All content Archive | April 2018

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April 30th
- Mysterious Eye Cancer Cases Pop Up in 2 States, and Doctors Can't Explain It
- Toxic Caterpillars Will Invade London This Spring, Authorities Warn
- No, a Woman Wasn't 'Eaten Alive' By Scabies. Here's What Likely Happened.
- Why Earth's Magnetic Field Might Not Flip After All
- Google Doodle Honors 'Prince of Mathematicians,' Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Stolen Sumerian Tablets Come from the Lost City of Irisagrig
- NASA Will Solve a Massive Physics Mystery This Summer
- Can Animals Predict Earthquakes?
- 'Cork' Glacier Holding Back Sea Level Rise May Pop
- The 'Attoclock' Shows How Fast Electrons Move in a Millionth of a Billionth of a Second
- These 'Spooky' Entangled Atoms Just Brought Quantum Computing One Step Closer
- Don't Believe the 'Hype': This New Book Separates Health Fact from Fiction
- Sacrificed Kids Had Their Hearts Ripped Out 550 Years Ago
April 29th
- Game-Changing Study Finds Dozens of Genes Tied to Depression
April 28th
- Heat Shield for NASA's Next Mars Mission Breaks During Testing
- How Many Uncaptured Serial Killers Are Out There?
April 27th
- Why Is North Korea Shutting Down Its Nuclear Test Site?
- Surgeons Reattached This Girl's Leg Backward. No, It Wasn't a Mistake.
- Photos: Amazing Insects of the North American Deserts
- This Biologist Cracked a Problem That's Stumped Mathematicians for 68 Years
- Bee-Harming Pesticides Face Complete Ban in Europe
- Arizona Woman Dies from Rare Rodent-Borne Virus
- Some Scientists Predict These Islands Are Doomed, But That's Not the Whole Story
- Why One Woman Broke Out in Hives When Her Co-Workers Cranked Up the AC
- Deadly Fungus Cells Talk Amongst Themselves to Infect You Better
- How the Golden State Killer's DNA Nabbed Him
- What Is Stevia?
- Who were the Barbarians?
- Facts About Silicon
April 26th
- This 3,000-Year-Old Horse Got a Human-Style Burial
- Swiss Scientists Perform Massive Test of 80-Year-Old, 'Spooky' Quantum Paradox
- The Origin Story of Rosetta Comet Is Weird, and Ends with a Rubber Ducky
- What's Behind the Recent Rise in Autism in the US?
- What the Folds of Your Brain Could Tell You About Schizophrenia Risk
- Watch Scientists Blast a Fake Asteroid into a Fake Earth
- These Things Don't Cause Cancer, But People Think They Do
- Hey, Congress: Scientists Are Coming for Your Seats
April 25th
- Oklahoma Suffers Its 2,724th Earthquake Since 2010
- Incredible Fossilized Footprints Suggest That Early Humans Stalked Giant Sloths
- Are Preterm Babies Trying to Escape Mom's 'Hostile' Womb?
- Stunning Cosmic Map Shows the Location of 1.7 Billion Stars
- Does Marijuana Make You Forget to Remember?
- What if Earth started spinning backward?
- This Eerie, Human-Like Figure Is Twice As Old As Egypt's Pyramids
- Photos: 1,500-Year-Old Massacre Site Unearthed
- Massacre Victims Left to Rot on Island 1,500 Years Ago
- Rare Stone Head of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Discovered in Egyptian Temple
- This Planet Is So Dark, Scientists Have to Guess What It Looks Like
- Facts About Chlorine
April 24th
- Why New Guinea Warriors Prized Human Bone Daggers
- This Is What It Sounds Like at the Bottom of the Ocean
- Barely Buzzed or Super Stoned? An App Could One Day Reveal How High You Are
- This Light Therapy Could Zap Away Chronic Pain One Day
- Baby-Eating Ants Use Espionage, Chemical Warfare To Score Free Rent
- A Google Street View Car Drove Right Through the Path of the 2017 Solar Eclipse
- The Truth Behind This Amazing Video from the Surface of a Comet
- Why Dead Fingers (Usually) Can't Unlock a Phone
- Why Does Microwave Popcorn Smell So Bad?
- Stephen Hawking Signed This Book Before His ALS Took Over. Now It's Up for Auction.
- Lemons: Health Benefits & Nutrition Facts
April 23rd
- Does Drinking Alcohol Raise the Risk of PMS?
- This Man Had a Key Lodged in His Brain. Here's How He Survived.
- No Joke: Uranus Smells Terrible, Study Says
- Fierce — and Free! Win a Book of Dinosaur Facts in Our Giveaway Tuesday
- Aliens on Super-Earth Planets Could Be Stuck There...Literally
- Doctors Perform World's First Full Penis-and-Scrotum Transplant
- 'Mind-Reading' Headset Lets You Control a Computer with Your Thoughts … Sort Of
- A Mysterious New Form of DNA Was Just Discovered in Human Cells
- NASA Doesn't Know What Poked These Holes in the Arctic's Sea Ice
- How a Guy in the Netherlands Spotted the Top Secret X-37B Space Plane
- The 'End of the World' Is Today. Here's Why We're Still Here.
April 22nd
- Here's How We Know the Big Bang Happened
- This Woman's Kidney Fell into Her Pelvis Whenever She Stood Up: Here's Why
- Facts About Californium
April 21st
- Famed Doctor Hans Asperger Helped with Nazi Child Euthanasia, Notes Reveal
- Watch the Sky Fall Before the World 'Ends' on Monday
April 20th
- CDC Says to Avoid All Romaine Lettuce Amid E. Coli Outbreak
- This Ice Is Nearly As Hot As the Sun. Scientists Have Now Made It on Earth.
- UK Man with 'Worst Ever' Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Is Now Cured
- Scientists Built a New Microscope to Watch Cells, and the Footage Is Breathtaking
- Dark Photons Probably Don't Exist, and If They Did, They'd Be Super Weird
- A Marijuana-Derived Drug Is on Track for FDA Approval
- This Is Your Brain on Drugs (Really)
- A Bunch of Rich Guys Want to Watch the Earth at All Times from Space
- A Single Concussion May Increase Parkinson's Risk
- This Contorted Mystery Squid May Be the 'Most Bizarre' Ever Seen
- Iridescent Algae Glow with Their Very Own Opals
- Quantum Radar Could Make Stealth Technology Obsolete
- These 'Dirty' Thunderstorms Fill the Sky with As Much Smoke As a Volcanic Eruption
- Exorcisms Enter 21st Century with Cellphone-Enabled Demon Busting
April 19th
- 'Alice in Wonderland' Dodo Was Murdered in Cold Blood
- Why You Might Need a Vaccine to Go to The Kentucky Derby
- Are Those Gravitational Waves? Nope, They're Just Thirsty Ravens
- Exploding Ants Kill Foes, and Themselves, with a Blast of Toxic Goo
- No, Having a Little Extra Fat Won't Make You Live Longer
- Humans Probably Practiced Brain Surgery on This Cow 5,000 Years Ago
- Is Sparkling Water As Healthy As Regular Water?
- Nazi Germany's Most High-Tech Submarine Found 73 Years After It Was Blown Up
- Why Is a Train Filled with Human Poop Stuck Outside This Alabama Town?
- Why More Vitamin D May Not Always Be a Good Thing
- Quinoa: Health Benefits & Nutrition Facts
April 18th
- Why This New Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope Blows Kepler Out of the Water
- 'The Truth About Animals': Storks Flying to the Moon, and Other Wild Tales
- Hundreds of Purple Octopus Moms Are Super Weird, and They're Doomed
- There Is Evidence That a Planet in Our Solar System Was Destroyed
- Why Did the Whites of This Man's Eyes Turn Blue?
- What Do Blind People 'See' When They Take LSD?
- Healthy Eaters May Waste the Most Food
- The Entire Island of Puerto Rico Just Lost Power Again — Here's Why
- Star 'DNA' Survey Could Reunite the Sun with Its Long-Lost Siblings
- How Would We Know If Intelligent Life Existed on Earth Before Humans?
- Polar Explorer Shackleton's Lost Ship Could Be Hidden Under Antarctic Ice
- In Photos: Searching for Shackleton's 'Endurance' Shipwreck
- Hurricane Irma Turned the Everglades into a Tree 'Graveyard,' NASA Lasers Reveal
- Mushroom Clouds Burst Through Neutron Stars, and NASA Can Watch It Happen
April 17th
- Knife-Armed Man Leaves World's Coolest Skeleton
- A New Lung Cancer Drug Is Shaking Up Treatment: How Does It Work?
- Elon Musk Says 'Humans Are Underrated'
- The Weird Pit of Magma Beneath Yellowstone Is Still a Mystery
- Lab 'Accident' Becomes Mutant Enzyme That Devours Plastic
- The Amazing Tech in 'Black Panther' Is More Realistic Than You Think
- Scientists Spot the Shadow of a Strange Wind Blowing Past a Black Hole
- Sharks Lay Eggs. Here's Some Creepy Footage of What That Looks Like.
- Ancient Egyptian Incantations Tell of Biblical Human Sacrifice
- No One Knows How to Stop This 'Flesh-Eating' Disease in Australia
- Teenager Finds King Bluetooth's Lost Treasures, Including a Thor's Hammer
April 16th
- April the Giraffe's Calf Celebrates His 1st Birthday with Cauliflower 'Cake'
- Organ Donations from Overdose Victims Save Thousands
- Punk-Rock Turtle Has 'Green Hair,' Will Probably Die Alone
- 200 Million Eggs Recalled: How Does Salmonella Get into Eggs, Anyway?
- SpaceX Rocket Launching NASA's TESS Exoplanet Hunter Today: Watch Live
- Can an Opioid Overdose Drug Help Stroke Patients Recover?
- Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Try to Land a Rocket with a 'Giant Party Balloon'
- Wormholes Could Cast Weird Shadows That Could Be Seen by Telescopes
- How a Football Field-Size Asteroid Caught Us by Surprise
- As World Warms, America's Invisible 'Climate Curtain' Creeps East
- Why Every Parent Will Love This 'Everything Repellent'
- NASA's Got a Plan for a 'Galactic Positioning System' to Save Astronauts Lost in Space
April 15th
- A City-Size 'Telescope' Could Watch Space-Time Ripple 1 Million Times a Year
- 2 Military Satellites Launched into Orbit Around Earth
- Why We Might Miss Extraterrestrial Life Even If It's Staring Us in the Face
April 14th
- This Creepy Fish Packs 'Switchblades' in Its Face and Could Kill You with Its Venom
April 13th
- These Hellish Storms on Jupiter Are Mesmerizing to Watch
- You Could Drink This Man's Frostbitten, Amputated Toes in a Cocktail
- Shaking Up Guinness Drinkers: Why a Martini Glass May Be Best for the Brew
- How a Bizarre Nazi Military Machine Left a Lasting Mark on the Environment
- Too Much Sitting May Shrink the Part of Your Brain Tied to Memory
- Would You Eat a Tarantula-Topped Burger?
- Munchies, Anyone? Colorado Restaurant Workers Most Likely to Use Legal Weed
- Greenland's Biggest Fire Is a 'Warning' for Its Future
- Curious About Stoned Sloths and Lovelorn Hippos? Enter to Win This Book
- Drinking the Recommended Amount of Alcohol May Still Shorten Your Life
- Pancreas: Function, Location & Diseases
April 12th
- Wait For It...The First 'April 23rd Doomsday' Was Predicted in 1843
- What's to Blame for Fatal Tesla Crash? Nobody Can Agree
- What 3 Facial Expressions from Zuckerberg's Congressional Testimony Mean
- 2 Tornadoes Drop in on Fort Lauderdale in Just One Day
- 'Fake Pee' Is In Demand, and Now States Want to Ban It
- Here's How Norovirus Takes Hold in Your Gut — and Doesn't Let Go
- Chimps Seen Sucking Brains from Monkeys' Heads
- What the Heck Are These 520-Million-Year-Old Blobs? Experts Can't Agree.
- Mystery Mummy Found in Ceiling of Minneapolis Department Store
- Solar Wind Lights Up Night Skies, After Bursting Through a 'Hole' in the Sun
- What If the Ocean's Climate-Controlling 'Conveyor Belt' Came to a Halt?
- How Human Error Led the Vikings to Canada
- Late to Bed, Early to Die? Night Owls May Die Sooner
April 11th
- Camelot, King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table
- Facts About Molybdenum
- Gallbladder: Function, Problems & Healthy Diet
- Here's What Causes Some People's Bones to 'Drip' Like Candle Wax
- Whale Sneezes Rainbow, Proving Nature is Beautiful and Weird
- Synthetic Marijuana Tainted with Rat Poison Linked to 3 Deaths
- Oceans' Mysterious Magnetic Field Is Mapped in Stunning Detail from Space
- This Quantum Random Number Generator Can Never Be Hacked
- Scientists Solve the Molecular Puzzle of 'Flammable Ice'
- New Ocean Current Discovered Off the Coast of Madagascar
- This 'Disappearing' Optical Illusion Proves Your Brain Is Too Smart for Its Own Good
- Nubian Stone Tablets Unearthed in African 'City of the Dead'
- That's Cheating! Medieval Dice with No 1 or 2 Found on Street in Norway
April 10th
- After Death, Your Microbiome Could Still Help the Living
- Greenland Has a Mysterious 'Dark Zone' — And It's Getting Even Darker
- If 'Oumuamua Is an Alien Spacecraft, It's Keeping Quiet So Far
- If You Want Your Friend to Vaccinate Their Kids, Don't Try to Change Their Mind
- 65 Pounds of Plastic Trash Tore This Whale Apart from the Inside
- How (and Where) Did Hannibal Cross the Alps? Experts Finally Have Answers
- Have Archaeologists Discovered the Tomb of King Tut's Wife? Maybe.
- This Pouched Rat Can Sniff Out Tuberculosis in Kids
- SpaceX Not to Blame for Loss of Top-Secret Spy Satellite
- Weird Neutrinos Can't Quite Explain Matter's Huge Riddle Yet
- Restroom Hand Dryers Are Blowing Bacteria Everywhere
- What Happens If You Get Injected with Embalming Fluid?
April 9th
- A Man Ate the 'World's Hottest' Pepper. Then the 'Thunderclap' Headaches Started
- Please Help Name These Adorable Bald Eagle Hatchlings. Democracy Depends on It.
- Prehistoric Sea Monster Was Nearly the Size of a Blue Whale
- 85,000-Year-Old Finger Bone May Rewrite the Story of Human Migration Out of Africa
- Deadly Pressure: Why These Two Men's Muscles 'Blew Up' From the Inside
- The Story Claiming Buzz Aldrin Saw Aliens in Space Is Utter Nonsense
- There's a Lot of Sperm on the International Space Station Right Now
- Did You Buy Bitcoins? Your Brain's Anatomy Might Be to Blame
- This Mysterious Marijuana Syndrome Is Relieved by Hot Showers
- Could Beasts Like Frankenstein's Monster Exist in Real Life?
- Glass 'Bread Crumbs' Could Lead the Way to Missing Crater
April 8th
- Why Extraterrestrial Life May Be More Unlikely Than Scientists Thought
April 7th
- 'Space Alien' Mummy Spurs DNA Debate
- X Prize Is Relaunching a Private Moon Race Without Google (or a Prize)
- Watch These Adorable Baby Eagles Weather the Southern California Earthquake
April 6th
- How a Stranded Nurse Saved His Own Life During a Heart Attack
- Lin-Manuel Miranda's Shingles: Why He Was 'Quarantined' from His Newborn Son
- German Scientists Harvest Their 1st Antarctic Salad, and It Looks Amazing
- Elon Musk Worries That AI Research Will Create an 'Immortal Dictator'
- Sprawling, 2,000-Year-Old Desert Carvings Show Up in Drone Photos
- Sewage Suggests That People Got High for 2017 Solar Eclipse
- This Prehistoric Sea Monster Was About to Be an Octomom
- Is Dark Matter Made Up of Mini Black Holes from the Big Bang?
- Military-Funded Study Successfully Tests 'Prosthetic Memory' Brain Implants
- Angkor Wat: History of Ancient Temple
April 5th
- How Did an App Know an Earthquake Was Hitting California Before It Happened?
- A 5.3-Magnitude Earthquake Just Struck Southern California
- Hospital 'Breach' May Have Exposed Patients to HIV, Hepatitis: What Went Wrong?
- Virgin Galactic Completes 1st Powered Test Flight Since Fatal 2014 Crash
- 'Killer Robot' Lab Faces Boycott from Artificial Intelligence Experts
- Stop Peeing in Walden Pond!
- Scientists Find Very Young Cells in Even Very Old Brains
- Meet 7 Versions of BB-8, the Lovable 'Star Wars' Droid
- Google Employees Are Livid About Company's 'Evil' Military Partnership
- Cholla Photos: See These Amazing Desert Cacti
- These Scientists Say Scott Pruitt Is Trying to 'Kill' the EPA
- Teeth-Baring 'Zombie' Raccoons Scaring Residents of Ohio Town
April 4th
- Spleen: Function, Location & Problems
- Could Boeing's 'Starliner' Spacecraft Be a Next Step for Reaching the Moon and Beyond?
- A Third of Young Millennials Are Confused About This Incontrovertible Fact
- Can Eating Pasta Really Help You Lose Weight?
- What's in a Fat Cell?
- 500 Million Years Ago, a Sea Worm Hosted a Poop Picnic for His Shelled Friends
- The 22 Weirdest Military Weapons
- The Most Precise Measurement of Antimatter Yet Deepens the Mystery of Why We Exist
- 'Stingray' Spy Devices Are Eavesdropping in Washington, D.C.: Here's How
- What on Earth Is This Fiery Blob?
- Snow Monkeys Love Hot Baths Just Like Humans Do, and Now We Know Why
- Tiny, Lab-Grown Minibrains Sprout Blood Vessels
- Neanderthals' Big Noses Get an Airy Explanation
April 3rd
- Brain-Uploading Company Has No Immediate Plans to Upload Brains
- Female Mass Killers: Why They're So Rare
- New 'Nightmare' Bacteria Are Popping Up All Over the US
- NASA's Supersonic X-Plane Will Tear Through the Sound Barrier with 'a Gentle Thump'
- Meet the Higgs Bubble That Will Destroy the Universe. Maybe.
- This Injectable Bandage Is Made of Pastry Gel. It Could Save Your Life One Day.
- Most Distant Star Ever Seen Is 9 Billion Light-Years Away
- Woman's Bones Vanish Before Doctors' Eyes
- 7 Strange Signs You're Having an Allergic Reaction
- NASA Has a Plan to Put Robot Bees on Mars
- Photos: Dinosaurs Sloshed Around Ancient Lagoon
- Giant, Clawed Dinosaurs Left These Footprints in Ancient Lagoon
- Antarctica's Underwater Ice Is Retreating 5 Times Faster Than It Should Be
April 2nd
- MIT Just Cut Ties with Nectome, the '100-Percent-Fatal' Brain-Preserving Company
- Meet 'Norman,' the Darkest, Most Disturbed AI the World Has Ever Seen
- The Chinese Space Station Narrowly Missed Landing in the World's Largest 'Spacecraft Cemetery'
- Why the 'Condom Snorting Challenge' Is Not Just Gross — It's Dangerous
- Here's Why an Ancient Lizard Had 4 Eyes
- This 4,000-Year-Old Mummy Just Solved a Century-Old Mystery
- How Medical Marijuana Could Help Curb the Opioid Epidemic
- Volcanoes, Swamps and the South Pole: NASA Scientists Take Research to Extremes
- How Expensive It Is to Have Kids? These 5 Charts Reveal the Hefty Price Tag
- 1,500-Year-Old Coin Stash Leaves Archaeologists with Mystery
- Artificial Chameleon Skin Is Weird and Cool
- Chinese Space Station Comes Tumbling to Earth Over Pacific Ocean
April 1st
- China's Space Station Expected to Make Fiery Plunge in Next Few Hours