Features Archive | July 2025

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July 30th
- Diagnostic dilemma: Hunter's rare allergy meant he could no longer eat red meat
July 29th
- 'Ghost island' appears after underwater eruption, then vanishes into the Caspian Sea — Earth from space
July 28th
- Meskalamdug's Helmet: One of the world's oldest helmets depicts a Mesopotamian prince's man bun
- What happened to Rome after the empire fell?
July 27th
- Astronomers witness a newborn planet emerging from the dust around a sun-like star: Space photo of the week
- Why do cats hate water?
July 26th
- Virginia opossums: The American marsupials that have barely changed since the time of the dinosaurs
- Could we ever build a transatlantic tunnel?
- Science news this week: Wolves help restore trees in Yellowstone and the largest interstellar object ever seen
July 23rd
- Diagnostic dilemma: Rare semen allergy may have caused woman's infertility
July 22nd
- Trio of stripy glaciers merging in 'Earth's highest battleground' are part of a major anomaly scientists don't fully understand — Earth from space
July 21st
- Vounous Bowl: A 4,000-year-old basin holding 4 miniature cows and 18 people — that was buried for mysterious reasons in a Bronze Age tomb in Cyprus
- Can other metals be turned into gold?
July 20th
- 'Fighting dragons' light up little-known constellation in the Southern sky: Space photo of the week
- When will the solar system die out?
July 19th
- Colugo: The 'flying lemur' that doesn't fly and isn't a lemur
- Why do sharks freeze when flipped upside down?
- Science news this week: 'Anti-aging' magic mushrooms and record-breaking internet speeds
July 18th
- Earth's magnetic field is weakening — magnetic crystals from lost civilizations could hold the key to understanding why
- Mount Thor: The mountain with Earth's longest vertical drop
July 16th
- Why do cats like concrete slabs?
- Why is color blindness so much more common in men than in women?
- Diagnostic dilemma: Weird lump in woman's hip was sponge left behind during C-section
July 15th
- The choice of sperm is 'entirely up to the egg' — so why does the myth of 'racing sperm' persist?
- Russian volcano grows 'devil horns' and spits out 1,000-mile-long river of smoke — Earth from space
July 14th
- Roman dodecahedron: A mysterious 12-sided object that has baffled archaeologists for centuries
- Can your brain run out of memory?
July 13th
- James Webb and Hubble telescopes join forces to explore a cosmic nursery: Space photo of the week
- What's Earth's lowest point on land?
July 12th
- How is DNA used to identify victims of mass disasters?
- Kākāpō: The chonky parrot that can live almost 100 years
- Why is the blue-ringed octopus so deadly?
- Science news this week: 'Bringing back' giant ancient birds and a shift in Earth's poles
July 9th
- Diagnostic dilemma: Orgasm involving a kitchen whisk likely triggered person's fatal aneurysm
July 8th
- Perfect trio of prehistoric atolls shine like tropical gems off Australian coast — Earth from space
July 7th
- 'The first author was a woman. She should be in the kitchen, not writing papers': Bias in STEM publishing still punishes women
- Penguin Vessel: 1,600-year-old Nazca depiction of a cold-water Humboldt penguin that lives in tropical Peru
- What color is moonlight?
July 6th
- Why do giraffes have spots?
July 5th
- Japanese quail: The bird with weird sperm foam, a post-sex strut and a spot in space history
- What are dwarf planets — and how many are there?
- Why are men taller than women, on average?
- Science news this week: An 'interstellar visitor' and the oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever sequenced
July 4th
- Whale Valley: The whale graveyard in the Sahara desert that shows they once had feet and toes
July 2nd
- Diagnostic dilemma: Shingles popped a hole in a man's bladder
July 1st
- Stunning cloud vortices swirl off 6 different Atlantic islands — Earth from space