A single specimen of an ancient tree species was found in 1895. Now scientists are using AI to find it a mate. | Continue reading
Scientists harness a compound normally used in cancer treatment to reclaim rare-earth elements from electronic waste. | Continue reading
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After a 150-year search, archaeologists found the moat near a parking lot in Jerusalem. | Continue reading
Flu viruses that can use a second cellular entry point may move more effectively between animals and humans, scientists say. | Continue reading
A palliative care researcher explains how death can help people appreciate life. | Continue reading
Preliminary experiments suggest that a new test could diagnose bacterial infections that cause sepsis days faster than conventional approaches, with potentially lifesaving consequences. | Continue reading
A hydrothermal eruption Tuesday (July 23) morning surprised visitors walking among the colorful hot springs in Yellowstone National Park's Biscuit Basin, near the famous Old Faithful geyser. | Continue reading
High-powered titanium:sapphire lasers have been shrunk down with scientists planning to cram hundreds or thousands onto a four-inch wafer in a new chip. | Continue reading
Paleostress modeling shows how a region of the Andean Plateau was uplifted and formed beginning more than 20 million years ago. | Continue reading
As Earth's orbit intersects with those of two comets this month, stargazers will have a chance to view spectacular double meteor showers. | Continue reading
Scar tissue differs from normal skin in a few important ways. | Continue reading
The chemicals are present in consumer products including skincare, cosmetics and waterproof clothing. | Continue reading
Researchers used lidar technology to map Iruña Veleia, a Roman-era city in Spain. | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered that, unlike other four-legged mammals, hippopotamuses trot at high speeds and become airborne for "quite a large amount of time." | Continue reading
Female green and golden bell frogs in Australia will eat their male counterparts when the males' mating call displeases them. | Continue reading
New photos show a young giraffe with an extremely deformed neck in Kruger National Park. The animal may have survived a broken neck or could have a severe case of an illness that also affects humans. | Continue reading
Discover the universe beyond Earth's atmosphere with the latest astronomy news, features and articles. | Continue reading
A 2020 satellite photo shows "blackwater" flowing from South Carolina's Winyah Bay after Hurricane Sally made landfall and triggered flash flooding. | Continue reading
Here's everything you need to know to see the best meteor showers of 2024. | Continue reading
Volunteers at Bannockburn House in Scotland discovered a musket ball hole in a wall that dates to the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. | Continue reading
In a global first, scientists working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean have found that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen, dubbed "dark oxygen." | Continue reading
Ultraprocessed foods have been tied to various health risks — but what are they, exactly? | Continue reading
What's the secret to Homo sapiens' success as a species? | Continue reading
While headlines around the world claimed that ancient galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope were "breaking" our understanding of the Big Bang, the truth is much more nuanced — and much more interesting. | Continue reading
Command module pilot Michael Collins took this iconic Apollo 11 photo 55 years ago today, after his historic trip around the far side of the moon made him "the world's loneliest man". | Continue reading
Animals are disappearing too fast for researchers to record all of the extinctions we've caused. | Continue reading
This bizarre animal lives on the seabed and uses its large hand-like fins to move walk around. | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just two years of operations, but how can it see a galaxy 33.8 billion light-years away in a universe that is only 13.8 billion years old? | Continue reading
When a dog looks strikingly like its owner, is that a coincidence or is there more to the story? | Continue reading
NASA's Curiosity rover revealed an 'oasis' of rare elemental sulfur on Mars after accidentally crushing a rock with its tires. The yellow crystals have never been spotted on the Red Planet before. | Continue reading
So much is still unknown about consciousness, nevermind whether brain organoids will achieve it, explains a leading neuroscientist. | Continue reading
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a final proposal to kill around 450,000 invasive barred owls in the Northwest, in an attempt to save two native species. | Continue reading
Coastguards had to tow a 40-foot-long sailboat back to port after two young orcas severely damaged the boat's rudder near Guilvinec in the French region of Brittany. | Continue reading
Blocking a pro-inflammatory protein extended the life span of mice by around 25%. Could it do the same in humans? | Continue reading
Blocking a pro-inflammatory protein extended the life span of mice by around 25%. Could it do the same in humans? | Continue reading
Scientists consider Last Chance Lake to be an analog for lakes that may have existed on Earth 4 billion years ago and contained the ingredients for early life on our planet. | Continue reading
A beaked whale that recently washed up dead on a New Zealand beach likely belongs to the world's rarest cetacean species. If confirmed, researchers could dissect the species for the very first time. | Continue reading
Do dead stars glow? A strange gravitational phenomenon could be generating enormous amounts of light around neutron stars, new research suggests. | Continue reading
"This very arid soil houses a treasure," ecologist María Fernanda Pérez told Live Science after the Atacama Desert produced a rare winter bloom. | Continue reading
A 13-year-old boy hiking in Haifa discovered a Roman-era ring with a depiction of Minerva, the goddess of war and wisdom. | Continue reading
A case study shows how a therapy typically used for cancer could be adapted to treat a disorder that Céline Dion recently disclosed she has. | Continue reading
Archaeologists discovered rock carvings featuring several pharaohs during an underwater expedition near Aswan, Egypt. | Continue reading
The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft is back to routine operations studying the Milky Way after a meteor strike punctured its protective shield, allowing charged solar particles to stream through. | Continue reading
Recent studies suggest PFAS can pass through human skin and through the placenta. What does that mean for our health? | Continue reading
A coastal taipan named Cyclone recently delivered three times the average amount of venom for its species in one go, setting a new record. | Continue reading
The ESM3 model can 'write' new proteins from scratch, opening up new possibilities for synthetic biology. | Continue reading