Category: Science

The largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the

This funerary shroud was made from thousands of multicolored beads and woven to represent a human face and a large scarab beetle.

One California town is in a state of emergency and 50,000 people are under an evacuation order as a malfunctioning chemical tank at an aerospace

Dozens of athletes — including former Olympians — will participate in the Las Vegas event while using performance-enhancing drugs. (Image credit: Ty ONeil)

Communities across the U.S. are turning small plots of land into highly dense forests that grow quickly. Turns out these forests have roots to a

NASA celebrates Hubble’s 36th anniversary with a new image of the Trifid Nebula, a star-forming region it first captured in 1997. The telescope leveraged almost

On its way to a metal asteroid, NASA’s Psyche probe tested its cameras as it got a gravity assist from the Red Planet.

Many medieval castles were formidable stone fortifications. Live Science takes a look at six that were never conquered.

Live Science spoke with Alika Maunakea, an Native Hawaiian epigeneticist, about how epigenetics underpins health disparities between Native Hawaiians and others in Hawaii.

China’s Tianzhou-10 mission just delivered embryo-like structures made from living stem cells to the Tiangong space station. Experiments could shed light on how radiation and

It helped to have a number of features to aid survival following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope images reveals the lenticular galaxy, NGC 1266. This enigmatic post-starburst galaxy has a bright center and a face that hints

Generative AI is destroying the baseline assumption that photographs bear some causal connection to reality. That’s bad news for democracy.

Techniques for analyzing DNA have advanced, enabling scientists to better understand disease outbreaks throughout history.