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November 30
- Mass extinctions make life 'bounce back stronger,' controversial study suggests
- 'It's hard not to believe he saw something': Historian Greg Eghigian on how UFOs took over the world
- Did alien life exist in hot water on Mars billions of years ago?
- Ozempic-like drugs may treat alcohol addiction, study finds
- How much can your stomach expand after a big meal?
November 29
- Gigantic 'spiderwebs' on Mars are the next big target for NASA's Curiosity rover, agency reveals
- Anglo-Saxons plagiarized a Roman coin — and it's full of typos
- Dramatic NASA images reveal lava coursing near Iceland's Blue Lagoon
- Hailin impact crater: China's newly discovered meteor pit born from a 'nuclear explosion level' event
- Meet 'Blackbird': A flying taxi that spins and moves in any direction thanks to new propulsion system
- 'We didn't know what it was at first.' NASA aircraft uncovers site of secret Cold War nuclear missile tunnels under Greenland ice sheet
- The shape of light: Scientists reveal image of an individual photon for 1st time ever
- Fat cells have a 'memory' of obesity, study finds
- How many blood types are there?
- 'Cryptic carbon' may leak from volcanoes millions of years after eruptions end
- Orca gang develops brutal hunting strategy to take on the world's largest shark — 'This is a fascinating behaviour'
November 28
- 1.5 million-year-old footprints reveal our Homo erectus ancestors lived with a 2nd proto-human species
- 'Fireball' meteor discovered hours before exploding above Niagara Falls was the smallest asteroid ever seen
- 'Baby' exoplanet, equivalent to 2-week-old infant, is the youngest alien world ever spotted — and it's orbiting a wonky star
- Coins worth over $1 million recovered from 1715 Spanish treasure shipwrecks in Florida
- Stone man disease: A rare condition that causes a person to grow a second skeleton
November 27
- Thanksgiving auroras? Solar storm likely to hit Earth on Thursday and Friday, NOAA warns
- Astronauts baffled by 'unexpected odor' leaking from Russian spacecraft docked at ISS
- Samples of 'alien' asteroid Ryugu are crawling with life — from Earth
- NASA spots 'flame-throwing Guitar Nebula' shredding antimatter along a cosmic string
- 'Stunning' discovery reveals how the Maya rose up 4,000 years ago
- Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years
- Cervical cancer deaths have plummeted among young women, US study finds
- Dinosaur puke and poop help reveal how they took over the world
- 'Supergiant' gold deposit discovered in China is one of the largest on Earth — and is worth more than $80 billion
- 'This is a marriage of AI and quantum': New technology gives AI the power to feel surfaces for the 1st time
- Diagnostic dilemma: A man's heart stopped after he ate too much licorice
- Squirting cucumbers thicken and stiffen to eject seeds with 'remarkable speed and precision,' study finds
- We are instinctively turned off by stories labeled 'AI-generated' — even if they were secretly written by other people, study finds
November 26
- No, scientists didn't find Amelia Earhart's 'missing plane' — here's what they did find
- 'Treated as something dangerous and vicious': See stunning reconstruction of 'vampire' buried with a blade over her neck
- How to avoid bird flu
- Your skin color may affect how well a medication works for you — but the research is way behind
- ISS dodges its 39th piece of potentially hazardous space junk. Experts say it won't be the last.
- 'Behemoth star' captured in spectacular close-up image — and it's on the brink of exploding
- Huge, 7-mile scar torn across Australia's Nullarbor Plain discovered by caver scouring Google Earth
- 'Exercise juice' released by muscles helps nerves grow, study finds
- New CRISPR system pauses genes, rather than turning them off permanently
- 1st-of-its-kind cryogenic transistor is 1,000 times more efficient and could lead to much more powerful quantum computers
- Earth from space: Wandering sand dunes circle gigantic 'eye' sculpted by ancient city-killer meteor in the Sahara
November 25
- Solar maximum just knocked 3 satellites out of orbit. Here's why more may be on the way.
- Bird flu strikes 1st child in the US — CDC says infection source unknown
- Earth's '2nd moon' escapes our planet's orbit — will it ever return?
- Scientists detect the most powerful cosmic rays ever — and their unknown source could be close to Earth
- Key Atlantic current is weakening much faster than scientists had predicted
- 'It is a treasure': Wreck off Kenyan coast may be from Vasco da Gama's final voyage
- What really happened at the 1st Thanksgiving?
- New navigation system uses cellphone signals to fly a plane in case GPS fails
- Mask of Xiuhtecuhtli: A 600-year-old mask of the Aztec fire god taken as treasure by conquistadors
- Do any infectious diseases have a 100% fatality rate?
November 24
- Chinese scientists claim they have built a Death Star-inspired beam weapon
- Space photo of the week: Hubble uncovers the true identity of an odd galaxy — and it's not spiral or elliptical
- Why aren't we crushed by the weight of Earth's atmosphere?
November 23
- Tens of millions of devices are thrown away each year — and the rise of generative AI will only make this worse
- Green spoonworm: The female tentacle monsters that turn males into 'living testicles'
- 'It might pave the way for novel forms of artistic expression': Generative AI isn't a threat to artists — it's an opportunity to redefine art itself
- Aurora activity is just getting started. Here's why the best northern lights are yet to come.
- Where would a compass point in outer space?
November 22
- Wolves in Ethiopia spotted licking 'red hot poker' flowers like lollipops
- NASA warns of potential 'catastrophic failure' on leaking ISS — but Russia doesn't want to fix it
- Astronomers spot 1 of the most powerful 'sonic booms' in the universe as massive galaxy crashes into its neighbors
- Aztec 'death whistles,' used to prepare sacrifice victims to descend to the underworld, scramble your brain, scans reveal
- Over 150,000 pounds of ground beef recalled nationwide after E. coli contamination
- Scientists trace origin of Earth's mysterious 'minimoon' days before it escapes into space for 30 years
- 'She turns her siphon into a gun': Watch coconut octopus firing stones at fish in world-1st footage
- Indian Ocean gravity hole: The dent in Earth's gravitational field created by the death of an ancient ocean
- World's 1st silicon anode EV battery will let you drive up to 186 miles after just 5 minutes of charging
- 'Impossible' black holes discovered by the James Webb telescope may finally have an explanation
- Octopuses burn more calories changing color than you use on a 25-minute run
- Could a supernova ever destroy Earth?
- Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens buried their dead differently, study suggests
November 21
- The fastest-moving stars in the galaxy may be piloted by intelligent aliens, new paper suggests
- 2 Stone Age circles discovered on English moorland may have been part of a 'sacred arc'
- Underwater volcano-like structure is spewing gas off Alaska's coast, US Coast Guard says
- Ancient hunter-gatherer DNA linked to higher BMI in modern Japanese people
- 65,000-year-old hearth in Gibraltar may have been a Neanderthal 'glue factory,' study finds
- Students' 'homemade' rocket soars faster and farther into space than any other amateur spacecraft — smashing 20-year records
- Gotta Catch 'Em All: How Pokémon Go covertly captured your data for years to train a massive AI model
- Scientists want to build a device that could capture the body heat we radiate, and use it to power other technologies
- Is light a particle or a wave?
- Supersonic passenger planes 1 step closer to return after successful Boom XB-1 test flight nears sound barrier
- Butterfly disease: A disorder that makes skin as delicate as butterfly wings
- UFO whistleblowers tell Congress 'we are not alone in the cosmos'
- 'A harbinger of what's to come:' NASA satellites show massive drop in global freshwater levels
November 20
- 'Black mold-like substance' and water contamination uncovered by FDA at Tom's of Maine toothpaste factory
- Scientists take huge step forward in making atlas of all 37 trillion cells in the human body
- This spot will be key to the inevitable collapse of a key Atlantic current
- China reveals secrets of 1st sample taken from the far side of the moon — and it contains a volcanic surprise
- Ancient human ancestor Lucy was not alone — she lived alongside at least 4 other proto-human species, emerging research suggests
- Largest dinosaur ever auctioned sells for over $6 million — and it's twice as long as a school bus
- 1,600-year-old amulet depicting King Solomon spearing the devil found in Turkey
- 'Quantum hard drives' closer to reality after scientists resolve 10-year-old problem
- Diagnostic dilemma: A man's 'magic mushroom' tea led to a bad trip to the hospital
- Future AI models could be turbocharged by brand new system of logic that researchers call 'inferentialism'
- Scientists analyze largest map of the universe ever created — and it proves Einstein right yet again
November 19
- 39 sickened, 15 hospitalized in E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots
- James Webb telescope uncovers 1st-ever 'Einstein zig-zag' hiding in plain sight — and it could help save cosmology
- Mountain lions in Los Angeles are becoming nocturnal to avoid humans
- Woman accidentally discovers 280 million-year-old lost world while hiking in Italian Alps
- 'Bomb cyclone' bringing high winds to West Coast seen from space in stunning timelapse
- 'Like a reset button on a computer': Designer cells 'reboot' immune system in 3 different autoimmune diseases
- AI could identify the next superbug-fighting drug
- Mathematicians devised novel problems to challenge advanced AIs' reasoning skills — and they failed almost every test
- Earth from space: Eerily circular 'Goblin Forest' surrounds sacred volcano with human rights
November 18
- 1 gene may explain 30 mysterious medical conditions
- West Coast bracing for 'bomb' cyclone
- 2,600-year-old inscription in Turkey finally deciphered — and it mentions goddess known 'simply as the Mother'
- Dolphin in the Baltic Sea has been talking to himself — and researchers think it's a sign he's lonely
- Communicating with aliens one day could be much easier if we study the way AI agents speak with each other
- Scientists glean new details of mysterious, centuries-old shipwreck submerged in Norway's largest lake
- Book of Kells: A 1,200-year-old manuscript made by monks escaping the Vikings
- Monster 4,400-qubit quantum processor is '25,000 times faster' than its predecessor
- Why isn't the darkest time of the year also the coldest?
November 17
- Women are at higher risk of dying from heart disease. Here's why.
- Evidence of 2,200-year-old hallucinogenic ritual found in Egyptian vase depicting dwarf god
- Space photo of the week: Stare into the 'bloodshot eyes' of a haunting galaxy pair
- China's Mars rover Zhurong finds possible shoreline of ancient Red Planet ocean
- Meet Evo, an AI model that can predict the effects of gene mutations with 'unparalleled accuracy'
- Can gray hair be reversed?
November 16
- 'Dengue is coming': Climate-fueled rise in cases will affect the US, scientists warn
- Neuroscientists taught rats to drive tiny cars. They took them out on 'joy rides.'
- Large language models not fit for real-world use, scientists warn — even slight changes cause their world models to collapse
- Cantor's giant softshell turtle: The frog-faced predator that spends 95% of its time completely motionless
- Meet FRED: The world's 1st-ever, nearly complete fossil database
- Where did the 1st seeds come from?
November 15
- 'Tour de force' study may explain why trauma can lead to PTSD
- Meteorite found in a drawer at university contains 700-million-year-old evidence of water on Mars
- Severe COVID-19 may shrink cancer tumors, early data suggest
- 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten with preserved whiskers pulled from permafrost in Siberia
- 'Another piece of the puzzle': Antarctica's 1st-ever amber fossil sheds light on dinosaur-era rainforest that covered South Pole 90 million years ago
- Mass child sacrifices in 15th-century Mexico were a desperate attempt to appease rain god and end devastating drought
- World's biggest coral — so big it can be seen from space — discovered by chance off Solomon Islands
- 'It invites us to reconsider our notion of shadow': Laser beams can actually cast their own shadows, scientists discover
- El Ojo: The mysterious floating island in Argentina's swampland that looks like a perfectly round eye
- Where do fast radio bursts come from? Astronomers tie mysterious eruptions to massive galaxies.
- 'Unique and extreme': James Webb telescope detects possible alien world bubbling over with volcanoes
- Rare gladiator-shaped knife handle discovered by Hadrian's Wall
November 14
- Declassified spy satellite images reveal 1,400-year-old battle site in Iraq that set off the Muslim conquest
- 'The bottom line is, I told you so': JWST observations upend standard model of how galaxies form, new study claims
- James Webb Space Telescope discovers mysterious 'red monster' galaxies so large they shouldn't exist
- It would be easier to find aliens in a parallel universe than in our own, new multiverse study claims
- Teen sickened with Canada's first human case of bird flu is in critical condition — and the source remains a mystery
- 'Edge of chaos' neuroscience theory could lead to superfast computing chips that behave like superconductors
- 3D map reveals our solar system's local bubble has an 'escape tunnel'
- Necrotizing fasciitis: The 'flesh-eating' infection that bores holes in the body
- We've been wrong about Uranus for nearly 40 years, new analysis of Voyager 2 data reveals
November 13
- Teeny tardigrades can survive space and lethal radiation. Scientists may finally know how.
- 12,000-year-old, doughnut-shaped pebbles may be early evidence of the wheel
- An asteroid hit Earth just hours after being detected. It was the 3rd 'imminent impactor' of 2024
- Why is Pluto not considered a planet?
- 24 brain networks kick in when you watch movies, study finds
- Smarter dogs have smaller brains, surprising study reveals
- 'Medieval' King Arthur site is 4,000 years older than we thought
- Glowing mystery sea slug that feeds like a Venus fly trap captured in deep sea footage for 1st time
- IBM's newest 156-qubit quantum chip can run 50 times faster than its predecessor — equipping it for scientific research
- Researchers spot rare 'triple-ring' galaxy that defies explanation
- 'Missing link' found in ancient rocks of Colorado show that Snowball Earth really happened
- Diagnostic dilemma: A man's brain started bleeding after a dentist appointment
- Global carbon emissions reach new record high in 2024, with no end in sight, scientists say
November 12
- Canada reports 1st local case of H5 bird flu
- Extremely rare 'failed supernova' may have erased a star from the night sky without a trace
- Our ancestor Lucy may have used tools more than 3 million years ago
- The Leonid meteor shower is peaking. How to spot 'shooting stars' and 'fireballs' over the US tonight.
- Pando, the world's largest organism, may have been growing nonstop since the 1st humans left Africa, study suggests
- 2,600-year-old Celtic wooden burial chamber of 'outstanding scientific importance' uncovered by archaeologists in Germany
- Vampire bats have a really strange way of getting energy, scientists discover after putting them on treadmills
- How is paper made from trees?
- Plastic-eating mealworms native to Africa discovered
- New 'gold-plated' superconductor could be the foundation for massively scaled-up quantum computers in the future
- Beaver Moon 2024: See the final 'supermoon' of the year rise next to the 'Seven Sisters'
- Earth from space: Giant 'phantom lake' dotted with stripy gold islands shimmers in Australian outback
November 11
- 150,000-year-old rock-shelter in Tajikistan found on 'key route for human expansion' used by Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans
- Future passenger planes could use AI to eliminate turbulence and maintain a smooth in-flight experience
- 'Webb has shown us they are clearly wrong': How astrophysicist Sophie Koudmani's research on supermassive black holes is rewriting the history of our universe
- Oracle bones: 3,250-year-old engraved bones and tortoise shells from ancient China were used to foretell the future
- What's the 'coastline paradox'?
November 10
- 'The prescription is nature': How satellites can show us the healing effects of nature
- NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope sees 'knots' blasting from nearby black hole jets
- Space Force's mysterious X-37B begins 'aerobraking' to lower orbit. Here's how it works.
- Do ostriches really bury their heads in the sand?
- How did the Concorde fly so fast?
November 9
- Forgetting may provide a surprising evolutionary benefit, experts say
- Microplastics may be entering the clouds and affecting the weather, scientists say
- Gharial: The prehistoric crocodilian that buzzes and blows bubbles to find a mate
- Boost for Mars life? Red Planet's magnetic field may have lasted longer than thought
- 'Gravity waves' from Hurricane Helene seen rippling through the sky in new NASA images
- How many galaxies orbit the Milky Way?
November 8
- H5N1 bird flu is evolving to better infect mammals, CDC study suggests
- Mysterious, city-size 'centaur' comet gets 300 times brighter after quadruple cold-volcanic eruption
- Humans' big brains may not be the reason for difficult childbirth, chimp study suggests
- 'Purple tunic' from royal tomb belonged to Alexander the Great, scholar claims — but not everyone agrees
- Cretaceous 'Pompeii' of China isn't what we thought
- Pando: The world's largest tree and heaviest living organism
- Surprised Russian school kids discover Arctic island has vanished after comparing satellite images
- World's 1st wooden satellite arrives at ISS for key orbital test
- King cobra mystery that's puzzled scientists for 188 years finally solved
- Hubble watches neutron stars collide and explode to create black hole and 'birth atoms'
- What were Carl Sagan's contributions to science? Remembering the 'Cosmos' star on his 90th birthday.
- We finally know why dogs shake when they're wet
November 7
- Armored dinosaur could withstand the impact of a high-speed car crash, thanks to the 'bulletproof vest' over its plate armor
- 'Crumb trails' of meteoroids could reveal potential 'planet-killer' comets years before they reach Earth
- Incredibly rare, ghostly white shark discovered off Albania
- Death of alien-hunting Arecibo Telescope traced to cable issues 3 years earlier, 'alarming' report finds
- Perseverance rover watches 'googly eye' solar eclipse from Mars
- Pompeii victims aren't who we thought they were, DNA analysis reveals
- Scientists just got 1 step closer to creating a 'superheavy' element that is so big, it will add a new row to the periodic table
- Holographic-inspired lenses could unlock '3rd dimension of imaging' in future VR headsets and smart glasses
- Icy moon of Uranus may have once hid watery secret, Voyager 2 archives reveal
- LED device treats leading cause of vision loss with light therapy, FDA says
November 6
- 'A flash of copper caught our attention': 4,000-year-old dagger discovered deep in Italian cave
- 'Hawking radiation' may be erasing black holes. Watching it happen could reveal new physics.
- North Korea launches intercontinental ballistic missile to space, reaches record altitude
- Migraine molecules may drive endometriosis pain. Existing drugs might help.
- Cats are better at word association than human babies are, study finds
- E. coli in the gut may fuel a 'chain reaction' leading to Parkinson's, early study suggests
- A giant crocodilian killed the largest 'terror bird' ever found, 12 million years ago
- 'Ridiculously smooth': James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-like disk around nearby star Vega — and scientists can't explain it
- New 'wastewater' jet fuel could cut airplane emissions by 70%
- Rare tomb from Egypt's Middle Kingdom holds a wealth of jewelry and several generations of the same family
- Rogue 'organs' inside cells may hold secrets of the origin of life on Earth
November 5
- Puzzling patchwork skeleton in Belgium contains bones from 5 people spanning 2,500 years
- James Webb telescope spots 'feasting' black hole eating 40 times faster than should be possible
- BRCA only explains a fraction of breast cancers — genes tied to metabolism may also up risk
- Scientists to read Cassius the giant crocodile's bones to find out exactly how old he was when he died
- Origins of world's earliest writing point to symbols on 'seals' used in Mesopotamian trade
November 4
- Indonesia volcano eruption kills at least 10
- India targets 2028 for Chandrayaan-4 sample-return mission to moon's south pole
- Look for 'fireball' meteors over the US tonight as the North Taurid meteor shower peaks
- These 3 neurons may underlie the drive to eat food
- Earth from space: Watch Valencia disappear under a sea of mud during deadly Spanish floods
- 'An offering to energize the fields': 76 child sacrifice victims, all with their chests cut open, unearthed at burial site in Peru
- Cassius, the world's biggest captive crocodile, may have been over 120 years old when he died
- The 3,300-year-old ancient Egyptian statue of Ramesses II said to have inspired Percy Shelley's 'Ozymandias'
- Will we ever have quantum laptops?
- When did plate tectonics begin?
November 3
- 'God of chaos' asteroid may be transformed by tremors and landslides during 2029 flyby of Earth, study finds
- Saturn's moon Titan may have a 6-mile-thick crust of methane ice — could life be under there?
- Strange green spots on Mars found by NASA's Perseverance rover
- 'Unique' gold offering to god of war discovered at Roman fortress in Georgia
- How many weeks are there in a year?
- Iron Age woman was buried with a knife stuck into her grave. Archaeologists aren't sure why.
- Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a 'cannonball galaxy' blasting through space
- Were the Vikings really that violent?
November 2
- A meteorite 100 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing space rock may have nourished early microbial life
- 380 million-year-old remains of giant fish found in Australia. Its 'living fossil' descendant, the coelacanth, is still alive today.
- New memory chip controlled by light and magnets could one day make AI computing less power-hungry
- Northern sea robin: The bizarre fish with crab legs it uses to taste the seafloor
- Huge lithium deposits are in Nevada. Here's why.
- What really caused encephalitis lethargica, the mysterious disease described in the movie 'Awakenings'?
- Watch sun erupt in 1st images from NOAA's groundbreaking new satellite
- Can viruses cause cancer?
November 1
- Chemists broke a 100-year-old rule to make extremely unstable molecules
- 'Mind-blowing' discovery reveals 5,000-year-old cultic building in Israel
- Watch this terrifying robotic torso spring into life
- Natural selection is unfolding right now in these remote villages in Nepal
- How does licorice interfere with medications?
- Hang Son Doong: The world's biggest cave, so 'outrageous in size' it fits 2 jungles and the 'Great Wall of Vietnam'
- Quantum computers are here — but why do we need them and what will they be used for?
- Does alien life need a planet to survive? Scientists propose intriguing possibility