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October 31

• Ancient Ice Has Revealed The CO2 Cycle of Earth Going Back Nearly 2 Million Years
• New Radar Study Reveals The Failure That Forced The Khmer Empire to Move Its Capital
• Itchy Skin Conditions And Mental Health Are Linked, And We Need to Talk About It
• The Very First Stars Formed Too Fast For Our Cosmological Models, New Evidence Shows
• Tree-Planting Campaign Started on YouTube Raises Over $8 Million in Less Than a Week
• Photos From Space Reveal The True Scale of The Kincade Fire's Spread in California
• Chinese Man Chops Off Own Finger After Snake Bite, Doctors Say It Was Unnecessary

October 30

• Doctors Just Livestreamed a Brain Surgery on Facebook, And The Patient Was Awake
• A Scientist Made a Calculator That Shows The Risk of an Actual Vampire Apocalypse
• Simply Imagining a Bright Light Can Be Enough to Change Your Pupil Size, Study Finds
• First-Ever Observation Reveals The Structure of Alzheimer's Proteins in The Brain
• StarCraft II Has a New Grandmaster, And It's Not Human
• Astronomers Have Found an Exoplanet Somewhere It Really Shouldn't Have Survived
• Our Belief in The 'Devil' Evolved as a Way to Avoid Sickness, Says Study
• Some Animals Can Literally Pause Their Pregnancies. Here's Why
• Guess Which Company Was Just Crowned The World's Biggest Plastic Polluter (Again)
• In an Unexpected Twist, Plants Enter a Type of 'Panic' State When It Rains
• That Interstellar Comet Is Carrying Water From Beyond Our Solar System
• This Man Had a Drug Parcel Stuck Inside His Nose For 18 Years

October 29

• Latest Estimates Show More People Will Face Rising Waters Than We Ever Expected
• World-First Analysis Clearly Shows Healthier Diets Are Also Better For The Planet
• 'Overzealous' Regulation of GM Crops Costs Children's Lives Worldwide, Says New Book
• Scientists Say They've Found a Place on Earth Where No Life Can Thrive
• Scientists Have Made a Blueprint For a Quantum Battery That Never Loses Charge
• Migrating Eagles Bankrupted a Russian Science Study With Excessive Mobile Charges
• Annoying 'Duracrust' on Mars Just Kicked Out InSight's Heat Probe, Again
• 'First Light' Achieved on an Experiment That Could Crack The Mystery of Dark Energy
• Growing Older Doesn't Automatically Mean You'll Get Fat, According to Science
• Creepy Parasitic Fungus Turns Its Host Into an Artillery of Spore-Shooting Cannons
• Hubble Catches a Giant Spooky Face Staring at Us From Deep Within The Cosmos

October 28

• New Study Pinpoints The Ancestral Homeland of All Humans Alive Today
• That Mysterious US Space Plane Just Landed After a Mind-Blowing 780 Days in Orbit
• New Neural Network Could Solve The Three-Body Problem 100 Million Times Faster
• Dramatic Video Reveals The Moment California's Kincade Fire Ignited
• Engineer Has a Bold Plan to Help Stop Arctic Melting Using Millions of Glass Beads
• Astronomers Just Found What May Be The Smallest Dwarf Planet in The Solar System
• This Creepy Life-Sized Doll Is a Warning About What Office Life Is Doing to Us
• Rarely Seen Gravity Waves Captured Rippling in Earth's Atmosphere
• Lab Worker Accidentally Infects Herself With Virus Related to Smallpox

October 27

• Universe Is Expanding Much Faster Than We Thought, Creating a 'Crisis in Cosmology'

October 25

• This Mind-Boggling Infographic Shows Just How Much of The Ocean We Don't See
• Officials Think This Marker Could Help Explain The Mysterious Vaping Outbreak
• Harvard Scientists Think Even Absolutely Tiny Planets Could Support Life
• How Dust Could Have Brought About The Collapse of a Once Mighty Empire
• Here's Why Thousands of Rubber Bands Turned Up on a Bird Sanctuary Island in The UK
• New Research Says Toddlers Can Count Long Before They Understand Numbers
• Here's How We Might Find a Wormhole, if They Existed
• The Most Advanced Space Telescope Ever Just Passed a Series of Crucial Tests
• This Simple Process Can Turn Water Into an Environmentally Friendly Disinfectant

October 24

• Qatar Is Now Air Conditioning Outdoor Spaces to Battle 'Unbearable' Heat
• 'Stunning' Fossil Discovery Reveals How Mammals Flourished After The Dinosaurs Died
• Turns Out Pumpkins Are Primarily Grown to End Up as Landfill Waste After Halloween
• Here's Why Ants Are Practically Immune to Traffic Jams, Even on Crowded Roads
• We Might Finally Know Why Nacre Is So Incredibly Tough
• US Air Quality Got Worse After Years of Improvement, And It's Killing More People
• If You Have Asthma, Avoiding The Flu Shot Can Actually Be a Deadly Mistake
• NASA Just Picked New Planetary Missions to Study. Here Are The Most Exciting Ones
• Here's How Your Brain Deals With Tricky Tasks
• Scientists Are Arguing About The Messed Up 'Tully Monster' All Over Again
• Here's What The Controversial 'Quantum Supremacy' Claim From Google Really Means
• New Telescope Reveals The Shockwave From a Supernova Seen Exploding 30 Years Ago
• What Was The First Colour in The Universe?
• Monkeys Have Been Caught Devouring Rats at a Palm Oil Plantation in Malaysia
• The FDA Is Calling For Breast Implants to Come With Serious Health Warnings
• The World Is Experiencing a Critical Shortage of Blood, First Global Count Reveals

October 23

• Astronomers Accidentally Find an Invisible 'Monster Galaxy' From The Early Universe
• India's Crashed Moon Lander Is Still Missing, And NASA Can't Find It Anywhere
• Scientists Built an 'Artificial Leaf' That Uses Sunlight to Produce Clean Synthetic Fuel
• Astronomers Have Measured The Devastating Aftermath of Two Exoplanets Colliding
• This Simple 3-Minute Animation Will Change Your Perception of Time Forever
• Mystery Illness Paralysing Children Across The US Has Been Traced to a Rare Virus
• Here's How Climate Change Is Going to Affect 'Super El Niño' Events in The Future
• China Releases a New Photo of The Mystery Substance They Found on The Moon
• The Melting Arctic Has Revealed 5 New Islands We Never Knew Were There
• A New Type of Storm Has Been Detected on Saturn's Chaotic Surface

October 22

• Scientists Taught Rats How to Drive Tiny Cars, For Science Purposes
• Violent Crime Rates Go Down When Seasonal Allergies Peak in The US
• A 'Failed' Alzheimer's Drug Could Actually Work After All, Surprise Analysis Shows
• Wild Video Shows Venomous Snake Eat Another Snake While a Wasp Attacks Them Both
• That Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Instantly Acidified Our World's Oceans, Too
• For The First Time, a Heavy Element Has Been Detected Forming in a Neutron Star Merger
• We Are 'Perilously Close' to Creating Sentient Mini-Brains in a Dish, Experts Warn
• Radical New Method Can Directly Edit Human Cells to Get Rid of Genetic Disease
• Physicists Just Smashed an Insane Record of Particle Acceleration in a Plasma Channel
• This 11-Minute Timelapse of Earth Might Be The Most Spectacular We've Ever Seen
• NASA Just Revealed Incredibly Good News About 2019 Ozone Hole Data

October 21

• The Orionids Meteor Shower Peaks This Week! Here's What You Need to Know
• The Loudest Bird Sound Ever Recorded Is This Shrill Mating Call of a Bellbird
• Strange New Virus Could Represent 'Entirely New System of Viral Evolution'
• Aye-Ayes Have More Digits Than Any Other Primate, And It's Just Too Weird
• 4 Simple Tips For How You Can Actually Talk With Vaccine Skeptics
• Hubble Catches Incredible 'Photobomb' of an Asteroid Streaking Past Crab Nebula
• A Man's Gut Made Him Extremely Drunk by Brewing Alcohol When He Ate Carbs
• We Could Be The Only Intelligent Life in The Universe, According to Evolution

October 20

• A California Fault Line Has Started 'Creeping', And We Don't Know What to Expect

October 18

• History Has Been Made: NASA Just Carried Out The First All-Female Spacewalk
• Scientists Dramatically Extend The Lifespans of Mice in a Genius New Telomere Study
• For The First Time, Scientists Find Fat Can Clog Lungs And Airways, Not Just Your Heart
• Biologists Get Morbidly Excited Over Discovering a Rare 'Whale Fall'
• For The First Time Ever, Scientists Discover Fractal Patterns in a Quantum Material
• Students Are Taking Stimulants to Help Them Study, But There's No Evidence They Help
• There's More to Consider Than The Habitable Zone When Searching For a Liveable Planet
• Gender-Specific Brain Cells Have Just Been Discovered Inside The Brains of Mice
• This Incredible Image Looks Biological But Is Actually a Strange, Exploded Star

October 17

• Antarctica's "Sudden Stratospheric Warming" Has Started Impacting Australia
• More Than 20 Ancient Egyptian Coffins in Pristine Condition Have Just Been Uncovered
• 'Excessive' Brain Activity Has Been Linked to a Shorter Life
• Large-Scale Study Rules Out a Common Assumption About 'Narcissistic' Only Children
• Antarctic Ice Sheets Are Still Leaking Radioactive Chlorine From 1950s Nuclear Weapons Tests
• Scientists Discover 'Stormquakes': a Never-Before-Seen Geophysical Phenomenon
• We Can't Stop Watching This Robot Hand Seamlessly Solve a Rubik's Cube
• Astronomers Find Remarkable Evidence The Guts of Some Exoplanets Are Similar to Earth's
• Mathematicians Have Discovered an Entirely New Way to Multiply Large Numbers
• SpaceX Requests to Launch Another 30,000 Satellites For Controversial Starlink Network
• World-First Discovery Hints Why Brain Studies in Mice Don't Always Translate to Humans
• Ancient Babylonian 'Omen' Has Helped Scientists Verify Timing of an Epic Solar Storm
• Here's Why Plants Aren't Just Growing Faster With All The CO2 in The Atmosphere
• Half a Billion Years Ago, Trilobites Died in Strange, Orderly Lines. Now We May Know Why
• Japan Imports Ebola And Other Deadly Pathogens in The Lead-Up to Tokyo Olympics
• Here's The Truth Behind 'The Blob' – Paris Zoo's Latest Display That's Gone Viral

October 16

• Hubble Reveals a Striking New View of Mysterious Interstellar Comet Borisov
• Elon Musk Says There's a Potentially Major Flaw in SpaceX's Moon Base Plans
• Peas, Quinoa And 7 Other Crops Grown Successfully in Soil Equivalent to Moon And Mars
• Piranhas Have a New Set of Pointy Sharp Teeth Waiting in 'Crypts' Ready to Emerge
• Ancient 'Lost City' of Khmer Empire Rediscovered Hidden Under The Cambodian Jungle
• Study Casts Doubt on One of Our Key Assumptions About The 'Powerhouse of The Cell'
• World's Fastest Ant Has Just Been Clocked at a Breathtaking 855 Millimetres Per Second
• Scientists Might Have Finally Found The Origin of This Surreal Jagged Crystal Cave
• Surprise Discovery Could Explain How Early Universe Black Holes Grew So Enormous
• Researchers Admit They Were Wrong to Predict Early Death of The Famed CRISPR Babies
• NASA Just Unveiled Its Brand New Spacesuits For The Artemis Missions

October 15

• NASA's 'Mole' Is Digging Below The Surface of Mars Again Thanks to an Ingenious Hack
• Psychologists Spot a Key Personality Trait That Could Be Shared by All Humble People
• For The First Time in 137 Years, UK Got More Power From Renewables Than Fossil Fuels
• Underwater Volcano Could Release Noxious Gas Bubbles Bigger Than The Pyramids
• NASA Engineer Claims 'Helical Engine' Concept Could Reach 99% The Speed of Light
• AI Could Be a Powerful Force For Good – But We're Currently Heading Down a Darker Path
• Incredible, Rare Underwater Footage Shows Whales Using Bubble 'Nets' to Hunt
• A Man Had 3-Inch-Long Tweezers Stuck Inside His Penis For 4 Whole Years
• For The First Time, Scientists Have Observed Mucus's Secret Ability to Subdue Germs

October 14

• Former NASA Scientist Is 'Convinced' We've Already Found Evidence of Life on Mars
• Why Typhoon Hagibis Packed Such a Powerful, Devastating Punch in Japan
• Another Reason Why We Might Have Never Seen Alien Probes: They're Tiny Micro-Machines
• Scientists Create a Material That Captures CO2 And Turns It Into Organic Matter
• Study Spanning 40 Years Finds Odd Link Between Being a Slow Walker And Ageing Faster
• The First Peer-Reviewed Paper on Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Has Just Been Published
• Upside-Down 'Rivers' Are Melting Antarctic Ice Shelves From Beneath
• Astronomers Observe in Incredible Detail a Black Hole Flickering in Our Own Galaxy
• Orangutans Can Play The Kazoo, And It's Changing Our Knowledge of How Speech Evolved

October 13

• We Just Found Out That The Milky Way Has Been Repeatedly Stealing Smaller Galaxies
• There's a Genius, Sustainable Economic System We Could All Be Using. Here's How

October 12

• Here's How Eating 5-Day-Old Pasta or Rice Can Actually Kill You
• Babies Who Are Cuddled More Seem to Have Their Genetics Altered For Years Afterwards
• Former NASA Scientist Demonstrates Why Star Trek's Warp Speeds Are Painfully Slow
• Someone's Built an Operating System to Run After The World Ends
• Scientists Have Identified The Physical Source of Anxiety in The Brains of Mice

October 11

• The US Just Hit Another Troubling High in STD Rates, And You Need to Protect Yourself
• MIT Engineers Show Da Vinci's 500-Year-Old Radical Bridge Design Would Have Worked
• Astronomers Just Detected 20 New Moons Around Saturn – Why Are We Only Finding Them Now?
• Here Are 5 Important Questions to Help You Tell if Health News Can Be Trusted
• Research Has Ignored Endometriosis For Decades, And It's Now Costing All of Us
• Would You Stand Up to an Authoritarian Regime or Conform? Here's The Science
• This Mesmerising Underwater Blob Is Actually a Huge, Rare Mass of Squid Eggs
• Scientists Can Now Predict The Weird Behaviour of Oobleck
• There's a Depressing Difference Between The Sewage of Wealthy Areas And Poorer Ones

October 10

• Astrophysicist Who Just Won The Nobel Prize Says We'll Never Colonise Exoplanets
• These Fish Can Live on Land And Breathe Air, But Authorities Are Not Impressed
• Intriguing Study Suggests Humans Have Hidden 'Salamander-Like' Ability to Regrow Tissue
• Here's What Would Happen if All The Ice on Earth Melted Overnight
• Scientists Have Successfully Kept Mouse Brain Tissue Alive in The Lab For Weeks
• Police Robot on Patrol Completely Ignores Woman Trying to Summon The Police
• Let's Face It: Going Green Is Simply No Match For Cutting Back on All The Junk We Buy
• Scientists Have Figured Out How to Extract Oxygen From Moon Dirt
• Voyager Mission Reveals Unexpected Pressure at The Edge of The Solar System
• 'Extreme' Fire Threat in California Forces Power Cut For Over 2 Million People

October 9

• Dead Bulls Found Mysteriously Drained of Blood in Oregon, And It's Not The First Time
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded For Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries
• This Quirky Jogging Hack Could Help You Instantly Run Longer And Faster
• We Finally Have Solid Insight Into What Produces The Strongest Magnets in The Universe
• Here's The Real Reason Why Some People Still Think Climate Change Isn't Happening
• Pigs Have Been Observed Using Tools For The First Time, And There's Video Evidence
• Owning a Dog Lowers Your Risk of Death if You've Had Heart Problems, Study Shows
• A Diamond With A Whole Other Diamond Inside It Was Discovered in Siberia

October 8

• Nobel Prize in Physics Won by Scientists Who Changed Our Concept of The Cosmos
• Meat Has Been Grown in Space For The First Time, Hundreds of Miles Above Earth
• Surprise Result in Experiment With Mice Reverses Core Symptom of Schizophrenia
• A New Antibiotic Has Been Discovered in The Soil of a Mexican Rainforest
• First-of-Its-Kind Quantum Vibration Produced by Shooting a Laser at a Diamond
• You Can Now Visit Chernobyl's Control Room, But Only For 5 Minutes
• Devastating Solar Storms Could Be Much More Frequent Than We Realised
• The Woolly Mammoth Made Its Last Stand Marooned On An Isolated Arctic Island
• Six Elephants Drown After Plunging Into Waterfall in Tragic Accident
• Stunning Images Reveal The Complex Birth of Binary Stars For The First Time
• Neuroscientists See Unique Brain Changes in Blind People Who Learn to 'See' With Sound

October 7

• Scientists Just Discovered 20 Previously Unknown Moons Orbiting Saturn
• Nobel Prize in Medicine Won For Profound Discovery of How Cells Sense Oxygen
• ISS Astronauts Are Spacewalking to Replace Batteries, And It's About to Make History
• This Man Ended Up With First-Degree Burns From A High-Vis Safety Vest
• Are Earth, The Solar System, And The Milky Way Gaining or Losing Mass?
• It Takes 21 Litres of Water to Make a Chocolate Bar. Here's How Other Foods Stack Up

October 6

• Scientists Have Found a Culprit Spreading Antibiotic Resistance to Other Microbes
• China's Pork Shortages Prompt Farmers to Breed Pigs as Large as Polar Bears

October 5

• This Could Be Why It's So Hard to Maintain Eye Contact While Having a Conversation

October 4

• We Just Got More Solid Evidence Mars' Gale Crater Once Held a Vast Salty Lake
• After 30 Years, The US's Twin Boom Might Finally Be Ending
• Scientists Implant False Memories in Birds to Teach Them Songs They've Never Heard
• We Just Got New Information on The First-Ever Plant Sprouted by China on The Moon
• Juno Just Burned Its Thrusters For an Intense 10 Hours to Outrun Jupiter's Shadow
• We Just Got More Evidence a Large Meteorite Smashed Into Earth 12,800 Years Ago
• Here's Why Scientists Are Working So Hard to Keep Warming Below 2 Degrees Celsius
• In a Quantum First, Physicists Put 2,000 Atoms in Two Places at Once
• Something in The Centre of Our Galaxy Colossally Erupted 3.5 Million Years Ago
• Astronomers Have a Bold Plan to Film The Black Hole at The Centre of Our Galaxy
• 'Fireballs' Reportedly Sparked Blazes Across Chile Last Week, But It Wasn't Meteorites
• The Golden Ratio Has Been Found in The Human Skull, But What Does It Mean?
• A Fossil of a Ginormous Flying Reptile Has Just Been Discovered in Australia
• We Just Learned Plants Under Attack Evolve a Universal 'Scream' to Warn Others
• That Interstellar Comet's Home System May Be Strangely Similar to Our Own
• We Just Got The First Glimpse of The Mysterious Cosmic Web That Binds The Universe

October 3

• Scientists Are About to 'Unravel' Ancient Papyrus Scrolls Charred by Vesuvius
• One of The Most Deadly Fungus Species in Asia Just Mysteriously Emerged in Australia
• This One Simple Change to Cafeteria Menus Could Make a Massive Difference to The Planet
• Astronomers Have Traced a Single Neutrino to a Collision 3.8 Billion Light-Years Away
• That Great Pacific Garbage Patch Cleaning Device Is Finally Working Properly
• An Ancestral Genome of The Plague Has Been Traced Back to Russia
• Nearly 100 Mysterious Amphorae Have Been Recovered From an Ancient Roman Shipwreck
• Earth's Magnetic Poles Could Flip More Frequently Than We Previously Thought
• NASA Just Revealed an Ocean on Enceladus Contains The Building Blocks of Life
• Engineer Creates a Sprayable Gel That Acts Like a 'Vaccine' For Wildfires

October 2

• NASA's InSight Mars Lander Has Sent Back Some Truly Bizarre Sounds
• When It Comes to Parenting There's One Thing That Can Save a Whole Bunch of CO2
• We Just Made a Breakthrough on a Genius Concept For Eco-Friendly Batteries
• Tardigrades Can Survive X-Ray Bombardment by Deploying a Protein Shield
• We Just Got More Evidence That Great Apes Possess 'Theory of Mind'
• The Andromeda Has Eaten at Least Two Other Galaxies in Its Cannibalistic Past
• If an Extreme Global Pandemic Hits, These Are The Safest Places You Can Be
• Ancient Reptilian 'Hand' Muscles Have Been Found in Human Embryos
• Here's The Real Truth About That Confusing Red Meat Study
• Medical Case Reveals Direct Link Between Brexit And a Man's Psychotic Incident
• Humans Produce 100x More CO2 Than All Earth's Volcanoes Combined

October 1

• A Giant Iceberg Just Broke Off Antarctica in an Unexpected Location
• One of World's Most Popular Games Just Got Hacked, With 218 Million Accounts at Risk
• Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Reversed Even Without Intensive Weight Loss, Study Shows
• People Are Trying to Get Themselves Run Over by Their Own Teslas
• Astronomers Detect a 'Hot Jupiter' With a Staggering 18-Hour-Short Orbit
• Alien 'Lurkers' Could Be Covertly Watching Us From Space, Physicist Says
• An Eerie Egyptian Burial Has Been Found, With Nonsense Hieroglyphs on The Coffin
• Controversial Paper Suggests We Could Just 'Infect' Mars With Life
• First Direct Evidence Shows Bacteria Change Shape Inside Humans to Avoid Antibiotics