Remains of 4,000-year-old 'lost' tomb discovered in Ireland

The tomb was said to have been demolished in the 19th century, but a new search has found its location. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Pangolin courtship ritual and birth of a 'pangopup' captured in incredible, rare footage

Pangolin courtship rituals can last hours and require lots of adjusting for the couple's scaly armor, incredible new footage shot for the PBS series "Big Little Journeys" reveals. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

January's full 'Wolf Moon' rises Thursday. Here's how to see it at its best.

The first full moon of 2024, sometimes nicknamed the Wolf Moon, will rise into winter skies this week, appearing bright and full from Wednesday to Friday. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Can dogs and cats be allergic to humans?

If people can be allergic to pets, can pets be allergic to people? | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

At last: NASA's complete sample of the 'potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu is finally freed from its canister

It's finally time to look inside the sample-return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Scientists were locked out of the container for months due to a technical malfunction. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Will the Doomsday Clock stand still or creep closer to midnight? Here's how to watch the reveal on Tuesday.

Watch the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' annual Doomsday Clock announcement to find out if 2024 is the year we creep closer than ever to a human-made apocalypse. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Scientists discover near-Earth asteroid hours before it exploded over Berlin

For only the eighth time in history, scientists detected an asteroid before it made its fiery appearance over Earth. The tiny fireball exploded near Berlin early on Jan. 21. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Surgeons save life of child whose stomach folded over on itself

Timely diagnosis and surgery saved the girl's life, doctors involved in her folded-stomach case reported. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

NASA bounces laser off 'Oreo-sized' mirror on the moon for 1st time, paving the way for high-precision lunar landings

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully bounced a laser off of a cookie-sized mirror on Inida's Vikram moon lander in an experiment that could greatly improve the precision of future moon landings. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Giant geomagnetic storm set to slam into Earth Monday, fueling auroras across northern US

The sun's magnetic field could soon slam into Earth's, triggering stunning light displays. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Dolphins are 'literally acting like jerks' by beating up baby manatees

Bottlenose dolphins have been observed trying to kill Antillean manatee calves, and researchers don't fully understand what's going on. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Futuristic vertical-takeoff air taxi could hit the market by 2028

The aircraft can cruise at 120 mph at an altitude of up to 1,500 feet — and it's much quieter than a helicopter. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Our favorite air purifier with eco mode is now 27% off at Amazon

Save $62 on the Coway Airmega AP-1512HH air purifier at Amazon. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

James Webb telescope spots bizarre 'cat tail' flowing out of nearby star, and scientists can't fully explain it

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed a bizarre string of dust in the shape of a cat's tail around the nearby juvenile star Beta Pictoris. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Camouflaged animals are hiding in every one of these photos — can you spot them all?

Find the perfectly camouflaged animals in all of these photos. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

This video of a robot making coffee could signal a huge step in the future of AI robotics. Why?

Most robots are preprogrammed to perform specific functions, but Figure's humanoid Figure 01 machine — that learns by watching and corrects its own mistakes — might upend the field. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

2-mile-thick layer of frozen water found buried at Mars' equator

The Mars Express orbiter has detected enough water ice buried beneath the Red Planet's equator to cover the entire planet in a shallow ocean if melted. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Bird flu wipes out over 95% of southern elephant seal pups in 'catastrophic' mass death

Over 17,000 southern elephant seal pups were found dead on Argentina's Valdés Peninsula in a horrific mass die off attributed to the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Controversial study claims megalodon didn't look like a 50-foot giant great white shark

Scientists say they have discovered a discrepancy in previous research and suggest megalodons may have been longer and more slender than previously believed — but not everyone is convinced. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

4 never-before-seen octopuses discovered in deep sea off Costa Rica

Enigmatic octopuses that have been newly discovered in the waters off Costa Rica add to a growing registry of deep-sea dwellers. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Space photo of the week: Observatory, or alien planet? Boggle your mind with this 360-degree image

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which could change astronomy forever when it comes online this August, looks like a planet all its own in this surreal new photo. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Why is wool itchy?

Why does wearing wool clothing sometimes lead to insatiable itching? | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Watch 5,000 fire ants create raft with their bodies to save colony and queen from death by swimming pool

Video footage from a new series captures thousands of fire ants building a floating raft to save the colony from drowning in a swimming pool. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Loggerhead shrike: The brutal 'butcherbird' that impales its prey on barbed wire

Loggerhead shrikes can kill prey bigger than themselves by stabbing and shaking them, before impaling them on sticks to eat later. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Why does Norway have so many fjords?

Fjords, many of them sculpted over many ice ages, can form all over Earth. So why does Norway have so many? | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

How does Tylenol work?

Exactly how Tylenol — also called acetaminophen or paracetamol — relieves pain continues to evade scientists, but it's clear the drug interacts with one key set of enzymes. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Artificial general intelligence — when AI becomes more capable than humans — is just moments away, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg declares

Mark Zuckerberg said Meta will have "an absolutely massive amount of infrastructure" in place by the end of the year to prime it for training an artificial general intelligence model. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Japan's SLIM lander reaches lunar surface, but it may be dead within hours

Japan's SLIM lander successfully reached the lunar surface on Friday, Jan. 19, but problems with its solar cells mean it could be dead on the moon within hours. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

A slave was brutally crucified in Roman Britain 1,700 years ago. Now, his face has been brought back to life.

A new facial approximation of a man who was crucified in Roman Britain finally "puts a face to his story." | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Grab a big screen student laptop for under $300 at Best Buy while you can

Students who need a laptop with a big screen should jump on this deal from Best Buy — it's been reduced by $250. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

10,000-year-old burials from unknown hunter-gatherer group discovered in Brazil

Evidence of at least four populations from different times in Brazil's history was found at the same archaeological site. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

'Barbenheimer Star' that blew up 13 billion years ago defies explanation, baffling scientists

The inexplicable entity, which likely had a chemical composition unlike any other known star, was identified by a group of "stellar archaeologists" who traced back the cosmic history of another equally unique star. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

1st-of-its-kind therapy blocks immune attack after stem-cell transplant

A midstage clinical trial suggests that a "first-of-its-kind" treatment could prevent serious immune attacks from bone-marrow transplants. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Roman dodecahedron uncovered by amateur archaeologists in the UK

More than 100 dodecahedrons have now been found in northwestern Europe, but archaeologists still don't know what they were used for. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Cloned Przewalski horses are 'resurrected stallions' that could help species thrive, scientists say

Przewalski horses cloned from a stallion that died in 1998 could help reintroduce much needed diversity to the species that was once declared extinct in the wild. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

A bizarre 'snake worm' has baffled scientists for over a decade, now they know what it is

A newfound species of fungus gnat is behind Alaska's "snake worm" mystery, in which thousands of fly larvae moved together in the shape of a snake. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

1,000-year-old cemetery with dead wearing dramatic rings on their necks and buckets on their feet found in Ukraine

The discovery of a cemetery in Ukraine from a millennium ago has revealed axes, swords, jewelry and, unexpectedly, buckets around the feet of some of the dead. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Explosive, green 'devil comet' photobombs ethereal nebula as it races toward Earth

The green-tinged cryovolcanic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which is due to pass by Earth later this year, was recently spotted zooming past the crimson-colored Crescent Nebula in stunning new photos. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Cosmic strings can break — and when they do, they shake the universe

Many models of the universe predict the existence of countless invisible strings stretching across space. New research finds a way these strings might snap — and how we could feel the fallout. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Scientists used AI to build a low-lithium battery from a new material that took just hours to discover

Microsoft's AI tool narrowed 32 million theoretical materials down to 18 in just 80 hours — with scientists synthesizing one that can reduce Lithium usage in batteries by 70%. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Mysterious deep-space object could be the smallest black hole ever discovered — or the heaviest neutron star

A newly discovered mystery object could be the heaviest neutron star ever seen, the smallest black hole, or something completely new to science. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Typo in telescope coordinates reveals one of the faintest galaxies in the known universe

Astronomers accidentally uncovered an extremely dark primordial galaxy — one of the faintest objects in the universe — because of a typo in their telescope coordinates. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Nearly 75% of the US is at risk from damaging earthquakes, new map reveals

A new, ultra-detailed map shows that 75% of U.S. states are at risk of damaging earthquakes, but some are at far more risk than others. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Mystery of Siberia's giant exploding craters may finally be solved

Giant exploding craters only known to exist on Russia's permafrost-covered Yamal and Gydan peninsulas may result from a specific set of conditions not found elsewhere in the Arctic. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Unique gene variants tied to glaucoma found in Black patients

People of African ancestry have the highest rates of the most common form of glaucoma, so scientists are studying whether unique gene variants are tied to their risk. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Brain signature of desire uncovered in lovesick rodents, and it may be in people, too

A "whole lotta" dopamine is what keeps our close relationships alive, a new rodent study suggests. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Our favorite YOSUDA Indoor Cycling Bike is now 43% off at Amazon

Save a hefty $190 on one of the best budget exercise bikes on the market. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago

Gory simulation reconstructs the violent clash between a monster black hole and a doomed star

A new cosmic crime scene reconstruction tells the full story of a star ripped apart by a ravenous black hole, revealing a previously unknown aspect of these tidal disruption events. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 10 months ago