Archive

January 31

• Here's How a 635 Million-Year-Old Microfossil May Have Helped Thaw 'Snowball Earth'
• Ultrasound Blasts 'Jumpstarted' The Brains of 2 People in Coma-Like State
• Beetle Parents Engage in a Smelly War of Disinformation to Keep Their Nests

January 30

• Family Photo Snapped by Solar Orbiter Shows Venus, Earth And Mars Gleaming Like Stars
• World's Driest Desert Was Once Transformed Into a Fertile Oasis by Bird Poop
• There's a Curious Effect Urban Trees Might Have on Depression, Study Finds
• Aircraft Could Cut a Big Chunk of Their Emissions Just by Riding The Winds

January 29

• 28 Trillion Tonnes of Ice Have Melted Since 1994, on Track With Worst-Case Scenarios
• Researchers Claim 100% Accuracy Predicting Autism Risk Factors in Mom's Blood
• Earth's Second 'Moon' Will Take a Final Lap Before Waving Bye-Bye to Us For Good
• New Study Identifies How Long It Is Before Death Takes Hold. Here's Why That Matters
• Shark Deaths Have Left a 'Gaping Hole' in Ocean Life, Chilling Report Shows
• Fact Check: What's Going on With That Phosphine Detection on Venus?
• The Moon Could Be Getting Water Thanks to 'Wind' From Earth's Magnetosphere

January 28

• Wombats Are The Only Animals That Poop Cubes, And We Now Know How
• A Shocking Number of COVID-19 Survivors Have Been Diagnosed With Neurological Issues
• Vaccines Have Saved 37 Million Children's Lives Since 2000
• The Tragic Mystery of The Dyatlov Pass Incident Has a New Scientific Explanation
• Crushing Diamonds With Forces Greater Than Earth's Core Reveals They Are 'Metastable'
• As if They Weren't Weird Enough, Naked Mole Rats Have Culture-Based Dialects
• 'COVID Tongue' Could Be One of The Signs of Infection, Doctors Warn
• In a World First, Physicists Narrow Down The Possible Mass of Dark Matter
• The Full Moon Changes How People Sleep Without Us Ever Realising, Says Study
• Tantalizing Evidence Hints Ancient Humans Had Stone Tools Before Opposable Thumbs

January 27

• 2020 Is The Year Europe Created More Energy From Renewables Than Fossil Fuels
• Man Cracks Open an Agate, Discovers The Cookie Monster Inside
• Mysterious Phenomenon Could Be Making The Atlantic Ocean Grow Bigger Every Year
• Clues on 1,000 Years of The Sun's Turbulent Activity Are Hidden in Earth's Trees
• Signs of Unusual Symptoms Spread on Twitter Well Before Official COVID-19 Reports
• Astronomers Have Found a Naked Hot Jupiter Steaming Up The Neighbourhood
• What Is a Coronavirus Strain?

January 26

• Fact Check: Why The UK Variant of SARS-CoV-2 Could Be More Deadly
• The Average Person Is Potentially a Lot Fatter Than a Typical Elephant
• Radar Scans Uncover an Alaskan Fort Built to Scare Off Russia
• Astronomers Have Discovered a Star That Survived Nearly Being Swallowed by a Black Hole
• Study of More Than 2,000 People Links Afternoon Naps to Better Mental Agility
• What Is The Fermi Paradox?

January 25

• A Physicist Has Worked Out The Math That Makes 'Paradox-Free' Time Travel Plausible
• Fauci Says Wearing 2 Masks Is 'Common Sense'. Here's How to Do It Properly
• Archaeologists in Turkey Have Discovered a Mysterious Ancient Kingdom Lost in History
• The First People to Settle in The Americas Brought Their Dogs With Them
• Astronomers Detect a Surprisingly Huge Galactic Birthplace in The Early Universe
• Up to 1 in 5 Adults Faces Mental Health Problems in Middle Age, Study Finds
• Black Holes Could Get So Humongous, Astronomers Came Up With a New Size Category
• One of The Largest Whale Carcasses Ever Found Has Washed Up in Italy

January 24

• Why Are New SARS-CoV-2 Variants Spreading So Dramatically Around The World?
• SpaceX Just Launched 'Most Spacecraft Ever Deployed on a Single Mission'
• How Mutualistic Bonds Between Species Can Morph Into Evolutionary Battles
• This One Spot on The International Space Station Is Kept Filthy – For Science

January 23

• Unusual Wasp Partnerships Help Non-Native Figs to Thrive in Hawaii
• Better Genetic Surveillance of COVID-19 Will Help Us Control The Pandemic, Says WHO
• Exciting Study on Mouse Immune Cells Reveals How We Might Reverse Cognitive Decline
• Why The 'Happy Face Crater' on Mars Is Happier Than Ever
• Change Doesn't Happen Overnight, But Research Shows How Social Movements Succeed
• Your Body Makes 3.8 Million Cells Every Second. Most of Them Are Blood
• Here's Why Some COVID-19 Strains Are Spreading Faster Than Others
• Super Efficient Jellyfish-Inspired Robot Could Become a Restorer of Coral Reefs
• Colliding White Dwarfs Produced Bizarre Slime-Green Zombie Star

January 22

• COVID-19 Recovery Plans Must Be Green to Meet Paris Climate Goals, Say Scientists
• Experts Prescribe These 6 Lifestyle 'Medicines' For a Long, Healthy Life
• Spitting Cobra Venom Didn't Evolve to Kill – Just to Put Us in a World of Pain
• A New Method Has Been Enlisted to Help Save Elephants, And It Involves Space
• Ingenious 'Wrinkled' Graphene Could Be The Most Promising Water Filter Yet
• Mind-Blowing Video Reveals The Formation of Salt Crystals From Individual Atoms
• Deadly Bacteria Could Be Sharing Antibiotic Resistance Faster Than We Thought
• A Lucky Spacecraft Alignment Has Recorded a Huge, Evolving Solar Eruption
• How to Have a COVID-Safe Car Ride, According to Science
• Groundbreaking New Laser System Cuts Through Earth's Atmosphere Like It's Nothing
• There's a Surprising, Smelly Reason Why Eating Less Meat Is Linked to Healthy Aging

January 21

• Scientists Think These Ridiculous Bones May Belong to New Largest-Ever Dinosaur
• Climate Change Could Shift Earth's Tropical Rain Belt, Threatening Food Security For Billions
• Giant Predatory Worms Once Roamed The Ancient Seabed, Scientists Say
• A 'Megasatellite' Orbiting Ceres Would Make a Fine Home For Humans, Scientist Says
• A Horrible Condition Turning Starfish Into Goo Has Finally Been Identified
• Mysterious, Upside-Down Lightning May Not Be a Freak Phenomenon After All
• 'Brain Androgyny' Is Surprisingly Common And May Boost Mental Health, Scientists Say
• Male Mantises Evolved a Vital Trick to Avoid Being Decapitated After Sex

January 20

• Stunning Video Reveals Mount Etna Erupting, as Europe's Largest Volcano Lets Loose
• Scientists May Have Figured Out What These Weird Bronze Age Objects Really Represent
• Earth's Habitability Today Is Basically Due to Luck, Millions of Simulations Show
• The Massive Genome of The Lungfish May Explain How We Made The Leap to Land
• The Mysterious 'Alien Megastructure' Star Is Not Alone, Astronomers Discover
• Why Do Breastfed Babies Have Healthier Immune Systems? There's a New Explanation
• The Oldest City in The Americas Is an Archeological Wonder, And It's Under Invasion

January 19

• Solar Wind Is Strangely Drawn to Earth's North Pole, And Scientists Don't Know Why
• Giant 'Book of The Dead' Scroll Discovered in Ancient Egyptian Burial Shaft
• What Is The Moon?
• Scientists Have Described a Dinosaur's Butthole in Exquisite Detail
• Landmark Study Identifies The Neurons Especially Vulnerable to Alzheimer's Disease
• Warped Egg Yolks Are Helping Scientists Understand How to Prevent Brain Injuries
• Mesmerizing Video Reveals RNA Folding in All Its Strange, Tangled Glory
• This Extremely Fluffy Exoplanet Is Changing Our Understanding of Planetary Formation
• This New Diamond-Based Process Could Help Save The Ocean From Microplastics
• Fact Check: What We Do And Don't Know About The Pfizer Vaccine Deaths in Norway

January 18

• Physicists Observe Fleeting 'Polaron' Quasiparticles For The First Time
• Humans Have Left Some Cat Breeds With Grimaces Forever Stuck on Their Faces
• Scientists Are Figuring Out Why Some People Can 'Hear' The Voices of The Dead
• The UK Coronavirus Strain May Be Dominant in The US by March, CDC Says
• Stretching Can Be Better Than Walking to Lower High Blood Pressure, Study Finds
• Scientists Just Discovered 3 New Kinds of Carnivorous Sponge in The Deep Ocean
• Traces of A Mysterious Particle Predicted Decades Ago May Have Been Detected
• NASA Says 2020 Was Basically The Hottest Year on Earth Since Records Began

January 17

• Critical Test of NASA's Giant Moon Rocket Cut Short By 'Major Component Failure'
• The Most Common Stars in Our Galaxy May Be More Habitable Than We Thought

January 16

• Here's How 12,000-Year-Old Weather Can Help Us Predict Future Changes in The Climate
• Iceland Genetically Sequences Every COVID-19 Case in World-Leading Strategy
• Deep-Sea Coral Reefs Found Surviving in Ireland at The Edge of a Submarine Canyon
• SpaceX Hopes to Launch And Land Starship No. 9 This Week
• Why Some of Darwin's Finches Evolved to Become Vampire Finches
• This Simple Gummy Bear Experiment Is The Perfect Way to Teach Complex Genetics
• The Pandemic Has Made Dating Difficult, Even For a Rhinoceros
• Seagrass Is Doing Us All a Favor And Trapping Our Plastic in Balls
• We Need to Talk About The Rapid Decline in Insects Around The World

January 15

• For Better or Worse, COVID-19 Put Science Research in Front of More People Than Ever
• Small Study Links Biomarkers in Sperm to Child's Autism Status With 90% Accuracy
• If Wormholes Are Lurking in Our Universe, This Is How We Could Find Them
• Don't Despair: Research Shows Small Changes Really Can Lead to Big Climate Shifts
• Scientists May Have Finally Found a Key Mechanism Behind Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Scientists Surprised by Geckos Lighting Up Desert Nights With Neon-Green Sides
• For The First Time, Electric Eels Have Been Seen Hunting And Zapping Prey as a Group
• Octopuses May Be Adapting to The Rising Acidity of Our Oceans, Study Suggests
• The Pandemic Could Be Harming Kids' Eyesight, But It Isn't The Virus to Blame
• Astronomers Have Discovered an Alien Planet With Three Suns
• For The First Time, a New State of Matter Has Been Observed in a Thread of Quantum Gas
• Our Forests Are on Track to Hit a Crucial Climate Tipping Point by 2050, Scientists Warn
• One Year Since Reporting Started on COVID-19, Here's What We Do (And Still Don't) Know
• Could We Extract Energy From a Black Hole? Scientists Propose a Wild New Plan

January 14

• It's Official: NASA Has Given Up on Its Robotic Digger on Mars
• Research Finds There's More Than One Type of Curiosity. Which Do You Have?
• Extremely Rare Phenomenon Sees Babies Inhale Cancer Cells During Vaginal Birth
• Astronomers Find an Astonishing 'Super-Earth' That's Nearly as Old as The Universe
• Humanity Is Hurtling Into a 'Ghastly Future' It Doesn't Comprehend, Scientists Warn
• Starlink Satellites Are Now Invisible to The Naked Eye, But Astronomers Still See Them
• Calculations Show It'll Be Impossible to Control a Super-Intelligent AI

January 13

• A Man Injected Magic Mushroom 'Tea' Into His Veins, And Fungus Grew Inside Him
• Earliest Animal Cave Art on Record Has Been Found in Indonesia, And It's Adorable
• Dire Wolves May Have Been Lonely Survivors of an Ancient Lineage
• Every Single Document The CIA Says It Has on UFOs Is Now Available to Download
• What Are Anti-Nutrients? A Nutritionist Explains Why They're Part of a Normal Diet
• A Distant Galaxy Is Flaring With Strange Regularity, And Scientists Have Figured Out Why
• Every 8 Years, Swarms of Millipedes Stop Trains in Japan. Scientists Finally Know Why
• Astronomers Have Identified Another Important Aspect of Planets That Could Host Life
• Physicists Detect Tantalising Hints of a "Fundamentally New Form of Quantum Matter"

January 12

• First Confirmed Case of COVID-19 Transmission to Great Apes
• Astronomers Detect The Most Distant Quasar to Date, Over 13 Billion Light-Years Away
• Most Microplastics in The Arctic Don't Come From Trash – They're From Our Clothes
• Rare 4-Stranded DNA Has Been Observed in Action For The First Time
• Despite Isolation, Tasmanian Tiger Pups Were More Like Wolves Than Other Marsupials
• Which Came First: Sleep or The Brain? Scientists Think They've Found The Answer
• Few Vaccines Actually Prevent Infection – Here's Why That's Not Actually a Problem
• What Are The States of Matter?
• Scientists Engineer New 'Living Materials' by Hacking The Basis of Kombucha

January 11

• Herd Immunity Won't Happen in 2021, WHO Warns – Even With Vaccines
• This Breathtaking Close-Up of Mars' 'Grand Canyon' Is Giving Us Goosebumps
• Scientists Have Discovered an Entirely New Way Snakes Can Move, And It's So Weird
• For The First Time, Astronomers May Have Heard The Background 'Hum' of The Universe
• 6 Months After Infection, 76% of COVID-19 Patients Are Still Suffering Symptoms
• What Is Consciousness?
• In First-of-Its-Kind Discovery, Scientists Confirm Bacteria Have a 24-Hour Body Clock
• Megalodon Likely Grew So Big by Hatching in The Womb And Eating Unborn Siblings
• On Top of Everything Else, 2020 Has Tied For The Hottest Year on Record

January 10

• Cancer Cells Can Go Into Bear-Like Hibernation to Evade Chemotherapy
• Early Results Suggest Pfizer Vaccine Will Work Against Coronavirus Mutations
• Prehistoric 'Hell Ant' Stuck in Amber Has Been Biting Its Prey For 99 Million Years
• High Pollen May Trigger Mysterious Flares of Chronic Bladder Pain in Some People

January 9

• Scientists Discover a New Type of Chemical Bond, And It's Surprisingly Strong
• This Medical Video of a Freshly Removed Human Brain Is Strangely Captivating
• How a Science Fight Finally Led to World's First Global Species List in 2020
• A 25-Year Study Just Identified 6 Distinct Types of Prediabetes
• A Short Bout of Exercise Can Boost Your Concentration, Research Shows
• These Gravity-Defying Hills Are One of The Weirdest Natural Phenomena We've Seen
• Mesmerizing Video Study Reveals How Octopus Arms Are So Incredibly Flexible
• An Astronomer Who Believes in Aliens Explains Why He's Not Convinced by UFO Sightings
• Extreme 14th Century Droughts May Provide Insight Into Our Climate Change Crisis

January 8

• We May Have Dog Friends Because Wolves Once Preferred Different Food, Study Suggests
• Research Says Alzheimer's Is Actually 3 Distinct Disease Subtypes
• Here's What We Know About The New COVID-19 Mutations So Far
• Here Are 7 Research-Based Tips to Help Strengthen Your Relationship
• Walking in Nature Really Can Ease Your Mind, Small Study Reveals
• People Without COVID Symptoms Are Responsible For 50% of New Infections, Per Study
• A Tiny, 'Cold' Star Has Released One of The Most Powerful Superflares Ever Seen
• The Arctic's 'Last Ice Area' Is Showing Worrying Signs of Fragility
• Birds Have a Mysterious 'Quantum Sense'. For The First Time, Scientists Saw It in Action
• Here's What You Need to Know About Bitcoin's Skyrocketing Value
• WHO Urges Bolder Response Against 'Alarming' New Coronavirus Variant

January 7

• Now We Know Why Platypus Are So Weird – Their Genes Are Part Bird, Reptile, And Mammal
• Identical Twins Aren't 100% Genetically Identical After All, Study Finds
• This Is When You Should Work Out Each Day to Help Keep Weight Off, Study Suggests
• Autopsies Reveal The Terrible Damage COVID-19 Can Inflict on The Human Brain
• Woman Grows Hairs Out of Her Gums In An Extremely Rare Medical Case
• Researchers Developed AI That Tells Apart True Conspiracies From Conspiracy Theories
• Mercury Is a Planet With a Tail. Here's How That's Possible

January 6

• Severe Allergic Reactions to Pfizer Vaccine Are 'Exceedingly Rare', Scientists Say
• Earth Was Spinning Faster Last Year Than at Any Other Time in The Past 50 Years
• Physicists Have Observed an Entirely New State of Matter Called 'Liquid Glass'
• Scientists Warn of an 'Imminent' Stratospheric Warming Event Around The North Pole
• Huntsman Spiders Have Been Found Weaving 'Frog Traps' Out of Silk And Leaves

January 5

• Astronomers Find The Oldest, Most Distant Galaxy to Date
• US COVID-19 Cases Are Surging. Here's Why Natural Herd Immunity Is Still a Long Way Off
• Experts Worry COVID-19 Vaccines May Not Work as Well Against The South African Variant
• Astronomers Find a Beautiful 6-Planet System in Almost Perfect Orbital Harmony
• Here's What Science Says About The Best Ways to Quit Smoking in 2021
• Study of Over 50,000 People Links Brown Fat With Better Health Outcomes
• Who Is at Risk of Long COVID? Here's What Scientists Know So Far

January 4

• Jupiter Is Bigger Than Some Stars, So Why Didn't We Get a Second Sun?
• Archaeologists May Have Found The Place Where John The Baptist Was Condemned to Death
• New Discovery Could Lead to Cheaper And More Efficient Water Desalination
• 6 Magical Living Things That You Can See Straight Through
• Here's Why Group Exercise May Be More Effective For You Than Solo Workouts
• People With 'Dark' Personality Traits Responded to The Pandemic With Key Differences
• Whales Are Finally Returning to Our Planet's Polar Regions After 40 Years
• People With This Rare Brain Condition Can't 'Count Sheep' in Their Mind

January 3

• Dormant Volcano in The Caribbean Just Came Back to Life, Causing Evacuation Warnings
• Exercising in The Cold Could Burn Off More Fat, New Research Shows
• Here's How Long You Actually Need to Break a Habit, According to Science
• 2020 Had The Largest Single-Year Carbon Emissions Drop in History. But Will It Last?

January 2

• Extraverts Use Subtly Different Words, Analysis of 80,000 People Finds
• These Six Scientist-Recommended Tasks Will Help You Bounce Back From Pandemic Living
• Here's How to Watch The Most Spectacular Meteor Showers of 2021
• A Freakishly Well-Preserved Woolly Rhino Was Plucked From Siberia's Melting Tundra
• These 10 Amazing Physics Stories Were Massive News in 2020
• Our Galaxy Has a Shocking Array of Really Weird Stars. Here's Your Ultimate Guide
• How Scientists Know The Approved COVID-19 Vaccines Are Safe
• Parts of The Amazon Rainforest Are Heading For Collapse by 2064, New Report Shows

January 1

• Scientist Destroys One of The Most Expensive Skincare Myths in This Simple Video
• New Interactive US Map Tracks The COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout in Your State
• Do You Feel Nauseous During Exercise? Here's The Scientific Reason Why
• Wind Generated More Than Half of Britain's Electricity For The First Time on Saturday
• There's Mounting Evidence That Life on Earth Started With More Than Just RNA
• New Coronavirus Variant Now in US And UK Doesn't Cause More Severe Illness, Says Study
• Yep, 2020 Was Tough. But Here Are 5 Things We're Relieved Didn't Happen