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Construction workers drive excavators at the site of a new 1,000-bed field hospital being built to accommodate the increasing number of coronavirus patients on January 24, 2020, in Wuhan, China. The hospital is set to be completed by Feb. 3.

More US cases of coronavirus, as death toll rises: Live updates on 2019-nCoV

By Yasemin Saplakoglu, Jeanna Bryner

Here's everything you need to know about the new coronavirus from China, including how lethal it is, how you can catch it and what is being done to prevent widespread infections.

Antarctica's ice sheets responded most strongly to the angle of Earth's tilt on its axis when the ice extends into the oceans.

Russian explorers discovered Antarctica 200 years ago. What we've learned about Earth's coldest continent.

By Dan Morgan

Two centuries after it was first sighted by Russian explorers, Antarctica is a key site for studying the future of Earth's climate – and for global scientific cooperation.

Black holes are infinitely dense objects surrounded by smooth event horizons.

Black holes shouldn't echo, but this one might. Score 1 for Stephen Hawking?

By Rafi Letzter

When two neutron stars slammed together far off in space, they created a powerful shaking in the universe — and their echoes could violate Einstein's theory of relativity.

This illustration shows a pack of the newly discovered Allosaurus jimmadseni attacking a young sauropod.

Towering dinosaur with radioactive skull identified in Utah

By Laura Geggel

Paleontologists have discovered the skeleton and radioactive skull of a previously unknown species of Allosaurus.

Archaeologists found the bottle at a Civil War-era site on the median of Interstate 64 in York County, Virginia.

'Witch bottle' found in Virginia dates to the Civil War

By Mindy Weisberger

A Civil War artifact found in Virginia could represent a type of talisman that was popular for protection against evil: a so-called witch bottle.

Some rare single malt whiskeys dating to decades ago are worth thousands of dollars — or are they?

Nuclear fallout exposes fake 'antique' whisky

By Mindy Weisberger

Fallout from nuclear bomb tests could help experts detect fraudulent whiskeys that are purportedly more than a century old.

Is this boy feeling pain from his periodontal ligament or his dental pulp?

Why are teeth so sensitive to pain?

By Ashley P. Taylor

Wouldn't it be easier if our teeth didn't feel pain?

Cryptococcus neoformans

The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

By Live Science Staff

Here are the most interesting, amazing and unusual things that happened in the world of science this week. A recap of Live Science's best.

Caribbean reef shark.

Amazing Images: The Best Science Photos of the Week

By Jeanna Bryner

Here are the stories behind the most amazing images in the world of science this week. A recap of the coolest photos featured on Live Science.

Little girl sitting on toilet.

Where does all our poop go?

By Isobel Whitcomb

Human poop is a great fertilizer for farmers.

A Boeing satellite orbits the Earth.

A TV satellite is about to explode following 'irreversible' battery damage

By Brandon Specktor

A Boeing satellite is being hastily moved into "graveyard orbit" following a devastating "anomaly" that turned its batteries into bombs.

Staff members check the body temperature of passengers after a train from Wuhan arrived at Hangzhou Railway Station in Hangzhou, China.

Second person in US hospitalized with new coronavirus. Here's what doctors know.

By Yasemin Saplakoglu

The woman, a 60-year-old Chicago resident, had recently traveled to Wuhan and arrived back on Jan. 13.

Sea-foam from blooming algae on the German coast of the Baltic Sea.

Gobs of sea-foam wash up in Spanish town. Here's why.

By Laura Geggel

Sea-foam is known to form from decaying algal blooms.

Scientists tested Galileo and Einstein's theories by dropping two objects inside this satellite named MICROSCOPE (artist's impression).

Why physicists are determined to prove Galileo and Einstein wrong

By Yasemin Saplakoglu

Physicists dropped objects on a satellite for two years to test Galileo's theory of falling objects.

This image shows a close-up of one of the engravings on the monolith that was scanned and shown here in green contrast. The engraving appears circular with a hole in the center and lines radiating from the circle.

Engraved with fangs, ornate swirls, Peruvian monument lay hidden for 2,000 years

By Owen Jarus

A sprawling, stone monument decorated with swirls, circular patterns and godly fangs has been hiding in a remote jungle in northern Peru for around 2,000 years.

Boeing's Phantom Express XS-1 space plane design is shown in launch position in this artist's concept. The autonomous spacecraft is designed to launch vertically, deploy a second stage payload into orbit and return to Earth for a runway landing.

DARPA scraps XS-1 military space plane project after Boeing drops out

By Mike Wall

Boeing has withdrawn from Experimental Spaceplane, a U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program designed to increase the nation's access to space.

Researchers prepare to launch the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, which picked up signals of impossible-seeming particles as it dangled from its balloon over Antarctica.

Mysterious particles spewing from Antarctica defy physics

By Rafi Letzter

What's making these things fly out of the frozen continent?

The rich assemblage of grave goods indicates that the person buried here held a high status.

Princely tomb of Iron Age mystery man discovered in Italy. And there's a chariot inside.

By Laura Geggel

Whoever was buried here was a big deal in the Iron Age.

dust caught in light from window

Bacteria hiding in indoor dust could spread antibiotic resistance

By Nicoletta Lanese

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria may be able to pass their genes on to others.

Illustration of a supernova explosion.

A giant star ate its dead neighbor and caused one of the brightest supernovas ever, new study suggests

By Brandon Specktor

In 2006 a star exploded 50 billion times brighter than our sun. New research suggests it wasn't one star, but two.