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May 31
- Three Cases of Brain-Infecting Parasite Recently Confirmed in Hawaii
- AIDS & HIV: Symptoms, Treatment and Prevention
- Here's What the Universe Looks Like in X-Rays
- Ancient People Watched a Volcano Erupt. This May Be Their Illustration of It.
- Photos: Rock Art May Depict One of First Volcanic Eruptions That Humans Ever Drew
- Little Green Men? Nope, Extraterrestrial Life May Look More Like Pasta.
- Number of Measles Cases in the US Higher Than It's Been in 27 Years
- How Many Chemical Elements Can You Name? 1 in 5 Americans Can't Name One.
- Why 'Cosmic Nothingness' May Hold Secrets of the Universe
- This 'Doomsday Plane' Can Survive a Nuclear Attack
May 30
- Why These Human-Sized Beavers Suddenly Died Out 10,000 Years Ago
- World's Tiniest Baby Was the Size of an Apple. Here's How She Survived.
- 50-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shows School of Baby Fish in Their Final Moments
- Alex Trebek's Promising Cancer Update: What Is 'Near Remission'?
- Penicillin: Discovery, Benefits and Resistance
- The Tendency for Order to Emerge from Chaos Was Hidden in the Most Fundamental Equations of Fluid Mechanics
- Escaped 'Raccoon Dogs' Harass English Village. What Are These Things?
- Former Head of Pentagon's Secret UFO Program Has Some (Strange) Stories to Tell
- 30 'Homeless' Binary Stars Spotted Drifting in the Void Outside Any Known Galaxy
- Neanderthals May Have Been Driven to Extinction by a Tiny Drop in Fertility Rates
- New Virus Infecting People in China, and Ticks May Be the Culprit
May 29
- Nazi Code-Making Enigma Machine Is Up for Auction
- Confirmed: Earth Is Crushing the Ocean into Salty Diamonds
- Could Squeezing Your Arms and Legs Help Prevent Strokes?
- Ancient Rocky Structure Found Beneath Antarctica. And It's Messing with the Ice.
- Here's Why Astronomers Are So Worried About SpaceX's Planned 'Megaconstellation'
- 'Fleet of UFOs' Followed US Aircraft, Navy Pilot Says
- Powerful Tornadoes Rip Through Midwest, the Plains, Leaving Trail of Destruction
- Albino Panda Spotted in the Wild for the First Time
- Scientists Find Possible Traces of 'Lost' Stone Age Settlement Beneath the North Sea
May 28
- Video Game Addiction Becomes Official Mental Disorder in Controversial Decision by WHO
- Exploding Stars May Have Put Humanity on Two Feet
- Mathematicians Edge Closer to Solving a 'Million Dollar' Math Problem
- Kindergarteners Stumbled Across This 5,600-Year-Old Burial Mound. Archaeologists Are Mystified.
- Extinction Looms As Last Male Sumatran Rhino in Malaysia Dies
- Why Thousands of Aftershocks of a 1959 Earthquake Just Rumbled Through Yellowstone 60 Years Later
- Infertility Linked to Dangerous Heart Condition in Pregnancy
- No, That Baby Dinosaur Didn't Crawl. But It Did Walk on 4 Legs As an Infant.
May 27
- This Animated Mona Lisa Was Created by AI, and It Is Terrifying
- Man Ends Up in the ER After 'Overdosing' on Licorice Tea
- How Did Radiation Affect the 'Liquidators' of the Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown?
May 26
- This Seawater Is 20,000 Years Old, and Has Remained Untouched Since the Last Ice Age
- Why does the letter 'S' look like an 'F' in old manuscripts?
May 25
- Here's What SpaceX's Starlink Satellites Look Like in the Night Sky
- Why do we love garlic but hate garlic breath?
- An Asteroid with Its Own Moon Will Zip Past Earth Tonight
May 24
- Why Are So Many People Dying on Mount Everest?
- Does Your Life Have Purpose? The Answer Could Affect How Long You Live.
- This Fungus Mines For Gold, Then Wears It
- Measles: Symptoms, Treatment and Vaccination
- Could Dead Aliens Help Save Humanity?
- Oldest Fungus Fossils May Rewrite Our View of How Life Made the Leap to Land
- Archaeologists Discover the First Ever Iron-Age Shield Made of Bark in England
- Earth's Oldest Meteorite Collection Just Found in the Driest Place on the Planet
- SpaceX Launches 60 Starlink Satellites on Thrice-Flown Rocket, Sticks Landing
- Woman's Facial Injection for 'Liquid Nose Job' Left Her with Rare Eye Problem
- Chernobyl vs. Fukushima: Which Nuclear Meltdown Was the Bigger Disaster?
May 23
- Botswana Just Lifted Its Ban on Elephant Hunting. Conservationists Are Appalled.
- The Atlantic May See Up to 4 Major Hurricanes This Season, New Forecast Says
- Two White Dwarf Stars Collided and Came Back from the Dead. Soon, They’ll Go Supernova.
- Did Scientists Just Break the Record for Highest-Temperature Superconductor? Maybe.
- What Is Potential Energy?
- Slavers Burned the Last US Slave Ship to Hide Their Crimes. Now It's Been Found.
- Did a Great White Shark Really Enter Long Island Sound?
- The Government Is Serious About Creating Mind-Controlled Weapons
- Geologists Discover Largest Underwater Volcano, Explain Weird Hum Heard Around the World
- Enormous Python Swallows, Vomits Up Even Bigger Python
- Rare Dodo Skeleton May Fetch Over $700K at Auction
- Zombie Science: Could We Ever Resurrect the Dead?
May 22
- Here's How Many US Cancer Cases Are Tied to Unhealthy Diets
- Hereditary Rule Wreaked Havoc in 'Game of Thrones' — and in Medieval Europe
- Sorry Napoleon, A Big Garbage Patch Is Floating Near Your Mediterranean Islands
- Being a Dog Lover May Be in Your Genes
- Freckled Woman with High Alcohol Tolerance Lived in Japan 3,800 Years Ago
- Why Are Two Stars in Our Galaxy Suddenly Acting Very Strange?
- Could We Move the Entire Planet Earth to a New Orbit?
- 'Face Mites' Live in Your Pores, Eat Your Grease and Mate on Your Face While You Sleep
- Many Sunscreens Sold in US Offer Suboptimal Protection, According to New Report
May 21
- CBD and CBD Oil: What Is It and Does It Really Work?
- CBD May Reduce Drug Cravings in People with Heroin Addiction, Small Study Finds
- Look Out, Songbirds — Baby Sharks Want to Eat You
- Hidden Winds on Jupiter May Be Messing with Its Enormous Magnetic Field
- Bermuda Was Made by Unexpected Geological Layer Deep in Earth's Mantle
- Scientists Have Created a Sound So Loud It Can Vaporize Water on Contact
- Ancient Collision with Unknown Dwarf Planet Left the Moon Lopsided, Study Suggests
- 10-Foot-Tall Stone Jars 'Made by Giants' Stored Human Bodies in Ancient Laos
- In Photos: Exploring the Mysterious Plain of Jars Site
- Scientists Create Tectonic Map of 'Game of Thrones' Continents
- Nearly 25% of West Antarctic Ice in Danger of Collapse
May 20
- Violent Tornadoes and Flooding Are Expected in Oklahoma and Texas Tonight
- There's a Brand-New Kilogram, And It's Based on Quantum Physics
- Scientists Went to One of the World's Most Remote Island Atolls. They Found 414 Million Pieces of Plastic
- Ancient Egyptians Built This 4-Towered Fortress More Than 2,600 Years Ago
- Startup Hermeus Wants to Build a Hypersonic Jet That Flies at 5 Times the Speed of Sound
- Supersymmetric 'Sleptons' Might Exist. But They'd Have to Be Huge.
- We May Finally Know Where the Cannabis Plant Originated
- Conservation's Biggest Challenge? The Legacy of Colonialism (Op-Ed)
- When Chernobyl Blew, They Dumped Boron and Sand into the Breach. What Would We Do Today?
- The Casebooks of Elizabethan Astrologer Reveal Sketchy Cures for Cheating Spouses, Devils
May 19
- Are Dogs Really Smiling at Us?
- Why Is the Pentagon Interested in UFOs?
- How Accurate Is the Myers-Briggs Personality Test?
May 18
- Can Touching Fentanyl Really Kill You?
- Read the Long-Lost Letter from Alexander Hamilton to the Marquis de Lafayette, Stolen 60 Years Ago
- The Weird Reason Tonight's Full Moon Is 'Blue'
May 17
- Internet's Famous Grumpy Cat Dies at Age 7
- First-Ever Image of a Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Burst Shows Light Exploding Out of a Thundercloud in Asia
- Ultraprocessed Foods Really Do Lead to Weight Gain, Small Study Finds
- How Does Google Earth Work?
- King Tut Wore Ancient, Meteor-Blasted Yellow Glass
- Ancient Wads of 'Chewing Gum' Hold the Oldest Human DNA in Scandinavia
- Humans and Neanderthals Evolved from a Mystery Common Ancestor, Huge Analysis Suggests
- Photos: Ancient burial of elite members of nomadic tribe
- Large mound in Russia reveals 2,500-year-old skeletons of elite nomadic tribesmen...and a horse head
- Has the Mysterious Code of the Voynich Manuscript Been Cracked?
May 16
- Octopuses May Go Blind As Climate Change Sucks Oxygen Out of the Ocean
- Brain Scans Reveal Potential Biomarker of Suicidal Thoughts in People with PTSD
- Here’s What Could Happen If You Get Measles While Pregnant
- New Study Finds Bedbugs Have Pestered the World for 115 Million Years
- This Crafty Spider Doesn't Have Venom...But It Does Have a 'Slingshot'
- An Enormous Great White Shark Is Cruising Toward the Outer Banks. But There's Nothing to Fear.
- Grave of Israeli Lunar Lander Spotted by NASA Spacecraft
- The Green New Deal Doesn't Go Far Enough. Here's Why (Op-Ed)
- Do Zombies Decay the Same Way As Humans?
May 15
- How Much Do Babies’ Skulls Get Squished During Birth? A Whole Lot, 3D Images Reveal
- China's Moon Lander Just Revealed a Secret on the Far Side of the Moon
- Something Strange Punched a Hole in the Milky Way. But What Exactly Is It?
- A Massive 'Blob' of Rock Stretching Under Asia Might Be Triggering Hundreds of Earthquakes
- Bill Nye Brings Out the F-Bombs and a Blowtorch to Talk Climate Change
- Ancient Romans Used Molten Iron to Repair Streets Before Vesuvius Erupted
- US Birth Rates Hit Another Record Low in 2018
May 14
- This Bird Evolved into Existence Twice — Thousands of Years Apart
- Humans Crawled Through a Cave 14,000 Years Ago. We Can Still See Their Perfectly Preserved Footprints.
- The Moon Is Shrinking and That's Causing Moonquakes
- 15 People Were Brutally Murdered 5,000 Years Ago, But the Bodies Were Buried with Care
- Carbon Dioxide Soars to Record-Breaking Levels Not Seen in at Least 800,000 Years
- A 230-Year-Old Secret Code Is Inscribed on a Rock in France. Can You Decipher It?
- Space Mining Could Ruin Our Solar System If We Don't Establish Protected Places Now, Researchers Warn
- From Big Bang to present: Snapshots of our universe through time
May 13
- A Giant Hole in the Martian Atmosphere Is Venting All Its Water into Space
- Explorer Reaches Bottom of the Mariana Trench, Breaks Record for Deepest Dive Ever
- New Supercomputer Will Span Continents, Outrace World's Fastest
- Spider Spins Web in Man's Ear (Cue the Nightmares)
- 'Bomb Carbon' from Cold War Nuclear Tests Found in the Ocean's Deepest Trenches
- Archaeologists Discovered a Hidden Chamber in Roman Emperor Nero's Underground Palace
- This Is the Earliest Known Christian Burial in England. It's Finally Revealing Its Secrets.
- In Photos: Stunning Treasures from the Burial of an Anglo-Saxon Prince
May 12
- If There Were a Time Warp, How Would Physicists Find It?
- Top Baby Name List Reveals Surprising Celebrity Inspirations
May 11
- Car-Size 'Sea Monster' Terrorized Triassic Oceans
- Is It Safe to Drink Moonshine?
May 10
- Sleep Paralysis: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment
- Woman Dies from Rabies After Rescuing Puppy While on Vacation
- Experts ID 25 US Counties Most at Risk of Measles Outbreaks
- Raynaud's Disease: Types, Symptoms and Treatment
- Another Study Found a Link Between Parkinson's Disease and the Appendix. What's Going On?
- This Superbug-Killing 'Phage Therapy' May Have Saved a Teen's Life. Here's How It Works.
- Retracted Study: How a Volcano in Japan Halted an Earthquake
- A Man in China Had Electrodes Implanted in His Brain to Treat His Meth Addiction. How Could It Work?
- A Star in the Big Dipper Is an Alien Invader
- Survival of the Grossest: 8 Disgusting Animal Behaviors
- Why the Area Around Notre Dame Is Now Coated with Toxic Levels of Lead
- An Herbal Sex Supplement Sent a Man's Blood Pressure Through the Roof
May 9
- 5 Weird Things You Didn't Know About Chernobyl
- Scientists Discovered a 2,624-Year-Old Tree in a North Carolina Swamp. Climate Change Could Kill It.
- How the US Veered Off the Path to Measles Elimination
- A Once-Missing Piece of Stonehenge Could Reveal Where Iconic Standing Stones Were Quarried
- This Apple-1 Computer Cost $666 in 1976. Now It Could Sell for $650,000
- NASA Is Developing 'Soft Robots' That Look Like Inflatable 'Aliens'
- The Universe Probably 'Remembers' Every Single Gravitational Wave
- 100-Plus Neglected Lions Found With Mange, Neurological Problems, on South African Farm
- 'Jaws' Movie Poster Comes to Life, in Terrifying Shark Photo
- What Happens in the Hours Before Death? Most People Don't Have a Clue.
May 8
- Mongolian Couple Died of Plague After Eating Raw Marmot
- This Man's DNA Is the Oldest in North America
- Drones Find Unexpected Radiation 'Hotspots' in Forest Near Chernobyl
- Could CTE Be Diagnosed Before a Person Dies? This Protein May Be the Key
- King Tut's Sisters Took the Throne Before He Did, Controversial Claim Says
- The Meaning of 'Archie Harrison,' the New Royal Baby’s Name
- What Made Ancient Hominins Cannibals? Humans Were Nutritious and Easy Prey
- Algae 'Bioreactor' on Space Station Could Make Oxygen, Food for Astronauts
- How Tiny Crustaceans Survive the Crushing Pressures of the Mariana Trench
- Antimatter Is Both a Particle and a Wave, New Experiment Confirms
May 7
- 1st Evidence of a Black Hole Devouring a Neutron Star Sends Ripples Through Space-Time
- What Are Elementary Particles?
- Dogs Sacrificed by Shang Dynasty Were Just Pups. Some Were Even Buried Alive.
- More Than Half of Pregnancy-Related Deaths Are Preventable, CDC Says
- First-Ever Video Shows Immune System Blowing Holes in Bacteria
- Cats 'Farm' Bacteria in Their Butts. Here's Why.
- Off the Coast of Portugal, the Earth's Crust Might Be Peeling in Two
- New York City Has Been Obliterated in a New Asteroid-Impact Simulation
- Why Mathematicians Are Obsessed with (and Hoarding) This Chalk
- 6 in 10 Infectious Diseases Come from Animals. The CDC Is Most Worried About These 8.
- North Korea's Short-Range Missile Test Spotted from Space
May 6
- Chemicals from Sunscreen Get into Your Blood. Here's What That Means.
- Evidence of Ayahuasca, Other Hallucinogens Detected in Pre-Columbian 'Drug Bag'
- Hubble Scientists Just Released the Most Detailed Picture of the Universe Ever
- Newfound 'Mini T. Rex' Was a Tiny Terror at Just 3 Feet Tall
- Photos: Tiny Tyrannosaur Dinosaur Was About As Big As T. Rex's Skull
- Caster Semenya, Testosterone and the History of Gender Segregation in Sports
- Scientists Think They've Found the Ancient Neutron Star Crash That Showered Our Solar System in Gold
- Last-Ditch Hack Led to the Invention of Quantum Mechanics
- Watch Concrete Explode As Scientists Probe Weird Phenomenon
- Ancient Guatemalan Sculptors Knowingly Crafted Magnetic 'Potbelly' Statues
May 5
- Could Life on Earth Have Come from Another Star System?
- A Killer Asteroid Is Coming — We Don't Know When (So Let's Be Ready), Bill Nye Says
- Why Does Freshly Cut Grass Smell So Nice?
May 4
- In Photos: Ancient Cemetery Near Giza Pyramids
- 4,500-Year-Old Cemetery and Sarcophagi Discovered by Giza Pyramids
- What Are the Alternatives to Animal Testing?
- A Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci May Reveal Why He Never Finished the Mona Lisa
May 3
- Photos: Hurricane Michael Toppled Over Trees and Uprooted 19th Century Artifacts
- Hurricane Michael Unearths Evidence of Fort Occupied by Hundreds of Freed Slaves
- Found: First Tibetan Evidence of Neanderthal Cousins, the Denisovans
- A Man in Oklahoma Cracked His Neck. It Caused a Stroke.
- Pirates Made Ocean Vortex 'The Great Whirl' Inaccessible. So Scientists Studied It from Space.
- Man Survives 70-Foot Fall into Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano
- Rare Recording Captures Einstein Talking About Music and the Atomic Bomb
- The Oral and Genital Herpes Viruses Are Having 'Sex.' The Result Is Worrisome.
- How Do You Stop a Hypothetical Asteroid from Hitting Earth? NASA's On It.
- Ancient Millipede Walked with Dinosaurs, Died in a Sticky Trap
May 2
- Navy Plans to Document UFO Sightings, But Keep Them Confidential
- Fire-Breathing Mountain Fueled by Mysterious Deep-Earth Methane Production
- Cosmology: Uncovering the Story of the Universe
- Monster Cyclone in India Prompts the Biggest Evacuation in the Country's History
- A Scientologist Cruise Ship Has Been Quarantined Because of a Measles Case
- 3-Eyed Snake Found in Australia Surprises Rangers
- A Boy Heard a Buzzing Sound in His Ear. It Was a Tick on His Eardrum.
- Ice Age Bear and Wolf-Like Creature Found in Underwater Mexican Cave
- Smashed Ancient Tablet Suggests Biblical King Was Real. But Not Everyone Agrees.
May 1
- This Asteroid Will Come Incredibly Close to Earth on Friday the 13th, 2029
- Soar Through the Heart of a Supernova in This Gorgeous New Simulation
- 'Vampire Facial' at New Mexico Spa Likely Exposed 2 People to HIV
- Leonardo da Vinci's Hair Allegedly Found, But Don't Get Too Excited
- Bacillus Cereus: The Bacterium That Causes 'Fried Rice Sydrome'
- Bacillus Cereus: The Bacterium That Causes 'Fried Rice Sydrome'
- Ambien, Other Sleep Aids Get FDA's 'Black Box' Label, Its Strongest Warning
- Erectile Dysfunction Drug May Help Treat Heart Failure
- Indonesia's Massive Capital Is Sinking Into the Sea. So, the Country Wants to Move It.
- During the Last Lunar Eclipse, a Meteor Smacked the Moon in the Face at 38,000 Mph
- Oldest Human Footprint in Americas May Be This 15,600-Year-Old Mark in Chile