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- November 8
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- Did plate tectonics give rise to life? Groundbreaking new research could crack Earth's deepest mystery.
- H5N1 bird flu is evolving to better infect mammals, CDC study suggests
- Mysterious, city-size 'centaur' comet gets 300 times brighter after quadruple cold-volcanic eruption
- Humans' big brains may not be the reason for difficult childbirth, chimp study suggests
- 'Purple tunic' from royal tomb belonged to Alexander the Great, scholar claims — but not everyone agrees
- Charles Darwin quiz: Test your knowledge on the 'father of evolution'
- Cretaceous 'Pompeii' of China isn't what we thought
- Pando: The world's largest tree and heaviest living organism
- Surprised Russian school kids discover Arctic island has vanished after comparing satellite images
- World's 1st wooden satellite arrives at ISS for key orbital test
- King cobra mystery that's puzzled scientists for 188 years finally solved
- Hubble watches neutron stars collide and explode to create black hole and 'birth atoms'
- What were Carl Sagan's contributions to science? Remembering the 'Cosmos' star on his 90th birthday.
- We finally know why dogs shake when they're wet
- November 7
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- Armored dinosaur could withstand the impact of a high-speed car crash, thanks to the 'bulletproof vest' over its plate armor
- 'Crumb trails' of meteoroids could reveal potential 'planet-killer' comets years before they reach Earth
- Incredibly rare, ghostly white shark discovered off Albania
- Death of alien-hunting Arecibo Telescope traced to cable issues 3 years earlier, 'alarming' report finds
- Perseverance rover watches 'googly eye' solar eclipse from Mars
- Pompeii victims aren't who we thought they were, DNA analysis reveals
- Scientists just got 1 step closer to creating a 'superheavy' element that is so big, it will add a new row to the periodic table
- Holographic-inspired lenses could unlock '3rd dimension of imaging' in future VR headsets and smart glasses
- Icy moon of Uranus may have once hid watery secret, Voyager 2 archives reveal
- LED device treats leading cause of vision loss with light therapy, FDA says
- November 6
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- 'A flash of copper caught our attention': 4,000-year-old dagger discovered deep in Italian cave
- 'Hawking radiation' may be erasing black holes. Watching it happen could reveal new physics.
- North Korea launches intercontinental ballistic missile to space, reaches record altitude
- Migraine molecules may drive endometriosis pain. Existing drugs might help.
- Why buy a telescope on Black Friday?
- Alligator and crocodile news, features and articles
- Cats are better at word association than human babies are, study finds
- Crocodile quiz: Test your knowledge on the prehistoric predators
- E. coli in the gut may fuel a 'chain reaction' leading to Parkinson's, early study suggests
- A giant crocodilian killed the largest 'terror bird' ever found, 12 million years ago
- 'Ridiculously smooth': James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-like disk around nearby star Vega — and scientists can't explain it
- New 'wastewater' jet fuel could cut airplane emissions by 70%
- The Garmin Fenix 7 is our top-rated running watch and now at its lowest price ever
- Rare tomb from Egypt's Middle Kingdom holds a wealth of jewelry and several generations of the same family
- Rogue 'organs' inside cells may hold secrets of the origin of life on Earth
- November 5
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- Puzzling patchwork skeleton in Belgium contains bones from 5 people spanning 2,500 years
- James Webb telescope spots 'feasting' black hole eating 40 times faster than should be possible
- BRCA only explains a fraction of breast cancers — genes tied to metabolism may also up risk
- Squid news, features and articles
- Octopus news, features and articles
- Mollusk news, features and articles
- Orca news, features and articles
- Cat news, features and articles
- No need to wait for Black Friday — one of Canon's best cameras for wildlife photography just got even cheaper and is now discounted by over $1,500
- Scientists to read Cassius the giant crocodile's bones to find out exactly how old he was when he died
- Origins of world's earliest writing point to symbols on 'seals' used in Mesopotamian trade
- November 4
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- Dolphin news, features and articles
- Marine mammal news, features and articles
- Elephant news, features and articles
- Indonesia volcano eruption kills at least 10
- India targets 2028 for Chandrayaan-4 sample-return mission to moon's south pole
- 'Fireball' meteors possible over US tonight as South Taurid meteor shower peaks
- These 3 neurons may underlie the drive to eat food
- Earth from space: Watch Valencia disappear under a sea of mud during deadly Spanish floods
- 'An offering to energize the fields': 76 child sacrifice victims, all with their chests cut open, unearthed at burial site in Peru
- Cassius, the world's biggest captive crocodile, may have been over 120 years old when he died
- Content funding on Live Science
- The 3,300-year-old ancient Egyptian statue of Ramesses II said to have inspired Percy Shelley's 'Ozymandias'
- Will we ever have quantum laptops?
- When did plate tectonics begin?
- November 3
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- 'God of chaos' asteroid may be transformed by tremors and landslides during 2029 flyby of Earth, study finds
- Saturn's moon Titan may have a 6-mile-thick crust of methane ice — could life be under there?
- Strange green spots on Mars found by NASA's Perseverance rover
- 'Unique' gold offering to god of war discovered at Roman fortress in Georgia
- How many weeks are there in a year?
- Iron Age woman was buried with a knife stuck into her grave. Archaeologists aren't sure why.
- Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a 'cannonball galaxy' blasting through space
- Were the Vikings really that violent?
- November 2
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- A meteorite 100 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing space rock may have nourished early microbial life
- 380 million-year-old remains of giant fish found in Australia. Its 'living fossil' descendant, the coelacanth, is still alive today.
- New memory chip controlled by light and magnets could one day make AI computing less power-hungry
- Northern sea robin: The bizarre fish with crab legs it uses to taste the seafloor
- Huge lithium deposits are in Nevada. Here's why.
- What really caused encephalitis lethargica, the mysterious disease described in the movie 'Awakenings'?
- Watch sun erupt in 1st images from NOAA's groundbreaking new satellite
- Can viruses cause cancer?
- November 1
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- Chemists broke a 100-year-old rule to make extremely unstable molecules
- 'Mind-blowing' discovery reveals 5,000-year-old cultic building in Israel
- Watch this terrifying robotic torso spring into life
- Bear news, features and articles
- Land mammal news, features and articles
- Natural selection is unfolding right now in these remote villages in Nepal
- How does licorice interfere with medications?
- Hang Son Doong: The world's biggest cave, so 'outrageous in size' it fits 2 jungles and the 'Great Wall of Vietnam'
- Quantum computers are here — but why do we need them and what will they be used for?
- Does alien life need a planet to survive? Scientists propose intriguing possibility
