A tomb excavated in Aspendos, Turkey, revealed a skeleton buried with several coins featuring ancient wrestlers. | Continue reading
Staff writer Sascha Pare spoke with musical composer and sound artist Jim Nollman about his new album, "Orcas' Greatest Hits," created with killer-whale bandmates. | Continue reading
This ultra-light solar filter film is one of the most versatile and best-quality ways to image the sun. | Continue reading
Two big skywatching events are happening on Aug. 12. Will you have your eyes turned skyward? Let us know in our latest poll. | Continue reading
The pointy gold hat reveals evidence of a Bronze Age sun cult whose leader could predict eclipses. | Continue reading
Warming has brought extreme rain to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival, say hydrologists, who believe efforts to harvest rainfall may also be paying dividends. | Continue reading
Science writer Kit Chapman on the weird world of alchemy before chemistry. | Continue reading
A new James Webb telescope study suggests the universe's enigmatic "little red dots" may not have vanished after all — they may simply look different as we observe them across cosmic time. | Continue reading
"Uncontacted" and "isolated" peoples live in roughly 10 countries around the world, including one group that erases their footprints so they cannot easily be found. | Continue reading
Escalating use of tools like Gemini and ChatGPT saps more and more power. Experts offer some tips on how to consume less. | Continue reading
In this excerpt from "The Age of Alchemy," author Kit Chapman reveals how ancient Sri Lankans created steel of legends by harnessing monsoons. | Continue reading
Here's exactly when and where to watch the Aug. 12, 2026 solar eclipse in Europe, North America and North Africa. | Continue reading
Here are the main differences between yams and sweet potatoes and how to tell them apart. | Continue reading
A bacteria-derived "postbiotic" may help restore the aging uterus, but experts say it is too early to know whether it could improve fertility as a treatment. | Continue reading
A partial eclipse is still worth seeing, but only with the right protection. Here's where you can still find eclipse glasses, solar binoculars and filters before eclipse day. | Continue reading
Uberaba Geopark, also known as the "Land of the Giants," is a region in Brazil's Cerrado biome that preserved thousands of prehistoric fossils. | Continue reading
A new yarn combines the stretch of spandex with the recyclability of a single plastic, offering a potential path toward more sustainable clothing. | Continue reading
Voyager 1 is running low on power for science, but a successful energy-saving maneuver on Voyager 2 raises hope that the 50-year-old spacecraft can keep going. | Continue reading
No, AI hasn't cracked the encryption protecting your bank account. But experts say Anthropic's latest research could change how tomorrow's cryptography is tested. | Continue reading
For the first time, scientists have directly observed a 150-year-old predicted phenomenon on the sun's surface that could explain why the sun's atmosphere is far hotter than its surface. | Continue reading
Live Science spoke with professor of civil and environmental engineering Amir AghaKouchak about the reasons behind the Caspian Sea's stark decline over the past three decades. | Continue reading
The Food and Drug Administration's approval of an mRNA vaccine for flu comes after the agency initially refused to review the approval request for the shot. | Continue reading
New images from South Korea's Danuri lunar orbiter reveal where a runaway SpaceX rocket part slammed into the moon on Wednesday. | Continue reading
Scientists carved a 13-sided shape called an "einstein" into a chip and discovered that it steers light in ways no other crystal does. | Continue reading
The world's first portable, room-temperature quantum computer with more than 10 qubits utilizes flawed lab-made diamonds. The quantum system fits into a standard server rack and connects to a typical power grid. | Continue reading
A team of telescopes around the world, including the newly activated Vera C. Rubin Observatory, joined forces to observe the first shocking moments of a supernova explosion in unprecedented detail. | Continue reading
While eclipse paths always move from west to east, this one seems to reverse direction on maps as it crosses the Arctic. Here's the geometry behind the illusion. | Continue reading
Using advanced neutron imaging, researchers scanning fossils from Queensland uncovered clues about the complex food chain of prehistoric Earth. | Continue reading
A camera drone captured extraordinarily rare footage of a humpback whale giving birth off the Australian coast. | Continue reading
A global analysis shows how antibiotic resistance has been increasing among childhood infections. | Continue reading
A man looking for healthy alternatives to table salt consulted ChatGPT for help, but he ended up hospitalized with paranoia and hallucinations. | Continue reading
Research shows a fifth of the world's reservoirs are currently at high risk of filling with sediment, creating a "ticking time bomb" that threatens lives and livelihoods. | Continue reading
Researchers designed a material that can independently control how it absorbs and emits heat, and it even retains those settings once the power is turned off. | Continue reading
Thousands of skeletal human remains have been discovered with their brain tissue unexpectedly intact. Now, a team of scientists may have finally figured out why. | Continue reading
Researchers have confirmed that a plant native to alpine regions in southwest China is carnivorous, supporting a Darwinian theory from 1875. | Continue reading
An upcoming collision of a Falcon 9 rocket part with the moon may be visible from Earth with telescopes, new research suggests. Here's what scientists and skywatchers are hoping to see. | Continue reading
Live Science spoke with climate change researcher Jong-Seong Kug about how a super El Niño could cause lasting damage to our world. | Continue reading
A 2024 astronaut photo shows the icy surface of Pangong Lake breaking apart in the lofty Tibetan Plateau. The point where the ice meets the water almost perfectly matches a disputed border between China and India. | Continue reading
Parents may struggle to learn all there is to know about children's health. A pediatrician in Saku, Japan, has made it his mission to help. | Continue reading
Two people in Michigan have died due to Cyclospora infections, the state health department reported. | Continue reading
Brine that feeds the gruesome-looking Blood Falls in East Antarctica may have been emplaced when sea levels were higher than they are now, a new study says. | Continue reading
Reprogramming the gut microbiome with fecal microbiota transplants could reduce the amount of time people with insomnia spend awake. | Continue reading
Researchers found the remains of a Roman camp from 39 B.C. that was ambushed by locals in what's now Catalonia, Spain. | Continue reading
Buffers made of aspen trees could help protect communities from worsening wildfires. | Continue reading
A revived hypothesis argues that a fungus-filled world after the Chicxulub asteroid impact may have given mammals an evolutionary edge. The idea could reshape how scientists think about mass extinctions, but it is still controversial. | Continue reading
A chance find of rare rock crystal tools a century ago paved the way for a better understanding of Neanderthals today. | Continue reading
The most famous giant spiral galaxy in the universe has been revealed not to be the star factory it once was, just as NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to unlock even more breathtaking cosmic insights. | Continue reading
Author and journalist Fred Pearce tells Live Science about his book "Despite it All" — looking at the changes that have taken place over the last 40 years that provide some hope that we can solve the climate crisis. | Continue reading