News Archive | August 2021

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August 31st
- Photos: Devastating Caldor wildfire threatens Lake Tahoe
- Cannibal toads eat so many of their young, they're speeding up evolution
- See Hurricane Ida from 1 million miles away in this NOAA satellite view
- SpaceX's Dragon docks at ISS in time for astronaut's birthday
- Intense exercise could trigger ALS in those with genetic risk
- Could a spaceship fly through a gas giant like Jupiter?
- Man can change his pupil size on command, once thought an impossible feat
August 30th
- Why did Hurricane Ida stay so strong for so long?
- Newly discovered island is the closest land to the North Pole
- New cracks found on International Space Station
- Alien life could thrive on big 'Hycean' exoplanets
- Transylvanian skeletons found with urns from the afterlife placed on their heads
- Could climate change make humans go extinct?
- Lost monastery led by powerful 8th-century queen discovered in England
- Quantum crystal could reveal the identity of dark matter
August 29th
- 'Extremely dangerous' Hurricane Ida makes landfall in Louisiana with 150 mph winds
- Hurricane Ida could slam into Louisiana just shy of Category 5
- Why do faces become less symmetrical with age?
August 28th
- What is the fastest animal on Earth?
- 'Murder hornet' nest leads to discovery of 180 adults, 1,500 larvae
August 27th
- Storm Ida could slam into Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane
- Earthquake swarm rocks the ground at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano
- Scientists detected the radio 'colors' of a fast radio burst for the first time
- Ancient monument linked to King Arthur is older than Stonehenge, research finds
- Satellite images show crowds at Kabul airport before two reported explosions
- Interstellar comets visit our solar system more frequently than thought
- What chronic fatigue syndrome can teach us about 'long COVID'
- Rogue black holes could be wandering at the edges of the Milky Way
- Martian 'blueberries' may hold signs of ancient water, new study suggests
August 26th
- Ivermectin won't treat COVID-19, but it might kill you, CDC warns
- Moon-in-a-jar recreates the hazy atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon
- A billion years of geologic history is missing from the Grand Canyon
- Italian shark has 'virgin birth' after 10 years in all-female shark tank
- Alien 'Dyson spheres' could be harvesting the power of black holes
- Why all the hate? Looking at what makes Blue Origin's presence in space so different
- SpaceX Starship: Key milestones for the world's most powerful rocket
- Venus and a newly discovered comet will cross paths in December. Will sparks fly?
- Massive iceberg narrowly avoided collision with Antarctic ice shelf
August 25th
- Ancient remains found in Indonesia belong to a vanished human lineage
- Hubble captures gorgeous image of 'Einstein ring' from warped quasar light
- Johnson & Johnson booster shot increases antibodies to coronavirus nine-fold, company says
- Hubble telescope spies a stellar nursery through clouds in stunning image
- Scientists' 1st-ever view of sun's middle corona could sharpen space weather forecasts
- Nazi bomb plot cubes could finally be identified
- Eerie albino alligator babies hatched at Florida animal park
- Walking whale ancestor named after Egyptian god of death
- These delta variant mutations may explain its scary power
- Every year, billions of black ice worms crawl from the ice on Mount Rainier. We have no idea why.
August 24th
- Strange wasp nests glow neon green under UV light
- COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness dropped to 66% against delta, CDC finds
- 'Shredder' enzyme might tear cells apart in severe COVID-19
- 'Unimaginable' video shows great white sharks ripping humpback whale carcass to shreds
- 1,500-year-old burial in China holds lovers locked in eternal embrace
- 2,000-year-old flower offerings found under Teotihuacan pyramid in Mexico
- 10 things we know about the secret X-37B space plane
- Fastest-orbiting asteroid in solar system discovered
- Most of Earth's carbon may be locked in our planet's outer core
- Thousands of sand dollars mysteriously wash ashore in Oregon in 'mass die-off'
- 5 gruesome killer whale attacks
August 23rd
- FDA grants full approval for Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine
- California family found dead on trail had 'no obvious cause of death.' Could toxic algae be responsible?
- Tortoise hunts baby bird in slow-motion, crushes its skull in shocking video
- What is the ancient Egyptian 'mummy's curse'?
- Megalodon's mortal attack on sperm whale revealed in ancient tooth
- Mystery object in space could be a new arm of the Milky Way
- How a Salmonella outbreak ravaged a Michigan restaurant for 11 years
- Traversable wormholes are possible under certain gravity conditions
August 22nd
- Astronauts and satellites watch Hurricane Henri from space as US Northeast braces for storm
- These flesh-eating centipedes hunt and eat baby birds alive. Here's why.
- What color is the universe?
- What can we do with a captured asteroid?
August 21st
- Why do you sometimes gain weight after exercising?
- NASA halts human moon lander work with SpaceX amid Blue Origin lawsuit
August 20th
- Rain falls on Greenland's summit for first time in recorded history
- Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' is fighting an invisible battle against the inner Earth, new study finds
- Metal detectorist finds sword pyramid from time of mysterious Sutton Hoo burial
- Why this weekend's Blue Moon is extra rare (and how to see it)
August 19th
- Rattlesnake rattles use auditory illusion to trick human brains
- Sexually frustrated sea snakes mistake scuba divers for potential mates
- 400-year-old 'Muga dhambi' is one of the largest and oldest corals in the Great Barrier Reef
- Chinese astronomers eye Tibetan Plateau site for observatory project
- SpaceX Starlink satellites responsible for over half of close encounters in orbit, scientist says
- Milky Way has a 3,000-light-year-long splinter in its arm, and astronomers don't know why
- World's most elusive giant squid could be monogamous, female corpse hints
August 18th
- Fusion experiment breaks record, blasts out 10 quadrillion watts of power
- Lab-made mini brains grow their own sets of 'eyes'
- Physicists give weird new phase of matter an extra dimension
- Mass grave from Nazi atrocity discovered in Poland's 'Death Valley'
- Chinese satellite got whacked by hunk of Russian rocket in March
- SpaceX's Starship could be ready for 1st orbital test flight 'in a few weeks,' Elon Musk says
- Man gets 'flesh-eating' bacterial infection from eating raw oysters
- Extinct 'Hobbit' creature the size of a house cat discovered in Wyoming dig site
August 17th
- Rare embryo from dinosaur age was laid by human-size turtle
- Stunningly preserved mummy of slave found in Pompeii graveyard
- Crowds of desperate people at Afghanistan airport visible in satellite photos
- Pi calculated to a record-breaking 62.8 trillion digits
- Here's why you need to wash your hands for 20 seconds, according to physics
- US to recommend COVID-19 vaccine booster shots 8 months post-vaccination
- Saturn's rippling rings point to massive, soupy core hidden inside
- What God, quantum mechanics and consciousness have in common
- Three volcanoes erupt at the same time in Alaska, in rare phenomena
August 16th
- Does the explosion of the delta variant mean we need a new COVID-19 vaccine?
- The story behind black-and-white photo of SpaceX's Starship
- Mutant 'daddy shortlegs' created in a lab
- Haiti earthquake death toll soars to more than 1,200
- COVID-19 could mix up body's 'fight-or-flight' system
- Child dies from rare brain-eating amoeba in California
- COVID-19 during pregnancy linked to preterm birth
- Have any human societies ever lived underground?
- Here's what you need to know about COVID-19 breakthrough infections
- Famous Einstein equation used to create matter from light for first time
August 15th
- Black holes could give away their size by their 'messy eating'
- Solar Orbiter spacecraft sends postcard from Venus in flyby video
- Why do turtles live so long?
August 14th
- Chimps use 'hi' and 'bye' greetings, just like humans
- How do we decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics and other ancient languages?
- 49 million-year-old beetle looks like it was squashed yesterday
- Why Perseverance rover fumbled 1st sampling attempt on Mars
August 13th
- July 2021 was officially the hottest month ever
- Invasive 'murder hornets' are officially back in the US
- Two planes report 'bright green UFO' swooping through the clouds over Canada
August 12th
- 3 men die in manure pit: Here's why it's a 'death trap.'
- Mount Etna is 100 feet taller than it was 6 months ago
- Woolly mammoth's epic 50,000-mile journey retraced
- Highest recorded temperature in European history reported in Italy
- Scientists fine-tune odds of asteroid Bennu hitting Earth
- Mysterious blood-red jellyfish may be rare species unknown to science, researchers say
- Indian rocket suffers catastrophic failure during launch, Earth-watching satellite lost
- Shape-shifting fish that confounded scientists for 100 years spotted off California coast
- Ancient Roman key shows lion devouring barbarian
- How deadly is the coronavirus delta variant?
- Astronomers capture strange image of 'dancing ghosts' in the night sky
August 11th
- FDA to authorize 3rd COVID-19 vaccine dose for immunocompromised people
- Runaway star caught streaking across Milky Way at 2 million mph ... in the wrong direction
- Siberian wildfires dwarf all others on Earth combined
- Translucent jellyfish, with fish trapped inside it, washes up on UK beach
- History teacher finds secret cache of Nazi artifacts hidden behind house wall
- US astronaut moon landing 'not feasible,' by 2024, NASA's inspector general finds
- NASA sun spacecraft whizzes through 9th solar flyby
- Powerful X-ray burst from black hole ripples through galactic dust in new NASA image
- Which COVID-19 vaccine has the lowest rate of breakthrough infections?
August 10th
- Thumb-size bat makes record-breaking flight, gets killed by a house cat
- Frozen mummy of extinct cave lion is 'best-preserved ice age animal ever found,' researchers say
- 'Real-life dragon' in Cretaceous Australia was huge, toothy and a 'savage' hunter
- How to watch the peak of the Perseid meteor shower this week
- CDC investigating 2 deaths, 2 illnesses from rare bacterial disease
August 9th
- Mysterious dimming of bright star Betelgeuse possibly explained
- There are 2 types of narcissists. Here's what makes each tick.
- Origin of dinosaur-ending asteroid possibly found. And it's dark.
- Human influence on global warming is 'unequivocal,' IPCC report says
- Possible evidence for biblical earthquake found in City of David
August 8th
- What happens if a far more lethal coronavirus emerges in pets?
- Perseverance rover aims for its 1st sample of Mars, comes up empty
August 7th
- Dixie Fire becomes largest in California history
- Do identical twins have identical fingerprints?
- Babylonians used Pythagorean theorem 1,000 years before it was 'invented' in ancient Greece
August 6th
- Fish with 'human teeth' caught in North Carolina
- California woman got typhus from a neighborhood rat
- Stranded minke whale stinks so bad it's like 'death in a dumpster'
- Cerebral palsy: Causes, symptoms & treatment
- Vaccine-resistant coronavirus 'mutants' are more likely when transmission is high, new model finds
- Gulf Stream could be veering toward irreversible collapse, a new analysis warns
- Tardigrades probably see in black and white
- 'Female' warrior buried in medieval grave may be non-binary
- Melting sea ice could wipe out 98% of emperor penguins by the end of the century
- Synthetic brain cells that store 'memories' are possible, new model reveals
- NASA has glimpsed our galaxy's fate in three-way galactic brawl
- Arizona man went a month without knowing he had the plague
August 5th
- (VIDEO) Watch squirrels perform parkour-like stunts for peanuts
- Perseid meteor shower peaks this month: New moon bodes well for skywatchers.
- Astronaut captures sparkling 'shooting star' video as Russian space station module falls to Earth
- 'Doubly charming' tetraquark is the longest-lived exotic-matter particle ever found
- More than 1,000 earthquakes swarmed Yellowstone Park last month. Is 'the big one' nearing?
- Wildfire prompts evacuation at Turkey power plant
August 4th
- This hurricane season will be even more active than previously predicted, NOAA says
- Vaccines cut chance of being infected with delta variant by half, UK study finds
- Long-lost fragment of Stonehenge reveals rock grains dating to nearly 2 billion years ago
- Chinese cities enter lockdown as delta variant spreads
- Sharks hide in Florida canal to escape toxic red tide sweeping the coast
- Dogs know when humans are lying to them
- These 10 extreme exoplanets are out of this world
- Polar bears bash walrus skulls with boulders and ice blocks, study suggests
- Curiosity rover finds cute little rock 'lizard' on Mars
- Sneaky birds caught on video while yanking hair from live animals
August 3rd
- Machu Picchu was built decades earlier than thought
- Scientists extract ancient DNA from 32,000-year-old bear skull
- What caused a woman to lactate from her armpit?
- NYC will require COVID-19 vaccination proof for indoor dining, gyms
- Graveyard of rhinos, horses and giraffes found in ancient, dried-up watering hole
- Sacred stone tied to the legend of Romulus and Remus unearthed in Rome
- The world has a serious deforestation problem: These 7 images prove it.
- Space station mishap with Russian module more serious than NASA first reported
August 2nd
- One of world's rarest chameleons, once feared extinct, found in African rainforest
- Chipmunks near South Lake Tahoe test positive for plague
- 'Massive melting event' strikes Greenland after record heat wave
- Slowdown of Earth's spin caused an oxygen surge
- Real-life SpongeBob and Patrick found side by side on seafloor. But they likely don't get along.
- Astronomers catch fizzled-out gamma-ray burst from supernova
- What does the edge of the solar system look like?
August 1st
- Look up! Saturn shines bright, shows off rings as it reaches opposition.
- Why did the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima leave shadows of people etched on sidewalks?