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Zoo anteater exposed people to rabies in first-of-its-kind...
The infected animal may have exposed more than a dozen people to the deadly virus.
Sudden eruption from 'dead' sunspot could bring auroras...
After a dead sunspot hurled a ball of plasma toward Earth earlier this week, medium-sized auroras may stretch even farther south than...
Ultra-rare black hole ancestor detected at the dawn of...
Scientists may have detected the first known 'transitioning red quasar' in the universe, dating to just 750 million years after the...
The sun has blasted Mercury with a plasma wave
The wave likely scoured the surface of the weakly magnetic planet.
Tardigrades may hitchhike on snails ... and then suffocate...
Can tardigrades travel by snail? New experiments suggest that it's possible — and hazardous.
'Secret code' behind key type of memory revealed in new...
Scientists used brain scans to unlock the secrets of working memory.
No, the Loch Ness Monster was not a whale's penis
A bizarre hypothesis linking the Loch Ness Monster to whale penises has been debunked by the researcher who helped start the wild...
Antikythera Mechanism photos: See the world's first computer
Sponge divers pulled the first fragments of what became known as the Antikythera Mechanism from a Roman-era shipwreck in 1901 off...