Dinosaur-era frog found fossilized with belly full of eggs and was likely killed during mating

Gravid frog found in 100 million-year-old deposits in China is oldest fossil of its kind ever discovered. | Continue reading


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Chemicals in plastics and cosmetics tied to preterm birth risk

Exposure to common chemicals in plastics during pregnancy has been tied to a risk of preterm birth in a new analysis. | Continue reading


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April 8 solar eclipse: What is the path of totality, and where's the best spot to watch?

On April 8, a total solar eclipse will be visible in 15 U.S. states that sit along the path of totality. But how does the path of totality work, and where's the best viewing spot? Here's everything you need to know. | Continue reading


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Bronze Age 'treasure' was crafted with extraterrestrial metal

Researchers determined that two artifacts in the Bronze Age hoard were made with meteoric iron. | Continue reading


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Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononeko breaks record for longest time spent in space — and he still has 6 months to go

Oleg Kononeko has broken the record for most cumulative time spent in space after spending his 878th non-continuous day onboard the International Space Station. But he won't return to Earth until September. | Continue reading


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Fitbit's priciest fitness tracker is $50 cheaper at Best Buy today

You can get the premium Fitbit Sense 2 for less than $200 while this deal lasts. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Iceland volcano: Mass of magma pooling beneath power plant north of Grindavík indicates imminent eruption

Magma continues to accumulate in a chamber beneath Svartsengi and has now reached levels thought to have triggered the volcanic eruption that sent lava flowing into Grindavík on Jan. 14. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

'Superbugs' can linger in the body for years, potentially spreading antibiotic resistance

People can carry some antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria for up to nine years, new research suggests. | Continue reading


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'Remarkable' new algorithm could dramatically speed up web browsing

SIEVE is a new approach to web caching that's simpler and more effective than today's state-of-the-art algorithms, its creators claim — and big tech companies are taking notice. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

A trillion cicadas will descend on the US this spring in rare event that could leave unforgettable stench

Periodical cicadas belonging to two separate broods, Brood XIII and Brood XIX, will emerge together in a dual emergence event that will see a trillion cicadas buzzing across 16 U.S. states. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

James Webb telescope makes ultra-rare detection of 2 planets orbiting dead stars

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected two alien planets orbiting white dwarfs, the collapsed husks of once-mighty stars. The discovery offers a hint of what our solar system will look like after the sun's eventual demise. | Continue reading


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April 8 total solar eclipse: The best places to stargaze near the path of totality

The April 8 total solar eclipse will be visible from many large cities, but anyone looking for skies free of light pollution should check out one of these dark-sky parks and reserves in the path of totality. | Continue reading


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Bedbugs plagued Britain 1,900 years ago, Roman fort near Hadrian's Wall reveals

The earliest known evidence of bedbugs in Britain was found at a first-century fort near Hadrian's Wall. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Event Horizon Telescope spies gargantuan energy jets erupting from nearby supermassive black hole

Astronomers investigated an active supermassive black hole at the heart of Perseus A using the Event Horizon Telescope, spotting an epic battle between gravity and magnetism. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Assuming the worst in others can be 'read' in brain scans

Activity in the brain's "ventromedial prefrontal cortex" differs between people who assume the worst in social situations and those who don't, a study finds. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Can psychopaths learn to feel empathy?

People with psychopathic traits often struggle with emotional empathy, but they're usually adept at cognitive empathy and can use this to manipulate people. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Hidden DNA found in blue whales reveals they've been mating with other species — and their hybrid offspring

Newly sequenced genomes of blue whales in the Atlantic Ocean contain "unexpectedly high" levels of fin whale DNA, hinting that the two species have been interbreeding much more than previously realized. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

We've already blown past critical 1.5 C climate threshold, sea sponge study claims. Should we believe it?

If the new study is correct, global heating is more than a decade more advanced than we’ve assumed. But a lot of scientists have said it is filled with errors and inconsistencies. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Be quick and get more than 50% off these Samsung earbuds

These Galaxy Buds Live are under $70 at Walmart. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Robot surgeon sent to the International Space Station to dissect simulated astronaut tissue

A small robotic surgeon was successfully launched to the International Space Station last week. It was joined by a bunch of equally impressive experiments, including machine learning devices and artificial retina prototypes. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

NASA and DARPA flew 'experimental' self-flying helicopters to see if they could avoid crashing into other virtual aircraft

Two pilotless helicopters completed a dozen test flights, while attempting to avoid more than 150 virtual aircraft, to test the systems that will power future air taxis. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

1st-ever complete Roman 'bed burial' recovered from under London

In addition to the funerary items, archaeologists uncovered remnants of a tannery and a 16th-century cemetery. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Farming began in North Africa about 7,500 years ago thanks to immigrants, DNA from Neolithic burials reveals

DNA from remains found in prehistoric North African burials reveals a mix of locals and immigrants who practiced farming. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Space photo of the week: Hubble catches a 'baseball galaxy' with a black hole heart

ESO 420-G013 is a face-on spiral galaxy with an almost perfectly round disk and an active black hole lighting up its starry guts. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Will future colonists on the moon and Mars develop new accents?

As humans start to spread out among the solar system, new accents may begin to emerge in isolated colonies. But why does this happen and what will these new accents sound like? | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Severe 'flesh-eating' infections tied to heat waves in eastern US, CDC reports

Scientists investigated flesh-eating infections that took place after record-breaking heat waves in the U.S. last year. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Genomes of 51 animal species mapped in record time, creating 'evolutionary time machine'

Using a new technique, scientists created genetic blueprints for kangaroos, penguins, sharks and more. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Aldabra rail: The bird that came back from the dead by evolving twice

The flightless Aldabra rail went extinct 136,000 years ago when its atoll home sank beneath the waves. Then it evolved again. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

April 8 solar eclipse: 4 telescopes and observatories where you can watch totality

The April 8 total solar eclipse will be visible from several astronomical observatories across North America. Here are four that have big events planned for the day the sun disappears. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

How do galaxies grow while ensnared in the universe's cosmic web?

New simulations show how thousands of galaxies evolve by traveling through the strands of gas, dust and stars that make up the universe's "cosmic web." | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Why don't we feel Earth spinning?

Earth moves around the sun at 67,000 mph and makes a full rotation once every 24 hours. So why can't we feel the Earth's rotation? | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

1st known tuberculosis cases in Neanderthals revealed in prehistoric bone anaylsis

A look at two Neanderthal skeletons reveals that they could get tuberculosis, and it may have contributed to their extinction. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

'Gas station heroin' sold as 'elixir' prompts health warning

Health officials have raised the alarm about illegal products containing tianeptine, also known as "gas station heroin." | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Japan's SLIM moon lander may be dead for good as freezing lunar night sets in

Days after being revived from its initial power loss on the moon, Japan's SLIM lander will now sleep through the deep cold of lunar night — and may or may not wake up afterward. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Photos: Ghostly plasma loops linger on the sun after massive solar explosion

A photographer recently snapped an incredibly detailed photo of gigantic, ghostly plasma loops towering above the sun's fiery surface after a powerful solar flare exploded from the sun. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

13 of the world's oldest artworks, some crafted by extinct human relatives

Archaeological evidence suggests that symbolism in art, once seen as something that only modern humans were capable of, was produced by earlier hominins. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Our mixed-up human family: 8 human relatives that went extinct (and 1 that didn't)

Modern humans are far from the only species in the Homo genus. Here are others that went extinct long ago. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

'Everything about it is weird': Neanderthals may have created giant sensory structure in lightless cave, says archeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Archaeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes describes key Neanderthal artifacts that suggest the ancient human relatives clearly sought to modify their material world for reasons other than survival. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Did art exist before modern humans? New discoveries raise big questions.

Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the cognitive abilities of our archaic human relatives, such as Neanderthals. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

'Nothing is out of the question': Iceland volcano primed to erupt again, Grindavík still in danger zone

The Icelandic Met Office has warned magma beneath Reykjanes Peninsula is quickly reaching levels seen before the Jan. 14 eruption, and a fissure could open with just one hour of warning. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

'We were gobsmacked': 350 million-year-old tree fossils are unlike any scientists have ever seen

Rare tree fossils preserved with their leaves have an architecture unlike any plant known today and represent the earliest evidence of smaller trees growing beneath the forest canopy. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Women have 4 times men's rate of autoimmune disease. The X chromosome may be to blame.

A "complex" that regulates gene activity in people with two X chromosomes may predispose them to autoimmune disease, a new study hints. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Bizarre 'magnetic anomaly' discovered deep below New Zealand's Lake Rotorua

Lake Rotorua, which sits at the heart of a dormant volcano and is the setting for one of New Zealand's most famous Māori love stories, has been mapped in detail for the 1st time. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

More than 900,000 stars, galaxies and black holes revealed in most detailed X-ray map of the universe ever

Scientists using the eROSITA X-ray telescope have released a trove of data that reveals more than 900,000 objects in space, including 700,000 supermassive black holes and other 'exotic' objects. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Pick up a student laptop for less than $400 thanks to this Best Buy deal

You can get $230 off the Lenovo Ideapad 3i at Best Buy right now. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 9 months ago

Syphilis cases hit highest peak since the 1950s, CDC report reveals

Syphilis is on the rise across all age groups and regions in the U.S., based on data from 2018 to 2022. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

365 million-year-old 'alien' fish had one of the most extreme underbites on record

Scientists think the toothy fish may have used its mismatched jaw to trap prey. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

'Devil monkeys' are attacking people in Thailand, Japan and India. Here's why.

Never smile with your teeth showing (or even yawn) at a monkey, as this could be considered threatening. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago