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January 31

• Conspiracy Theorists Say a Dangerous Bleach Solution Can 'Cure' The Wuhan Coronavirus
• Fighting Climate Change Is The Cheapest Option We Have Left, Modelling Shows
• One of The Most Respected Experiment Types Can Be Deeply Problematic. Here's Why
• How The New Coronavirus Compares to Past Zoonotic Outbreaks, in One Simple Chart
• Modern Humans With African Ancestry Have More Neanderthal Genes Than We Thought
• Ancient Skulls in a Mexican Cave Might Reveal Surprises About Early North Americans
• NASA Just Said a Heartbreaking Final Goodbye to The Spitzer Space Telescope

January 30

• Astronomers Have Caught a Star Literally Dragging Space-Time Around With It
• Here's What Really Happened to Those 2 Satellites Projected to Crash in Earth Orbit
• It's Official: WHO Just Declared The Wuhan Coronavirus a Global Health Emergency
• The Worst Locust Plague in Decades Could Destroy Crops in Africa on a Massive Scale
• A Long-Standing Mystery About Mars' South Pole Might Be Solved at Last
• This Hardcore Planet Is So Extremely Hot, It's Ripping Apart Its Own Atmosphere
• Scientists Pinpoint Axolotl Genes Involved in Their Unique Body Regeneration
• Scientists Just Found an Unexpectedly Large Source of Natural Greenhouse Gases
• Disturbing Video of a Firestorm in Australia Shows Just How Quickly They Can Move
• India's Government Recommends Homeopathy For Coronavirus Prevention. What's The Harm?
• Staggering New Images of The Sun Are The Most Detailed Ever Taken
• Experts Restore World's Oldest Oil Painting Only to Reveal a Disfigured Jesus Lamb

January 29

• Here's What Scientists Do And Don't Know About Wuhan Coronavirus So Far
• Women's 'Likeability' at Work May Be More Important Than It Is For Men, Study Shows
• Scientists Made a Colour-Changing Bandage Designed to Detect Bacterial Infections
• A Totally New Type of Aurora Has Been Documented in The Northern Sky
• Scientists Have Found 'Surprising' Interstellar Material Older Than The Solar System
• Squid Brains Are Nearly as Complex as Dog Brains, Researchers Claim
• What Is a Coronavirus?
• Lab-Grown Heart Muscles Have Been Transplanted Into a Human For The First Time
• Will There Be a Vaccine For The New Wuhan Coronavirus? If So, When?
• Here's The Science on How Serious The Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak Actually Is
• New Models Indicate How Antarctica's Largest Glacier Is Approaching Its Demise

January 28

• These Lies And Conspiracies About The Wuhan Coronavirus Are Totally False
• We Might Have Been Wrong About The Mysterious 'Lost Civilisation' of Cahokia
• New Process Turns Carbon-Based Trash Into 'Wonder Material' Graphene
• This Ear Condition While Flying Can Cause Facial Paralysis Without It Being a Stroke
• Two Satellites Might Collide in Earth Orbit This Week. Here's Why That's a Problem
• Strange Tracks in Texas Indicate Giant Sauropods Walking on Their Front Feet Only
• The Fonts Used in Political Messages Aren't as Innocent as You'd Think
• Rapid Evolution Made These Paper Wasps Capable of Recognising Each Other's Faces

January 27

• WHO Has Admitted an Error in Its Assessment of Wuhan Coronavirus Risk
• We Might Finally Know What Caused One of The Brightest Supernovae Ever Seen
• A Cheap Medication Could Help The Social Symptoms in Children With Autism
• This Website Lets You Track The Global Spread of Wuhan Coronavirus in Real Time
• Harmless Cancers Are Being Overdiagnosed, According to New Evidence
• We Just Got an Unprecedented Look at a Crucial Component of Type 2 Diabetes
• Astronomers Have Caught a Rare And Massive 'Accretion Burst' in Our Galaxy
• Scientists Say We Need These 6 Things For Us to Meet Our Climate Goals
• SpaceX Is About to Launch a Historic Mission With Actual People on Board Crew Dragon

January 26

• This NASA Visualisation of a Black Hole Is So Beautiful, We Could Cry
• Wuhan Coronavirus Can Be Infectious Before People Show Symptoms, Official Claims
• Stunning NASA Image Shows What Appear to Be Intricate Sandstone Layers on Mars
• Here's Why Too Much Exercise Too Fast Can Cause Real Damage And Turn Your Urine Brown
• These 4 Graphs Show Why We Can't Blame Climate Change on Solar Activity

January 25

• An Astronomer Explains Why Your 'Star Sign' Is Probably Wrong
• Cats Do Bond Securely to Their Humans – Maybe Even More So Than Dogs
• The Flu Is a Way Bigger Threat to Most People in The US Than Coronavirus. Here's Why
• Australia's Been Asked to Make a Coronavirus Vaccine at 'Unprecedented Speed'

January 24

• The New US Space Force Logo Looks Just Like 'Star Trek' And There's a Reason Why
• Scientists Have Grown Snake Venom Glands in The Lab. Here's Why That's Awesome
• Mysterious Footprints Indicate Neanderthals Climbed a Volcano Right After It Erupted
• Astronomers Have Caught a 'Vampire' Star in The Act of Draining Its Companion
• Divers Discover a Magical Bubbling Underwater Spring on The Ocean Floor
• Life's First Genes May Have Contained a Nucleic Acid You've Probably Never Heard of
• Scientists Recreate The Voice of a 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Priest's Mummy
• The 'Doomsday Clock' Just Jumped Closer to Midnight Than Ever. Guess Why

January 23

• New Discovery Proves Fungi Were Around Way Earlier Than Anyone Expected
• Here's Why The WHO Hasn't Declared China's Coronavirus a Global Health Emergency
• There Could Be a Second Chinese Coronavirus Case in The US
• A Vesuvius Victim Had His Brain Turned Into Glass, Study Claims
• Chang'e 4 Team Just Released Beyond Amazing New Pics of Our Moon's Far Side
• Several Ancient Viruses Have Been Discovered in 15,000-Year-Old Glacial Ice
• Australia Is About to Experience a 'Bonanza' of Deadly Spiders, Experts Warn
• Betelgeuse Just Keeps Getting Dimmer, And We Have No Idea Why

January 22

• Snakes Are The Likely Source of China's Deadly Coronavirus. Here's Why
• Here Are The Symptoms of The Wuhan Coronavirus, According to a New CDC Warning
• A Potent Greenhouse Gas Was Supposed to Be Eliminated. But Something Is Wrong
• Caltech Team Builds a Camera That Captures The Invisible at a Trillion Frames Per Second
• 'Walking Sharks' Are a Thing, But Don't Worry – They're Adorable
• Astronomers Have Mapped The Gas Swirls of a Wildly Fluctuating Black Hole
• Do You Actually Need That Protein Shake After Gym? Here's The Science
• People Are Dipping Their Testicles in Soy Sauce, So Here's Some Science
• Geologists Confirm a Staggering 2.2 Billion-Year-Old Impact Crater in Australia

January 21

• Here's What Scientists Know So Far About The 'Novel Coronavirus' From China
• Scientists Want to Cut Wuhan Off From The World to Fight The Deadly Coronavirus
• The 'Novel Coronavirus' Outbreak Has Officially Reached The United States
• Nanoparticles of Fungal Spores Have Been Detected Floating in Our Atmosphere
• China's Absolutely Massive Radio Telescope FAST Is Now Fully Operational
• These Scientists Think We Could All Live in Gigantic Mushroom Buildings
• Remarkable New T-Cell Discovery Can Kill Several Cancer Types in The Lab
• China Just Declared a Large-Scale War on Single Use Plastics

January 20

• Here's Everything You Need to Know About The Coronavirus Spreading From China
• Incredible Dinosaur Fossil Reveals How Their Feathers Compared to Modern Birds
• Officials Just Confirmed China's Mystery Virus Spreads by Human to Human Transmission
• Swallowing a Pill Filled With Light Could Be The Key to Ingestible Medical Devices
• Rock Stacks Might Look Great on Your Insta, But There's a Dark Side to The Magic
• Human Ancestors Caused Animal Extinctions Millions of Years Before We Even Arrived
• Astronomers Detect a Burst of Gravitational Waves From The Direction of Betelgeuse
• US Army Weighs Up Proposal For Gigantic Sea Wall to Defend NY From Future Floods
• A New Facility Is Set to Produce Oxygen From Moon Dust at an Unprecedented Scale
• Here's What Meat-Eaters Really Think of Veganism, According to a New Study

January 19

• China's 'Mystery Virus' Could Be Far More Widespread Than Officials Say
• With a Spectacular Explosion, SpaceX's Crew Dragon Just Passed a Crucial Safety Test

January 17

• NASA Has Broken Down All The Disturbing Ways 2019 Smashed Records
• Physicists Finally Observe a Link Between Quantum Criticality And Entanglement
• Evidence Shows Whooping Cough Is Evolving Into a 'Superbug', Scientists Warn
• Astronomers Just Detected 2 Potentially Habitable Super-Earths Orbiting Nearby Stars
• Mars Orbiter Just Sent Back an Incredible Photo of The Red Planet's Icy North Pole
• Astronaut Shares Heartbreaking Photos of The Australian Bushfire Smoke
• Primordial 'Asgard' Lifeform Has Been Successfully Grown in The Lab

January 16

• Secret Mission Has Saved Australia's Last-Standing 'Dinosaur Trees' From Bushfires
• China's Mystery Virus Has Now Been Confirmed in Japan
• The New York Public Library Has Calculated Its Most Checked-Out Book in Its 125 Years
• Giant Ocean Heatwave Called 'The Blob' Has Caused The Biggest Seabird Die-Off on Record
• Strange Objects Found at The Galactic Centre Are Like Nothing Else in The Milky Way
• Scientists Create a Strange 'Living Concrete' That Heals Itself When Damaged
• Hungry Cats Are Known to Sometimes Eat Human Bodies. A Grisly Experiment Reveals How
• Extremely Rare Life Ingredient May Have Originated in Deep Space, Scientists Say
• Astronomers Have Found Signs of Another Planet At Proxima Centauri, And It's Huge
• UN Warns Of Extreme Weather Ahead After Declaring Hottest Decade In Recorded History

January 15

• Neanderthals Sourced New Tools by Diving Into The Ocean, Study Suggests
• Intense 'Microburst' in North Carolina Rips Open School Gymnasium Without Warning
• There's a 'Great Divide' in Our Solar System, And We Might Finally Know How It Formed
• Toxic Chemicals Robbed US Children of Over 160 Million IQ Points, Scientists Warn
• Makeshift Koala Hospital in Australia Scrambles to Save Animals Hurt in Bushfires
• Scientists Discover Stunning Flower-Like Patterns When Bacteria Combine
• Nothingness Has Friction, And The Fastest Spinning Object Ever Made Could Measure It
• Antarctic Experiment Reveals Strange 'Ghost' Particles That Physicists Can't Explain
• Giant Sinkhole Swallows an Entire Bus in China as People Run For Their Lives
• Researchers Say There's One Way Future Droughts Could Lead to Less Conflict

January 14

• The Ocean Is Warming at a Rate of 5 Atom Bombs Per Second, Scientists Warn
• This Ancient Tree Species Is Virtually Immortal, And We Finally Understand How
• Scientists Identify Natural Protein That Mimics The Effects of Exercise in Animals
• Tardigrades Are Basically Indestructible, But Scientists Just Found Their Weak Point
• Your Blood Type Could Affect How Likely You Are to Get The Stomach Flu This Winter
• Australian 'Megablaze' Finally Brought Under Control After Raging For Almost 3 Months
• Tons of Rotting Pig Carcasses Are Teaching Us What Happens During Mass Animal Die-Offs
• Our Brains Are 'Hard-Wired' to Worry. Here's What We Can Do to Calm Down
• Scientists Have Built The First-Ever Robots Constructed Entirely Out of Living Cells

January 13

• DNA Test Company Sells Rights to Drug Compound Based on Customers' Genetic Data
• UN Unveils Desperate Blueprint to Protect at Least 30% of Our Planet by 2030
• Mystery SARS-Like Virus Spreads as First Confirmed Case Emerges Outside China
• First Detailed Ultrasound Images of Pregnant Dolphins Are Both Beautiful And Tragic
• New Super-Light Form of 'Plastic' Gold Is 18-Carat But Weighs Up to 10 Times Less
• The Oldest Known Material on Earth Is Officially Older Than The Solar System
• A Full-Scale Nuclear Winter Would Trigger A Global Famine. Here's What We Would Eat
• Crater Left By One of Earth's Biggest Ever Meteorite Impacts Finally Found
• The Milky Way Ate Another Galaxy, And This Star Can Tell Us When It Happened

January 12

• Giant Gold Bar Found in Mexico City Park Turns Out to Be Looted Aztec Treasure
• Emergency Nuclear Alert Sent to Millions in Canada Turns Out to Be False Alarm
• There's a 'Desert' in The Middle of The Pacific, And We Now Know What Lives There

January 10

• A Classic 'Fake Hand' Illusion That Tricks The Brain Could Be Used to Treat OCD
• New Observations From Hubble Could Confirm a Leading Theory on Dark Matter
• These Parrots Show Kindness to Each Other Without Any Benefit to Themselves
• Playing With Babies Can Make Your Brain Waves Sync Up Together
• Man Gets Popcorn Stuck in His Tooth, Leading to Major Heart Surgery
• Scientists Find Mechanism That Extends Worm Lifespans by 500 Percent
• No Link Between Talcum Powder And Ovarian Cancer, Says Huge New Study

January 9

• That Mystery Disease Outbreak in China Could Be Caused by a Newly Discovered Virus
• Just $1 Increase in Minimum Wage Is Linked to an Astonishing Mental Health Effect
• Astronomers Just Identified Another Important Aspect of Planets That Could Host Life
• Feast Your Eyes on The Oldest Fossil of Slime Mould Ever Discovered
• Astronomers Witness Supermassive Black Hole Firing Out Jets at 99% The Speed of Light
• Scientists Put Tiny 3D Glasses on Cuttlefish to Find Out How They See
• Scientists Argue a 'Corpse Signal' Will Be Left in The Fossil Record of Our Time
• Human Bodies Have Steadily Grown Colder Over The Past Century, Evidence Shows

January 8

• Ancient Viking Runestone Warned of 'Extremely Ominous' Climate Crisis, Scholars Say
• These 3 Graphics Reveal The Unimaginable Scale of Australia's Fire Crisis
• This Spectacular Image of The Moon's Surface Is The Combination of 100,000 Photos
• Cameras Show Animals Thriving in Fukushima's 'Uninhabitable' Radioactive Zone
• Bizarre Phenomenon of Light Flashing From Human Eyes Caught On Camera For First Time
• Astronomers Have Caught This Pulsar Glitching For The Very First Time
• This Human Brain Tissue Survived Intact For 2,600 Years, And We May Finally Know How
• Gigantic Wave of Star-Forming Gas Is Largest Known Structure of Its Kind in Milky Way
• Man Develops Rare Condition Causing an 'Eggshell' to Grow on His Testicle
• SpaceX Just Launched a New Fleet of Its Controversial Starlink Satellites

January 7

• NASA Discovers Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized World in Star's 'Goldilocks' Zone
• Astronomers Detect a Binary Star Set to Explode, And You Might Be Alive to See It
• Scientists Have Solved One of History's Weirdest Leonardo da Vinci Mysteries
• Astronomers Just Detected a Second, Epic Neutron Star Collision
• What Is Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, And Why Are People Avoiding It in Soap And Toothpaste?
• Astronomers Have Tracked a Repeating Radio Signal Across Space to an Unexpected Origin
• Bushfires Have Driven Mass Extinctions on Earth Before. They Could Do It Again

January 6

• Airbnb's AI Can Dig Through Your Social Media For Clues You're a Psychopath
• The Climate Crisis Is Now Detectable in Every Single Day of Weather Across The Planet
• Awe-Inspiring New Hubble Photo Shows a Nearby Active Galaxy, And We Suddenly Feel Tiny
• Scientists Have Successfully Built a Particle Accelerator Onto a Silicon Chip
• Recent Discoveries Have Overhauled Our Picture of Where Humans Came From, And When
• Here Are 5 Science-Backed Ways to Make Your Microbiome Healthier in 2020
• One Year Ago: A Mystery Virus Has Infected Dozens in China. Officials Have Ruled Out SARS
• Australia's Bushfires Are Horrifying, But Researchers Think There's More to Come
• These 6 Simple Exercises Can Cut Body Weight, Even if You're Predisposed to Obesity
• Intriguing New Research Indicates Volcanoes Might Still Be Active on Venus

January 5

• Terrifying Images Show The Overwhelming Scale of Australia's Bushfires From Space
• Eyeball Planets Might Exist, And They're as Creepy as They Sound
• The Best Time For Researching The Cosmos Is Right Now. Here's Why

January 4

• Scientists Find Evidence a Strange Group of Quantum Particles Are Basically Immortal

January 3

• The World's Largest Floating Wind Turbine Just Came Online
• Here's Why We're Likely to Miss Signs of Alien Life, Even if We Find Them
• NASA Has Reportedly Proposed Taking Japanese Astronauts to The Moon
• A Hidden Underground Chamber Has Been Found in The Palace of Emperor Nero
• AI Is Now Officially Better at Diagnosing Breast Cancer Than Human Experts
• We Just Found Out About Leopard Slug Sex And It's So Weird That We're Mesmerised
• Scientists Uncover a Never-Before-Seen Type of Signal Occurring in The Human Brain

January 2

• Mysterious Swarms of Giant Drones Keep Appearing at Night Over Colorado
• According to Research, Here's What's Likely to Happen in The '20s. And It's Not Great
• Physicists Calculate How Long It'll Take Us to Explore The Galaxy, And It's Brutal
• This Intense Infographic Breaks Down The Biggest Climate News of 2019
• A Massive 'Blob' of Hot Water Is Threatening New Zealand's Marine Life
• Researchers Share Controversial Argument on Why We Shouldn't Always Desex Our Dogs
• Breathtaking Image Shows Powerful Magnetic 'Ropes' Surrounding The Whale Galaxy
• We Just Got More Evidence Our Leading Hypothesis About Alzheimer's Could Be Wrong
• Watching Pornography Can 'Rewire' The Brain to a More Juvenile State, Says Scientist
• New Way to Deliver Old Tuberculosis Vaccine Provides 'Incredible Protection' in Monkeys

January 1

• China Quietly Confirms a Third CRISPR-Edited Baby Has Been Born
• New Study Argues an Elusive Dwarf T. Rex Species Never Actually Existed
• What's 5G, And Why Are People So Scared of It? Here's What You Really Need to Know
• Australia's Deadly Bushfires Are So Big They've Started Generating Their Own Weather
• A Strange Black Hole Is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime
• The Spider Scientist Who Hates Spiders, And Other Strange Tales