Additional states have been added to the list of locations impacted by an outbreak of foodborne illness tied to iceberg lettuce. | Continue reading
A young girl in China died after being given an experimental gene therapy intended to treat a neurodevelopmental syndrome, an investigation by Science and Retraction Watch revealed. | Continue reading
The total amount of ordinary matter in our universe adds up to roughly one-tenth of what's expected. Now, scientists think they may have found some of it between galaxies. | Continue reading
By enhancing the functionality of agentic browsers, they have become insecure and could be sharing personal information. | Continue reading
Rescheduling cannabis could mark a major shift in research, but it alone will not eliminate the scientific, regulatory and patient-access challenges that have shaped medical cannabis for decades, says clinical researcher Raymond Palidora | Continue reading
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Hong Wang, a mathematician at New York University, helped solve a decades-old geometry problem and is now the third woman to win math's most prestigious award. | Continue reading
As U.S. federal research budgets continue to be slashed, a team of marmot researchers have turned to unconventional sources of funding. | Continue reading
Archaeologists found a Roman military camp in Slovakia with unusual burials of soldiers who likely fought in Marcus Aurelius' Marcomannic Wars. | Continue reading
Pediatricians in both the U.S. and Japan tend to prescribe antibiotics too often, although the doctors are now improving their track record. What's behind this tendency? | Continue reading
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High-speed rotation exploits the concept of motion blur to conceal a new drone while it's in flight. | Continue reading
In two encounters in the Gulf of California, one orca held a dead sunfish in place while another rammed it at high speed, breaking the carcass into what appear to be bite-sized pieces for younger whales. | Continue reading
DNA analysis, 3D-printed skulls and forensic sculpture helped experts recreate people who lived near the ancient Roman frontier city of Aquincum nearly 1,700 years ago. | Continue reading
NASA's record-breaking New Horizons spacecraft has awoken from a 321-day hibernation in "good health" as it resumes unprecedented science at the solar system's edge. | Continue reading
Researchers risked their lives to study Andean leaf-eared mice on the inhospitable peaks of the Puna de Atacama volcanoes in Chile. | Continue reading
A new look at three children who died in the Inca human sacrifice ceremony known as Capacocha reveals their last few months and moments. | Continue reading
Astronauts grew a scroll-like crystal aboard the ISS, and its strange shape reveals what happens to ordinary salts once gravity stops running the show. | Continue reading
A 6-year-old cancer patient was receiving a blood transfusion when he developed a potentially deadly allergic reaction. | Continue reading
Medical anthropologist Ann Cheney speaks to Live Science writer Sascha Pare about the heavy toll toxic dust from California's largest inland lake takes on marginalized communities. | Continue reading
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New modeling suggests meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet has a big weakening influence on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but the runoff likely won't cause a complete and irreversible collapse. | Continue reading
The findings in several foundational brain imaging studies don't hold up in follow-up research. | Continue reading
Engineers say an AI image generator built on a new type of physical computing could use far less power than existing stable diffusion-based methods. | Continue reading
What does 'cryptology' mean? | Continue reading
A 2020 astronaut photo shows a massive, milky-green vortex in Lake Skadar, which lies on the border between Montenegro and Albania. | Continue reading
A bacterium linked to gum disease may contribute to heart valve disease by setting off inflammation that can lead to calcium buildup. | Continue reading
Astronomers may have found an unexpected origin for the mysterious "little red dots" that appear to be so common in James Webb Space Telescope surveys of the early universe. | Continue reading
It's long been debated what started the devastating 1789 smallpox outbreak among Indigenous Australians. Now, a new modeling study has the likely answer. | Continue reading
Biologists Niloofar Alaei Kakhki and Morteza Monfared tell Live Science how beetle larvae could be repurposed from pet food to a cleaner for museums and laboratories. | Continue reading
Stylized masks like this one adorned pre-Inca mummies in Peru hundreds of years ago. | Continue reading
What does 'heliosphere' mean? | Continue reading
Excitement around the idea that GLP-1 drugs can prevent cancer is running well ahead of the evidence, an expert explains. | Continue reading
Astronomers have detected helium escaping from the super-Earth LHS 1140 b, providing the strongest evidence yet that a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone has retained an atmosphere for billions of years. | Continue reading
A 12th-century wild-boar tusk found in Russia may be a warrior's amulet. | Continue reading
Maternal cells that infiltrate children's brains during pregnancy take on different jobs in the brain and may persist into old age. | Continue reading
The James Webb telescope peers through a warped bubble of space-time to study galaxies from the first billion years after the Big Bang. | Continue reading
There are a few contenders for the world's oldest weapon, and one is over 400,000 years old. | Continue reading
What does 'autotroph' mean? | Continue reading
Women on ancient Roman farms were in charge of making wine, oil — and profits. Historians dismissed them as ‘housekeepers’ | Continue reading
In this excerpt from "Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life," author Mona Sloane examines how artificial intelligence is reconfiguring our understanding of the world and how we imagine the future. | Continue reading
Amino acids and other "pre-biotic" molecules were spotted in a meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024. | Continue reading
July 18, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend | Continue reading
It's fairly uncommon to find a spherical creature, although they're more common in the sea than on land. So which one is the roundest? | Continue reading
What does 'neuroplasticity' mean? | Continue reading
RNA can fold into more complex configurations than scientists thought, raising questions about how important these 3D structures were when life on Earth began. | Continue reading
Forecasts point to the ongoing El Niño rapidly strengthening to a likely all-time record in the coming months, fueling temperature rises and extreme weather. | Continue reading
Lettuce served at Taco Bell has been identified as a source of Cyclospora infections affecting people across five states. | Continue reading