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- January 21
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- Wattbike Proton smart bike review
- China's 'artificial sun' shatters nuclear fusion record by generating steady loop of plasma for 1,000 seconds
- Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS' 'near-death encounter' with the sun may have blown it apart, new photos suggest
- Archaeologists discover rare liquid gypsum burial of 'high-status individual' from Roman Britain
- 'Marsquakes' may solve 50-year-old mystery about the Red Planet
- Cosmic voids may explain the universe's acceleration without dark energy
- 'Medieval' nanotech chainmail sports 100 trillion chemical bonds per square centimeter — and could be the future of armor
- 'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create
- World's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' goes online — it will be used to secure the US nuclear stockpile and in other classified research
- Scientists discover rare venom-spraying scorpion in Columbia
- What's inside Earth quiz: Test your knowledge of our planet's hidden layers
- Earth from space: Massive field of ancient lava casts an eerie, gold-specked shadow in the Sahara
- January 20
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- 'Our model of cosmology might be broken': New study reveals the universe is expanding too fast for physics to explain
- 7 ancient megaliths around the world that rival Stonehenge
- Ozempic-style drugs tied to more than 60 health benefits and risks in biggest study-of-its-kind
- 'Contagious' peeing may have deep evolutionary roots, chimp study suggests
- Cheating little penguins are big on divorce, and other breeding secrets revealed
- Giant reserves of 'gold' hydrogen may be lurking beneath at least 30 US states, 1st-of-its-kind map reveals
- 'Big boy' spider becomes Australia's largest deadly funnel-web after surprise discovery
- Bad Dürrenberg headdress: An elaborate 9,000-year-old headpiece worn by a female shaman in Europe
- The best exercise bike we have ever tested currently has a $400 discount in this brilliant Peloton Bike deal
- Why do we go 'weak in the knees'?
- January 19
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- Astronomers find hundreds of 'hidden' black holes — and there may be billions or even trillions more
- Rare 'Corinthian' helmet from ancient Greece is up for auction, and stunningly preserved
- Scientists find hidden mechanism that could explain how earthquakes 'ignite'
- Space photo of the week: Look into Titan's 'eye,' 20 years after the Huygens spacecraft's historic landing on Saturn's largest moon
- What is CTE?
- An interstellar visitor may have changed the course of 4 solar system planets, study suggests
- We finally know what 1,400-year-old 'mystery rings' in Australia are
- Can you transplant an organ more than once?
- January 18
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- How many more calories does muscle burn than fat?
- How does alcohol cause cancer?
- Giant ice age landforms discovered deep beneath North Sea revealed in amazing detail
- Common degu: Oversized hamsters with societies governed by pee
- Is Earth the only planet in the solar system with plate tectonics?
- Roman emperor quiz: Test your knowledge on the rulers of the ancient empire
- 'ELIZA,' the world's 1st chatbot, was just resurrected from 60-year-old computer code
- Science news this week: Sunken worlds and 'kidney beans' on Mars
- January 17
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- Doorbell camera captures 1st-ever video of the sound and sight of a meteorite crash-landing
- James Webb telescope captures 1st 'mid-infrared' flare from Milky Way's supermassive black hole
- Parents really do have favorites, study suggests
- 'Sexy' pterosaur tail should have been nightmare for flying. How did it work?
- Watch SpaceX rocket explode over Grand Turk island in dramatic stream of fire and smoke
- 'It was very fortunate timing': Astronomers watch 1st black hole to 'shut off' blast back to life
- James Webb Space Telescope discovers one of the earliest 'truly gargantuan' supernovas ever seen
- New solar-powered EV can drive 40 miles daily using the power of the sun — and it's 50% more efficient than a Tesla
- The Bungle Bungles: Towering domes in the Australian outback that contain traces of the earliest life-forms on Earth
- January 16
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- Giant horned dinosaur's fossils were destroyed in WWII — but photos reveal it was an unknown species
- LA wildfires: How can wildfire smoke affect your health?
- 'Spooky' quantum entanglement discovered inside individual protons for 1st time ever
- 2,800-year-old structure unearthed in Israel was likely used for cultic practices and sacrifice, archaeologists say
- 'Totally amazing' astronaut photo captures comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS shooting past Earth from the ISS
- Schrödinger's Cat breakthrough could usher in the 'Holy Grail' of quantum computing, making them error-proof
- How Pluto captured its largest moon Charon with a 10-hour icy 'kiss'
- Secrets of Alexander the Great mosaic revealed after 1st-of-its-kind analysis
- Argyria: The rare disease that turns people blue
- Top-secret X-37B space plane has been in orbit for more than 1 year
- Did people report seeing UFOs before the 20th century?
- Stone Age people made sun stone 'sacrifice' to banish 'darkened sun' after a volcanic eruption, archaeologists say
- January 15
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- FDA bans red dye No. 3 in food
- One of Iceland's largest volcanoes sees swarm of 130 earthquakes — could it be about to blow?
- 'Warm water' from deep sea flowing towards one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves
- 20,000-year-old 'human' fossils from Japan aren't what we thought
- Were the Celts matriarchal? Ancient DNA reveals men married into local, powerful female lineages
- Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth — and it's shooting a beam of energy right at us
- Curse tablet found in Roman-era grave in France targets enemies by invoking Mars, the god of war
- Rare string of 'cosmic pearls' dance together in the universe
- Scientists discover enormous reservoir hidden in Cascades — more than twice the amount of water in Lake Mead
- World's tiniest cat was a palm-sized tiddler that lived in China 300,000 years ago
- Diagnostic dilemma: A woman started sweating blood from her face and hands
- January 14
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- What's in the pink fire retardant being dropped on LA, and is it dangerous?
- Woman's sudden hearing loss turned out to be a tick lodged in her ear canal
- Famous Sutton Hoo helmet may be clue that early Anglo-Saxons fought as mercenaries for Byzantine Empire, study suggests
- New supergiant 'Darth Vader' sea bug discovered in South China Sea — and it's absolutely massive
- China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than 'all the oil on Earth'
- Swift SW200DL Compound Monocular Microscope Review
- Earth's moon could've had Saturn-like rings, new study hints
- IVF may raise risk of certain disorders in babies — and epigenetic 'signatures' in the placenta could explain why
- Scientists discover 'sunken worlds' hidden deep within Earth's mantle that shouldn't be there
- Something invisible and 'fuzzy' may lurk at the Milky Way's center, new research suggests
- Earth from space: Svalbard's radioactive 'Bear Island' surrounded by rare cloud swirls and a giant algal bloom
- January 13
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- Lasers reveal hidden patterns in tattoos of 1,200-year-old Peru mummies
- 'Unusual' and weak La Niña finally here, NOAA confirms
- 10th-century woman buried with weapons in Hungary is 1st of her kind, but researchers are hesitant to call her a warrior
- New treatment for most aggressive brain cancer may help patients live longer
- See Mercury's frigid north pole in extraordinary new images from the BepiColombo spacecraft
- Excavations at Queen Hatshepsut's mortuary temple reveal elaborate burials, decorated blocks and ancient tools
- Enormous skull of 200-million-year-old giant dinosaur discovered in China
- Tiny AI chip modeled on the human brain set to boost battery life in smart devices
- Why we need parasites, despite them leeching life from others
- Giant 'kidney beans' spotted in Mars satellite images could point to signs of water and life
- Doban-kun: A 'cute' human-shaped counting tool from prehistoric Japan
- January 12
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- 'Red flags' raised over ancient sea monster pulled from Moroccan mine
- Nuclear fusion could be the clean energy of the future — but these 'tough' challenges stand in the way
- Space photo of the week: The tilted spiral galaxy that took Hubble 23 years to capture
- Do bay leaves actually add flavor, or is it all a con?
- January 11
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- 1st-of-its-kind database reveals how DNA mutations 'destabilize' proteins, triggering genetic disease
- 'I was shaking when I first unearthed it': 11th-century silver coin hoard unearthed in England
- Ancient 'Stonehenge' in Golan Heights may not be astronomical observatory after all, archaeologists say
- Turkey vulture: The bird that vomits acid up to 10 feet and poops antiseptic onto its legs
- Which animal has the longest tail?
- Science news this week: Snowstorms, fire and Yellowstone's next eruption
- Ferns can evolve 'backward,' scientists discover
- January 10
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- Enormous, mountain-size asteroid will be visible from Earth this weekend in rare 'once in a decade' event
- 'Wake-up call' as hookworm parasites that infect pets and people grow drug resistant
- 'Big surprise' reveals supposed skull of 'Cleopatra's sister' actually belongs to an 11-year-old boy
- Stark 'drought' maps reveal just why wildfires have blazed through Los Angeles
- 2024 was the hottest year on record, and the 1st to breach the 1.5 C global warming limit, data reveals
- Oldest-known dinosaur in North America is a 'chicken-size' raptor — and changes what we know about how dinos conquered Earth
- X-class solar flares hit a new record in 2024 and could spike further this year — but the sun isn't entirely to blame, experts say
- Passenger plane with entirely new 'blended wing' shape aims to hit the skies by 2030
- 1,700-year-old Roman hoard includes gold coins depicting illegitimate emperor
- Antarctica 'pyramid': The strangely symmetrical mountain that sparked a major alien conspiracy theory
- 'The Majoron' — a bizarre particle that's its own opposite — could explain the biggest mysteries of the universe, scientists claim
- The full Wolf Moon rises tonight (Jan. 13). Here's how to watch it block Mars from the sky.
- January 9
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- Cybertruck-looking 'mobile aircraft carrier' developed in China can hide away and launch a 2-person flying car
- 17 weird, wonderful and terrifying robots we saw at CES 2025 — from a humanlike android companion to a robotic mixologist
- Scientists discover new kind of cartilage that looks like fat-filled 'Bubble Wrap'
- There's a speed limit to human thought — and it's ridiculously low
- Mars rock samples may contain evidence of alien life, but can NASA get them back to Earth?
- 'Red balloon' sprouts from baby's back due to birth defect
- Medieval crowns of Eastern European royalty hidden in cathedral wall since World War II finally recovered
- New NASA robot with X-ray vision will watch Earth 'breathing' from the moon
- Runners! Here's everything you need for a spring marathon
- We finally know where the Yellowstone volcano will erupt next
- Vortex Solo R/T 8x36 monocular review
- 2,700-year-old archaeological site in Jordan may be a biblical place visited by King David
- Looking for a fitness-orientated smartwatch with a bargain price tag? The Garmin Instinct 2 has just hit its lowest-ever price
- How to see 6 planets in 1 night all through January — and a bonus 7th planet in March
- Mars at opposition: See the Red Planet at its best and brightest this week — or wait until 2027
- 800-mile-long 'DUNE' experiment could reveal the hidden dimensions of the universe
- Tularemia: The 'rabbit fever' that can fatally infect humans
- Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable hands-on: An intriguing laptop with plenty of potential
- January 8
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- 'Reanimated' herpes viruses lurking in the brain may link concussions and dementia
- Santa Ana winds: What is causing the deadly fires sweeping across Los Angeles?
- 18 incredible technologies we saw at CES 2025 — from a holographic windshield display to a fridge that can cook
- Woman hospitalized with heat stroke after using sauna for 45 minutes
- How to watch the full Wolf Moon 'swallow' Mars in the sky tonight — no telescope required
- Most of the atoms in your body left the Milky Way on a 'cosmic conveyor belt' long before you were born, new study reveals
- Physicist claims to have solved the infamous 'grandfather paradox,' making time travel (theoretically) possible
- Rare comet could shine bright as Venus as it falls toward the sun: What to expect from Comet ATLAS (C/2024) G3
- Early study reveals why sleeping pills may not supply the best-quality snooze
- Bushnell Equinox X650 Night Vision 5x32 Monocular review
- Giant funnel-web spider with fangs so big it could bite through a human fingernail arrives at Australian zoo
- Never-before-seen parasite is resistant to ivermectin
- Diagnostic dilemma: A woman's nut allergy was triggered after sex
- January 7
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- 'Huge fortune' from the 1600s, including gold and silver coins, found in German church where Martin Luther preached
- 4,100-year-old tomb of doctor who treated pharaohs discovered at Saqqara
- 2,000-year-old painted penis bone found in quarry shaft from Roman Britain
- James Webb telescope spies record-breaking hoard of stars hiding in a warped 'dragon' galaxy
- Scientists examine bloody mating wounds to reveal details of sharks' secret sex lives
- Tibet earthquake: Deadly magnitude 7.1 quake hits holy city of Shigatse
- Python 12x52 Range Master Ultra HD Monocular review
- Earth from space: Pakistan's 'bleeding ink' lagoon brings life to harsh desert environment
- Nvidia's mini 'desktop supercomputer' is 1,000 times more powerful than a laptop — and it can fit in your bag
- 'Multiverse simulation engine' predicts every possible future to train humanoid robots and self-driving cars
- January 6
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- 1st deadly case of H5N1 bird flu reported in US
- What's the best way to kill norovirus, the 'stomach bug'?
- Apple AirPods Max vs AirPods Pro: Which is better?
- Scientists find hidden 'hotspot' that helped create the Great Lakes before North America even existed
- What is thundersnow? The weird weather phenomenon rumbling through the East Coast and Midwest
- Mysterious climate-changing eruption that turned the sun blue traced to remote Pacific island
- Yellowstone's 'queen of the wolves' killed by rival pack after living to 11 years old and having 10 litters of pups
- Antarctica ice melt could cause 100 hidden volcanoes to erupt
- Dancing dwarf: A 2,300-year-old ancient Egyptian statue of a godlike man with a muscular 6-pack
- What temperature is the moon?
- January 5
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- Our ancient primate ancestors mostly had twins — humans don't, for a good evolutionary reason
- Why time slows down in altered states of consciousness
- Roman Empire grew after catastrophic volcanic eruption, study finds
- Honda promises solid-state batteries that could double EV range to 620 miles by 2030
- Panasonic Leica DG Elmarit 200mm f/2.8 POWER O.I.S lens review
- AI could crack unsolvable problems — and humans won't be able to understand the results
- Polar Grit X2 Pro Titan review
- 2,100-year-old coin hoard dating to dynasty of Jewish kings discovered in Jordan Valley
- Space photo of the week: Hubble celebrates 10 years of hunting giants
- How do DNA tests tell if two people are related?
- January 4
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- Hypnosis is real — and it can help with IBS, poor sleep and anxiety, experts say
- Quantum computers that are actually useful 1 step closer thanks to new silicon processor that could pack millions of qubits
- Hawke Endurance ED 10x42 monocular review
- Zwift Ride smart bike review
- Orange dwarf cave crocodiles: The crocs that crawled into a cave, ate bats, and started mutating into a new species
- Just 2 hours is all it takes for AI agents to replicate your personality with 85% accuracy
- Chinese 'robot dog' that moves like a cat could revolutionize space exploration and asteroid mining
- Are cats and dogs smarter than babies?
- Science news this week: Polar vortices and volcanoes undersea
- January 3
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- 'Single crystal' electrodes could power EVs for millions of miles
- 1,500 ancient European genomes reveal previously hidden waves of migration, study finds
- Grieving orca mom carries dead calf around on her head for a 2nd time
- 1,700-year-old oil lamp found in Jerusalem shows a rare Jewish menorah, even though the Romans tried to suppress the religion
- Superfast diamond-laced computer chips now much closer to reality thanks to 'quantum breakthrough'
- Viral disease HMPV is on the rise among kids in China — what is it?
- Massive piece of space junk crashes into village in Kenya — and officials still have no idea where it came from
- How a new generation of 'smart windows' could keep you warm in winter and cool in summer
- Saturn will disappear behind the moon for skywatchers in Europe on Saturday. Here's how to see it.
- Nikon 5x15 HG monocular review
- Weird bumps in UK quarry turn out to be 166 million-year-old dinosaur 'highway' for some of Jurassic's biggest dinosaurs
- James Webb Space Telescope quiz: How well do you know the world's most powerful telescope?
- Tristan da Cunha: The most remote inhabited island on Earth, forged from a supercontinent breakup
- Qubits inspired by 'Schrödinger's cat' thought experiment could usher in powerful quantum computers by 2030
- Science news this week
- January 2
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- Pet cats in Los Angeles County are catching bird flu from raw food, milk
- Undersea volcano off Oregon coast could erupt this year, geologists predict
- Healthy breast cells can look like invasive cancer, complicating early diagnosis
- What counts as 'binge drinking'? What about 'high-intensity drinking'?
- Lost site of Alexander the Great's famous battle against ancient Persians discovered in Turkey
- Polar vortex could bring deadly winter storms and coldest weather in more than a decade to US
- Do crabs feel pain?
- Best power banks and power stations 2025
- 'Missing link' black hole found? Not so fast, new study says
- Quadrantid meteor shower: How to watch the first 'shooting stars' of 2025 rain over Earth tonight
- Situs inversus: The condition where your organs are on the 'wrong' side
- January 1
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- Celestron Labs S10-60 Stereo Microscope review
- A Chinese spacecraft burned up over Los Angeles. Earthquake sensors mapped its path through the atmosphere.
- The 10 best stargazing events of 2025
- Full moons of 2025: Names, dates and everything you need to know
- 8 of the weirdest robots in the world right now
- Diagnostic dilemma: A surgeon accidentally transplanted a tumor into his own hand
- A disease unknown to science could spark the next pandemic. Are we prepared?
