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May 15
- China's 1st Mars rover 'Zhurong' lands on the Red Planet
May 14
- After a Chinese zoo covered up a leopard escape, 100 chickens are searching for the big cat
- Astronauts may finally start cleaning their space underwear (with microbes)
- Rare plutonium from space found in deep-sea crust
- This chain reaction could explain rare blood clots linked to some COVID-19 vaccines
- Herodotus lied about famous Greek battle against Carthage, new study finds
- Chernobyl's nuclear fuel is 'smoldering' again and could explode
- Condors won't stop visiting (and trashing) this California woman's house. Here's why.
- Pigs can breathe through their butts. Can humans?
May 12
- China launches more classified Yaogan satellites into orbit
- 40 tombs with humans buried in pots discovered in Corsica
- A mysterious 'hum' vibrates interstellar space. Voyager 1 has a recording of it.
- 'Folded' iron sword found in a Roman soldier's grave was part of a pagan ritual
- 7-foot 'monster' sturgeon found in Detroit River could be over 100 years old
- Is war in space inevitable?
- Cats love boxes so much they'll even sit in fake ones
May 11
- Woman gets 6 doses of COVID-19 vaccine at once
- Da Vinci ‘Head of a Bear’ could sell for over $16 million at upcoming auction
- See how the brain wobbles with each heartbeat in incredible new videos
- Church of the Holy Sepulchre's mysterious 'graffiti' crosses may not be what they seem
- Alcohol made from radioactive Chernobyl apples seized by Ukraine government
- Hapless star 'spaghettified' by black hole. And astronomers capture the gory show in a first.
- Baby minke whale euthanized after getting trapped in Thames River
- Astronomers keep finding mysterious circular rings in the sky and don't know how to explain them
- Medieval shrine gets stone carving of face wearing a COVID-19 mask
May 10
- FDA okays emergency use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for young teens
- SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites in record 10th liftoff (and landing) of reused rocket
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- Never-ending detonations could blast hypersonic craft into space
- Potentially fatal 'black fungus' infections on the rise in India's COVID-19 patients
- Wartime submarine 'HMS Urge' identified, quashing conspiracy theories of sub's secret mission
- Earthquake early warning system uses AI to predict shaking
- A hidden continent birthed a new subduction zone near New Zealand
- 'Imaginary' numbers are real (sort of)
- Meet the marine worm with 100 butts that can each grow eyes and a brain
- Why does 'emotional pain' hurt?
- All hail 'Emperor Dumbo,' the newest species of deep-dwelling octopus
May 9
- Huge Chinese rocket booster falls to Earth over Arabian Peninsula
- Do other animals get heart attacks?
May 8
- You can see the International Space Station (and China's Tianhe, too) in the night sky this weekend
- Jurassic squid got murdered mid-meal, leaving this epic fossil behind
- What does it take to become an astronaut?
May 7
- Giant sequoia tree still smoldering 9 months after devastating California wildfires
- Gargantuan Chinese rocket core will slam through the atmosphere on Saturday, officials predict
- Pfizer/BioNTech take first step toward full approval for COVID-19 vaccine
- Was a humongous Cascadia earthquake just one of many?
- No, men don't learn toxic masculinity from their fathers
- Smithsonian inspects first US astronaut's space capsule, suit 60 years on
- Is there a pattern to the universe?
- Tiny dinosaur that looked like an owl hunted like one, too
May 6
- First remains from doomed 19th-century Arctic expedition identified
- Stunning hoard of Bronze Age jewelry discovered by local hiker in Sweden
- Fossil 'balls' are 1 billion years old and could be Earth's oldest known multicellular life
- First bottle of wine 'aged in space' is for sale at Christie’s
May 5
- First genetically modified mosquitoes released in US
- Ancient turtle with a frog face sucked down its prey millions of years ago
- Doctors successfully treat rare J&J blood clot, case report shows
- What's the minimum number of people needed to survive an apocalypse?
- Oldest deliberate burial of a human in Africa discovered
- Decapitated worms 'see' with their headless bodies
- Physicists get close to taming the chaos of the 'three-body problem'
- Divers discover massive thigh bone from Ice Age mammoth in Florida river
- MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD one step closer to FDA approval
- Eating too much salt could mess with your immune cells
- What Is Cinco de Mayo? History and Facts
- US birth rate plunged in 2020
May 4
- Young green turtles tracked to 'lost years' hideaway
- This Muppet-faced frogmouth is the 'most Instagrammable bird' on Earth
- King Solomon's mines in Spain? Not likely, experts say.
- Hobbits and other early humans not 'destructive agents' of extinction, scientists find
- 8 extremely rare 'millisecond pulsars' discovered inside globular clusters
- Watch a black hole tear a star to bits in epic new animation
- Misplaced Viking noble's bones vanished decades ago, finally found in museum collection
- Astronomers chart invisible ocean of dark matter swirling outside the Milky Way
- Why do nuts and grains go bad?
May 3
- Massive Chinese rocket core to make uncontrolled reentry over Earth in coming days
- Mother rejoices after her child's successful spina bifida surgery in the womb
- Rome's Colosseum, site of violent gladiator battles, to get new high-tech floor
- Possible new type of glacier just discovered on Mars
- World's 1st multinode quantum network is a breakthrough for the quantum internet
- Lightest-known form of uranium created
- How many bubbles are in a glass of beer?
May 2
- Do snakes have ears?
May 1
- Which animal has the stretchiest mouth?