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The announcement will likely be that people who live in areas with high or substantial COVID-19 transmission should start wearing masks agai...

Here's why the force of gravity pulls us down rather than up. The answer involves Einstein and the bendy realm of space-time.

A fireball streaked across North Texas last night, leading to several hundred witness reports of a bright flash and sonic boom.

A United Nations panel is preparing to present the first of three reports on climate change, defining the factors that shape it and recommen...

The signatories include the American Medical Association, the American Nurses Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Big cats are found all over the world, from Alaska to China, and each one is ferociously unique. Here are the nine biggest cats alive today.

Scientists believe the ultra-fast object landed in a densely-forested area near the capital, Oslo. It could take up to ten years to find.

We will explore the science of capillary action in our new kids video series: Summer School with Live Science.

A multi-institutional research team will seek evidence of technologies crafted by intelligent alien civilizations — living and extinct.

Archaeologists have discovered the 2,200-year-old wreck of an ancient Egyptian ship that sank after being struck with giant blocks from the...

Why are common household items like baking soda and vinegar such good cleaning agents?

Here's why nuclear bomb explosions lead to a mushroom-shape cloud.

The physicist unified two of the four fundamental forces.

An asteroid about as long as the Great Pyramid of Giza is tall will make a "close" approach with Earth on Sunday (July 25), according to NAS...

In late December 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission reported cases of an unidentified viral pneumonia, which, along with other repo...

If Earth abruptly stopped spinning, what would happen to everything on it?

A superconductor is a material that achieves superconductivity— a state of matter that has no electrical resistance and does not allow magne...

NASA has released striking satellite images of wildfire smoke clouds covering vast swaths of the U.S., from the West Coast all the way to th...

People infected with the delta variant of the novel coronavirus may be carrying more than a thousand times more virus particles, according t...

Acclaimed horror director Eli Roth has a new documentary on a horrific subject: the shark finning trade.

Earth is spherical, but what would happen if the Earth were flat? We explore some of the bizarre implications of a flat world which would ma...

Scientists used two years of marsquake data to map the interior of the Red Planet for the first time ever.

Researchers have documented chimpanzees killing gorillas for the first time. The two fatal attacks were caught on film at a national park in...

The submerged remains of a Roman road have been found on the seafloor of the Venice lagoon, along with archaeological structures that are th...

The chimp community's initial reactions to the infant were "unusual."