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This battle scene painted on stone was repurposed three centuries later to help build an Egyptian tomb.
Whether you're carrying a phone, a mirrorless camera or a smart telescope, here are some tried and tested ways to capture the Aug. 12, 2026, total solar eclipse.
NASA has unearthed the historic photos its Viking 1 lander sent home just after landing on Mars in July, 1976.
Scientists have pinned down why a sprinkler spins when it sucks in water instead of spraying it out — a problem that stumped Richard Feynman and has divided physicists for nearly a century.
The Delta Aquariids peak on July 30-31, kicking off "meteor season," though bright moonlight will likely limit views.
An unusual 2,800-year-old Mesoamerican burial found in El Salvador included a face-down skeleton clutching a sea turtle vessel.
Experts say the models didn't "go rogue" when they escaped a controlled cybersecurity test and hacked Hugging Face. Instead, they were pursuing the goal humans had given them in ways nobody anticipated.
The two infants buried in the same Byzantine-era grave may have been twins who died around the time of birth.
Additional states have been added to the list of locations impacted by an outbreak of foodborne illness tied to iceberg lettuce.
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The Delta Aquariids peak on July 30-31, kicking off "meteor season," though bright moonlight will likely limit views.
NASA has unearthed the historic photos its Viking 1 lander sent home just after landing on Mars in July, 1976.
The total amount of ordinary matter in our universe adds up to roughly one-tenth of what's expected. Now, scientists think they may have found some of it between galaxies.
Pronunciation: PAHR'-sek
NASA's record-breaking New Horizons spacecraft has awoken from a 321-day hibernation in "good health" as it resumes unprecedented science at the solar system's edge.
This battle scene painted on stone was repurposed three centuries later to help build an Egyptian tomb.
An unusual 2,800-year-old Mesoamerican burial found in El Salvador included a face-down skeleton clutching a sea turtle vessel.
Pronunciation: LITH'-iks
The two infants buried in the same Byzantine-era grave may have been twins who died around the time of birth.
Archaeologists found a Roman military camp in Slovakia with unusual burials of soldiers who likely fought in Marcus Aurelius' Marcomannic Wars.
Pronunciation: PAN'-doh
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New modeling suggests meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet has a big weakening influence on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but the runoff likely won't cause a complete and irreversible collapse.
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Redheads are rare and the trait carries an increased risk of melanoma. Does that mean ginger locks might one day go extinct?
Additional states have been added to the list of locations impacted by an outbreak of foodborne illness tied to iceberg lettuce.
A young girl in China died after being given an experimental gene therapy intended to treat a neurodevelopmental syndrome, an investigation by Science and Retraction Watch revealed.
Rescheduling cannabis could mark a major shift in research, but it alone will not eliminate the scientific, regulatory and patient-access challenges that have shaped medical cannabis for decades.
Pediatricians in both the U.S. and Japan tend to prescribe antibiotics too often, although the doctors are now improving their track record. What's behind this tendency?
How to watch "Air Jaws: Red, White and Breach" online, as Jeff Kurr, Alison Towner and Andy Casagrande aim to capture breaching great white sharks on film.
Here's how to watch "Shark Week" 2026 online from anywhere, including the dates, schedule and synopses for the seven-day extravaganza.
As U.S. federal research budgets continue to be slashed, a team of marmot researchers have turned to unconventional sources of funding.
In two encounters in the Gulf of California, one orca held a dead sunfish in place while another rammed it at high speed, breaking the carcass into what appear to be bite-sized pieces for younger whales.
Researchers risked their lives to study Andean leaf-eared mice on the inhospitable peaks of the Puna de Atacama volcanoes in Chile.
Biologists Niloofar Alaei Kakhki and Morteza Monfared tell Live Science how beetle larvae could be repurposed from pet food to a cleaner for museums and laboratories.
Experts say the models didn't "go rogue" when they escaped a controlled cybersecurity test and hacked Hugging Face. Instead, they were pursuing the goal humans had given them in ways nobody anticipated.
By enhancing the functionality of agentic browsers, they have become insecure and could be sharing personal information.
High-speed rotation exploits the concept of motion blur to conceal a new drone while it's in flight.
Engineers say an AI image generator built on a new type of physical computing could use far less power than existing stable diffusion-based methods.
In this excerpt from "Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life," author Mona Sloane examines how artificial intelligence is reconfiguring our understanding of the world and how we imagine the future.
Researchers have found a way to build a three-layered silicon chip without the chip overheating.
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Scientists have pinned down why a sprinkler spins when it sucks in water instead of spraying it out — a problem that stumped Richard Feynman and has divided physicists for nearly a century.
Given the "quasi" in quasiparticles, do scientists consider them to be real particles?
Hong Wang, a mathematician at New York University, helped solve a decades-old geometry problem and is now the third woman to win math's most prestigious award.
Pronunciation: Krip-TAH'-leh-jee
A decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and collaborator Francesco Zamponi have finally cracked the case — not with a radical new theory, but with the help of the generative AI Claude.
Scientists made a breakthrough discovery about the physics of Hawking radiation by making a miniature black hole out of light in the laboratory.
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