MELBOURNE, Fla. – Much like car crashes happen here on Earth, satellites – especially those operating in low-Earth orbit – have the potential of colliding with ...
Mixing drinking water with chlorine, the United States' most common method of disinfecting drinking water, creates previously unidentified toxic byproducts, says ...
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Astronomers aren't happy about the "trains" of light the high-flying routers are creating in the nighttime sky. But for the rest of us, the satellites put on a unique ...
After nearly 11 months in orbit, the astronaut holding the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman can't wait to dig into some salsa and chips, and swim in ...
A newly proposed House authorization bill would push back NASA's deadline to land humans on the Moon to 2028 instead of 2024, while also calling for a ...
Working with lead isotopes taken from tooth enamel of prehistoric animals, researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a new method for ...
When Yves Moussallam trekked around Vanuatu's Ambrym volcano in the winter of 2018, the ground was blanketed in green, and five incandescent lakes of ...
Researchers have figured out which plant species bumble bees prefer to include in their diets, providing advice to those wishing to help with bee conservation ...
NASA's Mars 2020 rover is scheduled to land on the red planet in February 2021, and when it does, it will touch down in Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient lake ...
NASA and ESA are teaming up to send a the Solar Orbiter to the sun. The craft will study the massive star for seven years and gather data that will help experts ...
Jewel wing damselflies live up to their names: They dart through the filtered sunlight of ferny stream beds and forests like wands made of brilliantly colored gems ...
If you're a science geek like us, you'll love the new Live Science merch store, where you can get all of your science-y gear, from t-shirts and mugs to tote bags ...
Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) fossils were first discovered in western Europe in the mid nineteenth century. That was just the first in a long line of ...
A new study from Columbia Engineering and Harvard identified the critical physiological importance of suitable temperatures for butterfly wings to function ...
Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun, may have a second planet, according to researchers from the National Institute of Astrophysics. If confirmed, it ...
Michigan State University and Stanford University scientists have invented a nanoparticle that eats away—from the inside out—portions of plaques that cause ...
Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new species of meat-eating dinosaur in Utah. The first specimen of the dinosaur, recently named Allosaurus ...
UPDATE (6:15 PM EST): SpaceX has updated their schedule to target Wednesday, January 29 at 9:06 AM EST for the launch in order to hopefully optimize for ...
The Pacific Ocean is becoming more acidic, and the cash-crabs that live in its coastal waters are some of its first inhabitants to feel its effects. The Dungeness ...
Amyloids are aggregates consisting of stacks of thousands of proteins bound tightly together. Their formation is involved in several widespread disorders, ...
University of California Riverside-led research has applications in ultrafast and spin-based nanoscale devices. A team of physicists has discovered an electrical ...
The International Space Station's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2, pictured during the last mission of Space Shuttle Endeavor to the ISS in 2011. Photo: NASA ...
Medications were once discovered by finding active ingredients in traditional remedies or by serendipitous discovery. A relatively new approach is to understand ...
When two neutron stars slammed together far off in space, they created a powerful shaking in the universe — and their echoes could violate Einstein's theory of ...
Two centuries after it was first sighted by Russian explorers, Antarctica is a key site for studying the future of Earth's climate – and for global scientific ...
The launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter spacecraft has been delayed two days after engineers discovered a rocket issue during ...
Carbon black powder turns into graphene in a burst of light and heat through a technique developed at Rice University. Flash graphene turns any carbon source ...
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) have developed a blue light-emitting diode (LED) from a new, popular semiconductor ...
Micromobility vehicles, such as e-scooters, zip in and out of traffic. In San Antonio alone, over 12,000 scooters are on the road. For this reason, micromobility is ...
A new nanoparticle can seek out plaques that cause heart attacks and eat them from the inside out. The discovery could lead to new atherosclerosis treatment.
A neural network-driven Earth system model has led University of California, Irvine oceanographers to a surprising conclusion: phytoplankton populations will ...
Scientists discovered new species of dinosaurs- the allosauroids, a group of small to large-bodied, two-legged carnivorous dinosaurs that lived during the ...
Cape Canaveral, Fla. – After nearly 11 months in orbit, the astronaut holding the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman can't wait to dig into some salsa ...
One wasp species has evolved the ability to recognize individual faces among their peers—something that most other insects cannot do—signaling an evolution ...
An interdisciplinary team from the University of Basel in Switzerland has succeeded in creating a direct path for artificial nanocontainers to enter into the nucleus ...
A tax on carbon dioxide emissions in Great Britain, introduced in 2013, has led to the proportion of electricity generated from coal falling from 40% to 3% over six ...
To further shrink electronic devices and to lower energy consumption, the semiconductor industry is interested in using 2-D materials, but manufacturers need a ...
In the aftermath of the devastating Tohoku-Oki earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan in March 2011, seismologists were stunned by the unprecedented 50 ...
Paleontologist at Utah's Dinosaur National Monument, have recently recognized a new species of meat-eating dinosaurs. A specimen of the 9-meter-long ...
The Tarantula Nebula, seen in this image by the Spitzer Space Telescope, was one of the first targets studied by the infrared observatory after its launch in 2003, ...
NASA has announced that they have selected Axiom Space, an American company headquartered in Houston, Texas, to design, build and launch three large ...
Many New York tomato growers are familiar with the scourge of bacterial canker—the wilted leaves and blistered fruit that can spoil an entire season's planting.
SpaceX is poised to launch its first astronauts into space this spring: Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley. Their flight on the company's Crew Dragon spaceship will ...
Powerful high-altitude winds forced SpaceX to scrub the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station early Monday, setting the stage for a ...
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