Are kale, broccoli and Brussels sprouts really all the same plant?

Have you ever heard of the plant Brassica oleracea? | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

'We don't yet have the know-how to properly maintain a corpse brain': Why cryonics is a non-starter in our quest for immortality

In a new book, renowned biologist Venki Ramakrishnan explores the reasons why we die, and discusses unproven ways people hope to cheat death, such as cryogenics. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Eleonora's falcon: The raptor that imprisons birds live by stripping their feathers and stuffing them in rocks

One population of Eleonora's falcon is reported to keep little birds alive inside rocky prisons — a behavior not seen in any other raptor species. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

'White hat hackers' carjacked a Tesla using cheap, legal hardware — exposing major security flaws in the vehicle

Security researchers used a $169 Flipper Zero device and a Wi-Fi development board to obtain a driver's credentials, break into a Tesla Model 3 and drive away. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

James Webb telescope to zoom in on Uranus and Saturn in study of mysterious auroras

Two projects using the James Webb Space Telescope will look at the auroras of Uranus and Saturn to discover what processes make them tick. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Bismuth is so strongly repelled from magnets, it levitates. How?

The element bismuth can "float" between magnets due to magnetic levitation. What's the science behind this phenomenon? | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

AutoBrush Sonic Pro for Kids toothbrush review

The AutoBrush Sonic Pro for Kids promises to take the chore out of brushing for little ones, but can it deliver an excellent clean? | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

13 billion-year-old 'streams of stars' discovered near Milky Way's center may be earliest building blocks of our galaxy

Two gargantuan structures discovered near our galaxy's ancient heart may be some of the earliest building blocks of the Milky Way. Researchers have named them Shiva and Shakti. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Sperm whales drop giant poop bombs to save themselves from orca attack

A pod of sperm whales flung their poop at unsuspecting orcas to avoid a fatal attack. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

New trial hints at a possible HIV cure approach: Wake up latent virus hiding in the body, then kill it

A clinical trial of a new method to activate and kill HIV in the body shows small success, but it's not yet a cure. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Catherine, Princess of Wales, announces cancer diagnosis

The Princess of Wales, whose health status has recently been questioned by the media and public, has announced that she has cancer. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

'Kermit the Frog' creature that lived 270 million years ago looked like a 'stout salamander' with 'cartoonish' grin

Scientists found the ancient amphibian fossil in the collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

NASA only needs a single grain of ice to detect alien life in our solar system, study shows

The icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter shoot enormous geysers into space that may contain evidence of life. New research shows that NASA only needs to grab a few grains of ice from these plumes to find out for sure. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Ancient Chinese burials with swords and chariot cast light on violent 'Warring States' period

Researchers say the finds could help them understand the political and social changes going on in China during the Warring States period. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Like 'walking through the woods of millions of years ago': Ancient ecosystem brimming with dinosaur tracks discovered in Alaska

Fossilized footprints, tree stumps and feces discovered in Alaskan mountain foothills is a glimpse into life on Earth 100 million years ago. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Scientists create AI models that can talk to each other and pass on skills with limited human input

Scientists modeled human-like communication skills and the transfer of knowledge between AIs — so they can teach each other to perform tasks without a huge amount of training data. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Study of 'twin' stars finds 1 in 12 have killed and eaten a planet

A study of 91 pairs of stars finds that about 8%, or one in 12, swallowed up a planet at some point in their lives. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

See the full 'Worm Moon' eclipsed by Earth's shadow this weekend, exactly 2 weeks before the April 8 total solar eclipse

The full "Worm Moon's" brightness will dim during a penumbral lunar eclipse on March 25, exactly two weeks before a total solar eclipse crosses North America. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Pig kidney transplanted into human patient for 1st time ever

Doctors in Boston performed the first pig kidney transplant in a living patient. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Overlooked Apollo data from the 1970s reveals huge record of 'hidden' moonquakes

A reanalysis of 50-year-old Apollo mission data long abandoned by NASA has revealed 22,000 previously unrecognized moonquakes, almost tripling the known number of seismic lunar events. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Iceland volcano: Gigantic plume of toxic gas from latest eruption is moving across Europe, satellite data shows

A massive column of sulfur dioxide that was pumped out by the erupting volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula is currently traveling across northern Europe. Scientists are concerned it could impact the ozone layer. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Workout in a pill: Scientists move one step closer to an exercise-mimicking drug

Scientists are in the early days of creating a drug that can mimic cellular benefits of exercise for people unable to engage in physical activity. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Grab a pack of five eclipse glasses with an excellent Amazon deal to watch the solar eclipse with company

This pack of five solar eclipse glasses lets you and your loved ones safely view the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 — and they even come with a smartphone lens for taking photographs. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Elusive form of carbon tougher than diamonds created in supercomputer simulation for 1st time ever

A simulated form of carbon called BC8, or 'super-diamond', could be 30% tougher than normal diamonds, but synthesizing it on Earth won't be easy. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

2,000 earthquakes in 1 day off Canada coast suggest the ocean floor is ripping apart, scientists say

Record earthquake activity off the coast of Vancouver Island hints at the birth of new oceanic crust. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

1st Neuralink patient shown using brain chip to control computer and play chess in unexpected livestream

In a surprise video, Elon Musk's Neuralink revealed the first recipient of the company's brain-computer interface using the device to play online chess. They also discussed the "life-changing" procedure for the first time. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

'Very concerning': Microplastics can accumulate in cancer cells and may help them spread, study hints

An early lab-dish study in cancer cells suggests microplastics can persist through cell division and may contribute to cancer spread, when they're in tumors. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

The best electric toothbrush we have ever tested is now 25% off in the Amazon Big Spring Sale

Save $50 on our all-time favorite Oral-B Genius X Limited electric toothbrush with this Amazon deal. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Scientists just discovered a new way cells control their genes — it's called 'backtracking'

Scientists have discovered that, when a DNA-reading enzyme moves backwards along a gene, it may do so to help control when the gene is turned on. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Hurry, 'arguably Panasonic’s greatest camera ever' is at its lowest price this year

Amazon is selling the Panasonic Lumix S5 II along with a 35mm lens for $1,997.98 in a limited-time deal for the Amazon Big Spring Sale, and it’s highly regarded for shooting video. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Experimental wireless EV charger is just as fast as a superfast wired plug, scientists say

This 14-inch wireless charging device works at a rate of 100 kW, scientists claim, meaning it's up to 10 times as fast as some of the best commercially available alternatives. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

America's 1st over-the-counter birth control pill is coming soon. Here's what to know about Opill

Within weeks, for the first time in the U.S. consumers will be able to find a birth control pill on retail shelves. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Newly discovered 'fountain of youth' phenomenon may help stars delay death by billions of years

Recent observations show that some white dwarf stars suddenly stop cooling. Now, scientists propose a 'fountian of youth' mechanism that may explain how these stellar husks avoid death for billions of years. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

7 safe ways to view the partial phases of the total solar eclipse on April 8

From solar eclipse glasses and viewers to solar binoculars and pinhole projection, there are plenty of ways to safely follow the moon's progress across the sun on April 8. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Oldest canoes ever found in the Mediterranean Sea unearthed off the coast of Italy

The wooden vessels were likely used by Neolithic people for fishing and transport. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

'Space headaches' are a literal pain for astronauts. Why do they happen?

Headaches are a common and recurring problem in space, even for astronauts that don't experience them on Earth. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Obsidian blades with food traces reveal 1st settlers of Rapa Nui had regular contact with South Americans 1,000 years ago

The earliest settlers of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, appear to have had some sort of contact with people from South America as early as 1,000 years ago, a new plant study finds. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Get ready to combat hay fever with one of our favorite air purifiers for allergies — now 20% off in the Amazon Big Spring Sale

The already budget-friendly GermGuardian AC4825E air purifier is now even cheaper at Amazon. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

'Ghost shark' with enormous head and giant iridescent eyes discovered off Thailand

A new species of deep-sea chimaera with a ghoulish appearance has been discovered in the Andaman Sea. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Triassic 'tank' unearthed in Texas was a croc cousin that lived 215 million years ago

Fossil discovered in 1989 found to be new species of aetosaur — a massive armored crocodile cousin that lived during the late Triassic. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

AI-powered humanoid robot can serve you food, stack the dishes — and have a conversation with you

Figure 01 learned how to make coffee by watching a human do it, and now it can speak to you like a person. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

One of our all-time favorite Garmin watches is now 20% off at Walmart

The Garmin Forerunner 955 watch scored a full five stars in our tests — and now you can snap it up with a 2-year protection pack for $105 less at Walmart | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Researchers gave AI an 'inner monologue' and it massively improved its performance

Scientists trained an AI system to think before speaking with a technique called QuietSTaR. The inner monologue improved common sense reasoning and doubled math performance. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

'Emergent gravity' could force us to rewrite the laws of physics

The idea of emergent gravity is still new and requires a lot of assumptions in its calculations to make it work. But if experimental evidence ever proves it real, we would need to totally rewrite the laws of physics. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

'Astonishing' Neolithic burial containing a human, cattle and chariot discovered in Germany

The massive Neolithic burial site was part of a processional route where cattle were sacrificed. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

2,000-year-old carvings of celestial bodies and animals discovered on rocky cliffs in Brazil

Archaeologists identified 16 sites with representations of human footprints, animals and celestial bodies. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Places with the best weather to watch the April 8 solar eclipse (and what happens if it's cloudy where you are)

The total solar eclipse on April 8 will offer an incredible view of the fully obscured sun — but some places along the path of totality may see cloudy weather. Here's how to plan for the best view possible. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago

Deadly dog parasite found in Southern California in a 1st

A free-swimming worm that can infect and kill dogs has been found in the Colorado River near the California-Arizona border. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 8 months ago