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February 28

• Scientists Find 140,000 Virus Species in The Human Gut, And Most Are Unknown
• Scientists Use Weather Radar Tech to Watch Storms of Microbes Brew Inside Cells
• Thousands of Human Skeletons Show Us The Evolutionary War Between Man And Disease
• Breaking: US Regulators Approve Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine
• Recreated Particles of Titan's Haze Could Help Us Understand How Life Began on Earth

February 27

• What Is Time?
• Ancient Roman Chariot Used in Parades Unearthed 'Almost Intact' Near Pompeii
• NASA Deliberately Made Eerie Glowing Clouds… to Study Eerie Glowing Clouds
• Dust From Asteroid That Ended Dinosaur Reign Closes Case on Impact Extinction Theory
• Mega Iceberg About The Size of Los Angeles Just Broke Off From an Antarctic Ice Shelf
• Cross-Cultural Study Finds Atheists And Believers Have Similar Moral Compasses

February 26

• Feast Your Eyes on This Mind-Blowingly Close Photo of Venus
• Woman Recovers From Mysterious Ulcer Disease After Switching to a Plant-Based Diet
• Here Are 4 Key Things to Know About The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine
• Decades-Long Experiment Finds Strange Mix of Antimatter in The Heart of Every Proton
• Breathtaking Pic From Hawaii Shows Not One, But Two Rare Sky Phenomena
• You're Not Imagining It. Climate Change Is Making Allergy Seasons Start Earlier
• For The First Time, Physicists Have Filmed The Oscillation of a Time Crystal

February 25

• Huge News: US Officials Approve Pfizer Vaccine Storage at Normal Freezer Temperatures
• We Finally Know Why Dinosaurs Were Either Humongous or Tiny, Unlike Modern Animals
• Turns Out We Don't Know Why Lungs Make Wheezing Noises. But We Just Got a New Clue
• Controversial Stem Cell Therapy Has Helped Repair Injured Spinal Cords in 13 Patients
• A Baby Sick With COVID-19 in Washington Had 51,000 Times More Viral Particles
• 10,000-Year-Old Dog Remains From Alaska Hint at a Beautiful Tale of Migrating Together

February 24

• Great News! Pfizer Vaccine 94% Effective in Huge Real-World Study of 1.2 M People
• Scientists May Have Just Solved The Long-Standing Mystery of Earth's 'Missing Ice'
• A Major Ocean Current Could Be on The Verge of a Devastating 'Tipping Point'
• Powerful X-Rays Reveal Unique Differences in Neurons From People With Schizophrenia
• SpaceX Is About to Attempt Another Starship Launch. The Last Two Exploded
• California's COVID-19 Variant Appears to Be More Contagious, And Possibly Deadlier
• Gorgeous Egyptian Art From 4,600 Years Ago Reveals an Extinct Goose
• There's a Secret Message Coded Into Percy's Parachute. But It's Not The Only One

February 23

• Hayley Arceneaux, Set to Become Youngest American in Space, Is Also a Cancer Survivor
• There Could Be a Dramatic Hidden Impact of Not Having a Regular Bedtime, Study Shows
• Scientists Have Grown Microbes on Actual Rock Bits From Mars
• Guess Which Animal Is in Australia's Oldest Rock Painting, Dating Back 17,000 Years
• 9+ Wonderful Images to Remind Us Just How Far Technology Has Come
• Extremist Brains Perform Poorly at Complex Mental Tasks, Study Reveals
• Really Small Black Holes Could Be Out There, Devouring Neutron Stars From Within

February 22

• Russia Just Alerted The WHO to The World's First Case of H5N8 Avian Flu in Humans
• This First-Ever VIDEO of a Rover Landing on Mars Will Leave You Speechless
• Physicists Just Reached a New Speed Limit For Moving Quantum Information
• Neurotoxins in Sea Snail Venom Could Lead to New Treatments For Severe Malaria
• In 1959, Thousands of Vaccines Were Stolen in a Heist. Here's Why That's Important Now
• For The First Time, We've Detected a 'Ghost Particle' Coming From a Shredded Star
• Scientists Discover 'Ingredients For Life' in 3.5 Billion-Year-Old Rocks in Australia
• The White Dots in This Image Are Not Stars or Galaxies. They're Black Holes

February 21

• Thousands of COVID-19 'Long-Haulers' Are Still Suffering. Now, There Is Finally Hope
• Long-Lost, Priceless Fossil Turns Out to Be a 30-Million-Year-Old Vampire Squid
• The Healthy Gut Microbiome You Have Right Now May Not Be The One You Need in Old Age
• Variations in Sunlight Have More to Do With Pollution Than Clouds, Says Study
• We Need Urgent Research to Know What Microplastics Are Doing to Us. Here's Why
• Gravity May Play a Tiny But Important Role in The Microworld of Particle Physics

February 20

• Deer Developed Hairy Eyeballs Due to Rare, Bizarre Condition
• Perseverance Team Works on Jet-Lag Inducing 'Mars Time' For The Mission
• What Is The Loch Ness Monster? Here's What The Science Really Has to Say
• Quantum Holograms Could Make Ridiculously Detailed Images of Our Bodies And Cells
• Decades After The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Local Dolphins Are Still Suffering
• This Is What Pausing Before You Answer Says About You, According to Psychologists

February 19

• Curious Test Reveals Dogs May Have a Special Ability We Didn't Know About Before
• Don't Suffer in The Cold? Turns Out There's a Genetic Mutation For That
• Scientists Clone Endangered Black-Footed Ferret For The First Time And She's Adorable
• Astronomers Mapped The Spectacular Accelerating Outflows of a Stellar Explosion
• Physicists Propose a 'Force Field' to Protect Sensitive Quantum Computers From Noise
• Scientists Found a Way to Communicate With People Who Are Asleep And Dreaming
• Why Scientists Just Ran Numbers on All The Fish Poop in The World's Oceans
• How Did Texas Electricity Grid Fail Residents So Catastrophically? An Expert Explains
• Earth's Magnetic Field Flipped 42,000 Years Ago. The Consequences Were Dramatic

February 18

• Look! Perseverance's Very First Images From Mars, Sent Seconds After Landing
• Pfizer Vaccine Has Weaker Response Against South African COVID Variant, Study Hints
• YES! NASA's Perseverance Just Successfully Landed on Mars
• We Thought We Understood The 'First' Black Hole. But We Were Wrong, Scientists Say
• Tired? Here's What Happens to The Body And Brain After Pulling an All-Nighter
• Scientists Just Confirmed The Existence of a New Crystalline Structure of Ice
• The Extreme Weather in The US Is So Severe Even Weather Satellites Are Bewildered

February 17

• Mummified Remains of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Reveal a Reign Ended in Violence
• Long-Lost Neanderthal Tooth Reveals a Surprising Unknown Link to Modern Humans
• These Cockroaches Start Eating Each Other After Sex, And Not Because They're Hungry
• Scientists Have Sequenced Mammoth DNA That's Over a Million Years Old
• Here's What Dieting Actually Does to Your Metabolism, According to Scientists
• Physicists Thought The Atomic Giant Flerovium Was 'Magical', But It Was Just a Mirage
• New 'Radically Different' Map Is Said to Be The Most Accurate 2D Map Ever Made
• The Moon's Biggest Crater Is Revealing Lunar Formation Secrets We Never Knew
• What Are The Chances of Another COVID? Much Greater Than We Realised
• Russian Scientists Are Probing Prehistoric Viruses Emerging From Siberian Permafrost

February 16

• Millions of Americans Have No Power in This Extreme, Nation-Wide Storm. Here's Why
• The Haunting Music of Whale Song Is an Ocean of Untapped Seismic Data, Scientists Say
• A New Measurement of Quantum Space-Time Has Found Nothing Going on
• Perseverance Is About to Face '7 Minutes of Terror': Surviving a Brutal Mars Landing
• 'New Car Smell' Is The Scent of Carcinogens, And Even Short Trips May Overexpose Us
• We All Believe in Conspiracies a Little, But Here's When It Gets Out of Control
• Blue-Green Algae Could Help Keep Humans Alive on Mars, Experiment Suggests

February 15

• Teen With 'Rapunzel Syndrome' Requires Surgery After Giant Hairball Fills Stomach
• Scientists Discover 7 New Coronavirus Variants in Locations Across The US
• The Colossal Weight of Cities Is Making Them Sink, Even As Sea Levels Are Rising
• Planet Nine Might Be a Giant Illusion, Scientists Say, And Here's Why
• UK Coronavirus Variant May Be Up to 70% Deadlier, New Evidence Suggests
• There's a Link Between Air Pollution And Irreversible Vision Loss, Study Reveals
• Mystery Lifeforms Have Been Found in The Hostile Darkness Beneath Antarctica
• Birds Use an Invisible 'Map' to Find Their Way in Faraway Places They've Never Seen
• 'Defining Moment' as Hope Probe Transmits Its Breathtaking First Image of Mars

February 14

• Amazing Image Reveals Hawaiian Volcanoes Blanketed in Snow After Historic Deluge
• 'Oldest' Known Mass-Production Brewery Unearthed in Egypt Made Sacrificial Beers
• Even Lifelong Environmentalists Have Not Considered Green Burial Options
• The Best Way to Find Aliens on Other Worlds May Be to Search For Signs of Their Smog
• Why It Matters That Some Pigs Are Actually Pretty Good at Playing Video Games

February 13

• Quantum Theory May Twist Cause And Effect Into Loops, With Effect Causing The Cause
• In a Weird Twist, Scientists Discover Venus Flytraps Generate Little Magnetic Fields
• Here's a Reason We Prefer Rocking Out to Music From Our Youth
• These Three Things Are More Likely to Make Someone a Superspreader
• A Peculiar Side Effect of Prozac: Fish Swimming in Our Waste Lose Their Individuality
• Scientists Trick The Immune System Into Healing The Gut of Mice With Inflamed Bowels
• New Technique Used to Spot Possible Super-Earth in Alpha Centauri's Habitable Zone

February 12

• Some Cultures Have Fared Better With COVID-19. Here's What They Have in Common
• Stonehenge Likely Built With Stones And a Design Taken From an Ancient Welsh Monument
• The Origin of Modern Humans Cannot Be Traced to Any One Single Point in Time or Space
• AI Can Now Learn to Manipulate Human Behavior
• For The First Time, Scans Link Childhood Stress With Changes to Key Adult Brain Regions
• Scientists Find a Simple Way to Make Your Cat Hunt Less Wildlife – Change Its Diet
• Astronomers Find a Fascinating Cluster of Stars Filled With Small Black Holes
• What Are The Limits on Caffeine During Pregnancy? It Depends Which Scientists You Ask
• Stunning Blue Beads Found in Alaska Predate Columbus, Controversial Study Claims

February 11

• Listen to The Haunting Sound of a Conch Horn Played For The First Time in 17,000 Years
• Eerie Figures With Huge Heads Found Painted in a Rock Shelter in Tanzania
• 'Game-Changer' Drug Promotes Weight Loss Like No Medicine Ever Seen, Scientists Say
• Scientists Think They've Figured Out What's Triggering Brain Fog in COVID-19 Patients
• Terrifying Study Finds Melting Permafrost Could Unleash Way More Carbon Than We Thought
• Astronomers Just Confirmed The Most Distant Known Object in The Solar System
• India's Deadly Glacier Collapse This Week Is Just The Beginning
• A Previously Unseen Chemical Reaction Has Been Detected on Mars

February 10

• Ancient Graves And a Strange Enclosure Have Been Unearthed Near Stonehenge
• China Just Successfully Put a Spacecraft Into Orbit Around Mars For The First Time
• How Many Colors in This Image? Here's The Science Behind The Illusion Dividing Twitter
• Genes in The Placenta Appear to Determine a Baby's Risk of Developing Schizophrenia
• The Very First Signs of an Immune Response Have Been Filmed in a Developing Embryo
• A 45 Ft 'Ice Volcano' Has Emerged in Kazakhstan. Here's How It Works
• Moms Who Got Straight A's Have the Same Leadership Opportunities as Dads Who Failed
• Bizarre Coelacanth Hasn't Spent 65 Million Years Unchanged After All, Its Genome Reveals
• We Need to Plan Now For The Pandemic That Comes After COVID-19, Scientists Say

February 9

• The Killer All Around Us: Fossil Fuels Caused 20% of All Adult Deaths in 2018
• Success! The United Arab Emirate's Hope Spacecraft Just Entered Martian Orbit
• Physicists Discover a Strange New Form of Magnetism Within 'Magnetic Graphene'
• Oral Ketamine Experiment Reduces Suicidal Thoughts in Over Two-Thirds of Patients
• For The First Time, Physicists Encode Information in a Hologram Using Quantum Leap
• We Just Got The First Photo of Mars From China's Tianwen 1 Probe, And It's Breathtaking
• Flu Vaccine Appears to Reduce The Risk of Severe COVID-19 Symptoms in Kids
• Watch a Billion Years of Shifting Tectonic Plates in 40 Mesmerising Seconds

February 8

• Big News: Facebook Just Banned More COVID-19 Anti-Vax Content
• Yes, a Whole Lot of Super Bowl Attendees May Have Caught COVID-19 Yesterday
• UK Coronavirus Variant Is Doubling Every 10 Days in The US
• Scientists Invent a Machine That Generates Mathematics We've Never Seen Before
• Delaying The Second AstraZeneca Dose Actually Increases Protection, New Data Suggests
• Six Alien Planets Have Been Found Locked in a Rare, Complex Orbital Dance
• A Happy Childhood Doesn't Always Protect You From Mental Health Problems, Study Finds
• Feeling Burned Out? Scientists Can Now Tell by Monitoring Your Sweat
• Happy New Year, Mars. Here's Why It's Such a Crucial Week

February 7

• South African Strain: AstraZeneca Vaccine Fails to Prevent Mild And Moderate Cases
• Fecal Transplants Are Showing Promise as a New Treatment For a Type of Skin Cancer
• Vast 'Belts' Around Earth Accelerate Particles Close to Light Speed, And Now We Know How
• It Looks Like The UAE Is About to Win The 'Race to Mars'
• Narcissists Become CEO With More Speed Than Their Peers, Despite The Harm They Can Do
• Astronomers Detect a Tiny Dwarf Galaxy That Has Way More Dark Matter Than We Expected
• Study of 3.5 Million People Finds Human Hormones Change With The Seasons

February 6

• Could Mars' Landslides Be Caused by Underground Salt And Melting Ice?
• People With Key 'Antisocial' Traits Respond Differently to Group Violence, Study Reveals
• Marmosets Prefer It When Another Monkey Shows an Interest in Helping Others

February 5

• Scientists Are Inching Closer to Figuring Out How Heavy Dark Matter Really Is
• Here's How Climate Change May Have Played a Role in The Emergence of COVID-19
• US Cities Are Seriously Underreporting Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Astronomers Think They've Found Another Trojan Asteroid Lurking in Earth's Orbit
• In a Weird Twist, Sperm Have Been Caught Poisoning Other Sperm to Get Ahead in Mice
• Distant 'Baby' Black Holes Are Behaving Strangely, And Scientists Are Perplexed
• Scientists Find a Virus That's Evolved to Protect Its Host – Depending on The Weather
• Post Mortems Reveal Clear Differences in The Brain Cells of People With Depression
• Anxiety-Inducing Satellite Data Shows Blue Whales Trying to Dodge Boats in Patagonia

February 4

• Whale That Washed Up on Florida Beach Turns Out to Be an Entirely New Species
• Scientists Are Testing Mixing AstraZeneca's COVID-19 Vaccine With Pfizer's
• Spiders Weave Catapult-Like Mechanisms Into Their Webs to Hoist Unwieldy Prey
• Bose-Einstein Condensate: What Is The 'Fifth State of Matter'?
• Open Insulin Can Actually Be Stored at Warm Temperatures For Weeks, Scientists Find
• What Happens if Dogs Only Eat Fresh, Human-Grade Food? One Big Change in Particular
• Swirling Vortex of Bathtub Water Reveals an Elusive Mechanism of Black Hole Physics
• Weather Phenomenon Triggers Nightmarish Spider Infestations in Australian Homes

February 3

• Ancient Mummy Found Entombed in Strange Cocoon Never Seen by Archeologists
• Mysterious Element 'Einsteinium' Measured by Scientists For The First Time
• There Is One Way Humans Could 'Safely' Enter a Black Hole, Physicists Say
• Schizophrenia Identified as Second Greatest Risk Factor For COVID-19 Death
• Partners Start Using Different Language Months Before They Break Up, Study Shows
• Men May Be Less Fertile in The Aftermath of COVID-19 Infection, Scientists Warn
• Antarctica Is Melting in a Way Our Climate Models Never Predicted, Scientists Say
• Scientists Say This Simple Test Can Identify Whether Your Dog Is a Genius

February 2

• Multiple COVID-19 Variants Are Developing Vaccine-Evading Mutations, Scientists Fear
• Baby Scorpions Get A Free Ride On Mom's Back, Unless She Decides to Eat Them
• Astronomers Detect Strange, Never-Before Seen Activity From a Newly Discovered Star
• COVID-19 Was Predicted to Become Less Deadly – Until The UK Strain Emerged
• This Trippy Optical Illusion Can Reveal if You Have 'Curvature Blindness'
• Scientists Achieve 'Transformational' Breakthrough in Scaling Quantum Computers
• First It Was Space Force, Now Dubai's Creating a 'Space Court' For Off-Planet Disputes

February 1

• 2,000-Year-Old Mummy Buried With a Gold Tongue Uncovered in Egypt
• Facts Are No Longer Convincing. Research Shows You Should Say This Instead
• Bacteria Have Been Seen Literally Changing Shape to Avoid Antibiotics
• A Mineral That Keeps Showing Up on Mars Has Been Found Deep in The Antarctic Ice
• This Insane Picture of The Moon Was Actually Taken From Earth
• World's Smallest Reptile Fits on Your Fingertip – And Has Humongous Genitals
• LSD Lets The Brain 'Free Itself' From Divisions Dictated by Anatomy, Scientists Find
• Can Moms Transfer COVID-19 Immunity to Their Newborns?