YOU WONT BELIEVE: 19 - What They Never Told You

A pill can stop people from developing COVID after being exposed to the virus, trial finds

A pill called ensitrelvir is the first drug shown to effectively reduce infection after exposure to SARS-CoV-2.

LiveScience · May 14

High-status Roman woman was buried in a lead coffin with jet hairpins and exotic resins, archaeologists find

A burial of an elite Roman-era woman who appears to have been buried with exotic resins has been discovered in Colchester.

LiveScience · May 14

'Extreme' crystal that formed in 1945 nuclear bomb test is unlike anything scientists have seen

Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

LiveScience · May 14

Diagnostic dilemma: An infant's brown eyes turned indigo after COVID antiviral treatment

In a visually striking medical case, a baby's eyes changed color while he was receiving care in a hospital.

LiveScience · May 13

Physicists find evidence that the universe isn't perfectly uniform — potentially unraveling a 100-year-old model of cosmology

The universe may not be perfectly uniform after all, a new series of papers hints. If confirmed, this could upend a nearly 100-year-old model of cosmology.

LiveScience · May 12

'A combination of amazement and horror': Hitchhiker fish hide in manta ray buttholes

Hitchhiker fish known as remoras have a very unexpected hiding place: the rear ends of manta rays.

LiveScience · May 12

Eruption blows hole in sun's atmosphere, unleashing solar flare and potentially triggering northern lights

The sun has erupted with a moderate M5.7 solar flare and a coronal mass ejection that could trigger a northern lights display.

LiveScience · May 12

Once-in-a-century 'super' El Niño in the cards as ocean temperatures reach near record highs in April

Climate scientists have revealed that last month's sea surface temperatures were the second-warmest for any April on record, reflecting the emergence of El Niño.

LiveScience · May 12

'Speculation' and 'egregious failure': 30 researchers publish scathing critiques of study that questioned date of early human occupation of Monte Verde in Chile

Dozens of scientists have banded together to pen scathing research letters to the journal Science about the publication of a study claiming the 14,500-year-old Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile is much younger than shown.

LiveScience · May 12

Shimmering silver 'sunglint' obscures Hawaii as hurricane approaches — Earth from space

A 2025 satellite photo shows the swirling cyclone of Hurricane Kiko bearing down on Hawaii while the island state was obscured by a bright, reflective streak.

LiveScience · May 12