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- July 31
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- 515-mile-long lightning bolt that spanned 5 states is the longest on record
- People who see society as cutthroat value antagonistic leaders, study finds
- Caffeine may help E. coli resist antibiotics — but more research is needed
- Tomatoes randomly mated with another plant 9 million years ago. The result? Potatoes.
- See the universe's rarest type of black hole slurp up a star in stunning animation
- The hunt for 'Planet Nine': Why there could still be something massive at the edge of the solar system
- After 54-year wait, Australia's first attempt at an orbital rocket crashes 14 seconds after liftoff
- Shroud of Turin wasn't laid on Jesus' body, but rather a sculpture, modeling study suggests
- Lightning on Earth is sparked by a powerful chain reaction from outer space, simulations show
- 'Sleeping giant' fault beneath Canada could unleash a major earthquake, research suggests
- July 30
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- 2,300-year-old arm tats on mummified woman reveal new insights about tattooing technique in ancient Siberia
- Experimental HIV vaccines show promise in early safety test
- Russian volcano explodes in 'powerful' eruption, likely intensified by 8.8 magnitude earthquake
- Even a slight slowdown of key Atlantic currents poses a 'stunning risk' to rainforests
- 'It was so unexpected': 90 billion liters of meltwater punched its way through Greenland ice sheet in never-before-seen melting event
- Archaeologists discover 1,800-year-old Roman watchtower built to protect the empire during Marcus Aurelius' reign
- Archaeologists discover 'Land of the White Jaguar,' centuries-old stronghold of rebel Maya in Mexico
- This 200-light-year-wide structure could be feeding our galaxy's center: 'No one had any idea this cloud existed'
- Teen at Yellowstone suffers severe burns after ground breaks over scalding thermal pond
- 'Universal' cancer vaccine heading to human trials could be useful for 'all forms of cancer'
- Sticky goo in 2,500-year-old bronze jars finally identified, settling 70-year debate
- Watch 1,000 baby spiders devour their mothers and aunties alive in stomach-turning, first-of-its-kind footage
- Google has turned 2 billion smartphones into a global earthquake warning system — it's as effective as seismometers, tests show
- Russia earthquake: Magnitude 8.8 megaquake hits Kamchatka, generating tsunamis across the Pacific
- July 29
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- Hot blob beneath Appalachians formed when Greenland split from North America — and it's heading to New York
- A mysterious barrier in the Atlantic divides weird deep-sea jellyfish cousins
- This 'super-Earth' exoplanet 35 light-years away might have what it takes to support life
- 400-mile-long chain of fossilized volcanoes discovered beneath China
- 4,000-year-old handprint discovered on ancient Egyptian tomb offering
- Mitochondria aren't only the 'powerhouses of cells' — they also battle germs
- Scientists discover fast-spinning 'unicorn' object that defies physics
- Scientists use quantum machine learning to create semiconductors for the first time – and it could transform how chips are made
- July 28
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- NASA spacecraft snaps images of lunar transit and Earth eclipse on the same day — see the photos
- Planned C-sections linked to increased risk of childhood leukemia, study finds
- 'Time travel' memory hack rejuvenates memories, study finds
- Pizzeria mishap left at least 85 people intoxicated with THC after infused oil used for dough
- Ancient shark discovered deep inside world's longest cave system
- Memories aren't static in the brain — they 'drift' over time
- Scientists hit quantum computer error rate of 0.000015% — a world record achievement that could lead to smaller and faster machines
- July 27
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- July 25
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- New report details one of the biggest raw milk-related outbreaks in recent US history
- 2 stars in 'serpent god of destruction' system are hurling their blazing guts at each other, James Webb telescope reveals
- Building blocks of life may be far more common in space than we thought, study claims
- Scientists gave mice flu vaccines by flossing their tiny teeth — and it worked
- Moon, Mars, and meteors: Why July 28 is the best night for skywatching all summer
- The more advanced AI models get, the better they are at deceiving us — they even know when they're being tested
- July 24
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- Astronomers discover new dwarf planet 'Ammonite' — and it could upend the existence of Planet Nine
- Ancient human relative cannibalized toddlers, 850,000-year-old neck bone reveals
- 96% of oceans worldwide experienced extreme heatwaves in 2023, new study finds
- Embattled 'arsenic life' paper retracted by journal Science 15 years after publication
- Astronomers share best-ever evidence that Betelgeuse has a secret companion star — and they've nicknamed it 'her bracelet'
- 3I/ATLAS is 7 miles wide — the largest interstellar object ever seen — new photos from Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveal
- T. rex relatives 'moonwalked' to attract mates, newfound dinosaur ‘mating arena' suggests
- Ancient whale 'graveyard' discovered under melting Russian glacier
- Kabul could become the first modern capital to run out of water — here's why
- Earth is starting to spin faster — and scientists are considering doing something unprecedented
- A doomed exoplanet is caught in a 'death spiral' around its star. Can it survive?
- AI could soon think in ways we don't even understand — evading our efforts to keep it aligned — top AI scientists warn
- 3,800-year-old burial of tall warrior buried with 4-pronged spearhead unearthed in Azerbaijan
- July 23
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- Best-ever map of the human genome sheds light on 'jumping genes,' 'junk DNA' and more
- Scientists find Uranus is surprisingly warm, heating up the case for a new planetary mission
- 'Extremely rare' bronze armor found in Czech Republic dates to Trojan War era
- Scientists scan famous 'Earthrise' crater on mission to find alien life in our solar system
- Neanderthal genes may explain disorder where brain bulges out of the skull
- Watch this robot 'cannibal' grow bigger and stronger by consuming smaller robots
- Bad news for alien life? Earth-size planets may be less common than we thought
- July 22
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- Bite marks reveal giant terror birds were potentially prey for another apex predator — humongous caiman
- 78,000-year-old footprints from Neanderthal man, child and toddler discovered on beach in Portugal
- 'Backward' brain of ancient sea creature hints spider ancestors evolved in the ocean
- Male birth control pill passes early safety test, with more trials underway
- See up to 25 'shooting stars' an hour as Southern Delta Aquariid and Alpha Capricornid meteor showers peak Monday
- Here we go again! Controversial paper questions whether interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is 'possibly hostile' alien tech in disguise
- Students build new 'hybrid drone' — watch it fly in the air and then seamlessly dive underwater
- Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees unseen for 80 years
- A peatland in the Amazon stopped absorbing carbon. What does it mean?
- 'PAC-MANN' blood test aims to detect pancreatic cancer early
- Pristine Etruscan tomb discovered in Italy contains more than 100 untouched artifacts
- July 21
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- Weird swelling of man's fingers and toes revealed cancer had 'completely replaced' the bones with lesions
- China launches world's first robot that can run by itself 24/7 — watch it change its own batteries in unsettling new footage
- Shark Week team discovers unusual 'black makos' off California coast
- New York to Los Angeles in 3 hours? Executive order could make it possible by 2027, reopening the door for commercial supersonic flight
- July 20
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- Ötzi the Iceman and his neighbors had totally different ancestries, ancient DNA study finds
- Trippy liquid 'fireworks' appear when scientists try to mix unmixable fluids
- If aliens existed on Mars 3.7 billion years ago, they would have needed umbrellas
- Earth may have at least 6 'minimoons' at any given time. Where do they come from?
- July 19
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- We're within 3 years of reaching a critical climate threshold. Can we reverse course?
- New pocket-size model of ALS 'breathes and flows like human tissue'
- James Webb telescope reveals 'Sleeping Beauty' galaxies in the early universe — snoozing where they weren't supposed to exist
- Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' gives US Space Force $1 billion for secretive X-37B space plane
- July 18
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- First video of an earthquake fault cracking has revealed another surprise
- Scientists discover changes to the polar vortex that are plunging parts of US into deep freeze
- Tuvalu residents prepare for world’s first planned migration of an entire nation — and climate change is to blame
- In a cosmic first, astronomers spot a new planet system being born around an alien star
- Endurance athletes that carry Neanderthal genes could be held back from reaching their peak
- Mysterious migraines after heart surgery may finally be explained
- Watch this cute robot elephant go bowling — it's the first 3D-printed robot of its kind
- Astronomers discover monster exoplanet hiding in 'stellar fog' around young star
- MIT's new AI can teach itself to control robots by watching the world through their eyes — it only needs a single camera
- 2,200-year-old Celtic settlement discovered in Czech Republic — and it's awash in gold and silver coins
- Thousands of leather shoes, bags and sword scabbards discovered during dig in medieval harbor in Norway
- July 17
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- Giant meteor impact may have triggered massive Grand Canyon landslide 56,000 years ago
- Strongest nor'easters along US East Coast are becoming more intense as the world warms, study suggests
- Why giant moa — a bird that once towered over humans — are even harder to de-extinct than dire wolves
- 600-year-old amethyst 'worthy of a duke' found in medieval castle moat in Poland
- Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS transforms into a giant 'cosmic rainbow' in trippy new telescope image
- The 'gender gap' in math is not innate — something about school drives it
- Scientists make 'magic state' breakthrough after 20 years — without it, quantum computers can never be truly useful
- New bionic knee connects directly with muscles and bone to feel more like the user's body
- July 16
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- 8 babies spared from potentially deadly inherited diseases through new IVF 'mitochondrial donation' trial
- 'Ice cube' clouds discovered at the galaxy's center shouldn't exist — and they hint at a recent black hole explosion
- Largest known Martian meteorite on Earth sells for $5.3 million at auction
- 'Beautifully preserved' ice age horse skull unearthed in Yukon mine
- Behold, 'The Beast': Gigantic animal-like plasma plume 13 times wider than Earth hovers over the sun
- Do sloths fart? Cute new video finally settles age old question
- Scientists discover long-lost giant rivers that flowed across Antarctica up to 80 million years ago
- Lava erupts from gigantic fissure in Iceland following earthquake swarm — and the photos are epic
- Meet Skydweller: A solar-powered drone that can fly for 90 days straight — it's wider and 160 times lighter than a Boeing 747
- A single MRI can reveal how quickly you're aging, scientists claim
- July 15
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- Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflecting asteroids
- 'Interstellar visitor' 3I/ATLAS could be the oldest comet ever seen — and could grow a spectacular tail later this year
- 'I was floored by the data': Psilocybin shows anti-aging properties in early study
- Penny-sized laser could help driverless cars see the world so much clearer
- 4,000-year-old human rib discovered high in the Pyrenees still has an arrowhead from a brutal attack
- July 14
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- Scientists detect most massive black hole merger ever — and it birthed a monster 225 times as massive as the sun
- 100 undiscovered galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, supercomputer simulations hint
- Grand Canyon Dragon wildfire burns down historic lodge and triggers toxic gas leak
- Japan sets new internet speed record — it's 4 million times faster than average US broadband speeds
- July 13
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- Could signs of Mars life be hidden in its thick layers of clay?
- The Perseids are about to peak — here's how to watch the glorious meteor shower without the full moon ruining the show
- 'Paraparticles' would be a third kingdom of quantum particle
- How Trump's budget cuts could affect 2 iconic space telescopes: Hubble and James Webb
- July 12
- July 11
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- 'Epigenetic memory' may help explain why PCOS tends to run in families
- Scientists grow mini amniotic sacs in the lab using stem cells
- Experimental treatment for high cholesterol edits DNA in the body to reduce LDL
- Man in Australia dies of rare, rabies-like disease
- Earliest evidence of humans catching disease from animals dates to 6,500 years ago
- Astronomers are racing to study our solar system's newest 'interstellar visitor.' Here's why.
- Antarctic sea ice collapse linked to a mysterious spike in ocean salt
- In a first, congenital deafness in teens and adults treated with new gene therapy
- Collapse of key Atlantic currents may be held off by newly-discovered back-up system, study finds
- Parker Solar Probe captures closest-ever photos of the sun during record-breaking flight
- 140,000-year-old child's skull may have been part modern human, part Neanderthal — but not everyone is convinced
- A dangerous condition that can cause seizures, coma and death could rise dramatically as the climate warms
- Texas flood devastation revealed in before-and-after satellite images
- 'Time machine' reveals hidden structures in the universe's first galaxies
- Cosmic images from the world's largest digital camera are so big they require a 'data butler'
- July 10
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- 1,600-year-old tomb of Maya city's first ruler unearthed in Belize
- Scientists discover that mysterious giant structures beneath the North Sea seemingly defy what we know about geology
- Earth just had a freakishly short day, but the fastest day of the year is yet to come
- Severed bow of US warship blown off by Japanese torpedo finally found in South Pacific
- Scientist's cat helps discover a rare virus — yet again
- Stunning facial reconstructions of 'hobbit,' Neanderthal and Homo erectus bring human relatives to life
- Mystery of Mars' missing water could be solved by the planet's tipsy tilt
- 3I/ATLAS: Everything you need to know about the new 'interstellar visitor' shooting through the solar system
- 'Alpha male' primates are rare, with females about as likely to dominate the opposite sex, study finds
- 'We're bringing back avian dinosaurs': De-extinction company claims it will resurrect the giant moa in next 10 years
- Quantum materials with a 'hidden metallic state' could make electronics 1,000 times faster
- Echoes from the Big Bang suggest Earth is trapped inside a giant cosmic void, scientists claim
- July 9
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- Extraordinary 'sacrificial ass' with severed head discovered from Bronze Age Israel — and it was from a faraway land
- Dams around the world hold so much water they've shifted Earth's poles, new research shows
- Weight loss may 'rejuvenate' fat tissues, clearing away aged cells
- Metformin may prevent severe morning sickness
- New AI system can 'predict human behavior in any situation' with unprecedented degree of accuracy, scientists say
- 8-year-old with rare, fatal disease shows dramatic improvement on experimental treatment
- Scientists discover Burmese pythons have never-before-seen cells that help them digest entire skeletons
- July 8
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- Whooo's there? James Webb telescope spots 'Cosmic Owl,' super-rare structure formed from colliding ring galaxies
- Chimps develop fashion trend by shoving grass in their ears — and in their butts
- Why were the Texas flash floods so catastrophic?
- Massive blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, an ancient wonder, hauled up from the Mediterranean
- July 7
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- Melting glaciers could trigger volcanic eruptions around the globe, study finds
- Rare form of leprosy infected people in Americas before European arrival, 4,000-year-old bones suggest
- 'Ash-winged dawn goddess' is oldest pterosaur ever discovered in North America — and it was small enough to sit 'on your shoulder'
- Earth is going to spin much faster over the next few months — so fast that several days are going to get shorter
- Scientists burned, poked and sliced their way through new robotic skin that can 'feel everything'
- July 6
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- July 4
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- Scientists transform pee into material fit for medical implants
- Oldest wooden tools unearthed in East Asia show that ancient humans made planned trips to dig up edible plants
- Astronaut snaps giant red 'jellyfish' sprite over North America during upward-shooting lightning event
- Giant radio telescope in the Nevada desert could reveal hidden corners of the cosmos — and brand-new physics
- May 2024 solar storm cost $500 million in damages to farmers, new study reveals
- Small, room-temperature quantum computers that use light on the horizon after breakthrough, scientists say
- July 3
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- Can adults make new brain cells? New study may finally settle one of neuroscience's greatest debates
- RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn
- Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupation in Australia, but not all experts are convinced
- 1,400-year-old temple ruins the size of a city block unearthed in Bolivia
- Our gut bacteria can absorb and remove toxic 'forever chemicals' — at least in lab mice
- Astrophotographer snaps 'once-in-a-lifetime' shot of solar flare photobombing the ISS
- Watch newly discovered 'interstellar visitor' 3I/ATLAS shoot toward us in first livestream
- 300-year-old pirate-plundered shipwreck that once held 'eyewatering treasure' discovered off Madagascar
- NASA confirms that mysterious object shooting through the solar system is an 'interstellar visitor' — and it has a new name
- 'Alien' skull of toddler is actually evidence of long-standing practice of head shaping
- July 2
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- Ozempic-style drugs treat type 1 diabetes, not only type 2, study finds
- 125,000-year-old 'fat factory' run by Neanderthals discovered in Germany
- BMI should be replaced, experts argue — here's what the alternative could be
- 8 ancient Roman shoes of 'exceptional size' discovered at Roman fort near Hadrian's Wall
- Astronomers spot potential 'interstellar visitor' shooting through the solar system toward Earth
- Wild orcas offer humans food. Could they be trying to make friends — or manipulate us?
- Oldest and most complete ancient Egyptian human genome ever sequenced reveals ties to Mesopotamia
- 'A completely new phenomenon': Astronomers spot a planet causing its star to constantly explode
- James Webb telescope discovers tentacled 'jellyfish' galaxy swimming through deep space
- First-ever evidence of star 'double detonation' captured in stunning image
- July 1
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- Chemotherapy can make healthy blood cells 'look old,' study suggests
- Zapping the brain may help boost math skills, study hints
- 2 'new stars' have exploded into the night sky at once — potentially for the first time in history
- Rare snowfall in Atacama Desert forces the world's most powerful radio telescope into 'survival mode'
- Astronomers discover origins of mysterious double hot Jupiter exoplanets: 'It is a dance of sorts'
- Man's body crawling with parasitic worms after infected kidney transplant at US hospital
- Bear's new metal tooth is world's biggest-ever crown
- ChatGPT could pilot a spacecraft shockingly well, early tests find
- The Rubin Observatory found 2,104 asteroids in just a few days. It could soon find millions more.
