There you are, trying to save the world, and then some hungry prawns come along and ruin everything.

An experiment set up to help solve global warming was undone by crafty crustaceans out for a good meal.

Here's just a glimpse of some of the science stories that hit this week you might have missed.

Fourth potentially habitable planet discovered.

A Famous Gorilla Plays The Recorder, And We All May Learn Something.

Are Jellyfish Really Taking Over the World?

Humans May be One of the Early Advanced Species in Our Universe.

The Look of Love: Top 5 Physical Signs of Attraction.

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Andrej Belic's undersea photography.

An expedition to one of the deepest parts of the ocean has discovered a "supergiant" species.

The huge crustacean was discovered more than four miles (7km) deep in waters north of New Zealand by scientists from the University of Aberdeen.

The creature is a type of amphipod, commonly found in the deep sea, which are usually 0.8in-1.2in (2cm-3cm) long. The new specimen measured 11in (28cm).

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A first step has been taken towards hearing imagined speech using a form of electronic telepathy, it has been claimed.

Scientists believe in future it may be possible to "decode" the thoughts of brain-damaged patients who cannot speak.

In a study described by one British expert as "remarkable", US researchers were able to reconstruct heard words from brain wave patterns.

YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo.

And why not?

The extremes of Mars and Earth. Click to embiggen.

A dinosaur-age ancestor of modern crocodiles from Morocco had a huge armoured head designed as a "fish trap", scientists have revealed.

The extinct creature, dubbed "Shieldcroc", lived around 95 million years ago but was unlikely to have wrestled with dinosaurs.

Instead, it probably used its long flat jaws to ambush fish.

It took 24 million generations for mammals to evolve from the size of a mouse to that of an elephant, a study has shown.

Shrinking is a much faster process, however. Large-scale reductions in size leading to dwarfism only take around 100,000 generations.

Scientists writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looked at 28 groups of mammals, including elephants, primates and whales.

Size change since the age of the dinosaurs 70 million years ago was tracked by generations rather than years to account for varying life spans between species.

The Soviet Soyuz spacecraft is contrasted against a black-sky background in this photograph taken in Earth orbit from the American Apollo spacecraft during the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) docking in Earth orbit mission from 1975.

This view is looking toward the aft end of the Soyuz. Two solar panels protrude out from the spacecraft's Instrument Assembly Module.

Cosmic dust clouds ripple across this infrared portrait of our Milky Way's satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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A mysterious new property of graphene has been discovered by one of the British Nobel Prize-winning scientists who first created the "wonder material".

Graphene is an ultra-thin sheet of carbon just one atom thick.

In 2010, University of Manchester professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov won the physics Nobel prize for work that involved producing flakes of graphene using sticky tape. Both received knighthoods in the New Year Honours List.

Graphene is the thinnest material known and the strongest ever measured.

It also conducts electricity and heat better than any other material. Potential applications include fold-away mobile phones, wallpaper-thin lighting panels, and the next generation of aircraft.

Now a team led by Sir Andre has shown that graphene membranes shut out all gases and liquids except for water.

This super image of the Red Planet was used by putting together images taken by European Space Agency's Rosetta probe as it passed by Mars on the way to a comet.

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The gangly Agile Justin tosses a ball to its robotic twin Rollin' Justin.

Crazy is as crazy does. Charles Claude Guthrie is a proper loon of the highest order.

Charlie was an American physiologist in the early 1900s and made such advances that you would wonder why he wasn't awarded the Nobel Prize.

He made huge contributions to the fields of resuscitation, transplants and surgery.

Transplants? Well, this is where the professor boards the Unhinged Express.

He sewed the head of one dog onto another dog. This wasn't a replacement. He wanted to create a two-headed dog.

Native Americans can trace their origins to a tiny mountainous region of eastern Russia, DNA evidence suggests.

Scientists identified genetic markers linking people living in the Russian republic of Altai, southern Siberia, with indigenous populations in North America.

A study of the mutations indicated a lineage shift between 13,000 and 14,000 years ago.

This roughly coincides with the period when humans from Siberia crossed what is now the Bering strait and entered America.

A camera trap set on the Afghan Border has captured images of a leap of elusive snow leopards, but also the moment when one of the cubs made off with one of the cameras!

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You might need a little patience for this one. But it's well worth it.

Click to embiggen then stare away, go cross-eyed, squint, move your head and be rewarded with this excellent illusion.

Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.

This amazing time-lapse video of Yosemite was a collaboration between Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty.

He might look a little wrinkly, but this weird critter and his friends could hold the secret to everlasting life.

Scientist have noticed that the naked mole rat - found living in burrows beneath the sun-beaten soils of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia - has an incredible ability to resist aging.

The ugly-lookin' mammals can live for up to 30 years, around 10 times longer than the average rat, and does not show the usual signs of wear and tear.