By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/30/2025 12:12 PM

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in the water, not on land. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/30/2025 11:44 AM

Climate change's profound reshaping of conflict dynamics is already underway. The question facing humanity now is not whether we will confront these pressures, but how we will choose to do so. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | sascha.pare@futurenet.com (Sascha Pare) | 4/30/2025 11:07 AM

Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago and, as far as scientists can tell, never interbred since then. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/30/2025 10:06 AM

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

By phys.org | | 4/30/2025 8:57 AM

Picture yourself at a busy pedestrian crossing. When the light is red, everyone waits—until one person starts to cross. Soon, others follow, and eventually everyone follows the crowd and crosses. Amsterdam physicists have discovered that a very similar process happens at the microscopic level, when two touching surfaces start to slide. Their results were published in Physical Review Letters this week. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/30/2025 7:00 AM

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

By Scientific American | | 4/30/2025 7:00 AM

Some users of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs have been reporting strange changes in food preferences, such as a new dislike for meats or fried foods, and scientists are beginning to figure out why ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 4/30/2025 6:00 AM

AI chatbots called “griefbots” or “deadbots” offer our loved ones a new digital way to grieve but raise ethical and privacy concerns. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/30/2025 6:00 AM

A man being treated with corticosteroids developed a rare complication of an infection. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | emily.cooke@futurenet.com (Emily Cooke) | 4/30/2025 6:00 AM

People with xeroderma pigmentosum can severely burn within minutes of being in the sun and are thousands of times more likely to develop skin cancer than others. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/30/2025 4:23 AM

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

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/29/2025 5:15 PM

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. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 4/29/2025 5:05 PM

Exotic nuclei near and beyond the proton drip line exhibit a range of unique decay processes, including β-delayed proton emission, α decay, and direct proton radioactivity. Spectroscopic studies utilizing high-efficiency, low-threshold detection systems have become essential for exploring the intricate properties of these nuclei. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/29/2025 4:35 PM

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

By LIVE SCIENCE | gilbertjh@yahoo.co.uk (Jonathan Gilbert) | 4/29/2025 4:02 PM

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

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/29/2025 1:24 PM

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously feeding black holes and bursts of starbirth. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/29/2025 11:19 AM

Scientists in China have refuelled a thorium reactor on the fly for the first time. The breakthrough is paving the way for working reactors that are significantly safer than conventional alternatives. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/29/2025 11:02 AM

Power blackouts that left millions of people across Spain and Portugal without electricity may have been caused by a bizarre atmospheric phenomenon, though the true cause is yet to be determined. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 4/29/2025 10:20 AM

President Trump has dismissed hundreds of scientists working on the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment, raising concerns about whether the void will be filled with pseudoscience ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/29/2025 9:00 AM

"What are sometimes called superbugs — microbes resistant to every available drug — are not merely the stuff of nightmares. They are taking lives right now." ... Read full Story