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An aerial view of the crater from the explosion of the V2 rocket in 1944 being excavated last month. The site was an orchard when the rocket hit it 77 years ago.

Remains of Nazi V2, the first supersonic rocket, unearthed in South East England

By Tom Metcalfe

The remains of a V2 rocket fired by Nazi Germany at London during World War II have been unearthed in a field in the southeast of England, where it crashed and exploded before reaching its target.

Some people are able to put lacrimal sac and is a part of the tear duct system to make liquid squirt from their eye.

Why does water squirt out of your eye if you blow your nose really hard?

By Jennifer Welsh

Here's how some people can squirt liquids or smoke from their eyes.

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A beluga whale (not the Seattle visitor) photographed by Somerset Island in the Canadian High Arctic.

Lone beluga whale spotted 1,500 miles from home, and nobody knows why

By Laura Geggel

It's a mystery why a beluga, normally an Arctic and subarctic whale, is swimming near Seattle.

A phacopid trilobite with hyper-compound eyes

This trilobite was equipped with a 'hyper-eye' never seen before in the animal kingdom

By Joanna Thompson

Trilobite with "hyper compound eyes" could see through hundreds of lenses, new X-ray study reveals.

A composite image shows the passage of 2005 QN173, a rare active asteroid. The nucleus is in the upper left corner of the image; the tail streaks diagonally across the frame.

Strange solar system object is part-asteroid, part-comet

By Meghan Bartels

Scientists have identified a rare solar system object with traits of both an asteroid and a comet.

Energy burst from most distant known galaxy might have been a satellite orbiting Earth

By Christopher Lowell

The cosmos is the stage for a variety of giant explosions.

A fancy-tailed guppy (Poecilia reticulata) in an aquarium.

Maryland woman catches rare tropical bacterial disease from her fish tank

By Rachael Rettner

The case is unusual because the woman had never traveled outside the U.S.

Pointy peaks in the tooth's crown told paleontologists that this was a mastodon molar.

Michigan boy finds 'dragon's tooth' that belonged to a mastodon

By Mindy Weisberger

A boy stumbled upon a mastodon molar while on a nature walk in Michigan.

Archaeologists discovered a rare, 2,700-year-old toilet among the remains of an ancient estate in Jerusalem.

A rare 2,700-year-old luxury toilet found in Jerusalem

By Yasemin Saplakoglu

Archaeologists recently discovered a 2,700-year-old private toilet inside the remains of an ancient royal estate in Jerusalem.

close up of a person's foot which bears reddish-purple rashes; a hand is holding the foot

We might finally know what causes 'COVID toes'

By Nicoletta Lanese

The rashes may emerge due to a runaway immune response.

The complex submerged root system of a mangrove forest.

Mysterious Mexican mangrove forest is 'trapped in time' hundreds of miles from the coast

By Harry Baker

A new study has revealed that a landlocked mangrove forest in the Yucatán Peninsula migrated there from the coast when sea levels were much higher, around 125,000 years ago.

A satellite image of the concentric cloud rings above La Palma created by its erupting volcano.

Striking bull's-eye-shaped clouds form above erupting La Palma volcano

By Harry Baker

Satellite images released by NASA's Earth Observatory show concentric rings of clouds forming above the erupting volcano on La Palma in the Canary Islands.

An illustration showing the DART spacecraft blasting toward the asteroid Didymos.

NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid at 15,000 mph. Will it make a dent?

By Brandon Specktor

NASA's DART mission will crash a spaceship into an asteroid at 15,000 mph. The mission launched in November.

A healthcare worker vaccinates a young child.

Pfizer asks FDA to authorize COVID-19 vaccine for young kids

By Yasemin Saplakoglu

Pfizer and BioNTech officially submitted a request to the FDA to approve their COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11.

Actor William Shatner, best known for his role as Capt. James T. Kirk on Star Trek, speaks to attendees at the annual GEOINT Symposium, June 5, 2017.

William Shatner will be the oldest person to fly in space with Blue Origin launch

By Chelsea Gohd

Now 90 years old, William Shatner will soon be the oldest person who's ever flown to space.

John Dee was a mathematician, astrologer and occultist.

'Spirit mirror' used by 16th-century occultist John Dee came from the Aztec Empire

By Mindy Weisberger

Mathematician and astrologer John Dee, a confidant of England's Queen Elizabeth I, was also an avid occultist and allegedly used this obsidian mirror to talk to spirits.

A photo of Henrietta Lacks, sits in the living room of her grandson, Ron Lacks, 57, n Baltimore, MD on March 22, 2017

Henrietta Lacks' family sues biotech firm for use of 'stolen' cells

By Nicoletta Lanese

The estate's legal team hinted that more suits will soon be filed against others.

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World's 1st malaria vaccine recommended by WHO

By Yasemin Saplakoglu

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended the widespread use of a malaria vaccine — a breakthrough in the long fight against the deadly disease.