Watch a bright fireball explode over the Tasman Sea (video) By Samantha Mathewson A bright green meteor streaked across the southern coast of Tasmania, Australia, and researchers caught the fireball on camera as it broke up over the ocean.
Amazing images: The best science photos of the week By Brandon Specktor 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.
Ultrasound captures worms squirming in a man's stomach By Rachael Rettner Doctors observed a "tubular ... structure that moved with a curling motion" inside his stomach.
Why do some animal sleep so much? By Kelly Slivka Body size and diet might impact how much sleep mammals need.
Happy birthday to Benoit Mandelbrot, the discoverer of fractals By Yasemin Saplakoglu He is known as the "father of fractals" for having discovered one of the most important patterns in nature.
Physicists built an 'anti-laser' to charge your phone from across a room By Rafi Letzter A device demonstrated in a groundbreaking new experiment acts like a laser, only backwards. And someday it might send power invisibly through the air.
Huge eruption of Italian volcano sends ash hundreds of feet into the air By Stephanie Pappas An explosion on the slopes of Stromboli sent pyroclastic flow down the Italian volcano on Monday (Nov. 16).
Watch a bright fireball explode over the Tasman Sea (video) By Samantha Mathewson A bright green meteor streaked across the southern coast of Tasmania, Australia, and researchers caught the fireball on camera as it broke up over the ocean.
Physicists built an 'anti-laser' to charge your phone from across a room By Rafi Letzter A device demonstrated in a groundbreaking new experiment acts like a laser, only backwards. And someday it might send power invisibly through the air.
Happy birthday to Benoit Mandelbrot, the discoverer of fractals By Yasemin Saplakoglu He is known as the "father of fractals" for having discovered one of the most important patterns in nature.
Hidden world of bacteria and fungi discovered on Leonardo da Vinci's drawings By Rafi Letzter Researchers examining Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings found a microbiome — a hidden biological signature of their travels across centuries.
Ultrasound captures worms squirming in a man's stomach By Rachael Rettner Doctors observed a "tubular ... structure that moved with a curling motion" inside his stomach.
Could COVID-19 immunity last decades? Here’s the science. By Nicoletta Lanese Of course, rare cases of reinfection show that immunity is not long-lasting for everyone.
Speed of COVID vaccine testing did not compromise safety, Fauci says By Yasemin Saplakoglu This incredible speed in vaccine development is unprecedented, but the process is solid.
Why do some animal sleep so much? By Kelly Slivka Body size and diet might impact how much sleep mammals need.
Antarctica's blue whales return to South Georgia a century after they were nearly wiped out By Tom Metcalfe The critically-endangered blue whale has returned to the waters near the remote island of South Georgia near Antarctica, almost 100 years after they were nearly made extinct.
Cretaceous cold case of 'dueling' T. rex and Triceratops may finally be solved By Laura Geggel The T. rex and Triceratops were discovered in 2006, but this sale marks the first time scientists will be able to study them in detail.
Mama and baby bear shot to death aboard Russian nuclear submarine By Brandon Specktor A mother bear and her cub were shot and killed by Russian hunters after boarding a docked nuclear submarine in Kamchatka.
Alien-like photo shows snake eel dangling out of heron's stomach in midair By Laura Geggel The snake eel probably thought "not today" as it burrowed out of the heron's stomach.
Zombie diet: 10 real-life examples of humans eating humans By Kimberly Hickok The dead don't eat the living, but sometimes the living eat their dead.
Amazing images: The best science photos of the week By Brandon Specktor 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.
College-age kids are drinking less alcohol — but smoking more marijuana By Ty Schepis Young adults aren’t drinking as much as they used to.
Why women make way less than men do in more religious places By Stephanie Pappas The more religious a country or state, the bigger the gap in earnings between men and women.
Mysterious 'gene within a gene' found in the coronavirus By Peter Dockrill Researchers have uncovered a mysterious gene in the genetic code of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 – a segment virtually hidden from view in the virus's genome, and largely overlooked until now.
Meet the zeptosecond, the shortest unit of time ever measured By Stephanie Pappas Scientists have measured the shortest unit of time ever, the time it takes for a particle of light to cross a hydrogen molecule.
