Amazing Images: The Best Science Photos of the Week By Livescience.com 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.
There's a New Blackest Material Ever, and It's Eating a Diamond As We Speak By Brandon Specktor It's so black, it turns diamonds into "black holes."
No Laughing Matter: A Woman's Guffaw Results in a Dislocated Jaw By Nicoletta Lanese A doctor rushed to her aid and managed to reset her jaw.
Boy Dies from 'Brain-Eating' Amoeba Infection Picked Up in Hot Spring By Nicoletta Lanese The rare infection fatally destroys brain tissue, causing pathological swelling.
'Lovers of Modena' Buried Hand-in-Hand Turn Out to Be Men By Owen Jarus The "lovers of Modena" — two 1,600-year-old skeletons found holding hands inside their grave — are both men, new research reveals.
Heartburn Drug Found to Contain Traces of Cancer-Causing Chemical By Rachael Rettner U.S. health officials have found low levels of a potentially cancer-causing chemical in the popular heartburn drug Zantac.
A Skyscraper-Size Asteroid Will Zoom Past Earth Saturday Night By Rafi Letzter Astronomers are working to track space rocks like these.
Captain Cook's 'Endeavour' Shipwreck Possibly Discovered Off Rhode Island By Tom Metcalfe It sailed around the world in the 1700s and is considered one of the most famous research ships.
Afterglow of Colliding Neutron Stars Would Outshine Our Sun By Rafi Letzter A new, hours-long Hubble study of the collision site revealed never-before-seen details of the neutron-star merger
On Friday the 13th, Don't Be Freaked Out by the 'Micromoon' By Stephanie Pappas The full moon of September 2019 is poised to provide some eerie atmosphere.
2nd-Known Interstellar Visitor May Have Breezed Through Our Solar System By Meghan Bartels A bright speck in the night sky may be the second known object to hurtle through our solar system after leaving another.
Tuna Steaks Recalled Because They May Cause This Weird Type of Food Poisoning By Rachael Rettner Yellowfin tuna products sold in 16 U.S. states are being recalled because they have the potential to cause an odd type of food poisoning that resembles an allergic reaction.
This Ridiculously Speedy Star Might Be Running Away from a Rare, Unproven Type of Black Hole By Brandon Specktor I'd be running, too.
A Tainted Skin Cream Gave a Woman Mercury Poisoning. She's Now Semi-Comatose. By Rachael Rettner A California woman is in a semi-comatose state after using an imported anti-wrinkle cream that was tainted with mercury.
A Distant Black Hole Brightens Every 9 Hours, and No One Knows Why By Rafi Letzter Something's disrupting the distant black hole's accretion disk, but no one knows what it is.
This Ancient Belt Buckle Retrieved from ‘Russian Atlantis’ Looks Like a Bedazzled iPhone Case By Mindy Weisberger Around 2,100 years ago, a woman was buried in a site now known as the "Russian Atlantis" with an unusual accessory resembling a modern iPhone.
What Was the Enlightenment? By Owen Jarus Reference Article: A brief overview of the Enlightenment period of the 18th century.
Rogue 'Immune Cell X' Is a Completely New Type of Cell. It Could Trigger Type 1 Diabetes. By Tia Ghose Scientists have discovered a mysterious population of previously unknown cells lurking in the human body, and they may trigger Type 1 diabetes.
Lab-Made Embryos Could Save Northern White Rhinos After Last Male Dies By Stephanie Pappas Two embryos have been created from the eggs of the last living northern white rhinoceroses.
Chinese Scientists Tried to Treat HIV Using CRISPR By Rachael Rettner Scientists in China have attempted to use CRISPR gene-editing technology to treat a patient with HIV.
