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From a man with green urine to a teenager with a sewing pin in his heart, a number of intriguing medical cases caught our eye this year.

Conservationists are using bats' echolocation abilities to help track these mammals, as many of them succumb to white nose syndrome.

From the longest bird flight to the oldest identical twins, 2020 was filled with record-breaking science.

Here are nine cool ancient weapons discovered this year.

From the incredible efforts of scientists to develop a COVID-19 vaccine in record time to clapping seals, this year had some amazing discove...

Here are 10 of the most amazing geological discoveries of the year.

Here are our favorite stories about sharks from 2020.

The most common culprit is found in most homes.

There's a giant asteroid somewhere out there in the solar system, and it hurled a big rock at Earth that left behind meteorites unlike any s...

Watch your head!

This year, archaeologists discovered intriguing evidence showing that women of the ancient world were not to be trifled with.

Here are the most-read stories on Live Science this year.

2020 was a weird year, even in the animal kingdom.

A scary new strain of coronavirus, innocuously named B.1.1.7, has recently exploded across southeast England, prompting the government to ti...

Are we alone in the universe? Many discoveries about aliens in 2020 seemed to increase the prospect of extraterrestrial entities existing.

Here's what we've learned about dinosaurs in 2020.

A new series explores the powerful natural forces that work together to sculpt and support life on our fragile pale blue dot.

Eruptions, temblors and severe weather, oh my.

The model can help identify which counties are at high-risk for invasion.

It's a mystery why hunter-gatherers from the Stone Age crafted weapons from human bone.

Octopuses sometimes partner with fish to hunt, but the partnership comes with risks (for the fish, that is).

A man successfully revived a baby elephant using CPR after the animal was involved in a road accident. How did he do it?

The outbreak occurred at the a Chilean research base on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Scientists found over 109,000 previously unidentified impact craters on the moon using artificial intelligence and data from China's lunar o...

Separate shark attacks in Hawaii and the eastern Caribbean leave two people dead. Experts say tragedies like this are rare relative to the n...