News Archive | March 2022

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March 31st
- Staying hydrated may reduce the risk of heart failure
- Rare primordial gas may be leaking out of Earth's core
- 1st 'gapless' human genome finally sequenced
- NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei back on Earth after record-breaking mission
- 'Berserker' geckos slam scorpions into oblivion before eating them, epic new footage shows
March 30th
- Bruce Willis diagnosed with aphasia: The science behind the disorder
- Hubble spots most distant star ever seen, 28 billion light-years away
- Radioactive material stolen from Chernobyl monitoring lab: Here's what that means.
- 'Cannibal' coronal mass ejection will hit Earth at nearly 2 million mph, scientists say
- Weird-eyed strawberry squid spotted in 'twilight zone' off California's coast
- Drought helped push the Vikings out of Greenland, new study finds
- Ice volcanoes on Pluto may still be erupting
- Weird ancient snakelike fossil caught in the act of losing its legs
- Rare 'black widow' star system could help unlock the secrets of space-time
March 29th
- NASA is counting down to the 'wet dress rehearsal' for its 'Mega Moon Rocket'
- New gene-therapy gel shows promise for treating rare 'butterfly disease'
- US Navy sends 'electronic attack' jets to Germany: Here's how they work.
- Ancient 'curse tablet' may show earliest Hebrew name of God
- Invasive crazy ants are being annihilated by murder fungus. Good.
March 28th
- Father's use of diabetes drug could raise his kids' risk of birth defects
- 'Potentially hazardous asteroid' will make its closest-ever approach to Earth on April Fools' Day (yes, really)
- 2,500-year-old burial mound found in Siberia's 'Valley of the Kings'
- Why do we have different blood types?
- The Milky Way's 'thick disk' is 2 billion years older than scientists thought
- This brain structure may grow too fast in babies who develop autism
March 27th
- What countries and cities will disappear due to rising sea levels?
March 26th
- NASA spacecraft snaps gorgeous new photo of Jupiter's moons Io and Europa
- Sudden collapse of Antarctic ice shelf could be sign of things to come
- Graves of dozens of kings from the time of King Arthur uncovered in Britain
- What are the most common elements in the human body?
March 25th
- In global climate strike, youth demand action worldwide
- Strange new type of solar wave defies physics
- We may finally know why spinning-top asteroid Ryugu has such a weird shape
- How Stalin used "The Terror" to secure his iron grip on power
March 24th
- How do boa constrictors avoid suffocating when they squeeze their prey?
- Dennis Sullivan, mathematician who united chaos theory and geometric spaces, wins prestigious Abel Prize
- NASA set to launch 2 rockets into the northern lights
- 'Informational simplicity' may explain why nature favors symmetry
- 5 stunningly preserved ancient Egyptian tombs unearthed in Saqqara
- 'Excessive wrinkling' on young man's hands turned out to be rare condition
- Odd radio circles could come from giant black holes, new study finds
- RIP Comet Leonard: Brightest comet to whiz past Earth in 2021 is now a blur of dust.
- Secret great white shark social club discovered off Mexican coast
March 23rd
- Coronavirus variants: Facts about omicron, delta and other SARS-CoV-2 mutants
- 19th-century whaling shipwreck identified in the Gulf of Mexico
- Stan, most expensive T. rex ever sold, has finally been found
- Secrets of 'mystery sandwich' beneath Yellowstone revealed in new map
- China Boeing 737's steep (and final) nosedive puzzles experts
- Yorkshire's 'Atlantis' may finally be revealed
- Unknown symbols written by the lost 'painted people' of Scotland unearthed
- Odd circular shape beneath the ocean in Google Earth images is probably not aliens
March 22nd
- Scientists make yeast-free pizza dough that rises like the real thing
- Brain-computer interface helps patient with locked-in syndrome communicate
- UK satellite company will use SpaceX rockets after Russian ban
- Quick guide: Most widely used COVID-19 vaccines and how they work
- Alarming heat waves hit Arctic and Antarctica at the same time
- Larva ant queen looks like an alien doll in trippy new microscope images
- NASA's new moon rocket spotted from space rolling to the launch pad (photos)
- Sleeping with a light on may be bad for your heart and blood sugar
- Surprise! King cobra is actually a royal lineage of 4 species
March 21st
- Sulfur from dino-killing asteroid caused way more global cooling than thought
- Massive ice wall may have blocked passage for first Americans
- Ancient sacred pool lined with temples and altars discovered on Sicilian island
- Black holes may grow quantum 'hair'
- Chinese Boeing 737 crashes with 132 on board
- Weird quantum boomerang predicted 60 years ago spotted for the first time
- Why does NASA let male astronauts stay in space longer than females?
- A spiderweb of wormholes could solve a fundamental paradox first proposed by Stephen Hawking
March 20th
- Why did Russian cosmonauts wear Ukraine-flag colors?
- Why aren't there polar bears in Antarctica?
March 19th
- Russia strikes Ukraine with new hypersonic missiles: Here's how they work.
- Ferocious 'Ocucaje Predator' was a sea serpent-like mammal with knives for teeth
- Could the secret of supermassive black holes lie in ultralight dark matter?
- What is the Mandela effect? And have you experienced it?
March 18th
- Mysterious Heartland virus shows up in Georgia ticks
- Nearly 30 pilot whales die after mass stranding in New Zealand
- 30 amazing women in science and math
- At-home COVID-19 tests linked to accidental injuries, FDA warns
- Planet Nine is still missing in action after survey of 87% of the Southern Sky
- Super-rare Greenland shark that washed up on UK beach may be at least 100 years old
- 1st major outbreak of Japanese encephalitis hits Australia
- NASA's Artemis moon rocket just rode a 'supertank' to the launch pad
- NASA caught a dead star spewing antimatter across space in dazzling new image
March 17th
- Mars mission on hold indefinitely after European Space Agency cuts ties with Russia
- 1st image snapped by iconic Webb telescope pushes limits of the 'laws of physics'
- How many nuclear weapons exist?
- Sinkholes as big as a skyscraper and as wide as a city street open up in the Arctic seafloor
- 14th-century sarcophagus found at fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral
- Ready for Artemis I's moon rocket rollout? Here's how to watch.
- The Worm Moon, the last full moon of winter 2022, rises this Friday
March 16th
- 'Stealth' omicron cases rising in the US: Here's what we know.
- Magnitude-7.3 earthquake strikes Fukushima, tsunami warning issued
- Fridge-size asteroid detected just 2 hours before it slammed into Earth
- Scientists discover beautiful new rainbow-colored fish lurking among 'twilight reefs'
- Our universe may have a twin that runs backward in time
- Antarctic sea ice at record low in February, satellite data reveal
- See a stunning, life-like reconstruction of a Stone Age woman
- Meet 'Horridus,' one of the most complete Triceratops fossils ever found
March 15th
- Massive asteroid hit Greenland when it was a lush rainforest, under-ice crater shows
- Mysterious 'hypercarnivore' with blade-like teeth roamed California 42 million years ago
- These 1-millimeter-long worms can make complex decisions with a mere 300 neurons
- San Andreas Fault's creeping section could unleash large earthquakes
- Gargantuan 'Fermi bubbles' are the result of a 100,000-year-long black hole explosion, study suggests
- Stacked 'Mega Moon rocket' is ready to roll, NASA says
- 2 geomagnetic storms will lash Earth today, but don't worry (too much)
March 14th
- Satellite images show fires and rubble in Mariupol after devastating Russian attack
- World's oldest mummy found in Portugal
- Chernobyl plant loses electricity again
- New cosmic-ray scan of the Great Pyramid of Giza could reveal hidden burial chamber
- Sharks do actually sleep, and sometimes with their eyes wide open
- What's the longest-burning fire in the world?
March 13th
- Bus-size asteroid flies by Earth today. Watch it live.
- Melting glaciers reveal 1,700-year-old weapons used by reindeer hunters
- How rare are shooting stars?
March 12th
- Why daylight saving time starts Sunday
- Escaped petting zoo camel attacks and kills 2 men in Tennessee
- 2 giant blobs in Earth's mantle may explain Africa's weird geology
- Why are scabs so itchy?
March 11th
- Fact check: Russian space agency head didn't threaten to strand American astronaut
- Shackleton's Endurance shipwreck teeming with extreme creatures
- Delta-omicron hybrid variant identified for the first time
- Ukraine should destroy 'high-threat' pathogens, WHO says
- Why is the medical symbol a snake on a stick?
- Around a monster black hole, smaller black holes collide in strange ways
- 1st-of-its-kind heart transplant in infant could prevent organ rejection
- This tube of lunar soil has been sealed since 1972. NASA is finally about to open it.
March 10th
- UN atomic watchdog loses contact with second nuclear plant in Ukraine
- This long-lost asteroid impact was so big its debris left more than 30 craters
- What happens when a nuclear bomb explodes?
- Incantation bowls covered with 'magic' spells recovered by police in Jerusalem
- Having just one drink a day can shrink your brain, new study finds
March 9th
- Children's hospital destroyed by Russian bombs in 'atrocious' civilian attack, Ukraine says
- Man who received 1st pig heart transplant has died
- Thick, black 'hairs' coated a man's tongue. Here's why.
- Man caught at Mexican border allegedly had more than 50 reptiles stuffed into his clothing
- SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on 'American broomstick' and lands rocket at sea
- Chernobyl nuclear power plant has lost electricity
- Shackleton's lost Endurance ship discovered beneath Antarctic sea
March 8th
- Amazon nears 'tipping point' where rainforest could transform into savanna
- CERN halts future collaboration with Russia
- Threatened sharks are turning up in pet food, DNA testing shows
- Haunting 'mermaid' mummy in Japan is probably a gruesome monkey-fish mix
- Ancient 10-armed vampire squid relative named for Joe Biden
- Astronomers detect largest organic molecule ever found in a stellar 'dust trap'
March 7th
- Russia's Ukraine invasion could imperil international science
- Spiders hunt in packs of hundreds to swarm prey
- Ancient Transylvanian turtle survived the extinction of the dinosaurs
- Brain shrinkage linked to COVID-19
- Millions of palm-size, flying spiders could invade the East Coast, scientists say
- Why are asteroids and comets such weird shapes?
March 6th
- Are there any moons that are made of gas?
- Remains of ancient child sacrifice victims found near 1,000-year-old mummy in Peru
March 5th
- What is the coldest city in the world?
- Tiny-headed stegosaur with long tail spikes is one of the oldest of its kind
March 4th
- Ukrainian nuclear plant set on fire. Should we worry about another Chernobyl?
- King Tut's 'dagger from outer space' may have been a gift from abroad
- Man dies from caffeine overdose after drinking equivalent of 200 cups of coffee
- 3-ton rocket almost certainly just smashed into the moon at 5,771 mph
- Nuclear fusion is one step closer with new AI breakthrough
- Anal bulbs, detachable butt hairs and booty camouflage: Welcome to #InverteButtWeek on Twitter
- Rare 14th-century gold 'leopard' coin could sell for 140,000 British pounds
March 3rd
- Rocket will collide with the moon tomorrow. Here's what you need to know.
- 3-ton rocket that will smash into the moon Friday is from China, astronomer argues
- The closest black hole to Earth is no more — in fact, it never existed
- False widow spider preys on baby bat in never-before-seen encounter
- Haunting images of 'zombie' shark and other decaying aquarium animals revealed in eerie footage
- How will Ukraine keep SpaceX's Starlink internet service online?
March 2nd
- Old Stone Age culture discovered in China
- Curiosity rover snaps close-up of tiny 'mineral flower' on Mars
- Possible 'kilonova' explosion leaves an epic afterglow
- Stunning satellite image shows immense power of monster 7-story waves in Portugal
- Mountain-sized chunk of rock hiding under Japan is channeling earthquakes
- Stonehenge may have been used as a solar calendar
March 1st
- America's nuke-resistant 'doomsday plane' spotted doing training mission over Nebraska
- 1st possible case of deer-to-human COVID-19 transmission reported
- 2 monster black holes are headed toward a collision that will rock the fabric of space-time
- Physicists create bizarre quantum 'domain walls' in new experiment
- Russian attack of Ukrainian home-improvement store seen in satellite image
- Voluptuous 'Venus' of the Ice Age originated in Italy