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- January 31
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- A Young, Pro Athlete Nearly Died After Swallowing a Toothpick
- This Is the Purest Beam of Light in the World
- Climate Change May Hurt Babies' Hearts
- Neanderthals and Denisovans Lived (and Mated) in This Siberian Cave
- Will It Really Take Joshua Tree '200 to 300' Years to Recover from the Shutdown?
- Hyperfast Shock Waves from a Supernova Heat Atoms to Blazing-Hot Temperatures
- Israeli Scientists Say They'll Have Cure for Cancer Within a Year. Here's Why That's Highly Unlikely
- Cocktail-Inspired, Injectable Male Birth Control Could One Day Dissolve Away with Light
- What Is Coral Bleaching?
- Giant Void Hidden Under Antarctica’s Ice Threatens Vast Glacier
- In Photos: The Tigers of India's Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve
- Adorable Clip of Tiger Cubs Learning to Wrestle Will Melt Your Heart on This 'Arctic' Day
- Birthplace of Earth's Continents Discovered Under These Mountains
- Before There Were Dinosaurs, This Triassic 'Lizard King' Ruled Antarctica
- Gallery: Medieval Africa's Astounding Riches
- Medieval Map Points to World's Richest Man, Maybe Ever
- Most Important Meal? Review Questions Whether Breakfast Is Really Good for Weight Loss
- January 30
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- How Does a Person Freeze to Death?
- The Polar Vortex Might Be Causing 'Frost Quakes' in Chicago
- Here's Why the Polar Vortex Always Hits the Midwest
- Is This Amelia Earhart's Plane? Debris from Wreck Found Off Papua New Guinea
- Burned Bones Could Reveal More Than You Think
- Sonar Can Literally Scare Whales to Death, Study Finds
- Lost Grave of English Explorer, Center of Urban Legend, Discovered in London
- Dark Energy Gets Weirder: Mysterious Force May Vary Over Time
- Buy the Meteorite That Nearly Destroyed Siberia in This Fun Valentine's Day Auction
- This 'Empty Trash Bag' Is Orbiting Earth in a Very Strange Way
- Corrosive Black Fungus Sinks Its Tendrils Deep Into a Medieval Cathedral
- US Military Space Plane Wings Past 500 Days on Latest Mystery Mission
- Earth's Magnetic Field Nearly Disappeared 565 Million Years Ago
- Being a Night Owl Really Can Hurt Your Mental Health
- E-Cigarettes Linked to Heart Attacks, Strokes
- The Flu Is Tied to an Increased Risk of Stroke and Ruptured Arteries
- January 29
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- North Dakota Will Get Colder Than The North Pole Tonight — Here's Why
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Algorithms Can Be Racist. Here's Why She's Right.
- Faces Re-Created of Ancient Europeans, Including Neanderthal Woman and Cro-Magnon Man
- Photos: See the ancient faces of a man-bun-wearing bloke and a Neanderthal woman
- New MIT Laser Device Whispers Secret Sounds Into Your Ear
- A Woman Returned from Vacation with a Fly Larva Living in Her Forehead
- Denmark Is Building a $12 Million Border Wall for Pigs
- Florida Couple Finds a Grenade. Next Stop: Taco Bell?
- Space Rock Leaves 'Evil' Splat on Mars' Surface
- Deepest View of the Universe Gets Deeper
- 2,000-Year-Old Winery Discovered in Egypt's Nile Delta
- Physicists Made a Flying Army of Laser Schrödinger's Cats
- What Causes Alzheimer's? We Don't Really Know Yet
- January 28
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- Trevor, the World's Loneliest Duck, Has Died As He Lived — Alone in a Puddle
- Shackleton's Lost Ship May Lie at the Bottom of Antarctica's Weddell Sea
- 2018 Bright Spot: Sharks Bit Us Less
- This French Soldier Got Slashed in Russia in 1812. Now, We Know What He Looked Like.
- Iran's Capital City Is Being Devoured by Sinkholes
- Why Are the Northern and Southern Lights Different?
- Pet Hedgehogs Are the Latest Source of a Salmonella Outbreak
- There Are 'Superbug' Genes in the Arctic. They Definitely Shouldn't Be There.
- Ancient Carved 'Drums' Give Exact Stonehenge Measurements, Say Archaeologists
- In Photos: The Vanishing Ice of Baffin Island
- Retreating Ice Exposes Arctic Landscape Unseen for 120,000 Years
- January 27
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- January 25
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- Europe's 'New' Periodic Table Predicts Which Elements Will Disappear in the Next 100 Years
- 500-Year-Old Greenland Mummies Had Heart Disease, Scans Show
- Mysterious Great White Shark Death Solved, Fisherman Convicted
- People Keep Injuring Themselves on Electric Scooters, Study Finds
- Oops! British Aristocrat Accidentally Bought Stolen, 7th-Century Sculptures As 'Garden Ornaments'
- How Alligators Survive in a Frozen Pond: They 'Snorkel'
- Apollo Astronauts May Have Found the Oldest-Known Earth Rock on the Moon
- A Drunk Man Swallowed a Live, Venomous, Spiny Catfish. Here's What Happened.
- January 24
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- Sheep Ain't Baa-aad at Recognizing Faces (But Humans Are Better)
- General Mills Recalls Some Bags of Flour Due to Salmonella Risk
- Stratolaunch, Builder of Gargantuan Airplane, Drops Rocket Plans
- When You're an Alpha Chimp, Life Isn't a Barrel of Monkeys
- In Photos: The Fongoli Savanna Chimpanzees
- Why Does This Woman's Eyeball Look Like a Sliced Pizza?
- Eve of Destruction: Doomsday Clock Hovers at 2 Minutes to 'Midnight'
- Could 'Memory-Erasing' Implants Help Prevent Drug Relapses? It Worked for These Rats.
- Deep Blue Sea: Winning Underwater Photographs
- Trio of Devil Rays Caught in Rare Courtship Dance in Stunning Underwater Photo
- Tiny-Headed, Ancient ‘Platypus’ with Stegosaurus Back Plates Unearthed
- Scientists Drill Deepest Hole Ever in Antarctica
- How Did Uranus End Up On Its Side?
- January 23
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- Here's How 'Flesh-Eating' Bacteria Feast on Your Flesh
- Earth Swallowed Another Planet and (Maybe) That's Why Life Exists
- Andes Grew to Towering Heights in Two Explosive 'Growth Spurts'
- David Attenborough Warns That Earth Has Entered 'Age of Humans'
- 'Mystery Dinner Snake' Found in Belly of Another Snake Finally Identified
- Watch Live: Doomsday Clock 2019 Announcement
- Famous Japanese 'Freak Wave' Recreated in Lab
- How to Destroy the Earth in 3 Easy Steps
- 3,000-Year-Old Tomb of King Tut Finally Restored
- January 22
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- How Flat-Earthers Explain Total Lunar Eclipses
- No Planet Nine? Weird Orbits of Distant Objects May Have Different Explanation
- Tiny, Previously Undiscovered Capillaries May Exist Inside People's Bones
- Chinese Scientist Who Created Gene-Edited Babies Lied and Skirted Regulations, Officials Say
- Sorry, Global Warming Won't Save You from Snow Days
- These Cold-Prevention Myths Won't Keep Your Kids Healthy This Winter (But Here's What Will)
- Teen Diver Finds Huge Cache of Plastic Pollution — Thousands of Golf Balls Off California Coast
- 11 Surprising Uses For Pee and Poop
- Did 'The Big Bang Theory' Get the Science Right? A Lesson in Supersymmetry and Economy Class
- No, Archaeologists Have Not Found the Tomb of Antony and Cleopatra
- Man with 'Alice in Wonderland Syndrome' Watches Computer Icons Leap Off Screen
- January 21
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- The Greenland Ice Sheet Is Melting at Astonishing Rate
- 100-Million-Year-Old Hagfish Complete with Slime Kit Discovered
- 'Ancient' Stone Circle Actually Built in 1990s by Scottish Farmer
- Photos: Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse Stuns Viewers
- Soviets Hid Nuclear Bunkers in Poland's Forests (Photos)
- Secret Soviet Bunkers in Poland Hid Nuclear Weapons
- January 20
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- January 18
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- The Polar Vortex Is Collapsing — Here's What That Means for Your Winter Weather
- World’s Oldest Periodic Table Poster Turns Up in Scottish Storeroom
- A New Satellite Will (Safely) Drop 'Meteors' Over Hiroshima
- 68,000 Pounds of Frozen Chicken Nuggets Recalled Because They May Contain Wood Pieces
- 25,000 Years Later, Javelin Is Still Embedded in Mammoth's Rib
- Here's How to Watch the Super Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse This Weekend
- Check Out These Amazing Super-Detailed Images of Fruit Fly Brains
- 1st Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua Is Actually Not That Special
- Here's How a Huge Exoplanet Very Close to Earth Could Hide Strange Forms of Life
- Mini-Monsters with Multiple Heads Created in the Lab
- January 17
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- More Than 250,000 People May Die Each Year Due to Climate Change
- Not All Insomnia Is The Same — In Fact, There May Be 5 Types
- Extreme Microbes Found in Crystals Buried 200 Feet Beneath the Sea of Japan
- Lionfish: Beautiful and Dangerous Invaders
- Earth May Be in the Middle of a Giant Asteroid Spike, Billion-Year Survey Reveals
- Eating Red Meat Is Wreaking Havoc on Earth. So, Stop It!
- In Photos: The Lions of Kenya's Masai Mara
- Small Terrapin Outsmarts Young Lion in Wild Video
- A Rare Kind of Black Hole May Be Wandering Around Our Milky Way
- Did the Vikings Think the Gods Were Watching Them?
- Opal-Filled Fossils Reveal Timid, Dog-Size Dinosaur That Lived Down Under
- Anti-Vaccine Movement Joins Ebola, Drug Resistance on List of Top Global Threats
- The Day Edwin Hubble Realized Our Universe Was Expanding
- January 16
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- Those Tiny Cotton Sprouts China Grew on the Moon? They’re Dead Now
- Man Gave Himself Semen Injections to 'Treat' Back Pain. Unsurprisingly, It Didn't Work.
- Stunning Animation of a Solar Flare Captures Its Life from Birth to Death
- Physicists Want to Build an Even More Powerful Atom Smasher at CERN
- Giant, Spinning Disk of Ice Looks Like Alien Creation. Here's How It Formed.
- Bizarre Superfluid Could Explain the Existence of the Modern Universe
- Damage to Ancient Carving of Egyptian Couple Was Meant to Hurt Them in the Afterlife
- Mystery Mummy May Have Been Pharaoh's Personal Eye Doctor
- Two Ancient Tombs from the Roman Era Discovered in Egypt
- Electricity Basics: Resistance, Inductance and Capacitance
- The Ocean Is Hotter Than It's Ever Been
- Smoking Pot Just Once May Increase Teen Brain Volume: Why That Could Be Bad
- Earth's Tilt May Exacerbate a Melting Antarctic
- January 15
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- Third Cat in Wyoming Diagnosed with Plague: Here's Why You Shouldn't Panic
- Antarctica Is Dumping Hundreds of Gigatons of Ice into the Ocean Right Now
- Here's the 1 Way We Can Avoid Climate Catastrophe, Scary Report Says
- Cotton Seed Sprouts on the Moon's Far Side in Historic First by China's Chang'e 4
- Romeo the Water Frog Has Finally Found His Juliet — and Their Love Just Might Save His Species
- Hidden Beneath a Half Mile of Ice, Antarctic Lake Teems with Life
- Photos: Drilling into Antarctic Subglacial Lake Mercer
- Cancer Cells Transformed into Harmless Fat in Mouse Study
- Reflections from Donna Strickland, 3rd Woman Ever to Win Nobel in Physics
- So Many Ticks Were Feasting on This Unlucky Python, They Looked Like Living Scales
- WWI German Sub Spotted Off French Coast, 100 Years After Its Crew Surrendered
- January 14
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- What Caused This Man's Sudden, Monthly Sweating Episodes?
- Government Shutdown Halts Some Research on New Invasive Tick Species
- Ancient 'Tomb' Unearthed in Guatemala Turns Out to Be Maya Steam Bath
- Newborn Orca Spotted Off Seattle Coast. Will the Baby Survive Its 1st Year?
- James Watson, Co-Discoverer of DNA Structure, Stripped of Honors Over Racist Statements
- Physicists Built a Machine That Breaks the Normal Rules of Light
- What Are Corticosteroids?
- Scientists Are Legit Building a Steam-Powered Spaceship, And It Sounds Awesome
- Dark Matter Behaves Differently in Dying Galaxies
- Wine on Mars? The World's Oldest Wine-Making Country Wants to Make It Happen
- Earth's Magnetic Pole Is Wandering, Lurching Toward Siberia
- January 13
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- January 11
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- Note Penned by British King on Eve of Napoleonic Wars Fetches Nearly $15,000 at Auction
- Woman with Rare Condition Couldn’t Hear Male Voices
- Watch China Land on the Moon's Far Side in This Awesome Video!
- Dozens of Seals Turn Up on Icy Streets in Canada. Here's Why.
- Here's How Many People Have Caught the Flu So Far This Season (Hint: It's a Lot)
- A Mirror Image of Our Universe May Have Existed Before the Big Bang
- Finch's Bite Is 320 Times More Powerful Than T. Rex's
- Mathematicians Discovered a Computer Problem that No One Can Ever Solve
- January 10
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- This Exploding 'Cow' May Be the First Black Hole Birth Ever Observed
- What the Slowdown in FDA Food Inspections Means for You (Spoiler: Don't Panic Yet)
- Maggots Will Soon Be Sent to War Zones to Heal the Injured
- A Dying Star Sent Out an SOS Pointing to Its Killer: A Buzz-Saw Black Hole
- A Man Overdosed on an Erectile Dysfunction Drug. Then He Saw 'Doughnut-Shaped' Spots in his Vision
- Visitors Chainsaw Iconic Joshua Trees in National Park During Gov't Shutdown
- Drug Overdose Death Rates in US Women Rise 260% in 2 Decades
- Extinct Human Relative from 'Miracle' Excavation Moved Like a Chimp
- The Magical Gaze of 'Mona Lisa' Is a Myth
- Decapitated Skeletons, with Heads Between Their Legs, Unearthed in Roman Cemetery
- Photos: Decapitated Romans Found in Ancient Cemetery
- January 9
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- Ultrabright Quasar Lit Up the Early Universe
- Even the Ancient Egyptians Had Homework, Preserved Tablet Shows
- There's a Link Between the Size of Your Belly and the Size of Your Brain
- Blue Whales: The Most Enormous Creatures on Earth
- Ancient, 50-Foot-Long Whale Crushed Baby Whale Skulls for Dinner
- Scientists Have Discovered a Mysterious Repeating Radio Signal from Deep Space
- This Unknown Woman May Have Illustrated Elaborate and Sacred Medieval Manuscripts
- Earth's Sun Will Turn into a Pure Crystal Ball Before It Dies
- Humpback Whales Plagiarize the Tunes of Other Whales (Even Oceans Away)
- Spinning Black Holes Could Open Up Gentle Portals for Hypersonic Spacecraft
- George the Snail, the Last and Loneliest of His Kind, Dies
- Lassen Volcanic National Park: The West’s Most Beautiful, Least-Visited Wonderland (Photos)
- Rare Stonehenge-Like Monument in Scotland Has Single 'Recumbent' Stone
- In Photos: Stone Monument Discovered in Scotland
- January 8
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- How Did 'Miracle' Man Come Back from Dangerous Brain Swelling?
- Giant 'Fatberg' of Grease and Baby Wipes Jams British Sewer
- What Are the Different Types of Ice Formations Found on Earth?
- No, Bacteria Aren't Mutating into Superbugs on the International Space Station
- Top-Secret UFO Program Revealed in TV's 'Project Blue Book'
- Ancient Sea Monster's Head Holds Big Teeth … and Fake Bones
- Cancer Death Rates Reach 25-Year Low
- If Aliens Are Causing Weird Dimming of 'Tabby' Star,' They Aren't Using Lasers to Do It
- Thousands of Female Penguins Are Being Stranded in South America
- Global Weather Forecasts Could Soon Get Much Better, According to IBM
- January 7
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- Mysterious Sounds Recorded at Cuba Embassy Were … Crickets
- What Is E. Coli?
- Amelia Earhart Would Have a Hard Time Disappearing in 2019
- Here's Where J.K. Rowling Got Her Magical Ideas for Harry Potter (Photos)
- Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Triggered Mile-High Tsunami That Spread Through Earth's Oceans
- Ancient DNA from Viking Graves Proves the Fierce Fighters Rode Male Horses
- Impending Galactic Crash Could Rip Open the Black Hole at the Milky Way’s Center
- China May Have Put a Working Electromagnetic Gun on a Warship. Is This a Big Deal?
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- January 4
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- Doctors Thought a Woman Was Having a Panic Attack. She Actually Had Rabies.
- AI Can Now Decode Words Directly from Brain Waves
- Many People Who Claim to Have a Food Allergy Actually Don’t
- Laser-Blasted Plasma Is Cooler Than Deep Space...Literally
- 1.32 Million Jews Were Killed in Just Three Months During the Holocaust
- Will China's Moon Landing Launch a New Space Race?
- Huge Layers of Rocks on Early Earth Vanished. And Stealthy Scientists May Have Finally Found Them.
- Inside This Cult Temple of the 'Flayed Lord,' Sacrificial Horrors Took Place
- Our Universe Could Be An Expanding Bubble in an Extra Dimension
- This 'Fossil' Cloud of Pure Hydrogen Gas Could Be a Time Capsule of the Big Bang
- January 3
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- 'Wound Botulism' Outbreak in San Diego Linked to Black Tar Heroin
- These Water Molecules Have Been Sitting Untouched in the Deep Pacific for 700 Years
- There Are Plants and Animals on the Moon Now (Because of China)
- Chinese Scientist Who Claimed to Edit Babies' Genes May Be Under House Arrest
- Sugar Substitutes May Not Help You Lose Weight, New Review Finds
- Green Flash: The Beautiful and Elusive Sunset Phenomenon
- Trump Calls Wall 'Moral' Because Vatican Has One. So What's Its History?
- China Makes 1st-Ever Landing on Moon's Mysterious Far Side
- Code-Name 'Corona': Earliest Spy-Satellite Images Reveal Secrets of Ancient Middle East
- This 2,300-Year-Old Egyptian Fortress Had an Unusual Task: Guarding a Port That Sent Elephants to War
- Photos: 2,300-Year-Old Fortress Discovered Along the Red Sea
- January 2
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- 'Ripped' Woman with Massive Forearms Is the Oldest Known Human Burial in Lower Central America
- An Australian Man Screamed So Loud at a Spider That the Cops Showed Up
- These 7 Expeditions Could Reveal Some of Earth's Biggest Secrets in 2019
- Queen's Brian May Releases 'New Horizons' Single to Celebrate Epic Flyby
- Ultima Thule Looks Like a Bowling Pin in Space in New Horizons Flyby Photo
- Rare Flying Reptile with Mouthful of Fangs Trolled Jurassic Skies
- What a Tiny Electron Reveals About the Structure of the Universe
- Scientists Find the 'Missing' Dark Matter from the Early Universe
- Sunken 17th-Century 'Pirate Ship' Discovered, Alongside Gunpowder-Packed Grenades
- In Photos: Pirate Ship Discovered in the UK
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