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Lasers reveal Roman-era circus in Spain where 5,000 spectators watched horse-drawn chariot races
Researchers used lidar technology to map Iruña Veleia, a Roman-era city in Spain.
By Sascha Pare published
Scientists consider Last Chance Lake to be an analog for lakes that may have existed on Earth 4 billion years ago and contained the ingredients for early life on our planet.
By María de los Ángeles Orfila published
"This very arid soil houses a treasure," ecologist María Fernanda Pérez told Live Science after the Atacama Desert produced a rare winter bloom.
By Paul Sutter published
While headlines around the world claimed that ancient galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope were "breaking" our understanding of the Big Bang, the truth is much more nuanced — and much more interesting.
By Jamie Carter published
Command module pilot Michael Collins took this iconic Apollo 11 photo 55 years ago today, after his historic trip around the far side of the moon made him "the world's loneliest man".
By Emily Cooke published
So much is still unknown about consciousness, nevermind whether brain organoids will achieve it, explains a leading neuroscientist.
By Ashley Hamer published
When a dog looks strikingly like its owner, is that a coincidence or is there more to the story?
By Sascha Pare published
Coastguards had to tow a 40-foot-long sailboat back to port after two young orcas severely damaged the boat's rudder near Guilvinec in the French region of Brittany.
By Harry Baker published
A beaked whale that recently washed up dead on a New Zealand beach likely belongs to the world's rarest cetacean species. If confirmed, researchers could dissect the species for the very first time.
By Stephanie Pappas published
Human societies that experience downturns do a better job of recovering from later disasters, new research finds.
By Alexander McNamara published
In a new series of comics, where young, female scientists take center stage, MIT's Ritu Raman explains how the format can inspire the next generation of young people into the world of STEM.
By Paul Sutter published
Do dead stars glow? A strange gravitational phenomenon could be generating enormous amounts of light around neutron stars, new research suggests.
By Ben Turner published
By blowing atoms up to several hundred times their size, researchers have been able to make another type of oddly-behaving time crystal.
By Ben Turner published
The physicist César Lattes, who is honored today (July 11) in a Google Doodle, is famous across Latin America for his discovery of the pion — a subatomic particle produced by shockwaves from exploding stars.
By Kristel Tjandra published
Honey owes its long shelf-life to its makers, but it doesn't always last forever.
By Stephanie Pappas published
The ESM3 model can 'write' new proteins from scratch, opening up new possibilities for synthetic biology.
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By Rory Bathgate published
Researchers say the screen can work both indoors and outdoors, and can be adjusted to become more or less transparent depending on user needs.