'Seemingly impossible': Endangered tortoise becomes first-time mom at about 100 years old

A roughly 100-year-old western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise has become a mom for the first time after reproducing with a male of the same age at Philadelphia Zoo. | Continue reading


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'Major disruption' has caused Arctic polar vortex to slide off North Pole, scientists say

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe. | Continue reading


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Best image-stabilized binoculars in 2025

The best image-stabilized binoculars provide a clear and steady view. | Continue reading


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Rainbow Mountains: China's psychedelic landscape created when 2 tectonic plates collided

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic tectonic collision that created the Himalayas. | Continue reading


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Acer Swift Go 14 AI (2024) review: A cheap and cheerful AI PC for students

The Acer Swift Go 14 AI offers great battery life but won't otherwise blow you away. | Continue reading


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Snake quiz: Let's ssseee what you know about these slithering reptiles

Test your knowledge of the secrets of snakes in this quiz. | Continue reading


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SwitchBot air purifier table review

The innovative SwitchBot air purifier table is a game-changer for pet owners. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 13 days ago

Jaw-dropping NASA image reveals a dying star at the heart of the Helix Nebula — and it may have just murdered a planet

A new view of the Helix Nebula reveals a dying white dwarf star at the nebula's center. This star's violent eating habits could be responsible for strange X-ray emissions in the region. | Continue reading


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'Twins! She has another baby': Sea monster from Chile had 2 buns in the oven, rare fossil reveals

An ichthyosaur was pregnant with twins when she died, a fossil from Cretaceous Chile reveals. | Continue reading


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Dark Skys DS-FX star projector review

We find out whether the Dark Skys DS-FX competes with the best star projectors on the market. | Continue reading


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Has the sun already passed solar maximum?

Has the sun already reached solar maximum? New data suggests Solar Cycle 25 may have peaked earlier than expected. Find out what this means. | Continue reading


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The brain may 'move' between related ideas in the same way it navigates from one location to another

Using a mathematical model, scientists explored how the human brain might represent information about physical spaces and about people, places and things. Turns out, it may process both in a similar way. | Continue reading


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Mind-reading brain implant converts thoughts to speech almost instantly: 'breakthrough'

Researchers have used a mind-reading brain implant to continuously play a paralyzed person's thoughts through a speaker, allowing them to talk again. | Continue reading


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Using AI reduces your critical thinking skills, Microsoft study warns

A survey of workers who use AI has revealed the tools could be slowly impairing our critical thinking skills. | Continue reading


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Kids infected with measles face long-term health consequences. Vaccines can prevent all of them.

Measles can erase the immune system's "memory" and cause a rare but fatal health condition. The MMR vaccine prevents these repercussions, evidence shows. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 13 days ago

How to choose an air purifier: Everything we have learned from years of testing.

We have tried and tested dozens of air purifiers over the years, measuring their accuracy and speed in removing airborne pollutants — here's everything we found. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 13 days ago

NASA's daredevil solar spacecraft survives 2nd close flyby of our sun

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has completed is 2nd ultra-close flyby of the sun, and survived to transmit its data back to Earth. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 13 days ago

World's first light-powered neural processing units (NPUs) could massively reduce energy consumption in AI data centers

Q.ANT's new chip uses photon power in a bid to solve AI's big energy issue. It's also 50 times faster than silicon-based equivalents, the company says. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 13 days ago

This rare bacterial infection triggers pus-filled sores in the lungs and brain

Nocardiosis is a rare bacterial infection that attacks the lungs, skin and brain. | Continue reading


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Triassic amphibians the size of alligators perished in mass die-off in Wyoming, puzzling 'bone bed' reveals

The discovery of nearly 20 alligator-size amphibians that died together during the Triassic in what is now Wyoming is providing scientists important clues about these creatures' lives. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 14 days ago

Gaia telescope retires: Scientists bid farewell to 'the discovery machine of the decade' that mapped 2 billion Milky Way stars

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as "the discovery machine of the decade." | Continue reading


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How do smart scales measure body composition, and how accurate are they?

Smart scales track changes in your muscle mass, body fat percentage and other health metrics — but how do they work? | Continue reading


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Mysterious origin of iconic Sutton Hoo helmet possibly revealed in new research

A metalworking die found in Denmark features a depiction of a horse and warrior that is remarkably similar to motifs on the Sutton Hoo helmet in England. | Continue reading


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Your brain starts eating itself during a marathon, study finds

Under extreme metabolic conditions, like a marathon, the brain may turn to cellular fat stores to maintain function, according to a new study. | Continue reading


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NASA's SPHEREx telescope 'opens its eyes on the universe', taking stunning debut image of 100,000 galaxies and stars

SPHEREx's first images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the telescope is working according to its design. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 14 days ago

'A notch above a gimmick': Experts question scientific merit of billionaire's Fram2 'space adventure' around Earth's poles

The recently launched Fram2 mission, which is funded and led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, will attempt to grow mushrooms, test out hormone diapers and X-ray civilian astronauts. However, experts say that these novel experiments are unlikely to yield meaningful results … | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 14 days ago

'Be ready to move quickly to higher ground': Forecaster delivers ominous warning of 1-in-1,000-year flood coming for central US

Forecasters have warned of historic flooding in the central US this week, anticipating multiple bouts of heavy rainfall and extreme thunderstorms. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 14 days ago

Supersonic vehicles could become stronger, faster and more durable thanks to new findings

Surprising results from hypersonic air flow simulations could help design stronger, faster and more durable supersonic vehicles. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 14 days ago

Morento MR5866 smart air purifier review

It is one of Amazon's bestsellers, but is it worth investing in? | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 14 days ago

North America is 'dripping' down into Earth's mantle, scientists discover

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 14 days ago

Best smart telescopes 2025: The latest technology for exploring the universe

The best smart telescopes offer a supremely easy way of viewing the night sky. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 14 days ago

Watch this humanoid robot perform a side flip for the first time

Unitree's G1 demonstrates a new level of robotic agility with a complex movement following an AI software update. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 14 days ago

Scientists drilled into Belize's Great Blue Hole and discovered a worrying trend

Tropical storms have been steadily increasing in frequency over the past 5,700 years, new evidence from sediment in the Great Blue Hole reveals, with a massive spike in the past two decades. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 14 days ago

Diagnostic dilemma: A man's deadly infection was triggered by a probiotic supplement

A man with a complex medical history ended up with a rare bacterial infection after taking probiotics in the hospital. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 14 days ago

Ancient Egypt: History, dynasties, religion and writing

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and more. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 15 days ago

3-year-old picks up 'beautiful stone,' discovers 3,800-year-old scarab amulet in Israel

A 3-year-old girl in Israel found an ancient Canaanite amulet shaped like a scarab while she was out walking with her family. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 15 days ago

New state of matter, dubbed 'half ice, half fire,' could lead to big advances in quantum computing

U.S. government scientists have developed a new phase of matter dubbed 'half ice, half fire,' which unites opposing electron spins in a unique magnet. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 15 days ago

Watch eerie 'UFOs' and a solar 'cyclone' take shape in stunning new ESA video of the sun

An eerie new video from ESA's Solar Orbiter shows a towering 'cyclone' of plasma exhibiting behaviors never seen before on our sun. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 15 days ago

Black holes can destroy planets — but they can also lead us to thriving alien worlds. Here's how.

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in that galaxy is rotating. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 15 days ago

Bears: Facts about the furry omnivores that live in many parts of the world

Discover interesting facts about the different types of bears and learn why not all bears hibernate. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 15 days ago

The US is squandering the one resource it needs to win the AI race with China — human intelligence

The release of DeepSeek was a reminder that the U.S. is not the assured frontrunner of AI development. As the race between China and the U.S. intensifies, is America inadvertently giving it's biggest rival a huge leg up? | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 15 days ago

Lava bursts through Grindavík's defense barriers as new volcanic eruption begins on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula

Lava bursts through Grindavík's defense barriers as new volcanic eruption begins on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 15 days ago

Giant, near-perfect cloud ring appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — Earth from space

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 15 days ago

'We didn't expect to find such a beautiful, thriving ecosystem': Hidden world of life discovered beneath Antarctic iceberg

The newfound ecosystem is filled with sea crabs, octopuses and gigantic sponges, suggesting it may have been thriving for centuries. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 15 days ago

Scientists discover major differences in how humans and AI 'think' — and the implications could be significant

Study finds that AI fundamentally lacks the human capability to make creative mental connections, raising warning signs for how we deploy AI tools. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 15 days ago

James Webb telescope takes emergency look at 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 ahead of close encounter in 2032

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach in 2032. The telescope confirmed Earth is safe, but the moon may still be in trouble. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 16 days ago

See spectacular photos from Saturday's partial solar eclipse

The partial solar eclipse on March 29 wowed skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 16 days ago

Unknown human species in East Asia used sophisticated tools at the same time Neanderthals did in Europe

A stone tool discovery in China rewrites the human story of Middle Paleolithic era in East Asia | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 16 days ago