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China’s Marine Corps is getting bigger and stronger
Military

China’s Marine Corps is getting bigger and stronger

A reorganization and expansion brings the program from 20,000 to 100,000 Marines.

Sauroprint giant footprint
Dinosaurs

To save their land, they unveiled the world’s biggest dinosaur footprint

Australia has always had the market cornered on enormous animals trying to kill you

The entire female menstrual cycle can now be replicated in a Petri dish
Health

The entire female menstrual cycle can now be replicated in a Petri dish

Providing researchers with a platform to study drugs and diseases influenced by these hormones

Asian dust might be the secret to keeping California’s sequoias alive
Environment

Asian dust might be the secret to keeping California’s sequoias alive

Small but mighty, distant dust packs a powerful punch

Here’s how China is battling drones
Military

Here’s how China is battling drones

There’s no shortage of targets.

What the frack is in fracking fluid?
Energy

What the frack is in fracking fluid?

Most of the ingredients are unknown

AI and deep learning can now help you be more popular on Twitter
AI

AI and deep learning can now help you be more popular on Twitter

Post Intelligence is a project by two ex-Google execs to help you know what and when to Tweet.

Living with a lynx—for science
Wildlife

Living with a lynx—for science

Book Excerpt: Inner Life of Cats

Titan
Moons

Electrically charged sands on Titan would make seriously sturdy sandcastles

No water required

Spinach leaves
Engineering

How to turn a spinach leaf into a human heart

Step one: detergent

No one knows what to do with the International Space Station
International Space Station

No one knows what to do with the International Space Station

Congress has only approved funding through 2024. What happens then?

The easiest way to kick your caffeine habit
Life Skills

The easiest way to kick your caffeine habit

How to deal with everything from sluggishness to constipation

Coral reefs might be in more trouble than we thought
Global Warming

Coral reefs might be in more trouble than we thought

A giant die-off suggests our predictions are overly-optimistic

ducklings
Animals

Why you should never ever feed bread to a duck

Enough with this quackery

Keystone XL pipeline image
Fossil Fuels

Everything you need to know about the Keystone XL pipeline

Guess who’s back?

Operation Upshot-Knothole Annie Nuclear Test
Military

Watch a 1953 nuclear blast test disintegrate a house in high resolution

Footage may or may not contain a flying toilet.

a humble bound book
Technology

3D printing is tackling what may be its biggest challenge yet: the humble book

Printed in one piece—binding and all.

Two thirds of cancer mutations result from completely random DNA mistakes
Cancer

Two thirds of cancer mutations result from completely random DNA mistakes

An increased focus on early detection will be needed to effectively treat the disease

A blue pipe that connects a bathroom, sewage separation tanks, a sewage mixing tank, a filtration machine, a natural body of water, and a water filtration plant, showing the cycle of making sewage drinkable.
Technology

How to make sewage drinkable

The water (re)cycle.

Volutes cloud on a lake
Weather

There’s a whole new species of cloud

Celebrate with some amazing photos of the fluffy stuff.