News Archive | March 2023

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March 31st
- James Webb telescope detects light from a small, Earth-like planet — and finds it's missing its atmosphere
- 1,000-year-old brick tomb discovered in China is decorated with lions, sea anemones and 'guardian spirits'
- Oldest Scottish tartan ever found was preserved in a bog for over 400 years
- Newly discovered 'einstein' tile is a 13-sided shape that solves a decades-old math problem
- Rare blood-red arc of light shines in the Scandinavian sky. What is it?
- High school students may have just discovered an 'impossible' proof to the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean theorem
- Ancient fish hook suggests sharks were hunted off Israel's coast 6,000 years ago
- Scientists accidentally discover photosynthesis doesn't work exactly like we thought it did
March 30th
- Extremely flat explosion dubbed 'the Cow' defies explanation
- Extreme longevity: The secret to living longer may be hiding with nuns... and jellyfish
- Indigenous people of the American West used 'sacred' horses a half-century earlier than previously thought
- T. rex had thin lips and a gummy smile, controversial study suggests
- Stephen Hawking's famous black hole paradox may finally have a solution
- Rare 'demon fire' worms discovered in Japan bear a 'striking' resemblance to ancient demons, scientists say
- World's population could plummet to 6 billion by the end of the century, study suggests
- Stressed plants 'scream,' and it sounds like popping bubble wrap
- FDA approves over-the-counter Narcan to combat opioid overdose crisis
- Inbreeding may be causing orca population in the Pacific Northwest to crash
March 29th
- We're nowhere near reaching the maximum human life span, controversial study suggests
- Object mistaken as a galaxy is actually a black hole pointed directly at Earth
- Female spiders play dead during sex so males don't have to worry about being eaten
- Rates of autism diagnosis in children are at an all time high, CDC report suggests
- DeepMind's AI used to develop tiny 'syringe' for injecting gene therapy and tumor-killing drugs
- 2,000 mummified rams' heads were gifted to long-dead ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II
March 28th
- Gargantuan black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun is one of the largest ever discovered
- Mathematicians make rare breakthrough on notoriously tricky 'Ramsey number' problem
- Brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected defies explanation
- China discovers strange glass beads on moon that may contain billions of tons of water
- Deadly spiders that can kill in minutes and survive underwater are hiding out in swimming pools
- Why did a weird goblin shark going viral on Twitter blow up into a bizarre scientific spat?
- Mysterious aurora-like phenomenon 'STEVE' appears during strongest solar storm for more than half a decade
- Was Stonehenge an ancient calendar? A new study says no.
March 27th
- Roman-era trash dump containing naked Venus statue and other artifacts unearthed in France
- 'Wedge tornado' in Mississippi is the deadliest in more than 50 years
- Photo shows 'massive' great white shark scarred after rare battle with 2 serial killer orcas
- Blue-ringed octopus, one of the most toxic animals on Earth, bites woman multiple times
- What's the difference between poison and venom?
March 26th
- How long can you go without sleep?
March 25th
- How do you decontaminate objects exposed to radioactivity?
March 24th
- Tardigrade proteins could help stabilize drugs without refrigeration, scientists say
- Black holes may be swallowing invisible matter that slows the movement of stars
- Your native language may shape the wiring of your brain
- Heat waves are hitting the deep ocean floor, with potentially catastrophic results
- Watch 2 megamouth sharks caught on video for the 1st time ever
- Most powerful solar storm in 6 years caused auroras all over the US. And nobody saw it coming.
- Bacteria from meat may cause a half-million UTIs a year
- How to watch Ceres, a dwarf planet 14 times smaller than Pluto, photobomb a spiral galaxy in the sky this weekend
- Potentially hazardous asteroids: How many dangerous space rocks lurk near Earth — and can we stop them?
March 23rd
- Gene therapy: What is it and how does it work?
- James Webb telescope spots dust storm raging on a giant planet nearly 20 times the size of Jupiter
- What's the biggest black hole in the universe?
- Enormous 'hole' in the sun's atmosphere will trigger stunning auroras Friday
- Ancient Egyptian pharaoh-sphinx statues unearthed at sun temple
- Gigantic 'solar tornado' taller than 14 Earths raged for 3 days. What caused it?
- Inside the gory world of Victorian Medicine in All About History 128
- You can now get a free at-home HIV test. Here's how.
- Scientists want to clone an extinct bison unearthed from Siberian permafrost. Experts are skeptical.
- Legendary 'cat-fox' could be a new subspecies
- Aliens could be hiding in 'terminator zones' on planets with eternal night
- Ancient zodiac paintings on Egyptian temple see the light of day after 2,200 years
- Scientists may have uncovered the oldest evidence of a meteor hitting Earth ever
- 5 planets and a crescent moon are about to line up in the night sky. Here's how to watch.
March 22nd
- Beethoven's DNA sheds light on the mystery of his death
- Hormonal birth control slightly increases breast cancer risk, regardless of type
- Extinction-level asteroid impacts could be far more common than we thought, controversial study suggests
- Beetles suck water into their butts to stay hydrated, and now scientists know how
- China is hunting the world's most elusive particles a mile beneath the ocean floor
- Alien mothership lurking in our solar system could be watching us with tiny probes, Pentagon official suggests
- New invasive mosquitoes descend on Florida, raising concerns of disease
- 'Ghostly' neutrinos spotted inside the world's largest particle accelerator for the first time
- 'Oumuamua isn't an alien spaceship — it's a rock that's farting hydrogen, new study suggests
- There may have been a second Big Bang, new research suggests
March 21st
- The universe might be shaped like a doughnut, not like a pancake, new research suggests
- Trilobites had a hidden third eye, new fossils reveal
- Potentially deadly 'superbug' fungus is spreading faster in the US
- Skyscraper-size asteroid will get closer to Earth than the moon on Saturday
- Key building block for life discovered on distant asteroid Ryugu — and it could explain how life on Earth began
- Tick-borne parasite is spreading in the Northeast, CDC says
- Ancient marsupial sabertooth had eyes like no other mammal predator
March 20th
- Extinct 'Lord of The Rings' eagles had a 10-foot wingspan and probably could have carried a hobbit
- Watch 1st aerial footage of gigantic, breakaway Antarctic iceberg the size of Los Angeles
- World must act now to defuse 'climate time bomb,' UN scientists warn
- How many moons does Earth have?
March 19th
- Which animals have the strongest bite?
March 18th
- Why do dogs tilt their heads?
March 17th
- How are people cured of HIV? Here's everything you need to know
- 7,000-year-old cult site in Saudi Arabia was filled with human remains and animal bones
- Heartbreaking footage shows whale with severely broken back struggling to swim
- Raccoon dog DNA from Wuhan market supports the idea that COVID came from animals
- St Patrick's Day: 5 facts about this most Irish of celebrations
- Oldest 'fish-lizard' fossils ever found suggest these sea monsters survived the 'Great Dying'
- A creepy crocodile and glacial 'guts' among stunning winners from nature photography competition
March 16th
- 1st evidence of recent volcanic activity on Venus detected in groundbreaking study
- James Webb Space Telescope captures star going supernova in a dazzling cloud of dust
- Watch 'unprecedented' animation showcasing 100 million years of Earth history
- 2 pairs of gigantic runaway black holes spotted on collision course, and they're bringing four entire galaxies with them
- 1st woman given stem cell transplant to cure HIV is still virus-free 5 years later
- 1,400-year-old mural of 2-faced men unearthed in Peru may allude to 'cosmic realms'
- Oops, this 300 million-year-old 'blob' fossil was upside down. It's not a jellyfish after all.
March 15th
- 'Extremely rare' fossilized dinosaur voice box suggests they sounded birdlike
- Asteroid feared to hit Earth in 2046 will almost certainly miss, NASA says
- Why are sexually transmitted infections on the rise in the US?
- Notre Dame is held together by a first-of-its-kind 'iron skeleton,' catastrophic fire revealed
- Deadly cyclone 'Freddy' may be the longest-lived and most energetic storm ever recorded
- 60,000-mile-tall 'plasma waterfall' snapped showering the sun with impossibly fast fire
- Longest dinosaur neck ever stretched further than a school bus at 49 feet long
- Da Vinci's mother was an enslaved teenager trafficked to Italy, new documents suggest
- COVID pandemic had 'minimal' effect on mental health, study says. Is that true?
- 'Unstable' moons may be obliterating alien life across the universe
March 14th
- One of Earth's biggest mass extinctions caused by rising sea levels in eerie echo of today
- 'Perfect' 1st edition of Copernicus' controversial book on astronomy could fetch $2.5 million
- Beating 'hearts on a chip' will travel to space on SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship tonight
- 'Very, very rare' gold and silver medieval treasure unearthed in the Netherlands
- Bizarre sand dunes on Mars are 'almost perfectly circular,' and scientists don't know why
- Black widows are being slaughtered by their brown widow cousins, and we don't know why
- 10 discoveries that prove Einstein was right about the universe — and 1 that proves him wrong
March 13th
- Roman-era tomb scattered with magical 'dead nails' and sealed off to shield the living from the 'restless dead'
- Prostate cancer treatments can be avoided or delayed in many cases, huge study finds
- Hollow bones in giant dinosaurs and pterosaurs show convergent evolution in action, fossil study suggests
- Why is it so hard to walk on sand?
March 12th
- If the brain doesn't feel pain, why do headaches hurt?
March 11th
- Earliest mention of Odin, 'king of the gods,' found in treasure hoard from Denmark
- How deep is the Mariana Trench?
March 10th
- Space junk: How broken satellites are creating a garbage crisis in the sky
- In extremely rare case, doctors remove fetus from brain of 1-year-old
- Stunning plasma-winged 'butterfly' coronal mass ejection erupts from the sun's farside
- Ancient platypus-like fossil could rewrite the history of egg-laying mammals
- Rare galaxy with three black holes leads astronomers to the most massive objects in the universe
- Monster black hole may have killed this galaxy's star-forming power, James Webb Telescope reveals
- 'Supergene' mutation turned ants into parasitic wannabe queens
March 9th
- Gladiators fought in Roman Britain, action-packed cremation urn carvings reveal
- 1st complete map of an insect's brain contains 3,016 neurons
- See the first clear images of 'sun rays' on Mars in eerie new NASA photos
- In a first, zoo lion transmits COVID-19 to its keepers
- Scientists use optical tweezers to play world's smallest game of catch with individual atoms
- Bronze Age craftspeople tempered steel more than 1,000 years before the Romans did it
- Remains of ancient temple with hieroglyphic inscriptions discovered in Sudan
- Opioids are the most common cause of fatal poisonings in kids under 5
March 8th
- Newly discovered asteroid the size of a swimming pool has a 1-in-600 chance of colliding with Earth, NASA says
- Scientists blasted Barbies with liquid nitrogen to test a new method of moon dust cleanup – and it worked extremely well
- Daylight saving time 2026: When does the time change, and why?
- Ancient monster fish 'Dunk' was short and chunky, study finds
- Measles-infected person exposed 'undetermined' number of people at huge Kentucky spiritual revival
- 17th-century hoard brimming with 1,000 coins discovered in Poland
- 'Missing link' for Earth's water found around remote baby star
- Scientists discover enzyme that can turn air into energy, unlocking potential new energy source
- Antarctica's sea ice reaches its lowest level since records began, for the 2nd year in a row
March 7th
- Newfound ancient Egyptian sphinx statue may depict Roman emperor Claudius, but not everyone agrees
- 2 orcas slaughter 19 sharks in a single day in South Africa, eating their livers and leaving them to rot
- Ghostly scraps of oldest recorded supernova revealed in stunning telescope image
- Galaxy-size shock waves found rattling the cosmic web — the largest structure in the universe
- Renowned astronomer who discovered Saturn’s largest moon was probably nearsighted, his telescopes show
- Bronze Age ice skates with bone blades discovered in China
- Scientists solve mystery behind strange honeycomb pattern in salt deserts
- Hinged phallus of 2,000-year-old fertility figurine was 'clearly intended to dangle'
March 6th
- Elementary schoolers prove EpiPens become toxic in space — something NASA never knew
- Migraines and blood sugar issues share common genetic risk factors
- What's the smallest known asteroid? What about the largest?
March 5th
- Watch the full 'Worm Moon' wriggle into the sky on March 7
- How big can animals get?
March 4th
- Bright new comet discovered zooming toward the sun could outshine the stars next year
- How many hearts does an octopus have?
March 3rd
- A mysterious object is being sucked into our galaxy's black hole. Now, we may know what it is.
- Missing man's remains found in shark's belly, but it's 'very very unlikely' the shark killed him
- World's 1st horseback riders swept across Europe roughly 5,000 years ago
- Orca appears to adopt (or abduct) a baby pilot whale
- 'Prehistoric' mummified bear discovered in Siberian permafrost isn't what we thought
- Upside-down anglerfish and other alien oddities spotted in one of the world's deepest trenches
- Psychedelics may treat depression by invading brain cells
March 2nd
- Cosmic rays reveal 'hidden' 30-foot-long corridor in Egypt's Great Pyramid
- NASA confirms success of DART mission, proving humanity can deflect killer asteroids with rockets
- New Hubble footage shows exact moment a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid 7 million miles from Earth
- Jurassic World’s bizarre, scythe-clawed dinosaur couldn't have been a slasher, study confirms
- Stunning gem-covered gold earrings discovered in 800-year-old hoard in Germany
March 1st
- Unknown lineage of ice age Europeans discovered in genetic study
- Artificial sweetener may increase risk of heart attack and stroke, study finds
- Wreck of long-lost US World War II submarine found off Japanese coast
- 'Unreal' auroras cover Earth in stunning photo taken by NASA astronaut
- 54,000-year-old stone points are oldest evidence of bows and arrows in Europe
- 1st at-home test for flu and COVID authorized by FDA, but its maker is bankrupt
- Watch footage of 1,000 baleen whales in record-breaking feeding frenzy in Antarctica
- China's Mars rover may be dead in the dust, new NASA images reveal
- Comb made from human skull may have been used in Iron Age rituals
- Jupiter and Venus 'kiss' in a stunning planetary conjunction tonight. Here's how to watch.