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To save a baby with a rare lung disorder, doctors performed a surgery while he remained half-in and half-out of the womb. Kamal Nahas explains how they did it.
Live Science spoke with Tim Lenton, founding director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, about human actions that can trigger positive, self-propelling changes in nature.
Live Science spoke with the developers of a living knee implant that could help more patients in need of knee replacements get them.
A Viking Age hoard of nearly 3,000 coins is the largest hoard of its kind ever found in Norway.
To save a baby with a rare lung disorder, doctors performed a surgery while he remained half-in and half-out of the womb.
A compression algorithm like TurboQuant turns the data in the AI's working memory into a smaller, more efficient form.
Part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is likely to crash into the moon this summer, a new report finds. It poses no danger, but it does highlight a worrying trend.
A rare form of vision loss has been linked to certain GLP-1s, but more so to Wegovy than to other weight-loss drugs in this class. Should you worry?
Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.
Part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is likely to crash into the moon this summer, a new report finds. It poses no danger, but it does highlight a worrying trend.
A squad of new AI algorithms called GAME could help astrophysicists take a more accurate reading of the universe's changing behavior, a new study suggests.
Recent surveys hint that the rate of cosmic expansion changes dramatically over time; if that's true, then the universe could end much sooner than we thought, new research suggests.
NASA Curiosity rover uncovers rock with 7 new organic molecules on Mars
Scientists have mapped the extent of the Vela Supercluster for the first time, and determined that it is one of the largest structures in the universe.
A Viking Age hoard of nearly 3,000 coins is the largest hoard of its kind ever found in Norway.
Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.
Burials from over a millennia ago are revealing how people lived in part of the Roman Empire after it fell.
Archaeologists think a broken bronze cup found in Spain was made for a soldier as a memento of his time stationed at Hadrian's Wall in England.
Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains differed from modern humans', calling into question the reason our evolutionary cousins mysteriously disappeared.
Mount Etna's strange lava has long perplexed scientists, but new research reveals that the volcano formed in a bizarre way — making it unlike any other known volcano on Earth.
Live Science spoke with Tim Lenton, founding director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, about human actions that can trigger positive, self-propelling changes in nature.
Drilling in the 2-mile buffer zone of Pe' Sla, in the He Sapa (Black Hills) of South Dakota, shows even sacred lands protected by the U.S. government are not safe from the threat of destruction — and it should ring alarm bells everywhere.
A 2024 satellite snap shows suspended sediments streaking across the mouth of the Rokan River, thanks in part to a particularly high tide caused by a full "Strawberry Moon."
Some types of fungi borrowed a gene from ancient bacteria that gave the ability to make ice and trigger rain.
To save a baby with a rare lung disorder, doctors performed a surgery while he remained half-in and half-out of the womb.
A rare form of vision loss has been linked to certain GLP-1s, but more so to Wegovy than to other weight-loss drugs in this class. Should you worry?
Scientists have pinpointed a mechanism that may explain heart cancer's rarity and point to new cancer treatments.
A man's sudden heart issue went away without the standard course of treatment.
A new map shows how smell receptors in the mouse nose are precisely organized into tight bands based on type.
A blood-filtering therapy for preeclampsia is safe for pregnant patients and their babies, according to a new pilot study.
Science touches every part of our lives — and that's why understanding it is vital. At Live Science, our team of experienced editors and reporters explain the science that matters to you, shining a light on medical advancements, developments in space, technological innovations, climate change updates and revelations from the ancient past. We're here to guide you through the most important breakthroughs and discoveries, delivering good science for curious minds.
In a new book, paleontologist Steve Brusatte tells the wild story of how birds evolved during the Jurassic and took to the skies, surviving the asteroid strike that killed their fellow dinosaurs.
In this excerpt from "The Story of Birds", author Steve Brusatte explores the moment where paleontologists realized they had critical evidence to show birds came from dinosaurs — a fluffy fossil from China.
A two-and-a-half-year-old mystery concerning a strange golden object found miles below the sea surface isn't an egg or sponge — it's from an anemone-like animal.
Cats often flick their heads back and forth as if they've been possessed. This strange reflex has a simple explanation.
A close inspection of 27 fossil jaws from finned octopuses challenge the longstanding belief that the apex oceanic predators of the Cretaceous were all vertebrates.
A kea parrot in New Zealand who lost the top part of his beak when young has developed a new way to fight other males that has made him unbeatable.
A compression algorithm like TurboQuant turns the data in the AI's working memory into a smaller, more efficient form.
The D1 humanoid robot, built by a smartphone manufacturer, has beaten the human-held world record by around seven minutes.
An AI agent designed to speed up a company's coding instead wiped out its customer data in seconds, showing potential weaknesses in AI programming.
Scientists have achieved a breakthrough by "distilling" light to eliminate the noise that prevents photonic quantum computers from scaling.
A startup is experimenting with data centers powered by lab-grown human neurons, testing whether living cells can offer a more efficient alternative to traditional computing.
Personal data ranging from your health information to your location is being hoovered up by the government.
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For the first time, researchers measured singularities in combined light and sound waves moving faster than the speed of light. The findings have implications in fluid dynamics, optics and many other fields.
For the first time, scientists have observed quantum entanglement in the momentum of massive particles. The result, decades in the making, could help physicists probe the relationship between quantum mechanics and gravity.
CERN scientists transported antimatter by truck for the first time, enabling ultraprecise studies that could reveal why matter dominates the universe.
A new physics paper proposes modifications to Einstein’s theory of relativity that could solve one of the biggest issues about our understanding of the Big Bang.
Using a new method, physicists found a way to "catapult" electrons across solar materials in quadrillionths of a second.
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