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May 2025

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May 31
- Great eared nightjar: The 'baby dragon' bird that lays its eggs on the floor
- Why isn’t an atom’s nucleus round?
- Science news this week: Strange signals from space and Earth's leaking gold
May 30
- 'No radio astronomy from the ground would be possible anymore': Satellite mega-swarms are blinding us to the cosmos — and a critical 'inflection point' is approaching
- How many satellites could fit in Earth orbit? And how many do we really need?
- Kilimanjaro's giant groundsels: The strange plants that thrive on Africa's tallest mountain
May 29
- Moebius syndrome: The rare condition that makes people unable to smile
May 28
- Quadruple volcanoes on secret Soviet military base linked to climate-altering eruption 200 years ago — Earth from space
- Diagnostic dilemma: Cold-water rinses left 'cobblestone' growths in woman's sinuses
May 26
- Ram in the Thicket: A 4,500-year-old gold statue from the royal cemetery at Ur
- Do parrots actually understand what they're saying?
May 25
- Space photo of the week: Violent galaxies seen 'jousting' near the dawn of time
- How long can human sperm survive?
May 24
- Pelican eel: The midnight zone 'gulper' with a giant mouth to swallow animals bigger than itself
- When will the universe die?
- Science news this week: 'Super-vision' contact lenses and bacteria in space
May 23
- Does time 'go slower' when you're exercising?
May 21
- Diagnostic dilemma: A man held in a sneeze — and it punctured his windpipe
May 20
- Exascale computing is here — what does this new era of computing mean and what are exascale supercomputers capable of?
- World's largest iceberg, A23a, is disintegrating into thousands of pieces alongside penguin refuge — Earth from space
May 19
- Oseberg tapestry: Viking Age artwork from a boat burial that may depict the Norse tree of life
- How is Roman concrete still standing after 2,000 years?
May 18
- NASA celebrated this employee's story of resilience, then tried to scrub it from the internet. Then fired her.
- Space photo of the week: Cotton candy clouds shine in one of Hubble's most beautiful images ever
May 17
- Scaly-foot snail: The armor-plated hermaphrodite with a giant heart that lives near scalding deep-sea volcanoes and never eats
- Why do elephants have big ears?
- Science news this week: 2025's biggest solar flare and Yosemite's 'ghost' volcano
May 16
- North America's 'broken heart': The billion-year-old scar from when the continent nearly ripped apart
- What is Moore’s Law and does this decades-old computing prophecy still hold true?
May 15
- Quantum computing: What is quantum error correction (QEC) and why is it so important?
- Prader-Willi syndrome: A rare disease that causes insatiable hunger
May 14
- Diagnostic dilemma: A woman heard a 'pop' during Pilates class. Her spine had sprung a leak.
- What is the Turing test? How the rise of generative AI may have broken the famous imitation game.
May 13
- 'River of fire' unleashes toxic gases as eruption destroys town in La Palma — Earth from space
- Which planets have rings?
May 12
- Could a planet really develop a brain?
- What are neural processing units (NPUs) and why are they so important to modern computing?
- Hatnefer's heart scarab: An exquisite ancient Egyptian gold necklace inscribed with the Book of the Dead
- What's hiding under Antarctica's ice?
May 11
- Space photo of the week: Bizarre 1-armed spiral galaxy stuns Hubble scientists
- When was math invented?
May 10
- Hoatzin: The strange 'stinkbird' born with clawed wings that appears to be an evolutionary 'orphan'
- What's the difference between apes and monkeys?
- Science news this week: Wave patterns on Mars and 'free-range' atom clouds
May 9
- 'If it was a man, we would say that's a warrior's grave': Weapon-filled burials are shaking up what we know about women's role in Viking society
- Jellyfish Lake: Palau's saltwater pool with a toxic bottom and surface waters brimming with millions of jellyfish
May 8
- How do archaeologists figure out the sex of a skeleton?
May 7
- 9 surprising facts about David Attenborough on his 99th birthday
- Mysterious substance spotted swirling across the surface of the Baltic Sea — Earth from space
- Diagnostic dilemma: Botched penile tattoo left man with permanent semi-erection
May 5
- Hårby Valkyrie: A 1,200-year-old gold Viking Age woman sporting a sword, shield and ponytail
- Do other planets have seasons?
May 4
- Space photo of the week: Record-breaking James Webb telescope image captures 1,678 galaxy groups at once
- Do pandas eat anything besides bamboo?
May 3
- Bone collector caterpillar: The very hungry caterpillar of your nightmares
- When was beer invented?
- Science news this week: International blackouts and 'T. rex skin' handbags
May 2
- El Cono: The mysterious sacred 'pyramid' hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest