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- September 30
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- 'Trippy' Bacteria Engineered to Brew 'Magic Mushroom' Hallucinogen
- Deepfake AI: Our Dystopian Present
- Hurricane Lorenzo, Strongest Storm Ever This Far East in the Atlantic, Roars Toward the Azores
- Elon Musk Unveils SpaceX's New Starship Plans for Private Trips to the Moon, Mars and Beyond
- 'Smoking Gun' Evidence Dates Some of Earth's Earliest Life to 3.5 Billion Years Ago
- Huge Cosmic Structures Already Existed When the Universe Was a Baby
- Inscription Reveals Final Years of Life in Pompeii Before the City Was Buried in Ash
- 7 Sexist Ideas That Once Plagued Science
- Could E.T. Have Bugged a Space Rock to Listen In on Earthlings?
- September 29
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- September 27
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- India's Lost Moon Lander Is Somewhere in This Photo
- THC-Containing Products May Play a Big Role in Vaping-Related Lung Illnesses, Officials Say
- Worms with Three Sexes Thrive in Arsenic-Laced Lake in California
- NASA Wants You to Know That Black Holes Are Even Crazier When Viewed from the Side
- Giant Chunk of Mont Blanc Glacier on the Brink of Collapse, Officials Warn
- 3 Monster Black Holes Are About to Collide
- Skeleton of Ancient Sports Fan and Head-Shaped Jar Found in Bulgarian Grave
- Grave of Romani Baby Taken Prisoner During WWII Discovered at Former Nazi Camp
- September 26
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- Astronaut Snaps Photo of Her Friend's Launch Into Space. And It's Absolutely Stunning.
- Vaping-Related Illnesses Hit Nearly Every US State
- Wealthy Couple Gives UCLA $20 Million to Find the 'Antidote' to an Unkind World
- Babies Drank from Ancient 'Sippy Cups' Thousands of Years Ago
- Mysterious 'Pocket' of Underwater Gas Could Contain 50 Million Tons of CO2
- Neutrino Experiment Reveals (Again) That Something Is Missing from Our Universe
- Watch Supersonic Shock Waves Launch from a Bottle of Champagne
- Are We Really Running Out of Time to Stop Climate Change?
- September 25
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- Woman's Rare Blood Disease Triggered by Cold Weather
- Walrus Attacks and Sinks Russian Navy Boat
- Woman Who Ate 'Unusually Large' Amount of Wasabi Developed Broken-Heart Syndrome
- Mysterious Megastructures of the Elusive Tripolye Culture Unearthed in Ukraine
- Human Disruption of Earth's Oceans and Ice is 'Unprecedented,' Says 'Chilling and Compelling' Climate Report
- Hidden World of Undersea Volcanoes and Lava Flows Discovered Off Italian Coast
- Nobody Knows What Made the Gargantuan Crater on the Dark Side of the Moon
- One of the Fastest-Spinning Stars in the Galaxy Is Spitting Out Gamma Rays
- September 24
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- Did Venus, Earth's 'Twisted Sister' Hellscape Planet, Once Harbor Water — and Life?
- Advanced Alien Civilizations May Produce 'Technosignatures' That We Could Find, Experts Say
- A Strange New Higgs Particle May Have Stolen the Antimatter from Our Universe
- This Ancient Sea Monster Could Do the Breaststroke
- Big Climate Report to Be Released Tomorrow: Here's What to Expect
- Einstein's Theory Predicts a Weird State of Matter. Could It Be Lurking in the World's Largest Atom Smasher?
- September 23
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- Get 5 Issues of 'All About Space' or 'How It Works' for $5 in Our Fall 2019 Sale!
- 12 Bizarre Medieval Trends
- Newfound Cosmic 'Gateway' Funnels Small, Icy Objects to the Inner Solar System
- Why Today Is the 1st Day of Autumn in Earth's Northern Hemisphere
- Photos: How to Identify a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
- Mysterious Mineral from Earth's Mantle Discovered in South African Diamond
- September 22
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- September 20
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- The 'Spanish Stonehenge' Is Above Water for the First Time in 50 Years
- Man's 'Bug Bite' Was Really a Sign of Leukemia
- Underground Continents May Be As Old As Earth
- Woman's Blood Turns a Shocking Shade of Blue After She Used Tooth-Numbing Gel
- Scientists Can't Agree on Whether Genetically Modified-Mosquito Experiment Went Horribly Wrong
- 'Alien Megastructure' Star Not Alone. More Mysteriously Dimming Objects Found.
- Are Conspiracy Beliefs on the Rise?
- September 19
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- Texas Is Drowning Under One of the Wettest Storms in US History
- Vaping-Related Illnesses Climb As Federal Officials Reveal Criminal Investigation
- Extinct Denisovan Woman Gets Her First Portrait Thanks to DNA from Her Pinky Bone
- These Gut Bacteria Brew Their Own Booze, and May Harm Livers in People Who Don't Drink
- Gaming May Trigger Heart Rhythm Problems in Susceptible Kids, Report Says
- Something Is Killing the Universe's Most Extreme Galaxies
- Ancient Mosaic Found in 'Burnt Church' May Depict Miracle Described in the New Testament
- Students Worldwide Mobilize for Climate Action
- September 18
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- Giant Volcano on Jupiter Moon Could Erupt Any Day
- Placentas Are Caked in Soot from Car Exhaust. Could It Reach the Fetus?
- Did Egyptians Trigger a Mysterious Biblical Kingdom to Innovate 3,000 Years Ago?
- Cystic Fibrosis: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
- Missing Link Between Simple Cells and Complex Life-Forms Possibly Found
- Rogue Ice Moon Could Be Spilling Its Guts All Over 'Alien Megastructure' Star
- Universe's Most Massive Neutron Star Spotted. Should It Even Exist?
- 15th-Century Scottish Warrior Who Died in a Clan Feud Was Buried with 5 Extra Heads
- September 17
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- Woman Swallows Engagement Ring in Her Sleep
- UFOs Are Real — and You Were Never Supposed to See Them, Military Official Says
- Just 2 Labs in the World House Smallpox. The One in Russia Had an Explosion.
- Explorer Says He Reached the Deepest Part of the Ocean. James Cameron Disagrees.
- 'Cannibalistic' Cancer Cells Gobble Up Their Own Kind in Microscopic 'Horror Films'
- Hidden Gravitational Wave Signal Reveals that Black Holes Are 'Bald'
- Remote Russian Volcano Turns the Skies Purple
- Deep-Sea Explorers Find Rare Shapeshifting Jellyfish with a Prize Inside
- Long-Standing Problem of 'Golden Ratio' and Other Irrational Numbers Solved with 'Magical Simplicity'
- September 16
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- 12 Children with Autism Were Conceived from One Donor's Sperm. Is There an 'Autism Gene'?
- Secret Message Discovered in Milton's Epic 'Paradise Lost'
- Florida Man Discovers Decades-Old Dead Body Using Google Earth
- Long-Sought Village Jesus Visited After Crucifixion Possibly Found
- Why a Rare But Deadly Mosquito-Borne Virus Is Hitting Massachusetts So Hard
- Some Flavored E-Cigarettes Contain Cancer-Causing Chemical
- What a Waste! Frozen Poop Knives Are Crappy Cutters, Scientists Find
- Why Some People Have Endless Thoughts of Death. They May Be 'Existentially Isolated'
- Inside the Race to Discover a Water Vapor World
- September 15
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- September 13
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- There's a New Blackest Material Ever, and It's Eating a Diamond As We Speak
- No Laughing Matter: A Woman's Guffaw Results in a Dislocated Jaw
- Boy Dies from 'Brain-Eating' Amoeba Infection Picked Up in Hot Spring
- 'Lovers of Modena' Buried Hand-in-Hand Turn Out to Be Men
- Heartburn Drug Found to Contain Traces of Cancer-Causing Chemical
- A Skyscraper-Size Asteroid Will Zoom Past Earth Saturday Night
- Captain Cook's 'Endeavour' Shipwreck Possibly Discovered Off Rhode Island
- Afterglow of Colliding Neutron Stars Would Outshine Our Sun
- On Friday the 13th, Don't Be Freaked Out by the 'Micromoon'
- 2nd-Known Interstellar Visitor May Have Breezed Through Our Solar System
- September 12
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- Tuna Steaks Recalled Because They May Cause This Weird Type of Food Poisoning
- This Ridiculously Speedy Star Might Be Running Away from a Rare, Unproven Type of Black Hole
- A Tainted Skin Cream Gave a Woman Mercury Poisoning. She's Now Semi-Comatose.
- A Distant Black Hole Brightens Every 9 Hours, and No One Knows Why
- This Ancient Belt Buckle Retrieved from ‘Russian Atlantis’ Looks Like a Bedazzled iPhone Case
- What Was the Enlightenment?
- Rogue 'Immune Cell X' Is a Completely New Type of Cell. It Could Trigger Type 1 Diabetes.
- Lab-Made Embryos Could Save Northern White Rhinos After Last Male Dies
- September 11
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- Chinese Scientists Tried to Treat HIV Using CRISPR
- Acupuncture Causes Woman's Lung to Collapse
- Trump Administration Plans to Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes
- Is Vaping Really Safe?
- Nightmare Creature Had Egg-Shaped Eyes, Swiss Army Knife Head and a Butt Shield
- Gargantuan 'Bubbles' of Radio Energy Spotted at the Center of Our Galaxy. How'd They Get There?
- Mysterious Alien Planet Has Water in Its Atmosphere. Could Life Survive There?
- There's a Lost Continent Hiding Beneath Europe
- Is Interstellar Travel Really Possible?
- The Bigger Reason Trump's Fight with a Weather Forecast Worries Meteorologists
- September 10
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- Explorer Becomes the First to Reach Deepest Point in All 5 Oceans
- Could a Drug Cocktail Reverse Biological Aging?
- Meet 'Cold Dragon of the North Winds,' the Giant Pterosaur That Once Soared Across Canadian Skies
- 13th-Century Death Pit Reveals Murdered Family in the 'City Drowned in Blood'
- Right Again, Einstein! Wobbling Pulsar Confirms General Relativity
- Short Stature Linked with Higher Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
- September 9
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- Rare, Two-Headed Rattlesnake Named 'Double Dave' Rescued from Certain Doom in New Jersey
- 3 Asteroids Are Zipping Past Earth Today
- Two Mathematicians Just Solved a Decades-Old Math Riddle — and Possibly the Meaning of Life
- Loch Ness Contains No 'Monster' DNA, Say Scientists
- What If There Were No Sharks?
- Animal Camo: Can You Find the Animals Hiding Out in These Images?
- The Voracious and Invasive Lionfish Is Taking Over the Atlantic. Here's Why.
- September 7
- September 6
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- Mysterious Underwater Thieves Steal 1,600-Lb. Observatory from Bottom of Baltic Sea
- India Loses Contact with Lunar Lander During Historic Mission
- Number of Vaping-Related Lung Disease Cases Doubles As Clues Point to 'Chemical Exposure'
- The 'Fireworks Galaxy' Is Exploding in X-Ray Light, and Scientists Are Confused
- Secret to This Dead Sea Scroll’s Incredible Preservation — And Inevitable Destruction — Could Be Salt
- Hurricane Dorian Makes Landfall on Cape Hatteras, Takes Aim at Canada
- Astronomers Decode Weird X-Ray Pattern Coming from Neutron Star
- Tibetan Mastiffs Bred with Mountain Wolves to Survive at Super-High Altitudes
- Mysterious Skyglow 'STEVE' May Have Been Lurking in an Aurora on Labor Day
- 1st Genetic Markers Tied to Being Left-Handed Found
- 'Einstein's Biggest Blunder' May Have Finally Been Fixed
- September 5
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- Could This Contaminant Be Causing the Mysterious Vaping-Related Illnesses?
- A Second Person Has Died from a Vaping-Related Illness
- Mysterious Indus Valley People Gave Rise to Modern-Day South Asians
- Trump Holds Up Doctored Hurricane Map, Meteorologists Cringe
- First Ever Black Hole Image Earns Researchers a $3 Million Prize
- Mathematician Wins $3 Million Breakthrough Prize for 'Magic Wand Theorem'
- Hurricane Dorian Intensifies Again, Headed Toward Carolinas
- 2 Giant Blobs at the Core of Our Galaxy Are Spewing Radiation. Scientists Don't Know How They Got There.
- Even Diet Sodas Are Tied to an Increased Risk of Early Death
- September 4
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- These Students Are Breeding Endangered Finches. But Will It Save the Species?
- Spiky Worm’s Ancient ‘Death March’ Might Be Earliest Known Animal Journey on Earth
- Sleuths Find the Top-Secret (and Classified) Satellite Behind Trump's Tweeted Photo
- Removing Pubic Hair Probably Won't Increase Your Risk of STDs, Study Finds
- What's the Difference Between Asteroids, Comets and Meteors?
- Extraterrestrial Mineral Never Before Seen on Earth Found Inside a Famous Meteorite
- Hurricane Dorian Barrels Up the Coast, Threatening the Carolinas
- Photos: Hurricane Dorian Leaves Devastation in Its Wake
- Meet the 'Giant Elephant Trunks,' Mysterious Cosmic Structures 10 Times Bigger Than the 'Pillars of Creation'
- A 'Quarkonium Spectrum' of Exotic Particles Might Lurk in the Universe, So Why Can't We Find Them?
- Photos: Hurricane Dorian Rages in Pics from Space
- September 3
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- Another Tropical Storm Could Hit Parts of Mexico and Texas This Week
- Giant Ammonia Storms Are Screwing with Jupiter's Beautiful Brown and White Belts of Color
- Someone Stole the Bones of an 18th-Century 'Witch.' Scottish Authorities Want Them Back.
- Woman Pecked to Death by Her Rooster
- Scientists Are Building a Real-Life Version of the Starship Enterprise's Life Scanner
- Hurricane Dorian Looks Massive from Space As NASA Prepares for Impacts
- Asteroid That's Nearly the Height of the World's Tallest Building Is Flying by Earth Soon
- Extremely Dangerous Hurricane Dorian Expected to Make Close Shave with Florida
- China's Lunar Rover Just Found Something Weird on the Far Side of the Moon
- Anthropocene? Humans Have Been Changing the Planet for Millennia.
- A Massive Icebreaker Ship Will Trap Itself in Arctic Sea Ice on Purpose. Here's Why.
- Did a Jurassic Magma Plume Burst Through the Earth in Ancient Africa?
- September 2
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- Teen's Junk Food Diet Caused Him to Go Blind, Doctors Say
- Where Will Hurricane Dorian Make Landfall?
- Monster Storm Dorian Slows to a Crawl Over the Bahamas
- Astronaut Spots Eye of Hurricane Dorian from Space Station
- Cedar Break National Monument
- In Photos: How These Stunning Natural Bridges Form and Why They're So Gorgeous
- The Most Surprising Elephant Relatives on Earth
- A Volcano-Covered Exomoon May Circle a Planet 550 Light-Years Away
- September 1
