Did fungi give mammals an evolutionary edge after the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit? New evidence revives a provocative hypothesis
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A revived hypothesis argues that a fungus-filled world after the Chicxulub asteroid impact may have given mammals an evolutionary edge. The idea could reshape how scientists think about mass extinctions, but it is still controversial.
Scientists uncover big clue as to how Antarctica's mysterious Blood Falls came to be
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Brine that feeds the gruesome-looking Blood Falls in East Antarctica may have been emplaced when sea levels were higher than they are now, a new study says.
'We were genuinely surprised': 'Superworms' can clean extremely delicate skeletons lickety-split, and that's a game changer for museums
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Biologists Niloofar Alaei Kakhki and Morteza Monfared tell Live Science how beetle larvae could be repurposed from pet food to a cleaner for museums and laboratories.
British vial of smallpox scabs triggered the devastating 1789 outbreak among Indigenous Australians, study finds
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It's long been debated what started the devastating 1789 smallpox outbreak among Indigenous Australians. Now, a new modeling study has the likely answer.
Mysterious 'little red dots' at the beginning time may finally have an explanation, thanks to newfound 'little blue companions'
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Astronomers may have found an unexpected origin for the mysterious «little red dots» that appear to be so common in James Webb Space Telescope surveys of the early universe.
'It's absolutely exciting!': Astronomers discover an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone for first time ever
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Astronomers have detected helium escaping from the super-Earth LHS 1140 b, providing the strongest evidence yet that a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone has retained an atmosphere for billions of years.
Neanderthals and modern humans may have shared culture 59,000 years ago in Turkey, study finds
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Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same hunting strategies and symbolic traditions even without overlapping at the site, suggesting they may have shared information.
Scientists infected a 'vagina on a chip' with gonorrhea — then cured it with a new antibiotic found by AI
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To sift through 6 million molecules in pursuit of new gonorrhea treatments, researchers trained AI to select the best drug candidate and then tested it in a «vagina on a chip.»
China's top-secret 'dragon' space plane just released another unidentified object over Earth
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The Shenlong, or «divine dragon,» space plane just deployed a mysterious payload above our planet. The top-secret spacecraft, which has never been properly photographed, has now released at least nine objects in low Earth orbit.
'It sounds so impossible': Student studying fungus that makes users hallucinate tiny people may be on the verge of a scientific breakthrough
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Live Science spoke with Colin Domnauer, a PhD student in ethnobiology whose unraveling of a mushroom mystery could reveal a new hallucinogenic compound.
New chip harnesses quantum computing's biggest weakness — and tries to turn it into a strength
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A new quantum computing chip turns destructive noise into a programmable feature, helping scientists study signal loss and error correction to build more effective systems in the future.
Water shortages could prevent the US from mining more lithium, deepening reliance on foreign imports
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Most proposed lithium mines in the U.S. overlap with drought-prone regions — including in Nevada, Arizona and California — and there may not be enough water to support them.
'You can't patch your way out of it': Cheap AI worm can spread between devices without human guidance — but how did scientists create it?
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Researchers show how future malware could use AI to make decisions that are traditionally handled by human hackers — but not all experts say we should panic.
NASA rover finds record-breaking trove of complex organic molecules on Mars
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Data from NASA’s Perseverance rover confirms the presence of macromolecular carbon on Mars – another potential piece of the puzzle in the search for life.
'This is the next jump in technology': World's first sub-1nm chip keeps Moore's Law alive a little longer
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IBM's NanoStack architecture has helped scientists cram 100 billion transistors onto a computer chip, delivering 50% better performance and consuming 70% less energy than the current generation.
Some of the last surviving Neanderthals were remarkably diverse — suggesting inbreeding didn't doom them
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Some Neanderthals living in northwestern Europe after 52,500 years ago were surprisingly diverse, suggesting that they didn't all go extinct due to inbreeding.
