Did Neanderthals have religious beliefs? Whether Neanderthals had religious beliefs is a subject of ongoing debate. LiveScience · Nov 23, 2025
Dream of quantum internet inches closer after breakthrough helps beam information over fiber-optic networks Built from a single erbium atom, a hybrid quantum bit encodes data magnetically and beams it through fiber-optic wavelengths. LiveScience · Nov 22, 2025
Are free radicals really that bad for you? Free radicals are highly reactive molecules that are missing an electron. They get a bad rap, but could they actually have any benefits? LiveScience · Nov 22, 2025
Scientists find rare tusked whale alive at sea for the first time — and shoot it with a crossbow Researchers have identified ginkgo-toothed beaked whales alive at sea for the first time after years of searching, and in doing so solved the mystery of an odd echolocation pulse in the North Pacific. LiveScience · Nov 21, 2025
A looming 'insect apocalypse' could endanger global food supplies. Can we stop it before it's too late? Insect populations are in steep decline, which could endanger the food supply. But there are things we can do to reverse the trend. LiveScience · Nov 21, 2025
Switching off AI's ability to lie makes it more likely to claim it's conscious, eerie study finds Leading AI models from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Google described subjective, self-aware experiences when settings tied to deception and roleplay were turned down. LiveScience · Nov 21, 2025
Mysterious galaxy trapped in 'the void' keeps churning out stars without fuel. Scientists are stumped. Researchers are puzzled as to how the dwarf galaxy NGC 6789 continues to make new stars, despite being stuck in the gas-famished Local Void. LiveScience · Nov 21, 2025
See a rare conjunction of Mercury and Venus late tonight The inner planets Mercury and Venus will both be visible in the east-southeast sky before sunrise on Tuesday, Nov. 25. LiveScience · Nov 21, 2025
Scientists discover new type of lion roar Researchers used artificial intelligence to analyze more than 3,000 recordings of African lions and found that the animals have an "intermediate" roar as well as a "full-throated" roar. LiveScience · Nov 21, 2025
Slaying 'zombie cells' in blood vessels could be key to treating diabetes, early study finds Clearing aged cells from blood vessels could help reduce inflammation, improve blood sugar levels and counter insulin resistance, a mouse study finds. LiveScience · Nov 20, 2025
Archaeologists discover decapitated head the Romans used as a warning to the Celts A lone skull discovered near the walls of an ancient fort highlights the Romans' brutal treatment of their conquered foes. LiveScience · Nov 20, 2025
'I don't know if CDC will survive, to be quite frank': Former CDC officials describe the disintegration of the agency under RFK Three former CDC officials share their experiences at the agency leading up to their resignations. LiveScience · Nov 20, 2025
Comet 3I/ATLAS gallery: See NASA's long-awaited images of interstellar visitor NASA's treasure trove of new comet 3I/ATLAS images provides hotly anticipated views of the interstellar visitor, including from Mars and the sun. LiveScience · Nov 20, 2025
Scientists put moss on the outside of the International Space Station for 9 months — then kept it growing back on Earth A species of moss survived for 9 months on the outside of the International Space Station, new research reveals — and 80% of the samples kept reproducing when returned to Earth. LiveScience · Nov 20, 2025
LiveScience · Nov 20, 2025 Viking Age woman found buried with scallop shells on her mouth, and archaeologists are mystified A ninth-century grave discovered in Norway held the remains of a Viking Age woman whose mouth was covered with two large scallop shells.
LiveScience · Nov 20, 2025 '3I/ATLAS is a comet': NASA finally releases new 3I/ATLAS images and addresses alien rumors NASA's highly anticipated comet 3I/ATLAS images have been released, with a space agency official shooting down alien rumors and stressing that the interstellar visitor is a comet.
LiveScience · Nov 20, 2025 'A forest with bonobos has never been so quiet': Most extreme case of violence in 'hippie' species recorded, with females ganging up on male in unprecedented attack Female bonobos routinely form coalitions to stamp out threats from males, but the level of violence in this attack was unprecedented.
LiveScience · Nov 20, 2025 Death Valley shrub rearranges its insides to thrive in one of the hottest places on Earth Heat-loving plants that thrive in California's Death Valley could hold the key to growing crops in a changing climate.
LiveScience · Nov 20, 2025 Science history: Experiment shows mutations arise spontaneously, supporting pillar of Darwinian evolution — Nov. 20, 1943 Two bacteriologists showed that mutations arise spontaneously in bacterial cultures, thereby disproving Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's theory of evolution.
LiveScience · Nov 19, 2025 Human trash is 'kick-starting' the domestication of city-dwelling raccoons, study suggests Raccoons that live near humans had shorter snouts than rural raccoons, a trait that tends to arise in the early stages of domestication.
LiveScience · Nov 19, 2025 US could lose its measles elimination status within months, experts say With 45 outbreaks of measles over the past year, the United States is at risk of endemic spread within months, experts told Live Science.
LiveScience · Nov 19, 2025 The US is on track to lose its measles elimination status in months. RFK needs to go. Canada has lost its measles elimination status and the U.S. is likely to be next. These failures are the result of the anti-vaccination movement, bolstered by the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and it's a bellwether of the erosion of public health.
LiveScience · Nov 19, 2025 Diagnostic dilemma: Woman had her twin brother's XY chromosomes — but only in her blood Doctors discovered a woman had "blood chimerism" after examining the chromosomes of cells from different parts of her body.
LiveScience · Nov 19, 2025 Kissing goes back 21 million years, to the common ancestor of humans and other large apes, study finds Scientists traced kissing back to a primate ancestor that lived around 21 million years ago.
LiveScience · Nov 19, 2025 'Impossible' black hole collision pushed relativity to its breaking point — and scientists finally understand how In 2023, scientists detected the gravitational waves from a black hole collision that seemed impossible. New research finally explains how this "forbidden" black hole came to be, and what it can teach us about these extreme objects.