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Surveillance drones can identify violence from the sky as it happens

Jun. 8, 2018
An average Earth day used to be less than 19 hours long

Jun. 6, 2018
Woman’s late-stage breast cancer falls to immunotherapy

Jun. 5, 2018
Why the marshmallow test may be nothing but fluff

Jun. 4, 2018
When they’re on the attack, guppies’ eyes turn black

Jun. 4, 2018
Leaner and meaner: rockets that eat themselves

Jun. 1, 2018
This reptile is ancestor to all the world’s snakes and lizards

May. 30, 2018
Sleeping in saves lives

May. 25, 2018
Coyotes have conquered North America

May. 22, 2018
Giant invasive worms have been living quietly in France for 20 years

May. 22, 2018
Banned ozone-destroying chemical makes a mysterious resurgence

May. 16, 2018
Plastic debris found in the deepest part of the ocean

May. 15, 2018
2000-year-old horse discovered in Pompeii’s volcanic rubble

May. 15, 2018
First carbon-rich asteroid found beyond Neptune

May. 11, 2018
Ebola is back in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

May. 8, 2018
Researchers ‘heard’ a twister 10 minutes before it formed

May. 8, 2018
Earthquake monitors could be used to detect elephant poachers

May. 7, 2018
Iraqi artifacts seized from Hobby Lobby return home

May. 3, 2018
Tick-borne and mosquito-borne illnesses are on the rise in the United States

May. 2, 2018
Nine in 10 people around the world breathe polluted air

May. 2, 2018
Vatican Secret Archives deciphered with artificial intelligence

May. 1, 2018
Largest mass sacrifice of children uncovered in Peru

Apr. 27, 2018
Thousands fewer children die in sub-Saharan Africa thanks to regular antibiotics

Apr. 27, 2018
Pacific atolls could become uninhabitable as soon as 2030

Apr. 26, 2018