Why do most cats hate it when you touch their belly, feet or tail?
Dogs typically love belly rubs and will roll on their backs to get more. With cats, it’s a different story: Most are visibly uncomfortable when
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‘Life is too brief to leave this planet’: Live Science readers share whether they’d go to Mars, despite health risks
For centuries, Mars has been seen as a potential place for future human settlements. But long-duration space travel comes with serious risks to astronauts’ health
M30’s Sparkling Stars
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular star cluster called Messier 30 (M30), also called NGC 7099.
A Strange Quantum Theorem Has Killed Einstein’s Reality
One of a human’s earliest developmental milestones is an understanding of object permanence. It generally takes less than a year for a baby to realize
This may be the best evidence yet that dinosaur blood can fossilize
Imaging and chemical analysis of a 115-million-year-old dinosaur fossil points to blood cells. But some aren’t convinced.
This armored amphibian once lived and hunted on the seafloor
Gerrothorax maritimus, which existed about 237 million years ago, is the first ever amphibian known to have lived without access to land or freshwater.
Perfectly preserved owl fossil from 47 million years ago could help to solve a major evolutionary mystery
A fledgling owl that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Germany offers tantalizing new clues about when most of these birds became
50% of long COVID patients show improvement in 3 years — but the condition tends to linger in those with this subtype
Symptoms of long COVID ease in half of patients within three years of the infection that kicked off their illness. That’s the primary conclusion of
‘We’re looking at how a bear sees the world’: From forest trails to ‘Sims for Bears,’ researchers are learning how grizzlies navigate a fragmented wilderness
Across 53 challenging days between fall 2020 and spring 2021, a 360-pound (160 kilograms) young male grizzly bear nicknamed “Lingenpolter” tried to cross Interstate 90
Scientists removed the glare from a James Webb telescope image — and unmasked a hidden planet
When it comes to spotting planets orbiting distant stars, the biggest hurdle is often separating the signal from the noise — specifically, trying to distinguish
Gigantic chasm on Mars is still tectonically active
Mars’ supersize Valles Marineris — the largest known canyon in the solar system — is still tectonically active even though the Red Planet is geologically
Physicists sank a telescope 1.5 miles under the sea to put Einstein’s relativity to the test
The view from inside a detector building block, with the yellow buoy of a nearby detection unit clearly visible. (Image credit: Edward Berbee/Nikhef) A particle-detecting
How octopuses squeeze through tiny openings, step by step
In the lab, octopuses used specific moves to slip arms and a bulbous body through tiny holes. The finding could inspire new body plans for
Record-low temperature created on China’s space station
With gravity’s effects mitigated, atoms orbiting Earth on China’s space station reached about 10 trillionths of a kelvin.