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- June 30
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- Many Americans with COVID-19 don't know how they got infected, survey suggests
- China warned of mysterious virus 6 months ago. Here’s where the world is at now.
- Visualization shows exactly how face masks stop COVID-19 transmission
- How will astronauts poop on the moon? New NASA challenge calls for innovative ideas.
- A 'monster' star 2 million times brighter than the sun disappears without a trace
- June 29
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- 'Don't talk': How to stay safe from COVID-19 inside elevators
- Racial bias is baked into algorithms doctors use to guide treatment
- 400-mile-long lightning bolt over Brazil is biggest in recorded history
- 'Godzilla' dust plume will bring technicolor sunsets
- Scientists spot flash of light from colliding black holes. But how?
- Hey guys: Stop snuggling with your cats (at least in photos) if you want a date
- Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' 37: Mysterious Mythical Creatures
- June 28
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- June 26
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- Dust plume bigger than Texas crashes into the US
- US may turn to more 'pooled testing' as COVID-19 spreads
- US breaks record for new COVID-19 cases. How to tell where your state is headed.
- Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' special report: Coronavirus (June 25)
- Alaskan volcano sealed the fate of the Roman Republic, led to rise of the Empire
- June 25
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- Pregnancy may make COVID-19 more severe, new study suggests
- Incredible time-lapse video shows 10 years of the sun's history in 6 minutes
- This Stone Age man's jawless skull was found on a spike. Here's what he looked like.
- Stone Age man, whose skull was found on a spike, gets facial recreation (photos)
- NASA names headquarters building for 'hidden figure' Mary Jackson
- 'Augie' breaks record as world's oldest golden retriever at age 20
- First evidence that ancient humans ate snakes and lizards is unearthed in Israel
- How to create a low-risk quarantine bubble
- June 24
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- Pentagon should release UFO report, Senate intelligence committee argues
- Hope diamond formed stunningly close to Earth's core
- What have protests taught us about the coronavirus?
- Strange space signal could come from a 'mystery object'
- Lost continent of Zealandia mapped in unprecedented detail
- 60 college students caught COVID-19 on a spring break trip to Mexico
- Famous 'immaculate conception' painting is unrecognizable after art restoration failure
- The world's biggest dust bunny is crossing the Atlantic Ocean right now
- June 23
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- One company's hand sanitizer products contain potentially deadly substance, FDA warns
- Powerful 7.4 earthquake rocks southern Mexico, killing 1
- Biggest prehistoric monument in UK discovered just a stone's throw away from Stonehenge
- China launches final Beidou satellite to complete GPS-like navigation system
- Oldest Viking settlement possibly unearthed in Iceland
- 'Time travel' to the 1890s in AI-remastered silent movies that look like HD video
- June 22
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- Siberian town records 100 degree F day — the hottest in Arctic history
- This man can't see numbers. But his brain can.
- Nonbinary astronomers need better support from their field, study finds
- Space Perspective wants to take tourists on balloon rides to the stratosphere
- Your risk of severe COVID-19 may be affected by blood type, new genetic analysis suggests
- Why some physicists really think there's a 'mirror universe' hiding in space-time
- June 21
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- June 19
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- An annular solar eclipse is happening on the summer solstice. (But no, it’s not the end of days.)
- Coronavirus devastates indigenous tribes in the Brazilian Amazon
- Does Planet Nine really exist?
- Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' special report: Coronavirus (June 18)
- Amazing photos show 463-pound gorilla being CT scanned
- June 18
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- Tainted sexual enhancement supplements linked with dangerously low blood sugar in 17 men
- Person who had measles 100 years ago helps scientists trace origins of virus
- 'It's not ours': Government denies knowledge of strange 'UFO' over Japanese city
- Ancient Antarctic sea monster may have laid this football-size egg
- Scientists create a pattern so complicated it's impossible to duplicate
- Famous Irish tomb yields a surprise — a king born of brother-sister incest
- The monstrous 'blobs' near Earth's core may be even bigger than we thought
- 'Exploding Whale Memorial Park' honors whale that went out with a bang
- Massive underwater rivers were discovered off the coast of Australia
- June 17
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- Stunningly intact giant squid washes ashore in South Africa
- Astronomers solve whirling mystery around nearby black hole
- BREAKING: Physicists announce first direct evidence for 'axions'
- Weird green glow spotted in atmosphere of Mars
- New robot 'explorer' dog will only set you back 63 stimulus checks
- As COVID-19 spikes, will some states shut down again?
- June 16
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- London's 'oldest theater,' built just 3 years after Shakespeare's birth, discovered
- 1 in 5 people across the globe are at risk of developing severe COVID-19
- Ancient Cambrian shrimp with dozens of dagger legs looked unlike anything alive today
- Cheap steroid reduces death in severe COVID-19, researchers say. But they haven’t released the data.
- Mysterious blue fireball streaks above Western Australia, puzzling astronomers
- Subsurface vortexes may have created Saturn's mysterious hexagon
- Are there really 36 alien civilizations out there? Well, maybe.
- Weirdly-shaped wormholes might work better than spherical ones
- June 15
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- Einstein's core idea about gravity just passed an extreme, whirling test in deep space
- SpaceX's predawn Starlink satellite launch looks simply stunning in these Twitter photos
- Hidden temple in a buried Roman city discovered by ground-penetrating radar
- Live Science podcast "Life's Little Mysteries" 34: Mysterious Universe
- June 14
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- June 12
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- Watch a rocket launch triple header from SpaceX, Rocket Lab and Japan tonight. Here's how.
- How to stay safe at a cookout, the library, restaurants during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Ancient crocodile walked on two legs
- When did the 'Dark Ages of the Universe' end? This rare molecule holds the answer.
- Exotic, fifth state of matter created on the space station
- Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' special report: Coronavirus (June 11)
- Rare quadruplet 'top quarks' created at world's largest atom smasher
- Anesthesia may work by targeting the fat in our brains
- Ancient Roman dice unearthed in cremation pit in Norway
- June 11
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- Toilet flushes may spread Legionnaires' disease
- U.S. woman with COVID-19 receives double-lung transplant in a first
- This underwater Italian 'ghost town' could reappear on land next year
- Triassic sea monster was about to birth three little monsters before she died
- Brilliant fireball lights up skies over Tennessee (video)
- Scientists create mini-supernova shock waves on Earth
- A few superspreaders transmit the majority of coronavirus cases
- Here's exactly how T. rex grew from a slender tot into a massive carnivore
- June 10
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- June 8
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- What's causing a spooky hum to fill parts of San Francisco?
- Great white sharks are bottom-feeders, at least when they're little
- Dear attorney general: Pepper spray is a chemical irritant. So are pepper balls.
- Why these rattlesnakes are declining at an alarming rate
- Snake eels stage stomach-bursting escape after being eaten (and then things get really nasty)
- Why a physicist wants to build a particle collider on the moon
- Under the sea: 50 breathtaking images from our oceans
- Physicists entangle 15 trillion hot atoms
- June 6
- June 5
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- Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' special report: Coronavirus (June 4)
- Satellites spot major oil spill in the Arctic Circle (photos)
- Sweden's lax COVID-19 response caused too many deaths, country's top epidemiologist says
- Way too many Americans have gargled with bleach, sprayed their bodies with disinfectants to prevent COVID-19
- These gorgeous, intricate sea creatures are actually giant blobs of snot
- Elephant in India dies after possibly eating fruit stuffed with explosives
- Trump campaign pulls 'Make Space Great Again' video that may have violated NASA regulations
- Strawberry Moon lunar eclipse of 2020 occurs today. Here's what to expect.
- Russia declares emergency after 22,000 tons of oil spill in the Arctic Circle
- June 4
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- Prominent study showing harm from hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 patients is retracted
- Mars once had rings and a much bigger moon, new evidence suggests
- How to actually stop police brutality, according to science
- Oldest and largest Maya structure on record discovered in southern Mexico
- What is tear gas?
- Earth from space: 'Overview effect' could help troubled country, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says
- 13 significant protests that changed the course of history
- June 3
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- Hydroxychloroquine doesn't prevent people from catching COVID-19, study finds
- #BlackBirdersWeek co-founders talk nature and race
- How does ketamine work as an antidepressant? It’s complicated.
- Jane Goodall: Humanity is doomed if we don't change after this pandemic
- SpaceX rocket returns to shore after historic astronaut launch (photos)
- You attended a protest during a pandemic. Now what?
- Best-preserved dinosaur stomach ever found reveals 'sleeping dragon's' last meal
- Sexy, stinky corpse plant blooms to life on livestream (watch here)
- Remnant of world's largest 'lava lamp blob' found off New Zealand coast
- June 2
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- Ancient DNA could reveal full stories on the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Face masks may reduce COVID-19 spread by 85%, WHO-backed study suggests
- The fury in US cities is rooted in a long history of racist policing, violence and inequality
- Cambrian fossils show oldest example of parasites in action
- Do face masks really reduce coronavirus spread?
- Get ready for the full 'strawberry' moon on Friday
- June 1
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- Half the matter in the universe was missing. Scientists just found it hiding in the cosmos.
- Scientists capture the world's deepest octopus on video. And it's adorable.
- Nazi diary reveals secret location of WWII treasure under a palace in Poland
- SpaceX 'stowaway' revealed by crew as sons' dinosaur toy 'Tremor'
- Here's how plants became meat eaters
- Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' 31: Mysterious sneezing