By phys.org | | 8/30/2025 12:30 PM

What looks like ordinary sand, rocks or snow flowing in one direction can actually hide swirling currents that move in multiple directions beneath the surface. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | sascha.pare@futurenet.com (Sascha Pare) | 8/30/2025 11:50 AM

A 100-year-old theory explaining how Asia can carry the huge weight of the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau needs to be rewritten, a new study suggests. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 8/30/2025 11:27 AM

Scientists have studied female monkey embryos to map how, when and where the egg supply develops. This can now be used to build realistic models of ovaries in the lab to search for the causes of reproductive health issues that lead to infertility. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 8/30/2025 10:10 AM

Craniometry, the study of skull measurements, was widely taught in medical schools in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 8/30/2025 10:00 AM

Avoid blurry stars and excessive noise — master these 5 common astrophotography mistakes to capture sharp, stunning night sky images every time. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 8/30/2025 10:00 AM

Summertime is beer time—even if the consumption of alcoholic beer is declining in Switzerland. And for beer lovers, there is nothing better than a head of foam topping the golden, sparkling barley juice. But with many beers, the dream is quickly shattered, and the foam collapses before you can take your first sip. There are also types of beer, however, where the head lasts a long time. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 8/30/2025 8:00 AM

NASA's planet-hunting TESS telescope observed the rare interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS two months before it was formally "discovered," and those early observations reveal the comet is surprisingly active. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 8/30/2025 6:30 AM

Scientists have revived an ignored area of math to envision a path toward stable quantum computing ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 8/30/2025 6:00 AM

Solar cells often degrade due to ultraviolet exposure, but scientists achieved 99.9% protection. How? The answer lies in this vegetable. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 8/30/2025 5:00 AM

Turtles and tortoises are both reptiles with shells, so what exactly are their differences? ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | ben.turner@futurenet.com (Ben Turner) | 8/30/2025 12:00 AM

Aug. 30, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | elise.poore@futurenet.com (Elise Poore) | 8/29/2025 6:18 PM

The debate over AI is growing, do you believe it can be trusted? ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 8/29/2025 3:37 PM

Early Earth may not have had the right ingredients for life — until a nearby Mars-size planet crashed into it, two new studies hint. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | elise.poore@futurenet.com (Elise Poore) | 8/29/2025 3:20 PM

Live Science readers reveal whether they would use a hypothetical "pregnancy robot" — a humanoid machine fitted with an artificial womb to sustain a human pregnancy from conception until birth. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 8/29/2025 2:48 PM

Archaeologists discovered a 2,200-year-old bronze warrior charm while excavating an ancient Celtic town in Germany. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 8/29/2025 2:00 PM

Telling people exactly how voting security works helps defeat election misinformation, experiments suggest. But outside experts question how well that works in the real world ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 8/29/2025 12:40 PM

Might two bent crystals pave the way to finding new physics? The Standard Model of particle physics describes our world at its smallest scales exceptionally well. However, it leaves some important questions unanswered, such as the imbalance between matter and antimatter, the existence of dark matter and other mysteries. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 8/29/2025 12:30 PM

Surgeons think the first transplantation of a pig lung in a human is an exciting step forward for the field, but many questions remain open ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 8/29/2025 12:23 PM

For the first time, scientists visualized how electrons behave during a chemical reaction, which could help reduce unwanted byproducts in future chemistry. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 8/29/2025 10:10 AM

How likely you think something is to happen depends on what you already believe about the circumstances. That is the simple concept behind Bayes' rule, an approach to calculating probabilities, first proposed in 1763. Now, an international team of researchers has shown how Bayes' rule operates in the quantum world. ... Read full Story