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- March 31
- March 30
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- Where Did the Easter Bunny Come From? Ask This Dead German Scientist
- Why Are People Freaking Out About These Boring SpaceX Satellites?
- Arnold Schwarzenegger's Heart Surgery: Here's What We Know
- Here's How to Track the Chinese Space Station's Uncontrolled Plunge to Earth
- Why the Fire that Incinerated a Tesla Was Such a Nightmare to Put Out
- Doctors Don't Know Why This Synthetic Pot Is Making People's Eyes Bleed
- Here's What a Single Milkshake Does to Your Blood Vessels
- Despite Court Ruling, There's No Certain Science Linking Coffee to Cancer
- Why Denmark Is the Happiest Country
- This Elementary-School-Age T. Rex Is a '1 in 100 Million' Discovery
- Are Angels Real?
- March 29
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- This Hidden 'Royal' Jewel, Taken from India, Will Sell for Millions of Dollars
- The Knuckle-Cracking Debate Gets Twisty
- The Opioid Epidemic is Getting Even Worse, As Fentanyl Deaths Soar
- The Sahara Desert Is Growing. Here's What That Means
- Mesmerizing 'Self-Healing' Liquid Sculptures Hold Their Shape: How It Works
- King Tut, the Boy Soldier? Here's What Other Stories Aren't Telling You.
- Carving of Famed Pharaoh Hatshepsut Found in Storage
- Jesus' Baptism Site Surrounded by Bombs and Booby Traps (But Not for Long)
- This Truck-Size Dinosaur Terrorized Prey with Razor-Sharp 'Meat Hooks'
- You Can Overcome Embarrassment with Mental Training, Fart-Filled Study Finds
- Discover the Science of 'Star Wars' and 'Black Panther' at Future Con
- A Cancer 'Vaccine' Cured 97% of Tumors in Mice. What's That Mean for People?
- Crashing Chinese Space Station Will Go Down Shooting — Fireballs
- Lise Meitner: Life, Findings and Legacy
- March 28
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- How Easy Would It Be to Repeal the 2nd Amendment? History Has an Answer
- Poisoned by Bitter Squash, Two Women Lose Their Hair
- Telescope Spots Doomed Chinese Space Station (Photo)
- 2 Pilots in Different Planes Saw the Same UFO. The FAA Can't Explain It.
- A Man's 'Beer Belly' Was Actually a Massive Tumor
- Gonorrhea's Always Bad, But This Man's Case Might Be the 'Worst Ever'
- Oldest Human Footprints in North America Discovered: Here's What They Reveal
- Mysterious Brown Spots on King Tut's Tomb Are 'Dead'
- Astrophysicists Claim They Found a 'Galaxy Without Dark Matter'
- Archaeologists Were Surprised to Find the Mummy of an Egyptian Priestess in This 'Empty' Coffin
- See How a Single Cell Dies in Gory, Intricate Detail
- 'Demonic' Fish Glows in Eerie Photo
- Dear Alpaca Thieves, Please Return This Alpaca's Missing Brother
- Chinese Space Station May Crash Like NASA's Skylab
- March 27
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- Here's What Growing Inside Your Rubber Ducky
- 3 Boys Find Mastodon Jawbone in Mississippi
- These Scientists Have a Wild Plan to Throw Salt into the Atmosphere. Here's Why.
- Iron Age People in Scotland Really Knew How to Party, Ancient Trash Heap Reveals
- Mysterious Geoglyphs Reveal Amazon Was Densely Populated Before Columbus
- New Images Spot Elusive 'Snacking' Brain Cells
- What Makes an E-Cig Taste Good May Also Make It Toxic
- Divers Search for Wreckage of Mystery US Hercules Crash
- Here's Why Antibiotics May Give Viruses a Leg Up
- This Could Be the 'Beginning of the End' for North Atlantic Right Whales
- Oldest Human DNA from Africa Reveals Clues About a Mysterious Ancient Culture
- Doomed 19th-Century Arctic Explorers Suffer in 'The Terror,' But Their Real Story Was Even Worse
- Mount Etna Is Slip-Sliding Toward the Sea
- Meet Your Interstitium, A Newfound 'Organ'
- The Riddle of Twin Telepathy
- March 26
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- Why Aren't There Any Supersize Whales?
- This Medieval Mother Had a Gruesome 'Coffin Birth' After Medieval Brain Surgery
- You Could Soon Buy an 'Artificial Meteor Shower' — for a Hefty Fee
- Actually, China's Space Station Will Be Torn to Bits as It Plummets to Earth
- China's Out-Of-Control Space Station Is Nowhere Near the Biggest Thing to Fall From Space
- Why Is China's Space Station Falling to Earth in the First Place?
- Black Holes Devour Stars, Spit Out Clues to How Galaxies Grow
- Why Is Orange Snow Falling Across Eastern Europe?
- Weirdly Dimmable 'Alien Megastar' Darkens Again
- If the Falling Chinese Space Station Hits You, Is Anyone Liable?
- Is West Texas Sinking Into a Hole of Its Own Making?
- March 25
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- March 23
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- Viagra for … Cancer Prevention? Mouse Study Has Surprising Results
- In a Final TV Appearance, Stephen Hawking Imagines Humanity Colonizing Alien Worlds
- Did These Children Have Their Hearts Ripped Out as a Sacrifice to an Ancient Rain God?
- Whale Murder Was Sexually Motivated, Whale Detectives Say
- Here Are Some of the Most Common Causes of Food Poisoning
- What's Up with This 'Smoke-Breathing' Elephant?
- The Odds of Getting Hit With Space Station Debris Are 1 in 300 Trillion
- Did Human Noise Pollution Drive 150 Whales To Beach Themselves in Australia?
- China's 8.5-Ton Space Lab Expected to Fall to Earth Over Easter Weekend
- This Mysterious Deep-Sea Creature Has Never Been Seen Alive Before. Until Now.
- Move Over, 'Tomb Raider': Here Are 11 Pioneering Women Archaeologists
- March 22
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- Reproductive System: Facts, Functions & Diseases
- Your Grilled Burger May Come with a Side of High Blood Pressure
- Why This Lab Reeks of Animal Flesh and Contains a Suitcase Full of Slime
- Could Cutting Calories Slow Down Aging?
- 1 in 10 Sober People Have Cocaine or Heroin on Their Fingertips
- Freezing This Nerve Could Trick Your Body into Losing Weight
- No, It's Not an Alien — Here's What That Tiny, Pointy-Headed Skeleton Really Is
- Trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has Quadrupled, Maybe Even 16-upled
- Astronomer Announces He Has Discovered ... Mars
- Photos: WWII Battleship 'USS Juneau' Discovered
- Here's Why Cockroaches Can Survive Just About Anything
- Why #OddlySatisfying Videos Are So … Satisfying
- March 21
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- Are People Actually Smoking Bug-Spray-Laced Drugs? Either Way, It's a Bad Idea.
- This Bulging Lump on a Man's Hand Revealed a Serious Heart Infection
- Creator of 'Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics' Wins Prestigious Math Prize
- Famous Mathematician Joseph Fourier Would Have Been 250 Today. Here's Why He Matters
- Sorry, Toby — Winter Storms Don't Have Names (Except on Cable News)
- How Much Do You Poop in Your Lifetime?
- WWII Shipwreck Where 5 Brothers Died 76 Years Ago Finally Found
- Dream-Like Video Captures Minke Whale Gliding Beneath Antarctic Ice
- US Can't Stop Hypersonic Weapons, Air Force General Says
- Bizarre, Nessie-Like Creature Washes Ashore in Georgia, and Marine Experts Are Mystified
- These 2 Genes May Increase the Risk for Extreme Morning Sickness
- Why Some People Can 'Hear' Silent Images
- March 20
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- New Stem Cell Treatment Reverses Vision Loss in 2 Patients
- Stephen Hawking to Be Interred in Westminster Abbey Near Newton, Darwin
- China's First Space Station Is Going to Fall Out of Space Very Soon
- A Mysterious Infection Killed This Man. Here's How Doctors Finally Found the Cause
- Stephen Hawking's Last Paper (Probably) Doesn't Prove We Live in a Multiverse
- Can You 'Speed Up' Your Metabolism?
- Psychologists Have a Plan to Fix the Broken Science of Psychology
- The Weirdest Things That Fell From The Sky
- In Images: Cut Marks from Samurai Swords and Machetes
- Facts About Rhinos
- Self-Driving Car Kills Pedestrian in Arizona. Human Drivers Will Kill 6,000 This Year.
- An Icelandic Epic Predicted a Fiery End for Pagan Gods, and Then This Volcano Erupted
- Did Prehistoric 'Astronomers' Build Stonehenge?
- Sudan, the Last Male Northern White Rhino, Has Died
- Astronomers Have Found Their Paradise, and It's the Coldest and Most Remote Point in Antarctica
- March 19
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- Live Bee Sting 'Acupuncture' Triggers Lethal Allergic Reaction
- Male Birth Control Pill Blocks 'Sperm Hormones,' But Will It Work?
- Big Cats and 'Ritual' Dogs Lived in Maya Captivity
- No, One Sick Passenger Won't Infect Everyone on the Plane
- Scientists Made a Startling Discovery After Dosing People with LSD
- Russian Scientists Tested Their Asteroid-Nuking Plan with Powerful Lasers
- Young Blood: Magic or Medicine?
- Adults Stop Growing New Neurons in This Part of the Brain
- 17th-Century Houseguests Slaughtered Hosts, and Archaeologists Are Investigating
- March 18
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- March 16
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- 5 Weird Effects of Bug Bites
- Turkey Vultures: Photos Reveal an Icon of the American West
- Watch a Robot Solve a Rubik's Cube in 0.38 Seconds
- These 'Alien' Mummies Appear to Be a Mix of Looted Body Parts
- We Were Totally Wrong About That Scott Kelly Space Genes Story
- Pythons Are Cold-Blooded Killers, But At Least They're Not Negligent Mothers
- I Went to Space and Floated Above Earth Thanks to This Immersive Helmet
- Chillaxing? 'Snorkeling' Walrus Charms Twitter
- You Should Be Very Skeptical of Nectome's Deadly 'Mind-Uploading Service'
- A Russian Cargo Plane Just Dropped 3 Tons of Gold Over Siberia
- March 15
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- The FDA Wants to Take Nicotine Out of Tobacco. How Do You Do That?
- Oklahoma Turns to Nitrogen Gas for Executions
- Neanderthals Weren't Humans' Only Mating Partners. Meet the Denisovans.
- Should You Worry About Microplastics in Bottled Water?
- Why Coffee Could Be the Opposite of Cannabis
- Real-Life Pot o' Gold Discovered During Dutch Construction Project
- Funky Protein in Platypus Milk Could Beat Antibiotic Resistance
- Stephen Hawking Never Reached Space, But He Sought to Lift All of Humanity
- Celebrities Mourn Death of Stephen Hawking
- 'He Inspired Us All to Wonder': Scientists and the Public Remember Stephen Hawking
- Greenland Is Literally Cracking Apart and Flooding the World
- Fossilized Brains of Ancient 'Sea Monster' Discovered in Greenland
- Prenatal Genetic Screening Tests: Benefits & Risks
- March 14
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- Stephen Hawking Never Answered His 'Most Interesting' Scientific Question
- These Gut Bugs Need Their Own Gut Bugs
- Exercise Could Ward Off Dementia for Women — If They Start At the Right Age
- Best Pi Day Deals for Kids & DIYers
- How Do People Die from ALS?
- Stephen Hawking: A Physics Icon Remembered in Photos
- How Stephen Hawking Transformed Humanity's View of the Universe
- Archaeopteryx: The Transitional Fossil
- Stephen Hawking's Most Far-Out Ideas About Black Holes
- Stephen Hawking's Most Intriguing Quotes on Aliens, Women and the Future of Humanity
- Woman Gives Birth in the Red Sea (But Here's Why You Shouldn't)
- What Was the Most Pointless Battle in History?
- 10 Surprising Facts About Pi
- Stephen Hawking, Famed Physicist Who Defied ALS Odds, Dies at 76
- Solar Storm to Amp Up Earth's Northern Lights Wednesday
- March 13
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- This Futuristic Flying Car Requires Zero Piloting Skills
- Future Medical Implants May Be Blinged-Out in Tiny, Microwaved Diamonds
- Would You Eat Human Meat Grown in a Lab?
- Why Did These Medieval European Women Have Alien-Like Skulls?
- Get Used to Nor'easters — Arctic Warming May Mean More Severe Winters in the Northeast
- A Surprising Use for Old iPhones: Brain Surgery!
- The Science Websites That We Read Every Day
- What This Optical Illusion Reveals About the Human Brain
- The Happiest US Communities: Full List
- This Florida City Is Nation's Happiest for 3rd Year in a Row
- Blasting This Old Book with X-Rays Could Reveal Greek Physician Galen's Ancient Words
- Facts About Rhodium
- What Is Novichok, the Poison That Nearly Killed a Russian Ex-Spy?
- March 12
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- Scott Kelly's Year in Space Changed His Gene Expression
- Faced with Drowning, This Giant Tarantula Goes Out on a Limb
- Declassified Military Video Shows 'UFO' Off East Coast
- These Personality Traits Could Put You At Risk for Social Media Addiction
- Humans Couldn't Keep Up with This Burger-Flipping Robot, So They Fired It
- Quantum Physicists Doubled the Information Speed Limit of the Universe
- Florida Scientists Are Running Around at Night Bashing in Iguanas' Skulls
- The Guardian Is Reporting Astrologers' Ramblings about Quantum Physics for Some Reason
- Europe's Clocks Are Losing Time, and Here's Why
- Yep, the Earth Is Still Round, Neil deGrasse Tyson Says
- Genes Can't Explain Why Men Are Less Empathetic Than Women
- Famed Archaeologist 'Discovered' His Own Fakes at 9,000-Year-Old Settlement
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- March 9
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- A Mysterious Lung Disease Is Striking Virginia Dentists
- The Frozen North: Stunning Images of Russia from Above
- A Power Company Just Gave MIT $30 Million to Build the World's Strongest Electromagnet
- Antarctic Penguins Find Research Camera, Proceed to Take Most Adorable Selfies
- Brilliant Fireball Lights Up the Sky Over Washington
- Can (and Should) the Northern White Rhino Be Saved?
- 8 Reasons Why We Love Tardigrades
- Here's a Lion Getting a CAT Scan
- Man's 'Missing' Brain Was Actually a Large Air Pocket Inside His Head
- Russian Gov't Says Not to Worry About These 54 Severed Human Hands Found in Siberia
- Spacecraft Could Nuke Dangerous Asteroid to Defend Earth
- These 2 Photographers Never Met, But They Took the Exact Same Photo
- German Culture: Facts, Customs and Traditions
- March 8
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- In Photos: Ancient Home and Barracks of Roman Military Officer
- Roman Military Commander's Sprawling Home Found Beneath Subway System
- What to Know Before Taking 23andMe's Breast Cancer Test
- Russian ex-spy poisoned: What is a nerve agent?
- In Photos: Research Vessel Headed to 'Hidden' Antarctic Ecosystem
- Mysterious Sandbar Island That Formed Last Summer Is Gone Once Again
- A Man with a Life-Threatening Heart Infection Was Saved by a Virus Plucked from a Lake
- Did Amelia Earhart Perish on the Pacific Island of Nikumaroro?
- Florida Woman Viciously Attacked by Possibly Rabid River Otter
- A Massive Electrical Field Aligned All the Snowflakes in This Week's Nor'easter
- What Is the Greenhouse Effect?
- March 7
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- This Tiny Diamond Contains a Mineral That's Never Been Seen Before
- An Electro-Blob Under Africa May Be 'Ground Zero' for Earth's Magnetic Field Reversal
- How Swallowing a Slug Left a Teen Paralyzed
- San Francisco's Airport is Sinking into the Bay
- Why Thousands of Cheerleaders Might Be at Risk for the Mumps
- Ex-Russian Spy and Daughter Attacked With Nerve Agent, Not Radiation
- Behemoth Snowstorm Watched by Satellites As It Hits US Northeast
- Google Wants to Make Military Spy Drones Even Smarter
- Every Year, the Swiss Cover Their Melting Glaciers in White Blankets
- Here's the Best Way to Protect Yourself from a Norovirus Outbreak
- Urinary System: Facts, Functions & Diseases
- What Is Ovulation?
- March 6
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- Why Meteorologists Don't Know if Tonight's Nor'easter Will Bring Rain or Snow
- Long-Lost Footage of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Discovered at Flea Market
- The 'Skyrmion' May Have Solved the Mystery of Ball Lightning
- Images: Rare Footage of the Devastation of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
- Linebacker with One Hand Wows NFL: What Is Amniotic Band Syndrome?
- No, Those Aren’t Animal Tracks on Mars
- Why Some Babies Get a Boost from Looking Like Dad
- Nor'easter Exposes Revolutionary-War-Era Shipwreck on Maine Beach
- Tattoos Last Forever Because Your Immune Cells Are Hungry for Dead Skin
- Microsoft Co-Founder Finds the WWII 'Ship That Saved Australia'
- Archaeologists Closer to Finding Lost Viking Settlement
- 10 Species That Are in So Much Danger They'll Be Featured on Limited-Edition Shirts
- March 5
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- Why DARPA Wants to 'Freeze' Soldiers on the Battlefield
- Remains of US Pilot from WWII Found at the Bottom of Pacific Ocean
- Why Can Some People 'Hear' Colors?
- This Is One of the Tiniest Ancient Birds, and It Lived Alongside Giant Dinosaurs
- SpaceX's Roadster Could Be a Martian 'Biothreat'
- Man's Foot Blister Turns Out to Be Deadly Flesh-Eating Bacteria
- Why 17 People Volunteered to Be Infected with Parasitic Worms
- This Weird Google Earth Picture Does Not Show a Crashed UFO
- Bizarre, Parasitic 'Fairy Lantern' Reappears in the Rainforest After 151 Years
- Is Earth's Missing Xenon Hidden in the Core?
- Experts Are Stumped by the Toad with a Stump for a Face
- 1.6-Billion-Year-Old Breath of Life Frozen in Stone
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- March 2
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- The 5 'New' Types of Diabetes, Explained
- Pollution from Ships Creates Massive Clouds Visible from Space
- Stephen Hawking Says He Knows What Happened Before the Big Bang
- Expedition to 'Hidden' Antarctic Ecosystem Turned Back by Heavy Ice
- How much trash is on the moon?
- Salmonella-Tainted Kratom Sickens a Dozen More People in Outbreak
- Unfortunate Python Paid 'Deerly' for a Too-Big Meal
- A Floating 'Brain' Will Assist Astronauts Aboard the Space Station
- Poop Stains Lead Researchers to Hidden 'Supercolony' of 1.5 Million Penguins
- Party Served Wild Boar Meat, and Guests Got This Rare Infection
- Tripping on LSD Really Is Like Lucid Dreaming
- March 1
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- Can Sound Be Used As a Weapon?
- Giant Family Tree of 13 Million People Just Created
- 'Bomb Cyclone' Will Pummel Parts of the US East Coast Starting Tonight
- A Single Psychedelic Drug Trip Can Change Your Personality for Years
- What Caused This Eerie White Ring in a Woman's Eye?
- This Is the World's Last Male Northern White Rhino — and He's Sick
- How a Little Bit of Anxiety May Improve Your Memory
- 'Resurrected' Shark Species Found Dwelling Deep in the Atlantic
- Birdwatchers Are Flocking to Alabama to See This Bird: Why It's So Special
- Selfies Distort Your Face by 30% — And Here's the Math to Back It Up
- Ancient Native American Burial Site Discovered Off the Coast of Florida
- What Happens If You Don't Poop for 40 Days?
- Tick Bites Tick! Tiny Male Puts the Bite on an Engorged Female
- A Bus-Size Asteroid Will Whiz by Earth Friday
- 'Lost' City of Atlantis: Fact & Fable
