Save $40 on one of our favorite pairs of running earbuds — the Beats Fit Pro

The Beats Fit Pro are like AirPods Pro but for working out, and now you can get them for 20% off. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Decades-long mystery of flesh-eating, ulcer-causing bacteria solved

Mosquitoes are responsible for transmitting the flesh-eating bacterium behind "Buruli ulcer" to humans, new research suggests. | Continue reading


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Largest ever fully electric concept plane could take to the skies by 2033

The Elysian E9X is a 90-seater plane that can one day travel up to 620 miles — and it's based on research that claims our previous assumptions on battery-electric aircraft were wrong. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

City-sized holes on Antarctica's ice shelves offer tantalizing 'window' into the frozen continent's underworld

Enormous holes on Antarctica's ice shelves appear to be linked with the formation of icebergs, study reveals. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

You can pay to have your ashes buried on the moon. Should you?

The ill-fated Peregrine lander was carrying human ashes that would have marked the first private burial on the moon. But is sending your mortal remains to the moon legal, or ethical? | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Scientists may finally know where the biggest, oldest black holes in the universe came from

The presence of supermassive black holes in the earliest epochs of the universe has scientists stumped — but repeated explosions from tiny black holes may offer an explanation. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again in 'legitimately scary' study

AI researchers found that widely used safety training techniques failed to remove malicious behavior from large language models — and one technique even backfired, teaching the AI to recognize its triggers and better hide its bad behavior from the researchers. | Continue reading


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Even Stone Age people burned their porridge, 5,000-year-old food-scorched clay pot reveals

Thousands of years ago, a Neolithic person tried cooking porridge but ended up burning it. | Continue reading


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NASA's historic Ingenuity helicopter ends its 3-year Mars mission, suffering rotor damage on 72nd flight

NASA's Ingeunity helicopter has finally ended its three-year mission on Mars after sustaining irreparable rotor damage on its 72nd flight over the Red Planet. It was only designed to fly five times. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Gargantuan 'star lizard' was one of the last (and largest) dinosaurs of its kind

Scientists spent years retrieving fossils of the Cretaceous sauropod, which they've named Sidersaura, or "star lizard." | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Right again, Einstein: New snapshot of 1st black hole to be photographed confirms relativity

The new black hole image offers further confirmation for Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. | Continue reading


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Newly discovered asteroid the size of an airplane will have 'very close encounter' with Earth on Saturday — and you can watch it happen

Asteroid 2024 BJ, which astronomers detected earlier this month, will be live-streamed as it zooms within 220,000 miles of Earth, or closer to us than the average distance to the moon. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Japan's high-precision 'Moon Sniper' spacecraft hit its target, but it landed upside down

On Jan. 19, Japan's 'Moon Sniper' spacecraft made a successful soft landing on the moon. The landing was the most precise in lunar history; it was also upside-down. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

How NASA correctly predicted that a tiny asteroid would burn up over Germany, hours before it happened

Astronomers detected a small asteroid zooming toward Earth's atmosphere on Jan. 21, correctly predicting it would explode over Germany within hours. Here's how they did it. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Photographer snaps extremely rare 'green flash' coming from Venus

A brief flash of green light was recently spotted coming from Venus in the night sky. The colorful shimmer has only been seen a handful of times before. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Save over $120 on one of our favorite Garmin running watches

Get the Garmin Instinct Solar for under $230 at Best Buy. | Continue reading


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Save $300 on this HP 2-in-1 with a stunning OLED display

The Best Buy deals keep coming with this high-powered 16-inch device available for only $1,699. | Continue reading


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NASA's Curiosity rover snaps iconic 'Star Trek' symbol on Mars, thrilling scientists

NASA's Curiosity rover spotted a rock formation on Mars that looks just like Star Trek's signature Starfleet symbol. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Physics-breaking 'rogue' objects spotted by James Webb telescope are emitting radio signals that scientists can't explain

A bizarre object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope may be a pair of 'rogue' planets ― but a new study finds they are emitting radio signals rarely seen from other worlds. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Gene therapies restore hearing in several kids with inherited deafness

Two new gene therapies show promise in treating otoferlin-related deafness, an inherited condition. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Hoard of Bronze Age jewelry discovered in Poland was part of ancient water burial ritual, study finds

A collection of metal jewelry and human remains found at a dry lake-bed site in Poland were part of an ancient ritual. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Infant's 'inconsolable,' day-long crying fits tied to botulism from honey

A baby's increasingly long, frequent crying episodes turned out to be related to infant botulism. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Scientists accidentally create world's tightest, smallest knot

The tangle is known as a trefoil knot — and it's made up of just 54 atoms. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

'I felt my heart skip a beat': Researcher discovers dinosaur 'chicken from hell' after buying fossil online

A "chicken from hell" dinosaur that lived just before the asteroid struck has been discovered in South Dakota. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Oldest DNA evidence of syphilis relative discovered in 2,000-year-old skeletons in Brazil

Scientists uncovered the oldest-ever genome of bacteria in the same family as syphilis. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

James Webb telescope reveals stunning 'star factory' in glorious new image

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope captured a starburst complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud, with stunning results. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

4 never-before-seen emperor penguin colonies discovered in Antarctica, thanks to poop smears spotted from space

A scientist scoured satellites for signs of unreported Emperor penguin colonies and made a shocking discovery. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

This stylish Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 is now half-price at Amazon

Save a massive $190 on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic at Amazon. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Alzheimer's comes in at least 5 distinct forms, study reveals

Knowing that Alzheimer's comes in at least five distinct forms could change the treatment landscape, the scientists behind the new study say. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

This tiny radioactive battery can last 50 years without recharging — and it's coming in 2025

BetaVolt's BV100 is smaller than a coin and contains a radioactive isotope of nickel that decays into copper and supplies power to a device for up to 50 years. But it probably won't power your smartphone anytime soon, an expert suggests. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Mysterious skeleton found in Hernán Cortés' palace revealed to be Indigenous woman, not Spanish monk

A new analysis of a skeleton buried under Hernán Cortés' palace in Mexico reveals that it doesn't belong to a monk, as was long thought. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Roman-era wine shop, possibly destroyed in an earthquake, discovered in Greece

A wine shop in Roman-era Greece experienced catastrophe and was abandoned around 1,600 years ago. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

World's largest deep-sea coral reef found lurking beneath the Gulf Stream 'right on the doorstep' of US coast

A new deep-sea mapping project has revealed near-continuous reefs of cold-water corals spanning an area the size of Vermont just off the southeast U.S. coastline. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Watch balloon-like space station module explode (on purpose) during 1st full-scale burst test

Engineers intentionally blew up a full-scale prototype of an inflatable space module that could be used in future missions. Watch the big bang unfold here. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Watch chameleon erupt in color 'as if uttering her last words' in her final moments before death

Footage of Labord's chameleon in last moments of her short life shows her skin burst into 'chaotic technicolor patterns' — a spectacle never observed in the wild before. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Bigfoot? Sasquatch? Nope, it's probably just a black bear — unless you live in Florida

Bigfoot reports across North America have been linked to the presence of black bears, but the research can't account for sightings in Florida. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Heat bursts from Iceland's recent eruptions in eerie NASA satellite image

Satellite images reveal the heat still radiating from the reawakened volcano in Iceland. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Watch the world through different animals' eyes in this stunning high-tech footage

Cameras recorded footage in red, blue, green and UV channels simultaneously, with openly available software processing the raw footage and converting it into different kinds of "animal vision," showing us how bees, birds, mice and dogs might see the world. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

New DragonFire laser weapon can shoot drones out of the sky, UK says

The DragonFire laser can shoot down drones and costs less than $13 a shot, the UK government claims. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Near-simultaneous solar flares explode from opposite sides of the sun in extremely rare event

A pair of linked solar flares recently exploded near-simultaneously from sunspots on different hemispheres of our home star, triggering radio blackouts on Earth. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Free radicals don't kill tardigrades — they're the secret to the tiny critters' invincibility

Microscopic water bears can enter a near-invincible 'tun' state when stressed, enabling them to survive in the harshest conditions — including the vacuum of space. Now we know how. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Alligators survive cold snap by becoming 'frozen solid' in North Carolina and Texas ponds

When temperatures drop below freezing, alligators can enter a state of torpor known as brumation, as the water around them solidifies and suspends them in a giant, pond-shaped ice cube. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Are cavities 'contagious'? Tooth-decay yeast can pass from moms to babies

A study suggests that a yeast tied to tooth decay in young children may be passed to them by their mothers, and this is more likely if the moms have lots of dental plaque. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Faint radio signal from ancient star cluster could be rare 'missing link' black hole, astronomers report

The most sensitive image of a globular cluster, a tightly packed ball of ancient stars, has revealed a strange radio signal that could be a black hole. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Mysterious 'sudden death' of quantum vortices in a superconductor stumps scientists

The sudden disappearance of quantum fluctuations inside an atom-thin 2D superconductor has left scientists baffled. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Seizures may be a cause of sudden unexplained child deaths

Footage from the nursery cameras of children who died of explained causes suggests that seizures are likely implicated in the tragedies. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Doomsday Clock hovers at 90 seconds to midnight for 2nd year in a row

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists cited the threat of nuclear escalation in Ukraine, climate change and disruptive technologies as reasons to keep the clock at 90 seconds to midnight. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

'Incredibly rare' 2nd-century Roman armor pieced together like an 'ancient jigsaw puzzle'

Conservators in the U.K. have painstakingly reassembled a piece of Roman armor that was broken into more than 100 pieces. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago