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- July 31
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- 260 kids and teens infected with COVID-19 at Georgia sleepaway camp
- Sperm don't swim anything like we thought they did, new study finds
- COVID-19 linked to heart damage in healthy people, small study suggests
- First COVID-19 double-lung transplant patient goes home
- Ancestors of coronavirus have been hiding out in bats for decades, ready to infect humans
- Great white fatally attacks woman in Maine. How common is this?
- 3,000-year-old head may be face of God
- Mind-controlling fungus makes zombie cicadas lure other cicadas to a zombie fate
- Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' special report: Coronavirus (July 30)
- July 30
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- NASA: Mars rover Perseverance in 'safe mode' after launch, but should recover
- Why NASA's Mars rover Perseverance will use nuclear power to stay warm
- Returned chunk of Stonehenge solves long-standing monument mystery
- Sleeping microbes wake up after 100 million years buried under the seafloor
- Liftoff! NASA's Perseverance rover is headed to Mars
- July 29
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- Ruthless Australian 'assassin flies' named for Thor, Deadpool — and Stan Lee
- Spooky, soul-piercing 'Jesus Lamb' face is exactly what its original artists intended
- Dozens of scientists and others took a DIY COVID-19 vaccine with no proof that it works
- Mars Perseverance launches on Thursday. Here's how to watch.
- Watch live: NASA launches Mars Perseverance rover to the Red Planet
- July 28
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- XPrize launches $5 million competition for better COVID-19 tests
- Dozens of hand sanitizers contain a toxic ingredient. How do you know yours is safe?
- Pentagon's secret, defunct UFO-hunting program may still exist
- How NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will get to the Red Planet
- Ornament hook stuck in infant's throat for months led to seizures, brain lesions
- July 27
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- A Martian meteorite is going home, in NASA's Perseverance mission launch
- Late-stage coronavirus vaccine trial starts today in the US
- What happens when the ICU is full?
- NASA camera spots China's Tianwen-1 Mars spacecraft speeding away from Earth
- Where is Cleopatra's tomb?
- Adorable, bug-size sunfish babies grow up to be giant 'swimming heads'
- Super space sunblock made from skin pigment could shield astronauts from radiation
- Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' 43: Mysterious Evolution
- July 26
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- July 24
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- SpaceX satellites keep wrecking images of comet NEOWISE
- 1 in 4 young adults with COVID-19 still have symptoms weeks later
- COVID-19 antibodies may fade, but vaccine hopes have not
- Jewish doctors in Nazi-occupied Poland stopped an epidemic in its tracks. Here’s how.
- Little ancient Egyptian mummies hold surprises inside … and they aren't human
- Multiplanet system around sunlike star photographed for 1st time ever
- Abandon ship! 18th-century pirate Blackbeard deliberately grounded his leaky boat
- Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' special report: Coronavirus (July 23)
- July 23
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- Breastfeeding appears safe for mothers with COVID-19, if they take precautions
- First underwater methane leak discovered near Antarctica
- Russia just tested anti-satellite space weapon, US claims
- Hummingbird-size dinosaur may actually be a lizard
- Mysterious force destroys monster black hole's ring of plasma
- China launches ambitious Tianwen-1 Mars rover mission
- Are Earth's magnetic poles about to swap places? Strange anomaly gives clues.
- July 22
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- Woman's migraine medication caused a bizarre 'medieval' disease
- 'Screaming mummy' may have died of a heart attack, researchers say
- Strange, spiral bee combs look like fantastical crystal palaces. Now we know why.
- First Americans may have arrived to the continent 30,000 years ago
- Meteors more massive than the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck Earth 800 million years ago
- Random testing in Indiana shows COVID-19 is 6 times deadlier than flu
- Powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes off Alaska coast
- July 21
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- Should schools reopen amid the pandemic?
- Scientists unveil largest 3D map of the universe ever
- Here's why the United Arab Emirates launched a mission to Mars
- Why hasn't contact tracing managed to slow the massive surge of coronavirus in the US?
- Ancient Greeks may have built 'disability ramps' on some temples
- Comet NEOWISE: 10 big questions (and answers) about the icy wanderer
- Picasso painting found hidden beneath his famous 'Still Life'
- Archaeologists discover palace where Aztec emperor was killed
- July 20
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- Scientists accidentally create 'impossible' hybrid fish
- Oxford vaccine prompts immune response, shows promise in early results
- Steaming river of black sludge floods through Arizona
- Iron age 'murder' victim unearthed outside of London
- Mathematician predicted violent upheaval in 2020 all the way back in 2012
- July 19
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- July 17
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- 28 'cocooned' black holes found hiding in plain sight
- Oldest surviving light reveals the universe's true age
- Weird, Z-shaped faults could trigger a large earthquake on California's San Andreas Fault
- CDC no longer in charge of the nation's COVID-19 data. Health experts are concerned.
- Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' special report: Coronavirus (July 16)
- Weird country-size 'campfires' on the sun revealed in closest-ever photos
- Don't miss Comet NEOWISE in the evening sky now. It won't be back for 6,800 years.
- July 16
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- Contact tracing won't curb COVID-19 spread if testing is too slow
- Tubby 'tardigrade' crawls across sun's surface in spectacular images
- A never-before-seen 'partial supernova' sent this star’s corpse skidding across the galaxy
- Rare ghostly particles produced inside the sun just detected under a mountain in Italy
- Lizards with multiple tails are more common than anyone knew
- July 15
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- Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine shows promise in first published results
- RIP, smooth handfish. You were weird, and now you’re extinct.
- Foreign dynasty's rise to power in ancient Egypt was an inside job
- US launches 4 secret spy satellites to orbit
- The moon is 85 million years younger than previously thought
- Woman's sore throat was really a worm living in her tonsil
- COVID-19 vaccines are on the fast-track to approval. How will we know they're safe?
- July 14
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- Origin of 'Mirach's Ghost' perplexes black hole scientists
- Hairstylists with COVID-19 didn't infect any of their 139 clients. Face masks may be why.
- 14 coronavirus myths busted by science
- 'Geyser' aurora and 'cosmic bat' nebula shortlisted for astronomy photo prize
- Gorgeous images of Australian 'rainbow' bees will blow your mind
- 'Tiny bug slayer' relative of dinosaurs and pterosaurs would have fit in the palm of your hand
- July 13
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- Antique vampire-slaying kit up for auction. Bible, crucifix and pistol included.
- What's the most amazing thing about the universe?
- Lumpy flint figurines may be some of the earliest depictions of real people
- The universe's clock might have bigger ticks than we imagine
- Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' 40: Mysterious Archaeology
- July 12
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- July 10
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- Heartburn medication tied to higher COVID-19 risk — but don’t panic
- Cases of broken heart syndrome increase amid pandemic stress
- Deadly 'unknown pneumonia' outbreak in Kazakhstan is probably undiagnosed COVID-19
- A new coronavirus mutation is taking over the world. Here's what that means.
- This parrot beat 21 Harvard students in a classic memory game
- Nikola Tesla vs. Thomas Edison: Who was the better inventor?
- Coronavirus hijacks cells, forces them to grow tentacles, then invades others
- Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' special report: Coronavirus (July 9)
- Satellite sees 'Godzilla' dust plume sweep across the Atlantic Ocean
- Penguins shoot 'poop bombs' more than 4 feet, incredibly important study finds
- Astronomers discover South Pole Wall, a gigantic structure stretching 1.4 billion light-years across
- July 9
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- WHO releases new COVID-19 guidance on airborne transmission, but it doesn't change much
- Polynesians and Native Americans paired up 800 years ago, DNA reveals
- The electric hum of life may have originated with primordial lightning
- Physicists discover new, exotic flavor of tetraquark
- Pink 'watermelon snow' threatens major Italian glacier
- Why are scientists trying to manufacture organs in space?
- How hand sanitizer caused a man's unusual 'hangover'
- July 8
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- Earth's magnetic field changes 10 times faster than once thought
- A shot taken every 2 months could prevent HIV
- 4 mysterious objects spotted in deep space are unlike anything ever seen
- Older people don't take more precautions against coronavirus
- SpaceX to launch Starlink and BlackSky satellites into orbit today. Here's how to watch live.
- COVID-19 is tied to deadly brain inflammation in some patients
- Antibody cocktail to prevent and treat COVID-19 enters late-stage trials
- July 7
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- Is the coronavirus airborne? Evidence is scant, infectious disease experts say
- The US formally announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization
- Ice age mining camp found 'frozen in time' in underwater Mexican cave
- 350 elephants drop dead in Botswana, some walking in circles before doing face-plants
- Bubonic plague case confirmed in China's Inner Mongolia
- How the brain builds a sense of self
- July 6
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- July 2
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- How to watch the 'Independence Day' lunar eclipse
- Looted skulls and human remains are being sold in black markets on Facebook
- Hand sanitizer and fireworks don't mix, experts warn
- Betelgeuse's weird dimming caused by gigantic starspots
- How a hidden ocean circulates beneath the Antarctic ice
- Genes from 'culturally extinct' Indigenous group discovered in unsuspecting Tennessee man
- Lab tech develops fatal brain condition after accident with 'mad cow disease' samples
- July 1
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- New flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in pigs. Here's what that means.
- In 'Hamilton', Angelica Schuyler's husband is called 'not a lot of fun.' Here's his real story.
- Did Leonardo da Vinci's 'quick eye' help him capture Mona Lisa's fleeting smile?
- Scientists finally solve the mystery behind a 100-year-old chemistry experiment
- No one knows why decapitated sea lions keep turning up in Vancouver Island
