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- February 29
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- 14 wrecks that expose 'what life was like on slaver ships' identified in the Bahamas
- Flying car designed to hop across the Philippines' 7,000 islands coming this year
- Items used by Roman cavalry and other treasures unearthed by metal detectorist in Wales
- '2023 just blew everything off the charts': Antarctic sea ice hits troubling low for third consecutive year
- Tinder, Hinge lawsuit raises question: Can dating apps be considered addictive?
- James Webb telescope spots trouble in Orion Nebula: Stellar winds are eroding planet-forming material around a young star
- Striking new satellite images show Indonesia's new jungle capital taking shape
- Male humpback whale seen forcing sex on emaciated, injured male in extremely rare encounter
- Why do people dissociate during traumatic events?
- Mexico's most dangerous active volcano erupts 13 times in 1 day
- Satellite snaps eerily circular holes in the clouds above Florida. What caused them?
- How many ancient Egyptian pyramids are there?
- NASA's asteroid-slamming DART mission completely changed the shape of its target
- What causes tinnitus, and can it be treated?
- February 28
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- Copper Age necropolis unearthed in Italy contains skeletal remains and still-sharp weapons, maybe from ancient warriors
- Mini model of human embryonic brain and spinal cord grown in lab
- Scientists say dehydrating the stratosphere could be plausible option to combat climate change
- Passing stars may have changed Earth's orbit and climate, study finds
- Historic Texas wildfires rage toward U.S. nuclear weapon facility
- Underwater volcano eruption 7,300 years ago is the largest in recorded history
- Record-smashing Chinese maglev hyperloop train hits 387 mph and could someday outpace a plane
- We finally know why humans don't have tails
- Astronomers narrow down where 'Planet Nine' could be hiding by playing massive game of 'connect the dots'
- Could mini space-grown organs be our 'cancer moonshot'?
- Russian satellite narrowly avoids collision with US spacecraft, and NASA could do nothing to stop it
- Mars-bound astronauts will face incredible stress. Here's how we can prepare them to make history.
- 'Mathematically perfect' star system being investigated for potential alien technology
- 'Living fossil' tree frozen in time for 66 million years being planted in secret locations
- Radar images show Europe's doomed ERS-2 satellite buckle and burn during final orbits of Earth
- Critically endangered right whales are shrinking, with drastic consequences for their population
- February 27
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- 'Rare' metal slab found in Maryland was once part of a suit of armor worn by colonists
- New AI image generator is 8 times faster than OpenAI's best tool — and can run on cheap computers
- Gargantuan sunspot that spit out the strongest solar flare in 6 years is now pointing 'almost directly' at Earth
- Dead star with 'metal scar' on its face likely killed and ate a planet in our galaxy, study finds
- 3 new moons discovered around Uranus and Neptune will be named after Shakespeare characters and Greek goddesses
- Super-realistic prosthetic eyes made in record time with 3D printing
- El Niño kickstarted the melting of Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' 80 years ago, new study reveals
- Millions of mystery holes at the bottom of the North Sea are not what scientists thought they were
- 1,000 burials and medieval village found in excavation of abbey destroyed in French Revolution
- Bacteria can evolve resistance to life-saving drugs they've never seen. Here's how.
- Beware smartwatches that claim to monitor blood sugar without skin prick, FDA says
- February 26
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- SLIM lives! Japan's moon lander revives after freezing lunar night, defying expectations
- Mexico City could be just months away from running out of drinking water
- Extreme exercise can pose risks. A cardiologist explains why.
- 'Finally, we have the evidence': James Webb telescope spots neutron star hiding in wreckage of famous 1987 supernova
- 1st US spacecraft on moon in 50 years could be dead by Tuesday after face-plant landing
- 'It is not very wise to spend the night in Grindavík': Iceland volcano gears up for another eruption
- 'Quantum memory breakthrough' may lead to a quantum internet
- Tiny lab-grown testicles look remarkably like the real thing under the microscope
- February 25
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- Teens use HIV prevention meds way more if they get these simple interventions
- Earth has extra moons, and they may hold the secrets of our solar system's past
- Ultrasonic earbuds with 'advanced noise-cancellation' could launch as soon as 2025
- Space photo of the week: 'El Gordo' galaxy cluster shakes its guts in largest-ever magnetic field map of space
- Can animals really smell fear in humans?
- February 24
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- Bizarre 'Russian doll stars' predicted with Einstein's general relativity equations
- 'Incredibly rare' head of deity Mercury reveals previously unknown Roman settlement in UK
- Mary River turtle: The green-haired oddball that can breathe through its butt for 72 hours
- Qubits are notoriously prone to failure — but building them from a single laser pulse may change this
- James Webb telescope spots potential conditions for life on 2 dwarf planets beyond Neptune
- Why do cats have bald spots in front of their ears?
- February 23
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- 'Everything has changed since Apollo': Why landing on the moon is still incredibly difficult in 2024
- 'It took the rug right out from under my life': Milestone ME/CFS study begins to explain disease, but will it lead to treatments?
- Bright-red pigment is one of the earliest examples of Bronze Age lipstick
- Stunning 240 million-year-old 'Chinese dragon' fossil unveiled by scientists
- Atlantic's hurricane alley is so hot from El Niño it could send 2024's storm season into overdrive
- Watch a rare pink albino elephant baby playing by a waterhole in adorable footage
- Thawing Arctic permafrost could release radioactive, cancer-causing radon
- 'The US has returned to the moon': Private company makes historic moon landing with Odysseus probe
- Casimir Funk: What is the biochemist celebrated in today's Google Doodle famous for?
- 3rd X-class solar flare in 24 hours is the most powerful for 6 years — and it may not be the last
- AI chatbots need to be much better at remembering things. Have scientists just cracked their terrible memory problem?
- February 22
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- World's oldest known decimal point discovered in merchant's notes from 1440s Italy
- Viking market may be buried on a Norwegian island, radar suggests
- Snakes are built to evolve at incredible speeds, and scientists aren't sure why
- Are solar flares responsible for the AT&T service outage? Not likely, experts say.
- The skin microbiome could be harnessed as mosquito repellent, study hints
- One-third of trans people taking testosterone may still ovulate, raising chance of pregnancy
- 'Mind-blowing' deep sea expedition uncovers more than 100 new species and a gigantic underwater mountain
- February's full 'Snow Moon' rises this weekend. Here's why it's one-of-a-kind.
- Dead star smaller than Jupiter is one of the tiniest in the known universe
- February 21
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- 5,000-pound European satellite burns up over Pacific Ocean after 30 years in orbit
- 'Completely surreal': Metal detectorist unearths 1,500-year-old gold ring in Denmark
- Gut bacteria linked to colorectal cancer in young people
- 'A wonderful spectacle': Photographer snaps rare solar eruption as 'magnetic noose' strangles the sun's south pole
- Intuitive Machines moon lander beams home stunning photos of Earth from space
- Watch bright red blood-sucking parasite feast on gulper eel in rare, deep-sea footage
- Why is a mushroom growing on a frog? Scientists don't know, but it sure looks weird
- Forget making coffee — Boston Dynamics puts Atlas to work lifting heavy automotive struts in latest flex
- Conjunction! How to see Venus and Mars side by side in the sky tonight
- February 20
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- James Webb telescope finds ancient galaxy larger than our Milky Way, and it's threatening to upend cosmology
- Asthma drug omalizumab approved for severe food allergies
- Ancient language found on 2,100-year-old bronze hand may be related to Basque
- NASA grabbed a whopping 120 grams of rubble from asteroid Bennu, and it may contain the seeds of life
- Big, doomed 'TIE fighter' satellite seen from space just days before crashing back to Earth
- 4 genes' activity could be key to faster appendicitis diagnosis
- 'Cut down in their prime': Dinosaurs were thriving in Africa before the asteroid hit
- 'This is weird': Experts 'shocked' by record-breaking longevity of Death Valley's phantom lake
- Eerie photograph captures whales hunted off Greenland lying in their watery grave
- 1st frostbite drug approved by FDA after successful clinical trial
- World's 1st PC rediscovered by accident in UK house clearance nearly 50 years after last sighting
- February 19
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- Brightest black hole ever discovered devours a sun's-worth of matter every day
- More than 275 million never-before-seen gene variants uncovered in US population
- Giant, invasive Joro spiders with 6-foot webs could be poised to take over US cities, scientists warn
- 'More unzipping of the landscape': Arctic permafrost could crumble into rivers, unleashing devastating feedback loop
- Watch this eerily silent vision of the future — where offices are filled with weird, AI-powered robots
- Elon Musk's Neuralink has concerning lack of transparency and could be vulnerable to hacking, ethicists warn
- CRISPR 'will provide cures for genetic diseases that were incurable before,' says renowned biochemist Virginijus Šikšnys
- Why are blueberries blue?
- February 18
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- 1,800-year-old Roman tombs in Bulgaria included medallion featuring an emperor and glass bottles for collecting mourners' tears
- 'Scent therapy' helps unlock memories in people with depression, trial finds
- Space photo of the week: Astronomers make an 'artificial star' over Hawaii
- There may be a 'dark mirror' universe within ours where atoms failed to form, new study suggests
- April 8 total solar eclipse: Why this eclipse repeats itself every 54 years
- China eyes May 2024 launch for 1st-ever lunar sample-return mission to far side of the moon
- Why don't humans have gills?
- February 17
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- When did the ancient Egyptians first mummify their dead?
- 'Beautifully preserved,' 3,000-year-old gold clasp unearthed by metal detectorist in UK
- Stunning rock art site reveals that humans settled the Colombian Amazon 13,000 years ago
- Honduran white bats: The fluffy little bats that roost together in leaf tents
- An astronomer's lament: SpaceX 'megaconstellations' are ruining space exploration for everyone
- What would happen to a dead body in space?
- February 16
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- Only part of rare 280 million-year-old fossil is real — the rest is mostly paint
- Russia is developing a space-based nuclear weapon to target satellites, U.S. Congress reveals
- Could allergies be 'deleted' someday?
- 'Stepping stone to Mars': Minimoons may help us become an interplanetary species, says MIT astrophysicist Richard Binzel
- There's an asteroid out there worth $100,000 quadrillion. Why haven't we mined it?
- 'The law is way behind the time': Mining asteroids and the moon remains a huge legal gray area
- Can we refuel 'dead' satellites in space? Bold new missions aim to try.
- 13,000-year-old bone bead is the oldest of its kind in the Americas
- Does Viagra reduce the risk of Alzheimer's? Here's what we know.
- Watch hypnotizing footage of mysterious deep-sea worm dancing in the twilight zone
- Water detected on the surface of an asteroid for the 1st time ever
- Future electric cars could go more than 600 miles on a single charge thanks to battery-boosting gel
- February 15
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- Giant, synchronized swarms of locusts may become more common with climate change
- 'Microbiome of death' uncovered on decomposing corpses could aid forensics
- 1,800-year-old 'Iron Legion' Roman base discovered near 'Armageddon' is largest in Israel
- 2 waves of mass murder struck prehistoric Denmark, genetic study reveals
- Telehealth abortions are as safe and effective as in-person, large study shows
- Please don't wear the Apple Vision Pro while driving, study urges, but buying coffee with VR is an 'exciting novelty'
- What would happen if you moved at the speed of light?
- Fishing cats seen feasting on chicks at the tops of 26-foot-tall trees in Bangladesh
- February 14
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- NASA's Voyager 1 probe hasn't 'spoken' in 3 months and needs a 'miracle' to save it
- Ancient rock art in Argentinian cave may have transmitted information across 100 generations
- NASA releases otherworldly footage of solar eclipse on Mars
- Skull of Neolithic 'bog body' from Denmark was smashed by 8 heavy blows in violent murder
- 5 beguiling heart-shaped objects found in space
- Scientists developing new 'heart-on-a-chip'
- 'You cannot put people into arbitrary boxes': Psychologists critique the '5 love languages'
- Watch 30-foot Jurassic sea monster come back to life in David Attenborough's new pliosaur show
- Ancient tomb really does hold Alexander the Great's father, controversial study claims
- Seattle's massive fault may result from oceanic crust 'unzipping itself' 55 million years ago
- February 13
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- Spectacularly preserved Roman-age egg still has its yolk and whites
- Solar eclipse glasses: Where to buy a safe, certified pair before the March 29 eclipse
- Bizarre jellyfish with bright red cross for a stomach discovered in volcanic caldera off Japan
- Scientists may have accidentally found mystery magma reservoir in volcanoless region of Alaska
- California-size Antarctic ice sheet once thought stable may actually be at tipping point for collapse
- Dinosaurs dominated our planet not because of their massive size or fearsome teeth — but thanks to the way they walked
- Einstein's predictions mean rare 'gravitational lasers' could exist throughout the universe, new paper claims
- When did the Egyptians start using hieroglyphs?
- Meteor that exploded over Germany confirmed to be rare 'aubrite' as old as the solar system itself
- 1st fatal case of Alaskapox may have been tied to stray cat
- February 12
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- 11,000-year-old submerged stone wall discovered off Germany was once used to trap reindeer
- Oregon's 1st bubonic plague case in 8 years tied to patient's pet cat
- Watch the 1st X-class solar flare of 2024 erupt from the sun in explosive fashion
- Big, dead European satellite will come crashing back to Earth this month
- Medieval iron glove, likely worn by a knight, discovered near Swiss castle
- Ultrasonic headband induces lucid dreams using AI, its creators claim — but an expert remains skeptical
- How do insects know which flowers have pollen?
- February 11
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- February 9
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- 'We are approaching the tipping point': Marker for the collapse of key Atlantic current discovered
- Gene mutation helps Andean highlanders thrive at altitude, and 'living fossil' fish live deep underwater
- Haunting 'mummified dolphin' found on US beach may have been dead for months
- Stunning 'Einstein engagement ring' from the early universe is one of the oldest ever discovered
- 'You can get the feeling that you are touching another human': New prosthetic device detects temperature
- 3,500-year-old burial of Nubian woman reveals 1 of world's earliest known cases of rheumatoid arthritis
- Lava bleeds from Iceland volcano into the frozen landscape in incredible satellite image
- Should people get their health information from YouTube? Retired surgeon and content creator Liz O'Riordan on 'breaking through the nonsense'
- Colossal 'Martian sunspot' is so big it was seen from Mars. Now it's facing Earth.
- 'Universal memory' breakthrough brings the next generation of computers 1 step closer to major speed boost
- Undeciphered script from Easter Island may predate European colonization
- February 8
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- CERN proposes $17 billion particle smasher that would be 3 times bigger than the Large Hadron Collider
- Nuclear fusion reactor in UK sets new world record for energy output
- 'We were very surprised': Magma under Reykjanes Peninsula rushed into Grindavík dike at a shockingly fast rate
- Massive hydrogen reservoir discovered beneath an Albanian mine could be an untapped source of clean energy
- Viagra alternatives? Study of mouse erections hints at new ways to treat erectile dysfunction
- Colossal underwater canyon discovered near seamount deep in the Mediterranean Sea
- 3D-printed human brain tissue works like the real thing
- City-size seamount triple the height of world's tallest building discovered via gravitational anomalies
- New mRNA 'cancer vaccine' trial launches in UK
- Iceland volcano erupts for 3rd time, triggering lava fountains over 200 feet tall
- Greenland is losing so much ice it's getting taller
- MadRadar hack can make self-driving cars 'hallucinate' imaginary vehicles and veer dangerously off course
- Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas may have an underground ocean scientists never believed could exist
- Romans kept poisonous, narcotic seeds concealed in bone vials, new discovery reveals
- February 7
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- Scroll charred in Mount Vesuvius eruption partially deciphered, earning researchers $700,000 prize
- Star-killing 'black hole wind' spotted in a distant galaxy could explain a major mystery at the Milky Way's center
- Our universe is merging with 'baby universes', causing it to expand, new theoretical study suggests
- We may need a new 'Category 6' hurricane level for winds over 192 mph, study suggests
- 'Unnerving' rise in fatal shark attacks recorded last year. Should we be worried?
- 'It haunts all our imaginations': Were Neanderthals really like us?
- 'Simply did not work': Mating between Neanderthals and modern humans may have been a product of failed alliances, says archaeologist Ludovic Slimak
- Temperature inside Chicxulub crater after dinosaur-killing asteroid hit revealed with 'paleothermometer'
- Polar bear sleeping on tiny iceberg drifting in Arctic sea captured in heartbreaking photo
- 325 million-year-old shark graveyard discovered deep within Mammoth Cave harbors new fossilized species
- Asteroid Bennu may be 'a fragment of an ancient ocean world', 1st sample analysis suggests
- New Chinese AI model 'better than industry leader' in key metrics
- Jurassic 'mist wing' fossil discovered on Scottish island could be missing link in pterosaur evolution
- French bulldog puppy spontaneously regrows jaw after surgery in 1st known case of its kind
- Dinosaur-era frog found fossilized with belly full of eggs and was likely killed during mating
- February 6
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- Chemicals in plastics and cosmetics tied to preterm birth risk
- April 8 solar eclipse: What is the path of totality, and where's the best spot to watch?
- Bronze Age 'treasure' was crafted with extraterrestrial metal
- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononeko breaks record for longest time spent in space — and he still has 6 months to go
- Iceland volcano: Mass of magma pooling beneath ground north of Grindavík indicates imminent eruption
- 'Superbugs' can linger in the body for years, potentially spreading antibiotic resistance
- 'Remarkable' new algorithm could dramatically speed up web browsing
- A trillion cicadas will descend on the US this spring in rare event that could leave unforgettable stench
- James Webb telescope makes ultra-rare detection of 2 planets orbiting dead stars
- February 5
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- April 8 total solar eclipse: The best places to stargaze near the path of totality
- Bedbugs plagued Britain 1,900 years ago, Roman fort near Hadrian's Wall reveals
- Event Horizon Telescope spies gargantuan energy jets erupting from nearby supermassive black hole
- Assuming the worst in others can be 'read' in brain scans
- Can psychopaths learn to feel empathy?
- Hidden DNA found in blue whales reveals they've been mating with other species — and their hybrid offspring
- Controversial climate change study claims we'll breach 2 C before 2030
- Robot surgeon sent to the International Space Station to dissect simulated astronaut tissue
- NASA and DARPA flew 'experimental' self-flying helicopters to see if they could avoid crashing into other virtual aircraft
- 1st-ever complete Roman 'bed burial' recovered from under London
- February 4
- February 3
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- Severe 'flesh-eating' infections tied to heat waves in eastern US, CDC reports
- Genomes of 51 animal species mapped in record time, creating 'evolutionary time machine'
- Aldabra rail: The bird that came back from the dead by evolving twice
- April 8 solar eclipse: 4 telescopes and observatories where you can watch totality
- How do galaxies grow while ensnared in the universe's cosmic web?
- Why don't we feel Earth spinning?
- February 2
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- 1st known tuberculosis cases in Neanderthals revealed in prehistoric bone analysis
- 'Gas station heroin' sold as 'elixir' prompts health warning
- Japan's SLIM moon lander may be dead for good as freezing lunar night sets in
- Photos: Ghostly plasma loops linger on the sun after massive solar explosion
- 13 of the world's oldest artworks, some crafted by extinct human relatives
- 'Nothing is out of the question': Iceland volcano primed to erupt again, Grindavík still in danger zone
- 'We were gobsmacked': 350 million-year-old tree fossils are unlike any scientists have ever seen
- Women have 4 times men's rate of autoimmune disease. The X chromosome may be to blame.
- Major 'magnetic anomaly' discovered deep below New Zealand's Lake Rotorua
- More than 900,000 stars, galaxies and black holes revealed in most detailed X-ray map of the universe ever
- February 1
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- Syphilis cases soaring in the US, rising to highest peak since the 1950s
- 365 million-year-old 'alien' fish had one of the most extreme underbites on record
- 'Devil monkeys' are attacking people in Thailand, Japan and India. Here's why.
- 2,000-year-old 'bog body' of teenager with missing skull discovered in Northern Ireland
- Elon Musk's SpaceX could launch a private moon lander within weeks
- 'Roots' of Colombian mountains 'dripped' into the mantle millions of years ago — but the peaks still stand tall
- 1st-century villa discovered near Mount Vesuvius may be where Pliny the Elder watched catastrophic eruption
- The Geminid meteors may be 10 times older than we thought, simulations of oddball asteroid Phaethon suggest
- See Earth's atmosphere glow gold in gorgeous photo taken from the International Space Station
- Watch 'city killer' asteroid fly by Earth today on its closest approach for centuries (Feb. 2)
- World's 1st fault-tolerant quantum computer launching this year ahead of a 10,000-qubit machine in 2026
- Astronomers spot gigantic black hole killing a galaxy's star formation at the dawn of time
