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The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, scientists hav...

Scientists have discovered evidence of large quantities of biosignature chemicals — only known to be made by life on Earth — on an exoplanet...

The exotic quantum phase, predicted over half a century ago, could lead to advances in quantum computing, sensors and communication technolo...

A 7,500-year-old antler unearthed in Sweden had characteristic breakage patterns that suggest it was the handle for a battle ax.

Yellowstone's Junction Butte wolf pack failed in a recent attempt to kill a bison, but the pack appears to be thriving again after the death...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The perplexing Milky...

Human skeletons from a large stone tomb may help archaeologists understand a mysterious pre-Inca population in Peru.

Hood River County in Oregon reported three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare human brain disease very similar to "mad cow."

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, may still pers...

Genes affect different aspects of music enjoyment — from the emotional reactions that compositions evoke to the social connection music can...

SpaceX's Starlink internet satellite constellation has become a prime target for Russia and China, according to a new report assessing the c...

A colossal squid has been filmed in its natural habitat for the first time ever, a century after it was first identified by scientists.

It uses a washable photocatalytic filter instead of replaceable HEPA filters. But is it a game-changer, or a missed opportunity?

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever seen before.

A 35-year-old man who couldn't pass urine learned that the cause of his obstruction was a giant worm living in his kidney.

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb Space Telescop...

Discover interesting facts about the origins of primates, what they eat, and if they have thumbs.

Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts — whether ant, beetle or caterpillar — into...

A Tyrannosaurus rex researcher has found that there are now more scientifically valuable T. rex specimens in private or commercial ownership...

The San Diego Zoo Safari Park's elephants raced to protect their calves with an "alert circle" when a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck Julian...

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a bizarre pig-sh...

This 2024 astronaut photo shows the striking colors of Iraq's Razazah Lake, surrounded by a host of strangely circular fields.

Clone Robotics' Protoclone android can be seen flexing its bionic muscles in a new video, creepily jerking its limbs back and forth as it ha...

"Once the egg hatches, the ant has only a few weeks of life before it succumbs to the manipulations of its attacker, stumbling away from its...

Up to 18 "shooting stars" per hour may be visible during the peak of the Lyrid meteor shower on April 21-22.