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December 31
- Feast Your Eyes on The Last Hubble Pic For 2021 – a Distant, Smirking Galaxy
- Don't Forget The Time Scientists Grew 'Dinosaur Legs' on a Chicken
- The Largest Known Flying Animal Was Even Weirder Than We Thought
- Biologist E. O. Wilson Dies at 92. His Legacy Is More Critical Now Than Ever
- Polar Bears Keep Being Seen Hunting Reindeer, But There's More to The Story
- There Was a Major Unexpected Benefit to James Webb's Christmas Launch
- Even Drastic CO2 Cuts Won't Bring Back The Climate We've Lost
- FYI, Rapid Antigen Tests May Give More False Negatives With Omicron
- We May Finally Have The Basis of a Dog Allergy Vaccine
- A Common Sugar Additive Could Be Driving The Rise of One of The Most Aggressive Superbugs
- We Just Got The First Haunting Photo From NASA's Asteroid Deflecting Spacecraft
- Astronomers See Black Hole Jets Blaze 16x Wider Than The Full Moon in Our Sky
- Could Godzilla-Sized Creatures Ever Exist?
- China Accuses US of Unsafe Space Conduct After Near-Miss With Elon Musk's Starlink
- MIT Scientists Design a 'Flying Saucer' That Could Float Across The Moon
- The 3,000-Year-Old Mummy of a Famous Egyptian Pharaoh Has Been Digitally Unwrapped
- A Weird Paper Tests The Limits of Science by Claiming Octopuses Came From Space
- Happiness Through Work? The Science of Work-Life Balance Might Surprise You
- There's a Rare Hallucination That Makes You See Tiny People, And Nobody Knows Why
- The Famous Fossils Scientists Got Incredibly Wrong
- Death-Bringing 'Brain Tsunamis' Have Been Observed in Humans
- Here's What You Really Should Know About 'Negative-Calorie' Foods, According to Experts
- The Red Sky Paradox Will Make You Question Our Very Place in The Universe
- Feast Your Eyes on The Annual Family Portraits Hubble Took of Our Solar System Giants
- Scientists Have Identified The Driving Force Behind Your Darkest Impulses
- Do Auroras Make Sounds We Can Hear? The True Answer Is Surprisingly Complicated
- The 'Somalaya Mountains' Might Be The Biggest Mountain Range You'll Never Get to See
- Affluent Children Are More Prone to Tooth Wear, First Meta-Study of Its Kind Reveals
- It's Possible to Accidentally Develop an Allergy to Red Meat. Here's The Science
- Success! The James Webb Space Telescope Has Launched
- Watch Live: The James Webb Space Telescope Is (Finally) About to Launch
- 5 Out-of-This-World Telescope Photos of Space to Get You Excited For The JWST Launch
- Scientists Identify a Previously Unknown Type of Storm, Called an 'Atmospheric Lake'
- Could an Overlooked Quantum Theory Help The Universe Make Sense Again?
- Stellar Video Shows Comet Leonard as It Zips by Earth For The 1st Time in 80,000 Years
- Scientists Unearth a Ginormous Triassic Sea Monster That Once Roamed The 'Superocean'
- Some People in Greenland Metabolize Sugars Differently
- Alien Life Could Theoretically Survive Within Venus's Clouds, Scientists Say
- Crows Are So Smart They Seem to Understand The Concept of Tool Value
- Astronomers Detect Up to 170 Rogue Planets Hurtling Aimlessly Through Space
- Scientists Have Mapped The World's Oldest Known Family Tree, Dating Back 6,000 Years
- Early Studies Out of UK Indicate Omicron Has a Lower Hospitalization Rate Than Delta
- US Life Expectancy Has Taken Its Sharpest Drop in More Than 75 Years
- Tsunamis' Magnetic Fields Can Be Detected Before Sea Levels Change
- Scientists Just Identified a Brand New Muscle Layer in The Human Jaw
- Study Finds Alarming Levels of Microplastics in The Feces of People With IBD
- Here's How Much Exercise Works Best For Controlling Your Blood Pressure
- More Than 10,000 Studies Debunk Outdated Biological 'Explanation' For Male Success
- FDA Just Approved The World's First Injectable Medication to Prevent HIV
- Shocking Fossil Reveals Car-Sized Millipedes Scuttled on Earth 326 Million Years Ago
- Breathtaking Fossil of Baby Dinosaur Tucked in Its Egg Yields New Evolutionary Clues
- Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Appears Effective Against Omicron Variant
- Here's Why The World Will Be Holding Its Breath During The JWST Launch
- Shockingly Abundant Life Found Thriving in Darkness Under an Antarctic Ice Shelf
- We May Be Prescribing Antidepressants Wrong, Claims Concerning New Review
- For The First Time, Scientists Map Brain Regions Responding to The Clitoris
- We Finally Have The First-Ever Analysis of Stardust Retrieved From The Ryugu Asteroid
- Crowds Can Cause Bridges to Sway Unnervingly, And We May Finally Know Why
- Physicists Claim They've Quantum Entangled a Tardigrade With a Qubit. But Have They?
- NASA Releases Ghostly Sounds Recorded at Ganymede by The Juno Probe
- Brutal Viking Ritual Called 'Blood Eagle' Was Anatomically Possible, Study Shows
- We Could Harness White Noise to Save The Lives of Millions of Birds. Here's How
- NASA Just Confirmed The James Webb Space Telescope Is Definitely Launching This Week!
- Remote North Atlantic Islands Were Inhabited Centuries Earlier Than Previously Thought
- Explore Evolution on Earth in The Most Comprehensive Tree of Life Ever Created
- Earth's Tilted Magnetic Field 41,000 Years Ago Pushed The Auroras to Unexpected Places
- Deep Conversations With Strangers Can Have Surprising Results, Study Shows
- How a Geological Secret Passageway Under Panama Moves Rocks Thousands of Miles Away
- Adorned 10,000-Year-Old Burial Suggests Even Infant Females Were Mourned as 'People'
- Colossal 'Fossil' Structures Have Been Detected Lurking on The Outskirts of Our Galaxy
- It Turns Out That Everything We Know About The Runner's High Could Be Wrong
- Why Invasive Plants Pushing Out Native Flora Is Pushing Us Closer to a 'New Pangaea'
- This Robot Learned to Solve a Maze Using Mammal-Like 'Brain' Circuits For Memory
- The Brain's Secrets May Be Hidden in Its Folds And Wrinkles. How Are They Made?
- Newly Discovered Transparent Cave Snail Has Long Rows of Intimidatingly Spikey Teeth
- This Footage From The First-Ever Probe to Touch The Sun Will Leave You Speechless
- The Longest Full Moon of 2021 Is About to Occur. Here's How to Watch
- Exciting New Paper Tests a Dark Matter And Black Hole Prediction Made by Hawking
- Archaeologists Find 2,000-Year-Old Lesson on Sea Level Changes Destroying Societies
- Organic Molecules Have Been Confirmed in The Jezero Crater on Mars
- It's Clearer Than Ever – The Active Compound in Ecstasy Can Safely Assist PTSD Therapy
- New 'Anti-Aging' Vaccine Has Increased Mouse Life Spans. Would It Work in Humans?
- First-Ever 'True' Millipede With 1,306 Legs Discovered Deep Underground in Australia
- The Largest Discovery of New Mammals in 90 Years Has Just Been Revealed
- Gigantic Eruption From 'Dragon' Star Is a Dire Warning About The Sun
- It's Not Actually Size That Determines How Deadly a Meteor Is
- Cannabis Treatment Can Reduce Kids' Epileptic Seizures by 86%, Early Results Show
- Astronomers Detect Secret Water Reserves in The Largest Canyon in The Solar System
- Glimpse of The Future as La Niña Raises Sea Levels in Western Pacific by Up to 20 cm
- Chemical Air Pollution Morphs Into Something Even More Toxic, Study Shows
- Mutant Bacteria Accidentally Recreated One of Van Gogh's Most Iconic Paintings
- New Maze-Like Surface Kills Bacteria in 2 Minutes: 120x Faster Than Normal Copper
- Archaeologists Found a Truly Bizarre Burial in an Isolated Medieval Graveyard
- Scorching Siberian Heatwave Confirmed as Hottest Arctic Temperature Ever Recorded
- For The First Time in History, a Spacecraft Has 'Touched' The Sun
- How Well Does Pfizer Protect From Omicron? New Preliminary Results Give Us an Idea
- Ice Shelf at Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' Won't Last 5 Years, Scientists Warn
- The First FDA-Approved Eye Drops to Treat Blurry Vision Are Now Available in The US
- Waiting 60 Seconds Before Cutting The Umbilical Cord Can Save Lives, Study Finds
- The Deepest Images Yet of The Galactic Center Reveal a Beautiful Cosmic Dance
- How Does Climate Change Affect Deadly Tornadoes? A Scientist Explains
- We May Finally Know The Cause of 'The Cow', a Freakishly Exciting Space Explosion
- Rocket Scientists vs Brain Surgeons: Who Do You Think Is Ultimately Smarter?
- Bizarre Transparent Fish That Sees Through Its Own Head Captured in Rare Footage
- Stunning New Images Reveal The Chaotic Glory of The Sun in Mind-Blowing Detail
- 16-Year Study of Extreme Stars Has Once Again Proved Einstein Is Still Right
- Nearly 300 Years Ago, a Tsunami Hit The Coast of Chile, But Nobody Found It Until Now
- Mysterious Object That Survived A Close Encounter With A Black Hole Is Unmasked
- Who'd Win a Fight Between a Dingo And a Wolf? An Expert Weighs in
- We Just Got Closer to Understanding Why Asthma Might Protect From Brain Tumors
- The Holiday 'Buying Season' Can Have a Catastrophic Cost, And Not to Your Wallet
- Great News: An mRNA Flu Vaccine Just Delivered Positive Phase 1 Trial Results
- Scientists Find a New Source of a Greenhouse Gas Emissions in The Siberian Permafrost
- How Much Risk Do Synthetic Food Dyes Actually Pose to Your Health? Here's The Science
- Our Extinct Cousins Reached 'The Roof of The World' a Long Time Before Homo Sapiens
- 5 Things to Know About The James Webb Space Telescope Before It Launches
- Astronomers Spot a Ghostly 'One-Winged Butterfly' Blazing Through Space
- There's a Cancer Treatment That Gives People 'Night Vision'. Here's How
- We May Finally Know What Makes One of The World's Largest Organisms So Tough
- Researchers Find Evidence That Fracking Can Trigger An All-New Type of Earthquake
- Are Our Diets Contributing to The Rise in Angry Rhetoric?
- Scientists Observed This Ghostly Galaxy For 40 Hours And Couldn't Find Any Dark Matter
- Just Look at These Stunning Photos of Jupiter's Giant Storms
- Scientists Smash Temperature Record on Keeping 'Freezing Cold' Water in Liquid Form
- What Was The Great Dying That Almost Wiped Out Life on Earth 252 Million Years Ago?
- Cataract Surgery Linked to Lower Risk of Developing Dementia, Even 10 Years Later
- Dogs Understand an Average of 89 Unique Words And Phrases, New Research Shows
- Our Sun May Have Been Born With a Trouble-Making Twin Called 'Nemesis'
- Strenuous 8-Year Effort to Replicate Key Cancer Research Finds an Unwelcome Surprise
- Scientists Say We Should Rethink Moons as Planets… And Reinstate Pluto
- 'Twilight Zone' Sleep Hack Really Can Spark Creative Thinking, Scientists Say
- Scientists Catch a Mesmerizing Glimpse of a Super-Rare Giant Phantom Jelly
- Archaeologists Dug Up an Old Skeleton. Then They Noticed Something Very Strange
- A New Type of Omicron Has Now Emerged in Multiple Countries
- Just 10 Minutes of Moderate Running Can Boost Brain Activity, Study Shows
- NASA's Next-Generation Asteroid Impact Monitoring System Just Got Switched On
- 'Alien World' Found in Giant Star System Challenges Our Thinking on Planet Formation
- The First Study Assessing Pfizer's Effectiveness Against Omicron Just Came Out
- The Hydra's Freaky Ability to Regrow Its Own Head Relies on This Incredible Mechanism
- Unusual 'Quadruple Helix' Structure in DNA May Be Behind Rare Aging Syndrome
- Mesmerizing Gold Jewelry From Queen Nefertiti's Time Found in Cyprus
- Experts Say Omicron May Fast Become Dominant Worldwide, But There's Much to Learn
- Scientists Developed a Questionnaire to Identify Whether Your Cat Is a Psychopath
- Psychological Resilience Is Linked to How Much Stress Messes With Your Body
- Scientists Said These Stars Were Too Small to Exist, But We Finally Know Their Secret
- Antarctica's Total Solar Eclipse Looks Stunning in These Phenomenal Photos
- Professional Fire Watchers 'Astounded' by The Scale of Fires in Australia Right Now
- Out of 12,000 Applicants, NASA Finds 10 New Astronaut Trainees With The Right Stuff
- Large Study Links Cannabis Use to Sleep Disruption, Especially Among Heavy Users
- Scientists Observe Quantum Spin Liquids: A State of Matter We've Never Seen Before
- Giant Study Finds Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's
- This Element Could Have Been Crucial to The Evolution of Complex Life on Earth
- An Actual 'Addiction' to Binge-Watching TV Could Be More Real Than You Think
- Astronomers Have Discovered Why The Solar System Might Be Shaped Like a Croissant
- This Mysterious, Indestructible 'Black Box' Will Tell The Future What Happened to Us
- 'Snow Drought' Is Threatening The Western US, And That Could Become a Massive Problem
- Mystery Cube Found on The Far Side of The Moon Is Probably Not an 'Alien Hut'
- How Can mRNA Vaccines Be Updated to Target Omicron? A Microbiologist Explains
- NASA's Space Chilis Have Broken Two World Records
- New Data Reveal Your Chances of Becoming Pregnant With IVF Based on Age
- New Study Claims Seagulls Aren't That Stupid, But We Have More Questions
- Grinding Your Teeth? Here's Why And What You Can Do About It
- A Brief Period of 'Blindness' Is Key to Us Seeing Fine Details
- AI Is Discovering Patterns in Pure Mathematics That Have Never Been Seen Before
- Man Fleeing Vesuvius Eruption Stared Down The Volcanic Matter That 'Vaporized' Him
- A Tiny Galaxy Has an Unusually Large Black Hole And Scientists Aren't Sure Why
- This New Ultra-Compact Camera Is The Size of a Grain of Salt And Takes Stunning Photos
- Scientists Found The Real Way Sea Otters Stay Warm in Cold Waters
- New Study Claims This Mammoth Bone Piece Is Oldest Known Ornate Jewelry in Eurasia
- So Far, 100,000 Monarch Butterflies Migrated in 2021. Can This Stop Their Extinction?
- Scientists Have Finally Discovered Why The Brain Consumes So Much Energy, Even at Rest
- These Record-Breaking Simulations of The Universe Aim to Solve a 'Tiny' Problem
- Great News, Scientists Finally Figured Out Why Cannabis Smells 'Skunky'
- After Months of Daylight, Antarctica Is About to Be Plunged Into 2 Minutes of Night
- One Ancient Culture Actually Benefited From 'The Worst Year in Human History'
- Finally, a Fusion Reaction Has Generated More Energy Than Absorbed by The Fuel
- Is There Any Difference in Which Booster Shot You Choose? Experts Weigh in
- 400-Million-Year-Old 'Excalibur' Seaworm Found in Australia, With Full Suit of Armor
- A Tiny, Ridiculously Dense Exoplanet Has Just Been Discovered, And It's Really Close
- Experimental Cancer Drug Shows Early Promise as Alzheimer's Treatment in Mouse Study
- Plants And Animals Have Started Living on The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- Earth's Fluctuating Orbit May Be Impacting Evolution, New Evidence Suggests
- 1 Out of Every 15 Lights in The Sky Could Soon Be a Satellite, an Astronomer Warns
- What You Really Need to Know About That Asteroid Flying 'Towards' Earth Next Week
- 1,200-Year-Old Mummy of a Young Man Tied With Rope Discovered in Peru
- This 'Very Weird' Newly Discovered Dinosaur Was Armed With a Slashing Weapon
- The Largest Comet We've Ever Seen Just Delivered a Curious Surprise
- An Unknown Human Ancestor May Have Left 3.7-Million-Year-Old Footprints in Africa
- Astronomers Just Found The Closest Pair of Supermassive Black Holes Ever Detected
- World's First COVID-19 Pill Closer to Reality After Green Light From FDA Panel
- Physicists Confirm The Existence of Time Crystals in Epic Quantum Computer Simulation
- Is Omicron More Contagious Than Delta? A Virus Expert Explains What We Know So Far