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How Iron Age Celts kept the severed heads of their enemies looking fresh

Nov. 12, 2018
How many live mosquitoes can fit into a syringe? 240

Nov. 8, 2018
Bank of England begins hunt for scientist to grace new £50 note

Nov. 2, 2018
Three paralyzed people walk after nerve stimulation

Nov. 1, 2018
Cockroaches use karate kicks to avoid becoming zombies

Oct. 31, 2018
Wildlife populations have plummeted since 1970

Oct. 30, 2018
Five Dead Sea Scroll fragments at the Museum of the Bible are fakes

Oct. 23, 2018
Archaeologists uncover world’s oldest shipwreck

Oct. 23, 2018
‘Headless chicken monster’ caught on video near Antarctica

Oct. 22, 2018
Ancient graffiti shifts date of Pompeii’s destruction by 2 months

Oct. 17, 2018
Antarctic ice shelf ‘sings’ eerie song

Oct. 17, 2018
Earth’s first animals may have been sea sponges

Oct. 17, 2018
Retract cardiac stem cell papers, Harvard Medical School says

Oct. 16, 2018
Hawking’s final paper posted

Oct. 12, 2018
Genetic engineering helps same-sex mouse pairs have kids

Oct. 11, 2018
Bees stopped buzzing during 2017 solar eclipse

Oct. 11, 2018
Moons of moons could exist, and scientists call them ‘moonmoons’

Oct. 10, 2018
Plants evolved scents, colors to say ‘eat me’ to lemurs, primates

Oct. 10, 2018
Dirty dishes reveal 8000-year-old Neolithic diet plan

Oct. 9, 2018
Shockwaves from WWII air raids rattled edge of space

Sep. 26, 2018
Ivory trade kingpins could be toppled by testing tusk DNA

Sep. 19, 2018
Fifty-thousand-year-old wolf pup still has paws, skin, and hair

Sep. 17, 2018
Archaeologists may have unearthed world’s oldest brewery

Sep. 17, 2018
Appeals court sides with Broad in CRISPR patent fight

Sep. 10, 2018