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April 30
- This Antarctic Meteorite Holds a Tiny Speck of Stardust That's Older Than the Solar System
- X-37B Military Space Plane's Latest Mystery Mission Passes 600 Days
- The Moon Might Be the Frozen Leftovers from Earth's Ancient Magma Ocean
- What Are PFAS?
- Why Is the Indian Army Tweeting About Yetis?
- Hubble Spots Giant 'Buckyballs' Jiggling Like Jell-O in Space
- A Newly Recognized Brain Disorder Can Mimic Alzheimer's. Here's How It's Different.
- Feral Cats in Australia Sentenced to Death by Sausage
- Mystery Sea Opened Up During the Antarctic Winter. Now, Scientists Know Why.
- Black Hole Spits Out High-Energy Jets at Near Light-Speed
- Russians Likely Used This Beluga Whale As a Spy. Here's Why.
April 29
- Declining Sense of Smell May Foretell Death
- Alaska's Excelsior Glacier Is Being Replaced by a Lake 5 Times the Size of Central Park
- How Did the Moon End Up Where It Is?
- Faster-Than-Light Particles Emit Superbright Gamma Rays that Circle Pulsars
- Distant Black Hole Gobbles Star, Belches Plasma Plumes in All Directions
- 'Hippie Chimps' Had Sex with Mysterious 'Ghost Ape' Hundreds of Thousands of Years Ago
- This Blood Vessel Disease Can Cause Nipple Pain, Interfere with Breast-Feeding
- In Photos: Archaeological Discoveries at Hagia Sophia
- Long-Lost Baptistery for Emperors Possibly Discovered at the Largest Cathedral in the Ancient World
- Facebook Will Be Littered with More 'Zombie' Profiles Than Living Ones by 2070
April 28
- The Most Distant Object Ever Explored Is Lumpy. And Astronomers Don't Know Why.
- RIP Pikachu: Ashes of Beloved Cat Will Launch to Space in Cosmic Burial
- Why Do All the Babies in This Massive Penguin Colony Keep Drowning?
April 27
- Life May Have Evolved Before Earth Finished Forming
- Get Stuffed: Which Animals Challenge Taxidermists the Most?
- In Photos: Animal Taxidermies Are Uncannily Lifelike
- That Viral Image of Flower-Shaped 'Breasts' Is Wildly Inaccurate — Here's Why
April 26
- Can Chronic Stress Cause or Worsen Cancer? Here's What the Evidence Shows.
- The Ocean’s Biggest Waves Are Getting Even Bigger
- Washington Nurse Likely Infected At Least a Dozen People with Hepatitis
- Mystery of Weird Sky-Glow Named 'STEVE' Finally Solved
- What Will Happen If an Asteroid Hits Earth? A Practice Drill On Social Media May Find Out.
- Scientists Think They've Finally Figured Out Why DEET Is So Effective
- Giant Bird That Killed Its Owner Heads to Auction
- Human Composting May Soon Be Legal in Washington State
- The Universe Is Moving Too Fast and Nobody Knows Why
- Here's Why a Woman Had a 'Bull's-Eye' Pattern in Her Eye
April 25
- In Diamonds' Flaws, Finding the Secret History of Continents
- Eating While Stressed Could Mean Extra Weight Gain, Mouse Study Finds
- High-Altitude Auroras Create 'Speed Bumps' for Satellites
- Scientists on a Sailboat Just Found Nearly 200,000 Viruses Hiding in Earth's Oceans
- Ancient Tomb of Mysterious Man Named Tjt Discovered in Egypt
- There's Basically 'No Chance' for Earth-Like Planets to Form an Atmosphere Around Hot Young Stars
- Why Is This Viral Image of Unrecognizable Objects So Creepy?
- What's on the Far Side of the Moon?
- One of Stephen Hawking's Most Famous Theories About Black Holes Just Suffered a Huge Blow
- Inside Giant Atom Smasher, Physicists See the Impossible: Light Interacting with Light
- Great White Shark Chomps Down on Sea Turtle, Chokes to Death
April 24
- A Common Food Additive Is Linked to Insulin Resistance. Here's What That Means
- 'Beautiful Nightmare' Crab Sported Lobster Shell, Shrimp Mouth and Soccer Ball Eyes
- Photos: Ancient Crab is the Strangest You've Ever Seen
- Mumps: A Highly Contagious, Easily Preventable Disease
- Up to 1 Million Species Are at Risk of Extinction, and It's All Our Fault
- China Plans to Build a Base near the Moon's South Pole
- Researchers Just Measured an Atom with a Half-Life of 18 Sextillion Years
- Coral Reefs Have 'Halos,' and They Can Be Seen from the Heavens
- Asteroid Bennu Goes Technicolor in 3-D NASA View
- Vast Expanses of Rock on Earth's Surface May Act Like a Natural Solar Panel
- Ancient Greek Murder Victim Died with Weirdly Perfect Circle in Chest
- The World's Largest Atom Smasher Could Be Tweaked to Hunt 'Dark World' Particles
- How Will the Universe End?
- Human Tongues Can Apparently Smell Things
April 23
- Smallpox: The World's First Eradicated Disease
- NASA Just Detected the First Marsquake on the Red Planet
- Greenland's Ice Sheet Was Growing. Now It's in a Terrifying Decline
- The Moon's Surface Is Totally Cracked
- An Incredibly Powerful White-Light Superflare Erupted from a Small, Faint Star
- High Body Fat Linked to Possible 'Brain Shrinkage'
- What's the Controversy Over the Baby T. Rex Listed on eBay?
- Ringtail Cats: Photos of the 'Cutest Animal in North America'
- There Are Toxic Fungi in Space and No One Knows If They're Dangerous
- Men's Beards Contain More Harmful Bacteria Than Dogs' Fur, Small Study Suggests
- What Makes the Strong Force So Special?
April 22
- Turbulent Blobs in Earth's Core May Explain Sudden Jerks in the Magnetic Field
- A SpaceX Crew Dragon Safety Test Went Very Wrong. Here's Why That Matters
- Watch Forests in Peru Disappear Over 5 Years, in Startling NASA Satellite Views
- How to Watch the Dazzling Lyrid Meteor Shower (Unless the Moon Gets in the Way)
- How Old Are Saturn's Rings? The Debate Rages On.
- A Dart in a Boy's Eye May Have Unleashed This Legendary Massacre 350 Years Ago
- In Photos: Evidence of a Legendary Massacre in Alaska
- Earth Day Doodle Celebrates Extreme Animal Life
April 21
- If the Animals from 'Game of Thrones' Houses Battled, Which One Would Win?
- How Is Decaf Coffee Made?
- 8 Archaeological Sites That Jesus May have Visited
April 20
- Why Do Our Fingernails Keep Growing Until the Day We Die?
April 19
- Jesus wasn't the only man to be crucified. Here's the history behind this brutal practice.
- How Did a Neck Crack Leave a Woman Partially Paralyzed?
- Lethal Listeria Outbreak: Why Is This Bug So Dangerous?
- The Hubble Just Took a Gorgeous New Image of the Southern Crab Nebula's Wonky Gas Bubbles
- What Is Passover?
- This Quantum Computer Can See the Future — All 16 of Them
- This Tiny Knee Bone Had Nearly Vanished As Humans Evolved. It's Coming Back
- Sonar Anomaly Leads to Discovery of 500-Year-Old Shipwreck in North Sea
- Why Good Friday Was Dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages
April 18
- What Are Stem Cells?
- Rare 'Bubble Boy Disease' Likely Cured with New Gene Therapy
- Tiny Earthquakes Shake Southern California Every 3 Minutes
- Photos: Perfectly Preserved Baby Horse Unearthed in Siberian Permafrost
- 42,000-Year-Old Foal Entombed in Ice Still Had Liquid Blood in Its Veins
- Millipede Genitals Glow Different Colors (But Scientists Can't Explain Why)
- Physicists Closer to Solving Mystery of Weird Glowing Ring Around Milky Way's Black Hole
- This Ancient 'Warg' Was Scarier Than a Tolkien Beast, Terrorized Kenya 22 Million Years Ago
- A Living 'Balloon on a String' Discovered in the Deepest Part of the Indian Ocean
- Texas Baby Born Without Skin: What Can Cause This Condition?
- Here's What Scotland's Dogs Looked Like 4,500 Years Ago
- Why Are So Many Gray Whales Washing Up Dead on California's Coast?
April 17
- There's a Tiny, Bright Magnetar Photobombing Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole
- This Slave in Ancient Rome Became the Empire’s Chariot-Racing Superstar
- How Scientists 3D Printed a Tiny Heart from Human Cells
- Hours After Pigs' Death, Scientists Restore Brain Cell Activity
- Universe’s First Molecule Detected in Space for the First Time Ever
- What happened before the Big Bang?
- Flight Attendant from Israel in Coma After Getting Measles Virus
- Saturn's Moon Titan May Have 'Phantom Lakes' and Caves
- The Quest to Find One of the Most Elusive Particle Decays in the Universe
April 16
- In Notre Dame Fire, Echoes of the 1837 Blaze That Destroyed Russia's Winter Palace
- College Students Hatch Nuclear-Powered Magnetic Plan to Protect Marsonauts from Solar Radiation
- The First Known Interstellar Meteor May Have Hit Earth in 2014
- These Wisps Around Black Holes Could Reveal How the Cosmic Beasts Eat
- We Could Soon Watch a Black Hole in Action, Gobbling Up Matter in Real Time
- Engineers Just Uncovered 26 'Ritually Buried' Skeletons While Digging a Pipeline in England
- 'Holy Stairs' Opened for 1st Time in Nearly 300 Years. But Did Jesus Really Climb Them?
- Can You Still Get the Measles If You've Been Vaccinated?
- Gallery: America's Most Endangered Rivers of 2019
April 15
- Was King David Truly a Powerful King?
- Revolution, Napoleon and Now Fire: What Paris' Iconic Notre Dame Cathedral Has Endured
- Kenya's Maasai Mara: Facts About the Wildlife, Climate and Culture
- Physicists Think You Could Be Rescued from a Black Hole — But Don't Risk It
- The Historic Notre Dame Cathedral Is on Fire
- Rocket Stage Launched 10 Years Ago Disintegrates into Trail of Space Junk (Video)
- World's Rarest Giant Turtle Loses Last Known Female, All But Guaranteeing Extinction
- What Angry Dreams Look Like in Your Brain
- Comet Ingredients Swallowed by an Asteroid, Found Sealed Inside a Meteorite
- No, 'Negative-Calorie' Foods Aren't a Real Thing, Study Says
- Orange Lush: California's 'Superbloom' Wows from the Air
- Leonardo Da Vinci Was Ambidextrous, Handwriting Analysis Shows
- The World's Glaciers Are Sponging Up Loads of Nuclear Fallout, But You Shouldn't Worry — Yet
April 14
- How Did Nearsighted People Manage Before Glasses Were Invented?
April 13
- Stratolaunch, the World's Biggest Aircraft, Makes Historic 1st Flight
- Can any animal breathe fire like the mythical dragon?
- Is Climate Change Really Causing Walruses to Jump Off Cliffs?
April 12
- The Source of That Mysterious E. Coli Outbreak Has Likely Been Found
- Social anxiety disorder: Causes, symptoms and treatment
- Black Holes Are Awesome. Why Are Their Names Usually So Boring?
- What if winter lasted for years like it does on 'Game of Thrones'?
- Hypernatremia and Hyponatremia: Causes and Risks of Sodium Imbalance
- Depression-Era Workers Found Strange Fossilized Beasts in 'Texas Serengeti'
- Here's What Happens When You Put Giant Sea Spiders into Boot Camp
- Football-Size 'Bugs' Feast on an Alligator in This Creepy Deep-Sea Video
- Israeli Lander Failure Marks 1st Moon Crash in 48 Years
April 11
- Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Crashes Into Moon During Landing Attempt
- Scott Kelly's Year in Space May Have Aged Him — But He's Mostly Fine
- Fall Into the Google Doodle of a Black Hole
- Is It Solid? Or Is It Liquid? New Kind of Matter Is Both.
- This Newfound Extinct Human Lineage Also Mated with Modern Humans
- All Your Questions About the New Black Hole Image Answered
- Fountains of Plasma Rain Might Explain One of the Biggest Mysteries of the Sun
- Is Dark Matter Fuzzy?
- Historic First Images of a Black Hole Show Einstein Was Right (Again)
- 10 Interesting Places in the Solar System We'd Like to Visit
- In Photos: The Vanishing Glaciers of Europe's Alps
- Glaciers in European Alps Could Disappear by 2100
- The First Cave Art from the Balkans May Date Back 30,000 Years
April 10
- An Odd Eye Injury Caused a Man's Iris to 'Collapse'
- How Did Astronomers Capture the First-Ever Close-Up of a Black Hole?
- New Species of Early Human Is Even Smaller Than the 'Hobbit'
- Photos: Newfound Ancient Human Relative Discovered in Philippines
- Why Is the First-Ever Black Hole Picture an Orange Ring?
- 3 Huge Questions the Black Hole Image Didn't Answer
- Cherokee Wrote Backward Messages in Cave to Speak to the Spirit World
- IT'S HERE: The First-Ever Close-Up of a Black Hole
- Largest Unnamed Object in the Solar System Needs You … To Choose Its Moniker
- Stone Circles Ringed House That May Have Belonged to the Neolithic 'One Percent'
- 9 ideas about black holes that will blow your mind
- Dozens of Mummified Mice and Birds Found in Ancient Egyptian Tomb
- How Bad Can the NYC Measles Outbreak Get?
April 9
- Why Giant Tortoise Sex Became the Basis of a Key 'Game of Thrones' Sound Effect
- These Rocks Look Like They Could Topple at Any Moment. They Hold 1,000 Years of Earthquake Secrets.
- The Old English Verse 'Beowulf' Was Likely Written by a Single Author
- The Oldest Ice on Earth May Be Hiding 1.5 Miles Beneath Antarctica
- Physicists Scramble to Understand the Extreme Crystals Hiding Inside Giant, Alien Planets
- Vitamins from Food — Not Supplements — Linked with Longer Life
- What Exactly Is a Black Hole Event Horizon (and What Happens There)?
- The Sun Is Spitting Out 'Lava Lamp Blobs' 500 Times the Size of Earth
- Was This Famous Revolutionary War Hero Intersex?
- Stargazing T. Rex Gets a 67-Million-Year-Old View of the Night Sky
April 8
- Deadly Fungal 'Superbug' Spreads Worldwide, Alarming Scientists
- Captured 17-Foot-Long Python Was About to Have 73 Babies
- Poacher Killed by Elephant and Eaten by Lions in South Africa
- How a New Cancer 'Vaccine' Fights Tumors Throughout the Body
- Electrical Stimulation Makes Old Brains Act Young Again
- 'Alien' Lights in Norway Were a NASA Test, Not an Extraterrestrial Visit
- Med School Cadaver's Heart Was In the Right Place (But Her Other Organs Weren't)
- In Photos: Sea Life Thrives at Otherworldly Hydrothermal Vent System
- 'That Can't Be Real!' Deep-Sea Explorers Find Trippy, Rainbow-Colored Wonderland
- This Single Mission Could Solve 2 of the Biggest Mysteries of the Universe
April 7
- Why Some Evangelical Christians See This Pet Technology as the Work of the Antichrist
April 6
- The World's Tallest Tropical Tree Is Longer Than a Football Field
- What Do Cult Leaders Have in Common?
April 5
- Here's Why This Man Had a Giant White Mass on His Eyeball
- Google Doodle Celebrates Physicist Who Escaped Nazi Germany
- Watch 3 Solar Eclipses on Mars, Captured by Curiosity
- The Bering Sea Should Be Frozen Right Now. It Isn't.
- Japan Spacecraft Shoots Copper Bomb at Asteroid
- California's Eerie 'Earthquake Pause' Is Unprecedented
- A Rare White Whale Has Been Filmed Off the Coast of Mexico
- 'Phantom' Predator's Speedy Dance of Death Is Both Graceful and Creepy
- Jaguar Mom Eats Dead Cub, and Zoo Caretakers Can't Explain Why
April 4
- Dead Planet's Heavy Metal Core Found Rocketing Around a Dead Sun in a Distant Solar System
- 60 Ancient Egyptian Mummies Entombed Together Died 'Bloody, Fearsome Deaths'
- Incredible Photographs Show Rare 'Blond' Zebra Thriving in the Wild
- Ancient Four-Legged Whale Swam Across Oceans, Walked Across Continents
- Computer Software Could Crack Centuries-Old Math Puzzle
- Mummy of Pharaoh's Official Discovered Inside Limestone Sarcophagus in Egypt
- How Whole Grains Could Help Your Liver
- Shark's-Eye-View Video Captures Epic Seal Chase Through Kelp Forest
April 3
- How Doctors Treated the Thai Boys in the Harrowing Minutes After They Were Freed from Cave
- The FDA Is Investigating a Possible Link Between E-Cigarettes and Seizures
- You're Probably Using Your Sun-Blocking Moisturizer Wrong
- Humans Have Caused the Most Dramatic Climate Change in 3 Million Years
- Photos: Cretaceous 'Graveyard' Holds a Snapshot of the Dino-Killing Asteroid Impact
- Ancient Pompeii 'Fast-Food' Spot Lured Customers with Sexy Logo
- How Your 'Lifestyle Score' Affects Your Risk of Colorectal Cancer
- There May Be a Link Between Coffee and Lung Cancer, Study Suggests
- Physicists Stuffed a Ghostly 'Skyrmion' Full of 'Antiskyrmions'
- A Woman Consumed Only Juice and Water for Weeks. Now, She May Have Brain Damage.
- Colonial Cemetery Accidentally Unearthed in Philadelphia, and Researchers Race to Analyze the Bones
- Photos: Remains of Colonial Cemetery in Philadelphia Discovered
- This 17th-Century Massacre in Connecticut was New England's 'Jamestown'
- In Photos: Discoveries at the Site of the Pequot War in Connecticut
April 2
- How an Injection of Tiny Beads into Stomach Arteries Might Help with Weight Loss
- A Mathematician Just Solved a Deceptively Simple Puzzle That Has Boggled Minds for 64 Years
- Airplane Wing Assembles Like a Jigsaw Puzzle and Can Morph Into Any Shape
- Climate Change Drove Some Neanderthals to Cannibalism
- Fossil 'Death Pit' Preserves Dino Extinction Event … But Where Are the Dinosaurs?
- Space Debris from India's Anti-Satellite Test Is a 'Terrible, Terrible Thing,' NASA Chief Says
- Teen Boy Discovers Long-Lost Medieval Gravestones in Scottish Churchyard
- Photos: Lost 'Govan Stones' Are Found Again
- In Photos: A Conveyor Belt for Arctic Sea Ice
- Will There Ever Be a Universal Test to Detect Cancer?
- Most of the Arctic's 'Baby Sea Ice' Melts Before It Leaves the Nursery. And That's a Problem.
April 1
- Offerings to Supernatural Deities Discovered in Lake Titicaca in the Andes
- Photos: Diving for Ancient Offerings in Lake Titicaca
- Mosquitoes Sucked Less Blood (and Had Less Sex) While Listening to Skrillex, Study Finds
- Parkinson's disease: Risks, symptoms and treatment
- Another Dead Whale Full of Plastic. This Time, in Italy.
- Mysterious Mummy Taken from Peru a Century Ago Was the Body of a Teen Boy
- Flossing and Going to the Dentist Linked to Lower Risk of Oral Cancer
- 69 Million Years Ago, Crested Duck-Billed Dinosaurs Roamed the Warm, Forested Arctic
- After a Bout of Flu, Mice Grow Taste Bud Cells in Their Lungs
- Physicists Just Detected a Very Odd Particle That Isn't a Particle at All