In this extract from "The Lives of Spiders: A Natural History of the World's Spiders," author Ximena Nelson examines three species of spider with unusual diets — plants, blood and pillbugs. | Continue reading
Sept. 21, 2024: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. | Continue reading
The person dubbed "the prophet of the Anthropocene" talks to Live Science about how they got this title, what the Anthropocene means, and why we need to stop trying to define when it started and accept that we've been in it for millennia. | Continue reading
Climate change will fundamentally challenge the world's urban centers. Three cities — San Diego, Milan and Jakarta — offer lessons for how to adapt to a warming planet. | Continue reading
Builders knew how to keep people cool in hot, dry climates thousands of years ago. It's time to get that knowledge back. | Continue reading
A month-long study of a man's brain revealed that its volume consistently shrunk over the course of each day and then reset overnight. | Continue reading
Get the Nikon Z6 II plus accessories for $1,496.95 in this Adorama deal — including 64GB card, carry case and more. | Continue reading
Indian authorities believe wolf attacks have killed 10 people in the Bahraich region of Uttar Pradesh in recent months, as fear and confusion grips local villages. | Continue reading
Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest. | Continue reading
Every winter, when sunlight hits at the right angle, visitors to Virginia's First Landing State Park are treated to a mesmerizing rainbow light show courtesy of the park's bald cypress swamp. | Continue reading
New research suggests that black holes may actually be "frozen stars," bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an event horizon, potentially solving some of the biggest paradoxes in black hole physics. | Continue reading
AI development is accelerating — with some scientists suggesting machines will be more intelligent than the smartest humans within the next few years. | Continue reading
Painting city roofs white could lower the temperature in London dramatically on the hottest days, new research suggests. | Continue reading
The people who created the Pitted Ware Culture may have used seal hides to build boats. | Continue reading
Researchers unexpectedly found traces of cocaine in the mummified brain tissue of 17th-century people buried in a crypt in Milan. | Continue reading
A new study has revealed the exact origin of the Pacific Ocean's mysterious "biotwang" noises, which were first detected by underwater surveys near the Mariana Trench in 2014. | Continue reading
Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed a "revenant" grave where a man was buried with large stones on his chest to prevent him from rising from the dead. | Continue reading
A new analysis of the brushstrokes and colors in Vincent van Gogh's famous painting Starry Night reveals a striking similarity to "hidden turbulence" in Earth's atmosphere, suggesting the iconic artist had a surprisingly detailed understanding of natural processes. | Continue reading
A newly discovered doughnut shape in Earth's outer core may reveal elements that help drive the formation of the planet's magnetic field. | Continue reading
One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery. | Continue reading
Can VR training for first responders replicate the heat, the smoke and the stress of handling a real blaze? | Continue reading
Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep into space. | Continue reading
The Amazon fires, fueled by severe drought exacerbated by climate change, have created a toxic smoke cloud spanning about 4 million square miles — an area larger than the entire United States. | Continue reading
JUICE successfully identified water and the building blocks of life in Earth's atmosphere. In doing so, the probe headed for Jupiter's moons confirmed that its instruments are working properly. | Continue reading
"Our observations indicate the presence of powerful iron winds, probably fuelled by a hot spot in the atmosphere." | Continue reading
Live Science spoke with leading psychiatrist Dr. Dinesh Bhugra ahead of his appearance at the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in London. | Continue reading
The largest-ever black hole jets ever seen hint that these cosmic monsters may play an even more significant role in shaping galaxies than previously thought. | Continue reading
Qubits are the fundamental building blocks of quantum computers — and, when fitted into these machines — rely on the weird laws of quantum mechanics to process calculations in parallel. | Continue reading
Rare fossils of the mosasaur Globidens alabamaensis — a 20 foot predator with strange, mushroom-shaped teeth — unearthed in northeastern Texas. | Continue reading
The ring could be responsible for a prolonged drop in temperatures millions of years ago. | Continue reading
Video of cell division occurring in a developing fly embryo named winner of the 14th annual Nikon Small World in Motion competition. | Continue reading
A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests. | Continue reading
From disaster recovery to conservation and healthcare, plenty of AI projects will greatly benefit humanity, Microsoft experts Juan M. Lavista Ferres and William B. Weeks say. | Continue reading
Astronomers have gotten the first-ever detailed views of turbulent activity on a star other than our own sun. | Continue reading
Check out some of the best photos from 2024's Ocean Photographer of the Year competition. | Continue reading
NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to overcome extreme cold and dwindling power. | Continue reading
In 2011, a ghostly depression, known as "the mitten," appeared on the surface of and ice sheet in Greenland after the unprecedented collapse of a concealed subglacial lake. | Continue reading
Right now, it looks like cosmology is at a tipping point. Will the James Webb telescope resolve the issue by revealing new physics? | Continue reading
A study tracks how the structure of the brain changes during pregnancy, drawing on brain scans gathered before, during and just after one person's pregnancy. | Continue reading
It's more difficult than you think to evolve knees that work well for a lifetime. | Continue reading
Vibrant auroras could be visible as far south as Oregon and Pennsylvania tonight as Earth reels from a "strong" G3-class geomagnetic storm. However, the nearly full Harvest Moon may complicate viewing opportunities. | Continue reading
An analysis of around a dozen teenagers who lived during the Paleolithic reveals that they hit puberty around the same time modern teens do. | Continue reading
Researchers have recreated the bizarre spider-like features seen on the surface of Mars for the first time ever. The breakthrough could help unravel further mysteries surrounding the static Martian arachnids. | Continue reading
A tiny asteroid will orbit around our planet for 53 days from the end of September. | Continue reading
An image of a biofluorescent frog perched on a bioluminescent mushroom is the People's Choice winner for the Beaker Street Science Photography Competition 2024. | Continue reading
Looking for your next pair of binoculars? Save 29% and get the Celestron Nature DX 12x56 binoculars for $190 at Amazon in this binocular deal | Continue reading
The newfound barracks may have been built partly because the Libyans were becoming a growing threat to ancient Egypt. | Continue reading
The jade burial suit was made using thousands of pieces of jade held together with gold thread. | Continue reading