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- September 30
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- Scientists have digitally removed the 'death masks' from four Colombian mummies, revealing their faces for the first time
- Stars that brush past black holes live longer, stranger lives after their close encounters with death
- James Webb telescope spies a 'farting' dwarf planet with fluorescent gas in the outer solar system
- Life-size rock art points the way to oldest human inhabitants of Saudi Arabia — and the desert oases they used
- Microsoft unveils new liquid-cooled computer chips — they could prevent AI data centers from massively overheating
- Iran among 'world's most extreme subsidence hotspots' with some areas sinking up to 1 foot per year, study finds
- September 29
- September 28
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- Physicists find a loophole in Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle without breaking it
- 30,000-year-old 'personal toolkit' found in the Czech Republic provides 'very rare' glimpse into the life of a Stone Age hunter-gatherer
- James Webb Space Telescope reveals thick cosmic dust of Sagittarius B2, the most enormous star-forming cloud in the Milky Way — Space photo of the week
- September 27
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- Researchers uncover hidden ingredients behind AI creativity
- Scientists asked ChatGPT to solve a math problem from more than 2,000 years ago — how it answered it surprised them
- Science news this week: A breakthrough cure for Huntington's disease and a fast-growing black hole that breaks physics
- It's official: Humans have found 6,000 planets beyond our solar system
- September 26
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- Is acetaminophen safe in pregnancy? Here's what the science says.
- Mysterious cosmic explosion can't be explained, scientists say
- 'If there is a space race, China's already winning it': NASA unlikely to bring Mars samples back to Earth before China does, experts say
- Amazon rainforest trees are resisting climate change by getting fatter from CO2 in the atmosphere
- Scientists unveil world's first quantum computer built with regular silicon chips
- Perplexing diamonds from South Africa mine contain 'almost impossible' chemistry
- NASA launches special mission to study Earth's mysterious "halo"
- 'Gold coins started appearing one after another': 1,400-year-old hoard with money and jewelry unearthed near Sea of Galilee
- September 25
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- Rare wampum beads discovered at 17th-century colony in Newfoundland
- 1 million-year-old skull from China holds clues to the origins of Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans
- Mystery creature found in 'forbidden cloud forest' of Peru is new species of marsupial
- 95 million-year-old 'tiny, tiny skull' from never-before-seen crocodile-like creature discovered in Montana
- Scientific breakthrough leads to 'fluorescent biological qubit' — it could mean turning your cells into quantum sensors
- Weird glass in Australia appears to be from giant asteroid impact — but scientists 'yet to locate the crater'
- 'We thought it was a problem with the instrument': Scientists shocked by rare 'Einstein cross' with a surprise in the center
- September 24
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- 5,000-year-old stone tomb discovered in Spain is 43 feet long — and it holds many prehistoric burials
- 'Groundbreaking' gene therapy is first treatment for Huntington's disease to slow the condition
- The James Webb telescope may have discovered a brand new class of cosmic object: the black hole star
- Microscopic baby sea urchin crawling with tubed feet is among video winners of Nikon Small World in Motion competition
- Scientists spot a baby planet being born in real time (photo)
- Scientists discover 85 'active' lakes buried beneath Antarctica's ice
- Abandoning daylight saving time could prevent over 300,000 stroke cases a year in the US, study claims
- September 23
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- We could nuke 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 before it hits the moon — if we act fast, new study warns
- 7-year-old Maya child had green jade 'tooth gem,' new study finds
- 'A serious threat': China braces as Super Typhoon Ragasa, this year's strongest storm, nears with winds of up to 177 mph
- Rare blue-and-green hybrid jay spotted in Texas is offspring of birds whose lineages split 7 million years ago
- Gigantic dinosaur with 'claws like hedge trimmers' found with croc leg still in its jaws in Argentina
- September 22
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- Quantum internet inches closer thanks to new chip — it helps beam quantum signals over real-world fiber optic cables
- 'Completely unexplained': James Webb telescope finds strange 'dark beads' in Saturn's atmosphere
- 'Cleopatra's Final Secret' documentary reveals hundreds of coins and port found in Egypt. But does that mean Cleopatra was buried there?
- September 21
- September 20
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- Owning a cat will change your brain. Here's how.
- 'Shocking': Astronomers find monster black hole growing at 2.4 times the theoretical limit
- Science news this week: The world's oldest mummy, and an ant that mates with clones of a distant species
- Who is eligible for this year's COVID vaccine? Everything you need to know
- September 19
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- Cold snap in Florida made Burmese python puke up a whole deer
- Vast source of rare Earth metal niobium was dragged to the surface when a supercontinent tore apart
- Farewell to the computer mouse? Bizarre new designs could reduce wrist injuries, scientists say.
- Saturn will be at its biggest and brightest on Sept. 21 — here's how to see it
- Skywatching alert! See 2 bright comets on the same night as a meteor shower this October
- September 18
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- CDC committee votes to change measles vaccine guidance for young children
- 'Dramatic' changes spotted in first black hole ever imaged
- New report warns that China could overtake the US as top nation in space — and it could happen 'in 5-10 years,' expert claims
- Tiny 'brains' grown in the lab could become conscious and feel pain — and we're not ready
- How to see the moon, Venus and the bright star Regulus in an ultraclose conjunction tomorrow
- Jaguar in Brazil smashes record for the species' longest documented swim
- There's a 90% chance we'll see a black hole explode within a decade, physicists say
- RFK's handpicked advisers are coming for the childhood vaccine schedule. Here's what to know.
- September 17
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- Even brief exposure to air pollution can push the placenta into an inflammatory state, lab study suggests
- 'Rare' ancestor reveals how huge flightless birds made it to faraway lands
- Oldest-known dome-headed dinosaur discovered sticking out of a cliff in Mongolia's Gobi Desert
- Scientists invent new sunscreen made from pollen
- 'The sun is slowly waking up': NASA warns that there may be more extreme space weather for decades to come
- Anthropologist claims hand positions on 1,300-year-old Maya altar have a deeper meaning
- September 16
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- 1,900-year-old 'treasure' found in Roman-era family's scorched house in Romania
- Skyscraper-size asteroid previously predicted to hit us in 60 years will zoom past Earth on Thursday (Sept. 18) — and you can see it live
- Grumpy-looking Pallas's cat photographed by camera trap in stunning photo from eastern Himalayas
- 'This needs to happen fast': Scientists race to cryopreserve a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct
- 'A genuine surprise': Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu once had 'flowing water' that transformed its insides
- September 15
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- World's oldest mummies were smoke-dried 10,000 years ago in China and Southeast Asia, researchers find
- 1,900-year-old oil lamp that provided 'light in the journey to the afterlife' found in Roman cemetery in the Netherlands
- Scientists measure the 'natal kick' that sent a baby black hole careening through space for the first time
- 'Russian nesting doll' virus hides inside a deadly fungus, making it even more dangerous to people
- Diet change could make brain cancer easier to treat, early study hints
- New EV battery tech could power 500-mile road trips on a 12-minute charge
- September 14
- September 13
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- 3,300-year-old ancient Egyptian whistle was likely used by police officer tasked with guarding the 'sacred location' of the royal tomb
- JWST finds planet with all-carbon atmosphere orbiting 'black widow' star
- AI slop is on the rise — what does it mean for how we use the internet?
- Science news this week: NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars and scientists invent visible time crystals
- September 12
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- 350-year-old mummified head from Bolivia isn't what it seems
- Have you gotten this year's COVID vaccine?
- Astronomers accidentally use rare 'double zoom' technique to view black hole's corona in unprecedented detail
- 'Almost like science fiction': European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species
- Scientists develop 'full-spectrum' 6G chip that could transfer data at 100 gigabits per second — 10,000 times faster than 5G
- Never-before-seen adorable pink bumpy snailfish with funny little beard filmed in deep canyon off California coast
- New 'quasi-moon' discovered in Earth orbit may have been hiding there for decades
- September 11
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- New reconstructions show piercing eyes of men who lived 2,500 years ago in mysterious Indian civilization
- Breakthrough cystic fibrosis drug that extends life by decades earns its developers a $250,000 'American Nobel'
- Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could be turning bright green, surprising new photos reveal
- Acne drug Accutane may restore sperm production in infertile men, early study hints
- 'New' island emerges from melting ice in Alaska
- Tiny cryogenic device cuts quantum computer heat emissions by 10,000 times — and it could be launched in 2026
- September 10
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- Electronics breakthrough means our devices may one day no longer emit waste heat, scientists say
- 'Incredibly exciting': NASA claims it's found the 'clearest sign' yet of past life on Mars
- 'Our hearts stopped': Scientists find baby pterosaurs died in violent Jurassic storm 150 million years ago
- Canada's 2023 wildfires contributed to 87,000 early deaths worldwide, study estimates
- Ancient DNA from Mexico's mammoths reveals unexpected — and unexplained — genetic mysteries
- Stephen Hawking's long-contested black hole theory finally confirmed — as scientists 'hear' 2 event horizons merge into one
- When is the fall equinox, and why does it happen?
- September 9
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- 'Once-in-a-millennium' event: Approach of 'potentially hazardous' asteroid Apophis will be visible to the naked eye
- NASA spots bizarre 'turtle' on Mars
- Human stem cells become more active in space — and that's not a good thing
- Scientists create first-ever visible time crystals using light — and they could one day appear on $100 bills
- Gigantic 'letter S' spotted on the sun just before a 'dark eruption' hurls a fiery shadow at Earth
- Scientists are finally learning what's inside mysterious 'halo' barrels submerged off Los Angeles
- Microsoft's new light-based computer is inspired by 80-year-old technology — it could make AI 100 times more efficient
- I watched scientists view the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in real time. Here's what they saw.
- September 8
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- September 6
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- Extreme thinness: Scientists are investigating why some people struggle to gain weight
- Scientists find 'something extraordinary' in famous supernova's troubled heart
- A scalding hot 'sand battery' is now heating a small Finnish town
- Science news this week: A key Atlantic current nears collapse, the world's biggest iceberg shatters, and mouse brains rewrite neuroscience
- The universe's first magnetic fields were 'comparable' to the human brain — and still linger within the 'cosmic web'
- September 5
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- Just 1 dose of LSD could relieve anxiety for months, trial finds
- Scientists invented 'sperm bots' that they piloted through a fake cervix and uterus
- Fishers discover first-of-its-kind bright orange shark with two rare conditions in Caribbean
- Scientists develop 'glue gun' that 3D prints bone grafts directly onto fractures
- Category 4 Hurricane Kiko is heading for Hawaii — but it will weaken before it gets there, forecasters say
- Do you think we should stop the progress of AI before it becomes a threat to our species?
- September 4
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- Gene that human ancestors lost millions of years ago could help treat gout
- Chinese submersible explores previously unknown giant craters at the bottom of the Pacific — and they're teeming with life
- James Webb telescope spots odd disk around star that could shatter planet formation theories
- Skull of bear held captive to fight Roman gladiators discovered near ancient amphitheater in Serbia
- Map of 600,000 brain cells rewrites the textbook on how the brain makes decisions
- Key Atlantic current could start collapsing as early as 2055, new study finds
- 40-year-old 'queen of icebergs' A23a is no longer world's biggest after losing several 'very large chunks' since May
- September 3
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- Iconic winged lion statue in Venice may actually be from China's Tang dynasty, study finds
- James Webb telescope discovers 'exceptionally rare' 5-galaxy crash in the early universe
- Who will see the 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse this weekend?
- 'We completely freaked out': Orcas are attacking boats in Europe again
- Scientists taught an AI-powered 'robot dog' how to play badminton against humans — and it's actually really good
- September 2
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- Dozens of mysterious blobs discovered inside Mars may be the remnants of 'failed planets'
- 1,000-year-old 'king' game piece with a distinctive hairstyle is 'as close as we will ever get to a portrait of a Viking'
- 1.8 million-year-old human jawbone discovered in Republic of Georgia — and it may be earliest evidence yet of Homo erectus
- 'Extremely alarming': ChatGPT and Gemini respond to high-risk questions about suicide — including details around methods
- See what would happen to Tokyo if Mount Fuji erupted 'without any warning' in new AI-generated video
- Newly discovered bus-size asteroid will zoom close past Earth today — and will not return for exactly 100 years
- September 1
