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2 people die of measles in Pennsylvania as vaccination rates drop across the nation

Pennsylvania health officials have reported two recent deaths from measles, marking the United States' first deaths from the highly infectious disease in 2026.

LiveScience · Aug 25

Ritual solstice structure 1,000 years older than Stonehenge unearthed in Czech Republic

Archaeologists have discovered a prehistoric ritual structure oriented to the sun and moon in the Czech Republic.

LiveScience · Aug 25

Rare sunlight trick transforms Pacific island into a giant silver 'magnifying glass' — Earth from space

A 2023 astronaut photo captured a "sunglint" illuminating the sea surrounding one of the Solomon Islands. The rare phenomenon also transformed the Pacific's largest lake into a shining silver "lens."

LiveScience · Aug 25

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Ocean 'under unprecedented strain' as El Niño helps supercharge warming to record levels

The Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that the daily global sea surface temperature has reached its highest level since records began.

LiveScience · Aug 24

Severe COVID-19 may wake up dormant viruses and lead to lasting physical disability, study finds

Nearly half of hospitalized COVID-19 patients had a dormant virus flare back to life, and one family of viruses found in the majority of people was tied to lasting symptoms from long COVID.

LiveScience · Aug 24

Front face of a stela: A 1,300-year-old carving of a powerful Maya 'Lady Supreme Warlord' that weighs over 1 ton

This monumental carving depicts a powerful Maya queen called Lady K'abel, who ruled an ancient city in Guatemala at the end of the seventh century.

LiveScience · Aug 24

Cheap wall tiles 'inspired by flowing streams' could fix one of superfast 6G's biggest problems

Superfast 6G has a major problem — signals struggle to pass through physical barriers. But scientists have invented a $2 wall tile that can fix that.

LiveScience · Aug 24

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Archaeologists unearth a medieval nobleman buried with his horse and dog in a rare wooden tomb in Russia

A rare example of a wooden chamber tomb reveals connections between medieval Norse and Old Russian burial styles.

LiveScience · Aug 22

'The greatest unknown was how much energy would be released by the weapon': How scientists prepared for the Trinity nuclear test

In this excerpt from "Trinity: An Illustrated History of the World’s First Atomic Test," author Emily Seyl looks at the buildup to the 1945 test that changed history. She explores the huge effort to design experiments that would ultimately establish whether the gargantuan explosion in the middle of the desert…

LiveScience · Aug 22

Scientists finally know why astronauts struggle to poop in space — and reveal a hidden risk of long-haul spaceflight

A new NASA-backed study has pinpointed why astronauts often experience constipation in space and how that might affect their health on long-haul missions to Mars and beyond.

LiveScience · Aug 21

'This is not the outcome we were working towards': $30 million mission to save NASA's Swift telescope fails

NASA's Swift Observatory is set to come crashing down to Earth later this year after private rescue mission failure.

LiveScience · Aug 20

Black hole star? Solar-system-size 'dot' from the early universe is our best evidence yet of a brand-new type of cosmic object

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified the most promising candidate yet for a black hole star, lurking 660 million years after the Big Bang. The hypothetical entity, which shines 100 billion times brighter than a typical star, could shed light on the origins of the mysterious "little red dots."

LiveScience · Aug 20

Cave sanctuary in Spain has highest number of Latin inscriptions anywhere in the Roman Empire — and many of them mention mysterious 'Lady'

Researchers found 120 ancient inscriptions referring to a mysterious goddess known as "the Lady" in a cave in Valencia, Spain.

LiveScience · Aug 20

Mini 'arteries-on-a-chip' could help predict a person's risk of stroke

New models of the carotid artery can be personalized for different people, revealing subtle differences in stroke risk.

LiveScience · Aug 20

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1,400-year-old skeleton found in underground channel in Peru may have belonged to human sacrifice victim

A mysterious burial in an underground water channel may help archaeologists understand a pre-Inca ritual in Peru.

LiveScience · Aug 20

Secret 'messages' in cat pee let felines identify each other — and scientists just cracked the code

Cats can identify each other by the scent of their pee. We now know why.

LiveScience · Aug 19

IBM's new 'quantum fridges' are nearly 200 times colder than deep space and could pave the way for fault-tolerant quantum computing

IBM's new modular cryogenic system links quantum chips to overcome major infrastructure hurdles and pave the way for a powerful system by 2029.

LiveScience · Aug 19

Scientists just discovered a big limitation in lab-grown minibrains — they have a skewed 'sense of time'

Miniature models of the brain don't seem to follow the same developmental timetable as real brains, which matters for research.

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LiveScience · Aug 19

Astronomers spot the closest, fastest star ever seen orbiting our galaxy's monster black hole

A star is whipping around the Milky Way's central black hole incredibly fast, setting a record for the tightest orbit ever observed

LiveScience · Aug 19

Out-of-control SpaceX rocket carved a 60-foot crater into the moon, NASA images reveal

NASA has finally revealed the enormous crater left on the moon after a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage smashed into its surface on Aug. 5.

LiveScience · Aug 18

Body found at bottom of Scottish well may be from rare ritual burial performed centuries ago

An Iron Age grave has been discovered in the Scottish Highlands. The person was buried within what may have been a ritual well.

LiveScience · Aug 18

Neanderthals may have trekked through the Saudi Arabian desert 55,000 years ago, farther south than experts thought possible

Stone tools from a lakeside site in Saudi Arabia hint that Neanderthals were adapted to the arid Arabian interior, not just to cold places.

LiveScience · Aug 18

'Beyond human intuition': AI designs chip components 500 times smaller than what engineers could ever imagine

Three new AI-designed chip components are just a few micrometers long and go beyond what human engineers have previously envisaged.

LiveScience · Aug 18

The pace of climate change matters more than overall heat in the race to save key Atlantic currents, study finds

The rate of global warming, rather than the extra heat itself, could determine whether a system of ocean currents known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will cross a tipping point, new research suggests.

LiveScience · Aug 18

Archaeologists discover Etruscan well that was ritually opened with offerings for a goddess — and 'closed' with human bodies

An ancient Etruscan cult likely left burials and bronze artifacts in a well that was recently discovered in Italy.

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