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October 28
- Does this 'Godzilla' nebula really look like a space lizard?
- Ancient golden mask from Peru was painted with human blood
October 27
- Running headphones deals: get the best price on these workout essentials
- Treadmill deals: which is the right treadmill deal for you?
- Great-grandson of iconic Native American leader Sitting Bull confirmed by DNA analysis
- What are cosmic rays?
- 'New hidden world' discovered in Earth's inner core
- Talking dinosaur invades UN to give climate change speech in bizarre, yet brilliant, new video
- WWII 'ghost ships' rise from Pacific after volcanic eruption
- Oxytocin: Facts about the 'cuddle hormone'
- Great white sharks can't see a difference between humans and prey
- Bronze Age Tarim mummies aren't who scientists thought they were
- The Roman Empire: Rulers, expansion and fall
- Henry VIII's favorite ship has a bacteria problem, and now scientists have ID'ed the culprits
- What is a singularity?
- Hidden Maya complexes hint that the famous calendar was already in use 3,400 years ago
- Photos: The beginnings of Maya civilization
- Corpse Flower: Facts about the smelly plant
- What's the world's longest bridge?
October 26
- Parasitic birds 'exercise' in their eggs, hatch … and then pulverize their nestmates
- FDA panel recommends Pfizer vaccine for children ages 5 to 11
- 1st exoplanet outside the Milky Way possibly discovered
- Rowing machines on sale: Get a great deal on a rowing machine
- Rise in H5N6 bird flu may be explained by more-infectious variant, experts worry
- Sorry folks: 'Alien' signal from Proxima Centauri was likely just a broken computer on Earth
- Earth tipped on its side (and back again) in 'cosmic yo-yo' 84 million years ago
- These retouched photos of Shackelton's 1914 expedition look like they were taken yesterday
- Wildfires burned Antarctica 75 million years ago, charcoal remnants reveal
October 25
- Watermelon: Health benefits, risks & nutrition facts
- Oral B electric toothbrush deals
- 'Rogue' antibodies found in brains of teens with delusions and paranoia after COVID-19
- Moderna says COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective in children
- Is the rowing machine a good workout?
- How did ancient people store food before refrigeration?
- Wreck of US ship that hunted Nazi spies in the Arctic finally discovered
- Giant purpleblack flying squid photobombs crew investigating shipwreck
- 'Lost extinction,' uncovered for the first time, claimed more than 60% of Africa's primates
- Tiny 'immortal' crab entombed in amber discovered in a first of its kind
- China just test-fired a massive solid-fueled rocket
October 24
- A 'bomb cyclone' is battering much of California
- 2.5 billion-year-old traces of life locked inside primeval ruby
- When did Constantinople become Istanbul?
October 23
- 8 powerful female figures of ancient Rome
- Why do men's eyebrows get bushier with age?
October 22
- 8 benefits of stretching
- Deadly bacteria found in aromatherapy spray sold at Walmart
- After rampant ivory poaching, some African elephants lost their tusks — Why?
- Home workout ideas: how to get fit at home
- Jupiter hit by another space rock in rare views captured by Japanese skywatchers
- Weird stellar remnant may be from one of the first stars in the universe
- Human heart: Anatomy, function & facts
- How are alligators and crocodiles different?
- Earth's spin has slowed. But we still may need a negative leap second.
- The Maya: History, civilization & gods
- Earth may be trapped inside a giant magnetic tunnel
- Blackened mummy cake found intact 79 years after WWII air raid
- Baby octopuses grow hundreds of temporary organs, then lose them without a trace
October 21
- Sheriff reveals what killed California family of hikers
- Large Salmonella outbreak linked to onions, CDC warns
- Air purifiers on sale: Deals and stock updates
- Woman infected with COVID-19 for 335 days — longest on record
- Should you mix and match COVID-19 vaccines?
- Human head carvings and phallus-shaped pillars discovered at 11,000-year-old site in Turkey
- Jurassic graveyard reveals oldest evidence that dinosaurs traveled in herds
- Does yoga build muscle?
- Triassic dinosaur with giant 'murder feet' wasn't so big after all, scientists find
- Oldest ghost drawing discovered on Babylonian exorcism tablet
- Failed Russian spy satellite falls to Earth in brilliant fireball (video)
- What is CRISPR?
October 20
- Six ways to keep exercising in winter
- How to use an electric toothbrush
- What is DOMS?
- Giant ram head statues found on 'Avenue of Sphinxes' in Egypt
- Pig kidney successfully hooked up to human patient in watershed experiment
- What causes sleepwalking?
- World's biggest underwater eruption birthed skyscraper-size volcano
- Scientists create most detailed map of Uranus' mysterious auroras
- 20 of the weirdest sharks
- What was the Reign of Terror?
- Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' are being sterilized because the population is out of control
- 4,400-pound sunfish caught off North Africa literally tips the scales
- Extremely rare, bright-yellow catfish caught in the Netherlands
October 19
- Are teeth naturally yellow?
- How does condensation happen?
- Rowing Machines vs Treadmills: Which is best for home use?
- Is yoga safe during pregnancy?
- Thousands of tiny ‘ice needles’ may explain mysterious stone patterns on Earth … and Mars
- Neanderthals may have lived near Princess Diana's childhood home 40,000 years ago
- Is yoga good for you?
- Skeleton of man fleeing Mount Vesuvius eruption found in Herculaneum
- Siege of top-secret Area 51 began as a joke. Officials prepared to use deadly force in response.
- How to see October's full Hunter's Moon (and the Orionids) tonight
- 900-year-old Crusader sword discovered off coast of Israel
October 18
- Best Bowflex deals: Get a great price on home workout equipment
- How to remove mold from your basement
- What to do if your basement is too humid
- Blue Pure 211+ air purifier review
- Colin Powell's weakened immune system may have played a role in his COVID-19 death
- Hungry grizzly bear photo-bombs camera trap in award-winning photo
- Huge hole discovered in Arctic's 'last ice'
- Ancient dog-size sea scorpion unearthed in China
- NASA launches robotic archaeologist Lucy on ambitious mission to Trojan asteroids
- Who was the first person to write about the British Isles?
- Astronomers spot dark matter creating eerie clones of a distant galaxy
- Why did more than 90 rattlesnakes move into a California home?
October 17
- What happened when the dinosaur-killing asteroid slammed into Earth?
October 16
- Stunning images show how muscles heal themselves after a workout
- Why do our flavor preferences change over time?
- Researcher want to 'slice and dice' deadly asteroids with rocket-powered bombs, new paper says
October 15
- How to get the most out of your exercise bike
- Does a dehumidifier cool a room?
- Best microscopes for kids 2021
- 8 benefits of yoga
- 3 seals and a fox die from bird flu in rare outbreak at wildlife center
- What are the different types of headaches?
- 400 stone-cut chamber tombs, filled with wall paintings and treasures, discovered in Turkey
- Rich medieval hipster was buried with his fancy beard comb
- DNA paternity tests: how they work and how to do one
October 14
- Can basement mold make you sick?
- How to clean a dehumidifier
- Meteorite crash-lands in woman's bed in Canada
- FDA advisory committee recommends Moderna COVID-19 vaccine booster
- Low-impact cardio workout ideas: Lose weight without the pain
- KOIOS EPI810 air purifier review
- Scientists just broke the record for the coldest temperature ever recorded in a lab
- Thousands of California worms wriggle into super blobs
- 'Powerful auroras' on alien planets may be sending strange radio signals toward Earth
- Stunning supernova remnant looks like Pac-Man gulping down stars
- What are bacteria?
- Can yoga fix your posture?
- Gold 'sun bowl' discovered near Bronze Age swamp
- What is metabolism?
- Polar bears could vanish by the end of the century, scientists predict
- Astra knows what caused its rocket launch failure in August and will try again soon
- Life on Venus may never have been possible
October 13
- How to use a rowing machine to lose weight
- Lobotomy: Definition, procedure and history
- 7 most popular types of yoga
- Garmin Fenix 6X Pro Solar review
- Levoit Classic 300S humidifier review
- Rare conjoined turtles hatched in Massachusetts
- How to start running
- Leprosy identified in wild chimpanzees for the first time
- Flu shot facts & side effects
- Blue Origin launches William Shatner and crew of 3 to the final frontier and back
- Analysis of ancient teeth questions theory that Native Americans originated from Japan
- Elk finally liberated from car tire stuck around its neck for 2 years
- Cephalopods: Facts about octopus, squid, nautilus and more
- Is running good for you?
- Blue Origin will launch William Shatner into space today! Here's how to watch it live.
- Satellites capture reinvigorated La Palma volcanic eruption
- Solar storm hits Earth, bringing northern lights to New York
- William Shatner of 'Star Trek' says he's ready to go to space for real
October 12
- 'Explosive' photo captures 'otherworldly beauty' of spawning fish during a full moon
- What is LISS cardio?
- Arabia was 'cornerstone' in early human migrations out of Africa, study suggests
- Infamous 'Lizard King' of Florida nabbed in turtle heist
- Iron Age skis buried under ice reunited after 1,300 years apart
- Scientists capture image of bizarre 'electron ice' for the first time
- Giant snails that were eating Florida homes finally eradicated … again
- Perseverance's first major successes on Mars — an update from mission scientists
- Did all roads lead to Rome?
October 11
- What is relative humidity? And how does it impact you?
- Pluto's atmosphere is starting to disappear
- Breathing for relaxation: how to do it
- Oldest evidence of humans using tobacco discovered in Utah
- What if the universe had no beginning?
- What happens when a baby takes its first breath?
October 10
- 5 sci-fi concepts that are possible (in theory)
- William Shatner's space launch on Blue Origin's New Shepard: When to watch and what to know
- Which animals sing?
October 9
- Remains of Nazi V2, the first supersonic rocket, unearthed in South East England
- Why does water squirt out of your eye if you blow your nose really hard?
October 8
- Best Dyson air purifier deals
- Air purifier myths debunked: What you need to know
- Is yoga a religion?
- Lone beluga whale spotted 1,500 miles from home, and nobody knows why
- This trilobite was equipped with a 'hyper-eye' never seen before in the animal kingdom
- Strange solar system object is part-asteroid, part-comet
- Energy burst from most distant known galaxy might have been a satellite orbiting Earth
- Greenland sharks: The longest-living vertebrates
- Maryland woman catches rare tropical bacterial disease from her fish tank
October 7
- Michigan boy finds 'dragon's tooth' that belonged to a mastodon
- A rare 2,700-year-old luxury toilet found in Jerusalem
- We might finally know what causes 'COVID toes'
- Mysterious Mexican mangrove forest is 'trapped in time' hundreds of miles from the coast
- Striking bull's-eye-shaped clouds form above erupting La Palma volcano
- NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid at 15,000 mph. Will it make a dent?
- Pfizer asks FDA to authorize COVID-19 vaccine for young kids
- 6 yoga myths debunked
- Murder hornet: Asian giant hornets invading North America
- William Shatner will be the oldest person to fly in space with Blue Origin launch
- 'Spirit mirror' used by 16th-century occultist John Dee came from the Aztec Empire
- Henrietta Lacks' family sues biotech firm for use of 'stolen' cells
- Levoit LV600HH humidifier review
October 6
- Best Fitbit prices and deals: cheap fitness trackers to help with your running
- What causes allergies?
- World's 1st malaria vaccine recommended by WHO
- Can you run while pregnant?
- Burial that included a racy love goddess inscription held multiple people
- These 125 million-year-old fossils may hold dinosaur DNA
- Nobel Prize in chemistry given to duo whose method solves 'mirror-image problem' in chemistry
- How to protect your DNA data
- William Shatner 'AI' will chat with you about the 'Star Trek' actor's life
- Newfound 'chief dragon' dinosaur species was actually the size of a chicken
October 5
- Tardigrade trapped in amber is a never-before-seen species
- What is hot yoga?
- How to improve your flexibility
- How to get rid of smoke smells in your home
- Is condensation on windows bad?
- How to increase lung capacity
- Adorable, bloodsucking sea parasite looks just like sushi
- Nobel prize in physics goes to trio whose research alerted the world to climate change
- Hundreds of three-eyed 'dinosaur shrimp' emerge after Arizona monsoon
- Is bike riding better for you than walking?
- People have long claimed to hear the northern lights. Are the reports true?
- South Pole froze over in coldest winter on record
- Russia launches film crew to shoot movie on space station
- Melting permafrost in the Arctic could release radioactive waste and awaken sleeping viruses
October 4
- What causes dampness in a house?
- How mental health affects physical health
- How to sleep for longer
- How did cement end up in a man's heart?
- How to exercise without hurting your knees
- Nobel prize in medicine won by US scientists who unlocked the secrets of our sense of touch
- Air Force's X-37B robotic space plane wings past 500 days in Earth orbit
- A 'pacemaker' for brain activity helped woman emerge from severe depression
- 126,000 gallons of oil spilled along California coast in 'potential ecological disaster'
- A group of violent otters is mysteriously attacking people and dogs in Alaska
- Human skull fragments found in massive boneyard in hyenas’ lava tube cave
- Baby planets marinate in a life-giving cyanide 'soup,' analysis reveals
- Why do so many people have back pain?
October 3
- Climate change is making Earth dimmer
- 7 ways Einstein changed the world
- Are cats or dogs smarter?
October 2
- Stinky 'mushball' hailstones on Uranus may explain an atmospheric anomaly there
- Why can't house cats roar?
- Perseverance Rover spotted from space in striking new satellite image
October 1
- Secret words exchanged between Marie Antoinette and rumored lover uncovered in redacted letters
- After 3.5 million-year hiatus, the largest comet ever discovered is headed our way
- New antiviral pill halves risk of COVID-19 hospitalization, Merck says
- Does bike riding build your glutes?
- Scientists officially list 23 species as extinct, including the largest woodpecker in the US
- North Korea tests new hypersonic weapon: reports
- What is arachnophobia?
- Russian expedition finds evidence of northernmost Stone Age hunters above the Arctic Circle