Here's What Sugar Does to Your Brain By Amy Reichelt Sugar triggers dopamine "hits" in the brain, making us crave more of it. Sugar also disrupts memory formation.
Can a Person Survive Eating Only Beef? By Rafi Letzter High cholesterol, cancer and a shorter life span would all be very real risks.
Objective Reality Doesn't Exist, Quantum Experiment Shows By Alessandro Fedrizzi, Massimiliano Proietti A quantum experiment raises deeply philosophical questions about the fundamental nature of reality.
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week By Live Science Staff Here are the most interesting, amazing and unusual things that happened in the world of science this week. A recap of Live Science's best.
Amazing Images: The Best Science Photos of the Week By Livescience.com Here are the stories behind the most amazing images in the world of science this week. A recap of the coolest photos featured on Live Science.
Venice Suffers Worst Flooding in 50 Years, Mayor Blames Climate Change By Brandon Specktor Venice is in a state of emergency as the Italian city braces from one of the worst floods in its history.
The Arctic's Most Stable Sea Ice Is Vanishing Alarmingly Fast By Mindy Weisberger Experts once thought that older, more robust sea ice in the Arctic was mostly safe from melting — but that may not be the case.
'Improbable Planet' Somehow Survives Being Swallowed by Red Giant Star By Chelsea Gohd Scientists have discovered a "survivalist" planet that shouldn't exist orbiting a pulsating star.
Magnificent Egyptian Catacomb Reveals Carvings of a 'Worthy' Woman and Her Pet By Owen Jarus Almost 2,000 years ago, at a time when the Romans ruled Egypt, a woman named "Demetria" was laid to rest in a magnificently decorated catacomb at Saqqara in Egypt.
Ancient Egyptians May Have Corralled Millions of Wild Birds to Sacrifice and Turn into Mummies By Nicoletta Lanese New DNA evidence suggests that Egyptians captured wild birds for millions of ritualistic sacrifices, rather than farming the animals.
Here's What Sugar Does to Your Brain By Amy Reichelt Sugar triggers dopamine "hits" in the brain, making us crave more of it. Sugar also disrupts memory formation.
Can a Person Survive Eating Only Beef? By Rafi Letzter High cholesterol, cancer and a shorter life span would all be very real risks.
World's Oldest People May Have Supercharged Immune Cells By Stephanie Pappas People who live to 110 seem to have unusually high levels of a rare immune cell.
Dinosaur-Era Bird Preserved in 3D Could Rewrite History of Flight By Mindy Weisberger A previously unknown species of primitive bird has a tail feature associated with flight in modern birds.
Closest Living Relative of Extinct 'Bigfoot' Found By Mindy Weisberger Gigantopithecus, an enormous extinct ape that lived in Asia millions of years ago, was a close relative of the modern orangutan.
The Mysterious 'Tully Monster' Just Got More Mysterious By Chris Rogers Scientists reveal more mysteries about the bizarre Tully Monster, an ancient sea creature with stalked eyes that has defied classification.
Navy Officers Say 'Unknown Individuals' Made Them Erase Evidence of 2004 UFO Encounter By Yasemin Saplakoglu The signals were erratic and didn't seem to match those given off by known aircraft.
Thousands of Glorious 'Ice Eggs' Wash Up on Finnish Beach By Nicoletta Lanese The "ice eggs" form due to a rare weather phenomenon.
How Rabies Inspired Folktales of Werewolves and Vampires By Jessica Wang A look back at the folklore of rabies in humans reveals ties to beliefs in werewolves, vampires and other monsters.
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week By Live Science Staff Here are the most interesting, amazing and unusual things that happened in the world of science this week. A recap of Live Science's best.
Amazing Images: The Best Science Photos of the Week By Livescience.com Here are the stories behind the most amazing images in the world of science this week. A recap of the coolest photos featured on Live Science.
Why Can't Science Explain Consciousness? By Philip Goff Explaining how something as complex as consciousness can emerge from a grey, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head is arguably the greatest scientific challenge of our time.
Jet-Powered Car Roars Past 500 Mph. But Can This Beast Hit 1,000 Mph Without Destroying Itself? By Tom Metcalfe
The 'Three-Body Problem' Has Perplexed Astronomers Since Newton Formulated It. A.I. Just Cracked It in Under a Second. By Edd Gent It took just fractions of a second.
Google's Quantum Computer Just Aced an 'Impossible' Test By Tim Childers For the first time, a quantum computer has solved a task that Google says would be impossible for the most advanced supercomputers in the world.
