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May 31
- 'Wandering meatloaf' creature has teeth of iron
- Giant tortoise thought extinct for a century discovered on Galapagos island
- Why do mosquitoes buzz in our ears?
- Pyramid-shaped mound holding 30 corpses may be world's oldest war monument
- Scientists show how LSD blows open the doors of perception
- Wild Tasmanian devils born on mainland Australia for 1st time in 3,000 years
May 30
- What's the biggest freshwater fish in the world?
- NASA's Curiosity rover spots strange, colorful clouds on Mars
- 'Magic' jar holding dismembered chicken used as a curse in ancient Athens
May 29
- Do animals hug each other?
- Arrowhead from biblical battle discovered in Goliath's hometown
May 28
- Dark matter map reveals new filaments connecting galaxies
- Human life span may have an 'absolute limit' of 150 years
- 1947 'alien autopsy' film frame is up for auction as an NFT
- These worker ants drag their queens to far-off bachelor pads to mate
- Aboriginal memory technique may work better than Sherlock's 'memory palace'
May 27
- Cancer-causing chemical found in 78 sunscreen products
- Glow-in-the-dark baby squid and tardigrades to be blasted into space
- Diabetes vaccine shows promise for some patients in early trial
- Ancient Judeans ate non-kosher fish, archaeologists find
- Fluffy ball of darkinos could be lurking at the center of the Milky Way
- Huge egg from extinct dwarf emu found in sand dune
- Oldest gold artifact in southwest Germany found
May 26
- Influential panel recommends removing '14-day rule' on lab-grown embryos
- Satellites may have been underestimating the planet's warming for decades
- Handwritten Einstein letter containing famous E=mc2 equation sells for $1.2 million
- Blood Supermoon Lunar Eclipse wows skywatchers around the world (photos)
- 1918 flu mutated to become deadlier in later waves, century-old lungs reveal
- Honeybee 'Trojan horse' virus relies on bees' habit of cannibalizing their young
- $1.2 million worth of rare, stolen cactuses confiscated and returned to Chile
- Great white shark population off California's coast is growing
- 6 sacrificial pits filled with artifacts reveal rituals of ancient Chinese kingdom
- How much energy can be created at one time?
- ER visits declined during pandemic. But that wasn't a bad thing, study suggests.
- Madagascar may be a secret stronghold for 'living fossil' fish
May 25
- How to watch the Super Flower Blood Moon Eclipse online
- Low testosterone in men linked to more severe COVID-19
- New study turns our understanding of ice upside down
- A dozen ultra-high-energy particle accelerators discovered in the Milky Way
- Mary, Queen of Scots' rosary beads stolen in English castle heist
- Super Flower Blood Moon eclipse: How to watch early Wednesday morning
- Where's Wally? Iceberg-hopping walrus is now 2,600 miles from home
- Spherical UFO plunges into the ocean in US Navy footage
- Most kids with inflammatory COVID-19 syndrome are recovered by 6 months
- Flowers use the smell of death to lure and imprison coffin flies
May 24
- Genes from algae helped a blind man recover some of his vision
- Wuhan lab workers were sick in November 2019, intelligence suggests
- Oldest spiral galaxy in the universe captured in fuzzy photo
- Dead baby orca reveals harmful chemical levels in killer whales
- Mushrooms on Mars? 5 unproven claims that alien life exists
- Universal coronavirus vaccine is highly effective in monkeys
- Why do we grow more hair on our heads than on our bodies?
- US investigating handful of myocarditis cases following COVID-19 vaccination
- Curiosity rover on Mars spotted from space as it climbs 'Mont Mercou'
- Was Einstein wrong? Why some astrophysicists are questioning the theory of space-time
- Huge cemetery with at least 250 rock-cut tombs discovered in Egypt
- 1st measurement of a neutron 'skin' is unlocking the secrets of exploded stars
May 23
- Congo's Mount Nyiragongo volcano blows its top, sending thousands fleeing across border
- Forest ranger stumbles onto garden of ancient beasts in California foothills
- What determines a person's height?
May 22
- Some of the universe's stars have gone missing. But where did they go?
- Do goldfish really have a 3-second memory?
- Some Brood X cicadas will be sex-crazed zombies with disintegrating butts
May 21
- New coronavirus found, and it jumped from dogs to people
- Why does the moon turn red during a total lunar eclipse?
- Scientists just dug the deepest ocean hole in history
- Human-like robot creates creepy self-portraits
- Scientists find 'missing link' behind first human languages
- Total lunar eclipse this Wednesday will make supermoon turn blood red
- Watch this stunning new simulation of a star being born
- Florida airport monkeys are the descendants of zoo escapees
- How a weird theory of gravity could break cause-and-effect
May 20
- Jane Goodall says humanity's 'disrespect of the natural world' brought on the pandemic
- Brace yourself for an 'above normal' hurricane season in 2021, NOAA predicts
- Bizarre, polka-dotted blob washes ashore in North Carolina
- Finding those delightful Brood X cicadas: Here's how
- MLK and Malcolm X were more alike than we thought. Here's why.
- World's first nuclear bomb test created rare, otherworldly crystal
- Tiny 'hearts' self-assemble in lab dishes and even beat like the real thing
- Too much TV may be bad for your long-term brain health
- China unveils 1st Mars photos from Zhurong rover
- Duke of Brittany hid image of dead wife in 15th-century prayer book
- Tardigrades can survive being shot out of a high-speed gun
- Can the universe learn?
May 19
- 'Black fungus' treatment runs short in India as new cases of infection emerge
- World's largest iceberg breaks off of Antarctica
- Hindenburg disaster's earliest moments captured in newly released footage
- UFO answers coming soon? The Pentagon to report on mysterious sightings.
- Iconic 'Darwin's Arch' in the Galapagos has crashed into the sea
- Solar Orbiter captures its 1st video of eruption on the sun
- Roman-era skeleton found near Mount Vesuvius may be from famous rescue mission
- This optical illusion tricks you into seeing different colors. How does it work?
- 4.5 billion-year-old particles from the sun lurk in Earth's core and mantle
- 'Zombie wildfires' that smoldered beneath the snow in Siberia are raging again
- Giant figure etched into English hillside could be 1,000-year-old portrait of a naked god
May 18
- US Space Force blasts missile-warning satellite into orbit around Earth
- Ecuadorian shrunken head used in 1979 movie 'Wise Blood' was real, experts say
- Albert Einstein's lost letter to British engineer suggests 'unknown physics' in animal behavior
- World's oldest cave art, including famous hand stencils, being erased by climate change
- Milky Way lights up Guiana spaceport in stunning time-lapse video
- 'Library of the Great Silence' invites E.T. to share long-term survival strategies
- How much time does humanity have left?
- Strange single-celled life-form has a truly bizarre genome
- Rare silver coin portraying King Charles I discovered in a field in Maryland
- Mysterious neurological symptoms are appearing in US diplomats and spies around the world
May 17
- Deep-sea fish with lightbulb on its head mysteriously washes ashore in California
- Zombie mink slaughtered due to coronavirus are 'rising' from mass graves
- Plate tectonics are 3.6 billion years old, oldest minerals on Earth reveal
- Grotesque 'good luck' lamp from Roman Jerusalem is missing half its face
- More accurate clocks may add more disorder to the universe, scientists say
- Male parasitic wasp can sniff out female mates ready to burst from their hosts
- Do animals laugh?
- Weird chromosome loss found in these creeping voles
- Space launch traffic may influence mysterious night-shining clouds in Earth's atmosphere
- NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has found some mysterious rocks (photos)
- Mars may still be volcanically active, study finds
- Did these crested dinosaurs talk to each other with low-pitched sounds?
- Rarely seen supersized moth with 10-inch wingspan found at Australian school
May 16
- Why is the King James Bible so popular?
- Prominent scientists call for more investigation into origins of coronavirus
May 15
- China's Yutu 2 rover about to 'wake up' on the far side of the moon
- Who built the Egyptian pyramids?
- Distant star drowns its partner in gas, forming gorgeous 'Necklace Nebula'
- Scientist find a loophole in Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
- China's 1st Mars rover 'Zhurong' lands on the Red Planet
May 14
- After a Chinese zoo covered up a leopard escape, 100 chickens are searching for the big cat
- Astronauts may finally start cleaning their space underwear (with microbes)
- Rare plutonium from space found in deep-sea crust
- This chain reaction could explain rare blood clots linked to some COVID-19 vaccines
- Herodotus lied about famous Greek battle against Carthage, new study finds
- Chernobyl's nuclear fuel is 'smoldering' again and could explode
- Condors won't stop visiting (and trashing) this California woman's house. Here's why.
- Pigs can breathe through their butts. Can humans?
May 12
- China launches more classified Yaogan satellites into orbit
- 40 tombs with humans buried in pots discovered in Corsica
- A mysterious 'hum' vibrates interstellar space. Voyager 1 has a recording of it.
- 'Folded' iron sword found in a Roman soldier's grave was part of a pagan ritual
- 7-foot 'monster' sturgeon found in Detroit River could be over 100 years old
- Is war in space inevitable?
- Cats love boxes so much they'll even sit in fake ones
May 11
- Woman gets 6 doses of COVID-19 vaccine at once
- Da Vinci ‘Head of a Bear’ could sell for over $16 million at upcoming auction
- See how the brain wobbles with each heartbeat in incredible new videos
- Church of the Holy Sepulchre's mysterious 'graffiti' crosses may not be what they seem
- Alcohol made from radioactive Chernobyl apples seized by Ukraine government
- Hapless star 'spaghettified' by black hole. And astronomers capture the gory show in a first.
- Baby minke whale euthanized after getting trapped in Thames River
- Astronomers keep finding mysterious circular rings in the sky and don't know how to explain them
- Medieval shrine gets stone carving of face wearing a COVID-19 mask
May 10
- FDA okays emergency use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for young teens
- SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites in record 10th liftoff (and landing) of reused rocket
- Never-ending detonations could blast hypersonic craft into space
- Potentially fatal 'black fungus' infections on the rise in India's COVID-19 patients
- Wartime submarine 'HMS Urge' identified, quashing conspiracy theories of sub's secret mission
- Earthquake early warning system uses AI to predict shaking
- A hidden continent birthed a new subduction zone near New Zealand
- 'Imaginary' numbers are real (sort of)
- Meet the marine worm with 100 butts that can each grow eyes and a brain
- Why does 'emotional pain' hurt?
- All hail 'Emperor Dumbo,' the newest species of deep-dwelling octopus
May 9
- Huge Chinese rocket booster falls to Earth over Arabian Peninsula
- Do other animals get heart attacks?
May 8
- You can see the International Space Station (and China's Tianhe, too) in the night sky this weekend
- Jurassic squid got murdered mid-meal, leaving this epic fossil behind
- What does it take to become an astronaut?
May 7
- Giant sequoia tree still smoldering 9 months after devastating California wildfires
- Gargantuan Chinese rocket core will slam through the atmosphere on Saturday, officials predict
- Pfizer/BioNTech take first step toward full approval for COVID-19 vaccine
- Was a humongous Cascadia earthquake just one of many?
- No, men don't learn toxic masculinity from their fathers
- Smithsonian inspects first US astronaut's space capsule, suit 60 years on
- Is there a pattern to the universe?
- Tiny dinosaur that looked like an owl hunted like one, too
May 6
- First remains from doomed 19th-century Arctic expedition identified
- Stunning hoard of Bronze Age jewelry discovered by local hiker in Sweden
- Fossil 'balls' are 1 billion years old and could be Earth's oldest known multicellular life
- First bottle of wine 'aged in space' is for sale at Christie’s
May 5
- First genetically modified mosquitoes released in US
- Ancient turtle with a frog face sucked down its prey millions of years ago
- Doctors successfully treat rare J&J blood clot, case report shows
- What's the minimum number of people needed to survive an apocalypse?
- Oldest deliberate burial of a human in Africa discovered
- Decapitated worms 'see' with their headless bodies
- Physicists get close to taming the chaos of the 'three-body problem'
- Divers discover massive thigh bone from Ice Age mammoth in Florida river
- MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD one step closer to FDA approval
- Eating too much salt could mess with your immune cells
- US birth rate plunged in 2020
May 4
- Young green turtles tracked to 'lost years' hideaway
- This Muppet-faced frogmouth is the 'most Instagrammable bird' on Earth
- King Solomon's mines in Spain? Not likely, experts say.
- Hobbits and other early humans not 'destructive agents' of extinction, scientists find
- 8 extremely rare 'millisecond pulsars' discovered inside globular clusters
- Watch a black hole tear a star to bits in epic new animation
- Misplaced Viking noble's bones vanished decades ago, finally found in museum collection
- Astronomers chart invisible ocean of dark matter swirling outside the Milky Way
- Why do nuts and grains go bad?
May 3
- Massive Chinese rocket core to make uncontrolled reentry over Earth in coming days
- Mother rejoices after her child's successful spina bifida surgery in the womb
- Rome's Colosseum, site of violent gladiator battles, to get new high-tech floor
- Possible new type of glacier just discovered on Mars
- World's 1st multinode quantum network is a breakthrough for the quantum internet
- Lightest-known form of uranium created
- How many bubbles are in a glass of beer?
May 2
- Do snakes have ears?
May 1
- Which animal has the stretchiest mouth?