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January 31
- Infant mortality is on the rise in the US — experts point to stricter abortion laws as reasons why
- Santorini is having a swarm of tiny earthquakes. Is the Greek isle about to erupt?
- 4,000-year-old footprints near Pompeii show people fleeing Mount Vesuvius eruption thousands of years before the famous one
- FDA approves 1st new class of opioid-free painkillers in over 20 years
- Why is DeepSeek such a game-changer? Scientists explain how the AI models work and why they were so cheap to build.
- FDA approves ketamine-like nasal spray for depression — here's everything you need to know
- New wonder material designed by AI is as light as foam but as strong as steel
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- Was Alexander the Great eaten by sharks? Inside the wild theories for what happened to the iconic ruler's body.
- How did Alexander the Great die?
- Medieval 'vampire' burial in Croatia contains decapitated and twisted remains
- 'Zombie' spiders infected by never-before-seen fungus discovered on grounds of destroyed Irish castle
- Gigantic 500,000-mile 'hole' in the sun's atmosphere aims aurora-sparking solar wind at Earth (photo)
- 'Gossiping neighbors': Plants didn't evolve to be kind to each other, study finds
- 'Vestigial' human ear-wiggling muscle actually flexes when we're straining to hear
- Upheaval Dome: Utah's 'belly button' that has divided scientists since its discovery
January 30
- Could we travel to parallel universes?
- 'Breakthrough' stem-cell patches stabilized woman's heart as she awaited transplant
- Newly discovered near-Earth asteroid isn't an asteroid at all — it's Elon Musk's trashed Tesla
- Are Atlantic Ocean currents weakening? A new study finds no, but other experts aren't so sure.
- A cosmic 'CT scan' shows the universe is far more complex than expected
- What is alkaptonuria? The rare disease that turns your pee black
January 29
- Gravitational waves offer a 'cosmic DNA test' for black holes
- Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don't know why
- 'City-killer' asteroid has a 1-in-43 chance of smashing into Earth in 2032, NASA says
- 1,600-year-old Roman padlock with spring mechanism discovered in Germany — and it's tiny
- Alibaba claims its AI model trounces DeepSeek and OpenAI competitors
- Ocean warming 4 times faster than in 1980s — and likely to accelerate in coming decades
- Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space using 1st-of-its-kind 'artificial photosynthesis'
- 1,900-year-old papyrus 'best-documented Roman court case from Judaea apart from the trial of Jesus'
- Asteroid Bennu contains the 'seeds of life,' OSIRIS-REx samples reveal
- Yellowstone National Park earthquake shakes hottest and oldest geothermal area
- Diagnostic dilemma: A woman injected herself with venom from a black widow spider
January 28
- Chinese scientists created mice with 2 dads — and they survived to adulthood
- Massive tuberculosis outbreak sickens dozens in Kansas
- Boom Supersonic's XB-1 smashes the sound barrier — becoming the 1st civil aircraft to go supersonic in US history
- DeepSeek stuns tech industry with new AI image generator that beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3
- Doomsday Clock is now 89 seconds to midnight, the closest yet to catastrophe
- New glowing molecule, invented by AI, would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature, scientists say
- Last ice age quiz: How much do you know about Earth's frosty past?
- People who can't 'see with their mind's eye' have different wiring in the brain
- Earth from space: Italy's 'ticking time bomb' plays peek-a-boo through a mysterious hole in the clouds
January 27
- Over 400 gold and silver Roman-era coins unearthed in the Netherlands depict rulers from Rome, Britain and Africa
- Sperm cells carry traces of childhood stress, epigenetic study finds
- We may finally know what causes Mars' gigantic, planet-wide dust storms
- 1,200-year-old remains of dismembered pregnant woman in Ecuador hint at 'enigmatic' sacrifice to thwart El Niño
- Bayeux Tapestry: A 1,000-year-old embroidery depicting William the Conqueror's victory and King Harold's grisly death
- If humans could fly, how big would our wings be?
January 26
- Can cold weather make you sick?
- What is alkaline water, and does it have any benefits?
- 'We are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age': Humans have plunged Earth into the 'Pyrocene'
- 'Heavy' dark matter would rip our understanding of the universe apart, new research suggests
- How is the ocean melting Antarctica? We're starting to figure it out
- Space photo of the week: Galaxies teeter toward collision in the sparkling depths of Virgo
- Why do bats hang upside down to sleep?
January 25
- Neanderthal quiz: How much do you know about our closest relatives?
- Scientists propose making AI suffer to see if it's sentient
- Time-lapse of 1st black hole ever imaged reveals how matter swirls around it
- Earth's elusive 'ignorosphere' could shed new light on auroras
- Scientists discover pristine ancient forest frozen in time in Rocky Mountains
- Giant phantom jelly: The 33-foot-long ocean giant that has babies out of its mouth
- 15th-century hoard of gold and silver coins discovered in Israel near Sea of Galilee
- What is the world's deadliest food?
- Science news this week: Interstellar visitors and contagious peeing
January 24
- Why are recurring dreams usually nightmares?
- Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in 2 months. Silicon Valley is freaked out.
- Mysterious 'ice balls' in space baffle astronomers
- Catastrophic tipping point in Greenland reached as crystal blue lakes turn brown, belch out carbon dioxide
- 1 in 22 COVID survivors develop debilitating chronic syndrome
- Secrets of 1st dinosaurs lie in the Sahara and Amazon rainforest, study suggests
- How to watch 'Asia' with David Attenborough as US streaming begins for BBC nature series
- AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified
- Pamukkale: Turkey's 'cotton castle' of white limestone that inspired an ancient cult
- 'Supersonic jetstream' with winds 130 times faster than a Category 5 hurricane spotted in the Milky Way
- Invisible 'flickering' on the sun could predict potentially dangerous solar flares hours in advance
- Spotted hyena found in Egypt for 1st time in 5,000 years — then trackers killed it with a pickup truck
January 23
- Auroras predicted over US this weekend as solar storm rips toward Earth
- Explosive 'bomb cyclone' descending on UK and Ireland with up to 100 mph winds
- 'Queen of icebergs' A23a is barreling toward a remote South Atlantic island. Millions of animals could be at risk
- Continent-size blobs in Earth's mantle are a billion years old, ancient crystals reveal
- Potentially deadly 'chirping waves' detected in baffling location near Earth, and scientists are stumped
- 'Carnivore diet' caused yellow lumps to grow on man's hands and feet
- More than 1,300 coins buried during Roman emperor Nero's reign found in England
- Neanderthals' blood type may help explain their demise, new study finds
- Magnetic signals from Earth's tides revealed in unprecedented detail
- Our outer ears may have come from ancient fish gills, scientists discover
- What is Capnocytophaga? How an innocent dog lick can trigger a fatal infection
January 22
- Faster brain aging tied to X chromosome inherited from Mom
- What are Zyn nicotine pouches? And are they bad for you?
- Scientists discover new, 3rd form of magnetism that may be the 'missing link' in the quest for superconductivity
- 1st supernovas may have flooded the early universe with water — making life possible just 100 million years after the Big Bang
- Florida's snowfall record smashed as historic storm blasts Gulf Coast
- Hubble telescope spots 'blue lurker' star feeding off of its conjoined siblings
- Diagnostic dilemma: A man huffed computer cleaner for years. Then his hands started growing.
- Boom Supersonic's next-generation XB-1 passenger plane 1 step away from breaking the sound barrier
- 'A frankly embarrassing result': We still know hardly anything about 95% of the universe
January 21
- China's 'artificial sun' shatters nuclear fusion record by generating steady loop of plasma for 1,000 seconds
- Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS' 'near-death encounter' with the sun may have blown it apart, new photos suggest
- Archaeologists discover rare liquid gypsum burial of 'high-status individual' from Roman Britain
- 'Marsquakes' may solve 50-year-old mystery about the Red Planet
- Cosmic voids may explain the universe's acceleration without dark energy
- 'Medieval' nanotech chainmail sports 100 trillion chemical bonds per square centimeter — and could be the future of armor
- 'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create
- World's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' goes online — it will be used to secure the US nuclear stockpile and in other classified research
- Scientists discover rare venom-spraying scorpion in Colombia
- What's inside Earth quiz: Test your knowledge of our planet's hidden layers
- Earth from space: Massive field of ancient lava casts an eerie, gold-specked shadow in the Sahara
January 20
- 'Our model of cosmology might be broken': New study reveals the universe is expanding too fast for physics to explain
- Ozempic-style drugs tied to more than 60 health benefits and risks in biggest study-of-its-kind
- 'Contagious' peeing may have deep evolutionary roots, chimp study suggests
- Cheating little penguins are big on divorce, and other breeding secrets revealed
- Giant reserves of 'gold' hydrogen may be lurking beneath at least 30 US states, 1st-of-its-kind map reveals
- 'Big boy' spider becomes Australia's largest deadly funnel-web after surprise discovery
- Bad Dürrenberg headdress: An elaborate 9,000-year-old headpiece worn by a female shaman in Europe
- The best exercise bike we have ever tested currently has a $400 discount in this brilliant Peloton Bike deal
- Why do we go 'weak in the knees'?
January 19
- Astronomers find hundreds of 'hidden' black holes — and there may be billions or even trillions more
- Rare 'Corinthian' helmet from ancient Greece is up for auction, and stunningly preserved
- Scientists find hidden mechanism that could explain how earthquakes 'ignite'
- Space photo of the week: Look into Titan's 'eye,' 20 years after the Huygens spacecraft's historic landing on Saturn's largest moon
- What is CTE?
- An interstellar visitor may have changed the course of 4 solar system planets, study suggests
- We finally know what 1,400-year-old 'mystery rings' in Australia are
- Can you transplant an organ more than once?
January 18
- How many more calories does muscle burn than fat?
- How does alcohol cause cancer?
- Giant ice age landforms discovered deep beneath North Sea revealed in amazing detail
- Common degu: Oversized hamsters with societies governed by pee
- Is Earth the only planet in the solar system with plate tectonics?
- 'ELIZA,' the world's 1st chatbot, was just resurrected from 60-year-old computer code
- Science news this week: Sunken worlds and 'kidney beans' on Mars
January 17
- Doorbell camera captures 1st-ever video of the sound and sight of a meteorite crash-landing
- James Webb telescope captures 1st 'mid-infrared' flare from Milky Way's supermassive black hole
- Parents really do have favorites, study suggests
- 'Sexy' pterosaur tail should have been nightmare for flying. How did it work?
- Watch SpaceX rocket explode over Grand Turk island in dramatic stream of fire and smoke
- 'It was very fortunate timing': Astronomers watch 1st black hole to 'shut off' blast back to life
- James Webb Space Telescope discovers one of the earliest 'truly gargantuan' supernovas ever seen
- New solar-powered EV can drive 40 miles daily using the power of the sun — and it's 50% more efficient than a Tesla
- The Bungle Bungles: Towering domes in the Australian outback that contain traces of the earliest life-forms on Earth
January 16
- Giant horned dinosaur's fossils were destroyed in WWII — but photos reveal it was an unknown species
- LA wildfires: How can wildfire smoke affect your health?
- 'Spooky' quantum entanglement discovered inside individual protons for 1st time ever
- 2,800-year-old structure unearthed in Israel was likely used for cultic practices and sacrifice, archaeologists say
- 'Totally amazing' astronaut photo captures comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS shooting past Earth from the ISS
- Schrödinger's Cat breakthrough could usher in the 'Holy Grail' of quantum computing, making them error-proof
- How Pluto captured its largest moon Charon with a 10-hour icy 'kiss'
- Secrets of Alexander the Great mosaic revealed after 1st-of-its-kind analysis
- Argyria: The rare disease that turns people blue
- Top-secret X-37B space plane has been in orbit for more than 1 year
- Did people report seeing UFOs before the 20th century?
- Stone Age people made sun stone 'sacrifice' to banish 'darkened sun' after a volcanic eruption, archaeologists say
January 15
- FDA bans red dye No. 3 in food
- One of Iceland's largest volcanoes sees swarm of 130 earthquakes — could it be about to blow?
- 'Warm water' from deep sea flowing towards one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves
- 20,000-year-old 'human' fossils from Japan aren't what we thought
- Were the Celts matriarchal? Ancient DNA reveals men married into local, powerful female lineages
- Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth — and it's shooting a beam of energy right at us
- Curse tablet found in Roman-era grave in France targets enemies by invoking Mars, the god of war
- Rare string of 'cosmic pearls' dance together in the universe
- Scientists discover enormous reservoir hidden in Cascades — more than twice the amount of water in Lake Mead
- World's tiniest cat was a palm-sized tiddler that lived in China 300,000 years ago
- Diagnostic dilemma: A woman started sweating blood from her face and hands
January 14
- What's in the pink fire retardant being dropped on LA, and is it dangerous?
- Woman's sudden hearing loss turned out to be a tick lodged in her ear canal
- Famous Sutton Hoo helmet may be clue that early Anglo-Saxons fought as mercenaries for Byzantine Empire, study suggests
- New supergiant 'Darth Vader' sea bug discovered in South China Sea — and it's absolutely massive
- China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than 'all the oil on Earth'
- Earth's moon could've had Saturn-like rings, new study hints
- IVF may raise risk of certain disorders in babies — and epigenetic 'signatures' in the placenta could explain why
- Scientists discover 'sunken worlds' hidden deep within Earth's mantle that shouldn't be there
- Something invisible and 'fuzzy' may lurk at the Milky Way's center, new research suggests
- Earth from space: Svalbard's radioactive 'Bear Island' surrounded by rare cloud swirls and a giant algal bloom
January 13
- Lasers reveal hidden patterns in tattoos of 1,200-year-old Peru mummies
- 'Unusual' and weak La Niña finally here, NOAA confirms
- 10th-century woman buried with weapons in Hungary is 1st of her kind, but researchers are hesitant to call her a warrior
- New treatment for most aggressive brain cancer may help patients live longer
- See Mercury's frigid north pole in extraordinary new images from the BepiColombo spacecraft
- Excavations at Queen Hatshepsut's mortuary temple reveal elaborate burials, decorated blocks and ancient tools
- Enormous skull of 200-million-year-old giant dinosaur discovered in China
- Tiny AI chip modeled on the human brain set to boost battery life in smart devices
- Why we need parasites, despite them leeching life from others
- Giant 'kidney beans' spotted in Mars satellite images could point to signs of water and life
- Doban-kun: A 'cute' human-shaped counting tool from prehistoric Japan
January 12
- 'Red flags' raised over ancient sea monster pulled from Moroccan mine
- Nuclear fusion could be the clean energy of the future — but these 'tough' challenges stand in the way
- Space photo of the week: The tilted spiral galaxy that took Hubble 23 years to capture
- Do bay leaves actually add flavor, or is it all a con?
January 11
- 1st-of-its-kind database reveals how DNA mutations 'destabilize' proteins, triggering genetic disease
- 'I was shaking when I first unearthed it': 11th-century silver coin hoard unearthed in England
- Ancient 'Stonehenge' in Golan Heights may not be astronomical observatory after all, archaeologists say
- Turkey vulture: The bird that vomits acid up to 10 feet and poops antiseptic onto its legs
- Which animal has the longest tail?
- Science news this week: Snowstorms, fire and Yellowstone's next eruption
- Ferns can evolve 'backward,' scientists discover
January 10
- Enormous, mountain-size asteroid will be visible from Earth this weekend in rare 'once in a decade' event
- 'Wake-up call' as hookworm parasites that infect pets and people grow drug resistant
- 'Big surprise' reveals supposed skull of 'Cleopatra's sister' actually belongs to an 11-year-old boy
- Stark 'drought' maps reveal just why wildfires have blazed through Los Angeles
- 2024 was the hottest year on record, and the 1st to breach the 1.5 C global warming limit, data reveals
- Oldest-known dinosaur in North America is a 'chicken-size' raptor — and changes what we know about how dinos conquered Earth
- X-class solar flares hit a new record in 2024 and could spike further this year — but the sun isn't entirely to blame, experts say
- Passenger plane with entirely new 'blended wing' shape aims to hit the skies by 2030
- 1,700-year-old Roman hoard includes gold coins depicting illegitimate emperor
- Antarctica 'pyramid': The strangely symmetrical mountain that sparked a major alien conspiracy theory
- 'The Majoron' — a bizarre particle that's its own opposite — could explain the biggest mysteries of the universe, scientists claim
- The full Wolf Moon rises tonight (Jan. 13). Here's how to watch it block Mars from the sky.
January 9
- Cybertruck-looking 'mobile aircraft carrier' developed in China can hide away and launch a 2-person flying car
- Scientists discover new kind of cartilage that looks like fat-filled 'Bubble Wrap'
- There's a speed limit to human thought — and it's ridiculously low
- Mars rock samples may contain evidence of alien life, but can NASA get them back to Earth?
- 'Red balloon' sprouts from baby's back due to birth defect
- Medieval crowns of Eastern European royalty hidden in cathedral wall since World War II finally recovered
- New NASA robot with X-ray vision will watch Earth 'breathing' from the moon
- We finally know where the Yellowstone volcano will erupt next
- 2,700-year-old archaeological site in Jordan may be a biblical place visited by King David
- Looking for a fitness-orientated smartwatch with a bargain price tag? The Garmin Instinct 2 has just hit its lowest-ever price
- See a 'parade' of 6 planets fill the sky on Saturday night — before a bonus 7th planet joins in March
- Mars at opposition: See the Red Planet at its best and brightest this week — or wait until 2027
- 800-mile-long 'DUNE' experiment could reveal the hidden dimensions of the universe
- Tularemia: The 'rabbit fever' that can fatally infect humans
January 8
- 'Reanimated' herpes viruses lurking in the brain may link concussions and dementia
- Santa Ana winds: What is causing the deadly fires sweeping across Los Angeles?
- Woman hospitalized with heat stroke after using sauna for 45 minutes
- How to watch the full Wolf Moon 'swallow' Mars in the sky tonight — no telescope required
- Most of the atoms in your body left the Milky Way on a 'cosmic conveyor belt' long before you were born, new study reveals
- Physicist claims to have solved the infamous 'grandfather paradox,' making time travel (theoretically) possible
- Rare comet could shine bright as Venus as it falls toward the sun: What to expect from Comet ATLAS (C/2024) G3
- Early study reveals why sleeping pills may not supply the best-quality snooze
- Giant funnel-web spider with fangs so big it could bite through a human fingernail arrives at Australian zoo
- Never-before-seen parasite is resistant to ivermectin
- Diagnostic dilemma: A woman's nut allergy was triggered after sex
January 7
- 'Huge fortune' from the 1600s, including gold and silver coins, found in German church where Martin Luther preached
- 4,100-year-old tomb of doctor who treated pharaohs discovered at Saqqara
- 2,000-year-old painted penis bone found in quarry shaft from Roman Britain
- James Webb telescope spies record-breaking hoard of stars hiding in a warped 'dragon' galaxy
- Scientists examine bloody mating wounds to reveal details of sharks' secret sex lives
- Tibet earthquake: Deadly magnitude 7.1 quake hits holy city of Shigatse
- Earth from space: Pakistan's 'bleeding ink' lagoon brings life to harsh desert environment
- Nvidia's mini 'desktop supercomputer' is 1,000 times more powerful than a laptop — and it can fit in your bag
- 'Multiverse simulation engine' predicts every possible future to train humanoid robots and self-driving cars
January 6
- 1st deadly case of H5N1 bird flu reported in US
- What's the best way to kill norovirus, the 'stomach bug'?
- Scientists find hidden 'hotspot' that helped create the Great Lakes before North America even existed
- What is thundersnow? The weird weather phenomenon rumbling through the East Coast and Midwest
- Mysterious climate-changing eruption that turned the sun blue traced to remote Pacific island
- Yellowstone's 'queen of the wolves' killed by rival pack after living to 11 years old and having 10 litters of pups
- Antarctica ice melt could cause 100 hidden volcanoes to erupt
- Dancing dwarf: A 2,300-year-old ancient Egyptian statue of a godlike man with a muscular 6-pack
- What temperature is the moon?
January 5
- Our ancient primate ancestors mostly had twins — humans don't, for a good evolutionary reason
- Why time slows down in altered states of consciousness
- Honda promises solid-state batteries that could double EV range to 620 miles by 2030
- Roman Empire grew after catastrophic volcanic eruption, study finds
- AI could crack unsolvable problems — and humans won't be able to understand the results
- 2,100-year-old coin hoard dating to dynasty of Jewish kings discovered in Jordan Valley
- Space photo of the week: Hubble celebrates 10 years of hunting giants
- How do DNA tests tell if two people are related?
January 4
- Hypnosis is real — and it can help with IBS, poor sleep and anxiety, experts say
- Quantum computers that are actually useful 1 step closer thanks to new silicon processor that could pack millions of qubits
- Orange dwarf cave crocodiles: The crocs that crawled into a cave, ate bats, and started mutating into a new species
- Just 2 hours is all it takes for AI agents to replicate your personality with 85% accuracy
- Chinese 'robot dog' that moves like a cat could revolutionize space exploration and asteroid mining
- Are cats and dogs smarter than babies?
- Science news this week: Polar vortices and volcanoes undersea
January 3
- 'Single crystal' electrodes could power EVs for millions of miles
- 1,500 ancient European genomes reveal previously hidden waves of migration, study finds
- Grieving orca mom carries dead calf around on her head for a 2nd time
- 1,700-year-old oil lamp found in Jerusalem shows a rare Jewish menorah, even though the Romans tried to suppress the religion
- Superfast diamond-laced computer chips now much closer to reality thanks to 'quantum breakthrough'
- Viral disease HMPV is on the rise among kids in China — what is it?
- Massive piece of space junk crashes into village in Kenya — and officials still have no idea where it came from
- How a new generation of 'smart windows' could keep you warm in winter and cool in summer
- Saturn will disappear behind the moon for skywatchers in Europe on Saturday. Here's how to see it.
- Weird bumps in UK quarry turn out to be 166 million-year-old dinosaur 'highway' for some of Jurassic's biggest dinosaurs
- Tristan da Cunha: The most remote inhabited island on Earth, forged from a supercontinent breakup
- Qubits inspired by 'Schrödinger's cat' thought experiment could usher in powerful quantum computers by 2030
January 2
- Pet cats in Los Angeles County are catching bird flu from raw food, milk
- Undersea volcano off Oregon coast could erupt this year, geologists predict
- Healthy breast cells can look like invasive cancer, complicating early diagnosis
- What counts as 'binge drinking'? What about 'high-intensity drinking'?
- Lost site of Alexander the Great's famous battle against ancient Persians discovered in Turkey
- Polar vortex could bring deadly winter storms and coldest weather in more than a decade to US
- Do crabs feel pain?
- 'Missing link' black hole found? Not so fast, new study says
- Quadrantid meteor shower: How to watch the first 'shooting stars' of 2025 rain over Earth tonight
- Situs inversus: The condition where your organs are on the 'wrong' side
January 1
- A Chinese spacecraft burned up over Los Angeles. Earthquake sensors mapped its path through the atmosphere.
- The 10 best stargazing events of 2025
- Full moons of 2025: When is the next full moon?
- Diagnostic dilemma: A surgeon accidentally transplanted a tumor into his own hand
- A disease unknown to science could spark the next pandemic. Are we prepared?