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June 30
- Supreme Court cripples the US government's power to fight climate change
- Never-before-seen microbes locked in glacier ice could spark a wave of new pandemics if released
- Ancient 'bear dog' found in France named after child-murdering cyclops
- Record-breaking Tonga volcano generated the fastest atmospheric waves ever seen
June 29
- Serial killer whales have been murdering sharks and eating their livers for 5 years
- Mystery rocket that smashed into the moon left 2 craters, NASA says
- What are solar flares?
- Can you spot the crab in this photo? (Hint: It's under the fuzz.)
June 28
- World's deepest shipwreck found — a US navy warship sunk in biggest sea battle of WWII
- Does the human body replace itself every 7 years?
- Surprise solar storm with 'disruptive potential' slams into Earth
- Rare 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' star survives death by supernova, returns stronger and brighter
- Monkeypox may present with unusual symptoms, CDC warns
- 30,000 year-old mummified baby mammoth found by Canadian gold miner
- Why does copper turn green?
- NASA called. They want their moondust and cockroaches back.
June 27
- Why can't we drink saltwater?
- Why do we shiver when we're cold?
- Why are manhole covers round?
- Scientists find species that don’t seem to age. What does it mean for humans?
- Secret ancient Andean passageways may have been used in rituals involving psychedelics
- Mysterious artifacts hint at the 'fairy world' of ancient China
June 25
- Monkeypox may have undergone 'accelerated evolution,' scientists say
- Why does soda fizz?
- Bizarre 'polygons' are cracking through the surface of Mars
June 24
- Roe v. Wade overturned by Supreme Court
- Lost fossil 'treasure trove' rediscovered after 70 years
- 8-armed Jurassic 'vampire' used supersuckers to trap prey, amazing 3D images reveal
- Snake caught eating even bigger snake in striking new video
June 23
- Why do stars twinkle?
- Giant sunspot doubled in size in 24 hours, and it's pointing right at Earth
- This is the best time to spot a rare alignment of five planets. Here's how to watch it.
- Good carbs vs bad carbs: What you need to know
June 22
- Poliovirus detected in London sewage, UK officials warn
- The best-ever view of an epic 5-planet alignment is happening this week
- Magnitude 5.9 earthquake hits Afghanistan, killing at least 1,000
- NASA suddenly aborts moon rocket test launch with 29 seconds on the clock
- Swarm of rainbow-colored starfish devour sea lion corpse on seafloor
- Dino with 'perfect and unique' butthole also had the oldest belly button known to science
- Blood-red aurora transforms into 'STEVE' before stargazer's eyes
- Biggest freshwater fish ever caught is a stingray that weighs nearly as much as a polar bear
June 21
- Largest python ever found in Florida is 18 feet long and weighs a whopping 200 pounds
- How does arsenic kill?
June 20
- Bizarre spiral object found swirling around Milky Way's center
June 19
- Can we think without using language?
June 18
- How does soap kill germs?
- Monstrously huge black hole devours an Earth-size chunk of matter every second
June 17
- 3 kids receive kidney transplants without need for immune-suppressing drugs
- China’s 'alien' signal almost certainly came from humans, project researcher says
- Hundreds of the world's smallest penguins have mysteriously washed up dead. What killed them?
- Rogue black hole wandering Milky Way alone proves Einstein right again
June 16
- Secret population of polar bears found living in seemingly impossible habitat
- Scientists find remains of cannibalized baby planets in Jupiter's cloud-covered belly
- $17 billion shipwreck near Colombia is remarkably preserved, new photos reveal
- Amphibian 'death pit' filled with 8,000 bones unearthed in Iron Age village
June 15
- China says it may have received signals from aliens
- One in 500 men may carry an extra sex chromosome (most without knowing it)
- Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' is hemorrhaging ice faster than in the past 5,500 years
June 14
- Mini-brains show how common drug freezes cell division in the womb, causing birth defects
- 'Factorian Deep,' the new deepest point in Antarctica's Southern Ocean, mapped for the first time
- Physicists link two time crystals in seemingly impossible experiment
- Massive bulldog-faced dinosaur was like a T. rex on steroids
June 13
- Google AI 'is sentient,' software engineer claims before being suspended
- Ancient toothless 'eel' is your earliest known ancestor
- Face of wealthy Bronze-Age Bohemian woman revealed in stunning reconstruction
- Do pigs sweat?
June 12
- Where is the tomb of Genghis Khan?
- Silver coin featuring famous Viking king unearthed in Hungary
June 11
- Why did people start eating Egyptian mummies?
- Will eating pet food kill you?
June 10
- Perseverance rover accidentally adopts hitchhiking 'pet rock'
- Discovery of 'hidden world' under Antarctic ice has scientists 'jumping for joy'
- Dinosaur 'reaper' with massive claws found in Japan
June 9
- Here's how paleontologists rate 'Jurassic World: Dominion' (Video)
- NASA joins hunt for UFOs
- Scientists discover viruses that secretly rule the world's oceans
- 'Rubber-ducky' asteroid 200 million miles away holds building blocks of life
- Weird type of fast radio burst discovered 3 billion light-years away
- Crocodile-faced dinosaur may have been Europe’s largest ever predator
- Dead baby shark that washed up on UK beach was likely aborted by its mother
- Metal detectorist in UK finds ancient Roman penis pendant
- James Webb Space Telescope hit by large micrometeoroid
- Broken pieces of rare Viking sword reunited after 1,200 years apart
- Watch a glorious 'Strawberry Supermoon' burst into the sky on June 14
June 8
- Why do soft drinks go flat?
- Is this the oldest tree in the world?
- 'Demon ducks of doom' laid melon-size eggs in prehistoric Australia
- Tiny white tortoise baby is the 'first of its kind'
- Is the Red Sea really red?
- Physicists discover never-before seen particle sitting on a tabletop
- How little, furry mammals that scurried under dinosaurs' feet came to rule the world
- All hail the hen! Chickens were revered for centuries before they were food
June 7
- Hurricane season 2024: How long it lasts and what to expect
- More than 1,000 cases of monkeypox detected in 29 countries
- Rusty saber, possibly wielded by medieval Turkish pirates, unearthed in Greece
- 5 planets are lining up in the night sky this month
- Massive, unknown radio structure detected around the universe's brightest quasar
- Venus crossed the sun's face 10 years ago. Most people alive will never see the sight again.
June 6
- Experimental rectal cancer drug caused all patients' tumors to disappear in small trial
- Why are human lips red?
- Why do freezing pipes burst?
- How long do stars live?
- Why don't we have many giant animals anymore?
- Siberian tundra could vanish in less than 500 years
June 5
- Which is colder: The North or South Pole?
June 4
- Which British monarch has reigned the longest? (What about the shortest?)
June 3
- 'Lost tapes' from Chernobyl show the haunting fallout of the nuclear disaster
- Melatonin poisonings on the rise in US kids
- Oldest shoe in Norway, dating to 3,000 years ago, recovered from melting ice patch
- Watch the biggest-ever comet outburst spray dust across the cosmos
- 2,100-year-old burial of woman lying on bronze 'mermaid bed' unearthed in Greece
- The aliens are all hanging out on Dyson spheres circling white dwarfs, physicist argues
- Great white sharks may have driven megalodon to extinction
June 2
- Male spiders drum out mesmerizing syncopated beats to woo mates
- Short-necked giraffe relative discovered in China. It used its helmet head to bash rivals.
- How this trippy illusion will make you see an 'expanding black hole'
- Texas woman gives birth to rare set of twins conceived one week apart. How is this possible?
- Blue-whale-size asteroid to screech past Earth in close encounter on June 6
June 1
- What caused this massive megalodon’s mega-toothache?
- Ancient Bronze Age city reemerges from Iraq river after extreme drought
- New, extremely reactive chemical discovered in the atmosphere