The discovery of two entangled quarks at the large Hadron Collider is the highest-energy observation of entanglement ever made. | Continue reading
NASA's Perseverance rover has sent home pictures of a mysterious black-and-white striped rock, the likes of which scientists have never seen before on Mars. | Continue reading
"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." | Continue reading
After Philip Seargeant's grandmother suffered a stroke, she lost the ability to speak for several days. The experience made him reflect on brain-computer interfaces — a technology with both positive and dystopian implications. | Continue reading
Strange, ultraheavy stars that are rich in barium grow massive by cannibalizing their companions, scientists discover after finally catching these stellar leeches in the act. | Continue reading
A 2012 satellite photo captured a patch of snow-covered sea ice with an uncannily similar shape to badges pinned on the uniforms of Starfleet officers in the "Star Trek" franchise. | Continue reading
During late September and mid-October, the much-anticipated comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) could become visible to the naked-eye for skywatchers around the world. | Continue reading
The newly named dinosaur is unique to Mexico, and it's helping change scientists' understanding of dinosaur ranges across the Americas. | Continue reading
New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely past our planet on Sept. 17. | Continue reading
Scientists used AI to find 303 never-before-seen geoglyphs in Peru's Nazca Desert, including abstract humanoid figures, ancient ceremonies, "decapitated heads" and a "killer whale holding a knife." | Continue reading
The latest human case of bird flu in the U.S. occurred in a patient with no reported exposure to affected animals, sparking questions over whether the virus is spreading between people. Experts say that's unlikely but argue the case raises other concerns. | Continue reading
Scuba-diving lizards use bubbles to stay submerged in water for long periods of time. | Continue reading
A new map that details gravitational anomalies on Mars has revealed 20 mysteriously dense blobs, including a dog-shaped mass, buried below the planet's north pole. And researchers have no clear idea where they came from. | Continue reading
Scientists have grown an ancient seed from a cave in the Judean Desert into a tree — and it could belong to a locally-extinct species with medicinal properties mentioned several times in the Bible. | Continue reading
This series of paintings, found inside a cave in the Sahara, shows a pair of swimmers. | Continue reading
The martial artifacts found at the temple complex were likely offerings that an ancient kingdom made to their chief god. | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken things to the extreme, studying the outer edge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way and producing a stunning new image. | Continue reading
The human body has a number of mechanisms that prevent you from holding your breath until you suffocate. | Continue reading
A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a "bridge" of dust and gas forming a cosmic smiley face. | Continue reading
Being a Roman gladiator was a bloody business, but did all gladiators really fight to the death? | Continue reading
Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles. | Continue reading
All species in the antechinus genus have the same frenzied mating system, where males have sex until they die from organ failure, then the females gobble up their corpses. | Continue reading
No one knows for sure when steel was invented, but some of the earliest examples crop up in the first millennium B.C. in Central and South Asia. | Continue reading
In this extract from "The Lives of Spiders: A Natural History of the World's Spiders," author Ximena Nelson examines three species of spider with unusual diets — plants, blood and pillbugs. | Continue reading
Sept. 21, 2024: 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
The person dubbed "the prophet of the Anthropocene" talks to Live Science about how they got this title, what the Anthropocene means, and why we need to stop trying to define when it started and accept that we've been in it for millennia. | Continue reading
Climate change will fundamentally challenge the world's urban centers. Three cities — San Diego, Milan and Jakarta — offer lessons for how to adapt to a warming planet. | Continue reading
Builders knew how to keep people cool in hot, dry climates thousands of years ago. It's time to get that knowledge back. | Continue reading
A month-long study of a man's brain revealed that its volume consistently shrunk over the course of each day and then reset overnight. | Continue reading
Get the Nikon Z6 II plus accessories for $1,496.95 in this Adorama deal — including 64GB card, carry case and more. | Continue reading
Indian authorities believe wolf attacks have killed 10 people in the Bahraich region of Uttar Pradesh in recent months, as fear and confusion grips local villages. | Continue reading
Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest. | Continue reading
Every winter, when sunlight hits at the right angle, visitors to Virginia's First Landing State Park are treated to a mesmerizing rainbow light show courtesy of the park's bald cypress swamp. | Continue reading
New research suggests that black holes may actually be "frozen stars," bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an event horizon, potentially solving some of the biggest paradoxes in black hole physics. | Continue reading
AI development is accelerating — with some scientists suggesting machines will be more intelligent than the smartest humans within the next few years. | Continue reading
Painting city roofs white could lower the temperature in London dramatically on the hottest days, new research suggests. | Continue reading
The people who created the Pitted Ware Culture may have used seal hides to build boats. | Continue reading
Researchers unexpectedly found traces of cocaine in the mummified brain tissue of 17th-century people buried in a crypt in Milan. | Continue reading
A new study has revealed the exact origin of the Pacific Ocean's mysterious "biotwang" noises, which were first detected by underwater surveys near the Mariana Trench in 2014. | Continue reading
Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed a "revenant" grave where a man was buried with large stones on his chest to prevent him from rising from the dead. | Continue reading
A new analysis of the brushstrokes and colors in Vincent van Gogh's famous painting Starry Night reveals a striking similarity to "hidden turbulence" in Earth's atmosphere, suggesting the iconic artist had a surprisingly detailed understanding of natural processes. | Continue reading
A newly discovered doughnut shape in Earth's outer core may reveal elements that help drive the formation of the planet's magnetic field. | Continue reading
One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery. | Continue reading
Can VR training for first responders replicate the heat, the smoke and the stress of handling a real blaze? | Continue reading
Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep into space. | Continue reading
The Amazon fires, fueled by severe drought exacerbated by climate change, have created a toxic smoke cloud spanning about 4 million square miles — an area larger than the entire United States. | Continue reading
JUICE successfully identified water and the building blocks of life in Earth's atmosphere. In doing so, the probe headed for Jupiter's moons confirmed that its instruments are working properly. | Continue reading
"Our observations indicate the presence of powerful iron winds, probably fuelled by a hot spot in the atmosphere." | Continue reading