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Companies claim that Tyrannosaurus rex leather could soon be entering the luxury fashion market, but dinosaur researchers say you can't make...

Discover interesting facts about what defines robots, what they can do, and if they'll replace humans.

People with xeroderma pigmentosum can severely burn within minutes of being in the sun and are thousands of times more likely to develop ski...

Advances in materials and architecture could lead to silicon-free chip manufacturing thanks to a new type of transistor.

The 466-year-old remains of an adult and a juvenile cat are the oldest known in the modern-day United States, a new study finds.

Live Science spoke with author Thomas Levenson about his new book on the history of germ theory.

Scientists have found evidence for a cosmic collision in the Perseus cluster, a group of thousands of galaxies not far from our own.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously feeding black hol...

Scientists in China have refuelled a thorium reactor on the fly for the first time. The breakthrough is paving the way for working reactors...

Power blackouts that left millions of people across Spain and Portugal without electricity may have been caused by a bizarre atmospheric phe...

"What are sometimes called superbugs — microbes resistant to every available drug — are not merely the stuff of nightmares. They are taking...

Conventional helium production comes with enormous carbon emissions, so scientists are looking for alternatives in places like Yellowstone,...

Scientists noticed the clicking sound after handling the rig sharks during routine behavioral experiments.

A pair of 2021 satellite photos highlight an unusually heavy snowfall in Hawaii that covered the summits of the volcanoes Mauna Loa and Maun...

Chinese engineers have rescued two satellites that were stuck in the wrong orbit using a novel 'gravitational slingshot' method.

The National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a stunning glimpse into the 'dark nebula' known as the Circinus West molecular...

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas in the Civil Wa...

Uturuncu, a dormant volcano in Bolivia, appeared to be getting ready to erupt following earthquakes and "sombrero" shaped deformation — scie...

A crocodile DNA study has revealed two previously unknown Crocodylus species in the Caribbean. The crocodiles live on Cozumel and Banco Chin...

Our current AI systems may one day evolve into a superintelligent entity, but scientists aren't yet certain what this might look like and wh...

This dog-shaped vessel was likely used for pouring wine, oil or blood in ancient rituals in what is now Italy.

Dinosaurs left behind clues about their maximum speeds, but do we know which dinosaur was the fastest?

An object's color appears differently under different lighting and against different backgrounds — for different viewers. But that doesn't m...

Is your knowledge of Pompeii strong enough to withstand our flow of questions?

Some, but not all, research suggests that more women recall events that happened under anesthesia than men do, and that women wake up from a...