Mass stranding event beaches 450 whales in Tasmania By Yasemin Saplakoglu It's the worst stranding event the Australian island has ever seen.
Gold miners discover 100 million-year-old meteorite crater Down Under By Laura Geggel About 100 million years ago, a gigantic meteorite collided with Australia, creating a 3-mile-wide impact crater.
Election Day vaccine unlikely: FDA to issue tougher standards for authorization By Nicoletta Lanese Individuals familiar with the situation told The Washington Post anonymously.
'Pi planet' alien world takes 3.14 days to orbit its star By Mike Wall Scientists have found an alien world that orbits its host star every 3.14 Earth days, a close approximation of the famous mathematical constant pi.
Prehistoric desert footprints are earliest evidence for humans on Arabian Peninsula By Richard Clark-Wilson Scientists have discovered human footprints embedded on an ancient lake surface in the Nefud Desert in Saudi Arabia that are around 120,000 years old.
'Grand claims' of life on Venus lack evidence, skeptics say By Adam Mann A roundup of the various pushback and criticisms to the claim that there could be life on Venus
Gold miners discover 100 million-year-old meteorite crater Down Under By Laura Geggel About 100 million years ago, a gigantic meteorite collided with Australia, creating a 3-mile-wide impact crater.
Tropical storm Beta floods Houston, and days of heavy rainfall are still to come By Rafi Letzter Roads are flooded again. Protective dunes destroyed. Louisiana is bracing for another impact. And the season still has much more than a month left to go.
'Pi planet' alien world takes 3.14 days to orbit its star By Mike Wall Scientists have found an alien world that orbits its host star every 3.14 Earth days, a close approximation of the famous mathematical constant pi.
First experimental evidence of a new type of dark boson possibly found By Mike McRae Two experiments hunting for a whisper of a particle called a dark boson that prevents whole galaxies from flying apart recently published some contradictory results.
Mysterious Mexican wreck was an illegal slave ship By Stephanie Pappas Archaeologists have identified the wreck of a Mexican steamer as La Union, an illegal slave ship that smuggled the Maya as cargo to Cuba.
Wizard battles and demon circles revealed in newly translated Christian texts By Owen Jarus Newly translated Christian texts tell of wizard battles and demon circles.
Election Day vaccine unlikely: FDA to issue tougher standards for authorization By Nicoletta Lanese Individuals familiar with the situation told The Washington Post anonymously.
US reaches staggering milestone — 200,000 COVID-19 deaths By Rachael Rettner It took eight months to reach 200,000 deaths.
Why do we sleep? The answer may change right before we turn 3. By Nicoletta Lanese The main function of sleep may change as our brains do.
Mass stranding event beaches 450 whales in Tasmania By Yasemin Saplakoglu It's the worst stranding event the Australian island has ever seen.
350 elephants killed by 'a combination of neurotoxins' in water, Botswana government says By Brandon Specktor Toxic cyanobacteria may have killed 350 elephants in Botswana, government says
Cave bear mummy discovered in Siberia still has its internal organs, fur and black nose By Laura Geggel An ancient cave bear adult and cub mummy have been found in the melting permafrost of Siberia.
Lightning killed 2 giraffes in South Africa: Were they doomed by their height? By Mindy Weisberger After two dead giraffes were discovered in a South African nature reserve, scientists determined that the animals had been struck by lightning.
Helium-huffing alligators and reluctant hitmen win big at the Ig Nobel awards By Mindy Weisberger Weird science took center stage at the 30th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony.
Watch LIVE: The 2020 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, tonight @ 6:00 p.m. ET By Mindy Weisberger You can watch the premiere of the 2020 Ig Nobels here on Live Science.
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.
'Elinor Wonders Why' teaches kids to explore science by asking questions By Mindy Weisberger A curious bunny named Elinor explores Animal Town with her friends, in an endearing new PBS series that teaches kids how to find answers about science and nature.
Do STEM toys actually teach kids science and math? By Stephanie Pappas Toys advertised as teaching STEM aren't always proven, but these recommendations have science to back them up.
3,200-megapixel camera of the future Vera Rubin Observatory snaps record-breaking 1st photos By Mike Wall The imaging sensors for the future Vera C. Rubin Observatory have taken their record-breaking first photos.
Quantum internet breakthrough could help make hacking a thing of the past By Siddarth Koduru Joshi New research shows how the next generation of ultra-secure communication could be possible with existing infrastructure.
New 'AI Jesus' can deliver a sermon, but will you understand it? By Mindy Weisberger A neural network learned to deliver sermons like Jesus (sort of ) after it was trained on the King James Bible.
