In 1912, biochemist Casimir Funk discovered vitamins, and more than a century later his legacy lives on. | Continue reading
A hyperactive sunspot recently unleashed its third X-class flare in under 24 hours. The X6 flare is the most powerful since 2017 and could be followed by equally massive explosions. | Continue reading
AI chatbots can't remember things well. However, scientists might have fixed AI's critical short-term memory issue, while OpenAI is also beginning to roll out long-term memory for ChatGPT. | Continue reading
The Levoit Core 600S air purifier gets our seal of approval for its intelligent sensors and excellent performance. | Continue reading
Decimal points are at least 150 years older than historians thought, according to newly unearthed notes from Venetian merchant Giovanni Bianchini, who practiced astrology in the 1440s. | Continue reading
The Norwegian island of Klosterøy is famous for its medieval monastery, but new research suggests it was important long before that. | Continue reading
Snakes have an evolutionary clock that ticks a lot faster than many other groups of animals, allowing them to diversify and evolve at super quick speeds, researchers have discovered. | Continue reading
Two X-class solar flares arrived at Earth last night and early this morning. The radiation bursts coincided with massive cellphone service outages across the U.S., but experts urge that the events may not be related. | Continue reading
In a lab study, scientists demonstrated that tweaking the makeup of the skin microbiome could theoretically help repel mosquitoes. | Continue reading
In a small study of transgender men and gender-diverse people who take testosterone, scientists found that one-third of the participants still ovulate and could therefore potentially become pregnant. | Continue reading
Researchers recently discovered an "incredible number" of potential new marine species, as well as a handful of hefty new seamounts while exploring the deep sea off the coast of Chile. | Continue reading
February's 'Snow Moon', the second full moon of 2024, will be the farthest from Earth this year and will appear the smallest in the sky when it rises on Saturday (Feb. 24). | Continue reading
The discovery or an ultra-tiny white dwarf could reveal how stars smaller than Jupiter are born. | Continue reading
Europe's ERS-2 climate satellite has burnt up over the Pacific Ocean in an uncontrolled reentry after 30 years in orbit. No damage from falling debris has been reported. | Continue reading
A metal detectorist unearthed an ornately decorated gold ring in Denmark. | Continue reading
Certain gut bacteria reside in colorectal tumors, but the species differ depending on a patient's age, offering hope that our gut tenants could serve as early warning signs of cancer in young people. | Continue reading
You can get an amazing view of the upcoming solar eclipse with a free solar filter when you pick up a new Unistellar telescope. | Continue reading
A recent solar flare unleashed a massive plasma plume from the sun's south pole, where these stellar eruptions rarely happen. The unusual phenomenon is a sign of the impending solar maximum. | Continue reading
Intuitive Machines' robotic Odysseus spacecraft snapped a few selfies with Earth in the background shortly after its Feb. 15 launch. | Continue reading
The northern green anaconda has been identified as a new species after genetic analysis showed it split from its southern counterpart 10 million years ago. | Continue reading
Remotely operated vehicle on a research dive captures close-up video of a beady-eyed gulper eel with a parasitic copepod permanently attached to its body. | Continue reading
First ever documented evidence of a fungus, suspected to be a Mycena species, growing on the body of a seemingly healthy frog. | Continue reading
Boston Dynamics has released footage showing how its flagship Atlas humanoid robot would cope in a factory environment as it lifts heavy struts and puts them into a flow cart. | Continue reading
On Feb. 22, Venus and Mars will look like a cosmic colon as they appear side by side in the predawn sky. | Continue reading
Astronomers believe the first galaxies formed around giant halos of dark matter. But a newly discovered galaxy dating to roughly 13 billion years ago mysteriously appeared long before that process should have occurred. | Continue reading
The FDA has approved the first drug that can reduce the severity of multiple food allergies at once. | Continue reading
Researchers think the inscription is written in a Vasconic language spoken in northeastern Spain before the arrival of the Romans. | Continue reading
NASA's final tally shows that OSIRIS-REx collected roughly 4 ounces (120 grams) of material from asteroid Bennu. The sample collected from the "potentially hazardous" asteroid is thought to contain some of the earliest precursors for life. | Continue reading
The European Space Agency's ERS-2 Earth observation satellite was spotted in space as it prepares to make a fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere on Feb. 21. | Continue reading
An analysis of children's gene activity suggests that more severe forms of appendicitis can be distinguished from milder cases based on the activity of four genes. | Continue reading
The discovery of predatory dinosaurs in marine sediments in Morocco suggests life was abundant and diversifying at the end of the Cretaceous period. | Continue reading
A temporary lake at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park has persisted for more than six months, which is far longer than it has lasted before. And experts say that it could stick around for quite a while yet. | Continue reading
Haunting image showing two whales with their bones picked clean off the coast of Greenland has won the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024 competition. | Continue reading
A drug called Aurlumyn has been approved to treat severe frostbite in the U.S. after a successful clinical trial. | Continue reading
Two of the three last-known surviving Q1 microcomputers have resurfaced after they were last known to have been used by an oil drilling company in the 1970s. | Continue reading
A distant quasar that was initially mistaken for a star is actually one of the brightest and fastest-growing black holes ever seen. | Continue reading
The newly uncovered gene variants were identified as part of an analysis of the DNA of more than 400,000 people in the U.S. who agreed to participate in the All of Us Research Program. | Continue reading
A new study shows that invasive Joro spiders are surprisingly "urban tolerant," which could enable them to take over cities and other urban areas across the U.S. East Coast. | Continue reading
Permafrost thaw could result in new rivers forming across the Arctic, potentially unleashing 35 million car journeys' worth of carbon every year. | Continue reading
In a new video, 1X's EVE robots work together in silence in a test environment, performing actions such as sorting mail, handling objects and tidying up a child's toys. | Continue reading
Brain-computer interfaces have the potential to transform some people's lives, but they raise a host of ethical issues, too. | Continue reading
Live Science spoke with biochemist Virginijus Šikšnys, whose work helped establish CRISPR as a gene-editing system. | Continue reading
We finally understand why blueberries are blue — and the secret lies not in the flesh or skin, but the waxy coating around it. | Continue reading
A farmer in Bulgaria accidentally discovered two graves of a wealthy Roman-era family, but they appear to tell "a sad family story." | Continue reading
Scent therapy could be a useful tool for helping people with depression tap into their autobiographical memories, a small trial hints. | Continue reading
Twinkling stars can throw off telescope observations. To correct that, observatories like the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii create 'artificial stars' with lasers to hone their equipment. | Continue reading
The invisible substance called dark matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. Perhaps, a new study suggests, this strange substance arises from a 'dark mirror universe' that's been linked to ours since the dawn of time. | Continue reading
The total solar eclipse on April 8 is part of a repeating pattern of eclipses that last visited North America in 1970, and will visit again in 2078. Here's why the same eclipse repeats every 54 years. | Continue reading