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May 31
- The world's biggest clone is a 77-square-mile 'immortal' meadow of seagrass
- How did Earth get its name?
- Hundreds of ancient Egyptian sarcophagi, cat mummies and gold-leafed statues unearthed at necropolis
- Penis graffiti and explicit insult carved into ancient stone 'raises eyebrows' at Roman fort
- 4 hostile alien civilizations may lurk in the Milky Way, a new study suggests
- Contaminated strawberries linked to hepatitis outbreak, FDA says
- Do extraterrestrial auroras occur on other planets?
- The weird reason dolphins drink each other’s pee
May 30
- How did ‘Prehistoric Planet’ create such incredible dinosaurs? Find out in a behind-the-scenes peek.
- Is climate change making the weather worse?
May 29
- Don't miss the first 'Manhattanhenge' of 2022 this Memorial Day weekend
- Why are there no bridges over the Amazon River?
May 28
- Why is grass green?
- Warp drive experiment to turn atoms invisible could finally test Stephen Hawking's most famous prediction
- What happens in our brains when we 'hear' our own thoughts?
- Male mice are terrified of bananas. Here's why.
May 27
- Mile-wide asteroid, the largest yet of 2022, flies safely by Earth
- When will Pluto complete its first orbit since its discovery?
- Monkeypox may have been spreading in UK for years
- This sideways-scooting robot crab is so tiny it fits through the eye of a needle
- Chinese scientists call for plan to destroy Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
- 2,100-year-old farmstead in Israel found 'frozen in time' after owners disappeared
- 'Completely new' type of magnetic wave found surging through Earth's core
- What's hidden inside the ancient Maya pyramids?
May 26
- Is house dust mostly dead skin?
- Cockroach-eaten Apollo 11 moon dust goes up for auction
- Mysterious dead beaked whale covered in unusual injuries washes up on California beach
- A 'meteor storm' of 1,000 shooting stars per hour may light up the skies over North America tonight
- China is looking for 'other Earths' to colonize
- Shattered comet could produce dazzling meteor shower: How to watch the tau Herculids
- Why do men have facial hair but women don't?
- Undersea 'sharkcano' eruption captured in spectacular satellite images
- T. rex and its close relatives were warm-blooded like modern birds
May 25
- Here's what scientists know about mass school shootings
- Physicists predict Earth will become a chaotic world, with dire consequences
- Physicists just rewrote a foundational rule for nuclear fusion reactors that could unleash twice the power
- Lasers reveal 'lost' pre-Hispanic civilization deep in the Amazon
- Watch 'potentially hazardous' asteroid 7335 (1989 JA) blow past Earth this Friday
- How do space rockets work without air?
- UK kitchen vase turns out to be $1.8 million Qing-dynasty treasure
- 20,000 years ago, two American cheetahs fought to the death in a Grand Canyon cave
May 24
- Expect another above-average hurricane season in 2022, NOAA predicts
- Giant 'dragon of death' with 30-foot wingspan unearthed in Argentina
- A meteor shower outburst from a shattered comet may spawn a new tau Herculids display on May 30
- Spiraling vortex of 60 sharks rips apart a dead humpback whale in mesmerizing new video
- Why can't babies drink cow's milk?
- Gorgeous paintings of ancient Egyptian goddesses revealed under layers of bird poop
May 23
- Monkeypox outbreaks tied to sex at 2 raves in Europe
- What do camels eat in the desert?
- What is the world's tallest tree?
- Ancient Chinese woman faced brutal 'yue' punishment, had foot cut off, skeleton reveals
- Kayakers find 8,000-year-old human skull in Minnesota
- Why do parrots live so long?
May 22
- What did ancient Egypt's pharaohs stash inside the pyramids?
- Asteroid four times the size of the Empire State Building barreling toward Earth on May 27
May 21
- Do bees really die if they sting you?
- Asian elephant mom carries dead calf for weeks, new eye-opening videos reveal
- Cats can memorize their friends' names, new study suggests
May 20
- 'Ghost' fossils preserve haunting record of ancient life on a hellish Earth
- Monkeypox cases double in UK, pop up in US
- Voyager 1 sends strange signals from beyond the solar system. Scientists are confused.
- Alien shopping-bag ocean weirdo has glowing Cheetos for guts
- How much urine can a healthy bladder hold?
- Alien stone in Egyptian desert came from rare supernova, scientists say
- Breaching humpback whale body slams boat in Mexico, injuring everyone on board
- No, scientists didn't discover the cause of SIDS. Here's what they did find.
- Humans could become a truly interplanetary species within 200 years, physicists claim
- 17 skeletons unearthed at medieval friary in UK
May 19
- Stonehenge builders ate parasite-infested meat during ancient feasts, according to their poop
- What is vodka?
- What's the difference between a moth and a butterfly?
- Red Sea dolphins slather their skin in coral mucus, because nature is wonderfully gross
- Crypto organization names newfound glass frog species — here’s why that's concerning
- What's the difference between a frog and a toad?
- Meet the robot keeping an eye on emperor penguins in Antarctica
- Thousands of prehistoric pits discovered around Stonehenge
- Famous 'alien' Wow! signal may have come from distant, sunlike star
May 18
- Rare monkeypox infections detected in several European countries
- Cannibal wasp babies eat their siblings, because nature is brutal
- One in three people are infected with Toxoplasma parasite — and the clue could be in our eyes
- Sold! Dinosaur skeleton that inspired Velociraptors from 'Jurassic Park' auctioned for $12.4 million
- 830 million-year-old organisms found locked in ancient crystals could be resurrected
- Octopuses torture and eat themselves after mating. Science finally knows why.
May 17
- Footage of bizarre metallic UFO shown by Pentagon officials at historic hearing
- Stop picking carnivorous penis plants, Cambodian environmental officials plead
- Ancient tooth of mysterious Denisovan girl possibly found
- 5,000 of the world's smallest penguins waddle onto Australian beach in record-breaking parade
- Meet 'Fiona' the pregnant ichthyosaur, Chile's oldest marine reptile mom
- Temperatures colder than space achieved here on Earth using superconducting X-ray laser
May 16
- Nuzzling T. rexes and grappling sauropods: Dinosaurs on 'Prehistoric Planet' will astonish you
- Watch live: Pentagon UFO sightings will finally be publicly aired at today's Congressional hearing
- See these amazing images of the Blood Moon lunar eclipse from around the world
- Tomb of ancient Egyptian dignitary who read top secret documents discovered
- Record-shattering Tonga volcanic eruption sent atmospheric waves zipping around the Earth
- Did cats really disappear from North America for 7 million years?
May 15
- What time is the Blood Moon lunar eclipse?
- Here's how to watch the Flower Moon lunar eclipse today and tomorrow
- Why does wood catch fire, but metal doesn't?
May 14
- Why does eating pineapple make your mouth tingle?
- Tick-borne illnesses are on the rise. Here’s how to protect yourself.
May 13
- The 'doorway' seen on Mars is not for aliens. Here's how it really formed.
- Colossal 300-pound alligator gar caught (and released) in Texas bayou
- Underground city unearthed in Turkey may have been refuge for early Christians
- Rare 2,300-year-old tomb in Istanbul holds partially cremated body
May 12
- Scientists finally have proof of mysterious immune cell in humans
- Astonished fishers reel in gigantic 400-pound stingray in Cambodian river
- 1st image of our galaxy's 'black hole heart' unveiled
- Eerie 'yellow brick road' to Atlantis discovered atop ancient undersea mountain
- Iron Age arrow found on Norway mountain still has feather fletching on it
- Distant 'galaxy' isn't a galaxy at all — but one of the brightest pulsars ever detected
May 11
- Extinction threatens one in five reptile species, researchers say
- US baby formula shortage: What to know
- Why have aliens never visited Earth? Scientists have a disturbing answer
- Why does the moon turn red during a total lunar eclipse?
- How do octopuses change color?
- Russian forces reportedly stole priceless Scythian treasures from Ukrainian museum
- Giant sinkhole with a forest inside found in China
- Submerged human corpses rise from drought-stricken Lake Mead
May 10
- Fertility cult complex discovered under Turkish home dates to the Iron Age
- James Webb telescope reaches 'perfect' alignment ahead of debut science images
- Mixed-up sunspot emits powerful solar flare
- 'Mind-boggling' scrambled genome found in octopus and squid. It could explain their smarts.
- 6-year-old finds megalodon tooth on UK beach
- World's most powerful heavy-ion collider to go online this week
May 9
- Elon Musk apparently threatened by Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin
- Cretaceous asteroid armageddon ignites TV screens in 'Dinosaur Apocalypse'
- Bats tell predators to 'buzz off' — literally
- Bronze Age 'grave daggers' were actually used to butcher animals
- Why haven't we cloned a human yet?
- 8,500-year-old stone houses are the oldest known structures in the UAE
- Why haven't we cloned a human yet?
- Flower moon lunar eclipse rises this weekend: Everything you need to know
May 8
- A 1,000-pound great white shark just spotted off coast of New Jersey
- Earth tells us to 'GO' in weird cloud message seen from space
- Why are there so many giants in the deep sea?
May 7
- Do trees exist (scientifically speaking)?
- Cameras caught a 'space jellyfish' fly over Georgia. Here’s what it really was.
May 6
- How to watch the Eta Aquarids meteor shower this weekend
- Pig virus may have contributed to death of man with 1st porcine heart transplant
- We finally know how trilobites mated, thanks to new fossils
- Remains of Aztec dwelling and floating gardens unearthed in Mexico City
- Giant blob of solar plasma could 'graze' Earth this weekend, NOAA says
May 5
- Astronauts can no longer commit crimes on the moon, Canada decrees
- 'Giant MRI of Antarctica' reveals 'fossil seawater' under ice sheet
- Elusive bronze-scaled ‘dragon’ of the deep caught on video off California coast
- World's 'shark tooth capital' teemed with even more extinct species than we knew
- Scientists discover bizarre 'worm-like' aurora stretching halfway across Mars
- Ancient Egyptian mummy forgotten in storage turns out to be sacred bird often sacrificed to Thoth
- Giant 'sea monsters' evolved big bodies to offset long necks being a total drag
May 4
- Roe v. Wade FAQ: What if abortion rights law gets overturned?
- Severe COVID-19 may cause similar cognitive deficits as 20 years of aging
- Huge solar flare captured in stunning NASA image as it fires off from the sun
- How do mosquitoes sniff out humans to bite?
- Borneo has a hybrid 'mystery monkey,' and researchers are concerned
- Giant squid that washed up on a South African beach was 'incredible to see'
- May the 4th be with you: 7 wild 'Star Wars' technologies scientists are building right now
May 3
- Largest known cave art images in US by Indigenous Americans discovered in Alabama
- Meteorites from flaming fireball over Mississippi scattered across the state
- Defiant message discovered in Cuban Missile Crisis bunker
- Ancient ritual bloodletting may have been performed at carvings found in Mexico
May 2
- Fuzzy 'halo' envelops Venus as it cozies up to Jupiter in photo of planetary conjunction
- Russia will pull out of the International Space Station, space agency chief confirms
- In a burial ground full of Stone Age men, one grave holds a 'warrior' woman
- The universe could stop expanding 'remarkably soon', study suggests
- Why do microwaves cook food so much faster than ovens do?
May 1
- Black Moon solar eclipse looks otherworldly in stunning images
- Where does Earth end and outer space begin?
- What are labor unions?