Overgrown sheep 'Baarack' gets epic quarantine haircut, loses 78 lbs. of matted wool By Mindy Weisberger A sheep found wandering wild in Victoria, Australia carried a massive coat of fleece weighing as much as a 10-year-old child.
New coronavirus variant in NYC has vaccine-evading mutation By Rachael Rettner It has a mutation that may help the coronavirus partially evade COVID-19 vaccines.
Perseverance rover snaps gorgeous HD panorama of Mars landing site By Mike Wall Perseverance has captured a high-definition, 360-degree panorama of its surroundings on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater, which harbored a lake and a river delta billions of years ago.
Why COVID-19 spreads more easily than SARS By Rachael Rettner The study researchers focused on the spike protein, the structure that allows coronaviruses to bind to and enter human cells.
Snakes insert their heads into living frogs' bodies to swallow their organs (because nature is horrifying) By Mindy Weisberger In two new studies, researchers identified more snakes that disembowel frogs to eat their organs, a gruesome habit that was only recently discovered.
1st time-lapse of rare moonflower blooming is stunning By Harry Baker The blooming process of a moonflower cactus has been captured on video for the first time and was watched by over 400,000 people online.
Ghost particle travels 750 million light-years, ends up buried under the Antarctic ice By Adam Mann Astronomers spot two highly delayed signals from two different black holes tearing apart stars in their vicinity.
70,000 never-before-seen viruses found in the human gut By Yasemin Saplakoglu Hundreds of thousands of viruses can lurk in our guts — but how they impact our bodies is a mystery.
Ancient Egypt's Mona Lisa? An elaborately drawn extinct goose, of course By Yasemin Saplakoglu Nearly five millennia ago, an artist inked an incredibly detailed painting of geese in the tomb of an Egyptian vizier and his wife.
Why rescuers are feeding turtles mayonnaise after a disastrous oil spill By Nicoletta Lanese The condiment helps break down the tar in the turtles' digestive tracts.
Puppy born with 6 legs, 2 tails called a 'miracle' By Rachael Rettner Despite her rare conditions, Skipper appears healthy and strong.
Atheists and believers have different moral compasses By Laura Geggel The moral compass of believers and atheists is calibrated differently.
Martian dust storms may spark electric purple glow By Brandon Specktor Colliding dust particles on Mars probably produce static electricity, a new experiment reveals.
Conservatives aren't more fearful than liberals, study finds By Stephanie Pappas Contrary to earlier research, a new international study finds that both liberals and conservatives respond to threats — just different ones.
Hundreds of skeletons fill this remote Himalayan lake. How did they get there? By Stephanie Pappas Hundreds of people have died at a remote Himalayan lake, and some of them had no obvious reason to be there.
Video captures unusual death of baby bird drowned by a fish By Mindy Weisberger Scientists recently captured video documenting the first reported instance of a fish preying on a newly-hatched baby bird, in a flooded nest in coastal Georgia.
There's a secret code in the Mars rover's parachute By Brandon Specktor NASA scientists teased the code's existence on Monday. The Internet solved it within 6 hours.
'Homegrown' California coronavirus variant is more contagious and possibly deadlier By Rachael Rettner Lab studies found that the variant was 40% better at infecting human cells compared with earlier strains.
FAA closes investigation of SpaceX's Starship SN9's test-flight crash By Mike Wall The path is now much clearer for the test flight of SN9's successor, SN10.
