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- August 31
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- The universe had a secret life before the Big Bang, new study hints
- Astronomers discover new 'odd radio circle' near the center of our galaxy
- World War I British warship that sank in a surprise U-boat attack 110 years ago discovered in North Sea
- Thorny devil: The spike-covered lizard that sucks water from sand through its skin
- Why is everything in space always moving?
- See a jaguar shattering a crocodilian's skull and a 'David Bowie' spider in this sneak peak of the 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
- Burmese python eats even bigger reticulated python alive, in 1st-of-its-kind encounter
- August 30
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- Why does heat cause headaches?
- Tasmanian tiger: Facts about the extinct thylacine
- New York resident dies of eastern equine encephalitis — what is it?
- Ancient submerged bridge in Spain reveals that humans inhabited Mediterranean island nearly 6,000 years ago
- Colon-cancer risk in young people linked to one amino acid, small study finds
- NASA discovers planet-wide electric field around Earth that's shooting bits of our atmosphere into space
- 'Catastrophic' SpaceX Starship explosion tore a hole in the atmosphere last year in 1st-of-its-kind event, Russian scientists reveal
- Scientists confirm that most of the universe is 'darkness and nothing more'
- AI uncovers the universe's 'settings' with unprecedented precision, and it could help to resolve the Hubble tension
- Giant underwater avalanche decimated Atlantic seafloor 60,000 years ago, 1st-of-its-kind map reveals
- Listeria outbreak tied to sliced deli meat hospitalizes 57, kills 9
- What to know about Oropouche virus — the deadly fever that has reached the U.S.
- Al Naslaa rock: Saudi Arabia's enigmatic sandstone block that's split perfectly down the middle
- AI 'hallucinations' can lead to catastrophic mistakes, but a new approach makes automated decisions more reliable
- 2,200-year old battering ram from epic battle between Rome and Carthage found in Mediterranean
- Arctic expedition uncovers deep-sea microbes that may harbor the next generation of antibiotics
- August 29
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- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket grounded for 2nd time in 2 months following explosive landing failure
- Ancient Egyptians used so much copper, they polluted the harbor near the pyramids, study finds
- James Webb telescope spots 6 enormous 'rogue planets' tumbling through space without a star
- T. rex relative with giant, protruding eyebrows discovered in Kyrgyzstan
- 'Everything we found shattered our expectations': Archaeologists discover 1st astronomical observatory from ancient Egypt
- 1st Americans impaled and killed mammoths with pikes, not spears, study suggests
- Mice on remote island that eat albatrosses alive sentenced to death by 'bombing,' scientists decree
- Ancient people in Taiwan yanked healthy teeth from their mouths for 'aesthetic expression' and 'tests of courage,' study finds
- China's upgraded light-powered 'AGI chip' is now a million times more efficient than before, researchers say
- Ancient sea cow was killed by prehistoric croc then torn apart by a tiger shark
- August 28
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- For C. diff, antibiotic resistance comes at a cost
- Large patch of the Atlantic Ocean near the equator has been cooling at record speeds — and scientists can't figure out why
- Gravitational waves hint at a 'supercool' secret about the Big Bang
- New reactor could more than triple the yield of one of the world's most valuable chemicals
- New invention harvests ambient Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals to power small devices
- August 27
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- 200 meteorites on Earth traced to 5 craters on Mars
- Scientists collect high-resolution images of the North Star's surface for 1st time
- Supercharged 'cocoon of energy' may power the brightest supernovas in the universe
- AI and brain implant enables ALS patient to easily converse with family 'for 1st time in years'
- Fallout from NASA's asteroid-smashing DART mission could hit Earth — potentially triggering 1st human-caused meteor shower
- 'Richly decorated weapon' from Edo Japan unearthed in World War II rubble in Germany
- Quantum compasses closer to replacing GPS after scientists squeeze key refrigerator-sized laser system onto a microchip
- CRISPR could soon be used to edit fetal DNA — are we ready?
- Earth from space: Massive landslide dams Canadian river, trapping endangered fish on the wrong side
- August 26
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- NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spent 286 days stuck in space — is that a new record?
- Bison Licking Insect Bite: A 14,000-year-old lifelike figure carved from a weapon
- Virus that causes COVID-19 uses a secret 'back door' to infect the brain
- Boeing Starliner will return from space without a crew, NASA announces in long-awaited decision
- 'Enhancing' future generations with CRISPR is a road to a 'new eugenics,' says ethicist Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
- 'Who are we to say they shouldn't exist?': Dr. Neal Baer on the threat of CRISPR-driven eugenics
- 'Unbreakable' quantum communication closer to reality thanks to new, exceptionally bright photons
- Why do we shrink as we age?
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- August 23
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- 'Doomsday glacier' won't collapse the way we thought, new study suggests
- MIT scientists build hair-size batteries that can power cell-sized robots
- What is the 'tree of life'?
- Meet LUCA, the 4.2 billion-year-old cell that's the ancestor of all life on Earth today
- Racetrack Playa: The home of Death Valley's mysterious 'sailing stones'
- Viking Age stone figurine unearthed in Iceland — but no one can agree on which animal it is
- 'Once-in-a-lifetime' photo: Perseid meteors, northern lights and rare glowing arc shine over 11th-century castle
- August 22
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- 'A single magma ocean' once covered the moon, data from India's Chandrayaan-3 mission suggests
- Chlamydia may hide in the gut and cause repeated infections
- Rare 'doomsday fish' said to bring earthquakes spotted in California days before LA quake
- Some black holes have a 'heartbeat' — and astronomers may finally know why
- The brain stores at least 3 copies of every memory
- This transparent sea creature can age in reverse
- Live Science x HowTheLightGetsIn — Get discounted tickets to the world’s largest ideas and music festival
- Ultra-thin solar 'coating' can turn phone cases and EVs into mini power generators
- Remains of 14th-century gauntlet discovered in Oslo's medieval harbor
- Weird mystery waves that baffle scientists may be 'everywhere' inside Earth's mantle
- August 21
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- Boy finds Roman-era gold military bracelet while walking dog in UK
- See the moment the blue supermoon 'gobbled up' Saturn in epic astrophotography image
- Single-shot HIV treatment suppresses virus 10,000-fold for months, animal study finds
- Watch a star get destroyed by a supermassive black hole in the 1st simulation of its kind
- World's fastest microscope can see electrons moving
- Heaviest antimatter particle ever discovered could hold secrets to our universe's origins
- 'Stunning' Bronze Age burial chamber discovered on the English moor
- AI can predict 'tipping points' for future disasters like pandemics or ecological collapse, scientists say
- Astronomers find black hole's favorite snack: 'The star appears to be living to die another day'
- 1,000-year-old remains of 'elite woman' in silk cloak found in abandoned fortress in Mongolia
- August 20
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- Intense solar storm opens '2-way highway' for charged particles, sparking rare auroras on the sun
- World's oldest person, Maria Branyas Morera, dies at 117 years old
- 4 things ancient Greeks and Romans got right about mental health
- Rare pre-Inca burials of 4 people found at 'water cult' temple in Peru
- The blue supermoon will 'swallow' Saturn tonight — here's when the rare 'lunar occultation' begins
- Is painting your nails bad for you?
- Physicists find superconductor behavior at temperatures once thought 'impossible'
- Rare 'moonbows' light up night sky across US as blue supermoon rises — and you could still spot another one
- Real-time brain stimulation slashes Parkinson's symptoms by half in trial
- Wet-bulb temperature: What is it, and how is it linked to human survival in extreme heat?
- Earth from space: Picturesque plankton paint peculiar patterns in Patagonia
- Unique 'fan-on-a-chip' could prevent AI smartphones from overheating — with 1st devices launching in 2026
- Huge 13,600-year-old mastodon skull and bones unearthed in Iowa
- August 19
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- 'Final parsec problem' that makes supermassive black holes impossible to explain could finally have a solution
- Why is a 'once-in-a-decade' Supermoon Blue Moon happening twice in 2 years?
- 'Banana apocalypse' could be averted thanks to genetic breakthrough
- The sun might've just had a record-breaking number of visible sunspots
- 'Spectacular silver treasure' from Viking Age unearthed by college student on farm in Denmark
- 16th-century compass unearthed in Poland may have belonged to Copernicus
- Human aging accelerates dramatically at age 44 and 60
- Catastrophic collision between Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies may not happen after all, new study hints
- Quantum data beamed alongside 'classical data' in the same fiber-optic connection for the 1st time
- Arthur's Stone: A 5,700-year-old monument in England linked to the legend of King Arthur
- What was the first animal on Earth?
- August 18
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- Elon Musk said he's 'definitely going to be dead' before humans go to Mars — and you probably will be too
- Scientists make breasts in a dish to study lactation
- 3 shipwrecks from 'forgotten battle' of World War II discovered off remote Alaskan island
- Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope catches baby stars roaring to life
- When did humans start cooking food?
- August 17
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- Last meal of crocodile mummified in ancient Egypt revealed in CT scans 3,000 years later
- Silky anteater: The tiny, boxing ball of fur
- These 'living computers' are made from human neurons — and you can rent one for $500 a month
- New ISS images showcase auroras, moon and space station in glorious photos
- Do opposites really attract in relationships?
- August 16
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- Dodos were fast and powerful, not slow and inept, definitive preserved specimen suggests
- How will the trapped Boeing Starliner astronauts perceive time after 6 months in space?
- Auroras headed to the US again in aftermath of gargantuan 'X-class' solar flare
- Scientists finally explain MIS-C, the rare post-COVID sydrome seen in kids
- Largest animal genome sequenced — and just 1 chromosome is the size of the entire human genome
- Colossal X-class solar flare erupts from 'rule-breaking' sunspot — and Earth is in the firing line
- ChatGPT is truly awful at diagnosing medical conditions
- August 15
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- 'Golden spike' showing the moment Earth turned into a giant snowball discovered in ancient Scottish rocks
- Pompeii victims died in 'extreme agony,' 2 newfound skeletons reveal
- Sweden reports 1st case of deadlier mpox outside Africa
- CRISPR could be used to treat UTIs, early trial hints
- Earth’s days once got 2 hours longer — and that may have triggered one of the biggest evolutionary explosions in history, study suggests
- Massive medieval coin hoard worth 'about 150 sheep' discovered in Germany's Black Forest
- Dinosaur-killing asteroid was a rare rock from beyond Jupiter, new study reveals
- Bleak photo of polar bear with plastic in its jaws in the remote Arctic shows pollution's 'pervasive grip'
- Crocodile 'fingerprints' may reveal Australia's deadly, hidden predators
- Watch heartbreaking footage of humpback whale with missing tail in Washington state
- World's fastest charger can fully power up your smartphone in under 5 minutes
- Tonight's 'Sturgeon Moon' will be the 1st 'blue supermoon' of 2024: Here's how to see it at its biggest and best
- August 14
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- $100,000 quadrillion asteroid Psyche may be rusting, James Webb telescope reveals
- 3,000-year-old goddess figurine found in an Italian lake still bears the handprints of its maker
- WHO declares mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency
- Rare Roman-era silver ingots depicting Constantine the Great seized from alleged black-market sale
- NASA delays Boeing Starliner return flight again amid 'major discussion' about astronaut safety
- Mpox outbreak in Africa could swell into a pandemic — here's how we stop it
- Perseid meteor shower rains 'shooting stars' over Stonehenge in glorious astrophotography image
- Stonehenge's 13,200-pound Altar Stone originated in northeastern Scotland, more than 450 miles away
- Chinese rocket breaks apart after megaconstellation launch, creating cloud of space junk
- These nearby star systems could be good targets in the search for alien life
- August 13
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- Nearly half of global dementia cases could be delayed or prevented, scientists say
- 'Sloth virus' reported in Europe for 1st time — but what is it?
- Huge mammoth tusk discovered sticking out of Mississippi streambed
- 1-in-100 million 'cotton candy' lobster caught off New Hampshire alive and well at aquarium
- Rat poison is ripping through the food chain, threatening predators at the very top
- Would you prefer AI to make major life decisions for you? Study suggests yes — but you'd be much happier if humans did
- NASA's Parker Solar Probe finds fresh clues to decades-old mystery surrounding the sun
- There's an acidic zone 13,000 feet beneath the ocean surface — and it's getting bigger
- Why does metal squeak?
- Earth from space: High winds paint puzzling ice streaks across the sea in Antarctica
- August 12
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- 'Severe' G4 geomagnetic storm strikes Earth, making widespread auroras likely
- FDA approves 1st needle-free alternative to EpiPens
- Over 350 asteroids have hidden moons, Gaia space telescope finds
- Battle axes unearthed in a cemetery in Russia may have belonged to 11th-century taxmen
- Probiotic supplement caused man's fatal infection in rare case
- Enormous hidden ocean discovered under Mars could contain life
- 'This could be the origin of the Atlantis legend': Mountain that sank beneath the waves discovered off Canary Islands
- Atomic-scale graphene-based magnets could spur on much smaller and more powerful computing components
- Buddhas of Bamiyan: The colossal twin statues that stood sentinel over Afghanistan — until the Taliban destroyed them
- August 11
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- 'Lord, make them die an awful death': Prisoner's dark pleas found etched into Roman-era prison
- Cannabis use linked to head and neck cancer risk
- Space photo of the week: Stunning sand dunes slash across Mars' polar ice cap
- Heart attacks fell dramatically during the pandemic — and they're still dropping
- Fossils from Greenland's icy heart reveal it was a green tundra covered in flowers less than 1 million years ago
- August 10
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- Newborns are colonized with antibiotic resistant bacteria
- New supercomputing network could lead to AGI, scientists hope, with 1st node coming online within weeks
- Pearlfish: The eel-like fish that lives up a sea cucumber's butt
- 6 ways an athlete's brain differs from an average person's
- Why do only some animals have periods?
- What happens when you 'hit the wall'?
- August 9
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- NASA shuts down down asteroid-hunting NEOWISE telescope as the sun drags it to its doom
- Google DeepMind's robotic arm can now beat humans at table tennis
- Double mastectomies don't increase cancer survival, study suggests
- Some people recover from ALS — now, we might know why
- Bacteria that switch antibiotic resistance on and off are going undetected. Microbiologist Karin Hjort is on a mission to find out how they do it.
- How fast can antibiotic resistance evolve?
- What's the difference between gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria?
- 13 crafty ways animals hunt their prey
- Barrage of solar explosions could bring auroras to the U.S. this weekend as Perseid meteor shower peaks
- 'Breaking,' aka breakdancing, is in the Olympics for the 1st time — here's the brain science behind it
- AI models trained on 'synthetic data' could break down and regurgitate unintelligible nonsense, scientists warn
- Yarlung Tsangpo: The deepest canyon on land hides a tree taller than the Statue of Liberty
- Evolution of snakes takes surprise twist — cobras didn't come from where we thought they did
- August 8
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- Physicists solve nuclear fusion mystery with mayonnaise
- Scientists drill longest-ever piece of Earth's mantle from underwater mountain near 'Lost City'
- Jerusalem's Second Temple was built with gigantic stone blocks — now we think we know where they came from
- Scientists just found the 'front door' to a massive cave on the moon
- 'Extremely unusual': Hottest ocean temperature in 400 years threatens the Great Barrier Reef
- The Higgs particle could break physics throughout the universe. Here's why it hasn't.
- World's oldest calendar found at 13,000-year-old temple in Turkey
- Researchers want to build 'streetlights' on the moon — and they'd be taller than the Statue of Liberty
- August 7
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- Great white sharks split into 3 populations 200,000 years ago and never mixed again — except for one hybrid found in the Bermuda Triangle
- Valley fever risk may be high this year, California officials warn in wake of music festival outbreak
- WHO may declare new, deadlier mpox outbreak an international emergency
- Weird, 'watermelon shape' asteroids like Dimorphos and Selam may finally have an explanation
- What causes blood clots?
- Gargantuan waves in Earth's mantle may make continents rise, new study finds
- Sun fires off double-barreled X-class flares in span of 2 hours
- Siberian gold miners accidentally find ancient woolly rhino mummy with horn and soft tissues still intact
- NASA may send Starliner home without its crew — leaving astronauts stuck in space until 2025
- Plate tectonics fired up at least 3 billion years ago, study of ancient rocks in Australia indicates
- Unique transistor 'could change the world of electronics' thanks to nanosecond-scale switching speeds and refusal to wear out
- Jupiter Mars conjunction: How to see 2 planets 'kiss' in the sky before sunrise on Wednesday
- Powerful solar eruption temporarily rips 'tail' off Earth's magnetosphere
- August 6
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- Ancient Greek mosaic depicting two naked satyrs unearthed during construction project
- Endometriosis may quadruple risk of ovarian cancer, study finds
- CDC issues new guidelines for RSV vaccines, citing side-effect concerns
- Huge cosmological mystery could be solved by wormholes, new study argues
- 'A king will die': 4,000-year-old lunar eclipse omen tablets finally deciphered
- China ready to launch 1st satellite in constellation that will challenge Elon Musk's Starlink
- Archaic human 'hobbits' were even shorter than we thought, 700,000-year-old teeth and bone reveal
- Sharks in an Italian aquarium keep having 'virgin birth' after years without males
- 'Crazy idea' memory device could slash AI energy consumption by up to 2,500 times
- Sapphires form inside the fiery hearts of volcanoes, not deep in the mantle like we thought
- Earth from space: 'Smoking terror' volcano that destroyed city 400 years ago burps toxic cloud
- August 5
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- 17th-century pirate 'corsair' shipwreck discovered off Morocco's Barbary Coast
- Injectable goo could fix joints without surgery, early study suggests
- We finally know where the moon's atmosphere comes from
- Dancing Girl: A pint-size statue from the Indus Valley Civilization with a larger-than-life presence
- Why do you feel less hungry when it's hot out?
- August 4
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- The Perseid meteor shower is peaking NOW! Here's how to see the most 'shooting stars'.
- 'Love hormone' oxytocin may be missing link between sleep apnea and high blood pressure
- Space photo of the week: A cosmic butterfly emerges from a star's slow death
- What were the first animals to have sex?
- The building blocks of life can form rapidly around young stars
- August 3
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- Group of ancient stars spotted near the sun could rewrite the Milky Way's history
- Pacific geoduck: The large, phallic clam that can live longer than 165 years
- Here's what the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris look like from space (photos)
- How many galaxies are in the universe?
- 3 remarkable trees: A living fossil, a deadly canopy, and the world's biggest seeds that were once mounted in gold by royals
- These 17th-century drawings of the sun by Kepler add fire to solar cycle mystery
- August 2
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- Pot overflowing with gold coins discovered in ancient Greek city in Turkey
- Dangerous strains of 'hypervirulent' superbug detected in US and 15 other countries
- Meet 'small diver': One of the tiniest penguins ever discovered
- Giant wildfires can create their own weather. Here's how.
- Volcano in Tanzania with weirdest, runniest magma on Earth is sinking into the ground
- James Webb telescope confirms the earliest galaxy in the universe is bursting with way more stars than we thought possible
- Once-in-a-lifetime nova explosion from T Coronae Borealis will create a 'new star' in the sky
- Minerals evolve under pressure in the same way life does, researchers find
- 'Screaming Woman' mummy suffered a painful death in ancient Egypt, virtual autopsy finds
- Salar de Uyuni: The world's largest salt desert and lithium reservoir surrounded by volcanoes
- August 1
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- Auroras to light up the US this weekend in aftermath of 'cannibal' solar eruption
- 'This is largely uncharted territory': Scientists reveal the brain's 'fear circuit' works differently than we thought
- Scientists uncover microbes that destroy 'forever chemical' pollutants
- A moon of Uranus could have a hidden ocean, James Webb Space Telescope finds
- USA Basketball doctor shares what it's like to treat athletes at the Olympics
- World's largest iron ore deposits formed over 1 billion years ago in supercontinent breakup
- World's 'best-performing' quantum computing chip could be used in machines by 2027, scientists claim
- Runaway 'failed star' races through the cosmos at 1.2 million mph
