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April 2025

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April 13
- What is the 'Eye of Horus' and why is it found in so many ancient Egyptian burials?
- Space photo of the week: Mars rises over the moon's horizon at the best possible time
- Do animals have orgasms?
April 12
- Dracula parrot: The goth bird whose piercing screams echo through New Guinea forests
- What do black boxes on planes actually record?
- Science news this week: Controversy around the dire wolf 'de-extinctions' and a 3D hologram breakthrough
April 11
- Wilkes Land crater: The giant hole in East Antarctica's gravitational field likely caused by a meteorite
April 9
- Diagnostic dilemma: A scientist caught plague from bacteria thought to be 'noninfectious'
April 8
- Watch the moon's shadow race across US on first anniversary of historic total solar eclipse — Earth from space
April 7
- Pfyn culture flint tool: World's oldest known 'Swiss Army' knife
- Why do snakes shed their skin?
April 6
- Space photo of the week: The chaotic heart of the Milky Way like you've never seen it before
- What was the first alphabet in the world?
April 5
- Northern giant mouse lemur: The bug-eyed fluff ball with the biggest testicles of all known primates
- Why do kangaroos have 3 vaginas?
April 4
- Quantum computers will be a dream come true for hackers, risking everything from military secrets to bank information. Can we stop them?
April 2
- How do smart scales measure body composition, and how accurate are they?
- Diagnostic dilemma: A man's deadly infection was triggered by a probiotic supplement
April 1
- Giant, near-perfect cloud ring appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — Earth from space