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Endangered

First endangered bee in the United States named

The rusty patched bumblebee is the first native bee to become an endangered species in the United States.

SCIENCE

Young Chilean inmates use 3D technology to make prostheses

The project to help poor children in need of prosthetic limbs is being run by the Ciudad del Niño Foundation.
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AIR AND SPACE

SpaceX capsule returns space station science to Earth

A SpaceX capsule is back on Earth with a full load of space station science samples.
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SCIENCE

'King' polar bear skull found in northern Alaska may solve mystery

Archaeologists studying the existence of “king” polar bears find information on these bears elusive. There is little information available from the indigenous people in northern Alaska.
Digging History

Photos found in Eva Braun's bunker bedroom are sold

A photo album featuring candid shots of some of the most evil people ever to walk the Earth has been snapped up for $41,000 by an anonymous buyer at an auction in England.
SCIENCE

Chinese researchers announce designer baby breakthrough

Science has taken another step toward delivering the perfect newborn – or at least a bouncing baby free of certain genetic defects.

Exploring Mars

Robots

This Valkyrie R5 humanoid robot is put to the test with Mars colonization on the horizon

Northwestern University has a Valkyrie R5 robot that is now undergoing agility tests in a Massachusetts warehouse to prepare for the NASA's Space Robotics Challenge finalist round this June.
Wearable Tech

Buzz Aldrin hosts virtual reality experience on how to get to Mars

Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the moon, is looking to keep humanity going and get to Mars.
Mars

Scientists have plan to bring back Mars' oceans

Mars isn't particularly habitable to humans at the moment, but NASA's latest brainstorm could one day bring back the planet's beaches—or at least some of its oceans, Engadget reports.

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Digging History

Photos found in Eva Braun's bunker bedroom are sold

A photo album featuring candid shots of some of the most evil people ever to walk the Earth has been snapped up for $41,000 by an anonymous buyer at an auction in England.
ARCHAEOLOGY

Rabbit hole leads to 700 year old Knights Templar cave

Rabbit hole leads to an incredible secret – the entrance to a mysterious cave network used by the Knights Templar 700 years ago.
Digging History

Rabbit hole leads to incredible 700-year-old Knights Templar cave complex

A rabbit hole in the UK conceals the entrance to an incredible cave complex linked to the mysterious Knights Templar.

Digging History

Biblical king's palace uncovered beneath shrine destroyed by ISIS

Archaeologists in Mosul have made a stunning find beneath the Tomb of the Prophet Jonah that was destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2014: the long-hidden palace of ancient Assyrian King Sennacherib.
Digging History

Archaeologists in Alaska uncover campsite used by survivors of doomed Russian ship

While the story of The Neva is well known throughout Alaska, the location of the shipwreck and how the survivors endured in that rugged landscape with little more than what was in their pockets has remained a mystery for over two centuries.
Digging History

Treasure hunters strike gold with ancient jewelry find

An incredible haul of ancient gold jewelry has been unearthed the U.K. by two treasure hunters using metal detectors.
Fossils

Scientists discover world's most ancient fossils

Scientists have found tiny fossils that are thinner than a human hair and are an astounding 3.7 billion years old, making them the oldest known fossils on Earth.
Digging History

Richard III's prayer book goes online … and is that a personal note?

The personal prayer book of King Richard III — in which the English king likely scrawled a reminder of his birthday in his own hand — is now available to peruse online.
Digging History

Microbes in glittering crystal cave revived after 10,000 years

Microbes that may be between 10,000 and 50,000 years old have been revived from the inside of enormous, glittering crystals from a Mexican cave.

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AIR AND SPACE

SpaceX capsule returns space station science to Earth

A SpaceX capsule is back on Earth with a full load of space station science samples.
Astronomy

Strange new Nebula is missing its light source

The discovery of a new and rarely seen nebula 10 billion light-years away has created a cosmic mystery: What is lighting up this dusty cloud of gases?
Mars

Scientists have plan to bring back Mars' oceans

Mars isn't particularly habitable to humans at the moment, but NASA's latest brainstorm could one day bring back the planet's beaches—or at least some of its oceans, Engadget reports.

What's Next?

Mars makes closest approach to Earth in 11 years on May 30

Mars

NASA spacecraft avoids collision with Martian moon Phobos

Close call!
Astronomy

'Winds' from monster black holes can rapidly change their temperature

Hot gas streaming out from the region around supermassive black holes can experience rapid and extreme changes in temperature.
Digging History

NASA loses fight over priceless bag of moon dust

At first glance, the round, white bag looks unremarkable, even a little battered, with a lengthy tear on the bottom, reports the Houston Chronicle.
Spaceflight

Classified US satellite launched from California

A rocket carrying a classified U.S. satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office has been launched from California.
Fossils

Scientists discover world's most ancient fossils

Scientists have found tiny fossils that are thinner than a human hair and are an astounding 3.7 billion years old, making them the oldest known fossils on Earth.

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Oceans

Cruise ship crash causes more than $18M in damage to pristine Indonesian reef, experts say

Researchers for Conservation International Indonesia (CII), Papua State University and the Regional Technical Implementing Unit (UPTD) found that the grounding of the 295-foot Caledonian Sky cruise ship — which weighs 4,200 tons and carried 102 passengers – caused massive damage to several endemic reefs that were unique to Raja Ampat, a remote and idyllic island chain in the west of Indonesia's Papua province.
Geology

Earth's mantle is more than 100 degrees F hotter than scientists thought

How hot are Earth's scorching insides?
Geology

Federal 2017 quake forecast highlights Oklahoma, California

Federal scientists forecast that Oklahoma will continue to have the nation's biggest man-made earthquake problem this year but it probably won't be as shaky as recent years.

Climate

Scientists to transport ice from Bolivian melting glacier to Antarctica, preserve its ‘memory’

Glaciers accumulate caps of snow for thousands of years and, in Illimani's case, they date back 18,000 years.
Oceans

Pacific Ocean iron particles can travel thousands of miles, study finds

Can a better understanding of iron particles that are carried vast distances across the Pacific Ocean help scientists predict how our oceans can reduce carbon emissions?
PLANET EARTH

Kayakers complete first journey around Antarctic archipelago, an 11-day odyssey

The trio covered 12-18 miles per day, making their way among the islands of Livington, Greenwich, Barrientos, Robert, Nelson and King George.
PLANET EARTH

'The blob' in Pacific Ocean linked to spike in ozone

A warm blob of water lurking in the Pacific Ocean in 2014 and 2015 led to a spike in ozone levels across the western U.S., new research suggests.
Climate

Scientists plan to trap a ship in Arctic ice

The nearly 400-foot-long Polarstern is designed to break through ice in frigid waters—but for an upcoming trip to study climate change, Germany is going to purposely let its ship become stuck in the middle of the floes, per the BBC.
Digging History

Scientists discover gigantic lost continent that sunk into the ocean millions of years ago

A lost continent that sunk 100 million years ago has been discovered underneath New Zealand.

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Endangered

Mystery solved: why pandas are black and white

It's a question that has bedeviled kindergartners, and now apparently PhDs have the answer: Why do giant pandas have spots?
Mammals

It wasn't booze that killed the famous swimming pigs

When a spate of unexplained deaths among the famous swimming pigs of the Bahamas made headlines last week, one of the wilder theories was that tourists were getting them drunk on alcohol in fatal quantities.
Fish

Scientists find dozens of new species in Gulf of Mexico after Deepwater Horizon oil spill

It may have been one of the world’s largest oil spill disasters but the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have had little effect on the ecosystem as dozens of new species of animals are living in the body of water.

Wild & Crazy Nature

Watch these tiger sharks feast on a whale carcass

Amphibians

In new territory, good froggy dads go cannibal

They eat every egg in sight.
Mammals

Nashville Zoo welcomes clouded leopard conceived through artificial insemination

A rare clouded leopard's birth at the Nashville Zoo marks a milestone that could help rebuild the mysterious Asian cat's population, officials said Thursday.
Mammals

Touching video shows pregnant giraffe bonding with zookeeper

An endearing video shows a pregnant giraffe and a zookeeper sharing special moments as the staffer feeds her, strokes its head and neck, and rubs its side.

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VIDEO

Shaq: 'The earth is flat'

Former NBA big-man Shaquille O'Neal comes out as an apparent flat-earther. The TNT basketball analyst backed-up Cleveland Cavaliers player Kyrie Irving's comments, that the world is not round, but actually flat
VIDEO

Need more rain? Call the cloud seeders

Worldwide, cloud seeding increases rainfall by about 10 to 15 percent
VIDEO

What the cluck? Massive chickens take the internet by storm

Footage of giant brahma chickens going viral

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Mammals

Nashville Zoo welcomes clouded leopard conceived through artificial insemination

A rare clouded leopard's birth at the Nashville Zoo marks a milestone that could help rebuild the mysterious Asian cat's population, officials said Thursday.
Digging History

Someone paid $15G for some decades-old mold

How much would you pay for a piece of mold?
Biology

Why some people look like their names

If you've ever caught yourself thinking, "She looks like a Sue," or "He doesn't look like a Bob," a new study may back up your instincts about whether people's names suit them.

Biology

Want to know the future? Most people don't, study suggests

Despite the popularity of horoscopes, most people don't really want to know their futures, a new study from Europe suggests.
Cloning

20 years after Dolly the sheep, what have we learned about cloning?

Wednesday marked the 20th anniversary of the announcement of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
Biology

What makes women good dancers? Study finds it is all in the hips

Researchers may have discovered the secret to turning heads as a woman on the dance floor - and it turns out it is all in the hips.

Dinosaurs

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Digging History

Plane-sized flying reptile was a feared killer in Transylvania

A giant flying reptile may have been the largest and most feared predator in ancient Transylvania.
Digging History

Mexican museum shows off dino discovery

Mexico's Desert Museum has unveiled a replica of a new dinosaur species, Yehuecauhceretops.
Digging History

The dinosaurs died a cold, dark death, new study shows

It’s widely acknowledged that the Earth was a cold, dark place after a giant meteor, measuring roughly six miles across, struck Mexico about 66 million years ago.

Dinosaurs

Feathered dinosaur tail fragment trapped in amber amazes scientists

It’s a discovery that's straight out of “Jurassic Park.”
Digging History

2 dome-headed dinosaurs the size of German shepherds discovered

The discovery of a pair of fossilized skulls from dome-headed dinosaurs is shedding light on how these bizarre creatures called pachycephalosaurs evolved, researchers say.
Dinosaurs

Fearsome dinosaur remained a pipsqueak most of its life

A fearsome carnivorous dinosaur known for eating its own kind wasn't that large — it weighed only about as much as a hefty crocodile.
Dinosaurs

Dinosaur-killing asteroid's crater yields new clues

About 65 million years ago, a huge asteroid slammed into the Earth.
Digging History

'Mud Dragon' dinosaur unearthed in China

A new species of bird–like dinosaur was recently discovered at a construction site in Southern China. Dubbed Tongtianlong limosus, the winged creature had died after becoming mired in mud about 66–72 million years ago– hence it’s nickname, the ‘Mud Dragon.’
Dinosaurs

Scientists identify fossilized dinosaur brain tissue for first time ever

A brown pebble discovered on an English beach more a decade ago is actually the world's first known example of a fossilized dinosaur brain, scientists have confirmed.