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- March 31st
- March 30th
- March 29th
- Powerful X-class solar flare slams Earth, triggering radio blackout over the Pacific Ocean
- 'Novel' swine flu virus sickens Pennsylvania child in 1st case of the year
- Tardigrade proteins could slow aging in humans, small cell study finds
- US has already had more measles cases in 2024 than all of 2023
- Scientists made the coldest large molecule on record — and it has a super strange chemical bond
- How do lasers work?
- Defying the odds, Japan's SLIM lander survives 2nd night on the moon
- Fiber-optic data transfer speeds hit a rapid 301 Tbps — 1.2 million times faster than your home broadband connection
- Cicada double brood event: What to expect as trillions of bugs emerge in Eastern US
- 4 ways you can help NASA study the April 8 solar eclipse
- March 28th
- Rare meningitis and bloodstream infections on the rise in the US, CDC warns
- Fortified 14th-century castle and moat discovered under hotel in France
- 1,500-year-old DNA used to reveal likeness of Chinese Emperor Wu
- Uptick in tuberculosis raises alarm in California
- What happens if it's cloudy for the April 8 solar eclipse?
- Orca calf refuses to leave a lagoon where its mother stranded and died off Vancouver Island
- Secretive Delta IV Heavy rocket launch postponed indefinitely
- 9,000-year-old rock art discovered among dinosaur footprints in Brazil
- Watch rare endangered pink handfish walking in 19th-century shipwreck off Tasmania
- VR headsets vulnerable to 'Inception attacks' — where hackers can mess with your sense of reality and steal your data
- 'Richly decorated' Roman villa with 'curse tablets' and tiny axes unearthed in England
- March 27th
- Active ingredient in Viagra tied to lower Alzheimer's risk — but don't get too excited
- Milky Way's monster black hole may be shooting superheated jets into our galaxy, groundbreaking images reveal
- 1st detection of 'hiccupping' black hole leads to surprising discovery of 2nd black hole orbiting around it
- Largest gold nugget ever found in England unearthed with faulty metal detector
- New immunotherapy could make blood more 'youthful,' mouse study hints
- Ötzi the Iceman used surprisingly modern technique for his tattoos 5,300 years ago, study suggests
- 21-year-old student dies of H5N1 bird flu in Vietnam
- Future quantum computers will be no match for 'space encryption' that uses light to beam data around — with the 1st satellite launching in 2025
- Polar vortex is 'spinning backwards' above Arctic after major reversal event
- New diamond transistor is a world-1st — paving the way for high-speed computing at the highest temperatures
- 'Zeus made night from mid-day': Terror and wonder in ancient accounts of solar eclipses
- March 26th
- Hair-straightening cream tied to woman's repeated kidney damage
- Protein in human sweat may protect some people against Lyme disease
- How to safely record today's total solar eclipse with your phone
- In world 1st, dairy cows in Texas and Kansas test positive for H5N1 bird flu
- Single enormous object left 2 billion craters on Mars, scientists discover
- Physicists make record-breaking 'quantum vortex' to study the mysteries of black holes
- MIT scientists have just figured out how to make the most popular AI image generators 30 times faster
- Enormous explosions may be visible on the sun during the April 8 solar eclipse
- 'You could almost see and smell their world': Remnants of 'Britain's Pompeii' reveal details of life in Bronze Age village
- March 25th
- Centuries-old Aztec texts detail history of their capital, conquests and fall to the Spanish
- April 8 eclipse could bring uptick in fatal car crashes, scientists caution
- Earth hit by radiation from rare 'double' X-class solar flare, triggering most powerful geomagnetic storm in 6 years
- Odysseus lunar lander, 1st US craft on the moon in 50 years, has died and will 'not complete another call home'
- The sea 'began to boil': Freak volcanic eruption of Santorini 1,300 years ago indicates huge blasts can occur during time of quiet
- Giant 'toe biter' water bugs discovered in Cyprus for the 1st time
- Light-powered computer chip can train AI much faster than components powered by electricity
- Why low-level clouds vanish during a solar eclipse
- When were sea levels highest?
- March 24th
- 4,300-year-old Egyptian tomb with stunning wall paintings was burial place of priestess and royal official
- Space photo of the week: The moon begins its big eclipse orbit in stunning ISS photo
- Popular weight-loss drug Wegovy now approved for heart disease. Here's what we know.
- Are kale, broccoli and Brussels sprouts really all the same plant?
- March 23rd
- 'We don't yet have the know-how to properly maintain a corpse brain': Why cryonics is a non-starter in our quest for immortality
- Eleonora's falcon: The raptor that imprisons birds live by stripping their feathers and stuffing them in rocks
- 'White hat hackers' carjacked a Tesla using cheap, legal hardware — exposing major security flaws in the vehicle
- James Webb telescope to zoom in on Uranus and Saturn in study of mysterious auroras
- Bismuth is so strongly repelled from magnets, it levitates. How?
- March 22nd
- 13 billion-year-old 'streams of stars' discovered near Milky Way's center may be earliest building blocks of our galaxy
- Sperm whales drop giant poop bombs to save themselves from orca attack
- New trial hints at a possible HIV cure approach: Wake up latent virus hiding in the body, then kill it
- Catherine, Princess of Wales, announces cancer diagnosis
- 'Kermit the Frog' creature that lived 270 million years ago looked like a 'stout salamander' with 'cartoonish' grin
- NASA only needs a single grain of ice to detect alien life on Enceladus, study finds
- Ancient Chinese burials with swords and chariot cast light on violent 'Warring States' period
- Like 'walking through the woods of millions of years ago': Ancient ecosystem brimming with dinosaur tracks discovered in Alaska
- Scientists create AI models that can talk to each other and pass on skills with limited human input
- Study of 'twin' stars finds 1 in 12 have killed and eaten a planet
- See the full 'Worm Moon' eclipsed by Earth's shadow this weekend, exactly 2 weeks before the April 8 total solar eclipse
- March 21st
- Pig kidney transplanted into human patient for 1st time ever
- Overlooked Apollo data from the 1970s reveals huge record of 'hidden' moonquakes
- Iceland volcano: Gigantic plume of toxic gas from latest eruption is moving across Europe, satellite data shows
- Workout in a pill: Scientists move one step closer to an exercise-mimicking drug
- Rare 'super-diamonds' may already exist on other planets, and could be made on Earth, study hints
- 2,000 earthquakes in 1 day off Canada coast suggest the ocean floor is ripping apart, scientists say
- 1st Neuralink patient shown using brain chip to control computer and play chess in unexpected livestream
- 'Very concerning': Microplastics can accumulate in cancer cells and may help them spread, study hints
- 'Space headaches' are a literal pain for astronauts. Why do they happen?
- Scientists just discovered a new way cells control their genes — it's called 'backtracking'
- Experimental wireless EV charger is just as fast as a superfast wired plug, scientists say
- America's 1st over-the-counter birth control pill is coming soon. Here's what to know about Opill
- Newly discovered 'fountain of youth' phenomenon may help stars delay death by billions of years
- 7 safe ways to view the partial phases of today's total solar eclipse
- March 20th
- 7,000-year-old canoes from Italy are the oldest ever found in the Mediterranean
- Obsidian blades with food traces reveal 1st settlers of Rapa Nui had regular contact with South Americans 1,000 years ago
- 'Ghost shark' with enormous head and giant iridescent eyes discovered off Thailand
- Triassic 'tank' unearthed in Texas was a croc cousin that lived 215 million years ago
- AI-powered humanoid robot can serve you food, stack the dishes — and have a conversation with you
- Researchers gave AI an 'inner monologue' and it massively improved its performance
- 'Emergent gravity' could force us to rewrite the laws of physics
- 'Astonishing' Neolithic burial containing a human, cattle and chariot discovered in Germany
- March 19th
- 2,000-year-old carvings of celestial bodies and animals discovered on rocky cliffs in Brazil
- Places with the best weather to watch the April 8 solar eclipse (and what happens if it's cloudy where you are)
- Deadly dog parasite found in Southern California in a 1st
- Scientists reveal largest map of the universe's active supermassive black holes ever created
- Watch bizarre video of termites trapped in 'death spiral'
- Brutal footage shows orca mom and son team up to drown another pod's calf
- Beluga whales appear to change the shape of their melon heads to communicate, scientists discover
- Lavish, 800-year-old tombs in China may hold remains of Great Jin dynasty elites
- 'This is a journey, not a destination': Stunning map of the Milky Way's center exposes new mysteries about our galaxy
- Dozens of Neolithic burials and 'sacrificed' urns and ax discovered in France
- Spring equinox 2024: 'Equal night' brings the first full day of spring to the Northern Hemisphere
- March 18th
- Ice-cold plunges and breath-holding: Does the 'Wim Hof method' do anything?
- Speck of light spotted by Hubble is one of the most enormous galaxies in the early universe, James Webb telescope reveals
- 8-hour intermittent fasting tied to 90% higher risk of cardiovascular death, early data hint
- Betelgeuse's mysterious spin could be a cosmic illusion caused by its enormous 'boiling' surface
- Worm-like creature squirts 'milk' from its butt to feed its young in 1st-of-its-kind video
- Iceland volcano: 'Most powerful' eruption yet narrowly misses Grindavik but could still trigger life-threatening toxic gas plume
- Computing 'paradigm shift' could see phones and laptops run twice as fast — without replacing a single component
- 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life and minerals unseen on Earth, scientists reveal in 1st comprehensive analysis
- How total solar eclipses help us measure ancient history
- Explosive, green 'devil comet' has hidden spiral swirling around its icy heart, photo trickery reveals
- Why do babies rub their eyes when they're tired?
- March 17th
- March 16th
- March 15th
- NASA's Voyager 1 sends readable message to Earth after 4 nail-biting months of gibberish
- Pi calculated to 105 trillion digits, smashing world record
- Gargantuan volcano on Mars found hidden 'in plain sight,' and it could hold potential signs of life
- Oldest evidence of earthquakes found in strange jumble of 3.3 billion-year-old rocks from Africa
- Sleeping subduction zone could awaken and form a new 'Ring of Fire' that swallows the Atlantic Ocean
- What does python taste like? Because it could be slithering onto our dinner plates.
- Watch scientists control a robot with their hands while wearing the Apple Vision Pro
- Astronomers reveal one of the most detailed pictures of an exploded star ever taken
- Leprosy is rare but on the rise in Florida — here's what to know
- 'New star' as bright as the North Star will ignite in the sky this year. Here's how to see it.
- March 14th
- Designer immune-cell therapy could shrink deadly brain tumors, early trials show
- James Webb telescope spots organic molecules swirling around unborn stars, hinting at origins of Earth-like worlds
- Deadly amoeba brain infection can result from unsafe nasal rinsing, CDC warns
- 'Flow state' uncovered: We finally know what happens in the brain when you're 'in the zone'
- Winged 'basilisk' on medieval pilgrim's badge discovered in Poland
- 'Imagine a lush tropical island slipping beneath the waves': Drowned island the size of Iceland found off Brazil
- James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe
- SpaceX's incredibly powerful Starship lost in the Indian Ocean after reaching orbit for 1st time
- World's largest computer chip WSE-3 will power massive AI supercomputer 8 times faster than the current record-holder
- Flight MH370 vanished 10 years ago. Will it ever be found?
- Can you solve NASA's Pi Day 2024 riddle?
- Watch a 'robot dog' scramble through a basic parkour course with the help of AI
- Why NASA uses only 16 of the 105 trillion digits of pi we know
- March 13th
- NASA unveils cryptic message from Earth to be sent to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa
- Paul Alexander, polio survivor who lived in iron lung for 70 years, dies age 78
- How often do solar eclipses occur?
- Controversial paper claims satellite 'megaconstellations' like SpaceX's could weaken Earth's magnetic field and cause 'atmospheric stripping.' Should we be worried?
- Why some whales go through menopause
- Watch woodpecker evict starling that stole its nest by yanking it out with its beak
- 7,000 humpback whales died in the North Pacific over 10 years — and 'the blob' is to blame
- Never-before-seen cells unveiled in detailed map of developing human heart
- Opposites attract? Not in new experiment that finds loophole in fundamental rule of physics
- Prehistoric fish with giant jaws filled with razor-sharp teeth are the ultimate living fossils
- Chinese scientists build world's fastest humanoid robot — but it's not going to win any sprints just yet
- Mysterious 'unparticles' may be pushing the universe apart, new theoretical study suggests
- March 12th
- Every 2.4 million years, Mars tugs on Earth so hard it changes the ocean floor
- New self-powered throat patch could help people speak without vocal cords
- Mercury slammed by gargantuan eruption from the sun's hidden far side, possibly triggering 'X-ray auroras'
- Dying SpaceX rocket creates glowing, galaxy-like spiral in the middle of the Northern Lights
- Striking virtual 3D scans reveal animals' innards — including the last meal of a hognose snake
- Technicolor 'living magic carpet' deep-sea worm discovered near methane seep off Costa Rica
- 300 people possibly exposed to measles at California hospital
- COVID pandemic knocked 1.6 years off global life expectancy, study finds
- 35 years after first proposing the World Wide Web, what does its creator Tim Berners-Lee have in mind next?
- Hiroshima fallout may offer a glimpse of the early solar system
- Courtship cut short for termites trapped in 38 million-year-old amber fossil
- Why does snow squeak when you walk on it?
- Spring equinox 2024: Why March 19 is one of the best stargazing nights of the year
- Seismic reading linked to 'alien technology' by Harvard professor likely came from a passing truck, study claims
- March 11th
- US government wanted to reverse-engineer alien ships — but never found any, Pentagon UFO report reveals
- Parasitic worms found in man's brain after he likely ate undercooked bacon
- Mass grave of plague victims may be largest ever found in Europe, archaeologists say
- India's evolutionary past tied to huge migration 50,000 years ago and to now-extinct human relatives
- 3,300-year-old tablet from mysterious Hittite Empire describes catastrophic invasion of four cities
- New 'petabit-scale' optical disc can store as much information as 15,000 DVDs
- Widespread solar storm struck spacecraft near the sun, Earth and Mars in quick succession
- 'Universal' brain wave pattern discovered across primate species — including humans
- Archaeologists find top half of giant Ramesses II statue, completing a century-long puzzle
- March 10th
- March 9th
- March 8th
- Genetic quirk in 25% of Labrador retrievers can lead to overeating, obesity
- 'Baby quasars' spotted by James Webb telescope could transform our understanding of monster black holes
- Giant ball of Burmese pythons having sex discovered in Florida Everglades in record-breaking catch
- Chernobyl worms appear unaffected by radiation from world's worst nuclear disaster
- Watch the exploding green 'devil comet' zoom past the Andromeda Galaxy in a stunning livestream this week
- Mystery of enormous Saharan 'star dune' finally solved — and it wasn't what scientists were expecting
- Oldest known sex chromosome emerged 248 million years ago in an octopus ancestor
- Russia and China announce plan to build shared nuclear reactor on the moon by 2035, 'without humans'
- 'Parrot fever' outbreak in 5 European countries kills 5 people
- Amazon wildfires could burn at unprecedented scale as El Niño and drought make rainforest 'more flammable'
- New DNA-infused computer chip can perform calculations and make future AI models far more efficient
- Colossus the enormous 'oddball' whale is not the biggest animal to ever live, scientists say
- March 7th
- Obsidian blade could be from Coronado expedition fabled to be looking for 'Cities of Gold'
- 1,900-year-old coins from Jewish revolt against the Romans discovered in the Judaean desert
- Life-threatening 'leaks' after surgery could be flagged faster with tiny new device
- 1,100-year-old Viking sword pulled from UK river by magnet fisher
- Scientists just discovered a massive reservoir of helium beneath Minnesota
- The James Webb telescope may have found some of the very 1st stars in the universe
- Ancient humans used cave in Spain as burial spot for 4 millennia, 7,000 bones reveal
- Zero chance of potential city-killer asteroid 'Apophis' smashing into Earth in 2029, new study confirms
- AI drone that could hunt and kill people built in just hours by scientist 'for a game'
- March 6th
- April 8 solar eclipse: 6 zoos on the path of totality — and why animals react strangely to 'nighttime during the day'
- A branch of the flu family tree has died and won't be included in future US vaccines
- James Webb telescope detects oldest 'dead' galaxy in the known universe — and its death could challenge cosmology
- 'Should not really exist in these waters': Scientists spot gray whale, thought to be extinct in the Atlantic, off Massachusetts coast
- Woolly mammoth de-extinction inches closer after elephant stem cell breakthrough
- Earliest known stone tools in Europe are 1.4 million years old. And they weren't made by modern humans.
- 32 U.S. cities, including New York and San Francisco, are sinking into the ocean and face major flood risks by 2050, new study reveals
- More than 140 graves found by medieval abbey in Northern Ireland, including executed criminals
- Dinosaur-age sea monster with 'face full of huge, dagger-shaped teeth' discovered in Moroccan mine
- AI singularity may come in 2027 with artificial 'super intelligence' sooner than we think, says top scientist
- March 5th
- China will launch giant, reusable rockets next year to prep for human missions to the moon
- PFAS 'forever chemicals' to officially be removed from food packaging, FDA says
- Scientists reveal rare antibodies that target 'dark side' of flu virus
- Risk of AFib tied to sugary and artificially sweetened drinks
- 1,200-year-old lord's tomb laden with gold unearthed in Panama
- 'They are very well aware of their agency': Elephant calf burial ritual discovered in India
- James Webb telescope reveals targets for the next year, including monster black holes, exomoons, dark energy — and more
- Prairie vole orgasms 'rewire' their brains for long-term love
- March 4th
- Jupiter's moon Europa lacks oxygen, making it less hospitable for sustaining life
- Man's years of premature ejaculation had a rare cause
- Scientists release genetically modified mosquitoes to fight dengue in Brazil
- Astronomers find heaviest black hole pair in the universe, and they've been trapped in an endless duel for 3 billion years
- 390 million-year-old fossilized forest is the oldest ever discovered
- Iceland volcano: Grindavík evacuated over eruption threat, residents warned they 'enter the town at their own risk'
- James Webb telescope reveals collection of ancient galaxies that 'transformed the entire universe'
- Solar maximum may already be upon us, expert warns — but we won't know for sure until the sun's explosive peak is over
- Why ISS astronauts don't know where to look for the April 8 total solar eclipse
- 1,500-year-old burial with stacked bones discovered during sewer system dig in Mexico
- Europe's last hunter-gatherers had sophisticated societies that helped them avoid inbreeding
- Do we have taste receptors in other parts of our body?
- CVS, Walgreens to begin filling prescriptions for abortion pill mifepristone
- 1,000-year-old vessels found in Guatemala held tobacco possibly used as 'narcotics to induce deep sleep, visions and divinatory trances'
- March 3rd
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- March 1st
- Great white shark gets liver torn out by lone orca in under 2 minutes in shocking shift of hunting methods
- Remains of 7th-century Saxon town discovered under central London
- Boiling tap water can remove nearly 90% of microplastics, new study finds
- Fracturing Antarctic glacier breaks 80 mph speed record
- RSV vaccine keeps older adults highly protected for at least 2 seasons
- Pain can linger even after a UTI is gone — haywire nerve growth may explain it
- Secrets of giant Antarctic sea spiders and their tiny eggs revealed after 140 years
- 4,000-year-old copper dagger unearthed by metal detectorist in Poland
- East Coast cities are sinking at a shocking rate, NASA images show
- Exploding, green 'devil comet' could photobomb April 8 total solar eclipse — and it might be visible with the naked eye
- 'Goodnight, Odie': Odysseus, the 1st US moon lander since Apollo, shares farewell image after lunar face-plant
- 16-foot-long shark bites stranded pygmy whale's head off as human tries to rescue it
- Weird dent in Earth's magnetic field is messing with auroras in the Southern Hemisphere
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