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- January 31
- January 30
- January 29
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- Frogs regrow amputated legs in breakthrough experiment
- Oklahoma wildlife dept. says mountain lions don't make good pets. The internet disagrees.
- Why are tigers orange?
- 1st sighting of 'ball lightning' in England uncovered
- Giant 'tree stump' impact crater spotted on Mars
- Astronomers discover 1,000 strange 'filaments' of radio energy bursting from the galaxy's center
- January 28
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- 'Bomb cyclone' set to bring blizzards and hurricane-force winds to the Northeast on Friday: Here's why.
- Water on Mars may have flowed for a billion years longer than thought
- See first-ever photos of polar bears playing house in the Russian Arctic
- Ancient solar storm smashed Earth at the wrong part of the sun's cycle — and scientists are concerned
- January 27
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- 2022 could be a turning point in the study of UFOs
- Gene mutation that helps make 'toy' dog breeds so small existed in wolves 54,000 years ago
- Fetus inside Egyptian mummy was 'pickled like an egg,' researchers say
- Watch a python swallow an impala whole in this jaw-dropping video
- Brown bear wakes up from hibernation and kills 38 reindeer calves
- Vikings' 'blood eagle' torture was horrific — and may have actually happened
- Queen Elizabeth: The world's greatest living monarch?
- January 26
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- 500 million-year-old, bug-like fossils have stunningly preserved nervous systems
- 'Stealth' omicron is in the US. Here's what we know about it.
- Bizarre sea worm with regenerative butts named after Godzilla's monstrous nemesis
- Out-of-control SpaceX rocket will smash into the moon in weeks
- 'Burning' hydrogen plasma in the world's largest laser sets fusion records
- Astronomers detect powerful cosmic object unlike anything they've seen before
- Eta Carinae's epic supernova explosion comes to life in new visualization
- Last Roman gladiator arena ever built unearthed in Switzerland
- January 25
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- 'X particle' from the dawn of time detected inside the Large Hadron Collider
- Can CBD really prevent COVID-19 infection? Scientists hope to find out.
- Massive 'pristine' reef of giant rose-shaped corals discovered lurking unusually deep off the coast of Tahiti
- 30 mummies discovered inside an ancient fire-scorched sacrificial structure
- 190-year-old Jonathan is the oldest tortoise ever
- Powerful, nearby black holes could help to explain universe's origins
- 'Exquisite' wooden figurine dating to early Roman Britain found in a ditch in England
- Tonga eruption equivalent to 'hundreds of Hiroshima bombs,' NASA says
- January 24
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- Webb Telescope is now orbiting 1 million miles from Earth
- 2 giant sphinxes depicting King Tut's grandfather found at ancient Egyptian temple
- Hippos unleash poop tornado in response to stranger danger
- The Higgs boson could have kept our universe from collapsing
- Tonga eruption was so intense, it caused the atmosphere to ring like a bell
- Here's why a new penguin colony in Antarctica is cause for concern
- James Webb Space Telescope will glide to its deep-space parking spot today
- Why does electricity make a humming noise?
- Japanese submarine, sunk in WWII and later bombed by salvager, is VR ready
- January 23
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- January 21
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- Your eyes may reveal your true biological age
- Will we need more COVID-19 boosters to end the pandemic?
- World's oldest drinking straws are 3 feet long and made of gold and silver
- Antarctica's doomed A68 iceberg dumped 1 trillion tons of water into the ocean over 3 years
- Astronomers propose building a neutrino detector out of the Pacific Ocean
- Pod of orcas frees a humpback whale from certain death. Was it intentional?
- Patton: The US Army's toughest and most feared WWII general?
- January 20
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- Bizarre knotted DNA structures linked to cancer in mice
- On the 'doorstep of doom': Doomsday Clock stands at 100 seconds to midnight
- Monster black hole spotted 'giving birth' to stars
- Spellbinding new 'selfie' video captures penguin feasting on giant sardine ball
- COVID-19 may trigger diabetes by causing fat cells to go haywire
- 55-sided, 555-carat 'Enigma' black diamond (potentially from space) goes on sale
- Centuries-old 'impossible' math problem cracked using the strange physics of Schrödinger's cat
- 40 quintillion stellar-mass black holes are lurking in the universe, new study finds
- Double pig kidney transplant successfully performed in brain-dead patient
- Parasitic worm forces tarantulas to tiptoe, then starves them to death
- January 19
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- 164 million-year-old plant fossil is the oldest example of a flowering bud
- Curiosity rover finds 'tantalizing' signs of ancient Mars life
- Will the Doomsday Clock move forward or back? Watch live to find out
- Ancient Chinese tombs hold remains of warriors possibly buried alive
- Ash from Tonga volcano eruption reaches record altitude but climate cooling unlikely
- Viruses unleashed into a woman's wound to slay superbug in her leg
- January 18
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- Did The Rock buy Stan, the most expensive Tyrannosaurus rex on record?
- Dramatic photos show horrific aftermath of massive Tonga eruption and tsunami
- Mysteriously magnetic rocks collected on Apollo mission finally get an explanation
- You got omicron. Should you still get a booster?
- A huge asteroid will fly safely by Earth today. Here's how to watch it live.
- World's deepest-dwelling squid spotted 20,000 feet under the sea
- Climate scientist and Netflix 'Don't Look Up' director talk comet metaphors and global warming (exclusive)
- Scorching alien planet takes seasons to an extreme
- Which animals have the longest arms?
- January 17
- January 16
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- Huge Tonga underwater volcano eruption captured in stunning satellite video
- How to watch the 'Ice Moon' rise on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Are daddy longlegs really the most venomous spiders in the world?
- Rare octopus video shows 'once-in-a-lifetime encounter'
- Infamous Mars meteorite contains organic molecules. But they aren't proof of life.
- January 15
- January 14
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- China builds 'artificial moon' for gravity experiment
- 1st bioengineered hybrid animals discovered — in ancient Mesopotamia
- New study provides first evidence of non-random mutations in DNA
- Modern humans lived in eastern Africa 38,000 years earlier than thought
- Curvature of space-time measured using 'atomic fountain'
- Striking satellite photo captures Mount Vesuvius peering through a hole in the clouds
- These birds have been singing the same songs for literally a million years
- January 13
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- NASA's Perseverance rover is clogged up with pebbles
- The virus behind 'mono' might trigger multiple sclerosis in some
- Earth inhales and exhales carbon in mesmerizing animation
- Largest fish nursery discovered beneath Weddell Sea in Antarctica
- Largest dark energy map could reveal the fate of the universe
- 2,000-year-old Celtic hoard of gold 'rainbow cups' discovered in Germany
- Shredded 'stellar streams' could lead to the Milky Way's missing dark matter
- January 12
- January 11
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- Pentagon launches new UFO office. Not all believers are happy about it.
- The 'Gates of Hell' may finally be closed, Turkmenistan's president announces
- Surgeons transplant pig's heart into dying human patient in a first
- Hungry badger accidentally unearths hundreds of ancient Roman coins in Spain
- 'Diamond rain' on Uranus and Neptune seems likely
- Rare 'bionic' armor discovered in 2,500-year-old China burial
- Enormous sea dragon fossil from 180 million years ago discovered in England
- January 10
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- January 7
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- Mystery 'moon hut' is actually an adorable rabbit-shaped rock
- Rise in rabies deaths in the US sparks CDC warning
- Rare and fragile fossils found at a secret site in Australia's 'dead heart'
- U.K.'s first human case of H5N1 avian flu detected in man with pet ducks
- Will omicron wipe out delta forever?
- Bizarre cloud of gas is one of the longest structures in the Milky Way
- 'Cosmic wildfires' burn bright in new photo of the Flame Nebula
- Weird structures near Earth's core may be scars from a primordial interplanetary collision
- The sun used to have rings like Saturn
- January 6
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- Wild video shows goldfish 'driving' a water-filled car in weird experiment
- Rapid tests may not detect omicron early in infection
- China's $1 trillion 'artificial sun' fusion reactor just got five times hotter than the sun
- Ancient dog-headed statue found during Roman road excavation
- Big hunk of failed Russian rocket crashes to Earth as space junk
- Horned 'Viking' helmets were actually from a different civilization, archaeologists say
- Comet Leonard puts on a final, spectacular display with ion tail in solar wind
- Dogs can differentiate between familiar and unfamiliar human languages
- January 5
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- Child mummies in Sicily's Capuchin Catacombs to be X-rayed
- 'Truly remarkable' fossils are rare evidence of ancient shark-on-shark attacks
- Drug-resistant superbug lived on hedgehogs long before we used antibiotics
- Thousands of starlings form 'bent spoon' swarm over Israel
- Watch 'coronal streamers' streak off the sun in close-up video from Parker Solar Probe
- Astronaut snaps spectacular shot of crescent moon glowing over stunning sunset
- January 4
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- James Webb Space Telescope completes tricky sunshield deployment
- 10 fascinating findings about our human ancestors from 2021
- Physicists crack unsolvable three-body problem using drunkard's walk
- Unique tree-climbing lions roar again in Uganda (Op-Ed)
- 1,000-year-old mummy in fetal position found in underground tomb in Peru
- China's Mars orbiter snaps amazing selfies above Red Planet
- Can humanity run out of ideas?
- How to watch the Quadrantid meteor shower this week
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