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- January 31st
- Lifespan may be 50% heritable, study suggests
- Astronomers spot 'time-warped' supernovas whose light both has and hasn't reached Earth
- Life may have rebounded 'ridiculously fast' after the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact
- Science news this week: 'Cloud People' tomb found in Mexico, pancreatic cancer breakthrough, and the AI swarms poised to take over social media
- James Webb telescope solves mystery of 'forever young' vampire stars from the dawn of time
- How long does it take the sun to rotate?
- January 30th
- New triple-drug treatment stops pancreatic cancer in its tracks, a mouse study finds
- Thousands of dams in the US are old, damaged and unable to cope with extreme weather. How bad is it?
- 'Part of the evolutionary fabric of our societies': Same-sex sexual behavior in primates may be a survival strategy, study finds
- More than 43,000 years ago, Neanderthals spent centuries collecting animal skulls in a cave; but archaeologists aren't sure why
- Watch awkward Chinese humanoid robot lay it all down on the dance floor
- The Snow Moon will 'swallow' one of the brightest stars in the sky this weekend: Where and when to look
- January 29th
- Halley wasn't the first to figure out the famous comet. An 11th-century monk did it first, new research suggests.
- James Webb telescope discovers closest galaxy to the Big Bang ever seen
- South Carolina's measles outbreak nears 790 cases — making it the biggest in decades
- 50-year-old NASA jet crashes in flames on Texas runway — taking it out of the Artemis II mission
- 5,000-year-old rock art from ancient Egypt depicts 'terrifying' conquest of the Sinai Peninsula
- Stone Age teenager was mauled by a bear 28,000 years ago, skeletal analysis confirms
- Drones could achieve 'infinite flight' after engineers create laser-based wireless power system that charges them from the ground
- Critical moment when El Niño started to erode Russia's Arctic sea ice discovered
- Romans used human feces as medicine 1,900 years ago — and used thyme to mask the smell
- Hundreds of new 'anomalies' in Hubble data defy explanation
- January 28th
- Teenage girl who lived in Italy 12,000 years ago had a rare form of dwarfism, DNA study shows
- New study of chemical reactions in space 'could impact the origin of life in ways we hadn't thought of'
- Can AI detect cognitive decline better than a doctor? New study reveals surprising accuracy
- 430,000-year-old wooden handheld tools from Greece are the oldest on record — and they predate modern humans
- Next-generation AI 'swarms' will invade social media by mimicking human behavior and harassing real users, researchers warn
- Giant 'metal cloud' spotted in nearby star system could be hiding a second alien sun
- NASA is preparing for simulated launch of Artemis II mega moon rocket — and it could happen as early as Saturday
- Days numbered for 'risky' lithium-ion batteries, scientists say, after fast-charging breakthrough in sodium-ion alternative
- Diagnostic dilemma: Liquid-nitrogen-infused cocktail popped a man's stomach like a balloon
- See February's full Snow Moon rise this weekend next to a glittering star cluster
- January 27th
- 'Doomsday Clock' ticks 4 seconds closer to midnight as unregulated AI and 'mirror life' threaten humanity
- 'The dream has come true': Standard model of cosmology holds up in massive 6-year study of the universe — with one big caveat
- Creepy humanoid robot face learned to move its lips more accurately by staring at itself in the mirror, then watching YouTube
- 160,000-year-old sophisticated stone tools discovered in China may not have been made by Homo sapiens
- Rock climbers in Italy accidentally discovered evidence of an 80 million-year-old sea turtle stampede
- Shark attacks in Hawaii spike in October, and scientists think they know why
- IVF hormones could be delivered with painless 'microneedle' patch someday, early study hints
- January 26th
- 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb discovered in Mexico features enormous owl sculpture symbolizing death
- The UK has lost its measles elimination status — again
- People with more 'brown fat' have healthier cardiovascular systems. A new study in mice may explain why.
- Microsoft says its newest AI chip Maia 200 is 3 times more powerful than Google's TPU and Amazon's Trainium processor
- January 25th
- January 24th
- 2,500 years ago, people in Bulgaria ate dog meat at feasts and as a delicacy, archaeological study finds
- 480,000-year-old ax sharpener is the oldest known elephant bone tool ever discovered in Europe
- AI can develop 'personality' spontaneously with minimal prompting, research shows. What does that mean for how we use it?
- Science news this week: The world's oldest rock art, giant freshwater reservoir found off the East Coast, and the biggest solar radiation storm in decades
- January 23rd
- People, not glaciers, transported rocks to Stonehenge, study confirms
- Astronomers discover a gigantic, wobbling black hole jet that 'changes the way we think about the galaxy'
- Some of the oldest harpoons ever found reveal Indigenous people in Brazil were hunting whales 5,000 years ago
- 'Earthquake on a chip' uses 'phonon' lasers to make mobile devices more efficient
- An ocean the size of the Arctic once covered half of Mars, new images hint
- January 22nd
- 'Pain sponge' derived from stem cells could soak up pain signals before they reach the brain
- Arctic blast probably won't cause trees to explode in the cold — but here's what happens if and when they do go boom
- 5,500-year-old human skeleton discovered in Colombia holds the oldest evidence yet that syphilis came from the Americas
- Wegovy now comes in pill form — here's how it works
- Creepy robotic hand detaches at the wrist before scurrying away to collect objects
- Californians have been using far less water than suppliers estimated — what does this mean for the state?
- Scientists may be approaching a 'fundamental breakthrough in cosmology and particle physics' — if dark matter and 'ghost particles' can interact
- January 21st
- Lab mice that 'touch grass' are less anxious — and that highlights a big problem in rodent research
- 2,400-year-old Hercules shrine and elite tombs discovered outside ancient Rome's walls
- Coyote scrambles onto Alcatraz Island after perilous, never-before-seen swim
- Stunning time-lapse video captured using 'artificial eclipse' shows 3 massive eruptions on the sun
- Enormous freshwater reservoir discovered off the East Coast may be 20,000 years old and big enough to supply NYC for 800 years
- 2.6 million-year-old jaw from extinct 'Nutcracker Man' is found where we didn't expect it
- World's oldest known rock art predates modern humans' entrance into Europe — and it was found in an Indonesian cave
- Diagnostic dilemma: A woman experienced delusions of communicating with her dead brother after late-night chatbot sessions
- January 20th
- Early research hints at why women experience more severe gut pain than men do
- 'Like watching a cosmic volcano erupt': Scientists see monster black hole 'reborn' after 100 million years
- Tiny improvements in sleep, nutrition and exercise could significantly extend lifespan, study suggests
- 'Goddess of dawn': James Webb telescope spies one of the oldest supernovas in the early universe
- Earth hit by biggest 'solar radiation storm' in 23 years, triggering Northern Lights as far as Southern California
- Color blindness linked to lower bladder cancer survival, early study hints
- Medieval 'super ship' found wrecked off Denmark is largest vessel of its kind
- 1,700-year-old Roman marching camps discovered in Germany — along with a multitude of artifacts like coins and the remnants of shoes
- January 19th
- Ever watched a pet cow pick up a broom and scratch herself with it? You have now
- Eerie 'sand burials' of elite Anglo-Saxons and their 'sacrificed' horse discovered near UK nuclear power plant
- Last year, the oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat — equivalent to 12 Hiroshima bombs exploding every second
- Remnants of spills on Renaissance-era textbook reveal recipes for 'curing' ailments with lizard heads and human feces
- James Webb telescope reveals sharpest-ever look at the edge of a black hole — and it could solve a major galactic mystery
- January 18th
- Astronomers confirm earliest Milky Way-like galaxy in the universe, just 2 billion years after the Big Bang
- Viruses that evolved on the space station and were sent back to Earth were more effective at killing bacteria
- Why is flu season so bad this year?
- How the ancient Romans managed their wealth (it wasn't just by hiding hoards)
- Strange 'missing link' star system 'fundamentally changes' our understanding of planet formation
- James Webb telescope spots 'failed stars' in a breathtaking cluster near Earth — Space photo of the week
- January 17th
- This is SPARDA: A self-destruct, self-defense system in bacteria that could be a new biotech tool
- Romans regularly soaked in filthy, lead-contaminated bath water, Pompeii study finds
- Science news this week: ISS medical evacuation, Mars Sample Return canceled, and woolly rhino flesh found in permafrost wolf
- January 16th
- Artemis 2 update: NASA to wheel historic, 11 million-pound rocket to the launch pad this weekend
- Nefertiti's tomb close to discovery, famed archaeologist Zahi Hawaas claims in new documentary
- NASA's Mars Sample Return is dead, leaving China to retrieve signs of life from the Red Planet
- 'Zombie' cells may drive common form of epilepsy
- Forced closure of premier US weather-modeling institute could endanger millions of Americans
- Ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in Saudi Arabia contain preserved DNA from the long-lost population
- Scars from ancient 'megaquakes' at Cascadia subduction zone discovered in deep-sea landslides
- Tapping into new 'probabilistic computing' paradigm can make AI chips use much less power, scientists say
- January 15th
- Fragment of lost tectonic plate discovered where San Andreas and Cascadia faults meet
- New map of Antarctica reveals hidden world of lakes, valleys and mountains buried beneath miles of ice
- These genes were thought to lead to blindness 100% of the time. They don't.
- Our model of the universe is deeply flawed — unless space is actually a 'sticky fluid,' new research hints
- Rare nocturnal parrots in New Zealand are breeding for the first time in 4 years — here's why
- NASA's powerful new Roman Space Telescope is complete — and will soon begin mission to find 100,000 alien worlds
- Scientists watch microscopic plant 'mouths' breathing in real time with palm-sized tool
- NASA astronauts back on Earth after unprecedented medical emergency on ISS
- Chinese scientists unveil reliable lunar clock that accounts for Einstein's relativity
- January 14th
- Black hole butterflies? James Webb telescope spots dozens of black hole 'cocoons' in early universe.
- Woolly rhino flesh pulled from ancient wolf stomach gives clues to ice age giant's extinction
- 'One of those rare 'wow' moments': Zombie star near Earth has a rainbow shockwave that 'shouldn't be there'
- 18 of Earth's biggest river deltas — including the Nile and Amazon — are sinking faster than global sea levels are rising
- Strange, 'starved' galaxy died 'a death of 1,000 cuts' in the ancient universe, JWST reveals
- MIT's chip stacking breakthrough could cut energy use in power-hungry AI processes
- Most complete Homo habilis skeleton ever found dates to more than 2 million years ago and retains 'Lucy'-like features
- Some objects we thought were planets may actually be tiny black holes from the dawn of time
- January 13th
- Largest crowd-sourced hunt for alien intelligence reveals 12 billion 'signals of interest' in collapsed Arecibo Observatory data
- Mega-iceberg A23a, formerly the world's largest, turns into bright 'blue mush' as it finally dies after 40 years at sea
- Artemis 2 mission update: Rollout imminent as NASA prepares first crewed Artemis mission to the moon
- Ötzi the Iceman mummy carried a high-risk strain of HPV, research finds
- Is there such a thing as 'too much' protein?
- January 12th
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- January 10th
- Oddball 'platypus galaxies' spotted by James Webb telescope may challenge our understanding of galaxy formation
- Science news this week: A runaway black hole, a human ancestor discovered in Casablanca cave, and vaccine schedule slashed
- Dionysus and his erect penis depicted on 2,500-year-old bone stylus found in Sicily
- January 9th
- China's 'artificial sun' reactor shatters major fusion limit — a step closer to near-limitless clean energy
- Homo erectus wasn't the first human species to leave Africa 1.8 million years ago, fossils suggest
- Giant sunspot that triggered recent solar 'superstorm' shot out nearly 1,000 flares and a secret X-rated explosion, record-breaking study reveals
- Never-before-seen footage captures moment scientists find new, giant anaconda species in Amazon
- Tiny bump on 7 million-year-old fossil suggests ancient ape walked upright — and might even be a human ancestor
- 1,100-year-old mummy found in Chile died of extensive injuries when a turquoise mine caved in, CT scans reveal
- Jupiter will outshine every star in the sky this weekend — how to see the 'king of planets' at opposition
- January 8th
- Hubble telescope discovers 'Cloud-9,' a dark and rare 'failed galaxy' that's unlike anything seen before
- NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew
- James Webb telescope confirms a supermassive black hole running away from its host galaxy at 2 million mph, researchers say
- Orbiting satellites could start crashing into one another in less than 3 days, theoretical new 'CRASH Clock' reveals
- Vera C. Rubin Observatory discovers enormous, record-breaking asteroid in first 7 nights of observations
- January 7th
- New US food pyramid recommends very high protein diet, beef tallow as healthy fat option, and full-fat dairy
- Rare 2,000-year-old war trumpet, possibly linked to Celtic queen Boudica, discovered in England
- 60,000-year-old poison arrows from South Africa are the oldest poison weapons ever discovered
- Leonardo da Vinci's DNA may be embedded in his art — and scientists think they've managed to extract some
- NASA telescope combines 100 maps of the universe into one: 'every astronomer is going to find something of value here'
- 9,500-year-old cremation pyre of a hunter-gatherer woman is the oldest of its kind in the world
- Huge ice dome in Greenland vanished 7,000 years ago — melting at temperatures we're racing toward today
- One of the last Siberian shamans was an 18th-century woman whose parents were related, DNA study reveals
- Last common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals possibly found in Casablanca, Morocco
- 'Mitochondrial transfer' into nerves could relieve chronic pain, early study hints
- January 6th
- 'How can all of this be happening?': Scientists spot massive group of ancient galaxies so hot they shouldn't exist
- Advanced alien civilizations could be communicating 'like fireflies' in plain sight, researchers suggest
- The moon has been secretly feasting on Earth's atmosphere for billions of years
- 1,100-year-old burials of elite warriors and their ornate weapons discovered in Hungary
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