Archive

February 28

• "We Are in an Emergency": The Key Actions From The UN's Major New Climate Report
• Muscle Strengthening Linked to Lower Risk of Dying – Even in Short Amounts
• A Major Signal From 'The First Stars' May Not Have Come From Space at All
• Nostalgia Evokes Many Things. Even Pain Relief, Scientists Show
• ADHD Linked to 'Significantly Higher' Risk of Hoarding, New Study Finds
• Strange Evolutionary Pace of SARS-CoV-2 Mutations Is Finally Revealed in New Study
• This 500-Year-Old Landslide Found in The Red Sea Could Trigger a Future Tsunami
• Hidden Turbulence in The Atmosphere of The Sun Revealed by New AI Model
• Mriya, The World's Largest Plane, Has Been Destroyed by Russia's Strikes on Ukraine
• Video: How Far Away Would You Need to Be to Survive a Nuclear Blast?

February 27

• A Major UN Climate Change Report Was Just Approved by Nearly 200 Nations
• Here's The Impact That Walkable Neighborhoods Can Have on Your Physical Health
• What Freezing Ants Can Tell Us About How Their Memory Works
• Gruesome Skull Discovery Contains The Earliest Evidence of Ear Surgery

February 26

• This Weirdly Tilted Black Hole Could Upend Our Understanding of How They Form
• Curiosity Rover Snapped This Photo of a Tiny And Delicate Mineral 'Flower' on Mars
• What Can Minecraft Offer in Non-STEM Education? Plenty, According to a New Study
• For The First Time, a Tatooine-Like Planet Has Been Detected Via a Wobbling Star
• Neuroscientists Find Part of The Brain That Responds Specifically to Singing

February 25

• 2 Supermassive Black Holes Are Locked in The Tightest Orbit We've Seen Yet
• Despite Roscosmos Chief's Hostile Tweets, NASA Says ISS Cooperation Will Continue
• Chernobyl's Radiation Spiked 20 Times Above Usual Levels as Russian Forces Arrive
• New Quantum Gravity Sensor Can Look Under Earth's Surface in Unprecedented Detail
• World's First Octopus Farm Planned For 2023 Is Raising Serious Ethical Concerns
• The Chelyabinsk Meteorite May Have Been Involved in The Smash That Formed Our Moon
• We Now Have The Largest Ever Human 'Family Tree', With 231 Million Ancestral Lineages
• Low-Meat Diets Linked to Lower Cancer Risk, Hints Study of Nearly 500,000 People

February 24

• Chernobyl Power Plant Captured by Russia, Leading to Fears of Radioactive Waste Spread
• Dogs Seem to Truly Grieve For Their Lost Canine Buddies, Survey Reveals
• These Ticks Can Survive For Years Without Eating, And Live to Nearly 30 Years of Age
• There's a Reason 90% of Drugs Fail Clinical Trials, And We Can Fix It
• Colossal Shock Wave Rippling Across Space Is Bigger Than Our Entire Galaxy
• Common Over-The-Counter Painkillers Can Be an Unexpected Source of Too Much Sodium
• Earth's Water Cycle Is Changing Dramatically, And Much Faster Than We Predicted

February 23

• Arcane Ritual Complex From 9,000 Years Ago Unearthed in Unprecedented Discovery
• 'Death Came in Spring': New Evidence Shows When The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Struck
• Mysterious Repeating Fast Radio Burst Traced to Very Unexpected Location
• The Brain Waves of a Dying Person Have Been Recorded In Detail For The First Time
• It Must Be Incredible to Visit Antarctica. Here's Why You Shouldn't
• Lunar Rover Discovers Mysterious Glass Spheres on The Far Side of The Moon
• Scientists Built a Coronavirus From Scratch, Then Saw It Trying to Hide
• Archaeologists Uncover Exciting 'Time Capsule' of Iron Age Artifacts in England

February 22

• Giant Haul of Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Spills The Lost Secrets of Mummification
• Scientists Unearth The Ancient Bones of The Largest Jurassic Pterosaur Ever Found
• Scientists Can Now Turn Stem Cells Into Bone Using Nothing More Than Sound
• The Mysterious Origins of King Tutankhamen's Space Rock Dagger Just Got Clearer
• Good News: There's an Effective Way to Treat Gaming And Internet Addiction in Teens
• A Forgotten Continent From 40 Million Years Ago May Have Just Been Rediscovered
• Astonishing Image Captures The Epic Collision of Three Galaxies
• Scientists Attached Tracking Devices to Magpies. But Nobody Asked The Magpies
• The Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever Might Detect Alien Life. Here's How

February 21

• Mystery Deepens as China Denies Owning Space Junk Set to Crash Into Moon
• This Extremely Extreme Exoplanet Has Metal Vapor Clouds And Rains Liquid Jewels
• A New Study Has Found The Year When Sea Level Rise Truly Began Accelerating
• Astrophysicists Say 'Planetary Intelligence' Exists… But Earth Doesn't Have Any
• Newly Discovered Dinosaur From Argentina Belongs to a Rather 'Armless' Family
• Physics Breakthrough as AI Successfully Controls Plasma in Nuclear Fusion Experiment
• Large Review Identifies Common Household Things That Can Make Your Asthma Worse

February 20

• Nearly 50% of Anti-Abortion Americans Would Still Help a Loved One Arrange It
• A Mysterious Desert Bacterium Has Evolved Its Own, Unique Ability to Photosynthesize
• Is a Low-Carb Diet So Much Better For Weight Loss? A New Review Brings The Evidence
• In One Part of Europe, Soil Is Rapidly Degrading. It's a Warning to Us All

February 19

• 'Striking' Expansion of Two Antarctic Flowering Plants Is a Climate Warning
• Ancient 'Megafloods' Tilted The Very Direction of Earth's Crust, Scientists Find
• Study of Over 1 Million People Reveals Heart Attacks Can Reduce Parkinson's Risk
• The Milky Way's Dramatic History of Violence Has Been Charted in a New Map

February 18

• Nearly 50% of US Bald Eagles Have Chronic Lead Poisoning, Heartbreaking Study Shows
• NASA Says Tonga Eruption Sent Up Highest Ash Plumes Ever Captured by Satellite
• Microdosing LSD May Not Have The Amazing Brain Effects We Think, New Study Hints
• Some Children Die Without Explanation. Genetics Is Finally Giving Us Answers
• Signs of 'Significant' Brain Rewiring Have Been Found in Space Travelers
• Behold, This Is The First Asteroid Ever Discovered to Have Three Moons
• Fat Cells in Our Skin Could Be Key to Fighting Acne, Scientists Discover
• Two New Studies Just Outlined The Basics of Building an Interstellar Light Sail
• The World's 'Happiest' Countries Harbor a Dark Side, Wellbeing Study Reveals
• The Sun Has Erupted Non-Stop All Month, And There Are More Giant Flares Coming
• Scientists Convert Donor Lungs to Universal Blood Type in a Medical First

February 17

• A Creepy, Exceptionally Rare 'Ghost Shark' Chimaera Has Been Found in The Pacific
• Scientists Simulated 100,000 Different Futures. Which One We Get Depends Only on Us
• Does Drinking Red Wine Really Protect Against COVID? Let's Look at The Data
• The True Source of Earth's Water Could Be Wildly Different to What You Think

February 16

• Astonishing Discovery Shows Humpback Whales Swimming Thousands of Miles to Mate
• Mysterious 'Russian Flu' 130 Years Ago May Have Been a Coronavirus, Scientists Say
• US Could Get a Century's Worth of Sea Level Rise in Just 3 Decades, Report Warns
• It Turns Out Species Can Go Extinct Twice… And The Second Time Is For Keeps
• Atomic Clocks Experiment Reveals Time Dilation At The Smallest Scale Ever
• Weird Link Discovered Between Physical Attractiveness And The Immune System
• New Breakthrough Could Bring Time Crystals Out of The Lab And Into The Real World
• Radical Idea Shows Laser Propulsion Could Rapidly Accelerate Trips to Mars
• American Woman Appears To Be Entirely Cured of HIV After Unique Medical Treatment
• New X-Ray Space Telescope Shares Its First, Historic Glimpse of The Cosmos

February 15

• Epic Search of Millions of Stars Finds No Traces of Intelligent Alien Life
• Massive 'Killer' Croc Discovered With The Remains of a Dinosaur in Its Stomach
• Vast Majority of People With Depression Aren't Getting Treatment, Global Review Finds
• Strange Quantum Object Successfully Created in The Lab For The First Time
• Sublime New Hubble Image Reveals a Thrilling Exchange Between Two Galaxies
• A Key Detail in Your Retina Could Indicate How Healthy Your Brain Is
• The Biggest Galaxy Ever Found Has Just Been Discovered, And It Will Break Your Brain
• Mysterious Skull Implanted With Strange Metallic Object Divides Experts
• Extreme 'Megadrought' Gripping The US Is Like Nothing Seen in 1,200 Years

February 14

• Mummified Children Found in Peru May Have Been a Sacrificial Escort to The Underworld
• Physicists Just Achieved a New Smallest Measurement of a Ghost Particle's Mass
• AI Breakthrough Means The World's Best Gran Turismo Driver Is Not Human
• Incredible 5,000-Year-Old Drum Found in The Grave of 'Cuddling' Prehistoric Children
• The Main Reason People Avoid Fast Food May Not Be Unhealthiness, Study Finds
• The Most Extreme 'Rogue Wave' on Record Was Just Confirmed in The North Pacific
• The Iron of Earth's Inner Core Could Be in a Strange 'Superionic' State, Study Finds
• The Thing About to Crash Into The Moon May Not Be a SpaceX Rocket After All

February 13

• The Tinder Swindler: 5 Tactics to Know So You Don't Fall Victim to 'Romance Fraud'
• Mysteries of Stephen Hawking's Doodle-Filled Blackboard May Finally Be Deciphered
• Newly Invented Catalyst Dramatically Increases The Efficiency of Turning CO2 Into Fuel
• A Building Block of Life May Have Formed in Cosmic Dust Clouds Before Reaching Earth
• Antarctica's Hidden Under-Ice Rivers Could Play a Significant Role in Sea-Level Rise
• The Einstein Effect: People Trust Nonsense More if They Think a Scientist Said It

February 12

• A New Simulation of Mars's Core Could Explain How It Lost Its Magnetic Field
• We've Found The Part of The Brain That Helps Us Say Words How We Intend to
• Scientists Think They've Unlocked The Secret of Long-Term Lyme Disease Symptoms
• We Just Got Closer to Finding a Link Between Alzheimer's And Circadian Rhythms
• Scientists Teach Cockatoos to Play 'Golf', Showing Off The Birds' Clever Tool Use
• An 85-Mile-Wide Comet Is Officially The Largest Comet Ever Observed

February 11

• Just Two Simple Muscle Exercises Can Help Reduce Dizziness When Standing Up
• This Is The James Webb Space Telescope's First-Ever Photograph of a Star
• Enigmatic High-Energy X-Rays Have Been Spied Coming From Jupiter
• Australia Just Listed The Iconic Koala as 'Endangered' in Several States
• Behold, The Most Accurate Virtual Simulation of Our Universe to Date
• Analysis From 113 Countries Shows The Harrowing Extent of Loneliness We Live With
• We May Finally Know Where Ebola Hides in The Brain to Emerge Years Later
• Archaeologists Figured Out How to Tell if One of These Roman Pots Was Used For Poop

February 10

• The Black Death Plague Didn't Actually Kill Half of Europe, New Study Claims
• A Sneezing Dinosaur? Fossil Reveals Deadly Flu-Like Illness in a Sauropod
• Scientists Made a 'Fish' From Human Cardiac Cells, And It Swims Like a Beating Heart
• A New Planet Has Just Been Discovered Orbiting The Nearest Star to The Sun
• NASA Space Probe Unexpectedly Glimpses The Surface of Venus In Stunning New First
• Supercomputers Simulated a Black Hole And Found Something We've Never Seen Before

February 9

• Ancient Cave Shows Modern Humans Ventured Into Europe Far Earlier Than We Knew
• Powerful Geomagnetic Storm Sends Dozens of SpaceX Satellites to a Fiery Doom
• We Have The First Direct Evidence of a White Dwarf Violently Ripping Apart a Planet
• Getting More Sleep Can Help Your Body Absorb Fewer Calories, Experiment Shows
• Fusion Power Experiment in The UK Smashes Its Old Record in Major Step Forward
• A Common Over-The-Counter Drug Could Treat Long COVID, Case Study Reports
• The First Evidence of Omicron Spilling Over Into Wild Animals Has Just Been Found
• Don't Drink Milk? A Nutritionist Explains How to Get Calcium And Other Nutrients
• Mystery Tsunami That Spread Around The World in 2021 Can Finally Be Explained

February 8

• Changing Your Diet Can Add Up to 10 Years to Your Life Expectancy, New Study Shows
• Physicists Have Observed a Strange New Kind of Transition in Electronic Crystals
• Weird, Extinct Animal Species Identified in First Such Finding in Over 100 Years
• Arctic Sponges Survive Dark, Hostile Conditions by Feasting on The Extinct
• Astronomers Join Forces to Push Back Against Satellite 'Pollution' Ruining The Skies
• Mountain-Sized Rock Hidden Underneath Japan Could Be a Magnet For Megaquakes
• 'Treasure Map' Predicts The Hiding Places of 300,000 Meteorites Across Antarctica
• Spinal Implant Enables Paralyzed Man With Severed Spine to Walk Again

February 7

• Mysterious Link Between Vitamin D And COVID-19 Reaffirmed in 'Striking' New Findings
• Chimps Use Insects to Soothe Each Other's Wounds in Never-Before-Seen Behavior
• Do You Get Anxious When Hungover? 'Hangxiety' Is a Real Thing, According to Science
• Astronomers Spot The Youngest Pair of Asteroids Ever Discovered in The Solar System
• You Shouldn't Let Your Dog Do Its Business Wherever It Wants In Nature. Here's Why
• It's Official: New Study Shows We Have No Idea What Megalodon Really Looked Like
• Huge Discovery of 18,000 'Notepads' Documents Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
• Scientists Have Named an 'Alien' Predatory Flatworm After COVID
• 13,000 Years Ago, a Firestorm Covered 10% of Earth's Surface, Triggering an Ice Age

February 6

• Archaeologists Find 40 Beheaded Roman Skeletons With Skulls Between Their Legs
• Earth's Ancient 'Supermountains' May Have Been Crucial For Life as We Know It
• Even Dying Stars Could Give Birth to Brand New Planets, Says Study
• Gut Microbes Can Cause Obesity, And We're Getting Closer to Understanding How

February 5

• How a Magnetic 'Tug-of-War' With Io's Volcanic Eruptions Creates Jupiter's Auroras
• DNA Shed by Deep-Sea Organisms Reveals a Dark Abyss Teeming With Tiny Life Forms
• Astronomers Keep Finding Stars That Should Be Dead. Now, We May Finally Know Why
• Everest's Highest Glacier Lost 2,000 Years of Ice in Just 25 Years, Says New Study
• The Science Behind Why Some of Us Can't Grow Big Muscles After Turning 50
• Fish Have 'Talked' For 155 Million Years, And Now You Can Hear Their 'Voices'

February 4

• Humans May Be Slowly Losing Their Sense of Smell, New Study Hints
• A Love For Nature May Come From an Unexpected Place, Finds Large Twin Study
• Astronomers Report The First-Ever Wandering Black Hole in Our Galaxy
• We Just Got a Major Clue on How CGRP Contributes to Migraine in Our Nerve Cells
• Mind-Bending New Multiverse Scenario Could Explain a Strange Higgs Boson Feature
• Long-Term Cannabis Smoking Appears to Alter Lung Function, But Not Like Tobacco
• Breathtaking New Chandra Pics Show Cosmic Objects Like You've Never Seen Them Before
• Mysterious Syndrome Turning Sea Stars Into Goo Reveals Another Strange Twist
• A Man Declared Dead by Three Doctors Woke Up Shortly Before His Autopsy

February 3

• NASA Just Announced Where ISS Will Plunge to Its Death in Early 2031
• A New, 'Highly Virulent' HIV Variant Was Just Discovered in Europe
• A Cosmic Water Cloud Shadow Has Revealed The Temperature of The Early Universe
• Earth's Water Was in The Solar System Before Earth Itself, Meteorite Reveals
• World-First Experiment That Infected People With Coronavirus Shares Early Results
• North America Could Expect Over 1 Million More Opioid Deaths by 2029

February 2

• Ancient Buddhist Temple Unearthed in Pakistan Is One of The Oldest Ever Discovered
• Human Spines Found Mounted on Sticks in Peru, And Archaeologists Think They Know Why
• Meteorite Fragment Reveals an Extreme Asteroid Impact Hidden in Mars' Ancient Past
• Rare Breed of Ancient Trees With Incredible Lifespans Help Keep Their Forests Alive
• A Cosmic Airburst May Have Devastated a Vast Native American Culture 1,500 Years Ago
• There's a Bunch of Bacteria Having 'Sex' in Your Gut, And It's Wilder Than We Thought
• Uranus And Neptune Aren't The Same Color. A New Study Could Finally Explain Why
• Mysterious Headless Horse Skeleton Found Buried in Medieval Graveyard
• Flowers in The UK Are Blooming a Whole Month Earlier Than They Did in The 1980s

February 1

• Almost No Coral Reefs in The World Will Be Safe at 1.5°C Warming, Scientists Warn
• World-Record 'Megaflash' of Lightning Stretched Across The US For Almost 500 Miles
• Archaeologists Find Traces of Sacred Groves Tended by The Ancient Maya
• Physicists Reveal The Weird Shapes Ice Takes as It Melts at Different Temperatures
• It's Official! A New Trojan Asteroid Has Been Discovered Sharing Earth's Orbit
• Invisible Air Pollution in The Country May Be Just as Toxic as The Smog of The City
• The Mysterious 'Pareidolia' Phenomenon Turns Out to Have a Surprising Bias
• Planet Earth Contains Over 9,000 Tree Species Yet to Be Discovered, Scientists Say
• Hemp-Derived Compound Offers Benefits of THC With Less Paranoia, Study Suggests
• Hundreds of Strange, Tiny Fossils Found Inside Fish Cranium From 9 Million Years Ago