Diamonds erupt from the deep as supercontinents break up. Now you can listen to the "song" of these kimberlite eruptions. | Continue reading
Although on-device AI was big at CES, there were plenty of budget-friendly machines to see as well. | Continue reading
CES 2024 was a banner year for innovations in laptops. Here are the ones likely to be making waves this year for coders. | Continue reading
Gigantopithecus blacki went extinct at least 215,000 years ago after climate change caused its forest home to vanish. | Continue reading
Scientists discovered a new class of antibiotic that kills bacteria in a unique way and isn't vulnerable to existing drug resistance. | Continue reading
The temple sits adjacent to a sanctuary dedicated to the Greek goddess Artemis. | Continue reading
The most powerful and distant fast radio burst ever seen has been tracked to a "blob" of galaxies that existed when the universe was less than half its current age. | Continue reading
The Einstein Probe has left Earth to survey the cosmos for X-ray signals from feeding black holes, colliding neutron stars and exploding stars. | Continue reading
Archaeologists used lasers to view an ancient civilization hidden in the Amazon rainforest. | Continue reading
Catch data from 2012 to 2019 reveal shark deaths from fishing increased from 76 million to 80 million per year. Researchers stress that more action is needed to save threatened species. | Continue reading
Instead of bludgeoning Australia's invasive cane toads to death, scientists advise popping them in the fridge for a day or two before transferring them to the freezer to finish them off. | Continue reading
Scientists are studying how fruit bats can handle such a sugary diets in order to potentially uncover new ways to manage humans' glucose levels. | Continue reading
The newly identified tyrannosaur species is the closest known relative of T. rex and could have been even larger than the famous dinosaur king. | Continue reading
The two new finds bring the total number of golden tongues found in ancient Egyptian mummies at Oxyrhynchus to 16. | Continue reading
Scents are not only important in our relationship to food and the natural world. They also play a role in how we communicate with people we know. | Continue reading
Smoking cannabis before a workout may make the experience more enjoyable, but it may feel harder, a small study suggests. | Continue reading
The bullet's inscriptions hint that Indigenous people in Spain supported the would-be dictator, Julius Caesar, during the Roman civil war. | Continue reading
An adult male silky shark was spotted with a huge chunk of its fin missing. A year later, it had almost completely regrown. Here's the amazing story behind the discovery. | Continue reading
Black footed cats are already a threatened species, and habitat fragmentation is now causing increased rates of interbreeding, placing them at higher risk of disease. | Continue reading
Researchers found a new species of fanged frog when they noticed clutches of eggs laid on leaves and mossy boulders unusually far above water. | Continue reading
The AI chatbot provided incorrect diagnoses in 72 pediatric cases from a sample of 100 historic cases, while offering diagnoses in a further 11 that were deemed too broad to be correct. | Continue reading
'We've never had this kind of look at an exploded star before.' | Continue reading
An oxidizer leak has left the lunar lander stranded in space carrying human remains | Continue reading
Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed tombs containing mummy masks and a 'god of silence' statue at Saqqara. | Continue reading
Scientific research on how cats view us is mixed, but one thing is clear — they don't adore us the way dogs do. | Continue reading
New research suggests that the risk of Europeans developing diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's stems from ancient human migrations. | Continue reading
Scientists pieced together the history of a huge Pacific plateau and found a complicated story. | Continue reading
NASA has announced it is pushing back its flagship Artemis II expedition to September 2025 and its Artemis III moon-landing mission to September 2026 after testing uncovered safety issues. | Continue reading
Countless sardines beached themselves on an island in the Philippines around 48 hours before a major earthquake that rocked the seafloor nearby. But were the two things connected? | Continue reading
Several new studies reveal that getting multiple COVID vaccine doses provides strong protection against lingering symptoms. | Continue reading
Scientists assessed a variety of "space dishes" and determined that the optimal (and tastiest) dish for male astronauts would be a hearty vegetarian salad. | Continue reading
Bright spots that appear and vanish on Saturn's moon Titan have a seemingly simple explanation — they're floating chunks of frozen organic material. | Continue reading
Genetically modifying a specific species of bacterium boosted its ability to extract rare-earth metals by 210% — paving the way for more environmentally friendly ways to extract these valuable elements. | Continue reading
You can grab this powerful Lenovo laptop for just $799.99 while stocks last. | Continue reading
An Iron Age moat found in Jerusalem may have been used for defense thousands of years ago. | Continue reading
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 is a great-looking smartwatch that packs plenty of features — but comes with disappointing battery life. | Continue reading
Although extinct California grizzlies upped their meat consumption following European colonization and agricultural expansion, they were mostly veggie and smaller than what historical sources claim. | Continue reading
Archaeologists think the man buried in the grave may have been a wealthy supporter of the Kalmar Union in which a single monarch united the kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. | Continue reading
Later this year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will come even closer to the sun than it has before, while traveling at record-breaking speeds. | Continue reading
AI will be featured heavily in products at CES 2024, with devices and software benefiting from highly sophisticated in-built AI tools. So is 2024 the year AI changes our lives? | Continue reading
Fossils discovered on Barro Colorado Island suggest central Panama was once home to a vast mangrove forest that was preserved when a volcanic mudflow buried it 23 million years ago. | Continue reading
A humpback whale off Baja California Sur with a deformed spine was likely hit by a ship and the injury will probably be fatal, an expert told Live Science. | Continue reading
During the last ice age, the first people to reach the Americas may have traveled from Asia along a sea ice "highway." | Continue reading
The surface of Venus is a hellscape with temperatures hot enough to melt lead, but some regions of its atmosphere high over the surface remain cool enough to harbor ice and birth ghostly clouds. | Continue reading
A professor of developmental psychology explains why our ability to multitask changes as we age. | Continue reading
A study uncovers the likely reasons why a rare genetic quirk is tied to protection against Parkinson's disease. | Continue reading
A tusk scooped up my miners in North Dakota turned out to be one of the most complete skeletons of a mammoth ever discovered in the state. | Continue reading
One of the best fitness trackers around is less than $70. | Continue reading