Do Elephant Tusks or Rhino Horns Ever Grow Back?

Do these valuable body parts grow back?

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Why Do Babies Babble?

It's not nearly as nonsensical as it may seem.

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Gila Monster Photos: The Sluggish and Scaly Sweethearts of the American Desert

These modern-day monsters are a major part of the legend, lore and symbols of the American Wild West.

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Does March Madness Really Mean 'Vasectomy Season'?

According to some news outlets, March Madness is tied to an increase in men getting vasectomies. But is this real, or just hearsay?

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Judas Iscariot: The Mysterious Disciple Who Betrayed Jesus with a Kiss

Was Judas nothing more than a greedy villain?

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Here's What the Speed of Light Looks Like in Slow Motion

What does the speed of light look like? CalTech researchers built the world's fastest camera to find out.

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Space Agency Seeks Women to Stay in Bed for 2 Months. Pancakes Will Be Provided.

Would you be willing to spend 60 days in bed for $19,000?

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This Silly, Bug-Eyed Dwarf Deity Was Defender of 'Everything Good'

Archaeologists recently found a piece of pottery decorated with the funny face of an ancient deity who is often depicted as a bearded dwarf with a big face and bug eyes.

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Your Brain Needs 1.5 MB of Storage to Master Your Native Language

About the size of a 1.5 MB floppy disk

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Wee Orange 'Pumpkin' Frogs Have Bones That Glow Through Their Skin

The frogs' glowing patterns may be a form of communication.

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How a Woman Gave Birth Twice, One Month Apart

One month after giving birth to her first child, a woman in Bangladesh shocked her doctors when she went into labor again.

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Doomed Asteroid 'Gault' May Finally Explode After 100 Million-Year Death Spiral

Gault is spiraling into sloppy self-destruction — and, like watching a car crash, scientists are having a hard time looking away.

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Why Saturn's 'Ring Moons' Are Different Colors and Shapes

The probe's death death dive helped shed light on the mystery.

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CDC Reports Unusual Spike in Rare Tick-Borne Disease in Oregon

Four people in Oregon were infected with a rare tick-borne virus, known as Colorado tick fever, in a single month.

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Ninja Rat Drop-Kicks Deadly Rattlesnake in Epic Slow-Motion Video

In the dark desert outside Yuma, Arizona, a showdown is about to occur.

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Starquakes Rock Alien Sun, Revealing Details of a 'Hot Saturn'

NASA's TESS mission has, for the first time, detected a planet orbiting a star with visible starquakes.

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What Is An Atmospheric River?

Atmospheric rivers are named as the cause of lots of extreme weather, especially in the western United States. Where do these rivers in the sky come from?

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This Woman Doesn’t Feel Pain. A Tiny Mutation May Be to Thank.

Imagine smelling your burning flesh before feeling it.

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Extreme, Hydrogen-Crushing Physicists Are Pushing Us into a 'New Era of Superconductivity'

Lanthanum, diamond crushers and advanced computer models are changing the hunt for this extreme quantum mechanical effect.

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15th-Century Warlord's Fearsome Sword Now Gleams in 3D

Ali Atar's sword lives at the Toledo Army Museum in Spain, but you can now see it online in 3D

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Astronauts Spent 6 Nights in a Pitch-Black Cave, and Emerged with a Brand-New Species of Crustacean

An international team of astronauts has discovered new life (in a cave below Italy).

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Mount Sedom Hides the Longest Salt Cave on Earth

Malham Cave in the Negev Desert is the longest salt cave in the world, measuring more than 6 miles (10 kilometers) in total length, researchers say.

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Gory Photo Shows How a Mystery Predator Turned a Toad Inside Out

A nature walk near a reservoir in the U.K. recently took a gruesome turn.

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For Cancer Risk, a Bottle of Wine Equals This Many Cigarettes

Drinking a bottle of wine per week may be like smoking five to 10 cigarettes in terms of cancer risk.

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Zoo Visitors, Elephant Herd Mourn As 2nd Young Elephant Dies

Just a week after the death of their 6-year-old African elephant, Nyah, the Indianapolis Zoo delivered another sad message: Its other youngest African elephant, 8-year-old Kalina, has died.

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What Caused All These Spots on This Man's Brain?

A man's brain was dotted with parasitic cysts.

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What Is Cryptocurrency?

Cryptocurrencies aren't just alternatives to government-issued forms of money. Most of them are designed to be very different

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Take It from the 'Crocodile Lady': Conservation Needs More Women (Op-Ed)

I, a crocodile scientist, am a woman in conservation. And here's why we need more women in this field.

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How Does the Body Know When to Stop Drinking Water?

Too little or too much water is dangerous for the body.

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Mars Was Once Covered in Wide, Raging Rivers

Mars was very wet until suddenly it wasn't. And scientists still aren't sure why.

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AI Is Good (Perhaps Too Good) at Predicting Who Will Die Prematurely

Medical researchers have unlocked an unsettling ability in artificial intelligence.

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Dash of Meson, Pinch of Baryon: Scientists Find Recipe for Ultrarare Pentaquarks

Researchers now know what's going on inside mysterious particles called pentaquarks.

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Whale Experts 'Cautiously Optimistic' That Once Starving Grandma Orca Will Survive

A grandmother orca who was on death's door late last year is still alive, although her health remains in a precarious state, according to researchers who spotted her swimming off the western Canadian coast last week.

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Fastest-Thinning Greenland Glacier Threw NASA Scientists for a Loop. It's Actually Growing.

Instead of shrinking, this giant glacier is growing, NASA scientists found.

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7 Biblical Sites Ravaged by Modern-Day Looters

These historical ruins from the time of Jesus attract more than the public eye — Looters continue to raid the archaeological remains in hopes of selling what they find.

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Hubble Telescope Reveals What 200 Billion Stars Look Like

Two incredible new images from the Hubble Space Telescope show galaxies in all their shining glory.

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Ancient Microbes Ate Each Other's Corpses to Survive Beneath the Dead Sea

The dead sea is neither dead nor a sea. Discuss amongst yourselves.

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A Male Birth Control Pill Passed Safety Tests — Here's How It Works

Though birth control pills have been available to women for nearly 60 years, there's nothing equivalent on the pharmacy shelves for men.

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Einstein's Letter Talking About 'Hitler-Insanity' to Be Auctioned

A handful of Albert Einstein's letters, including one in which he talks about the "Hitler-insanity" that had taken over Germany and also describes his son's schizophrenia treatments, are being auctioned off this week to the highest bidder.

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Why Does This 'Buff Monkey' Look Ridiculously Ripped?

Bea, a white-faced saki monkey, seems as "buff" as a bodybuilder.

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Supercomputers Solve a Mystery Hidden Inside Merging Water Droplets

Weird things happen when water droplets smash into each other.

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How Psychedelic Drugs Create Such Weird Hallucinations

Hallucinogenic drugs seem to weaken the brain's visual processing.

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Why Are the Noses Broken on So Many Ancient Egyptian Statues?

Why do so many Egyptian statues have broken noses?

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Meet Scotty, the New T. Rex Heavyweight Champion of the World

The mightiest Tyrannosaurus rex on record is a behemoth named Scotty, who — during its lifetime on Earth about 65 million years ago — weighed a honking 19,555 lbs. (8,870 kilograms), or about as much as 6.5 Volkswagen Beetles, a new study finds.

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Red Yeast Rice Supplements Likely Damaged This Woman's Liver

A woman in Michigan developed sudden liver damage after taking a red yeast rice supplement, doctors reported.

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Photos: Discoveries at Wadi el-Hudi, an Ancient Egyptian Settlement

Archaeologists have discovered more than 100 inscriptions at an ancient Egyptian site that served as an amethyst mine.

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100 Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions Found at Amethyst Mining Site

Archaeologists have uncovered more than 100 ancient inscriptions carved into rock at Wadi el-Hudi, where the ancient Egyptians mined amethyst.

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Melting Mount Everest Ice Is Exposing a Grisly Sight: Scores of Dead Bodies

Melting glaciers are revealing dozens of dead bodies on the world's tallest mountain

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Ancient Garbage Heaps Show Fading Byzantine Empire Was 'Plagued' By Disease and Climate Change

The decline of an empire was recorded in mounds of trash.

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Extinct 'Pig-Footed Bandicoot' Galloped Around Australia Like a Wonky Little Horse

An extinct Australian marsupial looks like a kangaroo, an opossum and a deer got a bit too friendly at the local watering hole.

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Defying Laws of Nature, Scientists Force 'Supercrystals' Into Existence

A team of physicists used lasers to create "supercrystals," even as the structures fought to not exist at all.

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Beneath Earth's Crust, Hot Rocks Creep As Oceanic Plates Plunge Toward the Core

The deep part of Earth's middle layer is on the move.

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Who Was Pontius Pilate?

Little is known about Pontius Pilate, the man who presided over the trial of Jesus.

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Are Aliens Ignoring Us? Maybe We're Already Their Captives in a 'Galactic Zoo'

Is Earth an exhibit in an alien zoo?

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Researchers Gave People Synthetic Pot. Here's What Happened.

A group of researchers in the Netherlands tested the substance's effects on 17 healthy volunteers in the lab

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'Unseen' Meteor That Exploded Over Bering Sea Caught on Camera After All

A meteor that snuck by the world's telescopes and exploded over the Bering Sea was caught on camera after all.

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Distant, Cold Space Rock Had 'Frankenstein' Beginnings

Less than three months after the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past a distant, cold space rock, scientists are beginning to piece together the story of how that object, nicknamed Ultima Thule, came to be.

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Why Do Medicines Have Expiration Dates?

How long a drug remains effective after its expiration date is often a matter of debate.

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Astronomers Find Fossils of Early Universe Stuffed in Milky Way's Bulge

Some of the oldest stars in the universe are hiding out in the Milky Way’s muffin top.

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How Smart Were Neanderthals?

Our extinct cousins have a lousy reputation that's being overturned by new discoveries.

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13 Extremely Strange Animal Feet

Whether they're used as digging tools, grasping suckers or killing machines, animal feet can be downright bizarre.

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Enormous Great White Shark Pregnant with Record 14 Pups Was Caught and Sold in Taiwan

Big mamma shark and her baby sharks are, sadly, dead, but scientists are going to try to make the most of the situation.

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Day and Night Are Perfectly Balanced in Spring Equinox Photo Snapped from Space

Earth just got another dazzling glamour shot, thanks to a satellite that snapped its photo on the March 20 spring equinox.

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World's Largest Atom Smasher May Have Just Found Evidence for Why Our Universe Exists

An asymmetry between matter and antimatter has been observed in the charm quark.

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A Single Thundercloud Is More Powerful Than Any Nuclear Power Plant on Earth. Cosmic Rays Prove It.

A single thundercloud is more powerful than even the most potent nuclear plants on Earth. Scientists used cosmic rays to prove it.

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High-Fructose Corn Syrup Fuels Colon Cancer Growth in Mice

High-fructose corn syrup may fuel colon cancer growth, at least in mice, a new study finds.

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Flat-Earthers' Cruise Will Sail to Antarctica 'Ice Wall' at the Planet's Edge. Right.

A flat-Earthers conference promises a cruise to Antarctica.

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Supernova 'Kicks' Spinning Star So Hard, It's Hurtling Through Space at 2.5 Million MPH

One of the fastest-moving pulsars ever has been discovered careening away from a supernova so quickly it will eventually escape the Milky Way.

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520-Million-Year-Old Sea Monster Had 18 Mouth Tentacles

The discovery of a fossil showing an ancient sea creature with 18 tentacles surrounding its mouth has helped to solve a modern-day mystery about the origins of a gelatinous carnivore called a comb jelly, a new study finds.

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Why This Poisonous Gas Could Be a Sign of Alien Life

Don't sleep on carbon monoxide, alien hunters.

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Karen Uhlenbeck Just Won One of Math's Most Prestigious Prizes. Here's Why Her Work Is So Important.

Her work has led to some of the most important advances in math in the last 40 years.

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Bonanza of Bizarre Cambrian Fossils Reveals Some of the Earliest Animals on Earth

Bizarre fossils in a newly-discovered site include dozens of creatures that are new to science.

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'Inland Oceans' from One of Southern Hemisphere's Worst Storms Seen from Space

One of the worst cyclones to hit southern Africa left flooding that could be seen from space.

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Chinese Researchers Cloned the 'Sherlock Holmes of Police Dogs', and She Is a Very Good Girl

Chinese police will soon add a cloned puppy detective to their ranks.

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Chemically, Earth Is Basically a Less Volatile Version of the Sun

The elemental composition of Earth and sun are unexpectedly similar.

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Truly Spooky: How Ghostly Quantum Particles Fly Through Barriers Almost Instantly

Scientists recently unraveled a physics puzzle that has stymied experts since the dawn of quantum mechanics.

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The 'True' Neutrino Has Hidden from Physicists for Decades. Could They Find It in Antarctica?

Neutrinos are the changelings of the subatomic world, but physicists are getting closer to pinning down the particles' true identities.

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Physicists Think They've Figured Out the Most Extreme Chemical Factories in the Universe

Our world is full of chemicals that shouldn't exist. New research could explain why they exist anyway.

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How Does the New Postpartum Depression Drug Work?

The first FDA-approved drug for postpartum depression is here. But how exactly does the drug work, and what makes it different from other medications for depression?

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When Ancient Societies Hit a Million People, Vengeful Gods Appeared

From a societal standpoint, you need a divine power watching you only if your neighbor isn't doing so.

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Why Did the USDA Perform 'Cat Cannibalism' Experiments?

These gruesome experiments were conducted to research a common parasite.

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A Dose of Anesthesia Could Blunt Traumatic Memories

A new study raises hopes for a minimally-invasive PTSD treatment.

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These Two Cosmic 'Chimneys' Could Be Fueling the Galaxy-Sized Bubbles Looming Over the Milky Way

Scientists made an X-ray map of the center of the galaxy — and they found two chimneys of plasma.

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Giant, Weird-Looking Fish With 'Startled' Eyes Washes Up on Aussie Beach

When a group of Aussies spotted the behemoth on the beach, they initially thought it was a rugged piece of driftwood. Upon closer inspection, however, they realized it was the body of an enormous, bony fish.

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The Questionable Science Behind the New Jack the Ripper Claim

Did the analysis of a silk shawl just provide a major clue in one of London's coldest cases, the identity of Jack the Ripper?

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What Is String Theory?

Trying to explain everything with vibrating little strings.

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Today’s Spring Equinox Heralds Warmer Months — And a Supermoon

In the Northern Hemisphere, winter's chilly grip will soon start to weaken.

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High-Potency Marijuana Use Linked with Psychosis Risk

People who use high-potency marijuana on a daily basis may be at increased risk for developing psychosis.

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More Than One Reality Exists (in Quantum Physics)

Can two versions of reality exist at the same time? Physicists say they can — at the quantum level, that is.

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Mariner's Astrolabe From 1503 Shipwreck Is World's Oldest

An astrolabe found at a shipwreck site in Oman is the oldest one ever discovered.

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USDA Fed Cats and Dogs to Kittens, Alarming Watchdog Report Claims

The title of the report says it all, "USDA Kitten Cannibalism."

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2,500 Years Ago, Herodotus Described a Weird Ship. Now, Archaeologists Have Found it.

One of the most elusive boats from the ancient world — a mysterious river barge that famed Greek historian Herodotus described nearly 2,500 years ago — has finally been discovered.

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Incredible Photos Capture Last Glimpse of Long-Tusked 'Elephant Queen'

An elephant matriarch in Kenya was an impressive sight to the very end.

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What's Behind the Massive Midwestern Floods: 2 Giant Waves of Water

Here's why vast swaths of Nebraska, Missouri, and other Midwestern states are drowning.

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Traces of Infamous Nazi Massacre Unearthed in Germany

More than 200 Polish and Russian forced laborers were killed in the massacre.

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Nebraska Flooding Seen from Space in Dramatic Detail

Nebraska's rivers swell after a "bomb cyclone" hits the central U.S.

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Ancient Inscription Points to Lost Temple of Unknown God in Yemen

Who is this god and where is his lost temple?

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Sneaky Meteor Evades Earthling Detection, Explodes with Force of 10 Atomic Bombs

One of the largest meteor impacts in modern history occurred over Russia on Dec. 18, 2018. Hardly anyone noticed it — and nobody saw it coming.

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Spaceflight Triggers Herpes Viruses to 'Reawaken'

Being in outer space can have some odd effects on the body, including triggering dormant herpes viruses to reawaken.

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Elephants: Earth's Largest Living Land-Animals

With their big ears and long noses, the elephant is one of the most recognizable animals in the world.

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Dead Whale Washes Ashore with Shocking 88 lbs. of Plastic in Its Stomach

His stomach "had the most plastic we have ever seen in a whale"

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Scientists Find Evidence That Your Brain Can Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field

The Earth's magnetic field might be influencing the brain.

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What Are Superfoods?

Superfoods, although nutritious, shouldn't be considered a silver bullet.

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Teenage Priestess from the Bronze Age Was Probably No Globetrotter

Two Bronze Age women — one likely a teenage priestess — probably didn't travel far and wide across Europe, as previous research suggested, but instead were real homebodies who likely never left what is now modern-day Denmark, a new study finds.

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Drinking Sugary Beverages Linked with Early Death

A new study finds that drinking sugar-sweetened beverages is tied to an increased risk of early death.

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'Impossible' Rocks Found on Remote Volcanic Island

Geoscientists tracking down reports of curious, out-of-place rocks on Anjouan island have found a mountain-size mystery.

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In Photos: Impossible Rocks on a Remote Island

Scientists have found a motherlode of "impossible" rocks on a ridgeline on Anjouan island, off eastern coast of Africa.

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Do Rusty Nails Really Give You Tetanus?

Stepping on clean nails is also bad.

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83 Gargantuan Black Holes Spotted Guzzling Down Dinner at the Edge of the Universe

The supermassive black holes were birthed during the universe's infancy.

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What Is the Toothiest Animal on Earth?

How many teeth can one mouth hold? You may be surprised.

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The 12 Strangest Objects in the Universe

These crazy cosmic beasts defy explanation.

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Why Rich Parents Are More Likely to Be Unethical

Being wealthy and privileged can lead to a sense of entitlement.

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Why Do Cambrian Creatures Look So Weird?

Even paleontologists sometimes wonder: Why do Cambrian creatures look so strange?

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12 Scientifically Proven Signs You Should Dump Your Partner

Should you break up with your partner? It's a difficult choice, but science may be able to help with your decision.

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The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

Here are the most interesting, amazing and unusual things that happened in the world of science this week. A recap of Live Science's best.

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Amazing Images: The Best Science Photos of the Week

Here are the stories behind the most amazing images in the world of science this week. A recap of the coolest photos featured on Live Science.

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The Great Exoplanet Bake-Off: Why NASA Made an Oven-Fresh Alien Atmosphere in Its Lab

NASA scientists cooked up an alien atmosphere in their lab to solve the puzzle of "hot Jupiters."

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What The New Egg Study Means For The Beloved Breakfast Food

Eggs are back in the news, with a new study concluding that regular consumption of the beloved breakfast food may increase the risk of heart disease after all.

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Giant Pandas: Facts About the Charismatic Black and White Bears

Giant pandas, known for their distinctive markings and playful personalities, are considered China's national treasure.

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Aliens Might Shoot Lasers at Black Holes to Travel the Galaxy

We don't know if aliens exist. But if they did, it'd be cool if they got around using lasers and black holes.

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Astronomers Caught a 'Cosmic Bat' Swooping Out of the Darkest Corner of the Orion Nebula

Meet the 'Cosmic Bat' nebula, a dusty band of baby stars swooping around Orion's hips.

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Thousands of Martian Tornadoes May Have Created This 'Hairy Blue Spider'

Bowie was right; there really is a "spider" from Mars.

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What’s the Closest Planet to Earth? Not Venus, Scientists Say

That acronym you learned to memorize the order of the planets has led you astray.

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Physicists Reverse Time for Tiny Particles Inside a Quantum Computer

The "arrow of time" went backward inside this tiny quantum computer.

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A Lump Grew Out of a Woman's Belly Button. It Was Cancer.

A strange lump growing out of a woman's belly button turned out to be metastatic cancer, according to a new report of her case.

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A Strange, Sleeping Magnetar Just Woke Up After a Decade of Silence

A particularly odd, spinning star has woken up, and it'’s spitting bright flashes of radio waves at us again.

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French Painting Stolen by Nazis in 1940 Raid to Be Returned to Owner's Descendants

The painting by Paul Signac was stolen during a Nazi raid in France in 1940.

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Mammoth DNA Briefly 'Woke Up' Inside Mouse Eggs. But Cloning Mammoths Is Still a Pipe Dream.

A handful of 28,0000-year-old woolly mammoth cell parts were recently "woken up" for a short time in a new experiment, but cloning the ice age beasts is still a long way off.

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Scientists Watch As Heat Moves Through 'Pencil Lead' at the Speed of Sound

Scientists have seen something magical happening inside graphite.

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Tropical Tectonic Collisions May Have Unleashed Ancient Ice Ages

Earth's icy periods may owe their existence to tropical mountains.

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We're Due for a Flu Pandemic, So Why Hasn't It Happened Yet?

A flu pandemic could strike without warning in the coming years, global health experts warn.

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Little Short for a Stormtrooper? Newfound Spiders Named for 'Star Wars' Villains

Like the white-armored and -helmeted Stormtroopers from "Star Wars," these spiders are tough to tell apart.

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How Do Waterfalls Form?

The breathtaking sound and sight of waters that cascade off of steep cliffs, may be self-made productions.

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The Asteroid Bennu Keeps Spinning Faster. And Scientists Aren't Sure Why

On a distant space rock being explored by a NASA probe, days are slowly shortening — and scientists are still trying to figure out why.

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Here's What NASA's Opportunity Rover Saw Before 'Lights Out'

There's a glorious panorama and a few sad thumbnails of a dark and dusty sky.

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Kangaroo with a Mean Right Hook Foils Paraglider's Perfect Landing

A paraglider's recent and unexpected close encounter with a belligerent kangaroo left him feeling a little punchy.

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9 Numbers That Are As Cool As (or Cooler Than) Pi

Let's give these numbers a slice of fame, too.

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Inactive Ingredients in Drugs May Be Less Inactive Than You Think

Inactive ingredients may not be as, well, inactive as we think

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Righty Male Cuttlefish Are Better at Sex and Fighting

Righty cuttlefish males have more sex and win more fights. And this could help explain why lefty humans exist at all.

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Ancient Stonehenge Pigs Had Long Journey Before Their Slaughter

Countless piggies likely trotted hundreds of miles to Stonehenge and other ancient monuments during the Neolithic, where they were promptly devoured during giant feasts, a new study finds.

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Decapitated Worms Regrow Their Brains

Ribbon worms that lose their heads can grow a new one.

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Put a Black Hole in Your Pocket with This New Stephen Hawking 50-Pence Coin

It features one of the late physicist's most iconic equations.

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Pet Dog with Plague Exposed More Than 100 Veterinary Workers to the Disease

A sick dog in Colorado caused alarm at a veterinary hospital when doctors realized the animal was infected with a rare and deadly illness: the plague.

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Chickens Peck Intruder Fox to Death, Because They're Dinosaurs

One fox learned the hard way that it's unwise to mess with a herd of dinosaurs.

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Gorgeous Hubble Photo Gives Glimpse of Milky Way's Fate

A new image from the venerable Hubble Space Telescope shows what happens when two galaxies collide — an experience our own Milky Way will have in a few billion years.

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Early Animal Life Exploded on Earth Even Earlier Than Once Thought

The rise of new species during the Cambrian may have been more like a wave than an explosion.

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Newly Discovered 'Starry Dwarf Frog' Wears a Galaxy on Its Back, Hides in Dead Leaves

This frog looks like a pile of dead leaves and carries the sky on its back.

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Claire's Recalls 3 Makeup Products for Possible Asbestos Contamination

Shopping mall standby Claire's is voluntarily recalling three of its makeup products due to the possible presence of asbestos fibers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today (March. 12).

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Women's Genes May Increase Risk of Birth Control Failure, Study Suggests

In some cases, a woman's genes may put her at risk for an unplanned pregnancy even while using hormonal birth control properly.

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Why Are These Massive, Baby Stars Orbiting So Close Together?

This massively bright "star" is actually two stars.

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Oranges: Facts About the Vibrant Citrus Fruit

In addition to being a delicious snack, sweet, juicy oranges have many health benefits.

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A Woman Had Dangerous Allergic Reaction After Sex. Here's Why.

A woman in Spain developed a serious allergic reaction after a sexual encounter.

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What a Fluke! Man Ends Up in Whale's Mouth

A whale accidentally ended up with a mouth full of snorkeler while hunting fish near South Africa.

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Early Earth's Spin Helped Shape Its Molten Magma Ocean

The early Earth's worldwide sea of magma may have been shaped by the young planet's rapid spin.

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Miles-Long Lake Pops Up in Death Valley

A large lake just formed in the middle of North America's driest area

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A Man Cleaned His Ears with a Cotton Swab. Then He Got an Infection in His Skull.

A man in England has sworn off cleaning his ears with a cotton swabs after developing a potentially life-threatening infection.

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Water Molecules Bounce Around the Moon. Here's Why.

It's too hot to sit still

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This Octopus's Dreams (Maybe) Were Written All Over Its Body

A sleeping octopus was caught on video changing color as it slept. Was it dreaming?

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Ice Samples Reveal a Massive Sun Storm Hit Earth in Ancient Times...And It Could Happen Again

A gigantic solar storm hit Earth about 2,600 years ago, one about 10 times stronger than any solar storm recorded in the modern day, a new study finds.

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Please Don't Hop the Zoo Wall to Take Jaguar Selfies

Jaguar attacks careless selfie taker at Arizona zoo. Selfie taker apologizes.

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Who Was the Real King Herod?

The Bible falsely maligns Herod has a monster who tried to kill baby Jesus.

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Monastery of 7th-Century Scottish Princess (and Saint) Possibly Discovered

Archaeologists and citizen scientists have unearthed what may be the monastery of Princess Aebbe, who was born a pagan but later spread Christianity along the northeast British coast in the seventh century.

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Wallaby-Size Dinosaur Discovered in Australia (Crikey!)

This newly discovered dinosaur has an oddly shaped jaw.

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Why Do Cats Wiggle Their Butts Before They Pounce?

As many pet owners will attest, when their cat prepares to pounce, it does a little butt wiggle first.

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Do Any Animals Know Their Grandparents?

Do any animals know their grandparents the way people do?

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Antarctica's Bizarre Green Icebergs Are More Than a Quirk of the Southern Ocean

Scientists think they know why some icebergs are emerald.

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SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down in Atlantic to Cap Historic Test Flight

Splashdown occurred at 8:45 a.m. EST about 230 miles off the Florida coast.

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Secret Group of Killer Whales Discovered in Southern Ocean

These marine mammals look like killer whales but smaller, with smaller patches above their eyes and pointier dorsal fins. What are these posers

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15 Unforgettable Images of Stars

These mesmerizing images of stars are truly stellar.

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Why Daylight Saving Time Starts Sunday

Get ready to "spring forward" as people throughout the United States lose an hour of sleep early Sunday morning.

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Can You Learn Anything While You Sleep?

Sleep learning, the way people commonly think of it, is almost certainly impossible. But researchers are discovering types of learning that occur during sleep, with exciting applications.

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Sometimes This Comb Jelly Has An Anus. And Sometimes It Doesn't.

Like a rainbow, the anus of a comb jelly is a fleeting thing.

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This Ghostly Galaxy May Be a 'Living Fossil' from the Dawn of the Universe

Why does this galaxy have almost no stars?

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NASA Weighed the Wind Billowing Out of the Cigar Galaxy, and It's Unbelievably Massive

There's a mighty wind a-blowin' out of the Cigar Galaxy, and it could teach astronomers how the first stars formed.

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A Mathematician Wrote a 'Hipster Equation' to Figure Out Why All Hipsters Look Alike

If non-conformists base their decisions on opposing the mainstream, why do they all look alike?

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Daylight Saving Time 2019: A Guide to the When, Why, What and How

Here's everything you've ever wanted to know about Daylight Saving Time (often misspelled as "savings"), including times, dates, its history and more.

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Unvaccinated Oregon Boy Is Diagnosed with Tetanus, the State's 1st Case in 30 Years

An unvaccinated child fell down, and received the first diagnosis of tetanus in a child in Oregon in over 30 years.

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2,700-Year-Old Polynesian Tattoo Kit Found — and the 'Needles' Were Made of Human Bone.

A set of four tiny combs from the Polynesian kingdom Tonga might be among the world's oldest tattoo kits.

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Super-Earths Have Weird Orbits Because They’re Permanently Off-Kilter

Researchers may have solved a long-standing mystery of some exoplanets' oddball orbits.

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Why Are More Young People Having Heart Attacks?

Heart attack rates are increasing in what may seem like an unlikely group: adults in their 20s and 30s.

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How Massive Is the Milky Way?

It's a straightforward question, but not an easy one to answer.

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NASA Just Captured the First-Ever Photos of Merging Supersonic Shock Waves

See the air fold up into ripples.

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Meet 'The Blobs': Two Continent-Size Mountains in Earth's Deep Mantle That Nobody Understands

There's a continent-size mystery lurking near the heart of the Earth.

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The Melting Arctic Is Covering Itself in a Warm Layer of Clouds

The Arctic autumn is getting cloudier. That's bad news.

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Tons of Pressurized Oxygen Could Be Hiding Out in Earth's Molten Iron Core

Earth's vast magma oceans, roiling deep beneath our feet, seem to be pumping oxygen into the planet's liquid core.

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Alex Trebek's Pancreatic Cancer: What Does Stage 4 Mean for His Survival?

'Jeopardy!' host Alex Trebek has revealed that he been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

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What Makes the Newly Approved Drug for Depression So Different?

FDA recently approved a ketamine-like drug for depression

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Could a Third Person Be Cured of HIV?

On the heels of the news that a U.K. man may be cured of HIV comes the announcement that a man in Germany may also be HIV-free thanks to a similar treatment.

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There May Be a Link Between Depression and Stroke

Feeling depressed may increase the risk of stroke, at least among older adults, a new study suggests.

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Baby T. Rex Was an Adorable Ball of Fluff

Recent discoveries show T. rex like you've never seen it before.

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In Images: A New Look at T. Rex and Relatives

New reconstructions of this iconic dinosaur and its relatives draw from the latest research.

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Physicists May Have Found a Way to 'Untangle' Information Trapped in a Black Hole

Scrambled particles provide a window into a black hole's heart.

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Stunning 'Superbloom' of Flowers Is Set to Arrive in Southern California

The hills of Southern California will soon be alive with a massive "superbloom" of wildflowers, thanks to an unusually rainy fall and winter, news sources report.

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What Is the Ark of the Covenant?

Said to have magical powers, the ark vanished 2,600 years ago and, according to some stories, it may not appear until the end times.

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A Lost Page of Notes on Einstein's 'Theory of Everything' Has Turned Up in Jerusalem

The page was missing for decades.

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Earth's Magnetic Field and Wandering Poles

Earth's magnetic poles are rather inconsistent.

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What's the Link Between Recalled Blood Pressure Meds and Cancer?

A number of drugs have been recalled in recent months.

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Solar Wind Leaves 'Sunburn' Scars on Lunar Surface, NASA Missions Reveals

People on Earth are familiar with the sun's powerful rays — but the moon suffers from sunburn, too.

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Here's Your Chance to Name 5 Jupiter Moons! (No Moon McMoonfaces, Please)

Last summer, scientists announced the discovery of a dozen new moons orbiting Jupiter. But now comes the hard part: naming them.

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Hubble Spots Gassy Objects Jetting Away from Newborn Star

Young stars can hide, but Hubble's good at seeking them out. The famed space telescope spotted the "smoking gun" of a newborn star about 1,000 light-years away from Earth.

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How a Distant Alien World Was Saved from an Interstellar Exile

A distant alien world that was potentially on its way into exile in interstellar space was rescued by the gravitational pull of a passing pair of stars, a new study argues.

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Hearts Ripped from 140 Children and 200 Llamas in Largest Child Sacrifice in Ancient World

The largest child sacrifice on record took place after a torrential rainfall, when about 140 children and 200 young llamas likely had their hearts ripped out by the ancient Chimú culture in A.D. 1450, in what is now Peru.

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Israeli Moon Lander Snaps Epic Space Selfie with a Full Earth

The newly released photo shows the robotic lander, known as Beresheet, looking back at Earth from a distance of 23,363.5 miles (37,600 kilometers).

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This Miniature Boat Was Meant for King Tut's Fishing Trips in the Afterlife

Missing pieces of Tut's miniature boat were found hidden in museum storage.

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The Megalodon Spent Tens of Millions of Years Honing Its Lethal, Knife-Like Teeth

The biggest shark to ever swim the oceans had huge, sharp teeth that it could use to tear into its prey like a handful of knives.

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Your Dumb Party Balloons Are Killing All the Seabirds

The biggest threat to seabirds isn't plastic straws. It's balloons.

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Lost Cave of 'Jaguar God' Rediscovered Below Mayan Ruins — and It's Full of Treasure

These amazing artifacts have been sealed away for a millennium.

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A Second Person May Be Cured of HIV

A man in the United Kingdom may be the second person ever to be cured of HIV.

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Scientists Pin Down Cause of Mysterious 'Icequakes' Shaking Antarctica

Slushy spots in Antarctica quiver with minuscule tremors as the temperature fluctuates.

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Broken-Heart Syndrome May Stem from the Brain

The brain decreases its chatter, the heart weakens and balloons up

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Supplements Don't Prevent Depression, Study Finds

Preventing depression isn't as simple as taking a dietary supplement every day, a new study suggests.

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7 Biblical Artifacts That Will Probably Never Be Found

Here's a look at the biblical artifacts that will likely never turn up, from the Ark of the Covenant to Noah's Ark.

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Sorry, Bruce Willis: Big Asteroids Die Hard

Massive hunks of space rock may be a lot harder to explode than you'd think.

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Opium-Addicted Parrots Are Terrorizing Poppy Farms in India

Opium-addicted parrots are "wreaking havoc" on India's licensed poppy farms, and scaring them with firecrackers isn't helping.

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Physicists Used Supercomputers to Map the Bone-Crushing Pressures Hiding Inside Protons

If you shrank yourself down and entered a proton, you'd experience among the most intense pressures found anywhere in the universe.

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Confirmed: No Link Between Autism and Measles Vaccine, Even for 'At Risk' Kids

Children who receive the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine are not at increased risk for autism, including children who are sometimes considered to be in "high risk" groups for the neurodevelopmental disorder, a massive new study finds.

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Radar Reveals 19th-Century Military Fortifications Beneath Alcatraz

A 19th-century military fortification was bulldozed over so that the Alcatraz Penitentiary could be built, and the remains of the fort are still there, underground, according to a new radar analysis of the site.

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19th-Century American Whalers Defaced Rock Art in Australia with Their Own Carvings

Indigenous people in Australia weren't the only ones to leave their mark on local rocks.

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Giant Newfound 'Medusa' Virus Turns Amoebas to 'Stone'

Like the mythical monster Medusa, a newfound giant virus turns its host to "stone." But, luckily for us, its hosts are amoebas.

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Neutrinos Entangled in the Cosmic Web May Change the Structure of the Universe

The neutrinos enmeshed in the vast cosmic web could provide a glimpse of the earliest observable moment after the Big Bang.

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This Glass Seemed to Break the Laws of Electricity — Here's What Really Happened

The glass shouldn't have boiled. But it did. Physicists had to figure out why that wasn't against the laws of physics.

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A Pair of Gargantuan Space Bubbles Might Be Spitting Cosmic Rays at Earth

Everybody loves blowing bubbles — even galaxies!

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500 Million-Year-Old Worm Superhighway Revealed in Ancient Seafloor

Cambrian worms burrowed through an environment thought to be devoid of life.

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Why Are There So Many Marsupials in Australia?

Australia is the kingdom of marsupials, home to furry kangaroos, koalas and wombats. The continent has so many marsupials, it raises the question: Did these pouch-bearing mammals arise Down Under?

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Why Does Time Fly When You're Having Fun?

The brain...it likes to play

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Can Any Animal Survive Without Sleep?

Scientists have yet to find a truly sleepless creature. But is sleep really necessary for survival?

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A 30-Million-Page Archive of Human History Was Just Launched into Space

It's headed for the moon.

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Sunfish Bigger Than a Hot Tub Got Lost and Washed Up in the Wrong Hemisphere

A fish so mysterious that scientists named it the "hoodwinker" because it had eluded them for decades has washed ashore in California, thousands of miles from its home in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Drinking Alcohol May Be More Harmful Than Thought for Young Adults

Alcohol consumption may be more harmful than thought, particularly for young and middle-age adults, a new study suggests.

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Meet Ripley, SpaceX's Dummy Astronaut Riding on Crew Dragon Test Flight

SpaceX's famous "Starman" dummy onboard the inaugural Falcon Heavy launch is about to have some competition — from a new dummy, named Ripley, strapped into the company's first Crew Dragon capsule.

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It's a Planet Party! See Venus, Saturn and Jupiter with the Moon This Weekend

This weekend, a brilliant display of objects will shine in the night sky when the crescent moon moves into conjunction with Saturn and Venus.

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Where Are All the 'Sparticles' That Could Explain What's Wrong with the Universe?

A recent search for oddball supersymmetric particles, which could explain some of the weirdness of the universe, came up empty-handed.

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Pluto's Battle Scars Reveal a Wild West at Solar System's Far Reaches

The battle scars on Pluto may reveal secrets about the formation of the early solar system.

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FBI Confiscated Thousands of Plundered Human Bones and Artifacts from Man's Home

Federal agents seek assistance in identifying confiscated artifacts and bones.

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