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October 29
- Why don't teeth count as bones?
- Diagnostic dilemma: A baby suddenly started to smell of rotting fish
- Science history: First computer-to-computer message lays the foundation for the internet, but it crashes halfway through — Oct. 29, 1969
October 28
- Future pandemics are a 'certainty' — and we must be better prepared to distribute vaccines equitably, says Dr. Seth Berkley
- Glowering 'skull' stares upward from a giant volcanic pit in the Sahara — Earth from space
October 27
- Decapitator nose ornament: 1,500-year-old gold jewelry depicting a bloodthirsty South American god
- Why can pumpkins grow so large, but blueberries can't?
October 26
- Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is about to get very active — Space photo of the week
- Did Neanderthals eat anything other than meat?
October 25
- Why does pooping feel so good?
October 24
- Neanderthals could be brought back within 20 years — but is it a good idea?
- Eternal Flame Falls: New York's mini waterfall that hides a grotto filled with undying fire
October 23
- Science history: Scientists use 'click chemistry' to watch molecules in living organisms — Oct. 23, 2007
October 22
- Diagnostic dilemma: A toddler accidently ate gonorrhea bacteria from a lab dish
October 21
- Pair of 'holy' islands in eerily green African lake hold centuries-old relics and mummified emperors — Earth from space
October 20
- 'People made it out of the cities alive': Tracing the survivors of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 2,000 years after Vesuvius erupted
- Roos Carr figures: Creepy 2,600-year-old carvings with 'removable genitalia' and eyes that may have symbolized Odin's soothsayer powers
- What are the mysterious lights sometimes seen on the moon?
October 19
- How do our brains wake up?
October 18
- Can you actually get high from licking a toad?
October 17
- Could simple blood tests identify cancer earlier?
October 16
- Chasing comets: How to photograph comets Lemmon and 3I/ATLAS
October 15
- Diagnostic dilemma: A woman's nausea was triggered by a huge mass in her stomach — which doctors dissolved with diet soda
October 14
- Shapeshifting 'braided river' in Tibet is the highest in the world, and is becoming increasingly unstable — Earth from space
October 13
- Miniature Skeleton: A ghostly 2,000-year-old party favor from a Roman banquet
- What if Christopher Columbus had never reached the Americas?
October 12
- Hubble went supernova hunting — and found something unexpected: Space photo of the week
- Which planets are the youngest and oldest in our solar system?
October 10
- Extreme weather caused more than $100 billion in damage by June — smashing US records
- Coral Triangle: The giant hidden 'Amazon' beneath the sea that appears somewhat resilient to climate change
October 9
- Science history: First two-way phone call across outdoor lines made by Alexander Graham Bell — Oct. 9, 1876
October 8
- Diagnostic dilemma: A brain lesion gave a woman a lifetime of joyless laughing fits
October 7
- 'The papyrus also recommends putting a clove of garlic in your vagina before bed': The texts that reveal the baffling healthcare for women in ancient Egypt
- 'The Big One' could be even worse than COVID-19. Here's what epidemiologist Michael Osterholm says we can learn from past pandemics.
- The whale-shaped island in Belize with a 'great blue blowhole' — Earth from space
October 6
- Corleck Head: A spooky three-faced Celtic sculpture found on the 'Hill of Death' in Ireland — and it may have been connected to human sacrifice 1,900 years ago
- What's the longest someone has been clinically dead — but then come back to life?
October 5
- Science history: Edwin Hubble uncovers the vastness of the universe with discovery of 'standard candle' — Oct. 5, 1923
- The James Webb telescope proves Einstein right, 8 times over — Space photo of the week
- Why do avocados turn brown so quickly — and are they OK to eat at that point?
October 4
- Asian golden cat: The 'feline of many costumes' that plucks birds before eating them
- Who discovered America?
October 3
- Plate tectonics may be why Earth has life — and the key to finding life elsewhere in the universe
- Scientists could soon create a 'universal antivenom.' But would it save lives?
- Science history: Invention of the transistor ushers in the computing era — Oct. 3, 1950
October 2
- 4 reasons why you keep abandoning your fitness trackers (and how to stop them from happening again)
October 1
- Diagnostic dilemma: A woman got unusual bruising from a massage gun. It turned out she had scurvy.