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Traumatic experiences can cause memory problems, and estrogen may be a key factor that shapes the brain’s resilience against such stressors, a mouse study finds.
Our ancient four-legged ancestors didn’t have an amphibian-like life cycle when they began walking on land, according to a new study of rare fossils found
Genes inherited from the now-extinct Denisovans are actively playing a role in the immune system of some people from Oceania.
The discovery of two ancient holes at Stonehenge suggests people placed posts there to help observe the summer and winter solstices around 5,000 years ago.
The wave’s round trip to Earth’s core set off a fault slip along Japan’s plate boundaries, revealing a seismic hazard scientists hadn’t recognized.
Three species that lived about 308 million years ago challenge the idea that the first land vertebrates underwent amphibian-like metamorphosis.
This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month shows the giant molecular cloud Orion A, an area of the sky replete with star-forming
Since its molecular structure was deduced in the 1950s, DNA has been hailed by many biologists as the secret of life. They’ve read and studied
Camera footage in Ukraine’s Chernobyl exclusion zone revealed that mammals became less active — especially at night — during the Russian occupation, highlighting the war’s
Live Science spoke with Kaveh Madani, the lead investigator of a United Nations report examining AI’s environmental footprint, about this technology’s staggering energy use and
From the sprawling Amazon to the lesser-known tropical forests, see if you can correctly rank these rainforests by their total area.
Emerging research suggests overusing digital devices can be harmful, especially to mental health. But does being overly online truly rot our brains?
Live Science spoke with animal researcher Andreas Nieder about how animals process mathematical concepts like statistical reasoning and the idea of zero.
China’s willingness to invest billions in a quixotic, doomed plan to create a permanent river in the sky reveals the lengths it is willing to
