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October 31

• Ancient Traces of a Giant Ocean Have Just Been Discovered on Mars
• Ancient Snail From 99 Million Years Ago Discovered With Hairs Growing on Shell
• The Last Maya City Reveals a Trove of Buried Secrets And Spanish Bullets
• Haunting Audio Reveals The Spooky Sound of Earth's Magnetic Field
• Destroyed Observatory Issues Final Asteroid Warning After Fatal Collapse
• New Hybrid Virus Discovered as Flu And RSV Fuse Into Single Pathogen
• Scientists Invented a Simple 4-Minute Test For Creativity, And You Can Try It Out

October 30

• The Surreal Mystery of Namibia's 'Fairy Circles' May Finally Be Solved
• Paranormal or Psychology? The 'Spooky' Science Behind Ouija Boards
• We Have Precise Math That Can Describe How Black Holes Reflect Our Universe
• These DNA-Damaging Molecules May Be The Link Between Colon Cancer And IBD
• Scientists Think They've Cracked The Mystery of This Cute Octopus And Its 'Shell'

October 29

• Deep Rumbles on Mars Hint at Volcanic Magma Seething Below The Surface
• Want to Lower Your Stress? It May Just Take 4 Weeks of Eating These Kinds of Food
• We've Caught an Aye-Aye Using Its Wacky Long Finger For Something Pretty Gnarly
• Despite Their Scary Name, Some 'Zombie' Cells May Not Be All Bad
• Almost Half of Earth's Vital Signs Are Now 'Code Red', Scientists Warn

October 28

• NASA Spotted The Sun Smiling, And It's The Most Joyous Thing
• Nightmares Can Be Silenced With a Single Piano Chord, Scientists Discover
• Death Comes For Everybody. Here's How to Make Yours Sustainable
• Mysterious 'Blip' Detected Near The Titanic Decades Ago Finally Identified
• Newly Discovered Gut Microbe Could Be a Trigger For Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Mars Shaken by Meteorite Impact That Dug Up a Pleasant Surprise
• We Thought These Animals Were Silent. Scientists Just Found Their Voices

October 27

• This Incredible Photo of an Ant's Face Is Like Something Out of a Nightmare
• 'Time Cells' in The Human Brain Encode The Flow of Time, Scientists Say
• Many Baby Sea Turtles Never Make It to The Sea. This Genius Idea Could Save Them
• Hubble Found an Eerie 'Cosmic Keyhole' Deep in Space And We're in Awe
• NASA Detects More Than 50 Methane 'Super-Emitter' Zones Around The World
• NASA's Lucy Probe Shows The Vast Space Between Us And The Moon
• Ancient Traces of Life May Still Linger on Mars, Experiment Suggests

October 26

• Mummified Baby From Centuries Ago May Have Died From Lack of Sunlight
• Tree Rings Chronicle a Mysterious Cosmic Storm That Strikes Every Thousand Years
• Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Found in Melting Tibetan Glaciers
• Mystery of Earth's Missing Mineral Has Been Solved in a Hot New Experiment
• New Study Suggests Aliens Don't Visit Us Because Our Sun Is Too Boring
• Giant US Study Identifies Best Age to Quit Smoking to Avoid Death Risks
• This Tentacled Microbe Is So Rare, It's Only Been Found Four Times
• Oldest Human DNA in UK Reveals Ancient Peoples Emerging From The Ice Age

October 25

• Purified Sand Particles Have Anti-Obesity Effects, Scientists Confirm
• Mysterious Object May Be a 'Strange Star' Made Out of Quarks, Scientists Say
• A Single Laser Transmitted a Second's Worth of Internet Traffic in Record Time
• Boosted Brain Activity Observed in Children Who Play Video Games
• Cats Do Hear You When You're Talking to Them Sweetly (They Just Don't Care)
• New Report Lists 5 Reasons to Think Plastic Recycling Is a "Failed Concept"
• New Technique For Decoding People's Thoughts Can Now Be Done From a Distance
• Insect Swarms Can Electrify The Air as Much as a Thunderstorm

October 24

• Yosemite Valley's Stunning Peaks Could Be Much Younger Than We Realized
• Hidden 'Oasis of Life' Discovered Deep Under The Ocean in The Maldives
• Want Better Sleep? This One Piece of Advice Seems to Work For Almost Everybody
• Desolate World Had Atmosphere Blown Away Completely, Astronomers Think
• Ancient Tooth Finally Reveals Whether Neanderthals Were Carnivores
• The World's Biggest Infectious Killer Regains Its Deadly Lead
• The Incredible Colors of Animals Mean Different Things, But We Just Found a Pattern
• Study Suggests Spins of 'Brain Water' Could Mean Our Minds Use Quantum Computation

October 23

• Does Faking a Smile Make You Happier? The Latest Findings Are In
• How Particle Physics Could Reduce The 'Collateral Damage' of Cancer Treatments
• The Leading Cause of Death For Pregnant Women in The US Is Truly Shocking
• Early Life on Mars May've Wiped Out Early Life on Mars, a New Study Suggests
• Jumping Spiders May Have a Cognitive Ability Previously Only Found in Vertebrates

October 22

• The Fishing Line Lost at Sea in a Year Could Wrap Around Earth 18 Times
• Electric Discharge From Plants May Be Changing Air Quality in Ways We Didn't Expect
• Feeling Stressed Before You Get COVID May Increase Your Odds of Developing Long COVID
• 20-Year Study Reveals That a Famed Diet Doesn't Do Much to Reduce Dementia Risk
• Scientists Grow Fully Functioning Hair Follicles in New Lab First

October 21

• Ancient Egyptian Falcon Cult Reveals The Proper Etiquette For Boiling Heads
• Weird 'Borg' DNA May Have Assimilated Microbes For Billions of Years
• Mysterious Unknown Street Drug Randomly Discovered in Australia
• Ancient Virus Fragments in Our DNA Are Activating Where We Least Expect
• A Monster Black Hole Has Been Discovered Nearby Silently Minding Its Business
• High Speed Cameras Capture Mosquito Larvae 'Harpooning' Prey With Their Heads
• A Fluffy 'Marshmallow' World Has Been Discovered With Incredibly Low Density

October 20

• Black Canada Lynx Caught on Camera For The First Time, And There's Video
• NASA Just Unveiled an Epic 12-Year Timelapse of The Entire Sky
• Scientists Transformed Pure Water Into a Metal, And There's Footage
• Something Toxic Flourishes in Your Brain After Too Much Hard Work
• This Stunning New JWST Image Reveals Fresh Details in The Famous Pillars of Creation
• Tuna Have Been Seen Rubbing Themselves Against Sharks And We Don't Blame Them
• Neanderthal Genes Hint at Family Structures of a Close-Knit Community
• The Black Death Shaped Human Evolution, And We're Still in Its Shadow

October 19

• Bizarre Discovery on Australian Beach Could Be a Ginormous Whale Penis
• Glaciers in The Alps Are Melting Faster Than Ever, Scientist Warns
• Oldest Map of The Night Sky Appears Hidden Within Medieval Codex
• The Arctic Could Soon Unleash The Next Pandemic. Here's Why
• Lizards Are Eating Venomous Ants And It Could Be Critical For Their Survival
• Oxygen Might Not Be an Ideal Sign of Life on Other Planets After All
• Researchers' Hybrid COVID-19 Virus Isn't as Deadly as You May've Heard
• Scientists Track Eels to Their Ocean Breeding Grounds in World-First

October 18

• Chemical Hair Straighteners Linked to Uterine Cancer, Scientists Warn
• Abandoned WWII Shipwreck Has Altered The Ocean's Microbiology For 80 Years
• Treatment For Depression Changes The Very Structure of The Brain, Scientists Find
• Half-a-Million Year Old Signs of Extinct Human Species Found in Poland Cave
• Stunning NASA Photo Captures The Surreal Glow of Lightning And Moonlight
• Are We Really Shaped by a Few 'Core Memories'? Here's The Science
• Life Expectancy Recovers in Western Europe, And Continues to Drop in The US
• Scientists Call For The Ocean to Be Recognized as a Living Being With Inherent Rights

October 17

• Ancient Humans Were Apex Predators For 2 Million Years, Study Finds
• This Unusual Asteroid Keeps Spinning Faster, And We Don't Know Why
• Wild Proposal to Use Glass to Save The Arctic Could Backfire, Scientists Warn
• 'Killer Robots' Are Already Here. They Just Don't Look Like You Think
• If We Can Detect This Gas on Distant Worlds, It Could Mean There's Life
• BioNTech Founders Predict Cancer Vaccine Is Only Years Away
• Gravity Is Still Shaping Earth's Surface From Deep Within, New Study Finds
• Astronomers Think They've Developed an 'Early Warning System' For Supernovae

October 16

• Quantum Entanglement Has Now Been Directly Observed at The Macroscopic Scale
• Unhappiness Could 'Age' Some People More Than Smoking, Study Suggests
• New Study Asks: If Earth Were an Exoplanet, Could Aliens Tell It Has Life?
• Finally, Scientists Have Figured Out A Key Molecular Mechanism Behind Human Hearing
• Mouse Study Reveals How to Help Speed Up The Liver's Self-Regeneration Process
• An Epic Cosmic Smash-Up May Have Revealed Evidence of The Universe's Missing Matter

October 15

• This Specific 'Pet Parenting Style' Seems to Make Dogs More Secure And Resilient
• Researchers Have a New Theory About What Causes Alzheimer's, And It's Not Plaque
• We Know How Sperm 'Remember' And Pass on Non-DNA-Coded Traits to Embryos
• Ancient Crab Was a Deadly-Looking Weirdo 'Armed' With Spikes And Blades
• This Black Hole Devoured a Star Years Ago. Now It's 'Burped' Something Out

October 14

• Eating Late at Night Is Not a Good Idea. This Experiment Reveals Why
• Breathtaking Footage Shows a Martian Moon Eerily Eclipsing Jupiter
• 'Blue Spaces' Seem to Have an Effect on People That Ripples Even Decades Later
• Dead Creatures Buried in The Ocean Could Influence Earthquakes, Scientists Say
• An Unexpected Metal Was Detected Drifting High Up in Two Alien Atmospheres
• Here's How Long a Cannabis High Actually Lasts, According to Science
• Earliest Life on Mars Could Have Self-Destructed in a Climate Catastrophe
• Clockwork-Like 'Computer' Discovered Inside Brainless Microscopic Organism

October 13

• These Penguins Mysteriously Abandon Their First Egg. We Finally Know Why
• There Are 5 Key Ways to Thrive And Be Happy, Expert Says
• Matter Ejected From Crashing Neutron Stars Appeared to Break Light Speed
• First-of-Its-Kind Study Confirms Daily Steps Lower Chronic Disease Risk
• JWST Captures Incredible Images of Dust Being Pushed by Light
• Expert Explains Why Male Birth Control Options Are So Limited
• Chernobyl's Radiation Is Darkening Its Frogs, And It's a Good Thing Too
• WATCH: A Dish of Brain Cells Figured Out How to Play Pong in 5 Minutes
• Scientists Spliced Human Brain Tissue Into The Brains of Baby Rats

October 12

• Tardigrades Can Survive Frozen Oblivion by Pausing Their Biological Clocks
• Your Boss May Soon Be an Algorithm. If They're Not One Already, That Is
• Scientists Just Detected a Colossal Gamma-Ray Burst, And It's a Record-Breaker
• 3D Models of A Mysterious Medieval Nanomaterial Hints at a Lost Art
• A Vampire Star And Its Victim Have Been Found in The Tightest Embrace Yet
• Success! NASA Knocked an Asteroid Off Course (And Now It Has a Tail)
• Scientists 'Blown Away' by New Treatment Restoring Sight to Blind Mice

October 11

• Microbes Can Form 'Superorganisms' That Crawl Across Our Teeth
• Insects Are Feasting on Plants Like Never Before, And The Consequences Are Unknown
• William Shatner Felt Crushed When He Finally Made It to Space. Here's Why
• Almost 1 in 2 Americans Didn't Tell The Truth About COVID, Study Finds
• Banana Genomes Hint at Hidden Species We Urgently Need to Find
• Secrets to The Moon's Slow Escape Have Been Uncovered in Earth's Crust
• Human Sacrifices in The Midnight Terror Cave Had Strange Blue String in Their Teeth
• Strange Ripples Have Been Detected at The Edge of The Solar System

October 10

• America's Great Salt Lake Is On The Brink of Collapse
• California Quakes Mysteriously Preceded by Shifts in Earth's Magnetic Field
• Watch 1 Billion Years of Shifting Tectonic Plates in 40 Mesmerizing Seconds
• The Wondrous Beauty of Myanmar Amber Hides a Very Dark Secret
• You Should Train Your Cat, Experts Say. Here's How
• Giant Methane Leak From Nord Stream Pipeline Detected From Space
• Ancient DNA From 1 Million Years Ago Discovered in Antarctica
• After 200 Years, a Key Physical Chemistry Mystery May Have Been Solved

October 9

• The Cerebellum Has a Function We Didn't Even Know About, New Research Reveals
• We've Finally Reached The Tallest Tree in The Amazon 3 Years After Its Discovery
• Thanks to a Honeycomb, We Know The Secret to The Wax Worm's Ability to Destroy Plastic
• The 'Death Throes' of Ancient Ice Sheets May Give Hints About Climate Change's Impacts
• Even Blind Mice Scratch When They 'See' Other Mice Fight an Itch

October 8

• Scientists Made a Video Game That Boosts Short-Term Memory in Older Adults
• Pollen Can Trigger 'Thunderstorm Asthma', Even if You Typically Don't Have Asthma
• Researchers Track an Ultra-Rare Disease That Turns Muscle to Bone
• A Large, 'Extinct' Australian Cockroach Has Reappeared After More Than 80 Years
• Scientists Just Figured Out a Way to Make Beer Taste Even Better

October 7

• We May Finally Have Evidence of The First Stars in The Universe
• Thomas The Tank Engine Is The Ultimate Manifestation of The Illusion of Free Will
• Eating Late Can Change How You Burn Calories And Store Fat, Depressing Study Finds
• Finally: Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Your Best Ideas Come in The Shower
• Unexpected Activity in 'Dead' Bacteria Detected by Scientists
• This Bizarre Lottery Win Sounds Impossible. A Mathematician Explains Why It Isn't
• Haunting Photo Captures Million-Mile-Long Plume Shooting Out of The Sun
• Vegetarians Are More Likely to Be Depressed, But Not For The Reason You Think

October 6

• Every Life Form on Earth Uses The Same Chemical For Energy. This Could Explain Why.
• The Pandemic Really Did Change Us on a Personal Level, And It Wasn't For The Better
• An Essential Step in The Evolution of Life on Earth Could Have Taken Place in The Air
• Go Give Your Dog a Pat – It'll Have a Delightful Effect on Your Frontal Lobe
• Discovery of a New Rare Blood Type Could Save The Lives of Future Newborns
• Discovering Even Friendly Aliens Could Have Some Real Risks For Humanity
• Earth's Moon Could Have Taken Just Hours to Form From a Shattered Mess
• New Approach to Machine Learning Could Make Chaos More Predictable

October 5

• Unique Remains of What Could Be The World's Largest Bird Found in Australia
• Watch A Great White Become an Orca's Lunch in World-First Footage
• Reconstruction of The First Mammal's Genome Suggests It Had 38 Chromosomes
• The Mysterious Phenomenon of Déjà Vu Is Finally Closer to Being Explained
• La Niña's Shock Return Suggests Important Details Are Missing in Climate Models
• Scientists Win Physics Nobel Prize For Proving Einstein Wrong
• Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Produced Global Tsunamis Up to 2.8 Miles High
• A Famous Golden Palace in Spain Is Turning Purple, And Now We Know Why

October 4

• NASA Is Sending a Rotorcraft to Titan in 2027. Here's Where It Will Land.
• After 50 Years, Scientists Finally Figure Out How Bacteria Actually Move
• Chimps And Gorillas Seen Hanging Together In The Wild, And We Wish We Were Invited
• Being Kind Can Have a Huge Impact on Your Well-Being. Here's How
• The Pacific Is Destined to Vanish as Earth's Continents Meld Into a New Supercontinent
• Our Galaxy Could Be Evaporating as Dead Stars Flee The Milky Way
• Traces of Fungi Found Growing Inside Tumors Could Be Linked With Patient Outcomes
• 'Unbelievable' Video Shows 2 Bees Working Together to Open a Soda Bottle

October 3

• 'Dark Data' Is Leaving a Huge Carbon Footprint, And We Have to Do Something About It
• New Discovery Means Parkinson's Could Be Diagnosed With a Swab in Just 3 Minutes
• Astronomers Think They Know The Reason For Uranus's Kooky Off-Kilter Axis
• Astronomers Witness Light Delayed by Almost 7 Years as It's Warped by a Galaxy Cluster
• Pythons Can Swallow Almost Anything. A New Study Shows How
• Gum Disease Isn't Only a Problem For Your Mouth. Here's What to Know
• There's a New Quantum Computing Record: Control of a 6-Qubit Processor in Silicon

October 2

• Weight Lifting in Old Age Does More Than Just Keep Your Muscles Strong
• Long COVID Is Still Raising More Questions Than Answers, Say Researchers
• Here's How Events in Your Grandparents' Lives Could Affect Your Genes
• 2 Incredibly Rare Exoplanets Could Give Us Insights About a Planet Close to Home
• What Exactly Does It Mean to Die of 'Old Age'?
• Biology Inspires a New Kind of Water-Based Circuit That Could Transform Computing

October 1

• Narwhals Are So Weird, Scientists Used Chaos Theory to Explain Their Behavior
• 3 Major Aquatic Animal Groups Can Trace Their Lineage to This Ancient Armored 'Worm'
• It Turns Out There Is Such a Thing as Good Gossip, According to New Research
• A Planet-Sized Heatwave Has Been Found in Jupiter's Atmosphere
• We May Finally Know Why Oceans in The Southern Hemisphere Are Getting So Warm
• Secret Clues in Tutankhamun's Tomb Reignite The Idea That Nefertiti Is Hidden Nearby