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This week’s #WeirdChemistry: How some species of octopus can ‘see’ with their skin using light-sensing chemicals! (Weird Chemistry archive: http://wp.me/P4aPLT-Xz)

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'Cultured meat' could spell end of tradition: ABConal cattle farming within decades, scientist behind lab-grown beef burger says

Full Story: ABC

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*MIND BLOWN*

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Ladybridge High School is Doing It Right — 15-Year-Old Students Create Unbelievable 3D Printed Lamps

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Weasel Takes A Wild Ride On A Woodpecker’s Back

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I asked people to send in / tweet #ScienceValentines and man did they deliver. Here’s a few from around the internets:

Are you an ionized halogen? Because I’m positive we should bond. - Flirting With Psychology

Our bond is so strong, it don’t need oxytocin. We’re woven together like a corpus callosum. The love we impart, though it’s felt in our heart, Is more of a limbic-type notion. - Joe Hanson, host of It’s Okay To Be Smart

I dig you like Curiosity digs Mars. - Bobak Ferdowski, Systems Engineer at NASA JPL via Science Friday

Is it just the negative delta H, or is it getting hot in here? - Debbie Mitchell’s student

You are the transcription enhancer of my love exons. - Jason Anthony Tetro, @JATetro

A mathematician from Rye Said please be the X to my y. Simultaneous equations Unlike conversations Are not just Pi in the Sky - Alison Richards, my radio editor

Boy, are you a prairie chicken? ‘cuz you’re making my heart go boom-boom. - Emily Graslie, host of thebrainscoop

May our atomic orbitals overlap for I would love to bond with you. Be my valence valentine. - my friend’s grandpa

You’re so hot, you make the Triassic seem like the Quaternary! - Erik Hankin, via the American Geophysical Union

If we were bacteria under selective antibiotic pressure – I’d totally give you my plasmid. - @twisteddoodles

My love for you is like dark matter: you can’t see it but it’s always there. - Symmetry Magazine (more here)

And many of the floral pigment variety:

Roses are red, Violets are [read the rest of this article for $35.95] - Sylvain Deville, @DevilleSy

Betelgeuse is red Rigel is blue You’re Siriusly hot and I’m starstruck by you. - Chella Quint, @chellaquint

Exhaust plumes are red Bright skies are blue If you were a barge I’d land my 1st stage on you - @ROCKETDRAG Do you get this one? If not, click here.

Harmful algal blooms are red Mussels are blue During this romantic seaside escape Lets not get paralytic shellfish poisoning - Alice Anderson, @alicechristinea

Here’s my favorite effort:

Roses are Red Violets are Blue Most poems rhyme Mitochondria - Hischak’s student, @NBCphysics

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Valentines day approaching. 

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Winning at Rock Paper Scissors - Numberphile

How to win at rock, paper, scissors

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The epidemic of 'superbugs,' bacteria resistant to antibiotics, knows no borders -- presenting a clear and present danger around the globe. Now a groundbreaking discovery may strengthen efforts by the medical community to fight this looming superbug pandemic. By sequencing the DNA of bacteria resistant to viral toxins, researchers identified novel proteins capable of stymieing growth in treacherous antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

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Biologists used the world’s largest single-celled organism, an aquatic alga called Caulerpa taxifolia, to study the nature of structure and form in plants. It is a single cell that can grow to a length of six to twelve inches.

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A robot has learned to cook by watching YouTube videos

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The possibility of a planet lurking in the outer reaches of the solar system has gained new ground, based on the orbits of recently discovered objects. There is a new twist to the latest evidence, however, with suggestions of not one but two large planets at mind-bending distances from the Sun.

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Make sure you sync your clocks - we're all getting an extra second on June 30 this year. Read more >

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Astronomers have discovered eight new Earth-like planets believed to be in the ‘Goldilocks zone’ of habitability. Among these, two are the most similar planets to Earth that have ever been found. Read more on ScienceAlert >

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This alien horizon is actually a real sunrise on Earth

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NASA travel posters for exoplanets

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Scientists in the US have discovered a new class of antibiotic that has been shown to kill Staph and Strep throat infections in mice. They say the way it kills bacteria will make it very difficult for them to evolve resistance in response to the...