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March 31
- James Webb telescope takes emergency look at 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 ahead of close encounter in 2032
- In 'extremely rare' case, Michigan resident dies from rabies after receiving transplanted kidney carrying the virus
- Powerful X-class solar flare caught on camera erupting from sun's surface
- AI models will lie to you to achieve their goals — and it doesn't take much
March 30
- Multiple species of ticks in the US can transmit red meat allergy, CDC reports reveal
- James Webb telescope could find signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds
- Black holes may obey the laws of physics after all, new theory suggests
- Watch eerie video of humanoid robot 'army' marching naturally, thanks to a major AI upgrade
March 29
- Perseverance rover spots peculiar 'spider egg' rock on Mars — and scientists have no idea how it got there
- China now has a 'kill mesh' in orbit, Space Force vice chief says
- Traumatizing AI models by talking about war or violence makes them more anxious
- Mathematicians solve vexing 'crowd problem' that explains why public spaces devolve into chaos
- Science news this week: 'Cosmic tornadoes' and a surprise from ancient Egypt's pyramids
March 28
- Mysterious artifacts from King Tut's tomb might have been used in 'awakening Osiris' ritual
- 'Totally unexpected' galaxy discovered by James Webb telescope defies our understanding of the early universe
- 'This is a very big earthquake': The science behind Myanmar's magnitude 7.7 earthquake
- Scientists uncover 'inside-out, legless, headless wonder' that lived long before the dinosaurs
- Huge steam plume rises from Alaska's Mount Spurr as volcano edges closer to eruption
- Fish in the Mariana Trench all have the same, unique mutations
- Staring at the March 29 solar eclipse can cause eye damage in seconds — and you won’t even feel it happening
- 'Woolly devil' flowers in Texas desert are the 1st new plant genus discovered in a US national park in almost 50 years
- Flat, razor-thin telescope lens could change the game in deep space imaging — and production could start soon
- Eclipse map: What will tomorrow's solar eclipse look like from your state?
- 4 snow leopards spotted together on remote Pakistan mountain in rare footage
March 27
- Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life
- James Webb telescope zooms in on bizarre 'Einstein ring' caused by bending of the universe
- How to watch tomorrow's solar eclipse from anywhere on Earth
- This might be the best exercise bike deal ever: NordicTrack exercise bike 41% off in the Amazon Big Spring Sale — a massive $610 saving
- New cells discovered in eye could help restore vision, scientists say
- Human sacrifices found in a Bronze Age tomb in Turkey were mostly teenage girls
- James Webb telescope captures auroras on Neptune for first time ever
- Current AI models a 'dead end' for human-level intelligence, scientists agree
- 'Fish odor syndrome': A rare metabolic condition that makes sweat smell like rotten fish
- Why modern humans have smaller faces than Neanderthals and chimpanzees
March 26
- Archaeologists may have finally discovered famous 'lost' canal built by Julius Caesar's uncle
- Scientists unveil new type of 'time crystal' that defies our traditional understanding of time and motion
- Brain aging accelerates dramatically around age 44 — could ketone supplements help?
- Never-before-seen chain of volcanoes discovered hiding near the Cook Islands
- 2,200-year-old mysterious pyramid structure filled with coins and weapons found near Dead Sea
- China's superfast charging technology is twice as fast as Tesla's — fully recharging EVs in just 6 minutes
- 'Exceptional' hoard of 800 Iron Age artifacts found mysteriously burned and buried in UK field
- What time does the solar eclipse start tomorrow?
- Scientists thought sharks didn't make sounds — until this accidental discovery
March 25
- Auroras possible in a dozen US states tonight as 'coronal hole' unleashes particle storm on Earth
- Dying SpaceX rocket triggers giant spiral of light above UK and Europe during secret mission
- James Webb telescope reveals 'cosmic tornado' in best detail ever — and finds part of it is not what it seems
- Elusive 'Blaze Star' nova could finally appear in our skies this week after multiple false alarms
- 'Exquisitely preserved' ginormous claws from Mongolia reveal strange evolution in dinosaurs
- 'Very rare' black hole energy jet discovered tearing through a spiral galaxy shaped like our own
- 25,000-year-old mammoth bones reveal culture of ancient humans
- Scientists discover new 15 million-year old fish with last meal fossilized inside its stomach
- Alef's Model A — a single-seater 'retro' flying car — is 1 step closer to taking to the skies
- 'Unlike any objects we know': Scientists get their best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling at the Milky Way's center
March 24
- 'Extremely Large Telescope' being built in Chile could detect signs of alien life in a single night
- Ancient Egyptian pyramids, thought to contain only the elite, may also hold low-class laborers
- 'Potentially hazardous' pyramid-size asteroid will make its closest flyby of Earth for more than 100 years this Wednesday
- China's new 2D transistor could soon be used to make the world's fastest processors
- Which states will see the solar eclipse tomorrow — and which will see a 'double sunrise'?
March 23
- Stephen Hawking's black hole theory has big implications for the shape of the universe, new study claims
- Silent X chromosome genes 'reawaken' in older females, perhaps boosting brain power, study finds
- In a 1st, trial finds vitamin D supplements may slow multiple sclerosis. But questions remain.
- Self-bending beams can deliver sound waves only to your ear in a crowd
March 22
- Scientists break down cheap plastic using the air — and turn it into something far more valuable
- Record-setting black hole 'echo' accidentally uncovered by high-school student
- Scientists discover smallest galaxy ever seen: 'It's like having a perfectly functional human being that's the size of a grain of rice'
- Science news this week: 'Stranded' astronauts return and mystery human ancestor
March 21
- Global sea levels rose a whopping 125 feet after the last ice age
- 3,200-year-old Egyptian tomb may belong to military commander who served under Ramesses III
- Atacama Telescope reveals earliest-ever 'baby pictures' of the universe: 'We can see right back through cosmic history'
- New AI is better at weather prediction than supercomputers — and it consumes 1000s of times less energy
- Are you protected against measles? Do you need a booster shot? Everything you need to know about immunity
- Yellowstone's iconic bison herds have merged into a single entity after 100 years of wandering the park
- Chinese scientists use laser drones to count the country's trees — all 142.6 billion of them
- Scientists create ultra-efficient magnetic 'universal memory' that consumes much less energy than previous prototypes
- 'We had less than a 2% chance to find this': James Webb telescope uncovers baffling 'Big Wheel', one of the most massive galaxies in the early universe
March 20
- 30,000-year-old fossilized vulture feathers 'nothing like what we usually see' preserved in volcanic ash
- First data from Euclid space telescope reveals 26 million galaxies — and another 1.4 billion are on the way
- Octopus spotted riding on top of world's fastest shark
- Chickens sprouted dino-like feathers when scientists messed with the Sonic Hedgehog gene
- 'Bonobo genius' Kanzi, who could understand English and play Minecraft, dies at 44
- Futuristic, 'alien-like' nuclear fusion rockets developed in total secret could revolutionize space travel — if they actually work
- Biological secrets of world's oldest woman, Maria Branyas Morera, revealed after death
- 'I was astonished': Ancient galaxy discovered by James Webb telescope contains the oldest oxygen scientists have ever seen
- Smallest human relative ever found may have been devoured by a leopard 2 million years ago
- New 'microcomb' chip brings us closer to super accurate, fingertip-sized atomic clocks
- Ancient Egyptian soldiers and Greek mercenaries were at 'Armageddon' when biblical king was killed, study suggests
- What is babesiosis? The parasitic infection that 'eats' your red blood cells
March 19
- 'The universe has thrown us a curveball': Largest-ever map of space reveals we might have gotten dark energy totally wrong
- Stonehenge isn't the oldest monument of its kind in England, study reveals
- Watch enormous deep-sea spiders crawl around sub-Antarctic seafloor
- Venus goes 'new moon' as it passes between Earth and the sun this weekend
- NASA reveals a sunset on the moon in high definition for the 1st time
- 4 tiny, Earth-like planets found circling 2nd-closest star system to us — and could be visited by future human generations
- 'Love hormone' oxytocin can pause pregnancy, animal study finds
- Google's 'moonshot factory' creates new internet with fingernail-sized chip that fires data around the world using light beams
- Scientists find evidence of 'supernova graveyard' at the bottom of the sea — and possibly on the surface of the moon
- Scientists create new map showing ice-free Antarctica in more detail than ever before
- Diagnostic dilemma: After surgery, a 17-year-old could speak only a foreign language
March 18
- 'Welcome home!': NASA astronauts who spent 9 months in orbit finally back on Earth
- 'Not enough survives to read the king's name': Tomb discovered of unknown ancient Egyptian pharaoh
- Alaskan volcano Mount Spurr showing activity that will 'most likely end in an explosive eruption,' scientist says
- 2,200-year-old shackles discovered at ancient Egyptian gold mine
- NASA captures stunning new image of shock waves from next-gen supersonic plane as it flies across the sun
- 1st glacier declared dead from climate change seen in before and after images — Earth from space
- Vernal equinox: How to see spring begin, just by looking at the stars
- 'Mystery population' of human ancestors gave us 20% of our genes and may have boosted our brain function
March 17
- NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were carried away on stretchers after return from space. Here's why that's normal.
- European hunter-gatherers boated to North Africa during Stone Age, ancient DNA suggests
- Iguanas sailed one-fifth of the way around the world on rafts 34 million years ago
- 'More people are in harm's way': Tornadoes are shifting east of Tornado Alley, forecasters warn
- Venomous snake with 3 fangs may be the 'most dangerous death adder in the world'
- When will the 'stranded' NASA astronauts return to Earth?
- March 29 solar eclipse: Don't miss the rare sunrise solar eclipse over North America tomorrow
- Punishing AI doesn't stop it from lying and cheating — it just makes it hide better, study shows
- Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind
- Mechanical Dog: A 'good boy' from ancient Egypt that has a red tongue and 'barks'
- What's the oldest lake on Earth?
March 16
- AI analysis of 100 hours of real conversations — and the brain activity underpinning them — reveals how humans understand language
- Mice administer 'first-aid' to friends — even trying to bring the dead back to life
- Google's AI 'co-scientist' cracked 10-year superbug problem in just 2 days
- Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope's view of the Flame Nebula is a 'quantum leap' forward for astronomers
- Do sperm really race to the egg?
March 15
- Sparklemuffin peacock spider: The spider with secret iridescent scales that busts a move to win a mate
- James Webb telescope spots 'rogue' planet with a cake-like atmosphere barrelling through space without a star
- Why is it still so hard to make nuclear weapons?
- Science news this week: Blood moon and a mysterious mummy
March 14
- Finally! NASA and SpaceX launch Crew-10 mission to bring 'stranded' ISS astronauts back to Earth
- Watch: Spacecraft films 'diamond ring' solar eclipse from the surface of the moon as 'blood moon' looms over Earth
- Apollo gold ring with 'healing serpent' found in 2,000-year-old tomb in Greece
- China's Manus AI 'agent' could be our 1st glimpse at artificial general intelligence
- Could the universe ever stop expanding? New theory proposes a cosmic 'off switch'
- Ocean's 'heart' is slowing down — and it will affect the entire planet's circulation
- 'Blood moon' total lunar eclipse: Stunning photos of our celestial neighbor turning red over the Americas
- Refuge from the worst mass extinction in Earth's history discovered fossilized in China
- 'The most shameful form of execution': Han warriors found dismembered in 2,100-year-old mass grave in Mongolia
- People find AI more compassionate than mental health experts, study finds. What could this mean for future counseling?
- Mount Washington: Home to 'the world's worst weather' with record wind speeds of 231 mph
- How do we know pi is an irrational number?
March 13
- Scientists turn light into a 'supersolid' for the 1st time ever: What that means, and why it matters
- Neanderthals, modern humans and a mysterious human lineage mingled in caves in ancient Israel, study finds
- Saturn gains 128 new moons, giving it more than the rest of the solar system combined
- 'Pregnant' ancient Egyptian mummy with 'cancer' actually wasn't pregnant and didn't have cancer, new study finds
- China achieves quantum supremacy claim with new chip 1 quadrillion times faster than the most powerful supercomputers
- Epigenetic 'scars' on the genome can be passed down by grandmothers, study finds
- POLG diseases: Rare genetic conditions that starve cells of energy and afflicted the late Prince of Luxembourg
March 12
- Jewish ritual bath discovered near Rome is the 'oldest discovery of its kind in the world'
- Rare mammoth tusk found on West Texas ranch
- Most ancient Europeans had dark skin, eyes and hair up until 3,000 years ago, new research finds
- Human ancestors arrived in Western Europe much earlier than previously thought, fossil face fragments reveal
- Liftoff! NASA launches SPHEREx telescope — an infrared observatory that will help JWST solve the mysteries of the universe
- 340 million-year-old 'nail tooth' shark found deep inside Mammoth Cave in Kentucky
- Quantum-inspired storage can store 100s of terabytes of data on a tiny crystal — with plans to make them into much larger discs
- A giant extraterrestrial 'wave' hit Earth 14 million years ago — and may have dramatically altered our planet's climate
- 2,200-year-old grave in China contains 'Red Princess of the Silk Road' whose teeth were painted with a toxic substance
- Diagnostic dilemma: Growing weed with bat poop left 2 men with deadly infections
March 11
- Evidence for Stephen Hawking's unproven black hole theory may have just been found — at the bottom of the sea
- The universe's water is billions of years older than scientists thought — and may be nearly as old as the Big Bang itself
- Scientists discover giant blobs deep inside Earth are 'evolving by themselves' — and we may finally know where they come from
- 'A political division, not a physical one, determined who got measles and who didn't': Lessons from Texarkana's 1970 outbreak
- East Asians who can digest lactose can thank Neanderthal genes
- 'Take shelter!': Tornado strikes Florida's Seminole County, destroying homes and interrupting live TV broadcast
- China creates powerful spy satellite capable of seeing facial details from low orbit
- Nanoparticle breakthrough could bring 'holy grail' of solar power within reach
- Is ranch dressing a liquid or a solid? It's actually a 5th state of matter.
- Earth from space: Erupting 'sharkcano' spits out a giant underwater plume in Oceania
March 10
- Top-secret X-37B space plane returns to Earth in dead of night after mysterious 434-day mission, US military reveals
- 'Find of a lifetime': 15th-century gold and silver coins discovered by amateur metal detectorists in Scotland
- 'Winter is far from over': Polar vortex reversal could bring springtime snow to US
- 52-foot-high 'megaripples' from asteroid that killed the dinosaurs mapped deep beneath Louisiana in 3D
- Astronomers identify a celestial '3-body problem' lurking in the outer solar system
- 166 million-year-old fossil found on Isle of Skye belongs to pony-size dinosaur from Jurassic
- We may finally understand how metformin lowers blood sugar, animal study finds
- When is cancer considered cured, versus in remission?
- New AI model converts your thought into full written speech by harnessing your brain's magnetic signals
- Saucer-like 'Winnebago' space capsule lands in Australia — marking 1st for commercial space industry
- Scientists spot water molecules flipping before they split, and it could help them produce cheaper hydrogen fuel
- Onfim's doodle: A 13th-century kid's self-portrait on horseback, slaying an enemy
March 9
- Megalodon may have grown up to 80 feet long — far larger than previous estimates
- NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft: 'Every day could be our last.'
- Space photo of the week: Hubble hunts a stellar 'imposter' hiding in the Great Bear
- Pet cats arrived in China via the Silk Road 1,400 years ago, ancient DNA study finds
- Do 'elephant graveyards' really exist?
March 8
- 'In that moment, that was everything to me': Patient describes joy of regaining vision in 1 eye after new stem cell therapy
- Northwestern Morocco was inhabited long before the Phoenicians arrived, 4,200-year-old settlement reveals
- AGI could now arrive as early as 2026 — but not all scientists agree
- Was medieval armor bulletproof?
- Science news this week: Gravitational memory and woolly mice
- Science at a crossroads: Dispatches from Friday's 'Stand Up for Science' rallies across the US
March 7
- 'We're disappointed in the outcome': NASA shares photo of sideways Intuitive Machines moon lander, which died 12 hours after touchdown
- 28,000-year-old Neanderthal-and-human 'Lapedo child' lived tens of thousands of years after our closest relatives went extinct
- 'Let's just study males and keep it simple': How excluding female animals from research held neuroscience back, and could do so again
- Massive Mesopotamian canal network unearthed in Iraq
- 'This is by far the oldest': Scientists discover 3.47 billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Australian outback
- Watch: SpaceX Starship explodes mid-flight for a 2nd time this year, raining fiery debris over Florida
- Scientists invent 3D-printed penis implant to restore erections — and it works in rabbits and pigs
- 2nd measles death reported in US outbreak was in New Mexico adult
- Mount Roraima: The 'lost world' isolated for millions of years that Indigenous people call the 'house of the gods'
- World's 1st modular quantum computer that can operate at room temperature goes online
- 29,000-year-old remains of child unearthed in Thailand cave with 'symbols of blood and power'
- Global sea ice levels hit worrying new low
March 6
- 'This doesn't appear in computer simulations': Hubble maps chaotic history of Andromeda galaxy, and it's nothing like scientists expected
- Powerful 'equinox auroras' may arrive soon: Why changing seasons can bring the best northern lights
- 'Mini placentas' in a dish reveal key gene for pregnancy
- Golden scaleless cave fish discovered in China shows evolution in action
- Unproven Einstein theory of 'gravitational memory' may be real after all, new study hints
- The rare genetic disorder that causes severe itchiness and liver failure
March 5
- 2,600-year-old jewelry stash from ancient Egypt includes gold statuette depicting family of gods
- CDC data reveal plummeting rate of cervical precancers in young US women — down by 80%
- Poisoning or bacterial meningitis could be behind dozens of mysterious deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 1.5 million-year-old bone tools crafted by human ancestors in Tanzania are oldest of their kind
- Poll: Should we bring back woolly mammoths?
- Animal kingdom's most powerful puncher generates a 'phononic shield' to protect itself
- 'Queen of icebergs' A23a grounds off South Atlantic wildlife haven
- Scientists discover simpler way to achieve Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance' thanks to AI breakthrough — bringing quantum internet closer to reality
- 'Planet parade' ends with a rare conjunction of Venus and Mercury at sunset. Here's how to watch.
- Scientists realize 'Viking' shipwreck is something else entirely
- Diagnostic dilemma: Speed eating a 7-pound burger sent a man to ER unable to pass gas
- 2,400-year-old puppets with 'dramatic facial expression' discovered atop pyramid in El Salvador
March 4
- Hoard of silver Roman coins found in UK — and some date to reign of Marcus Aurelius
- Brain damage reported in 13% of kids who have died of flu this season, CDC finds
- 125 million-year-old fossil of giant venomous scorpion that lived alongside dinosaurs discovered in China
- What counts as a phobia?
- Ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria — the birthplace of Cleopatra — is crumbling into the sea at an unprecedented rate
- New stem cell therapy could repair 'irreversible' and blinding eye damage, trial finds
- 'We didn't know they were going to be this cute': Scientists unveil genetically engineered 'woolly mice'
- Where will the 'Blood Moon' total lunar eclipse be visible in March 2025?
- Watch this humanlike robot 'rise from the dead' with creepy speed and stability
- Spectacular photo taken from ISS shows 'gigantic jet' of upward-shooting lightning towering 50 miles over New Orleans
- Gut bacteria imbalance linked to multiple sclerosis
- Earth from space: Giant, pyramid-like 'star dunes' slowly wander across Moroccan desert
March 3
- 'Extraordinary' timber circle discovered in Denmark is roughly the same age as Stonehenge
- 'Einstein's equations need to be refined': Tweaks to general relativity could finally explain what lies at the heart of a black hole
- 'Primordial' helium from the birth of the solar system may be stuck in Earth's core
- Sunrise on the moon captured by Blue Ghost spacecraft after NASA and Firefly Aerospace announce successful lunar landing
- 1,500-year-old skeleton found in chains in Jerusalem was a female 'extreme ascetic'
- Key to faster 6G speeds lies in letting new AI architecture take control, scientists say
- Yup'ik masks: Carvings depicting distorted spirits' faces dreamed up by shamans in Alaska
- When did modern humans reach each of the 7 continents?
March 2
- Ancient seafloor spreading 15 million years ago caused sea levels to plummet
- Italy's Campi Flegrei volcano may unleash devastating eruptions more often than we thought, ancient outburst suggests
- Katy Perry will launch to space with historic all-female crew on Blue Origin rocket
- Space photo of the week: The last view of the 'Great Comet of 2025' for half a million years
- Why do cats make a weird face after smelling something?
- If life can exist in your stomach, it can exist on Mars. Here's what it might look like.
March 1
- Scientists describe new type of fat in human bellies
- 'Cosmic Horseshoe' may contain black hole the size of 36 billion suns — one of the largest ever detected
- King of the cave centipede: The deadly, blind giant that evolved in the darkness of a Romanian cave
- Fortifications older than the Great Wall of China discovered in Chinese mountain pass
- Why can't you tickle yourself?
- Science news this week: Pompeii's secretive cults and mysterious structures in our solar system