Can science 'prove' there's an afterlife? Netflix documentary says yes. By Stephanie Pappas The new Netflix series 'Surviving Death' marches through an array of paranormal phenomena, some unprovable, some debunked and some genuinely mysterious.
Lizzie Borden's home, site of brutal axe murders, could be yours for $2 million By Mindy Weisberger The home where Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother were murdered is now a bed and breakfast, and a museum. Its retiring owner just put it on the market.
CIA releases entire collection of UFO-related documents to truth-seeking website By Brandon Specktor The CIA just turned over 2,700 pages of UFO-related material to The Black Vault, a free repository of UFO records online.
10 science records broken in 2020 By Yasemin Saplakoglu From the longest bird flight to the oldest identical twins, 2020 was filled with record-breaking science.
10 times science made a sucky year suck less By Yasemin Saplakoglu From the incredible efforts of scientists to develop a COVID-19 vaccine in record time to clapping seals, this year had some amazing discoveries.
Fireballs, spaceships and … iguanas? 7 strange things that fell from the sky By Nicoletta Lanese Watch your head!
Live Science's top stories of 2020: Writers' choice By Mindy Weisberger From a mirror universe to X-shaped galaxies, these stories guaranteed that 2020 would be a year to remember.
Alien hunters detect mystery signal coming from the closest star system By Rafi Letzter Astronomers hunting for radio signals from alien civilizations have reportedly detected an "intriguing signal" from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star system to the sun.
Newly discovered fungi turn flies into zombies and devour them from the inside out By Stephanie Pappas Two newly discovered fungi eat flies from the inside out while dropping new spores out of holes dissolved in the living flies' abdomens.
Rare 9-armed octopus found off Japan coast By Laura Geggel How did an octopus in Japan grow nine arms?
Who set up this mysterious metal monolith in Utah desert? (It's not aliens.) By Stephanie Pappas Who embedded a 10-foot-tall metal monolith in the remote Utah desert?
JFK conspiracy theory is debunked in Mexico 57 years after Kennedy assassination By Gonzalo Soltero Most conspiracy theories surrounding President John F. Kennedy’s assassination have been disproven.
Tiny owl found hiding in the Rockefeller Christmas tree isn't going home. Here's why. By Laura Geggel The owl found in the Rockefeller Christmas tree isn't going back to his original territory. Here's why.
Mama and baby bear shot to death aboard Russian nuclear submarine By Brandon Specktor A mother bear and her cub were shot and killed by Russian hunters after boarding a docked nuclear submarine in Kamchatka.
Alien-like photo shows eel dangling out of heron's stomach in midair By Laura Geggel The eel probably thought "not today" as it burrowed out of the heron's stomach.
Zombie diet: 10 real-life examples of humans eating humans By Kimberly Hickok The dead don't eat the living, but sometimes the living eat their dead.
Naked mole rats kidnap each other's babies, and turn them into slaves By Tessa Koumoundouros Naked mole rats kidnap each other's babies and turn them into slaves.
Famous fish that ate all his friends gets cheered up by 16th birthday party By Mindy Weisberger Happy 16th birthday to Mikko the grouper, a popular aquarium fish in Finland who missed his human visitors during the COVID-19 shutdown.
The very first forms of life may have been more animal-like than we ever realized By Tessa Koumoundouros Early life may have been far more like animals than we thought, suggests new research that shows bacteria can 'develop' like an embryo.
Do we live in a simulation? Chances are about 50–50. By Anil Ananthaswamy Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research—or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology
