Gene mutation helps Andean highlanders thrive at altitude, and 'living fossil' fish live deep underwater

Researchers discovered an example of convergent evolution in the Peruvian and Tibetan highlander communities. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Haunting 'mummified dolphin' found on US beach may have been dead for months

The highly desiccated remains of a suspected bottlenose dolphin were recently found on a beach in South Carolina after "mummifying" for weeks or even months. One expert believes the animal may have deliberately beached itself. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

This coding laptop just became a student laptop thanks to a huge $300-off deal

Get this Dell Inspiron 14 laptop for just $699.99 at Best Buy. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Stunning 'Einstein engagement ring' from the early universe is one of the oldest ever discovered

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning photo of one of the most distant Einstein rings ever found. The luminous halo of light aligns perfectly with another galaxy, making it look like a cosmic engagement ring. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

'You can get the feeling that you are touching another human': New prosthetic device detects temperature

A prosthetic limb modified with a new device allowed an amputee to detect temperature changes in objects and also sense when they were touching another human being. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

3,500-year-old burial of Nubian woman reveals 1 of world's earliest known cases of rheumatoid arthritis

Lesions found on the bones of a Nubian skeleton reveal evidence of an ancient rheumatoid arthritis case. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Lava bleeds from Iceland volcano into the frozen landscape in incredible satellite image

A volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula erupted for the third time in three months, sending lava 2.8 miles west from the huge fissure in Earth's surface. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Should people get their health information from YouTube? Retired surgeon and content creator Liz O'Riordan on 'breaking through the nonsense'

Retired breast cancer surgeon Liz O'Riordan is one of many health care professionals whom YouTube says it trusts to make reliable videos. In this interview, she explains why this seal of approval is so important and what it actually entails. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Colossal 'Martian sunspot' is so big it was seen from Mars. Now it's facing Earth.

A group of sunspots measuring more than 15 times the diameter of Earth was imaged by NASA's Perseverance Rover last week; now, the spots are pointed toward Earth, with strong flares possible. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

'Universal memory' breakthrough brings the next generation of computers 1 step closer to major speed boost

Universal memory promises to replace both RAM and flash storage in computers with a better, faster and more energy-efficient alternative — and researchers have just moved this one step closer to reality. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Undeciphered script from Easter Island may predate European colonization

A wooden tablet inscribed with the undeciphered rongorongo script from Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) dates to the 15th century, long before Europeans arrived. This early date suggests that the Rapa Nui people invented their own script without European influence. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

CERN proposes $17 billion particle smasher that would be 3 times bigger than the Large Hadron Collider

CERN's proposed $17 billion particle collider would search for new and unknown physics, but it has drawn fire for its hefty price tag. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Nuclear fusion reactor in UK sets new world record for energy output

The JET nuclear fusion reactor in the UK has set a new world record for total energy output. However, the reactor's record-smashing test will be its last. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

'We were very surprised': Magma under Reykjanes Peninsula rushed into Grindavík dike at a shockingly fast rate

Magma flowed into the dike beneath Grindavík at a rate almost 100 times higher than what was seen in the eruptions that took place between 2021 and 2023. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Massive hydrogen reservoir discovered beneath an Albanian mine could be an untapped source of clean energy

A portion of ancient oceanic crust that sits atop Albania and hosts one of the largest chromium mines on Earth also contains a huge hydrogen reservoir, offering a potential source of clean energy. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Viagra alternatives? Study of mouse erections hints at new ways to treat erectile dysfunction

A new study reveals the importance of specific cells in triggering erections in mice, and the finding could someday help treat erectile dysfunction in people. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Colossal underwater canyon discovered near seamount deep in the Mediterranean Sea

Researchers have discovered a 33,000-foot-wide (10 kilometers) underwater canyon that was carved out of the Mediterranean seabed shortly before the sea dried up around 6 million years ago. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Pick up a pair of excellent Beats earbuds for under $130

The Beats Studio Buds are excellent for listening to music while exercising, and are now $40 off at Best Buy. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

3D-printed human brain tissue works like the real thing

The printed tissue grows and functions like that in a normal human brain, according to the authors of the new study. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

City-size seamount triple the height of world's tallest building discovered via gravitational anomalies

Researchers found and mapped four seamounts in the deep sea off the coast of Peru and Chile. The tallest of these new peaks rises around 1.5 miles above the seafloor. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

New mRNA 'cancer vaccine' trial launches in UK

The first U.K. patient has received a dose of "cancer vaccine" in a new trial. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Iceland volcano erupts for 3rd time, triggering lava fountains over 200 feet tall

The underground volcano near Grindavík has begun its third major eruption in three months, opening up a 2-mile-long fissure that is pumping out large amounts of lava and ash. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Greenland is losing so much ice it's getting taller

The bedrock of Greenland is expanding upward as the land mass sheds ice. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

MadRadar hack can make self-driving cars 'hallucinate' imaginary vehicles and veer dangerously off course

The MadRadar hack bypasses the anti-spoofing protections in the radars of self-driving cars and can trick targets into imagining vehicles that aren't there — or hiding other ones that are. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas may have an underground ocean scientists never believed could exist

A new study of Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas finds evidence of a young, underground ocean that may be hospitable to early forms of life. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Romans kept poisonous, narcotic seeds concealed in bone vials, new discovery reveals

A hollowed-out animal bone was used by Romans to store a stash of poisonous seeds and is the first-ever evidence of the seeds' use during the Roman era. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Scroll charred in Mount Vesuvius eruption partially deciphered, earning researchers $700,000 prize

Machine learning has helped decipher part of an ancient carbonized scroll found in a villa that likely once belonged to Julius Caesar’s father-in-law. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Star-killing 'black hole wind' spotted in a distant galaxy could explain a major mystery at the Milky Way's center

For the first time, scientists discovered a powerful 'black hole wind' that blew through a nearby galaxy for hundreds of days, crushing star formation and reshaping the galaxy. Something similar may already have happened in the Milky Way. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Our universe is merging with 'baby universes', causing it to expand, new theoretical study suggests

The universe is expanding faster and faster, but not all scientists agree that dark energy is the cause. Perhaps, instead, our universe keeps colliding with and absorbing smaller 'baby universes,' a new theoretical study suggests. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

We may need a new 'Category 6' hurricane level for winds over 192 mph, study suggests

Scientists argue that adding a Category 6 to the hurricane scale will be needed as the climate changes. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

10 old shoes found in archaeological excavations from around the world

10 shoes from around the world give insight into what people used to wear. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

'Unnerving' rise in fatal shark attacks recorded last year. Should we be worried?

The number of unprovoked shark attacks spiked slightly last year, while the number of fatal bites doubled compared with the previous year. However, the statistics are not as concerning as they initially sound, experts say. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

'It haunts all our imaginations': Were Neanderthals really like us?

"The Neanderthal is not a brother or a cousin. It is an object of study. The Neanderthal can't in any case be compared with anything that is familiar to us in a world where difference, alterity and classification have become more than ever taboo subjects." | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

'Simply did not work': Mating between Neanderthals and modern humans may have been a product of failed alliances, says archaeologist Ludovic Slimak

"When two populations are close to one another but they are very distinct — maybe they can have a different language and different traditions, they are in neighboring territories — they are going to exchange their women." | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Temperature inside Chicxulub crater after dinosaur-killing asteroid hit revealed with 'paleothermometer'

Researchers measured the temperature of the Chicxulub crater 66 million years ago, unlocking mysteries of the dinosaur-dooming mass extinction event. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Polar bear sleeping on tiny iceberg drifting in Arctic sea captured in heartbreaking photo

An image captured off the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard shows a young polar bear drifting to sleep on a small iceberg after carving a bed in the ice. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

325 million-year-old shark graveyard discovered deep within Mammoth Cave harbors new fossilized species

Two new ancient shark species have been uncovered in Mammoth Cave with teeth that "look like they just came out of the shark's mouth yesterday." | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Asteroid Bennu may be 'a fragment of an ancient ocean world', 1st sample analysis suggests

Scientists are working hard to analyze samples of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu, with early results suggesting it may even be a chunk of an ancient water world. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

New Chinese AI model 'better than industry leader' in key metrics

The newly announced Spark v3.5 can beat OpenAI's GPT-4 in language workloads, among other areas, and can synthesize human speech that conveys different emotions, tones and speech patterns, its creators claim. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Jurassic 'mist wing' fossil discovered on Scottish island could be missing link in pterosaur evolution

Surprise discovery of 168-million-year-old pterosaur in rocks on Isle of Skye will help scientists narrow down major events in the evolution of these flying reptiles. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

French bulldog puppy spontaneously regrows jaw after surgery in 1st known case of its kind

Cornell veterinarians discovered a puppy whose jaw they had surgically removed because of a cancerous tumor had regrown it just eight weeks after the operation. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Dinosaur-era frog found fossilized with belly full of eggs and was likely killed during mating

Gravid frog found in 100 million-year-old deposits in China is oldest fossil of its kind ever discovered. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Chemicals in plastics and cosmetics tied to preterm birth risk

Exposure to common chemicals in plastics during pregnancy has been tied to a risk of preterm birth in a new analysis. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

April 8 solar eclipse: What is the path of totality, and where's the best spot to watch?

On April 8, a total solar eclipse will be visible in 15 U.S. states that sit along the path of totality. But how does the path of totality work, and where's the best viewing spot? Here's everything you need to know. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Bronze Age 'treasure' was crafted with extraterrestrial metal

Researchers determined that two artifacts in the Bronze Age hoard were made with meteoric iron. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononeko breaks record for longest time spent in space — and he still has 6 months to go

Oleg Kononeko has broken the record for most cumulative time spent in space after spending his 878th non-continuous day onboard the International Space Station. But he won't return to Earth until September. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Fitbit's priciest fitness tracker is $50 cheaper at Best Buy today

You can get the premium Fitbit Sense 2 for less than $200 while this deal lasts. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago

Iceland volcano: Mass of magma pooling beneath power plant north of Grindavík indicates imminent eruption

Magma continues to accumulate in a chamber beneath Svartsengi and has now reached levels thought to have triggered the volcanic eruption that sent lava flowing into Grindavík on Jan. 14. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 11 months ago