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10 things we learned about our human ancestors in 2025
Our understanding of how our species evolved has improved dramatically since we first began analyzin ...View More
The easiest constellations for beginners to spot in winter (and what you need to see them)
On a clear winter night, the sky can look like a blanket of stars, but it isn’t a blanket — it’s a m ...View More
Last of its kind dodo relative spotted in a remote Samoan rainforest
One of the closest living relatives of the dodo has been spotted multiple times in Samoa — raising h ...View More
Neuroscience word search — Find all the parts of the brain
Nicoletta Lanese is the health channel editor at Live Science and was previously a news editor and s ...View More
Archaeological artifacts should not be for sale in thrift shops. But putting them in a museum is harder than it sounds.
An unusual email arrived in the inbox of a faculty member at the department of archeology at Simon F ...View More
Science history: James Webb Space Telescope launches — and promptly cracks our view of the universe — Dec. 25, 2021
On a cloudy winter's day, in the Amazon jungle, a shuttle blasted off into space — and changed our v ...View More
'Gospel stories themselves tell of dislocation and danger': A historian describes the world Jesus was born into
Every year, millions of people sing the beautiful carol Silent Night, with its line “all is calm, al ...View More
'What the heck is this?' James Webb telescope spots inexplicable planet with diamonds and soot in its atmosphere
A distant exoplanet appears to sport a sooty atmosphere that is confusing the scientists who recentl ...View More
First-ever 'superkilonova' double star explosion puzzles astronomers
Scientists may have witnessed a massive, dying star split in two and then crash back together, trigg ...View More
We now know much more about how our ancestor 'Lucy' lived — and died
From a distance, it might have looked like a small child was wending her way through the waving gras ...View More













