Powerful AI finds 100+ hidden planets in NASA data including rare and extreme worlds
Astronomers deployed RAVEN, an artificial intelligence system, to analyze data from NASA's TESS space telescope. The tool identified over 100 confirme…
Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought
Recent dinosaur discoveries have fundamentally altered our understanding of these extinct animals. Paleontologist Dave Hone reports that dinosaurs exh…
Did Japan have female samurai?
# Female Samurai in Japan: History's Hidden Warriors Japan's samurai class included women warriors, though historical records largely overlooked them…
Poop-encrusted chamber pots from the Roman Empire reveal oldest known human cases of Crypto parasite
Archaeologists discovered the oldest known human infections with Cryptosporidium parasite in chamber pots recovered from the Roman Empire's frontier. …
18th-century mechanical volcano roars to life 250 years later
Two University of Melbourne engineering students have reconstructed an 18th-century mechanical volcano designed by volcanology enthusiast Sir William …
This 275-million-year-old animal had a twisted jaw like nothing alive today
Scientists in Brazil discovered fossilized jawbones from a 275-million-year-old animal with a twisted structure never seen in modern species. The crea…
Yellowstone's volcano may be fueled in a very different way than we thought
Scientists have discovered that Yellowstone's volcanic eruptions may originate from crustal shifts rather than a massive magma reservoir beneath the s…
18th-century mechanical volcano roars to life 250 years later
Two University of Melbourne engineering students brought an 18th-century dream to life by reconstructing Sir William Hamilton's mechanical volcano. Ha…
This 275-million-year-old animal had a twisted jaw like nothing alive today
Scientists discovered fossilized jawbones in a Brazilian riverbed belonging to Tanyka amnicola, a 275-million-year-old animal with a twisted jaw struc…
This “Pink Floyd” spider hunts prey 6x its size and lives in walls
Scientists have identified a new spider species called Pikelinia floydmuraria, named after the band Pink Floyd. This tiny wall-dwelling predator hunts…
Weapons of the world quiz: Can you identify these historical objects of war?
Live Science has published an interactive quiz challenging readers to identify historical weapons spanning millennia to centuries past. The quiz prese…
Mount Etna is like no other volcano on Earth, representing 'a new type of volcanism,' new research reveals
Mount Etna doesn't behave like other volcanoes on Earth. New research explains why: the Sicilian volcano formed through an entirely different geologic…
Poop-encrusted chamber pots from the Roman Empire reveal oldest known human cases of Crypto parasite
Archaeologists examining chamber pots from a Roman frontier settlement have identified the oldest known human cases of Cryptosporidium infection. The …
'The detectors never stopped beeping!' Nearly 3,000 coins discovered in field are Norway's largest V
# Norway's Largest Viking Coin Hoard Discovered in Field Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered nearly 3,000 coins from the Viking Age, making it th…
Earth is splitting open beneath the Pacific Northwest, scientists say
Scientists observed a subduction zone fragmenting beneath the Pacific Northwest for the first time. Using seismic imaging, researchers detected the Ju…
Wreckage of a US Coast Guard ship lost during WWI has been found off the coast of England
Researchers located the wreckage of a U.S. Coast Guard vessel that sank during a World War I attack over a century ago. The ship went down off the Eng…
Poop-encrusted chamber pots from the Roman Empire reveal oldest known human cases of Crypto parasite
Archaeologists analyzing ancient chamber pots from Roman frontier settlements discovered the oldest known human infections with Cryptosporidium, a par…
Weapons of the world quiz: Can you identify these historical objects of war?
Live Science has created an interactive quiz testing readers' ability to identify ancient and medieval weapons from carved details and close-up photog…
'Lifelong monogamy' and 'half orphans': DNA analysis reveals clues about life on the Roman frontier
# Roman Frontier Life Revealed Through Ancient DNA Researchers analyzing skeletal remains from Roman frontier settlements after the empire's collapse…
'The detectors never stopped beeping!' Nearly 3,000 coins discovered in field are Norway's largest V
# Norway's Largest Viking Coin Hoard Unearthed Archaeologists in Norway have discovered nearly 3,000 coins buried in a field, establishing a new reco…
'He began to cry, and almost fell to the floor': The fluffy fossil that finally showed the world tha
A fossil discovery in China provided paleontologists with definitive proof that birds descended from dinosaurs. The specimen, preserved in remarkable …
10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered approximately 10,000 additional exoplanets hidden within its existing data since la…
Diving robot explores mystery of France's deepest shipwreck
A remotely operated robot has retrieved artifacts from a 16th-century shipwreck off the French coast, marking a significant advance in deep-sea archae…
'Lifelong monogamy' and 'half orphans': DNA analysis reveals clues about life on the Roman frontier
# Roman Frontier Life Revealed Through DNA Researchers analyzed skeletal remains from burials spanning several centuries after Rome's collapse in the…
Mount Etna is like no other volcano on Earth, representing 'a new type of volcanism,' new research r
Mount Etna exhibits volcanic behavior unlike any other volcano on Earth, according to new research that explains the Sicilian volcano's puzzling lava …
Earth is splitting open beneath the Pacific Northwest, scientists say
Scientists have directly observed a subduction zone breaking apart for the first time. Researchers used seismic imaging to capture the Juan de Fuca pl…
1,900-year-old souvenir cup featuring Hadrian's Wall and Roman forts discovered in Spain
A bronze cup discovered in Spain offers rare evidence of soldier mobility within the Roman Empire. Archaeologists believe a Roman soldier stationed at…
'I'm more hopeful that birds can endure than maybe even our own species': Paleontologist Steve Brusa
Paleontologist Steve Brusatte explores how birds became Earth's most resilient survivors in his new book. Birds evolved during the Jurassic period and…