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October 31
- Measles Wipes Your Immune System's 'Memory,' So It Can't Fight Other Infections
- California's Kincade Fire Spawns Huge Plume Visible from Space
- Asteroid Impacts Might Wipe Out Alien Life Around Dwarf Stars
- Astronomers Discover Glowing 'Galactic Ghoul'
- Jesus Painting Bound for the Dump Is Lost Renaissance Masterpiece Worth $27 Million
- Medical Students May Have Secretly Practiced on Human Bodies Found in 19th-Century Burial in Scotland
- Why Do Some People Like to Be Scared?
- Case of 'Rat Bite Fever' Reminds Us That Even Pet Rats Carry Loads of Diseases
- The World's Fastest-Thinning Glacier Identified
October 30
- What Turned This Woman's Pee a Striking Shade of Lilac?
- This Man Hid Weed in His Nose. It Got Stuck for 18 Years.
- Root of Humanity's Belief in Evil Possibly Found
- Is a New Particle Changing the Fate of the Universe?
- Colliding Galaxies Form Piercing Eyes of 'Ghost Face’ in New Hubble Telescope Image
- Why Are Some Adults Really Afraid of Ghosts?
- Here's How NASA Might Bring Home Pieces of Mars (In a Darth Vader Helmet)
- 5,000 Mini-Eyes Just Blinked Open to Scan the Skies for Dark Energy
- Girl with Rare 'Sleeping Beauty' Syndrome Dozes for Months
October 29
- How Rabies Inspired Folktales of Werewolves and Vampires
- The 'Mole' on NASA's Mars Lander Just Popped Out Of Its Hole (and That's Not Good)
- Mathematicians Solve 'Twin Prime Conjecture' — In an Alternate Universe
- Why We Love Blood-Curdling Screams
- You Totally Have Enough Time to Exercise If You Just Put Down Your Phone
October 28
- There's No Evidence Marijuana Will Treat Your Anxiety or Depression
- Tuberculosis: Symptoms, Treatment & Prevention
- More Obese Children Should Get Weight-Loss Surgery, Doctors Say
- This Newly Discovered Virus Replicates in a Completely Unknown Way
- These Mesmerizing Images Show 'Invisible Gravity Waves' Rippling Over Australia
- Scientists Think They've Found 'Mitochondrial Eve's' First Homeland
- The Black Knight Satellite: A Hodgepodge of Alien Conspiracy Theories
- Most People Don't Actually Feel Euphoric When They Take Opioids, Study Finds
- These Weirdo Stellar Corpses Have Creamy Centers Filled with Exotic Quantum Liquids
- If There's a Wormhole Hiding in Our Galaxy, Could We Really Find It?
- Human-Size Blob Drifts by Divers. And It's Packed with Hundreds of Thousands of Baby Squid.
October 27
- US Air Force's X-37B Space Plane Lands After Record 780-Day Mystery Mission
- Rock Star's Company Seeks UFOs, Finds Military Contract
October 26
- Is It Safe to Stand in Front of Microwave Ovens?
October 25
- Assyrian Tablets Contain Earliest Written Record of Aurora’s Sky Glow
- Lab Tech Accidentally Injects Herself with Smallpox-Related Virus
- Your Brain 'Shields' Itself from the Existential Threat of Death
- How Long Will It Take to Find Proof of Alien Life?
- Mystery of 15th-Century Bayeux Tapestry Solved
October 24
- In a Distant Galaxy, Colliding Exoplanets Are Upending What We Knew About Solar System Formation
- A Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Using Alcohol. It Turns Out, His Gut Brews Its Own Booze.
- Google's Quantum Computer Just Aced an 'Impossible' Test
- Legendary 'Yeti' Galaxy Finally Discovered Behind a Shroud of Cosmic Dust
- Medieval Scottish Man Who Died 600 Years Ago Was Short and Balding, with Bad Teeth and Back Problems
- Missing-Link Atoms Turn Up in Aftermath of Neutron-Star Collision
- What Is a Neutron Star?
October 23
- NASA Teams Up with $100 Million Breakthrough Listen Project to Search for Intelligent Aliens
- World’s Most Expensive Painting, Allegedly by Da Vinci, Could Reappear in the Louvre This Week
- Bringing Ancient Mesopotamia to Life
- Israel Plans to Go Back to the Moon … And Stick the Landing This Time
- Can Gene Therapy Cure HIV? US Gov't. Is Banking $100 Million On It.
- Why Witches Are Usually Women
- The World's Oldest Pearl Was Just Discovered on an Island in the Persian Gulf
- Why Do Some People Need Less Sleep Than Others?
- Mysterious Skeletons of Woman and Girl Discovered in Lost Tower of London Chapel
October 22
- The Scoop on Slime — Hyenas Squeeze It from Their Butts and Parrotfish Sleep in Snot Balloons
- 'Mother's Day' Cupcake Topper Stuck in Man's Throat for a Week
- Giant Plasma Guns Could Be the Answer to Limitless Fusion Power
- Ozone Hole Over Antarctica Shrinks to Record-Small Size
- Humans May Be the Only Intelligent Life in the Universe, If Evolution Has Anything to Say
- Fluorescent, Rainbow-Colored Turtle Embryo Earns Microscope Photo Contest's Top Prize
- How Lumps on a Man's Heels Signaled a Rare Disease in His Brain
- Endangered Antarctic Glacier Could Soon Calve a Massive New Iceberg
October 21
- This Brainless 'Blob' Could Take Over the Paris Zoo, If You Give It Enough Oatmeal
- A Violent Tornado Hit Dallas Last Night, Throwing Debris 3 Miles High
- This Virus May Be Causing Mysterious Polio-Like Illness That's Paralyzing Some Children
- The 1st Human on Mars May Be a Woman, NASA Chief Says
- 'Cursed' Primate Weirdos Have Extra Thumbs. Scientists Didn't Know About Them Until Now.
- Ancient City of 'Mahendraparvata' Hidden Beneath Cambodian Jungle
- Archaeologists Identify 'Lost' Jerusalem Street Built by Pontius Pilate — the Man Who Condemned Jesus to Death
October 20
- Fireball That Flew Over Japan in 2017 Was Tiny Piece of Giant Asteroid that Might One Day Threaten Earth
- Why do pigeons bob their heads?
October 19
- 30 Perfectly Preserved Coffins Holding Ancient Egyptian Priest Mummies Discovered
- In Photos: 'Cachette of the Priests' Discovered in Luxor
- How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?
- Why Don't Mountains Grow Forever?
October 18
- The World's Largest Geode Formed When the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared, New Study Reveals
- NASA Astronauts Make History with 1st All-Female Spacewalk
- Fat Can Build Up in Your Lungs
- Long-lost WWII ship found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean
- This Quiet Fault in Southern California Hadn't Moved in 500 Years. Now It's Slipping.
- The 1st All-Female Spacewalk Happening Today. Here's How to Watch It Live
- The Milky Way Stole Its Cosmic Neighbors from Another Galaxy
- What Is the Cryosphere?
October 17
- What Is Activated Charcoal?
- Vaping Outbreak Death Toll Reaches 33
- This 'Doomsday' Plane Was Designed to Survive a Nuclear Attack. A Bird Just Took It Down.
- Japan Just Imported Ebola to Prep for Possible Olympic Outbreak
- Scorching Hot Take: September Was North America's Warmest Ever
- Virgin Galactic Unveils New Line of Under Armour 'Spacewear' for Space Tourists
- Dead Elephant Found Lying on Top of a Squashed Crocodile. What Happened?
- Ancient 'Cockroaches of the Sea' Fossilized While Playing 'Follow the Leader'
- Underwater Volcano Creates Bubbles More Than a Quarter-Mile Across
- The 15 weirdest galaxies in our universe
- Game Over: These Monkeys Just Crushed Humans on a Computer Game
- An Asteroid-Smashing Star Ground a Giant Rock to Bits and Covered Itself in the Remains
October 16
- Why Did This Man's Taste Buds Disappear?
- The Man Who Found the Titanic Just Ended His Search for Amelia Earhart's Lost Plane
- Watch Rare Footage of Whales Blowing 'Bubble Nets' to Capture Prey in a Vortex of Doom
- What Is a Sea Cucumber?
- How the Nobel Prize-Winning Exoplanet Was Found
- Why Computers Will Never Be Truly Conscious
- 17th-Century Dutch Smugglers' Shipwreck Comes to Life in Virtual Reality
- Exotic 'Fuzzy' Dark Matter May Have Created Giant Filaments Across the Early Universe
October 15
- 4,000-Year-Old Mummies Showed Early Signs of Heart Disease
- Widely Publicized Study on CRISPR Babies' Gene Mutation Now Retracted for Errors
- Scientists Want to Make a 3D Map of the Entire World Before Climate Change Ruins It
- Bloody, Defeated Gladiator Drips Gore in Gruesome Fresco Uncovered at Pompeii
- Why Are Healthy People Dying From Vaping?
- Faster-Than-Light Travel Could Explain Mysterious Signals Beaming Through the Cosmos
- 2nd Interstellar Comet Looks Pretty Normal, Astronomers Say
October 14
- Should You Eat Red Meat?
- Brilliant Midnight Fireball Lights Up Sky Over Northeast China
- Humans Will Never Live on an Exoplanet, Nobel Laureate Says. Here's Why.
- Why Are Some Places Snubbing Columbus Day?
October 13
- See the Full Hunter's Moon Shine Bright Tonight
- Who Owns the Arctic?
October 12
- What's The Biggest Animal That a Snake Can Swallow?
- Why Is the Milky Way Galaxy Getting So Gassy?
October 11
- Bones Filled with Marrow Served as Prehistoric Humans' 'Cans of Soup'
- A Man Heard 'Scratching' Noises in His Ear. It Was a Spider.
- West Nile Virus: Causes, Symptoms and Prevention
- How the Universe Stopped Making Sense
- Why Don't More Women Win Nobels in Science?
- Nobel Peace Prize: 1901-Present
- 2 Mummies Unearthed in Ancient Egyptian Cemetery Where King Tut and Other Royalty Were Buried
- Nobel Prize in Literature: 1901-Present
- Frozen Earth in 'Snowpiercer' Is a Grim (and Possible) Future for Our Warming Planet
October 10
- Da Vinci's Forgotten Design for the Longest Bridge in the World Proves What a Genius He Was
- Vaping Outbreak Death Toll Climbs to More Than 2 Dozen
- What Is Mental Health?
- Pyramid-Size Asteroid to Hurtle Past Earth (Again)
- Why Humans' Extinct 'Hobbit' Relatives Were So Small
- 'Cosmic Mudball Meteorite' Smells Like Brussels Sprouts, Finds New Home at Museum
- The Human Skull Obeys the 'Golden Ratio,' Study Suggests. Anatomists Say That's Ridiculous.
- 'Upside-Down Rivers' of Warm Water Are Carving Antarctica to Pieces
- California Becomes 1st State to Sell HIV Prevention Drugs Without a Prescription
October 9
- Girl Diagnosed with Fatal Brain Disease Gets a Tailor-Made Drug within a Year
- NY Teenager Dies from Vaping-Related Lung Illness, Becoming Outbreak's Youngest Victim
- Move Over, Tardigrades — 'Mold Pigs' Are the New Micro-Beast in Town
- A Second Interstellar Visitor Has Arrived in Our Solar System. This Time, Astronomers Think They Know Where It Came From
- Chernobyl's Control Room Is Now Open to Tourists … for 5 Minutes
- Can Eating a Healthy Diet Really Help Treat Depression?
- Why the Science Community Is Upset About Who Won a Nobel — and Who Didn't
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 1901-Present
- Tiny, One-of-a-Kind Diamond Is Trapped ... Inside Another Diamond
- Lost Version of '50 Shades' of Medieval Erotica Is Rediscovered
- 3 Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Developing the Lithium-Ion Battery
- What Is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome?
October 8
- Oobleck's Weird Properties Demystified
- Meat Grown in Space for the First Time Ever
- Not Brain Dead: Patient Trapped in Vegetative State by Unethical Doctors
- Photos: Hidden Ruins of an Old Scottish Whisky Distillery
- Hidden Scottish Ruins May Have Been Illegal Whisky Stills, Says Archaeologist
- Nobel Prize in Physics Honors Scientists Who Transformed Our Ideas About the Cosmos
October 7
- This Microbe Is Spreading Antibiotic Resistance to Other Bacteria
- Useless Self-Help Guide Offers Ludicrous Solutions to Everyday Problems
- Ancient Megalopolis Uncovered in Israel Was the 'New York City' of Its Time Period
- Early Earthlings May Have Watched the Galaxy's Center Explode 3.5 Million Years Ago
- Elon Musk Doesn't Know Where the Aliens Are (So, Stop Asking)
- Trio Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine for Figuring Out 'One of Life's Most Essential Adaptive Processes'
- Ancient 'Curse of the Dancer' Deciphered, Revealing Backstabbing Rivals
- Scientists Implant False Memories into Bird Brains
October 6
- How Do Compasses Tell Which Way Is North at the South Pole?
- Photos of the Pika, North America's Cutest Mammal
October 5
- Why NASA's Annoyed About Elon Musk's Giant Rocket
- Can You Count Past Infinity?
October 4
- Earth's Magnetic Poles Can Flip Much More Often Than Anyone Thought
- Twin Baby Stars Caught Feeding from Their Mother, a Twisted 'Pretzel' of Interstellar Dust
- The 1st All-Female Spacewalk Is Back On, After Medium-Size Spacesuits Acquired
- Depressing Image Shows Dead Baby Sea Turtle Found with 104 Pieces of Plastic in Its Belly
- How Common Are Psychotic Experiences?
- More Than 100 People Got Legionnaires' at a State Fair. Hot Tubs May Be to Blame.
- This Bizarre, Eel-Like Shark Prowled the Oceans 350 Million Years Ago
- 'Lucy in the Sky' Review: Natalie Portman Stars in an Astronaut Love Triangle Inspired by Reality
- Betta Fish: The Dazzling Siamese Fighting Fish
- Cosmic Record Holders: The 12 Biggest Objects in the Universe
- 2,000 Atoms Exist in Two Places at Once in Unprecedented Quantum Experiment
October 3
- Vaping Outbreak Surpasses 1,000 Cases. And It's Not Slowing Down.
- Eastern Equine Encephalitis: Causes, Symptoms and Prevention
- First-Ever Image of the 'Cosmic Web' Reveals the Gassy Highway That Connects the Universe
- 'Damage Suppressor' Protein Protects Adorable Tardigrades ... and Human Cells, Too
- Could Elon Musk's Starship Threaten Alien Life?
- Physicists Search Universe for Evidence That a Fundamental Force of Nature Is Out of Whack
- Falling Fireballs Crashed in Chile Last Week. They Weren't Meteorites, Experts Say.
October 2
- Bernie Sanders Had Two Stents Put In. Is It Serious?
- Toxic Chemical Fumes May Be Causing Mysterious Vaping Illnesses
- Ancient Egyptian Temple from Reign of King Ptolemy IV Unearthed Along Nile River
- Metals in Baby Teeth Could Help Reveal What Causes Autism, ADHD
- The Andromeda Galaxy Has Been Devouring Other Galaxies Since It Was a Baby (And Earth Is Next)
- Utah Runners' 'Freak Accident' with Charging Bison Explained
- Black Holes As We Know Them May Not Exist
October 1
- Is Our Solar System's Mysterious 'Planet 9' Really a Grapefruit-Size Black Hole?
- 'Loose Tooth' Iceberg Calves Off East Antarctica in Surprising Spot
- From Brain Control to Multiverses, 'Rick and Morty' Gets Some Science Right
- The four fundamental forces of nature
- Humans Are Disturbing Earth's Carbon Cycle More Than the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Did
- Tiny 'Lizard-Like' Muscles Found in Developing Embryos Vanish Before Birth
- Why You Shouldn't Worry About China’s New 'Hypersonic' Nuclear Death Machine
- Why Was 'Oumuamua So Weird? New Research Tries to Track Its Origins.
- Could the Moon Act As a Fishing Net for Extraterrestrial Life?
- You May Not Have to Cut Back on Red Meat After All, Controversial New Guidelines Say