Excitement around the idea that GLP-1 drugs can prevent cancer is running well ahead of the evidence, an expert explains. | Continue reading
Astronomers have detected helium escaping from the super-Earth LHS 1140 b, providing the strongest evidence yet that a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone has retained an atmosphere for billions of years. | Continue reading
A 12th-century wild-boar tusk found in Russia may be a warrior's amulet. | Continue reading
Maternal cells that infiltrate children's brains during pregnancy take on different jobs in the brain and may persist into old age. | Continue reading
The James Webb telescope peers through a warped bubble of space-time to study galaxies from the first billion years after the Big Bang. | Continue reading
There are a few contenders for the world's oldest weapon, and one is over 400,000 years old. | Continue reading
What does 'autotroph' mean? | Continue reading
Women on ancient Roman farms were in charge of making wine, oil — and profits. Historians dismissed them as ‘housekeepers’ | Continue reading
In this excerpt from "Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life," author Mona Sloane examines how artificial intelligence is reconfiguring our understanding of the world and how we imagine the future. | Continue reading
Amino acids and other "pre-biotic" molecules were spotted in a meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024. | Continue reading
July 18, 2026: 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
It's fairly uncommon to find a spherical creature, although they're more common in the sea than on land. So which one is the roundest? | Continue reading
What does 'neuroplasticity' mean? | Continue reading
RNA can fold into more complex configurations than scientists thought, raising questions about how important these 3D structures were when life on Earth began. | Continue reading
Forecasts point to the ongoing El Niño rapidly strengthening to a likely all-time record in the coming months, fueling temperature rises and extreme weather. | Continue reading
Lettuce served at Taco Bell has been identified as a source of Cyclospora infections affecting people across five states. | Continue reading
Researchers predict that up to 7.6 billion people will be able to see the potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis fly past Earth on April 13, 2029. The skyscraper-size space rock will come closer than some satellites, making it clearly visible to the naked eye. | Continue reading
Heaven Lake is a body of water located 7,200 feet above sea level at the top of a volcano. It is the deepest lake in China as well as the highest and largest crater lake in Northeast Asia. | Continue reading
Nearly 4,000-year-old skeletal remains show that several royal women repeatedly used their upper-body muscles. Researchers link those changes to archery and weapon training, but outside experts urge caution. | Continue reading
An ancient bronze chariot recently discovered in Spain was used by a culture that mysteriously disappeared from the archaeological record. | Continue reading
A decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and collaborator Francesco Zamponi have finally cracked the case — not with a radical new theory, but with the help of the generative AI Claude. | Continue reading
Thousands of enslaved Africans were liberated from slave ships and died on the island of St. Helena around 200 years ago. A new chemical analysis has revealed their tragic stories. | Continue reading
A DNA analysis of a 4,000-year-old skeleton buried with an elaborate metalworking tool kit near Stonehenge has revealed that the individual, long assumed to be a male shaman, was actually a woman. | Continue reading
Joël Lapointe was using Google Maps to plan a camping trail through Quebec's Côte-Nord region when he stumbled across a large indentation. Now, scientists have confirmed that the pit was indeed a meteor impact crater that dates back roughly 390 million years. | Continue reading
Researchers have found a way to build a three-layered silicon chip without the chip overheating. | Continue reading
Gus, a Tyrannosaurus rex unearthed in South Dakota, just sold for $50 million at auction. But it's unknown if the specimen will ever be made available to science. | Continue reading
A striking new monkey species, Colobus congoensis, was discovered deep in the Congo rainforest and has been scientifically described for the first time. | Continue reading
Researchers used reinforcement learning to train a quadrupedal robot to adapt to different environments using two different pre-learned gaits. | Continue reading
Scientists made a breakthrough discovery about the physics of Hawking radiation by making a miniature black hole out of light in the laboratory. | Continue reading
We spent a week with the Canon RF 100-300mm f/2.8L IS USM lens to find out if it’s really worth the eye-watering price tag. | Continue reading
A teen's nutrient-poor diet led to irreversible vision problems. | Continue reading
Tobacco companies have fallen back on tried-and-tested marketing practices to encourage nicotine pouch use among teenagers. | Continue reading
Researchers extracted DNA from long-dead animals that lived in South Africa during the last ice age, revealing that genetic material lasts longer in hot climates than was previously thought. | Continue reading
Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia want to freeze koala sex cells in liquid nitrogen, which could preserve the DNA for decades until we need it, an expert said. | Continue reading
Live Science spoke with sea level expert Sönke Dangendorf about how human-caused sea-level rise is increasing extreme water levels, as once-in-a-century flooding events become decadal. | Continue reading
This 2011 astronaut photo captured one of NASA's iconic space shuttles passing between Earth and the International Space Station for the very last time. | Continue reading
Archaeologists were surprised to find evidence of shackles in a pre-Roman settlement in France. | Continue reading
Erythrulose, a sugar found in raspberries, was spotted in a gas and dust cloud near the center of the Milky Way. | Continue reading
This bronze helmet has been decorated with ancient deities from a civilization that flourished before the Persian Empire took over the area that is now Iran. | Continue reading
Artemis II lead communications officer Chris White describes the tensest and most shocking moments of the historic moon mission, as seen from his desk at mission control in Houston. | Continue reading
When managing your money, take a chatbot's ‘confidence’ with a grain of salt | Continue reading
Archaeologists have found 18 tombs at an ancient Egyptian site by the Mediterranean coast of Egypt. | Continue reading
The Venezuelan earthquake doublet is a stark reminder that multi-fault systems may pose greater destructive power than some seismic models predict. | Continue reading
An JWST image of the nearby Centaurus A galaxy reveals star dust, collision scars and the fingerprint of a black hole. | Continue reading
Albert Einstein is regarded as a genius, but even he admitted that his work wasn't perfect. So what did he get wrong? | Continue reading
El Niño transforms tropical forests from carbon sinks to sources. 2026 could be the worst year yet. | Continue reading
In his new book, "Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations," science writer Sam Kean explains the odd and intriguing world of experimental archaeologists. | Continue reading
"A lot of the book was actually me floundering around, failing to complete the projects or figuring out what I was doing wrong," author Sam Kean says about his experimental archaeology adventures. | Continue reading