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December 31
- England museum scientists discover more than 550 new species in 2021
- 8 wildest animal escapes of 2021
- 10 stunning swords and other ancient weapons uncovered in 2021
- 10 weird things scientists calculated in 2021
- 10 amazing health stories you may have missed in 2021
- Bowflex C7 bike deal: Save more than 30% on advanced spin bike
December 30
- Famed naturalist E.O. Wilson, 'Darwin's natural heir,' dies at 92
- Save $100 on Bowflex adjustable dumbbells for the New Year
- The most amazing coin treasures uncovered in 2021
- 10 of the weirdest experiments of 2021
- Unimaginable diversity of life discovered beneath Antarctic ice shelf
- 7 oddly colored animals that caught our eye in 2021
- 12 cool things we learned about humans in 2021
- 10 things we learned about microbes in 2021
December 29
- 8 ominous climate milestones reached in 2021
- The 10 strangest space structures discovered in 2021
- 10 times volcanoes blew our minds in 2021
- 10 times nature stunned us in 2021
December 28
- '29 days on the edge:' What's next for NASA's newly launched James Webb Space Telescope
- Did Benjamin Franklin really discover electricity with a kite and key?
- 9 things we learned about aliens in 2021
- 10 weird creatures found in the deep sea in 2021
- 10 coolest non-dinosaur fossils unearthed in 2021
- Mummy of famous Egyptian pharaoh digitally unwrapped for first time in 3,000 years
December 27
- Why do we stick out our tongues when we're concentrating?
- 11 strange things that washed ashore in 2021
- 10 strangest medical cases of 2021
- Live Science's best of 2021: Writers' choice
December 26
- Is Mount Everest really the tallest mountain on Earth?
- 9 times nature was totally metal in 2021
- Social vomit and hairy eyeballs: 10 times animals grossed us out in 2021
- Top 10 most fascinating archaeological discoveries of 2021
December 25
- In a historic launch, the Webb Telescope blasts off into space
- Omicron may cause milder disease. A lab study hints at why.
- Does every star have planets?
December 24
- Why NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will orbit nearly 1 million miles from Earth
- The 10 wildest things we learned about black holes in 2021
- 10 extraordinary dinosaur discoveries from 2021
December 23
- 55-foot-long Triassic sea monster discovered in Nevada
- Scientists discover new part of the body
- Solar storm may amp up northern lights before Christmas
- 'Garbage dump' discovered in ancient Egyptian tomb dedicated to fertility goddess
- Is fluoride good for your teeth?
December 22
- Scientists just reconstructed one of the oldest family trees ever charted
- Darkness caused by dino-killing asteroid snuffed out life on Earth in 9 months
- Flecks of silver in poop of ancient Cambrian creature baffle scientists
- Woolly mammoths survived on mainland North America until 5,000 years ago, DNA reveals
- 9 equations that changed the world
- 20 inventions that changed the world
- Are electric toothbrushes better than manual toothbrushes?
December 21
- 10 benefits of using a rowing machine
- 1st long-acting injection to prevent HIV has been approved by the FDA
- Scientists find fossil of largest arthropod to ever live, a car-size millipede
- Impeccably preserved dinosaur embryo looks as if it 'died yesterday'
- Imaginary numbers could be needed to describe reality, new studies find
- How to watch the James Webb telescope launch into space
December 20
- Can you use a Peloton when pregnant?
- Five ideas for fun cardio HIIT workouts
- Is dehumidifier water good for plants?
- Frozen tardigrade becomes first 'quantum entangled' animal in history, researchers claim
- What is Lake Vostok?
- Bits of asteroid Ryugu are among 'most primordial' materials ever examined
- Can drinking warm milk really help you fall asleep?
- Remains of man who was 'vaporized' by Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago discovered
- One of the largest-known Norse longhouses discovered near Viking ship burial
- James Webb Space Telescope vs. Hubble: How will their images compare?
December 19
- Brazilian wandering spiders: Bites & other facts
- When will the sun explode?
- 200,000-year-old 'mammoth graveyard' found in UK
- Comet Leonard may have spawned meteor shower on Venus
December 18
- 'Wind' from Earth's middle layer blows through a secret passage beneath Panama
- 41,000 years ago, auroras blazed near the equator
- When humans are gone, what animals might evolve to have our smarts and skills?
- Indestructible 'Black Box' will record our planet's demise in minute detail
December 17
- Flu shot may be a 'bad match' for dominant strain
- Breakthrough COVID cases may supercharge immunity, study hints
- Burial of infant 'Neve' could be oldest of its kind in Europe
- 1,900 year-old Roman 'battle spoils' recovered from robbers in Jerusalem
- Swarms of mutant bacteria look just like Van Gogh's 'Starry Night'
- Giant reservoir of 'hidden water' discovered on Mars
- The Human Body: Anatomy, facts & functions
December 16
- Newfound millipede breaks world record for the most legs
- Holiday sale: Read a free issue of History of War magazine and save up to 33% on subscriptions
- Holiday sale: Save up to 39% on All About Space magazine, plus read a free issue here
- Anti-aging vaccine shows promise in mice — will it work in humans?
- How to see the Cold Moon, the longest full moon of the year, this Saturday
December 15
- Ancient Egypt: History, dynasties, religion and writing
- Reindeer and Caribou: Facts about majestic deer
- 'Humanity has touched the sun' in a pioneering achievement for space exploration
- Landsat satellites: 12 amazing images of Earth from space
- What is an atom? Facts about the building blocks of the universe
- Weird quantum objects known as Q balls could explain why we exist
- Astronomers capture sharpest images ever of Milky Way's heart
- How real is the multiverse?
- Holiday sale: Read a free issue of All About History magazine and save up to 40% on a subscription
- Vlad the Impaler: The real Dracula
December 14
- UN confirms hottest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic
- Dormant cancer cells may 'reawaken' due to change in this key protein
- Tainted synthetic marijuana linked to severe bleeding cases in Florida
- Rare wispy ice formations streak across the sea near Antarctica in beautiful satellite images
- Continental Drift: The groundbreaking theory of moving continents
- Are exercise bikes good for weight loss?
- Physicists create new state of matter from quantum soup of magnetically weird particles
- Bananas: Facts, benefits and nutrition
- Enormous sunfish surprises paddleboarders off Laguna Beach
- X-ray analysis reveals 'highly decorated' Viking sword caked in dirt and rust
- Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' could meet its doom within 3 years
- Einstein's theory of general relativity passes one of its toughest tests yet
- Ötzi the Iceman: The famous frozen mummy
December 13
- NASA is tracking two explorers across Antarctica to prepare humans for Mars
- What is a normal heart rate?
- What is antimatter?
- Europe's Mars orbiter relays data from Chinese rover back to Earth
- Does running build muscle?
- New footage shows bizarre deep-sea fish that sees through its forehead
- What is the 'call of the void'?
- Giant huntsman spider: The world's largest spider by leg span
- Who were the Knights Templar?
- How the Periodic Table of the Elements is arranged
December 12
- Black hole jet ejected by supermassive black hole is shaped like a helix
- When did scientists first warn humanity about climate change?
December 11
- How the 'deadly December tornado' carved a 250-mile path through 4 states
- When did Antarctica become a continent?
December 10
- How accurate are fitness trackers?
- How to swim in the ocean
- How to floss your teeth
- What causes toothache?
- What are the benefits of resistance bands?
- 5 major causes of bad breath
- Are teeth considered bones?
- How often should you floss?
- Water's ultimate freezing point just got lower
December 9
- The coronavirus infects fat cells, study suggests
- How to stretch your hamstrings
- Meat-eating dinosaurs were terrifyingly fast, footprints reveal
- We finally know why the brain uses so much energy
- Mega plasma ball erupted from a sun-like star. It was 10 times larger than any ever seen.
- Billionaire hands over $70 million of stolen artifacts
- Mummy with gold-foil 'tongue' found in sealed Egyptian tomb
- What are the different rowing machine types?
- How does sleep affect weight loss?
- Does exercise help anxiety?
- How to clean a yoga mat
- Here's the secret to how 'immortal' hydras regrow severed heads
- How often you poop may be (partly) written in your genes
- 25 weirdest things on Google Earth
- Do indoor plants purify air?
- Mobi Turbo Exercise Bike review
December 8
- Swarm of more than 55 earthquakes strikes off Oregon coast
- Newfound flavor of omicron variant may be harder to track
- Rare evidence of Roman crucifixion uncovered in the UK
- Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí really works
- See rare total solar eclipse from nearly 1 million miles away
- Echelon Connect EX3 review
- Peloton Tread review
- Jurassic crocodile relative could breathe easily while drowning its prey
- This faraway galaxy may be completely devoid of dark matter
December 7
- How do cycling shoes work
- Black widow spiders: Facts about this infamous group of arachnids
- Gold 'lotus flower' pendant from Queen Nefertiti's time discovered in Cyprus
- China is investigating a 'mysterious hut' on the far side of the moon
- Toxic cane toads are invading Taiwan. Conservationists race to contain warty amphibians.
- 7 ways Einstein changed the world
December 6
- Dazzling photos of the solar eclipse from Antarctica
- Marie Curie: Facts and biography
- Lucy mission: NASA's asteroid explorer
- Are humans at the top of the food chain?
- More than 300 smuggled tarantulas, scorpions and giant cockroaches seized from luggage in Colombia
- Medieval Scot with strong jawbone wasn't a local
- Scientists inserted disco 'strobe lights' into jellyfish to see how they function without brains
- DeepMind cracks 'knot' conjecture that bedeviled mathematicians for decades
- Buzz Aldrin: Facts about the second man on the moon
December 5
- What is the Fermi Paradox?
- Giant black hole inside a tiny satellite galaxy defies explanation
- Roman Republic: The rise and fall of ancient Rome's government
- Did the Great Wall of China work?
December 4
- Rare total solar eclipse over Antarctica dazzles ... the penguins
- Are jackalopes real?
December 3
- 'Ghost particles' detected inside the Large Hadron Collider for the first time
- 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid worth nearly $5 billion will skim past Earth this week, NASA says
- Dark matter may spawn more of itself from ordinary matter, like a cosmic ice-9
- Is this really the biblical city where Jesus walked on water?
- Real-life Moby Dick spotted off the coast of Jamaica
- What is a Faraday cage?
December 2
- Omicron variant may have evolved in rats, one theory says
- Giant 'phantom jellyfish' that eats with mouth-arms spotted off California coast
- Fossils of 400-million-year-old 'Excalibur worm' discovered in Australia
- Silver plate showing topless Scythian goddess unearthed in Russia
- This 130 million-year-old ichthyosaur was a 'hypercarnivore' with knife-like teeth
- Was Stonehenge constructed by builders fueled on 'energy bars'?
- Pac-Man-shaped blobs become world's first self-replicating biological robots
- Christmas sale: Read a free issue of How It Works magazine, plus save up to 52% on a subscription!
December 1
- 1st case of omicron variant in US confirmed in California
- Unknown human ancestor may have walked a bit like a bear on its hind legs
- 'Very weird' ankylosaur's tail looked like an Aztec war club
- Starship engine 'crisis' poses possible bankruptcy risk for SpaceX, Elon Musk says: report
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on track for Dec. 22 launch
- This pair of merging black holes is the closest to Earth we've ever found
- Fitbit deals: Grab a bargain on the Fitbit Versa 3, Sense & more
- Ants vomit into each other's mouths to form social bonds
- Black Friday binoculars deals: Magnificent savings on Celestron, Nikon, Bushnell and more
- Home weights set deals: Bowflex, RUNWE sales
- History of computers: A brief timeline
- Biggest eagle to ever live plunged headfirst into dead prey to eat the organs
- Famous T. rex had a bone infection, new medical scans reveal