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- March 31st
- '80% chance of a go,' launch weather officer says at NASA's Artemis II prelaunch conference
- 'It blew my mind': Long-lost ice-age ecosystem, including fossils of lion-size armadillo and giant ground sloth, discovered in Texas 'water cave'
- China's huge push to reduce air pollution had an unexpected consequence in the Arctic
- Scientists have discovered an 'Achilles' heel' in deadly superbugs
- Snag this Paramount+ deal and get a bird's-eye view of the world with these amazing documentaries — but be quick, it ends today!
- Quantum computers need just 10,000 qubits — not the millions we assumed — to break the world's most secure encryption algorithms
- Artemis II timeline: 12 key steps that will take NASA astronauts to the moon and back
- 'We go for all of humanity': Artemis II rocket lifts off to the moon — look back at our live coverage
- Scientists discover potentially huge freshwater reservoir hidden beneath Great Salt Lake
- Concentric rocky rings adorned with ancient artwork wear a magma 'hat' in the Sahara — Earth from space
- March 30th
- Tasmanian tigers discovered in Indigenous rock art in Australia, suggesting these marsupials lived there much longer than thought
- 'Something really big is going to happen': NASA's historic Artemis II mission approved for April 1 launch
- Pig semen component could deliver chemotherapy to hard-to-reach eye cancer, mouse study suggests
- 'We are getting very, very close': NASA makes final Artemis II preparations as expectation grows for Wednesday launch
- Live Science crossword puzzle #36: America's national bird — 11 across
- Farthest, fastest and most diverse: 6 major records the Artemis II astronauts will smash as NASA returns to the moon
- Tudor Heart: A Renaissance gold necklace featuring a French-English pun on the love between Henry VIII and his first wife, Katherine of Aragon
- March 29th
- Saturn's chaotic atmosphere revealed in most comprehensive view yet by James Webb and Hubble telescopes
- AI systems are enabling mass surveillance in the US, and there is no national law that 'meaningfully limits' the use of this data
- Endometriosis messes with the immune system and causes 'ripple effects across the body'
- Hubble images taken 25 years apart show big changes in the iconic Crab Nebula — Space photo of the week
- What would happen to Earth if the sun suddenly vanished?
- March 28th
- Top 5 health and fitness products to buy during spring sales (and 2 to skip)
- A gut microbe linked to the Mediterranean diet boosts muscle strength in mice
- Science news this week: NASA announces nuclear rocket, space reproduction proves difficult, and why weed gives people the munchies
- How to catch the full 'Pink Moon' in April followed by a 'Blue Moon' in May
- Why does cannabis give people 'the munchies'?
- March 27th
- Mystery medical episode that left astronaut unable to speak shows one of NASA's biggest risks as moon missions ramp up
- Our fossil fuel economy is a house of cards and Trump's war in Iran is about to topple it. The need for a clean energy transition has never been clearer.
- Here's the stargazing gear you need for April 2026 — don't miss the Lyrids, two comets and the full moon
- DNA shed by every living thing is lurking in the environment — and it could tell us how Earth is changing in real time
- Lençóis Maranhenses: Brazil's dune-filled expanse that sits at the intersection of 3 biomes
- Synesthesia isn't just in your mind. The body reacts as if the colors were real.
- Save 20% on our all-time favorite air purifier ahead of the hay fever season
- Live Science Today: Jaw-dropping first glimpse of sperm whale birth and how NASA is turning astronauts into test subjects
- 'Major disruption in Neanderthal history': 65,000 years ago, all Neanderthals in Europe died out except for one lineage
- March 26th
- 2 Neanderthals present at same Siberian cave 10,000 years apart were distant relatives, 110,000-year-old bone reveals
- 18 million-year-old fossils of ape found in Africa, but in an unexpected place
- Astronauts may struggle to reproduce in outer space, study suggests — what does that mean for the future of space colonization?
- Brain aging results from a loss of control over how genes are regulated, mouse study suggests
- Live Science Today: Meta and Google fined for causing social media addiction and how dogs were our friends for millennia
- Roman mosaic shows topless woman battling leopard in arena, study finds
- 1,000-year-old altar and human sacrifices from Toltec Empire discovered in Mexico
- March 25th
- Chinese lander reveals giant 'cavity' of radiation between Earth and the moon — and it could change how lunar exploration is done
- NASA announces 'near‑impossible' space plans, including $20B moon base and humanity's first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft
- This excellent NordVPN deal knocks up to 77% off the price and comes with a $50 Amazon voucher — perfect if you want to watch nature documentaries on the go
- Is the metaverse finally dead and buried? What's really going on with the embattled idea of living in virtual worlds.
- Critically endangered hare spotted in surprising location for the first time in 40 years — but it was already dead
- Scientists are racing to save Australia's 'zombie tree' from a fast-spreading fungal disease
- Live Science Today: NASA announces $20 billion moonbase as unprecedented wildfires spread
- Explore the natural world from the comfort of your own home with this Paramount+ streaming deal
- Diagnostic dilemma: A cross tattoo on a man's neck disappeared — killing his skin as it did so
- NASA rover discovers first ruby-like crystals on Mars
- March 24th
- Drought could fuel the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs as climate change worsens, new research suggests
- Massive Iron Age hoards discovered in England may be from funeral of powerful Celtic queen
- Cannonball-size meteorite crashes through roof of Texas home as multiple 'fireballs' rain down on the US
- Iran war has already released a staggering amount of CO2 — and the destruction of schools, homes and buildings is the biggest source
- An anomaly in Mars' mantle could trigger volcanoes to erupt — and may be causing the whole planet to spin faster
- AI compressed billions of years of evolution into seconds to create 'Lego-like robots' that can recover even when they lose limbs
- Colorado River negotiations have stalled among 7 states and water is scarce. What happens next?
- Live Science Today: Jensen Huang AGI claim and major leap to reanimation after death
- Extreme blast of Arctic air from polar vortex paints a picturesque plume off Florida coast — Earth from space
- March 23rd
- Chemistry student develops clear polish that turns your fingernail into a touch-screen stylus
- Artemis II: NASA's first crewed mission to the moon since 1972
- Russian rocket en route to ISS suffers major antenna glitch, triggering remote-control astronaut 'backup plan'
- Antarctica could warm 1.4 times faster than the rest of the Southern Hemisphere in the coming decades, study finds
- Live Science crossword puzzle #35: Hardy 'micro-animal' that can survive in many extreme environments — 8 down
- Watch sperm whale headbutt another for no apparent reason
- Live Science Today: Earth hits record energy imbalance, Hawaii floods and NASA prepares for Artemis II launch
- Viruses in the gut may help prevent blood sugar spikes, mouse study hints
- Urfa Man: An 11,500-year-old life-size statue of a man holding his penis
- A new twist on matter? Strange 'Half-Mӧbius' molecule has rare properties chemists have never seen before
- March 22nd
- Why do some people still believe that aliens shaped ancient civilizations?
- A secret weapon to fight carbon emissions was just discovered: Beavers
- Rare star spotted in its original galaxy could answer a key question about the ingredients of life: Space photo of the week
- Why do animals have different pupil shapes?
- March 21st
- Physicists created an electron 'catapult' that moves particles at 'extraordinary' speed
- Computing quiz: Can you match these 'ancient' devices to their pictures?
- Science news this week: Super El Niño looms, an Acropolis marble fragment resurfaces, and a pure hexagonal diamond is born
- 'That's why there's 9 billion of us and not 9 billion of some other primate': Why our ability to adapt is humanity's 'superpower'
- Why are humans the only species with a chin?
- March 20th
- Cannonball dating to the Alamo battle unearthed 1 day before 190th anniversary of the conflict that killed Davy Crockett
- NASA's Artemis II rocket rolls to launch pad in final bid to meet April deadline
- Human-driven climate change is slowing Earth's rotation at a rate not seen in 3.6 million years
- A gene carried by 99% of humanity raises Alzheimer's risk dramatically. Could gene therapy correct it?
- I was at ground zero for the AIDS epidemic. RFK's cuts could fuel a new pandemic, just when elimination seemed within reach.
- Live Science Today: Monte Verde controversy and heatwave lashes the West
- The first flying taxis could start operating in 2026 — will this new form of transport actually take off?
- Unusual burials of Celtic 'warriors' discovered in France point to violent deaths
- March 19th
- Should compulsive shopping and gaming be considered an addiction? Psychiatrists are considering expanding the definition.
- Monte Verde, one of the earliest Indigenous sites in South America, is much younger than thought, study claims. But others call it 'egregiously poor geological work.'
- First Americans quiz: How much do you know about the first people to reach the Americas?
- 1,800-year-old nails discovered in 3 burials in Roman necropolis, possibly to 'protect' both the living and the dead
- 'Dark oxygen' discovery on the seafloor is 'fundamentally at odds with thermodynamics' and should be retracted, experts say
- An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission
- Scientists witness birth of one of the universe's strongest magnets for the first time, thanks to a general relativity 'magic trick'
- Top 5 tips for surviving hay fever season
- Best APS-C and Micro Four-Thirds cameras for astrophotography
- Live Science Today: Artemis II readies for rollout as auroras paint skies
- Divers find marble treasure from Athens' Acropolis in Lord Elgin's shipwrecked brig at the bottom of the Aegean Sea
- All 5 'letters' of DNA found on an asteroid speeding through our solar system. What do they tell us about the origins of life?
- March 18th
- Artemis II: NASA is preparing for a return to the moon, but why is it going back?
- Forget about the Big Spring Sale — these 5 fitness deals leave Amazon far behind
- Iran war could push global food insecurity to record levels, leaving 363 million people hungry
- Dark message warning enemy to 'learn your lesson' found inscribed on 2,000-year-old sling bullet from ancient Holy Land
- 'Parasites of human societies': How did we end up so close to cats?
- Drought paradox study reveals plants around Colorado River turn to groundwater when it gets too hot and dry, reducing flow into the already strained basin
- Rare 'daytime fireball' meteor creates powerful sonic boom as 7-ton space rock explodes above eastern US
- New AI image generator runs using 10 times fewer steps than today's best models — and it's coming to smartphones and laptops
- Enjoy 'Born to be Wild' and all your favorite nature documentaries on your travels with this best-ever ExpressVPN deal
- 7 best deep-sky targets to observe this galaxy season
- Best sports earbuds 2026: For runners, swimmers and other fitness enthusiasts
- Live Science Today: Meningitis is back and Iran war fertilizer shock
- Diagnostic dilemma: A man went to the doctor for a bad UTI and learned he had an extra kidney
- March 17th
- Watch out-of-this-world space documentaries for less with this Paramount+ deal
- The best last-minute Amazon deals for a fitter body, cleaner air and a brighter smile
- Understanding telescope magnification: A beginner’s guide to eyepieces, aperture and getting the best views
- Brazil's underprotected Cerrado savanna stores a staggering amount of carbon, study finds
- Colorectal cancer is now the most common cause of cancer deaths in the US for people under 50
- Iran war could create a 'fertilizer shock' that impacts agriculture and raises food prices
- 'We got evidence of boars, deer, bears, aurochs': Ancient DNA reveals sunken realm Doggerland had habitable forests during the last ice age
- Live Science Today: Super El Niño looms and Starlink hits 10,000 satellites in orbit
- Rainbow-colored phantom lakes emerge around Namibia's 'Great White Place' — Earth from space
- March 16th
- 'Super El Niño' could push global temperatures to unprecedented highs, forecasters say
- How plants moved from sea to land and changed Earth forever
- A single injection of mRNA-like treatment healed heart muscle after a heart attack in mice and pigs. Could it work in humans too?
- Live Science crossword puzzle #34: Famous space telescope launched in 1990 — 5 across
- El Niño: Facts, news, features and articles about the climate cycle that impacts weather patterns around the globe
- Live Science Today: 'Hexagonal' diamonds and fish scale down
- Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius: The only surviving larger-than-life-size statue of a pagan Roman emperor — a rarity that Michelangelo refurbished
- March 15th
- Measles' resurgence in the US is a grim sign of what's coming
- The government is very serious about UFOs. So why are researchers being stymied?
- In physics first, Chinese scientists create rare 'hexagonal diamond' that's harder than natural diamond
- Hubble and Euclid capture the final act of a dying star — and it's glorious: Space photo of the week
- Amazfit T-Rex Ultra 2 early review: One of the best-value outdoor smartwatches released this year
- Will the Indus Valley script ever be deciphered?
- Amazon's Spring Sale is already better than Black Friday — and there are loads of stargazing deals you won't want to miss
- Amazon's Spring Sale is surprisingly good for bird-watching and wildlife observation gear
- March 14th
- GPS is being weaponized in electronic warfare — and it's putting ships at risk
- The appendix evolved at least 32 times across 361 species, so it's 'unlikely to be a useless evolutionary accident,' research finds
- Pi has been calculated to trillions of digits — is that completely irrational?
- Roman military fort discovered in Scotland far north of Hadrian's Wall
- Science news this week: AMOC's collapse signal, the sun's galactic migration, the world's smallest QR code and oil's dying days
- Reading AI summaries makes people more likely to buy something — despite alarming 60% hallucination rate
- Garmin Venu 4 smartwatch review: Sleek and sporty
- Can you see Earth's shadow?
- March 13th
- Microplastics that accumulate in the body may 'clog up' immune cells
- Top 5 mistakes when using air purifiers during hay fever season
- 'A collision within a collision': Neutron star merger hiding in mini-galaxy could answer 2 big astrophysics questions
- Sørvágsvatn: The lake that 'floats' above the ocean thanks to a unique optical illusion
- What's the biggest bottleneck to building better AI? It's no longer the lack of computing resources — it's generating enough energy to feed it
- 1,900-year-old double Scythian burial in Ukraine contains toxic red mineral
- March 12th
- Exceptionally rare sighting of planets colliding may shed light on the crash that formed the moon
- Children wearing bronze 'warrior' belts discovered in 2,500-year-old cemetery in Italy
- 'Blackwater' lakes and rivers in the Congo Basin are now emitting ancient carbon into the atmosphere
- Scientists use 'negative light' to send secret messages hidden inside heat
- 'Interstellar messenger' 3I/ATLAS could be nearly as old as the universe itself, James Webb telescope observations reveal
- Bonobos are just as aggressive as chimps, but there's a key difference — the female bonobos
- Early warning indicator hidden within the Gulf Stream could signal the collapse of key Atlantic currents, study finds
- Meet Sky Dragon, the giant 10-person 'flying taxi' that just passed its first flight test in China
- AI hallucinations work both ways, study shows — using chatbots can amplify and reinforce our own delusions
- AI just verified a proof that earned one of math's most prestigious prizes. Math will never be the same
- A 'mass migration' of stars from the Milky Way's center could explain why there's life in our solar system
- March 11th
- 'Rectal garlic insertion for immune support': Medical chatbots confidently give disastrously misguided advice, experts say
- Russian Revolution gold coin hoard worth over $500,000 discovered during house construction
- The world is being held hostage by its reliance on oil. How can we break free from the fossil fuel?
- Europe's oldest handgun may date to 14th-century siege at German castle
- Scientists squished microbes into a steel 'sandwich' — and made a profound discovery about life in space
- Man in Czech Republic accidentally finds Bronze Age spearhead mold in his backyard
- 'It's nature calling to humans, and humans deciding whether or not to reply': Why we need to start paying attention to our mutually beneficial relationships with other species
- Diagnostic dilemma: Woman born without a vagina or cervix went on to conceive a son naturally
- Universe-shaking collision of black hole and neutron star could upend our understanding of monster cosmic mergers
- March 10th
- Vernal equinox 2026: When is the first day of spring?
- This Garmin watch is a runner's dream, and it's never been this cheap before
- 1,300-pound spacecraft will crash to Earth today following intense solar activity, NASA warns
- Pre-Inca culture acquired Amazonian parrots from hundreds of miles away to use their feathers to decorate the dead, new analysis reveals
- Single protein could dramatically alter trajectory of Alzheimer's disease
- Falling meteorite smashes hole in roof of German house after spectacular 'fireball' explosion over Europe
- Gemstone-filled river and striped mountain ridge form massive 'Y' in China's revitalized desert — Earth from space
- March 9th
- Exotic prime numbers could be hiding inside black holes
- 2,000-year-old Phoenician coin was used as bus fare in England, but 'how it got there will always be a mystery'
- In people with epilepsy, sleeping after a seizure may trigger more seizures
- California's wildfire season is shifting, with more blazes after the traditional high-risk window, study finds
- World's smallest QR code can store data for thousands of years — but you need an electron microscope to see it
- Live Science crossword puzzle #33: The 'E' in E =mc^2 — 2 down
- Asante spider: A rare African sword ornament from Ghana's Gold Coast that later helped a man in Texas barter for his life
- March 8th
- Making a 'digital twin' of yourself could revolutionize future surgeries, making medical procedures much more personal
- 'More advanced' farming women married hunter-gatherer men in Europe thousands of years ago, ancient DNA reveals
- Scientists tracked faint signals from the stars — and may have turned up hundreds of undiscovered planets
- Humans are being replaced by machines in the food supply chain — and it's leading to truckloads of waste
- 'Exposed Cranium' leaks its gory secrets in new James Webb telescope images: Space photo of the week
- Why aren't mammals as colorful as reptiles, birds or fish?
- March 7th
- Enormous 3D map of the universe shows brilliant 'sea of light' near the cosmic dawn
- 'It could revolutionize, completely, the way we treat depression': Researchers are exploring promising immune therapy for treating psychiatric symptoms
- 'The warming trend nearly doubled after 2014': The rate of global warming has accelerated more in the past decade than ever before
- Anthropic collides with the Pentagon over AI safety — here's everything you need to know
- Science news this week: Cannibal orcas in Russia, oracle bones that reveal climate disaster in ancient China, humming black holes and a barefoot volcanologist
- Why is mercury a liquid?
- March 6th
- 'Cikai Korran came here and saw': Visitors from India graffitied dozens of Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago
- Ancient 'alien-like' skulls have been found on every continent but Antarctica. Anthropologists are starting to figure out why.
- Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year. What is stopping us from doing it?
- One of the most accurate smart scales we have tested is now at its lowest-ever price
- Scientists find 2 marsupial species, thought to have gone extinct 6,000 years ago, living in the forests of New Guinea
- 'Striking' footage captures the moment a red fox preys on a wolf pup — a behavior never seen on film before
- Could gut microbes hold the secret to aging well? A researcher unpacks the emerging science
- What to buy as a yoga beginner: Must-haves vs non-essentials
- China puts a sodium-ion battery into an EV for the first time — it can drive 248 miles on a single charge
- March 5th
- 'City killer' asteroid will narrowly miss the moon, James Webb Telescope reveals
- Groundbreaking new drug shows promise for treating children with a devastating form of epilepsy
- Scientists taught robots to swim through mazes using Einstein's relativity
- The sword in the sea: How one lucky graduate student found his second Crusader sword while taking a swim off Israel's coast
- Sodium-ion batteries are getting ready for prime time. How can they improve EVs?
- 9 ways people have modified their bodies since the dawn of time, from foot binding to castration
- ZWO SeeStar S50 smart telescope review
- Chinese EV maker claims it's engineered the world’s first semi-solid-state EV battery with huge 620-mile range
- Climate disasters caused societal upheaval 3,000 years ago in China, study of 'oracle bones' hints
- Can you tie a knot in four dimensions? A mathematician explains
- March 4th
- 'Truly extraordinary': Mega-laser shooting at us from halfway across the universe is the brightest 'cosmic beacon' we've ever seen
- Chewed-up orca fins on Russian beach point to cannibalism, and scientists say it may explain why some pods are so tight-knit
- NASA fixes Artemis II rocket for April launch to take astronauts around moon
- Birds are declining faster and faster in 3 US hotspots, new study finds
- 'Humans can't be considered to be separate from the environment': Award-winning scientist Meha Jain on using satellites and real world experiences to help farmers in India facing a precarious future
- Meet the world's smallest AI supercomputer — it packs 'doctorate-level intelligence', its makers say, and can fit into your pocket
- When was the last time Antarctica was ice-free?
- Hawke Endurance ED 8x25 binocular review
- Diagnostic dilemma: A doctor discovered the gene mutation behind his family's mysterious missing-teeth condition
- Prehistoric water-dwelling weirdo with sideways teeth and a twisted jaw was already a 'living fossil' 275 million years ago
- March 3rd
- Mysterious 'little red dots' discovered by James Webb telescope may be the first stars in the universe on the verge of collapse
- Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary
- 'Collective hum' of black holes could mend our broken understanding of the universe, physicists say
- Gold coin discovered by a metal detectorist in the UK may have been dropped by a Viking invader from the Great Heathen Army
- 'Blood moon' total lunar eclipse dazzles millions around the world (photos)
- Every ant is a queen in this parasitic species — and they reproduce by cloning themselves and hijacking other ant colonies
- Vanuatu's 'barefoot volcanologist' stands at ash- and sulfur-spewing Mount Yasur in award-winning photograph
- 3 rivers merge into striking half-and-half waterway in Guyana — Earth from space
- March 2nd
- March 1st
- Pain lasts longer in women, and immune cells may be the culprit
- The 'sweet spot' of overconfidence — project a bit to be perceived as competent, but don't be 'too seduced,' a cognitive neuroscientist explains in a Q&A
- Ancient Greek mystery cult priestesses may have chemically tweaked fungus to induce psychedelic hallucinations
- March could be the best month for the northern lights for nearly a decade — if the sun stays active
- NASA telescope spots first alien 'astrosphere' around a sun-like star: Space photo of the week
- Do you weigh more when an elevator goes up or when it comes down?
- Science history: Stephen Hawking writes a tiny paper — and turns our understanding of black holes inside out — March 1, 1974
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