Why Believing in Ghosts Can Make You a Better Person By Tok Thompson, Sciences Ghost stories are often about the departed seeking justice for an earthly wrong. Their sightings are a reminder that ethics and morality transcend our lives.
What Are Americans Most Afraid Of? Corrupt Government Officials & Global Warming. By Stephanie Pappas Most Americans are most fearful of corrupt government officials and of environmental catastrophe.
Baby Names Show Enormous Gender Gap By Stephanie Pappas Baby boys get aggressive names, while girls get names associated with beauty and pampering.
Stephen Hawking's Final Book Says There's 'No Possibility' of God in Our Universe By Brandon Specktor Is there room for God in the endless, expanding universe? In his final book, Stephen Hawking says no.
Why Is it Fun to Be Frightened? By Margee Kerr Visiting an extreme haunted house can be delightfully terrifying.
Your Memory Could Store Up to 10,000 Faces, or More By Mindy Weisberger How many faces do you retain in your memory? It's likely a lot more than you'd expect.
How This Time-Traveling Illusion Tricks Your Brain By Laura Geggel Would you like to travel back in time, even if only for a moment?
Nobel Prize in Economics: 1969-Present By Live Science Staff Winners of the Nobel Prize in economics, including Paul Krugman, Daniel Kahneman and Milton Friedman.
Stephen Hawking's 1st Wife Blasts Biopic 'The Theory of Everything' By Jeanna Bryner Jane Hawking says the film got a lot of things wrong about her life with the renowned physicist.
Physicist Who Coined 'God Particle' Dies. And a Great Voice for Science Is Stilled. By Don Lincoln It is a sad "day" in science. Dr. Leon Lederman has passed away at the age of 96.
This Test Can Measure the 'Dark Core' of Your Personality By Stephanie Pappas Certain personality traits have a common origin.
A Physicist Said Women's Brains Make Them Worse at Physics — Experts Say That's 'Laughable' By Rafi Letzter Live Science fact-checked a physicist's claims about women's brains and discrimination against men with actual experts in brains and discrimination.
How Reliable Are the Memories of Sexual Assault Victims? By Jim Hopper Here's the expert testimony excluded from the Kavanaugh hearing.
The Field You Work in Could Predict Whether You're Doomed to Divorce By Brandon Specktor When there are more fish in the sea, is the fisherman more likely to get a divorce?
Profiling a Conspiracy Theorist: Why Some People Believe By Joshua Hart Some people are habitual conspiracy thinkers – there's a plan behind everything, and it's usually malevolent. One scientist set out to understand who is likely to ascribe to these theories.
Secrets of the Perfect Water-Bottle Flip Unlocked: Thanks, Physicists! By Mindy Weisberger Bottle flipping just got a whole lot easier.
150 Years Ago, Mobius Discovered Weird One-Sided Objects. Here's Why They're So Cool. By David Gunderman, Richard Gunderman The inventor of the brain-teasing Möbius strip died 150 years ago, but his creation continues to spawn new ideas in mathematics.
Should All Nobel Prizes Be Canceled for a Year? By Brian Keating This year's Nobel Prize for literature was nixed because of a sex scandal. Other Nobels have neglected key contributors. Should all prizes be cancelled while criteria for winning is reassessed?
What You See in This Famous Optical Illusion Could Reveal How Old You Are By Yasemin Saplakoglu Do you see an old woman or a young woman?
