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February 28
- How Did Birds Get Wings? We May Have Found The 'Missing Link' in Dinosaur Fossils
- Antarctic Sea Ice Is The Lowest It's Been in 45 Years of Records, Researchers Report
- A Mystery Object Is Being Dragged Into The Black Hole at The Center of Our Galaxy
- We Just Got The Most Precise Measurement of a Property of a Particle, Ever
- Venus May Have a 'Squishy' Surface That's Regularly Regenerating Itself
- 500,000-Year-Old Signs of Extinct Human Species Found in Poland Cave
- The Predatory Slime Mold From The Last of Us Isn't Actually a Fungus – It's Weirder
- 1,000 Years Ago, Ancient Puebloans Built a Mysteriously Vast City. We May Finally Know How
- Ice Sheet Collapse at Both Poles to Start Sooner Than Expected, Study Warns
- In The Uninhabited Space Between North And South Korea, Rare Plants And Animals Thrive
- Scientists Boost The Efficiency of a Cheap And Promising Solar Panel Material by 250%
- Physicists Levitated a Glass Nanosphere, Nudging It Into The Realm of Quantum Mechanics
- Our Genomes Are Full of 'Junk DNA' That Could Be Way More Important Than We Realized
- Astronomers Have Detected Signs of The Largest Magnetic Fields in The Universe
- US Departments Now Divided on COVID Lab Leak Theory, Says White House
- New Study Reveals Yet Another Surprising Function of Telomeres
- Scientists Have Recorded Brain Waves From Octopuses Just Living Their Lives
- You Might Survive a Nuclear Blast if You're in This Kind of Shelter, Finds New Study
- This Planet Is Way Too Big to Be Orbiting This Teeny Tiny Star
- Scientists Aren't Sure if This Orca Adopted or Abducted a Baby Pilot Whale
- We Now Know Why Zebra's Stripes Are So Effective
- A Solar Orbiter Filmed Mercury Crossing The Face of The Sun, And It's Glorious
- Where We Get Wind From May Blow You Away
- All Living Cells Could Have The Molecular Machinery For a 'Sixth Sense'
- Google Reaches a Major 'Milestone' in Making Quantum Computing Usable
- This Strange Ancient 'Fossil' May Not Have Been Left by Any Living Thing
- Is Your Cookware Putting You at Risk of Alzheimer's? An Expert Explains.
- For The First Time, Astronomers See Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies About to Collide
- Air Pollution Is Making Human Bones More Brittle, Study Suggests
- Creepy Study Shows How Fungi Lure Tree-Killing Beetles to Their Next Prey
- 'Ghostly' Glow of Entangled Light Now Reveals Hidden Objects Better Than Ever
- Bows Were Being Used in Europe 40,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought
- Martian 'Lightning' Could Play a Major Role in The Planet's Chlorine Cycle
- A Nail Hole in This Roman Skull May Have Been an Outdated Public Health Measure
- Experimental Surgery-Free Treatment 'Shrinks' Endometriosis Lesions in Animals
- This Weird-Looking Fungus Could Be a Biodegradable Alternative to Plastic
- Are We in The Midst of a Wellbeing 'Pandemic'? Why Wellness Isn't Always Good For Us
- The White Specks in This Image Aren't Stars or Galaxies. They're Black Holes
- A New Battery In Development Means We Might Be Able to Spend The Day On Venus
- 'Forever Chemicals' Have Been Found in Animals on Every Continent Except One
- Astronomers Detect 6 Massive Galaxies So Old They Can't Be Explained by Science
- 3,500-Year-Old Failed Attempt at Brain Surgery Uncovered in Israel
- Lessons From Ukraine Are Escalating Research Into Developing Killer Robots
- The Secret to The Naked Mole-Rat's Unique Fertility Has Finally Been Revealed
- There Might Be a Simple Reason We Haven't Found Life on Mars
- Two Stroke Survivors Move Their Hands Again After Experimental Therapy
- Scientists Witness The 'Tipping Point' of Alzheimer's in The Lab For The First Time
- Working Just Four Days a Week Could Give Many of Us a Better Night's Sleep
- A 4-Foot-Long Alligator Was Found in a New York Park Suffering 'Cold Shock'
- After a 20-Year Search, Scientists Have Finally Found Earth's True Innermost Core
- We Finally Know What Japan's Eerie Mummified Mer-Monkey Really Is
- Engineers Create an 'Impossible' Light Sensor With an Efficiency of 200%
- This Wooden Phallus Might Be a Rare 2,000-Year-Old Dildo
- Largest Study of Its Kind Shows How Long Immunity Really Lasts After COVID Infection
- Think You Know What Normal Blood Pressure Is? New Study Suggests You're Probably Wrong
- Jupiter's Largest Moons All Have Aurorae That Glow Deep Red And 15x Brighter Than Ours
- Another Person Has Been 'Cured' of HIV, Almost a Decade After Treatment
- Discovery of Two New Forms of Salt Water Could Rewrite Fundamental Chemistry
- Russia's Rescue Mission to The ISS Is Expected to Launch This Week
- There Could Be Upward-Moving Silicon-Rich 'Snow' in Earth's Outer Core
- Group of Scientists Propose a New Driver of Alzheimer's Disease: Fructose
- Mushroom Extract Shown to Dramatically Improve Brain-Cell Growth in The Lab
- Working on a Task With Another Person Changes Your Brain Activity, Study Finds
- Unexpected Footage Shows Possums Feasting on Kangaroos in The Australian Alps
- 2,200-Year-Old Flush Toilet Found in China Likely One of The Oldest Ever Discovered
- Malaria-Carrying Mosquitos Are Expanding Their Territory Almost 3 Miles a Year
- A Bunch of New Funnel Web Spiders Have Been Found Going Blind in Israeli Caves
- Scientists Have Engineered A New Type of Flour That Keeps You Fuller For Longer
- Traffic Lights Could Have a 4th Color in The Future. Here's Why.
- Psychedelic Drugs Have Huge Therapeutic Potential. An Expert Explains Why.
- A Giant Planet Seems to Be Lurking Somewhere in Our Solar System
- Before Human-Made Climate Change, Was Earth Actually in a Cooling Phase?
- Amazing Photos Reveal The Great White Shark's Incredible Ability to Heal
- Psychopaths Appear to Possess a Mysterious Evolutionary Benefit
- This New 'Smart Necklace' Can Help Smokers Quit Cigarettes. Here's How.
- Our Planet Appears to Immediately Contaminate Meteorites Upon Arrival
- Even a Small Amount of Alcohol During Pregnancy Linked to Changes in a Child's Face
- Astronomers Have Found Signs of a 'Missing Link' Black Hole Hidden in Our Own Galaxy
- Hypnotizing Underwater Footage Shows Rapidly Melting Cracks Below 'Doomsday' Glacier
- Religious Hermit Found Buried in The Fetal Position, And Archeologists Aren't Sure Why
- JWST Has Captured Gorgeous Clouds of Star Formation in Other Galaxies
- Microsoft's Bing Chatbot Has Started Acting Defensive And Talking Back to Users
- Snakes Can Hear You Better Than You Think
- Sea Ice Surrounding Antarctica Hit a New Record Low, Putting Ice Shelves at Risk
- Yet Another Russian Capsule Is Leaking And It's Delaying The Cosmonauts' Trip Home
- Cool New Experiment Explains Why We Evolved Curly Hair
- Scientists Detect Signs of Hidden Structure Inside Earth's Core
- Neurologists Diagnose The Youngest Case of Alzheimer's Ever Reported
- We've Just Seen an 'Exceptional' Once-in-a-Millennium Space Explosion
- Radical Theory Proposes Black Holes Are The Source of Mysterious Dark Energy
- Brain Implants Like Neuralink Could Change Your Personality In Surprising Ways
- Haunting Unseen Footage of The Titanic Is Being Released Right Now: Watch Live
- Here's What The Ohio Train Wreck Really Has in Common With The Chernobyl Disaster
- Colliding Neutron Stars Created a Sphere So Perfect It's Shocked Physicists
- Packing Aerogel With Uranium Could Give Us The Space Engine We've Been Looking For
- Discovery of a New Brain Disease in Children Could Help Us Understand Dementia
- A Fleeing Black Hole Was Found Leaving a Trail of Newborn Stars in Its Wake
- We've Forgotten The Potential Horrors of What a Nuclear Winter Would Be Like
- There's an Amazing Link Between Zebra Stripes And How Our Fingerprints Grow
- An Expert Explains How People Can Be Mistakenly Declared Dead in Today's World
- 'On Demand' Male Contraceptive Pill Could Switch Your Sperm Off For a Day
- Sketches Hint Leonardo da Vinci Grasped Gravity a Century Ahead of Newton
- Cocaine Addiction Makes The Human Brain 'Age' Faster, Scientists Warn
- Blazing Asteroid Lights Up The Sky Just Hours After Being Spotted
- Astronomers Detect a Mass Migration of Stars Converging on Andromeda
- Scientists Reveal How Humans First Populated The Ancient Megacontinent of Sahul
- Physicists Say Aliens May Be Using Black Holes as Quantum Computers
- Mystery Smudges Appear on Saturn's Rings, And We Don't Know What Causes Them
- 5 Ways to Have Better Sex This Valentine's Day, According to Science
- Does a Vast Network of Fungi Connect Forests? Here's What We Know.
- EHT Peers Into The Heart of One of The Brightest Lights in The Universe
- Freak Accident Kills Man After MRI Machine Triggers Loaded Handgun
- New Breakthrough Brings Quantum Computers a Huge Step Closer
- What's The Secret of People Who Never Catch COVID? Are They Immune?
- Amazing Prototype Reveals The Moon Like We've Never Seen It Before
- Astronomers Find 'Mirror Image' of The Milky Way From Billions of Years Ago
- World's Wealthiest May Actually Be Less Intelligent Than Those Who Don't Earn As Much
- Readily Available Anti-Inflammatory Drug Rejuvenates Blood Production in Mice
- All The Arthropods That Call Earth's Land Home Weigh More Than Humans And Livestock
- Air Pollution Isn't Only Bad For Lungs, Say Studies. It's Also Bad For Mental Health
- But Wait: What if The Hypothetical Planet Nine Has Moons?
- A Cactus Species Is Spreading Fast in an Unexpected Region of The World
- Adorable Study Tests How Dogs Respond to Wild Wolf Calls – And, Yes, There's Footage
- ChatGPT Can Almost Pass The US Medical Licensing Exam
- Getting Rid of a Chronic Cough Is Tougher Than You Think
- Scientists Find Dwarf Planet With an 'Impossible' Ring, And They're Unsure How It Exists
- Think There's a 'Dark Personality' in Your Office? Here's What to Do About It
- The Sex Lives of Giraffes Are Weirder Than We Ever Realized
- Astronomers Detect a Strange New 'Molecular Bubble' Structure in Space
- The Air Around You Affects How You Play Chess, Scientists Find
- Mysterious Dark Galaxy Emits No Visible Light, Scientists Say
- These Are The Safest Seats on a Plane, And Most People Don't Book Them
- Beetroot Really Can Boost Athletic Performance, And This Is Why
- Part of The Sun Has Broken Off And Formed a Vortex… What The Heck Is Going on?
- Ultra-Rare Cosmic Sight: Green Comet And Mars Set to Appear Side by Side
- Oldest Stone Tools Ever Found Were Not Made by Human Hands, Study Suggests
- Ominous Green Lasers Shot Over Hawaii Didn't Come From NASA Satellite After All
- World's Deadliest Mushroom Changed How It Reproduces as It Spreads Across The US
- Even While Dormant, Volcanoes Leak Climate-Changing Gasses Into The Atmosphere
- Latest Mind-Blowing Suggestion For Cooling The Planet Involves Blasting The Moon
- Scientists Studying Earth's Trees Issue Stark Warning to Humanity
- An Experimental Russian Satellite Is Breaking Up in Orbit Leaving a Trail of Debris
- NASA's Curiosity Rover Stumbles Upon Wave-Rippled Rocks Left by an Ancient Lake
- Transplanting a Gene Common in Centenarians Could Rewind The Heart's Age by Years
- Your Blood Type Affects Your Risk of Early Stroke, Scientists Find
- Rare Cancer Causes US Man to Suddenly Develop an Irish Sounding Accent
- Turns Out Elephants May Play a Crucial Role in Saving The Planet
- Mysterious Eruption Detected on Star Could Help Explain Fast Radio Bursts
- Codebreakers Have Deciphered The Lost Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Desperate For a Dip in a Hot Tub? A Quick Sniff Might Change Your Mind
- Cleaning Up Pollution Could Help Prevent The Next 'Silent Pandemic'
- Millions Are at Risk of Flooding Due to Climate Change – But Not Where You'd Think
- Astronomers Pinpoint The Mysterious 'Engine' of a Super-Powerful Intergalactic Light
- JWST Has Accidentally Detected a Tiny Asteroid 'Hidden' Between Mars And Jupiter
- A Seismologist Explains The Science of The Devastating Türkiye-Syria Earthquake
- Ancient Jurassic Predator Emerged From Ghost Ancestor, Scientists Say
- Scientists Are Making Catfish Hybrids With Alligator DNA For Us to Eat
- Neanderthals Hunted Giant Elephants Much Larger Than The Ones Today
- 'Extinct' Coronaviruses Still Thrive in North America, Just Not in Humans
- Rare Genetic Disease Appears to Defend Ashkenazi Jews Against TB
- Hidden Layers of Melting Rock Found Lurking Beneath Earth's Crust
- More Life Than We Ever Realized Could Survive in The Deep Dark of The Ocean
- A Planet Almost Exactly Earth's Size Has Been Found 72 Light-Years Away
- NASA Rover Encounters Spectacular Metal Meteorite on Mars
- Jupiter Overtakes Saturn as The Planet With The Most Known Moons
- Alarming Spread of Bird Flu Continues as More Species Infected
- US Shoots Down Chinese Surveillance Balloon: What Can They Actually See?
- Human Brain Organoids Transplanted Into Rats Just Passed a Major Milestone
- This Supposedly Rare Ancient Fossil Was Actually Made by Something Much More Recent
- Super-Rare Star System Is a Giant Cosmic Accident Waiting to Happen
- Scientists Discover a Weird New Form of Ice That May Change How We Think About Water
- Orcas Are Contaminated With a Forever Chemical Associated With an Unlikely Product
- A Hidden Food Web Exists in The Desert, And It Thrives on Death
- It's Possible Neanderthals Evolved So They Wouldn't Smell Their Own Stink, Study Finds
- A Splash of Milk in Coffee May Have Health Benefits We Didn't Know About
- How a Dead Girl in Paris Wound Up With The Most-Kissed Lips in All of History
- We Can Now Hear The 'Sound' of One of The Most Beautiful Stars
- No One Likes Commutes, But They May Actually Be Good For Mental Health, Study Finds
- Scientists Discover Ants Can Sniff Out Cancer in Urine
- Astronomers Studied More Than 5,000 Black Holes to Figure Out Why They Twinkle
- Astronomers Find What May Be a Habitable World 31 Light-Years Away
- Bar Graphs Induce a Hidden Bias in Interpretation, Experiment Shows
- This Small Australian Marsupial Is Quite Literally Dying For Sex
- 'Polluted Realism': How Monet's Art Mirrors The Evolution of Smog
- We Used to Hate Commuting. Now We Realize We've Lost Something.
- The First Stars May Have Been Heavier Than 100,000 Suns
- An Incredible Thing Happens When Dolphins And Humans Team Up
- A Lost Interview With The 'Father of The Big Bang' Was Just Discovered
- Planting More Trees in Cities Would Save Thousands of Lives, Scientists Say
- The Pandemic Never Ended, WHO Warns
- Fungal Pathogens May Be Adapting Dangerously to Global Warming
- New Prototype Device Generates Hydrogen From Untreated Seawater
- Wildfire Destruction in The Western US Has Doubled in Just 10 Years
- A Billion-Dollar Biotech Company Plans to Bring The Dodo Back to Life
- Scientist Accidentally Discovers The Oldest Brain of Any Vertebrate
- Ancient Goo Spills The Secrets of How The Egyptians Mummified Their Dead
- High-Fat Diets May Break The Brain's Ability to Regulate Calories
- Embers of an Ancient Inferno Pinpoint The Worst Extinction in Earth's History
- Incredible 'Fairy' Robot Sails on The Breeze Like a Floating Dandelion
- Stunning Green Comet Will Be Closest to Earth Today, at Peak Brightness
- AI Predicts We'll Breach Our Climate Goal in Just 10 Years
- Ultra-Processed Food May Exacerbate Cognitive Decline, New Studies Show
- A Mysterious Whirlpool Appeared Over Hawaii, And It Could Be Because of SpaceX
- Scientists Reveal The Most Precise Map of All The Matter in The Universe