts into speech by placing electrodes directly on the surface of people’s brains in areas that control vocal tract movements

The science behind Dragonglass: Our ancestors created tools from the volcanic rock obsidian for 1.7 million years, because it's easy to shape and has a razor-sharp edge

Scientists found the 22 million-year-old fossils of a giant carnivore they call "Simbakubwa" sitting in a museum drawer in Kenya

A tiny earthquake hits Southern California once every 174 seconds on average

Scientists have discovered the oldest footprint ever found in the Americas, dating back some 15,600 years

Yesterday, for just the second time ever, LIGO detected gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger, sending astronomers searching for light signals from a potential kilonova, or an object 1,000 times brighter than normal novas

Nearly one-in-four Japanese people between ages 18 and 39 are still virgins, reports their National Fertility Survey

Winds and waves on Earth's oceans are getting slightly stronger every year, according to a new analysis of 30 years of satellite data

Scientists analyzed umpire accuracy during 4 million MLB pitches over the past 11 seasons

Regular marijuana users need more sedatives during medical procedures

Denisovans were actually three distinct groups of ancient humans spread from Siberia to Indonesia, a sweeping new genetic analysis reveals

Researchers use the so-called “dark triad” to measure the most sinister traits of human personality: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy

Scientists restored working memory in senior citizens by stimulating their minds using weak electrical currents, according to a new study in Nature Neuroscience

Scientists discovered why the Chinese "Terracotta Army" is so well preserved after 2,000 years