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October 31
- See the face of an 18th century 'vampire' buried in Connecticut
- 2 Viking swords buried upright might have connected the dead to Odin and Valhalla
- Horrifying close-up photo of an ant is the stuff of nightmares
- Massive Martian meteor impact was largest ever recorded in solar system
- Wreck of 17th-century warship discovered in Sweden
- What's the deadliest month of the year?
- Nazca child ingested psychoactive cactus just before ceremonial death in ancient Peru
- Egyptians helped discover King Tut's tomb. Now, they're finally being recognized.
October 30
- The Day of the Dead isn't Halloween. Here are its roots, from Aztec goddess worship to modern Mexican celebration.
- Collapsed Arecibo telescope offers near-Earth asteroid warning from beyond the grave
- Daytime moon: Why can we sometimes see the moon in broad daylight?
October 29
- How do cats squeeze through small spaces?
October 28
- Adorable 'smiling' sun could batter Earth with geomagnetic storms this weekend
- DNA-damaging gut bacteria may fuel colon cancer in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
- Neanderthals were 'top-level carnivores,' tooth analysis suggests
- 'Zombie cells' in the body tied to aging may actually help heal tissue damage
- Bronze Age gold belt with 'cosmological' designs unearthed in Czech beet field
- The longest-living animals on Earth
- Bizarre aye-ayes use spooky, bony finger for nose picking
- Elderly female lion grows 'awkward teenage mane,' baffling zookeepers
- UFOs are finally getting the big NASA study they deserve
October 27
- Gigantic radiation storms have been pummeling Earth for at least 10,000 years and could strike again, tree ring analysis reveals
- New map of methane 'super-emitters' shows some of the largest methane clouds ever seen
- 2,100-year-old burial of Aphrodite 'priestess' discovered in Russia
- 30 incredible treasures discovered in King Tut's tomb
- Massive 'proton aurora' blasted a 250-mile-wide hole in Earth's ozone layer
- A monstrously large, 'potentially hazardous' asteroid will zip through Earth's orbit on Halloween
October 26
- 'Complete lack of sunlight' killed a Renaissance-era toddler, CT scan reveals
- Emperor penguins join threatened species list, thanks to climate change
- Bacteria could survive underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years, new study finds
October 25
- Stunning (and spooky) photos of the final solar eclipse of 2022
- New 'oasis of life' filled with ravenous sharks is found hiding beneath Maldives ocean
- Quitting smoking by age 35 brings your risk of death in line with 'never smokers'
- Hundreds of medieval skeletons, half of them children, discovered under Wales department store
October 24
- The last partial solar eclipse of 2022 is today, here’s what you need to know
- Swarming bees may potentially change the weather, new study suggests
- Scientists design algorithm that 'reads' people's thoughts from brain scans
- Nazi shipwreck is leaking toxic chemicals into the sea, 80 years after sinking
- What if humans had tails?
October 23
- 50,000-year-old DNA reveals the first-ever look at a Neanderthal family
- Where did the idea of the 'wicked stepmother' come from?
October 22
- Ancient carvings of Assyrian war scenes revealed on stone gate in Iraq damaged by Islamic State group
- What's the oldest star in the universe? What about the youngest?
October 21
- Nevada boy dies of rare brain-eating amoeba infection after swimming in Lake Mead
- Human 'bog bones' discovered at Stone Age campsite in Germany
- Screaming monkeys, 'headless' penguins and face-planting zebras take top honors in Comedy Wildlife awards
- Plant leaves spark with electricity during thunderstorms — and that could be altering our air quality in unpredictable ways
- Does the Mediterranean diet reduce dementia risk? 20-year study hints no
- Is brain death reversible?
- World's oldest complete star map, lost for millennia, found inside medieval manuscript
October 20
- Surge of 'flesh-eating' bacteria infections plagues Florida following Hurricane Ian
- What made billions of snow crabs disappear from the Bering Sea?
- Falcon shrine with cryptic message unearthed in Egypt baffles archaeologists
- Mosquito larvae launch their heads like tiny harpoons to nab prey, video reveals
- Stunning 'pillars of creation' shine like never before in new James Webb Telescope image
- Giant, ostrich-like dinosaur and its smaller cousin roamed Mississippi during the late Cretaceous
October 19
- 'Black death' survivors had plague-resistant genes that may boost their descendants' risk of autoimmune disease
- Dozens of ancient viruses are 'switched on' in healthy cells throughout our bodies
- Massive Antarctic iceberg was ripped in two by powerful ocean currents
- Newfound whale species that lives exclusively in US waters may already be on the brink of extinction
- Gamma-ray burst may represent the most powerful cosmic explosion ever recorded
- Energy jet traveling 7 times the speed of light appears to break the laws of physics
- Exact burial spot of St. Nicholas, inspiration for Santa Claus, discovered in Turkish church
- Will brain transplants ever be possible?
October 18
- Hole in the ozone layer has grown for a 3rd year in a row — but scientists aren’t concerned
- Bizarre near-Earth asteroid is spinning faster every year — and scientists aren’t sure why
- Lab-made COVID-19 hybrid sparks controversy
- Thousands of cannonball jellyfish wash ashore after swarming North Carolina’s Outer Banks
October 17
- Bizarre blue blobs hover in Earth's atmosphere in stunning astronaut photo. But what are they?
- 1,600-year-old mosaic of Hercules and Neptune's 40 mistresses unearthed in war-torn Syria
- Why did T. rex have such tiny arms?
October 16
- Are humans limited to 150 friends?
October 15
- Are there really UFOs flying over Ukraine?
- Why do cats and dogs shed?
October 14
- Flu on the rise in the US as season kicks off early
- Astronomers baffled by black hole burping out spaghettified star years after eating it
- 'Majestic' 3-ton sunfish sets a new world record for largest bony fish ever discovered
- Minibrains grown from human and mouse neurons learn to play Pong
- Ancient and bizarre 'innovation crab' from China had eyes on stalks, spike-studded arms and a tail full of 'blades'
- Anglo-Saxon hall where kings and warriors dined discovered in England
- Superhighway of ancient human and animal footprints in England provides an 'amazing snapshot of the past'
- Astronomers develop 'early warning system' to watch supernova explosions tear through the cosmos in real time
October 13
- The CIA wants to bring woolly mammoths back from extinction
- Forged Galileo manuscript leads experts to controversial book he secretly wrote
- First Martian life likely broke the planet with climate change, made themselves extinct
- Dino-killing asteroid triggered 'mega-earthquake' that rocked the planet for months
- Scientists discover 1 million-year-old DNA sample lurking beneath Antarctic seafloor
- Trio of yellow, blue and green lakes in Ethiopia stuns in striking satellite image
October 12
- NASA's asteroid-deflection mission is a smashing success, shortens space rock's orbit by a stunning 32 minutes
- In 'bizarre behavior,' New Zealand penguins lay one egg, reject it, and then lay another. Now, scientists know why.
- Astonishing dinosaur mummy has 'glittering' skin that was punctured and ripped by ancient crocs
- Buzzing bees, sperm-covered sea stars stun judges of Wildlife Photographer of the Year
- James Webb Telescope captures starlight nudging dust from a dying star into space
- One of the most extreme black hole collisions in the universe just proved Einstein right
- Chernobyl radiation set off black frog surge while green frogs 'croaked.' Evolution explains why.
- 'Hell fish' likely killed by dinosaur-ending asteroid is preserved in stunning detail
October 11
- What is the 'man in the moon' and how did it form?
- Easter Island 'arson attack' causes 'irreparable' damage to sacred moai statues
- After the 'Great Dying,' life on Earth took millions of years to recover. Now, scientists know why.
- Glowing embryonic gecko hand and otherworldly slime mold amaze in winning microscope photos
- Mysterious 'ancient heart' of the Milky Way discovered using Gaia probe
- Is Atlantic hurricane season getting worse (and is climate change to blame)?
October 10
- Maya sacrifice victims found with mysterious blue string in their teeth
- What are the deepest spots in Earth's oceans?
- Orcas and humpbacks clash in a violent melee of breaching and biting
October 9
- Could a powerful solar storm wipe out the internet?
October 8
- 'Death throes' of ancient ice sheets carved hidden valleys below the seafloor
- Is it safe for cats to drink milk?
October 7
- Grisly new footage shows orcas attacking a great white shark and eating its liver
- 76 child sacrifice victims with their hearts ripped out found in Peru excavation
- Grave robbing is feeding a macabre market currently booming in the UK
October 6
- Watch the Draconid meteor shower rain fire over Earth on Oct. 8 and 9
- Desecrated human skulls are being sold on social media in UK's unregulated bone trade
- WWI German U-boat discovered off US coast 100 years after it sank
- 1 million-mile-long plasma plume shoots out of the sun in stunning photo
- Largest asteroid ever to hit Earth was twice as big as the rock that killed off the dinosaurs
- How old is ancient Egypt?
- Jaw-dropping study reveals how pythons can devour super-size prey
October 5
- How did the moon form? A supercomputer may have just found the answer
- Was ancient Egypt a desert?
- Tiny Triassic critter provides new insight into the evolution of 1st flying reptiles
- 'Cataclysmic' 50-minute orbit between two stars is the fastest ever recorded
- ‘Click' chemistry pioneers who engineered tiny chemical buckles awarded 2022 Nobel Prize
- The full Hunter's Moon could outshine a 'dragon' meteor shower on Oct. 9
October 4
- Penis worm's ancient cousin fossilized with its doughnut-shaped brain intact
- Quantum 'spooky action at a distance' lands scientists Nobel prize in physics
- Tsunami from dinosaur-killing asteroid had mile-high waves and reached halfway across the world
- Army of swimming microbots eradicate deadly pneumonia infection from mice lungs
- Who was the ancient Egyptian god of death?
- A 'galactic underworld' of ancient, blown-up stars lurks just beneath the Milky Way's surface
October 3
- Buried treasure of 44 Byzantine gold coins found in nature reserve in Israel
- Fungi grow inside cancerous tumors, scientists discover
- 7,000-year-old mass grave in Slovakia may hold human sacrifice victims
- Nobel prize in medicine awarded to geneticist who sequenced Neanderthal genome
- Bizarre, primeval sharklike fish is unlike any vertebrate ever discovered
- See lifelike facial reconstructions of a medieval Scottish woman, priest and bishop
October 2
- Is it possible to avoid unwanted thoughts?
October 1
- What's the fastest airborne animal?