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- December 31
- December 30
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- Famed naturalist E.O. Wilson, 'Darwin's natural heir,' dies at 92
- Save $100 on Bowflex adjustable dumbbells for the New Year
- The most amazing coin treasures uncovered in 2021
- 10 of the weirdest experiments of 2021
- Unimaginable diversity of life discovered beneath Antarctic ice shelf
- 7 oddly colored animals that caught our eye in 2021
- 12 cool things we learned about humans in 2021
- 10 things we learned about microbes in 2021
- December 29
- December 28
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- '29 days on the edge:' What's next for NASA's newly launched James Webb Space Telescope
- Did Benjamin Franklin really discover electricity with a kite and key?
- 9 things we learned about aliens in 2021
- 10 weird creatures found in the deep sea in 2021
- 10 coolest non-dinosaur fossils unearthed in 2021
- Mummy of famous Egyptian pharaoh digitally unwrapped for first time in 3,000 years
- December 27
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- December 23
- December 22
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- Scientists just reconstructed one of the oldest family trees ever charted
- Darkness caused by dino-killing asteroid snuffed out life on Earth in 9 months
- Flecks of silver in poop of ancient Cambrian creature baffle scientists
- Woolly mammoths survived on mainland North America until 5,000 years ago, DNA reveals
- 9 equations that changed the world
- December 21
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- 1st long-acting injection to prevent HIV has been approved by the FDA
- Scientists find fossil of largest arthropod to ever live, a car-size millipede
- Impeccably preserved dinosaur embryo looks as if it 'died yesterday'
- Imaginary numbers could be needed to describe reality, new studies find
- How to watch the James Webb telescope launch into space
- December 20
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- Frozen tardigrade becomes first 'quantum entangled' animal in history, researchers claim
- Bits of asteroid Ryugu are among 'most primordial' materials ever examined
- Can drinking warm milk really help you fall asleep?
- Remains of man who was 'vaporized' by Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago discovered
- One of the largest-known Norse longhouses discovered near Viking ship burial
- James Webb Space Telescope vs. Hubble: How will their images compare?
- December 19
- December 18
- December 17
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- Flu shot may be a 'bad match' for dominant strain
- Breakthrough COVID cases may supercharge immunity, study hints
- Burial of infant 'Neve' could be oldest of its kind in Europe
- 1,900 year-old Roman 'battle spoils' recovered from robbers in Jerusalem
- Swarms of mutant bacteria look just like Van Gogh's 'Starry Night'
- Giant reservoir of 'hidden water' discovered on Mars
- December 16
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- Newfound millipede breaks world record for the most legs
- Holiday sale: Read a free issue of History of War magazine and save up to 33% on subscriptions
- Holiday sale: Save up to 39% on All About Space magazine, plus read a free issue here
- Anti-aging vaccine shows promise in mice — will it work in humans?
- How to see the Cold Moon, the longest full moon of the year, this Saturday
- December 15
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- 'Humanity has touched the sun' in a pioneering achievement for space exploration
- Weird quantum objects known as Q balls could explain why we exist
- Astronomers capture sharpest images ever of Milky Way's heart
- How real is the multiverse?
- Holiday sale: Read a free issue of All About History magazine and save up to 40% on a subscription
- December 14
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- UN confirms hottest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic
- Dormant cancer cells may 'reawaken' due to change in this key protein
- Tainted synthetic marijuana linked to severe bleeding cases in Florida
- Rare wispy ice formations streak across the sea near Antarctica in beautiful satellite images
- Physicists create new state of matter from quantum soup of magnetically weird particles
- Enormous sunfish surprises paddleboarders off Laguna Beach
- X-ray analysis reveals 'highly decorated' Viking sword caked in dirt and rust
- Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' could meet its doom within 3 years
- Einstein's theory of general relativity passes one of its toughest tests yet
- December 13
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- December 9
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- The coronavirus infects fat cells, study suggests
- Meat-eating dinosaurs were terrifyingly fast, footprints reveal
- We finally know why the brain uses so much energy
- Mega plasma ball erupted from a sun-like star. It was 10 times larger than any ever seen.
- Billionaire hands over $70 million of stolen artifacts
- Mummy with gold-foil 'tongue' found in sealed Egyptian tomb
- Here's the secret to how 'immortal' hydras regrow severed heads
- How often you poop may be (partly) written in your genes
- December 8
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- Swarm of more than 55 earthquakes strikes off Oregon coast
- Newfound flavor of omicron variant may be harder to track
- Rare evidence of Roman crucifixion uncovered in the UK
- Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí really works
- See rare total solar eclipse from nearly 1 million miles away
- Jurassic crocodile relative could breathe easily while drowning its prey
- This faraway galaxy may be completely devoid of dark matter
- December 7
- December 6
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- Dazzling photos of the solar eclipse from Antarctica
- Are humans at the top of the food chain?
- More than 300 smuggled tarantulas, scorpions and giant cockroaches seized from luggage in Colombia
- Medieval Scot with strong jawbone wasn't a local
- Scientists inserted disco 'strobe lights' into jellyfish to see how they function without brains
- DeepMind cracks 'knot' conjecture that bedeviled mathematicians for decades
- December 5
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- December 3
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- 'Ghost particles' detected inside the Large Hadron Collider for the first time
- 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid worth nearly $5 billion will skim past Earth this week, NASA says
- Dark matter may spawn more of itself from ordinary matter, like a cosmic ice-9
- Is this really the biblical city where Jesus walked on water?
- Real-life Moby Dick spotted off the coast of Jamaica
- December 2
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- Omicron variant may have evolved in rats, one theory says
- Giant 'phantom jellyfish' that eats with mouth-arms spotted off California coast
- Fossils of 400-million-year-old 'Excalibur worm' discovered in Australia
- Silver plate showing topless Scythian goddess unearthed in Russia
- This 130 million-year-old ichthyosaur was a 'hypercarnivore' with knife-like teeth
- Was Stonehenge constructed by builders fueled on 'energy bars'?
- Pac-Man-shaped blobs become world's first self-replicating biological robots
- Christmas sale: Read a free issue of How It Works magazine, plus save up to 52% on a subscription!
- December 1
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- 1st case of omicron variant in US confirmed in California
- Unknown human ancestor may have walked a bit like a bear on its hind legs
- 'Very weird' ankylosaur's tail looked like an Aztec war club
- Starship engine 'crisis' poses possible bankruptcy risk for SpaceX, Elon Musk says: report
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on track for Dec. 22 launch
- This pair of merging black holes is the closest to Earth we've ever found
- Fitbit deals: Grab a bargain on the Fitbit Versa 3, Sense & more
- Ants vomit into each other's mouths to form social bonds
- Black Friday binoculars deals: Magnificent savings on Celestron, Nikon, Bushnell and more
- Biggest eagle to ever live plunged headfirst into dead prey to eat the organs
- Famous T. rex had a bone infection, new medical scans reveal
