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July 31
- What's happening inside Simone Biles' brain when the 'twisties' set in?
- What's the hottest temperature the human body can endure?
July 30
- How 350 vaccinated people caught COVID-19 in huge Cape Cod outbreak
- 'The war has changed,' against new delta variant, internal CDC presentation says
- Cathedral's stained-glass windows 'witnessed' medieval murder of Archbishop of Canterbury
- Buried 'lakes' on Mars may just be frozen clay
- Rocket Lab is back in business, with launch of US military satellite
- Beat-up duck-billed dinosaur had cracked tailbones and 'cauliflower' tumor. But it just wouldn't die.
- Scientists transform water into shiny, golden metal
- People who live to 100 have unique gut bacteria signatures
July 29
- Perfectly preserved 310-million-year-old fossilized brain found
- Light from behind a black hole spotted for 1st time, proving Einstein right
- DeepMind says it can predict the shape of every protein in the human body
- Water vapor detected on huge Jupiter moon Ganymede for 1st time
- Enormous graveyard of alien-like sea creatures discovered at 'Jurassic Pompeii' in central UK
- Baby born with 'twin' fetus inside her stomach
- Strange DNA 'borgs' discovered in California
July 28
- Remains of twin fetuses and wealthy mom found in Bronze Age urn
- Iceland may be the tip of a sunken continent
- Oldest animal life on Earth possibly discovered. And it’s related to your bath sponge.
- Was Lord Kelvin wrong? 3D-printed shape casts doubt on his 150-year-old theory
- Most complete map of black holes captured by German X-ray space telescope
- In rare wildlife encounter, whale watchers spot two white killer whales off Japan
- Astronaut watches Russian space station module fall from space in fiery demise (photos)
- Ignoring climate change will yield 'untold suffering,' panel of 14,000 scientists warns
July 27
- The real reason CDC is updating their mask guidelines
- Why does gravity pull us down and not up?
- CDC expected to revise coronavirus mask guidance as delta spreads
- Fireball streaks across North Texas, creating light show and sonic boom
- Will we ever find COVID-19's 'Patient Zero?'
July 26
- Nerve damage in cornea could be sign of 'long COVID,' study hints
- Climate report to be released next month. How bad will it be?
- Dozens of medical groups urge COVID-19 vaccination mandates for health workers
- Flashing meteor that exploded over Norway landed somewhere in a nearby forest
- Biggest cats in the world
- Summer School with Live Science: Capillary action
- Michelangelo's fingerprint possibly found on butt of wax statue
- Ancient ship and burial ground discovered in underwater city in Egypt
- Harvard-led team to search cosmos for extraterrestrial space tech and UFOs
- Why are vinegar and baking soda so good for cleaning?
July 25
- Why do nuclear bombs form mushroom clouds?
July 24
- Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, has died
- Asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza to fly (safely) by Earth Sunday
- How early was the novel coronavirus circulating?
- Boy's bright-yellow tongue was a sign of rare disorder
- What would happen if Earth suddenly stopped spinning?
July 23
- What is a superconductor?
- Wildfire smoke spreads across US in striking images from space
- We may finally know why the delta variant of coronavirus is so infectious
- China is gearing up to activate the world's first 'clean' commercial nuclear reactor
- 'Eye of Sauron' volcano and other deep-sea structures discovered in underwater 'Mordor'
- 8 ways life would get weird on a flat Earth
- Humans are the real monsters in gory new shark documentary
July 22
- Scientists mapped the mysterious interior of Mars for the first time ever
- Chimpanzee troop beats and kills infant gorillas in unprecedented clash (Video)
- 'Trash parrots' in Australia have figured out how to open garbage cans (Video)
- NASA's Perseverance rover is about to collect its first Martian rock sample
- Sunken settlement discovered beneath a Venice lagoon
- Albino chimp baby murdered by its elders days after rare sighting
- 4 bizarre Stephen Hawking theories that turned out to be right (and 6 we're not sure about)
- See the first photos from the Hubble telescope after a major computer malfunction
- Russia launches huge Nauka science module to space station after years of delays
- Black holes warp the universe into a grotesque hall of mirrors
- Last meal of ancient human sacrifice victim 'Tollund Man' revealed in exquisite detail
- Friday's full Buck Moon may be an eerie orange. Here's how to spot it.
- Cuneiform inscription from last king of Babylon discovered in Saudi Arabia
July 21
- 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite found in horseshoe footprint
- No life will survive the death of the sun — but new life could be born after, new research suggests
- Tiny ancient reptile named after Thor's world-ending nemesis
- 7 facts about the origin of the novel coronavirus
- Neutron star 'mountains' may be blocking our view of mysterious gravitational waves
- Archaeologists have found the lair of an exiled Anglo-Saxon hermit king
- Can we stop Earth from heating up?
- Has the tomb of Alexander the Great's mom been found? Experts are doubtful.
- Common cold virus may predate modern humans, ancient DNA hints
- Hidden compartments launch 'fireworks' when eggs get fertilized
- US life expectancy declined by a staggering 1.5 years in 2020
July 20
- Delta variant now makes up 83% of new COVID-19 cases in US
- Monarch butterfly: Facts about the iconic migratory insects
- 52-foot-tall 'megaripples' from dinosaur-killing asteroid are hiding under Louisiana
- Jeff Bezos went to the edge of space. Does that make him an astronaut?
- Majestic 100-pound moonfish washes up on Oregon beach
- Blue Origin record-breaking rocket launch just brought Jeff Bezos to space and back
- Watch NOW: Jeff Bezos is going to space
- Here's how Blue Origin trained Jeff Bezos and his crew for an 11-minute launch into space
- 'Mercury 13' pilot Wally Funk will carry 60 years of history to space on Blue Origin flight
July 19
- How much will Jeff Bezos' New Shepard rocket warm the planet?
- Man in China dies of rare 'monkey B' virus
- What is suborbital flight? (And why do we care?)
- Real-life Pikachus eat yak poop to survive Tibetan winters
- Snake photos: Pythons swallow crocodiles and other animals … whole
- Hubble telescope revived after a grueling month of darkness. Here’s what went wrong
- Viking 'piggy bank' hoard discovered on Isle of Man
- Our universe might be a giant three-dimensional donut, really.
- 'Alien abduction' stories may come from lucid dreaming, study hints
- What is SARS-CoV-2's original reservoir?
- How does DNA know which job to do in each cell?
- Society is right on track for a global collapse, new study of infamous 1970s report finds
July 18
- What would happen if the moon were twice as close to Earth?
- Can we solve the black hole information paradox with 'photon spheres'?
July 17
- NASA revives ailing Hubble Space Telescope with switch to backup computer
- City-sized asteroids smacked ancient Earth 10 times more often than thought
- Math genius Emmy Noether endured sexism and Nazism. 100 years later, her ideas still ring true.
- What is the smallest particle in the universe? (What about the largest?)
- How to watch Bezos launch into space
- Do you need a COVID-19 booster vaccine to prevent delta variant?
July 16
- Rare case of monkeypox reported in Texas resident
- 7 unanswered questions about sharks
- J&J recalls 5 sunscreen sprays found to contain carcinogen benzene
- Genes from tiny viruses can turn bacteria into superbugs
- As little as 1.5% of our genome is 'uniquely human'
- Cannabis originated in China, genetic analysis reveals
- Respiratory system: Facts, function and diseases
- Photos: Blue Origin's New Shepard mission to space
- Curiosity rover discovers that evidence of past life on Mars may have been erased
- 10 wild theories about the universe
- What are the chances that Jeff Bezos won't survive his flight on New Shepard?
July 15
- 18-year-old physics student to fly to edge of space with Bezos
- 'Alien burp' may have been detected by NASA's Curiosity rover
- Who was Karl Marx?
- Magnificent Roman-era building unearthed under Israel's Western Wall
- Watch sheep flow like water in mesmerizing time-lapse drone footage
- 'Freedom of Zion' coins dating to famous Jewish revolt found in the West Bank
- The Amazon rainforest is officially creating more greenhouse gases than it is absorbing
- Baby elephant abandoned by internet-famous herd has been rescued
July 14
- How to watch shooting stars in the Perseid meteor shower tonight
- Could poop transplants help treat COVID-19?
- Football-size goldfish are taking over US lakes
- Biggest sharks in the world
- Viral video captures fish tumbling from planes in Utah
- CRISPR stops coronavirus replication in human cells
- This giant, leaf-eating lemur was the size of a human and had paws like a koala
- AI designs quantum physics experiments beyond what any human has conceived
- How to tell if extraterrestrial visitors are friend or foe
- This 20-inch-tall cow may be the smallest on Earth
- Book of the Dead fragments, half a world apart, are pieced together
July 13
- Pristine DNA recovered from 1,600-year-old sheep mummy
- Rare 'teardrop' star and its invisible partner are doomed to explode in a massive supernova
- The most beautiful places in the world
- Remains of more than 1,000 Indigenous children found at former residential schools in Canada
- Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean (Video)
- 1 billion sea creatures cooked to death in Pacific Northwest
- With Virgin Galactic's launch of Richard Branson in the books, all eyes are on Blue Origin and Jeff Bezos
- Amazing Virgin Galactic video shows Richard Branson's Unity 22 crew soaring into space
- NASA uncovers hidden system of mysteriously draining lakes under Antarctica
- Scientists create super-bendy ice
July 12
- Manatees are dying in record numbers in Florida
- FDA to announce new warning for J&J vaccine after cases of rare autoimmune disorder
- Woman develops rare 'coinfection' with two coronavirus variants
- New tool estimates your immune 'age,' predicts risk of disease
- Scientists just discovered long-sought-after 'grandmother neurons'
- Puppies are born with a knack for reading human gestures
- Humans are practically defenseless. Why don't wild animals attack us more?
- A 'wobble' in the moon's orbit could result in record flooding in the 2030s, new study finds
- Repurposed communications satellites could help save humanity from an asteroid impact
- Mystery of Jupiter's powerful X-ray auroras finally solved
- 'Welcome to the dawn of a new space age,' Richard Branson says after Virgin Galactic flight
July 11
- Virgin Galactic launches Richard Branson to space in 1st fully crewed flight of VSS Unity
- Virgin Galactic will launch billionaire Richard Branson into space today. Here's how to watch it live.
- Why do women tend to outlive men?
July 10
- Death Valley hits 130 degrees, nearly breaking heat record
- How many atoms are in the observable universe?
- China wants to launch asteroid-deflecting rockets to save Earth from Armageddon
July 9
- 100 Roman coins were likely an offering for safe passage across river
- Summer School with Live Science: Turn milk into plastic
- No, this dinosaur isn't vaping. It just breathed like a weirdo.
- Star cluster overrun with black holes may dissolve into space
July 8
- Woman killed in unusual grizzly bear attack
- Mass bird die-off in eastern US baffles scientists
- Why are thousands of stinging jellyfish crowding the Rhode Island coast?
- Can we explain dark matter by adding more dimensions to the universe?
- Rare 'hypernova' explosion detected on fringes of the Milky Way for the first time
- New expedition will search for Shackleton's Endurance deep below Antarctic waters
- Bizarre dinosaurs rapidly shrank to become ant-eaters the size of a chicken
- Methane wafting from 'tiger stripes' on Saturn moon could be sign of alien life, study suggests
- Cats and dogs go wild in new 'Wild Kratts' special: Q&A with the Kratt Bros
- Cats and dogs get COVID-19 from their owners at extremely high rates
July 7
- 500-year-old skulls with facial modification unearthed in Gabon
- June 2021 smashed heat records in North America
- Secret patterns found in arrangement of medieval Islamic tombs
- 20 times sharks made our jaws drop
- Cave thought to hold unicorn bones actually home to Neanderthal artwork
- Tropical Storm Elsa churns toward Florida's Gulf Coast
July 6
- Fish get addicted to meth in polluted rivers, go through withdrawal
- Why health officials are watching new 'lambda' coronavirus variant
- Scientists may have cracked the mystery of da Vinci’s DNA
- 1,000-year-old church built by Otto the Great found in Saxony
- World's thinnest electronic device is 2 atoms thick
- Rare mud volcano explodes into towering inferno in Caspian Sea
- New measurement may resolve cosmological crisis
- A 'strange signal' is coming from the Milky Way. What's causing it?
- Why do we blink?
- These are the best astronomy images of the year
July 5
- Microbes that feast on crushed rocks thrive in Antarctica's ice-covered lakes
- Earth is farthest from the sun today
- This beetle can walk upside down on the underside of a pool of water (VIDEO)
- Skeletons of twin infant Vikings discovered in Sweden
- Where did watermelons come from?
July 4
- When did the Brits and Yanks become allies again after the Revolutionary War?
July 3
- What's the chattiest animal?
- Supermassive black holes could host giant, swirling gas 'tsunamis'
- Transgender astronomers speak out about outdated name change policies
July 2
- Hurricane Elsa, 1st of season, could hit Florida next week
- Earth's cryosphere loses enough ice to cover Lake Superior every year
- Johnson & Johnson says COVID-19 vaccine protects against delta variant
- Frankenstein star could be on the brink of a startling transformation
- Mysterious carving of naked man discovered near Hadrian's Wall
- Most Americans think intelligent aliens exist, and half think they have visited Earth
- Astronomers spot 3,000 light-year 'light echo' of dying supermassive black hole
- Newly found mega comet may be the largest seen in recorded history
- Microbes in cow stomachs can help recycle plastic
July 1
- Respiratory virus spreads in the southern US
- 'Last Ice Area' in the Arctic may not survive climate change
- Mysterious 'catastrophe' turned this nursery into a graveyard 500 million years ago
- The dinosaurs were likely doomed before the asteroid struck
- Free divers' heart rates can drop as low as 11 beats per minute