Double mastectomies don't increase cancer survival, study suggests

Other types of surgery besides double mastectomies are equally good at lowering death rates in women with cancer in one breast. | Continue reading


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Some people recover from ALS — now, we might know why

A rare gene variant may explain why a subset of patients with ALS recover from the deadly disease. | Continue reading


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Bacteria that switch antibiotic resistance on and off are going undetected. Microbiologist Karin Hjort is on a mission to find out how they do it.

Microbiologist Karin Hjort discusses what heteroresistance is and how it could change the way we treat bacterial infections. | Continue reading


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How fast can antibiotic resistance evolve?

Bacteria can mutate surprisingly fast to resist antibiotics. | Continue reading


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10 of the deadliest superbugs that scientists are worried about

These bacteria have evolved the ability to resist treatment with antibiotics, leaving doctors scrambling to help patients who are infected. | Continue reading


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What's the difference between gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria?

There are two main types of bacteria, and these categories reflect the microbes' biology and their vulnerability to different antibiotics. | Continue reading


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Scientists have found a secret 'switch' that lets bacteria resist antibiotics — and it's been evading lab tests for decades

Microbiologists are on a quest to unravel a rare phenomenon involved in antibiotic resistance and how it may change our understanding of infections. | Continue reading


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10 crafty ways animals hunt their prey

Spiders swinging lassos, ants setting deadly traps and turtles with deceiving tongues — these animals have the most cunning methods of hunting their prey. | Continue reading


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Barrage of solar explosions could bring auroras to the U.S. this weekend as Perseid meteor shower peaks

Three powerful solar eruptions could bring auroras as far south as New York and Idaho right at the peak of the Perseid meteor shower this weekend. | Continue reading


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'Breaking,' aka breakdancing, is in the Olympics for the 1st time — here's the brain science behind it

Here's the brain science of breaking, the dance style making its Olympic debut in Paris. | Continue reading


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AI models trained on AI-generated data could spiral into unintelligible nonsense, scientists warn

If left unchecked,"model collapse" could make AI systems less useful, and fill the internet with incomprehensible babble. | Continue reading


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Yarlung Tsangpo: The deepest canyon on land hides a tree taller than the Statue of Liberty

The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is Earth's largest terrestrial canyon, stretching 314 miles long and almost 20,000 feet from top to bottom at its deepest point in the Tibet Autonomous Region. | Continue reading


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Science Spotlight: Discover the research changing our understanding of the world

In-depth articles and features taking a deeper look at emerging science and giving you the perspective you need on these advances. | Continue reading


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Evolution of snakes takes surprise twist — cobras didn't come from where we thought they did

Ancient origins of cobras traced back to Asia, before jumping continents to spread across the world up to 37.5 million years ago. | Continue reading


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Physicists solve nuclear fusion mystery with mayonnaise

The same physics that underlie mayonnaise could help physicists corral the ultrahot plasma needed to produce nuclear fusion. | Continue reading


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Scientists drill longest-ever piece of Earth's mantle from underwater mountain near 'Lost City'

Scientists just pulled the longest hunk of Earth's mantle from beneath the ocean. | Continue reading


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Jerusalem's Second Temple was built with gigantic stone blocks — now we think we know where they came from

Archaeologists discovered a 2,000-year-old rock quarry in Jerusalem which may have provided the massive stone building blocks used in the Second Temple. | Continue reading


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Scientists just found the 'front door' to a massive cave on the moon

The Sea of Tranquility is home to at least one lunar lava tube, which could preserve a pristine and unweathered record of lunar volcanism. | Continue reading


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'Extremely unusual': Hottest ocean temperature in 400 years threatens the Great Barrier Reef

The sea surface temperature around the Great Barrier Reef this year is the hottest it has ever been in 400 years, posing huge threats to the coral reef ecosystem in the area. | Continue reading


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The Higgs particle could break physics throughout the universe. Here's why it hasn't.

The elusive Higgs particle has the power to undo physics as we know it. The fact that it hasn't could have big implications about the nature of the universe. | Continue reading


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13,000-year-old carvings in Turkey may be the world's oldest lunisolar calendar

The 13,000-year-old carvings found in Turkey track the phases of the sun, moon and constellations, making it the earliest known lunisolar calendar. | Continue reading


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Researchers want to build 'streetlights' on the moon — and they'd be taller than the Statue of Liberty

A private company has received funding from the U.S. government to build the first-ever "streetlights" on the moon — towering, Statue of Liberty-sized structures that could withstand the brutal lunar night. | Continue reading


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Great white sharks split into 3 populations 200,000 years ago and never mixed again — except for one hybrid found in the Bermuda Triangle

Scientists found three distinct great-white-shark populations that congregate in different oceans and do not interbreed. Their separation may have implications for conservation. | Continue reading


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Valley fever risk may be high this year, California officials warn in wake of music festival outbreak

California officials are investigating cases of valley fever tied to a recent music festival. | Continue reading


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WHO may declare new, deadlier mpox outbreak an international emergency

The World Health Organization will soon convene a committee to decide if the ongoing mpox outbreak constitutes a "public health emergency of international concern." | Continue reading


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Weird, 'watermelon shape' asteroids like Dimorphos and Selam may finally have an explanation

New research finds why some asteroids have weird, watermelon-shaped moons trapped in orbit around them, contrary to what typical asteroid formation theories predict. | Continue reading


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What causes blood clots?

Blood clots can be dangerous, especially if all or part of them break off and then travel through the bloodstream. | Continue reading


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Gargantuan waves in Earth's mantle may make continents rise, new study finds

Dramatic cliffs and high plateaus are caused by the same wave triggered in Earth's middle layer when continents pull apart, a new study finds. | Continue reading


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Sun fires off double-barreled X-class flares in span of 2 hours

Solar activity is expected to remain high this week. | Continue reading


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Siberian gold miners accidentally find ancient woolly rhino mummy with horn and soft tissues still intact

Mummified woolly rhino discovered by miners in Russia's Sakha Republic to be fully excavated in the coming months, as researchers begin studying its intact horn. | Continue reading


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Stranded Starliner delays another mission to ISS, could return without crew

The Crew-9 handover has been delayed amid rumors that NASA could be planning to return the troubled Starliner spacecraft without its astronauts. | Continue reading


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Plate tectonics fired up at least 3 billion years ago, study of ancient rocks in Australia indicates

Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known arc-slicing fault in Australia, intensifying the debate over the origins of plate tectonics. | Continue reading


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Unique transistor 'could change the world of electronics' thanks to nanosecond-scale switching speeds and refusal to wear out

A new material can withstand 'billions' of electrical cycles without wearing out — and scientists say it could transform electronics within 10 to 20 years. | Continue reading


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Jupiter Mars conjunction: How to see the Red Planet and the Giant Planet side-by-side in the sky next week

Look east before dawn on Wednesday, Aug. 14, to see the giant planet and the Red Planet just a third of a degree from one another in a rare planetary conjunction. | Continue reading


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Powerful solar eruption temporarily rips 'tail' off Earth's magnetosphere

A massive disturbance in the solar wind caused Earth’s magnetosphere to fly without its usual tail. | Continue reading


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Ancient Greek mosaic depicting two naked satyrs unearthed during construction project

A 2,400-year-old pebbled mosaic unearthed in Greece contains images of two naked men with tails dancing to music. | Continue reading


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Endometriosis may quadruple risk of ovarian cancer, study finds

Women with severe endometriosis are 10 times more likely to get ovarian cancer, while people with endometriosis of any severity are four times as likely, a study suggests. But patients shouldn't panic. | Continue reading


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CDC issues new guidelines for RSV vaccines, citing side-effect concerns

The CDC has clarified and narrowed its recommendations for which older adults should get an RSV vaccine. | Continue reading


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Huge cosmological mystery could be solved by wormholes, new study argues

The universe is expanding at an ever accelerating rate — and tiny wormholes that bore through the fabric of space-time might be to blame, a new study proposes. | Continue reading


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'A king will die': 4,000-year-old lunar eclipse omen tablets finally deciphered

Tablets added to the British Museum's collection many decades ago have finally been deciphered. | Continue reading


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Bushnell PowerView 2 10x42 binoculars now cheaper than Prime Day

Get a closer look with this huge saving on the Bushnell Powerview 2 10x42 binoculars — now down to their lowest-ever price $40.97 at Amazon! | Continue reading


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China ready to launch 1st satellite in constellation that will challenge Elon Musk's Starlink

China plans to launch more than 100 satellites for its new "constellation" this year and thousands more by the end of the decade. | Continue reading


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Archaic human 'hobbits' were even shorter than we thought, 700,000-year-old teeth and bone reveal

A new analysis of teeth and a bone found on an Indonesian island reveal that "hobbits" were more than 2 inches shorter than we thought. | Continue reading


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Sharks in an Italian aquarium keep having 'virgin birth' after years without males

Two endangered female sharks found to be reproducing asexually in the absence of males in what appears to be a vital survival mechanism amid declining male populations. | Continue reading


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'Crazy idea' memory device could slash AI energy consumption by up to 2,500 times

By performing computations directly inside memory cells, CRAM will dramatically reduce power demands for AI workloads. Scientists claim it's a solution to AI's huge energy consumption. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 2 months ago

More babies are being born with syphilis, study finds

Congenital syphilis is preventable, but nonetheless, the disease is on the rise in countries like Australia and the U.S. | Continue reading


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Sapphires form inside the fiery hearts of volcanoes, not deep in the mantle like we thought

A new study of sapphires found in volcanic fields in Germany reveals that these beautiful blue stones form where magma and rocks from Earth's crust mix. | Continue reading


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32 of the most venomous animals in the world

Venom evolved hundreds of millions of years ago, creating a chemical arms race between predatory and prey. Here are some of the most venomous animals living on Earth. | Continue reading


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