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Enlarge / The Starlink 10-9 mission lifts off early Saturday morning from Florida. (credit: SpaceX webcast) Early on Saturday morning,…
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Enlarge / The Starlink 10-9 mission lifts off early Saturday morning from Florida. (credit: SpaceX webcast) Early on Saturday morning,…
When Hunga erupted in 2022, ash “decimated” slow-moving species living on the seafloor. More mobile species were able to hoof…
Scientists discovered an unknown volcanic eruption that rocked the seafloor in the Aegean more than 500,000 years ago.
From Alan Turing’s seminal paper to the advent of ChatGPT, here are 12 pivotal moments in the history of artificial…
Researchers from the University of Waterloo have conducted a groundbreaking study examining how anxiety affects walking behavior, particularly in situations…
Scientists have found a mysterious signal in the brightest gamma ray burst ever detected, and now they know what caused…
Enlarge / Wegovy is an injectable prescription weight-loss medicine that has helped people with obesity. (credit: Getty | Michael Siluk)…
Thousands of ochre rock drawings, including images of humans and animals morphing into one another, offer a striking glimpse at…
A new study published in Archives of Sexual Behavior reports that sexual strangulation is a prevalent practice among young Australians,…
Enlarge / Boeing’s Strainer spacecraft is seen docked at the International Space Station in this picture taken July 3. (credit:…
Studying the reptile’s ironclad teeth in more detail could help solve a dinosaur dental mystery.
Enlarge / The Cadillac V-Series.R is one of General Motors’ factory-backed racing programs. (credit: James Moy Photography/Getty Images) It is…
Enlarge / One day, using pixellated fonts and images to represent that something is a video game will not be…
Scientists have uncovered how bacteria borrowed a gene from an insect to create female-only parasitic wasp populations, eliminating the need…
Have you ever seen a face in a cloud or a power outlet? This common phenomenon, known as face pareidolia,…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino) Internet service providers are eager to get money from a $42.45 billion government…
Enlarge / A bad update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon security software crashed millions of Windows PCs last week. (credit: CrowdStrike) CrowdStrike…
Enlarge / A jet of particles moving at nearly light-speed emerges from a massive star in this artist’s concept of…
Enlarge / An AI-generated image released by xAI during the open-weights launch of Grok-1. (credit: xAI) Elon Musk-led social media…
Physically, athletes might reach a point where they can no longer beat sports records — however, innovative techniques and sportswear…
As opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. rose dramatically from 2014 to today, both Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey,…
Enlarge / Police observe the Eiffel Tower from Trocadero ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on July 22, 2024.…
Enlarge / A digital advertisement board displaying a Barbie movie poster is seen in New York on July 24, 2023.…
Enlarge / The environment you’re eating in can influence what you taste, and space is no exception. (credit: NASA) Astronauts…
Three fossilized snakes that died huddled together 38 million years ago are now called the “winter serpents.”
Doctors are pulling out new techniques and drugs in an effort to cure devastating brain infections.
A now-retired doctor in Texas describes his experience treating a child with a brain-eating amoeba infection.
In the U.S., tap water is generally safe and not a likely source of brain-eating-amoeba infections, experts told Live Science.
Many deadly infections are transmitted via water, including cholera, typhoid and brain-eating amoebas.
Researchers think climate change will soon cause an increase in the incidence of Naegleria fowleri infections, a “brain-eating” disease.
Firefighters are battling a ‘monster’ wildfire in the evacuated town of Jasper and Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada.
A recent study published in Frontiers in Psychology has found that physical activity, combined with healthy lifestyle habits and proper…
By turning period blood into a gel, the pad’s alginate powder filler reduces leakage.
Instead of a gold medal, victors at the ancient Greek Panathenaic Games received terra-cotta pots filled with Athenian olive oil…
When it comes to dating, everyone wants to put their best foot forward. But what if you had to disclose…
The discovery of 22,000 previously unseen moonquakes, plus a new idea of what causes them, could help us better prepare…
Humans used the now-destroyed rockshelter throughout the last ice age until just a few decades ago.
Lake Kivu, one of the African Great Lakes, sits along a tectonic plate boundary called the East African Rift, which…
A recent study has explored the intriguing relationship between dark humor, online trolling, and certain dark personality traits. The findings…
Enlarge / NASA’s SLS rocket core stage for Artemis II is moved to the VAB. (credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky) Welcome to…
A new standard for codecs used for haptics could revolutionize tele-health and online gaming.
Olympic-level sporting takes a lot of energy. But which event is the most energetically costly?
New research suggests that prenatal exposure to different levels of testosterone and estrogen, as estimated through 2D:4D finger length ratios,…
Researchers found the 2023 Morocco earthquake was triggered by movement miles below Earth’s surface.
The NASA Mars rover examined a rock containing organic compounds and “leopard spots” that, on Earth, are associated with microbial…
Enlarge (credit: NASA/Isaac Watson) The central piece of NASA’s second Space Launch System rocket arrived at Kennedy Space Center in…
Enlarge / An illustration provided by Google. (credit: Google) On Thursday, Google DeepMind announced that AI systems called AlphaProof and…
Recent research has drawn a link between anxiety, depression and an increased risk of deep vein thrombosis.
A recent study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE explores how personality traits influence the sharing of false political…
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / OpenAI) Arguably, few companies have unintentionally contributed more to the increase of AI-generated noise online…