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- August 11
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- Coronavirus outbreak: Live updates
- Russia approves 'Sputnik V' COVID-19 vaccine with little human testing
- COVID-19 has fueled more than 2,000 rumors and conspiracy theories
- If you've never gazed upon the bald butt of a baby tarantula, now's your chance
- New Zealand reports first local COVID-19 transmission in 102 days
- Woolly mammoth with preserved poop, wool and ligaments dredged from Siberian lake
- 4,500-year-old 'timber circles' discovered in Portugal
- NASA spacecraft gets a look at one of the strangest places in the solar system
- Landmark transplant in 1960s Virginia performed with heart stolen from a Black man
- Book excerpt: 'The Organ Thieves' (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
- Amazing photos of nocturnal animals
- August 10
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- 2 captive beluga whales finally freed to a seawater sanctuary in Iceland
- Canada's last intact ice shelf just collapsed
- Is our solar system shaped like a deflated croissant?
- What is brain death? New guidelines offer answers.
- New Zealand goes 100 days with no COVID-19 transmission
- Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' Episode 46: Mysterious Elephants
- Decoys could trick COVID-19, keep humans safe from infection
- Pandemic childcare is way more stressful for moms than dads
- August 9
- August 8
- August 7
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- What is taxonomy?
- Wear a mask: You could help save 66,000 lives in the US
- Physicists watch quantum particles tunnel through solid barriers. Here's what they found.
- Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' special report: Coronavirus (August 6)
- Mysterious 'fast radio burst' detected closer to Earth than ever before
- Sly fox steals 100 shoes in Berlin, and he's not the first
- August 6
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- 4 die from drinking tainted hand sanitizer, CDC reports
- Mystery ancestor mated with ancient humans. And its 'nested' DNA was just found.
- China launches 2 satellites from Gobi Desert
- Scythelike jaws of Cretaceous 'hell ant' clutch a baby cockroach in an amber tomb
- 'Busy' hurricane season is about to get a whole lot busier, NOAA says
- Trump says 'NASA was Closed & Dead' before he took charge. That's not true.
- Weird 'broomstick' necked Triassic reptile named after mythical Greek sea monster
- Heavy atom spills its guts in decade-long experiment
- August 5
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- Common colds train the immune system to recognize COVID-19
- Poop stains visible from space reveal hidden colonies of Antarctic penguins
- Convalescent plasma could reduce death from COVID-19, early data suggests
- The Congo River Basin: Home of the deepest river in the world
- Does coronavirus linger in the body?
- Beirut blast: How does ammonium nitrate create such devastating explosions?
- Massive ancient temple complex may lurk beneath famous Northern Ireland fort
- Here is the best place on Earth to see stars, according to science
- August 4
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- Fall could bring rare, paralyzing illness in children, CDC warns
- 'Mono' virus turns on cancer-related genes. Here's how.
- Humpback whale charges swimmers in Australia, sends two to hospital
- Thousands of Earthlike 'blanets' might circle the Milky Way's central black hole
- The Live Science merch store is back with more science-y gear
- Isaias treks up the East Coast, threatening strong winds, tornadoes
- 1st intact evidence of Incas' underwater ritual offerings found in a lake in the Andes
- Ancient Mars may have been covered in ice sheets
- What's the risk of catching COVID-19 on public transportation?
- August 3
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- Two Canadian ice caps have completely vanished from the Arctic, NASA imagery shows
- Fauci: No one can predict how bad the pandemic will get this fall
- Tropical storm Isaias forecast to strengthen into a hurricane before hitting the Carolinas
- After being swallowed alive, water beetle stages 'backdoor' escape from frog's gut
- 'I prayed for this one,' SpaceX's Elon Musk says after NASA astronauts' splashdown success
- Dogs may sense Earth's magnetic field and use it like a compass
- Evolution turned this fish into a 'penis with a heart.' Here's how.
- 55 million-year-old owl with 'murder feet' unearthed
- August 2
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