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Bizarre giant viruses with tubular tentacles and star-like shells discovered in New England forest

Iron Age warrior woman was buried with a sword and a mirror

Russian scientists have grown watermelons in the coldest place on Earth

NASA's 1st nuclear-powered rocket could launch as soon as 2025

See stunning likeness of Zlatý kůň, the oldest modern human to be genetically sequenced

Long-held myth says Hurricane Andrew sparked Florida's Burmese python problem. Is it true?

Are legs more important than arms?

Brooks Levitate Stealthfit 6 review

Giant 'bubbletrons' shaped the forces of the universe moments after the Big Bang, new study suggests

Why is gold so soft?

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Supermassive black hole found spitting a giant, high-energy jet toward Earth

Axolotl: The adorable amphibian that can regrow its body and stay looking young forever

Spherical 'minibrains' to be grown on the International Space Station

Teen's year-long case of depression and seizures caused by brain-injuring autoimmune disease

The 'Sturgeon Supermoon' — August's 1st of 2 full supermoons — swims into the sky Aug. 1

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Watch orca tear open whale shark and feast on its liver in extremely rare footage

Brooks Glycerin 20 review

Nematode resurrected from Siberian permafrost laid dormant for 46,000 years

Listen to a star 'twinkle' in world-first audio simulation

Eerily perfect 'vortex rings' keep blowing out of Europe's most active volcano. Here's why.

Swordfish missing circle-shaped chunks of flesh hauled in by fishers. What bit it?

How does the brain regulate body weight?

Buddhist ritual saves exotic fish from slaughter — only for 'adventurous' Tibetan otters to feast on them instead

Night sky 'bleeds' over Arizona after SpaceX rocket punches a hole in the atmosphere. Here's why.

Earth's plate tectonics traced back to 'tipping point' 3.2 billion years ago

Black bear caught napping in a bald eagle's giant nest on Alaska military base

Gene-therapy drops restore teen's vision after genetic disease left his eyes clouded with scars

Why don't overplucked eyebrows fully grow back?

'Excess deaths' tied to COVID have plummeted in America — what does that mean?

Is the iPad Pro worth it for photo editing?

Gulf Stream current could collapse in 2025, plunging Earth into climate chaos: 'We were actually bewildered'

A new, Jupiter-size planet is on the verge of being born, and astronomers have incredible images of it

How do brain cells send messages?

Shark bites man wading in waist-high water off South Carolina beach resort

Bizarre 'relic galaxy' is missing a key component of the universe, and scientists are stumped

Psychedelic psilocybin could treat anorexia in some patients, trial suggests

Invisible barrier that runs through Indonesia finally explained by scientists

Grizzly bear believed to have killed woman on Buttermilk Trail near Yellowstone National Park

Exercise may or may not help you lose and keep off weight — here's the evidence for both sides of the debate

Clearest-ever seafloor maps show deep-sea 'Grand Canyon' off US coast in stunning detail

12 of the Best Yoga Brands, According to 3 Professional Instructors

Master copy of the Voyager Golden Record, designed as an audio postcard for intelligent aliens, is up for auction

Why do spiders have 8 legs?

People on HIV meds have 'almost zero' chance of spreading virus via sex once levels are low

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'Swarm of boulders' in space shows the gory aftermath of NASA's asteroid-smashing DART mission

First contact with aliens could easily end in genocide, scholars warn

Science 'supersedes' creationism, Einstein tells religious students in newly revealed letter

Catspreading 'Big Boss' among finalists of Comedy Pet Photography Awards

Scientists observe metal repairing itself for the first time. Could Terminator robots be on the horizon?

Rare piranha-like fish with 'human teeth' caught by young angler in Oklahoma

Scientists just made the largest quasicrystal ever — because one of them bet it couldn't be done

Fluid leaked from scuba diver's blood vessels after 100-foot cave dive in rare medical case

Echelon Connect EX5s review

Scientists may have found the missing link between heart disease and sleep problems

Rising and setting 'Omega sun' melts into a 'lava-like blob' in trippy mirage photos

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Best biopics about famous scientists to watch while you wait for Oppenheimer

Pyjama sharks filmed mating in a giant, otherworldly underwater forest in 1st footage of its kind

'Cocaine sharks' off Florida may be feasting on dumped bales of drugs

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Black rain frog: The bizarre, grumpy-faced amphibian that's terrible at jumping and swimming

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What determines how flexible you are?

Scientists discover ancient, underwater volcano is still active — and covered in up to a million giant eggs

Final moments of dinosaur and mammal's epic 'mortal combat' battle preserved by volcanic eruption

400,000-year-old mammoth tusk found sticking out of the ground in English quarry

Another major US city is sinking, and this time it's due to 'underground climate change'

500,000-year-old fossil of strange Cambrian creature gives evolutionary clues about vertebrates

Evidence of Roman-era 'death magic' used to speak with the deceased found near Jerusalem

Why is it harder for some people to build muscle than others?

'Building blocks of life' discovered on Mars in 10 different rock samples

Google Pixel 7 review: A superb astrophotography camera that fits in your pocket

Dolphins and orcas have passed the evolutionary point of no return to live on land again

How do plants with seedless fruit reproduce?

Why do deep-sea fish look like aliens?

Science news this week: Civil War haul and the moon’s hot blob

'The night turned into day': How Manhattan Project scientists reacted to the world's first atomic bomb test

Mining crystals locked in the deep-sea could help fight climate change. It may also destroy Earth's last untouched ecosystem.

8 wild stories about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the 'father of the atomic bomb'

What happens if you get struck by lightning… and survive?

No, aspartame is not a 'possible carcinogen,' FDA says in response to WHO ruling

Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer? Biographer Kai Bird delves into the physicist's fascinating life and legacy

'Smoothness' in parts of brain's surface may boost risk of depression, study suggests

Fears that dead 60-foot-long whale in Ireland could explode sends experts scrambling

A nearby supernova nearly blew our solar system to bits 4 billion years ago, new research suggests

Tiny, 'ultracool' star emits surprising radio signals that it should not be capable of producing

1st over-the-counter birth control pill approved by FDA

Explosive 'star factory' image marks the James Webb telescope's one-year anniversary of operations

'Eye-catching' gold hair ring and Britain's oldest wooden comb found in Bronze Age burial

Man sprouted thick, green 'fur' on his tongue in odd medical case

The 'man in the moon' may be hundreds of millions of years older than we thought

Elite Bronze Age tombs laden with gold and precious stones are 'among the richest ever found in the Mediterranean'

$500,000 chunk of 'floating gold' found in dead whale

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We loved the iPad Mini when we tested it, and it's down to its lowest ever price for Prime Day

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'Giant' 300,000-year-old hand ax found in England may have been used for prehistoric butchery

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Spider with weird feeding behavior appears to kill prey by dousing it with toxic digestive fluids

Scientists think they saw an asteroid crash into a dead star and release one of the brightest explosions in the universe

James Webb telescope discovers the oldest active black hole in the known universe

'Airborne' elephant dangles from a crane by its feet in award-winning photo

The Unistellar Summer Nights sale has the Prime Day telescope deals beat with up to $800 off their smart scopes

Male monkeys on tiny island have way more sex with each other than females scientists discover

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Kentucky man finds over 700 Civil War-era coins buried in his cornfield

Ecologist Tim Blackburn: 'Moths pollinate a wider range of species than bees'

Did Alexander the Great have any children?

Did the Cambrian explosion really happen?

Male spider mites 'undress' females by pulling off their skin before copulating

Time moved '5 times slower' in the early universe mind-bending black hole study reveals

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Dazzling 'shooting stars' discovered in the sun's atmosphere. What are they really?

1200-year-old 'Viking graffiti' is the oldest drawing ever discovered in Iceland

Highest-ranking person in Copper Age Spain was a woman not a man genetic analysis shows

Swirls of liquid iron may be trapped inside Earth's 'solid' core

Adorable extinct penguin was one of the smallest of its kind to ever walk Earth tiny skull fossils reveal

James Webb telescope detects the earliest strand in the 'cosmic web' ever seen

Could Ozempic be used to treat addiction? Studies hint yes but questions remain

Should you buy an exercise bike this Amazon Prime Day?

Amazon Prime Day is here again with some amazing fitness tracker deals

Elephants' giant hot testicles could stop them getting cancer

Antarctic sea ice reached 'record-smashing low' last month

'An enormous mass of flesh armed with teeth': How orcas gained their 'killer' reputation

Earth is about to reach its farthest point from the sun. So why is it so hot?

Could vaccines prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease?

What did the last common ancestor between humans and apes look like?

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Maya canoe surrounded by animal and human bones found in 'portal to the underworld' in Mexico

Catastrophic climate 'doom loops' could start in just 15 years new study warns

Zoo monkey eats her baby's corpse after carrying it around for days

How to see the moon in conjunction with 5 planets this month

5 fascinating facts about the Big Bang the theory that defines the history of the universe

Roman aqueduct and 'luxurious' burials unearthed during construction of underground parking garage in Serbia

Great white sharks are moving north. New NatGeo SharkFest show explains why

Do the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean mix?

How to watch Shark Fest 2023: National Geographic's month of shark-centric programming is back

Is there an 'up' and a 'down' in space?

Science news this week: Gravitational waves and a winged Medusa medal

'I knew it was circling me': Man attacked by shark was waiting to die then dolphins saved his life