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October 31st
- Man's Bloody Tears Were Caused by This Rare Condition
- Boy's Rare Brain Condition Means He Could Be Literally Scared to Death
- The Gruesome Stories Behind Famous Dead People's Long-Lost Body Parts (Photos)
- Roaches Kick Wasps in the Head to Avoid Becoming Zombies
- US Homeland Security Dogs Face a Growing Occupational Risk: A Nasty Parasite
- This 4,500-Year-Old Ramp Contraption May Have Been Used to Build Egypt's Great Pyramid
- How Fake Blood Is Made to Look So Real
- Cold, Dark Stars Lurking in the Universe Could Act Like Single Giant Atoms
- Earth Is Being Haunted by a Ghostly Dust Storm — And There May Be More Out There
- Dissecting the Bloodthirsty Bliss of Death Metal
- Zoo's Animal X-Rays Reveal Spooky, Scary Skeletons
- In Photos: Eerie Zoo Animal Skeletons, in X-Rays
- Doctors Retrieve Spoon from Man's Esophagus — A Year After He Swallowed It
October 30th
- How Did Two Mothers Both Carry the Same Child?
- Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier Just Lost Enough Ice to Cover Manhattan 5 Times Over
- These Duck-Billed Dinosaurs Wore Their Instruments on Their Heads
- A NASA Spacecraft Just Broke the Record for Closest Approach to Sun
- Best Educational Toys & Games for Infants and Toddlers
- Tiny Beetle Entombed in Amber 99 Million Years Ago Reveals How Continents Shifted
- Photos: Deep-sea expedition discovers metropolis of octopuses
- Here Are the Real (and Freaky) Experiments That Inspired 'Frankenstein'
- The Parachute That Will Help Gently Plop the Rover Down on Mars Also Broke a World Record on Earth
- Photos: Black-Tailed Jackrabbits, the Curious Creatures of the American West
- 'Alien Invasion' Radio Broadcast Terrified Listeners 80 Years Ago. Would E.T. Contact Cause Panic Today?
- High Vitamin D Levels Linked with Better Fitness
- Nearly Half of Americans Think Alternative Medicine Can Cure Cancer. It Can't.
- Why Do People Like Pumpkin Spice So Much?
- The Hindenburg Wasn't Alone: Here's a Look at 23 Intriguing Airship Adventures
October 29th
- Ghostly Dumbo Octopus Makes Rare Appearance in Dazzling Deep-Sea Video
- Robbers Tried to Steal an ATM, But Instead Helped Uncover Lost Medieval Artifacts
- Banned Ozone-Depleting Chemical Was Used Illegally in China
- Rare Leftovers of 'Vampire' Fish, Favored by Medieval Foodies, Found in London
- In Photos: The Stunning Gila Wilderness Area
- Are Anti-Vaxxers to Blame for Europe's Current Measles Outbreak?
- Jacques Cousteau's Grandson to Map Depths of Massive Blue Hole Off Belize's Coast
- 'Unprecedented' Number of Dead Whales Have Washed Up in Scotland and Ireland
- The Best Gifts for Tardigrade Lovers
- Weird and Funny Science Gifts That Are Sure to Make You Laugh
- The US Is Throwing Out Donor Kidneys That Could Be Given to Patients, Study Says
- Want to Be a Bat Hero This Halloween? Don't Visit the Batcave. (Op-Ed)
- Hidden Monuments and Cookie-Cutter 'Suburbs' Discovered in Ancient Izapa Kingdom
- Photos: Hidden Monuments Found at Ancient Site of Izapa Kingdom
October 28th
- Why Do Some People Feel More Pain Than Others?
- Why Believing in Ghosts Can Make You a Better Person
- Why Is Laughter Sometimes Scary?
October 27th
- Social Inequality Left Its Mark on 5,000-Year-Old Alpine Village
- Why Are There So Many Pigeons?
October 26th
- Military Mystery Solved: Two Guys Out-Googled Google for an Image of Secretive US Base
- There Are 18 Volcanoes That Pose a 'Very High Threat' to American Life
- 750-Year-Old Wooden Idols, Some Wearing Masks, Uncovered in Peru
- A Baby Fly Burrowed into a Woman's Skin During Belize Honeymoon. She Noticed It 2 Months Later.
- Hawaiian Island Vanishes Overnight
- 8 Bizarre Animal Surprises From 'True or Poo' — Can You Tell Fact From Myth?
- 'Does it Fart?' Authors Drop Book Number Two, 'True or Poo?'
- 'Painted People' in Scotland Developed Written Language 1,700 Years Ago
- Ancient Travelers Created These Sprawling Circular Structures During Pit Stops
- Photos: Circular Geoglyphs Discovered in Peru's Sihuas Valley
October 25th
- Creepy AI-Created Portrait Fetches $432,500 at Auction
- Ridiculously Tiny Baby Octopus Riding Ocean Trash Is So, So Smol
- Controversial Spearpoints Could Rewrite the Story of the First Americans
- 'Phantom' Archaeopteryx, One of the World's 1st Birds, Could Probably Fly
- Weird Rectangular Iceberg in Antarctica Isn't Alone, NASA Photos Show
- Traces of Earth's Oldest Animals Possibly Found
- The Earth Breathes in Incredibly Creepy Video from Canadian Forest
- People with Psoriasis More Likely to Develop Certain Gut Disorders
- Robbed of Nobel, Female Physicist Blazed Her Own Amazing Trail: Watch Her Speak Tonight
October 24th
- Bats: Fuzzy Flying Mammals
- Spaceflight Might Expand Your Mind, But It Shrinks Your Brain
- A New Flu Drug Was Just Approved by the FDA. It's the First in Nearly 20 Years.
- It Might Stress You Out to Know What Stress Is Doing to Your Brain
- No, The CDC Didn't Say You Can't Put Chickens in Halloween Costumes
- Vintage WWII Fighter Plane Crashes on California Highway
- Octopus Moms Enter Death Spiral Before Eight-Armed Bundles Are Born
- Space Pirates Take Warning: This 'Skull and Crossbones Nebula' Is Full of Gas and Baby Stars
- Scientists Now Have the Most Detailed Picture Yet of the Neutrino Factory Inside Our Sun
- Could Misbehaving Neutrinos Explain Why the Universe Exists?
- World's Deepest Volcanic Eruption Creates Nightmare Garden of Glass
- Bizarre, Blue Space Rock Even Weirder Than Astronomers Thought
- Oh, Great: Apparently Electrons Are Too Round, and These Viruses Aren't Round Enough
October 23rd
- Adenovirus Doesn't Usually Kill, So Why Did 7 Kids Die from the Virus in New Jersey?
- Sandra Day O'Connor Says She 'Probably' Has Alzheimer's: What Defines Different Dementias?
- Sweet Potatoes: Delicious and Nutritious
- Salmonella Hides Its Tail to Stay Invisible to Immune System
- World's Oldest Intact Shipwreck Found at the Bottom of the Black Sea
- What Is Lithium?
- Portrait 'Painted' by AI Up for Auction at Christie's in NYC
- Why Did This Zoo Lion Murder the Father of Her Cubs?
- What Are Americans Most Afraid Of? Corrupt Government Officials & Global Warming.
- 48-Million-Year-Old Fossil Owl Is Almost Perfectly Preserved
October 22nd
- Dead Sea Scroll Fragments in Museum of the Bible Are Fake
- Microplastics Are Everywhere — and That Likely Includes Your Poop
- Stephen Hawking's Thesis, First Wheelchair to Be Auctioned Off
- This Man Got a Seemingly Harmless Bug Bite. It Turned Into a Flesh-Eating Infection.
- Bizarre 'Headless Chicken Monster' Drifts Through Antarctic Deep
- Yes, the 'Blob' Is Back. No, It Won't Wreak Havoc on East Coast Weather.
- Weight-Loss Supplements Contain Dangerous Stimulants Years After Being Prohibited
- 38 Baby Skulls of Weird Jurassic-Era Mammal Relative Found
- BepiColombo Spacecraft Headed to Mercury Snaps 1st Photo, a Selfie
- Chocolate Labs Are Less Healthy Than Their Black and Yellow Puppy Pals
- Ice Age Graveyard Holds the Bones of Mammoth Nursery Herds That Died at Watering Hole
October 21st
- Extraterrestrial Life Could Be Purple
October 20th
- Mystery of Mercury Levels in Arctic Animals Gets Solved
- Exoplanet Hunters Have a New Plan to Spot Hidden 'Migrating' Worlds
October 19th
- Exquisitely Preserved Lungs from 120 Million Years Ago Stun Scientists Studying Early Bird
- Einstein and the Incredible Hulk Now Have Their Own Constellations (But You'll Never See Them)
- What the Heck Is the Deal with This Weird, Square Iceberg?
- What is inflammation?
- This Hunk of Metal Fell From Space and Landed in California
- Here's How Researchers Made Mice with 2 Dads
- By Middle Age, Healthy People Have Way More Cancer-Causing Mutations Than We Thought
- Shhh … The Ice in Antarctica Is 'Singing'
- There's No Medical Reason Not to Bake Your Grandpa's Ashes into a Sugar Cookie and Eat It
- From Egg to Grave: Clues Reveal How Baby Pterosaurs Grew Up
October 18th
- Dinosaur-Era Super-Piranha Terrorized Jurassic Seas
- Adderall: Uses, Side Effects and Abuse
- Will This Winter Be Mild or Wild? Here's What We Can Expect
- Pompeii Graffiti May Rewrite Time Line of Vesuvius Eruption
- A Parasite Spread by Cat Poop Is Infecting (and Probably Killing) Whales in Canada
- What Caused This Man's Nail to Turn Brown and Striped?
- What Made Leonardo da Vinci Such a Great Artist? 'Crossed Eyes' May Have Helped
- China May Soon Have a Second (Artificial) Moon
- An Unknown 'Disease X' Could Become an Epidemic. Can We Find It Before It's Too Late?
- X-37B Military Space Plane Wings Past 400 Days on Latest Mystery Mission
- Baby Names Show Enormous Gender Gap
- How Close Are We to Kubrick's AI-Controlled Vision of the Future?
- Hail the Lizard King. T. Rex's Puny Arms Were Useful After All.
October 17th
- Stephen Hawking's Children and Colleagues Discuss Physicist's Final Book, Legacy
- Can Burger King's 'Nightmare King' Really Give You Bad Dreams?
- Stephen Hawking's Final Book Says There's 'No Possibility' of God in Our Universe
- Physicists Model Electrons in Unprecedented Detail — Spoiler Alert: They're Round
- One of the World's Oldest and Largest Organisms Is Dying, and It's Mostly Our Fault
- Immune System: Diseases, Disorders & Function
- Ancient Sea Monsters Swallowed a Lot of Salty Water. This Is How They Got Rid of It.
- Aquifers: Underground Stores of Freshwater
- Gestational Diabetes: Symptoms, Diagnosis & Complications
- Why Does This Glacier Near Everest Make Loud Booming Sounds at Night?
- Albuterol: Dosage & Side Effects
- Why Is it Fun to Be Frightened?
- Jam-Resistant US Military Communications Satellite Lifts Off in Midnight-Hour Launch
October 16th
- What Does Elizabeth Warren's 'Native' Ancestry Mean?
- Why Life Expectancy in 2040 Could Be Lower Than It Is Today
- Mount St. Helens Eruption: Facts & Information
- 11 fascinating facts about our Milky Way galaxy
- A Mysterious Polio-Like Illness Is on the Rise in Kids. Scientists Don't Know Why.
- Photos: Peer at Glittering Insect Eyes and Glowing Spider Babies in Prizewinning Photos
- Spangled Beetle Eye and Retinal 'Fireworks' Dazzle in Nikon Photo Contest
- How the Small Intestine Works
- Why Haven't We Found Aliens? Because We're Just Not Looking Hard Enough.
- Meet Sphen and Magic, the Same-Sex Penguin Couple Raising an Egg in Captivity
- NASA Wants to Send Humans to Venus, to Live in Airships Floating on Clouds
- Defense Department Password Is Cracked in 9 Seconds. So How Safe Are US Weapons?
- What Is Meiosis?
- Do Canadian Carvings Depict Vikings? Removing Mammal Fat May Tell
- Woman's Vomiting Bouts Tied to Mysterious Marijuana Syndrome. And Yes, Hot Showers Helped.
- Stephen Hawking Said 'Superhumans' Will Replace Us. Was He Right?
October 15th
- Last Man to Walk on the Moon Mistaken About Climate Change on Earth
- Hunters May Lure 'Man-Eating' Tiger with Calvin Klein's Obsession
- Jewelry Worn by Marie Antoinette Is Yours — To Try on in New York City
- Looks Like Climate Change Will Ruin Beer for Us, Too
- Strep Throat: Symptoms and Treatment
- The Higgs Boson May Have Saved Our Universe from Cosmic Collapse. For Now.
- Man Dies from Extremely Rare Disease After Eating Squirrel Brains
- Your Memory Could Store Up to 10,000 Faces, or More
- Viking Ship and Cemetery Found Buried in Norway
- When a Drone Crashes into an Airplane, Everyone Has a Bad Time
- The New Fastest Camera in the World Sees Lasers Move at 10 Trillion Frames Per Second
- Best Kids' Space Books for the Holidays
- 900-Year-Old 'Grand Lady' Skeleton Emerges from Watery Coffin
- Photos: Ancient Tomb of 'Grand Lady' Discovered in China
October 14th
- Child 'Vampire' Was Buried 1,550 Years Ago in Italy
- Real or not? The science behind 12 unusual sightings
October 13th
- Another NASA Space Telescope Sidelined by Glitch
- Photos: The Power and Beauty of North America's Bighorn Sheep
- Why Do Gnats Swarm?
October 12th
- Moonmoons (Moons That Orbit Other Moons) Could Exist, Scientists Say
- There's a Good Chance Your Relatives' DNA Is Online. That Means People Can Find You, Too.
- Humanoid Robot Atlas Can Now Do Parkour and That's Not at All Terrifying
- Plantar Fasciitis: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment
- The FDA Found Hundreds of Supplement Brands Tainted with Rx Drugs. Most Weren't Recalled.
- Every NASA Mission Should Be Looking for Alien Life, Scientists Say
- Photos: The Bones of Mount Vesuvius
- Did Vesuvius Victims' Brains Really Boil and Their Skulls Explode?
October 11th
- Adorable Newborn Sea Monster from the Dinosaur Age Discovered in Kansas
- Stephen Hawking's Final Paper Was Just Released
- Lab-Grown 'Mini-Eyes' Show How Color Vision Develops
- Astronomers Just Caught the Tiniest Cannibal Galaxy in the Universe
- Puppy-Size Roaches (and Other Bizarre Creatures) Pop Up in 'Beyond the Sixth Extinction'
- LaCroix Is Being Sued Over Its Ingredients. But Are They Actually Bad for You?
- Liver Cancer: Symptoms and Treatment
- Mysterious Signals at the Center of Our Galaxy May Be an Optical Illusion
- More Cases of Rare 'Polio-Like' Illness Pop Up Around the US
- Astronaut and Cosmonaut Survive 'Ballistic' Fall to Earth After Failed Soyuz Launch
October 10th
- Giant, Prehistoric Bird Chowed Down on This Neanderthal Child's Bones
- Mysterious Leptoquarks Could Bind Both Types of Matter. That Is, If They Exist
- Astronomers Confirm Earth Is Being Bombarded with Ancient, Invisible Energy from Another Galaxy
- Mount Etna's Slide into the Sea Could Trigger a Catastrophic Collapse
- Brave Volunteers Got Whooping Cough Bacteria Put Up Their Noses, For Science
- Hurricane Michael Is Officially More Powerful than Hurricane Katrina
- Peer into Hurricane Michael's Mesmerizing Eye in This Eerie Time-Lapse Video
- Why Did Hurricane Michael Become Such a Monster Storm So Quickly?
- How This Time-Traveling Illusion Tricks Your Brain
- Alien-Hunting Agents Seek the Truth About UFOs in 'Project Blue Book'
- Hurricane Michael Strengthens to 'Unprecedented' Category 4 Storm Overnight
October 9th
- The HPV Vaccine Was Just Approved for Adults Up to Age 45. Should They Get It?
- Lost Chain of Underwater Volcanoes Is a Massive Whale Superhighway
- See Hurricane Michael from Space in These Satellite Images
- Scientists Find Weird Reason Diving Plates Get Stuck 400 Miles Beneath Earth's Surface
- This Is the Oldest Known Inscription Bearing the Full Name of Jerusalem
- Typhus Outbreak Tied to Fleas Sickens Dozens in LA
- Europa Might Have 50-Foot Spikes on Its Surface that Could Destroy Visiting Spacecraft
- Cholesterol Levels: High, Low, Good & Bad
- Nobel Prize in Economics: 1969-Present
- Pink Eye (Conjunctivitis): Causes, Symptoms & Treatment
- Petrified Chains of 'Poop' Turn Out to Be One of Earth's Oldest Skeletons
- This Man's 'Pancake' Kidney Looks Like It Sounds
- Photos: 4,400 Year-old Tomb Complex in Egypt
- Tomb of a Pharaoh's 'Sole Friend' and 'Keeper of the Secret' Found in Egypt
- Huge Iceberg Poised to Break Off Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier
October 8th
- A Geyser Erupted in Yellowstone and 80 Years of Human Trash Poured Out
- Rare 'Polio-Like' Illness Diagnosed in 6 Minnesota Kids
- Columbus 'discovered' the New World … so why isn't America named after him?
October 7th
- How Bad Is Bacon for You, Really?
- How Did Christopher Columbus Become a National Symbol?
- A Man Took Antibiotics Before Going to the Dentist. He Developed An Ultra-Rare Brain Side Effect
October 6th
- SpaceX to Attempt 1st West Coast Falcon 9 Rocket Landing on Sunday
- It's Raining Tiny Particles from Saturn's Innermost Ring
- Scientists Across the Globe Are Hunting for Pure Randomness
- Will there ever be another Pangaea?
October 5th
- Tiny Hawaiian Gecko Accidentally Calls 'a Bazillion' People from Hospital Phone, Wins the Internet
- A Man Took Too Much Erectile Dysfunction Drug. Then His Vision Turned Red
- Man Captures Stunning, Rare Video of a Fight Between Two Huge Moose
- Therapy Dogs Can Spread MRSA to Young Cancer Patients. Here's How to Prevent It.
- Cancer's Spread May Depend on Weird, Newfound Fluid Physics
- The Pentagon Wants to Make an Army of Virus-Spreading Insects. Scientists Are Concerned.
- What Are X-Rays?
- Pigs, Hogs & Boars: Facts About Swine
- An 8-Year-Old Girl Pulled This 1,500-Year-Old Sword Out of a Swedish Lake
- No, Particle Accelerators Will Not Destroy the Planet, But Humans Might
- Why Flu Epidemics Work Differently in Big American Cities
- Medieval Germans Riddled with Tapeworms
- Why Cases of UTIs Increase During Summer: It May Really Be the Weather
October 4th
- 500-Year-Old Scroll Reveals King Henry VII's Extraordinary Support of Travelers to New World
- 13 Hyperfast, Alien Stars Are Invading the Milky Way
- Men Fined $1 Million for Trafficking $17 Million Worth of Squishy Sea Cucumbers
- US Air Force: Don't Worry About Those Weird Lights and Booms Sunday, It's Just a Space Ship
- Hemorrhoids: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment
- Rare, Blue Jellyfish-Like Creatures Wash Ashore in NJ, Puzzling Beachgoers
- These Frogs Are Evolving to Survive a Murderous Fungus That Tries to Stop Their Hearts
- Stephen Hawking's 1st Wife Blasts Biopic 'The Theory of Everything'
- Ibuprofen: Dosage, Side Effects & Other Facts
- Physicist Who Coined 'God Particle' Dies. And a Great Voice for Science Is Stilled.
- It Turns Out Most Cobras Are Cannibals
October 3rd
- Mama Giraffes' Spot Patterns Are Passed Down to Their Babies
- A Chiropractor Adjusted Her Neck. Then This Woman's Vision Problems Began
- No, Drinking Diet Soda Won't Poison Your Gut Bacteria, But It Could Do Harm
- Is Your Dog Super Smart? No, LOL
- Einstein's Religion-Bashing 'God Letter' Expected to Sell for $1.5 Million at Christie's
- Brown Rice: Health Benefits & Nutrition Facts
- Chemistry Nobel Awarded to Scientists for Taking the Reins on Evolution
- Health Problems in Women Can Persist Years After Sexual Assault
- Ancient Mediterranean 'Juglet' Contained Traces of Opium
- Microbes Were Just Found in 'Dark Biosphere' Where They Shouldn't Exist
- Airtight Iron Coffin Found in Queens Held a Mysterious 19th-Century Mummy
- Stone Engravings of Famous Warrior Pharaoh Found in Ancient Egyptian Temple
October 2nd
- Astronomers Find Another Clue That Planet X Is Lurking Out There
- Tiny Robots Inspired by Sperm Want to Swim Around Your Body Delivering Drugs
- This Test Can Measure the 'Dark Core' of Your Personality
- This Beached Shark Tore a Beached Whale to Shreds (And It's All on Video)
- Photos: The Devastating Damage from Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami
- 7.5-Magnitude Earthquake and Tsunami Devastate Indonesia
- A Physicist Said Women's Brains Make Them Worse at Physics — Experts Say That's 'Laughable'
- Hospital Curtains Can Be a Prime Place for Germs, Including Superbugs
- A Woman Was Hit By a Wave at the Beach. It Ruptured One of Her Arteries.
- Rare Quintuple Rainbow Captured by Photographer in New Jersey
- Nobel Prize in Physics Shared by Woman for 1st Time in 55 Years
October 1st
- Corked Tiger Wine? Enter to Win This Book on Wildlife Smuggling
- Photographer Captures Rare, White Deer Mid-Sneeze (Because Nature Is Majestic)
- Naked Servant Depicted in Newly Discovered 2,200-Year-Old Tomb Mural
- Atom Smasher Detects Hints of New Unstable Particle
- Drinking More Water Really Does Ward Off UTIs
- Fossil of Oldest Flowering Tree in North America Discovered. And It Was Huge.
- Pluto Should Be a Planet and So Should Earth's Moon, New Study Claims
- New Jersey Man Dies from 'Brain-Eating' Amoeba
- Grinning-Skull Asteroid Set to Whiz by Earth
- Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Scientists Who Developed Breakthrough Cancer Treatment