Discovered: Greenland's losing more ice than ever before, pointy eyebrows really are evil, computers can tell when a smile isn't genuine, and politics has lowered Scottish life expectancy
Discovered: The race to invent a real, life invisibility cloak forges on, old nice people live longer than crotchety ones, sometimes being fat isn't bad for your heart, and Spanish women are into contraception, at first.
Discovered: Rapid fire evolution in a Connecticut pond, why pesticides are killing the bees, the best new species on the planet, and butterflies have gotten snobby.
Discovered: A medical procedure that turns your face into your heart, why we eat more when we're depressed, the fall of the Mayan empire explained, and men's mistakes count more.
Discovered: Smoking bans scare some smokers, your relationship with daddy determines how you watch Teen Mom, get ready to have your DNA sequences, and a big creepy Peruvian tomb.
Discovered: Another invisibility cloak, science confirms sex, drugs and rock n roll, the dolphins are eating a lot of poison and video games teach kids how to be the best murderers they can be.
Discovered: Kids brains look different than adults brains when exercising, how to make schools healthier and how thunderclouds are contributing to climate change.
Discovered: People with kids are happier than people without kids, eating at the right time matters, Australia has had a hot 1,000 years, and whales ears work like hearing aides.
Discovered: Gaydar is 80 percent real, today's forest fires are different than ancient ones, baby galaxies grow up too fast, and the success gene is real.
Discovered: Many of our mammal brethren will not survive climate change, high fructose corn syrup keeps getting better, finally a plastic bag solution that works for the environment, and America will get a lot warmer over the next sixty years.
Discovered: The horrible earth ruining effects of spilled milk, a reason to keep on breast feeding, an iPhone that runs on you, and a new bionic body part.
Discovered: How the Mississippi saved the gulf from total ruin, the Milky Way is full of planets, the risks of not going on The Pill, smoking while pregnant is still bad.
Discovered: WiFi turns people into really rude café goers, we're eating too much grouper, social jet lag is the latest thing that's killing us, and finger regeneration?
Discovered: A potentially delicious weight-loss solution, an artificial leaf that can save us from climate change, biodiversity is our next environmental issue, and a big pretty picture of a ball of old stars.
Discovered: A rare photo of the world's most endangered gorilla, turning white fat into brown fat, sperm don't swim, and numbers won't save your species from extinction.
Discovered: The official medical scale for Facebook addiction, dino farts caused global warming, the high risk of assisted reproduction techniques, and a crocodile big enough to eat humans.
Discovered: Even babies are a little bit racist, when forced, handwashing really works, most college kids get help from their parents, and the south is aggressive.
Discovered: Triplets can turn out okay, a black hole murderer is on the loose, time to start a moderate jogging routine and plants will adapt to climate change better than expected.
Discovered: There's only one possible thing that could be causing Arctic ice-shelf loss, a fun fact about mammal eyes, finally a positive health benefit to staring at a computer all day and a 5,000 year old blood cell.
Discovered: Baby drug addicts, atheists can love their neighbors, too, these brand new lizard species are already dying, and humans are evolving.
Discovered: Some brains are wired to want drugs, there's no such thing as safe texting while driving, TV makes drinking look fun to kids and rats chew better than other rodents.
Discovered: Women put far too much faith in birth control, there's a new wonder fat drug coming our way, Saturn's moon is kind of like a not-moon, and a sperm killing antibiotic.
Discovered: Apple has a new way of getting customers addicted, exercise makes you smarter, females engage in homophobic bullying too and more extreme weather is on the way.
Discovered: The G-spot exists, white potatoes aren't making you fat, sunshine as heart attack treatment and at first, unemployment makes us happier.
Discovered: What makes a cell turn fat, the stomach organism that makes us fat, cocaine is bad for the brain, and debunking anti-vaccination myths.
Discovered: Not all kids are obsessed with technology, an anti-aging gene?, Aspirin might be good for preventing lung cancer, and get ready for an avocado-oil health food craze.
Discovered: A paper thin TV, anti-tobacco ads work, seat belt laws work, and socializing is good for humanity.
Discovered: Breast cancer isn't just one type of cancer, a device that made a paralyzed monkey move, ecstasy isn't all that happy after all, and a reason to spoil kids with more toys.
Discovered: A hair regeneration technique using stem cells, a brand new dark matter theory, brain scans can predict future weight gain and future sex and another reason to drink.
Discovered: Baboons can (almost) read, the baby boomer generation is dying alone, a totally unsurprising correlation between tattoos and drinking, and a super-sucky sponge.
Discovered: Definitive proof that the IQ gene exists, women are the moral sex, America has the world's saltiest food and the right way to respond to an earthquake.
Discovered: kids shrug off the severity of cyberbullying, the unwed couple babyboom is afoot, and worrying and intelligence go hand-in-hand.
Discovered: alcohol may increase your problem-solving skills, men don't act chivalrous when disaster strikes, UCLA has created a time machine of sorts and toddlers and chimps have something in common.
Discovered: Polar bears are balding, texting is therapeutic, divorce is linked to life expectancy and dinosaurs could be ruling a distant planet.
Discovered: Urine isn't sterile, is there a nice gene?, a better way to cool gadgets and there's one good thing about a black fly bite.
Discovered: A link between autism and maternal obesity, computer science confirms Super Mario brothers is hard, a childhood obesity gene, and there's something funky on the sun.
Discovered: Everyone thinks they're skinnier than they are, a big Cystic Fibrosis breakthrough, dialysis isn't very sexy and money, not race, explains gap in life expectancy.
Discovered: Red wine just keeps getting better, an unexpected link between Google and GDP, old people are using more drugs than ever and water can now float on oil.
Discovered: Early BPA exposure has some nasty effects for adults, a new feathery dinosaur, preschoolers don't play outside enough and the longer the commercial the better.
Discovered: A twin baby boom, college leads to better health, how to turn skinny babies into skinny adults, and a PTSD gene.
Discovered: Eating McDonald's will make you very sad, preventing cancer is easy, the Earth's clock is all wrong, and picky women help a species survival.
Discovered: An artificial skin that could make robots feel, babies are not as rational as we thought, good news for nerds: smart people finish first, and a molecule for weight loss.
Discovered: The first image of one billion stars, a new high for Autism diagnoses, some fishing advice and Lucy's cousins.
Discovered: Sitting all day will kill you, should we be eating placenta?, a coral-reef herpes outbreak, and a resistant form of breast cancer.
Discovered: Eating chocolate keeps you thin, a type of plastic that fixes itself, an incredible facial transplant, and machines can tell if you're lying.
Discovered: Crazy weather has a lot to do with climate change, why we like sad movies, another invisibility cloak (sort of), what made humans start walking less like apes and more like humans and black holes are rude.
Discovered: OB-GYNs aren't talking about sex enough, living alone is depressing, C-sections are too expensive, and there's a new type of land mass in town.
Discovered: Venice is sinking, record low TB cases, more evidence that breast cancer screenings work, and very speedy planets.
Discovered: A camera that can see around corners, why we don't eat smelly foods, the super-Earth is not so super, noise pollution is also bad for plants and abnormal brain development might determine personality.
Discovered: Even more ADHD diagnoses than before, science proves the exercise orgasm myth, space is bad for your eyes, pediatricians are racist and a plane that could break the sound barrier
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