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iflscience.com — These 1000 photographs of the Earth from above prove what a bizarre and amazing planet we live on. Google Earth has just given you a free pass to explore 1,000 locations on Earth from the comfort of your desk. Taking the Google Earth View collection up to 2,500 landscapes across the globe, the new …

phys.org — Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a device that uses a natural protein to create electricity from moisture in the air, a new technology they say could have significant implications for the future of renewable energy, climate change and in the future of medicine. F…

unilad.co.uk — Mars is set to vanish from the sky above North America on Tuesday, February 18, morning, as a result of a rare eclipse-like event, known to some astronomers as a lunar occultation. Similarly to an eclipse, in which the Earth, moon and sun all line up, during an occultation, the Earth, moon and a pl…

livelearnevolve.com — The Amazonian brew ayahuasca is not an ordinary medicine. It can literally shake the walls of the Western paradigm with profound internal insights, alongside extraordinary sensory experiences. The states of consciousness that ayahuasca and similar psychoactive substances inspire would likely disorie…

sciencealert.com — Near the end of 2019, astronomers watching the red giant Betelgeuse noted how much the star had dimmed, continuing to steadily fade for months. Full Article >>

boredpanda.com — Physical education teacher Valtteri Mulkahainen from Sotkamo, Finland, has been devoting a lot of his free time to photography. For the past six years, Valtteri has been shooting his country’s wildlife and captured many magical moments. And this is a story about one of them. Full Article >>

sciencealert.com — The effects of migraines are well known, but the causes are less clear. Now scientists think they may have found a link between the neurological condition and a part of the brain called the visual cortex. Full Article >>

abc.net.au — The ongoing degradation of ecosystems, the fragmenting of wildlife into smaller and smaller patches of habitat, the dominion of jobs and economic growth over environmental health, has made our ecosystems vulnerable to major upheavals such as bushfires. Full Article >>

nbcnews.com — The planet experienced its hottest January in recorded history last month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday. It was the 44th consecutive January, and the 421st consecutive month, with temperatures above the 20th century average, according to NOAA. The milestone…

engadget.com — When you think of 3D printing, you probably imagine a structure being created layer by layer, from the bottom up. Now, researchers from Switzerland's Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) say they have developed a completely new way of creating 3D objects that offer remarkable resolution "…