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The flesh-eating screwworm turned up in a Texas calf, the first U.S. case this outbreak

A baby’s brain may be shaped before birth by its genes and gut microbes together

The screwworm has now hit four Texas cases, including a dog, as it pushes north

A magnitude 6.5 quake hit the southern Philippines hours after the deadly 7.8

Alaska’s Mount Kupreanof is slowly oozing lava inside its summit crater

DNA from eight teeth in a Polish cave reconstructed one of Europe’s oldest Neanderthal families

Scientists mapped ocean currents off Antarctica plunging half a mile deep, reading them from space

A landslide from the Philippine quake buried 13 villagers in the town of Glan

A faint “gravity hole” in the Indian Ocean traces to rock moving deep inside Earth

A deep-ocean expedition off Brazil turned up two dozen new creatures in the sea’s darkest layer

Astronomers say short, violent feeding frenzies let some black holes balloon to billions of times the Sun’s mass far faster than anyone expected

Your body builds about 330 billion new cells every single day

A full day on Jupiter lasts under 10 hours

Light from the Sun’s core can take 100,000 years to reach the surface

An average cumulus cloud can weigh more than a million pounds

Elephants can talk over miles using rumbles too low for human ears