All content Archive | February 2021

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February 28th
- FDA clears Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use
- Is an electric car better for the planet?
February 27th
- Alligators in Oklahoma turn into 'popsicles' sticking out of the frozen water
- Why does Christianity have so many denominations?
February 26th
- Giant crack frees a massive iceberg in Antarctica
- Medium-size dinos are missing from the fossil record. Here's why.
- Perseverance is a tiny pale speck on Mars in this orbiter's eerie photo
- Pirate attacks linked to destructive fishing
- Hidden scenes in ancient Etruscan paintings revealed
- How to see the full 'Snow Moon' and other celestial events this weekend
- Overgrown sheep 'Baarack' gets epic quarantine haircut, loses 78 lbs. of matted wool
- Mysterious stripes spotted over Russia in satellite images — and NASA is perplexed
February 25th
- New coronavirus variant in NYC has vaccine-evading mutation
- Perseverance rover snaps gorgeous HD panorama of Mars landing site
- Why COVID-19 spreads more easily than SARS
- Snakes insert their heads into living frogs' bodies to swallow their organs (because nature is horrifying)
- 1st time-lapse of rare moonflower blooming is stunning
- Greek ship carrying parts of the Parthenon is giving up more secrets
- Ghost particle travels 750 million light-years, ends up buried under the Antarctic ice
- 70,000 never-before-seen viruses found in the human gut
February 24th
- Ancient Egypt's Mona Lisa? An elaborately drawn extinct goose, of course
- Why rescuers are feeding turtles mayonnaise after a disastrous oil spill
- Puppy born with 6 legs, 2 tails called a 'miracle'
- Atheists and believers have different moral compasses
- Martian dust storms may spark electric purple glow
- Conservatives aren't more fearful than liberals, study finds
- Hundreds of skeletons fill this remote Himalayan lake. How did they get there?
- Video captures unusual death of baby bird drowned by a fish
February 23rd
- There's a secret code in the Mars rover's parachute
- 'Homegrown' California coronavirus variant is more contagious and possibly deadlier
- FAA closes investigation of SpaceX's Starship SN9's test-flight crash
- Lumpy, 30-pound meteorite that crashed in Sweden recovered in local village
- Mysterious oil spill covers Israel's coastline in toxic tar balls
- Weird rodent glows under UV light with disco swirls of pink and orange
- Extremists struggle with certain kinds of brain processing, research shows
- Woman contracts COVID-19 from lung transplant in a first
- 40 beached whales 'refloated' in New Zealand
- Rare Roman-era phallus carving found in UK
- Raising the flag on Iwo Jima: Here's the story behind that iconic World War II photo
February 22nd
- Lengthy clinical trials to test vaccines modified for variants won't be necessary, FDA says
- Teachers may play a central role in spreading COVID-19 in schools, CDC says
- Watch the astonishing video of Perseverance landing on Mars
- Hidden 'madman' message on 'The Scream' traced back to Munch himself
- Mary Anning: Life and discoveries of the first female paleontologist
- This gooey, brainless blob can store memories
- Australia's oldest rock painting is an anatomically accurate kangaroo
- Russia reports first cases of humans catching bird flu H5N8
- Humpback whale survives 4-hour attack by gang of orcas
- Astronomers find the fastest spinning black hole to date
- Cosmologists create 4,000 virtual universes to solve Big Bang mystery
- Astrophysicists create the most accurate 'flat map' of Earth ever
- There's a rare yellow penguin on South Georgia island, and biologists can't quite explain it
February 21st
- Vampire squid fossil 'lost' during the Hungarian Revolution rediscovered
- Why do deserts get so cold at night?
February 20th
- Why thousands of turtles were paralyzed off the coast of Texas this week
- Why a dazed deer in Tennessee had hair growing from its eyeballs
- When did lap dogs become popular?
February 19th
- Another new coronavirus variant now detected in 13 countries
- 30% of people with COVID-19 experience symptoms up to 9 months later
- Celtic god or 1980s hockey player? Ancient deity statue wears a mullet and mustache
- Now that Perseverance has landed on Mars, what will the rover do inside Jezero Crater?
- Abandoned moonshine still linked to Al Capone uncovered in South Carolina woods
- Still no evidence of COVID-19 transmission from food, FDA says
- Disastrous Houston blackouts captured from space
- Great white-shark-sized ancient fish discovered by accident from fossilized lung
- Critically endangered baby whale washes up dead on Florida coast
- Dogs know where their paws end and the world begins
- The Battle of Iwo Jima: A gruesome victory for the Allied Forces
February 18th
- Perseverance beams back first images of Mars
- Entire Brazilian city will be vaccinated against COVID-19 in giant experiment
- NASA rover Perseverance survives death-defying plunge, lands safely on Mars
- Malcolm X: Life and legacy of the fierce civil rights campaigner
- Endangered black-footed ferret cloned for the first time
- LSD alters consciousness by breaking down barriers in the brain
- Earth's magnetic field flipped 42,000 years ago, creating a climate 'disaster'
- Lucid dreamers can hear and answer questions while still asleep, scientists find
- At least 20 million years of life have been lost to COVID-19, study suggests
- Incredibly detailed video shows DNA twisting into weird shapes to squeeze into cells
- Dinosaur-killing space rock may have originated at the edge of the solar system
- Planet 9 probably doesn't exist, new paper argues
- Lakes beneath the Antarctic ice could be teeming with microbial life
February 17th
- Bermuda's hurricanes are twice as strong as they were six decades ago
- Giant 14-foot-long crocodile found with human remains in stomach
- Severe COVID-19 may damage the eyes, small study hints
- Oldest sequenced DNA belonged to 1 million-year-old mystery mammoth
- World's largest iceberg disintegrates into 'alphabet soup,' NASA photo shows
- Here's how NASA will safely land a $2.7 billion rhino-sized rover in a dangerous Martian crater
- Watch NASA's Perseverance rover land on Mars
- Stained-glass 'graphic novel' reveals miracles of Archbishop of Canterbury
- Egyptian pharaoh was executed on the battlefield, mummy reveals
February 16th
- What is the cosmological constant?
- Rare snow covers Acropolis of Athens in dazzling white blanket
- A new 7 minutes of terror: See the nail-biting Mars landing of NASA's Perseverance rover in this video
- Hundreds of animal species could harbor novel coronaviruses
- Spectacular 45-foot-tall 'ice volcano' appears in Kazakhstan
- 'Ice age' horse skeleton found in Utah backyard isn't what we thought
- Scientists find first evidence of rare Higgs boson decay
- Original 'Stonehenge' discovered, echoing a legend of the wizard Merlin
- Photo tour of Jezero Crater: Here's where Perseverance landed on Mars
February 15th
- Why do we breathe so loudly when we sleep?
- Bones of St. James the Younger, one of the 12 apostles, belong to someone else
- Who should get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine over the mRNA vaccines?
- Giant hair ball tears through teen's stomach, requiring surgery
- Hidden world of bizarre creatures discovered deep beneath Antarctic ice
February 14th
- New AI 'Ramanujan Machine' uncovers hidden patterns in numbers
- Is champagne stronger than non-bubbly alcoholic drinks?
February 13th
- Prior infection with common cold viruses won't protect against COVID-19
- White dwarfs wear the crushed corpses of planets in their atmospheres
- Why do the queen's guards wear such tall hats?
February 12th
- CDC issues new guidelines for safely reopening schools
- Cause of mysterious dark streaks on Mars found
- Scientists prepare for their last good look at asteroid Apophis before 2029 flyby
- Diabetes drug led to dramatic weight loss in large trial
- 'Extraterrestrial crystal ball' hits the auction block at Christie's
- Snow blankets Hawaii volcanoes in stunning satellite image
February 11th
- California coronavirus variant is spreading rapidly. Should we worry?
- 'Farfarout' is most distant object in our solar system. But it's not Planet Nine.
- Earth's mountains disappeared for a billion years, and then life stopped evolving
- European beads found in Alaska predate Columbus, controversial study claims
- Particles zipping around Earth at near light-speed finally explained
- King Richard III had the 'Princes in the Tower' murdered, historian finds
- China's first Mars mission, Tianwen-1, successfully enters orbit around Red Planet
- COVID-19 vaccines: What does 95% efficacy actually mean?
- Is there a limit to how much the coronavirus can mutate?
February 10th
- Next flu season could be extra weird, and potentially very bad
- Coronavirus may infect key brain cells, causing neurons to die
- Ancient graves and mysterious enclosure discovered at Stonehenge ahead of tunnel construction
- CDC says double-masking improves protection from COVID-19
- Europe's oldest person survives COVID-19
- Asteroid the size of the Golden Gate Bridge will whiz past Earth in March
- Why Mars is having its busiest two weeks in 47 years
- 'Rivers of gold' rush through the Peruvian Amazon in stunning NASA photo
- A Russian 'space truck' just burst into flames on purpose and the photo is amazing
February 9th
- Welcome to Mars! UAE's Hope probe enters orbit around Red Planet.
- COVID-19 may lower sperm counts, small study finds
- What is ozone?
- SpaceX's Crew-1 astronauts break 47-year US space record
- Who was buried at Sutton Hoo?
- 18 dead and hundreds missing in catastrophic Himalayan avalanche
- NASA appoints climate advisor to prioritize Earth science in Biden administration
- Could there be a cluster of antimatter stars orbiting our galaxy?
February 8th
- Stash of more than 600 Roman-era silver coins discovered in Turkey
- Mystery of gamma radiation solved: Hidden cannibal star is just having dinner
- Fast-spreading coronavirus variant is doubling every 10 days in the US
- China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission snaps its 1st photo of Red Planet
- The #PeepYourScience contest wants to see your sugary scientific dioramas
- Superpowerful 'oscillon' particles could have dominated the infant universe, then vanished
- Devious sperm 'poison' their rivals, forcing them to swim in circles until they die
February 7th
- How does the rubber pencil illusion work?
February 6th
- Stressful animation shows blue whale dodging hundreds of ships while trying to feed
- Did the Amazon female warriors from Greek mythology really exist?
February 5th
- Diamonds need an electric zap to crystallize deep inside Earth
- Sea cucumbers pinch out '5 Eiffel Towers worth' of poop per reef, per year
- Venus flytraps produce magnetic fields when they eat
- Is it OK to mix and match COVID-19 vaccines? Oxford researchers begin trial.
- Scientists narrow down the 'weight' of dark matter trillions of trillions of times
- The sneaky way the coronavirus mutates to escape the immune system
- Tiny dinos with fancy neck frills were big showoffs
February 4th
- Cancer patients weren't responding to therapy. Then they got a poop transplant.
- Greek gods and ancient mortals 'resurrected' in terracotta figurines discovered in Turkey
- 'Pile of rope' on a Texas beach is a weird, real-life sea creature
- Satellite spots SpaceX's Starship SN9 from space ahead of explosive test flight
- A giant black hole suddenly went dark, and no one knows why
- Seas will likely rise even faster than worst-case scenarios predicted by climate models
- Whale that stranded off Florida is completely new species (and already endangered)
- Children's ID tags unearthed at Nazi death camp in Poland
- These star-shaped brain cells may help us understand depression's biological roots
- AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine may cut spread of virus
February 3rd
- Never-before-seen 'mud mummy' from Egypt discovered in wrong coffin
- Chemists create and capture einsteinium, the elusive 99th element
- Arctic Ocean was once a tub of fresh water covered with a half-mile of ice
- The story you heard about Genghis Khan's death is probably all wrong
- Mosque built decades after death of Prophet Muhammad found near Sea of Galilee
- Spiders hoist big prey with silk 'pulleys' — and now scientists know how
February 2nd
- Horse tranquilizer emerges as new and deadly street drug in US
- 2nd SpaceX 'Starship' explodes during landing test
- Video catches split second before intense lightning strike
- UK coronavirus variant develops vaccine-evading mutation
- Rare purple textiles from the time of biblical kings found for the first time in Israel
- 100,000-year-old story could explain why the Pleiades are called 'Seven Sisters'
- Perfectly-preserved 'bog beetles' nearly as old as Egypt's pyramids
- Ruins of ancient church and temple discovered in Egypt
- World's largest iceberg shatters into a dozen pieces
- Hundreds of 'highly cannibalistic' spiders invade teen's bedroom in Australia
February 1st
- 5G Network: How does it work, and is it dangerous?
- 4-year-old discovers impressive dinosaur footprint on Wales beach
- Apollo 15 landing site is strikingly clear in image captured from Earth
- Embryos of Northern white rhino created. Will they save nearly extinct creature?
- Chinese researchers to send an 'uncrackable' quantum message to space
- Greenland is careening toward a critical tipping point for ice loss
- Mummy with a gold tongue found in Egypt
- Why do wombats have cube-shaped poop?
- South African coronavirus variant: All your questions answered