By LIVE SCIENCE | ben.turner@futurenet.com (Ben Turner) | 7/3/2025 2:10 PM

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it could lead to a new pandemic. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | kristina.killgrove@futurenet.com (Kristina Killgrove) | 7/3/2025 1:43 PM

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | perri.thaler@futurenet.com (Perri Thaler) | 7/3/2025 1:30 PM

Ruins of the Palaspata temple complex from the millennia-old Tiwanaku civilization are unraveling some mysteries about the relatively unstudied society. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/3/2025 1:28 PM

An experiment in lab mice found that certain human gut bacteria can absorb PFAS, commonly called "forever chemicals," until they are excreted, new study finds. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 7/3/2025 12:42 PM

Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum world. This second law of entanglement manipulation proves that, just like heat or energy in an idealized thermodynamics regime, entanglement can be reversibly manipulated, a statement which until now had been heavily contested. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/3/2025 12:00 PM

An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the exact moment the International Space Station passed directly in front of our home star. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 7/3/2025 11:20 AM

New results published in the journal Physical Review Letters detail how a specially designed metamaterial was able to tip the normally equal balance between thermal absorption and emission, enabling the material to better emit infrared light than absorb it. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 7/3/2025 11:15 AM

All eyes are on Comet 3I/Atlas as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our solar system ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/3/2025 11:00 AM

You can see the recently identified "interstellar object" 3I/ATLAS shooting towards us through the solar system in a livestream from the Virtual Telescope Project on Thursday (July 3). ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/3/2025 10:57 AM

Researchers think a shipwreck off Madagascar was a Portuguese treasure ship captured by pirates in 1721. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 7/3/2025 10:50 AM

Four research firms project that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act will raise greenhouse gas emissions and likely put U.S. and global climate goals out of reach ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 7/3/2025 10:23 AM

Ahh, summer, a time of vacations at the beach or mountains—and sky-high electricity bills as your air conditioner labors against the heat and humidity. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/3/2025 10:07 AM

Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object." The cosmic interloper, officially named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third of its kind ever seen — and will shoot past Earth later this year. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 7/3/2025 8:00 AM

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream of controlled nuclear fusion may be within reach ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | kristina.killgrove@futurenet.com (Kristina Killgrove) | 7/3/2025 7:00 AM

Are you as assured as Ashurbanipal about your knowledge of Mesopotamia, or as dim as Nimrud? ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 7/3/2025 7:00 AM

Canceled grants and slashed budgets are disproportionately affecting junior health researchers, dealing a major blow to the future of science and society in the U.S. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | kristina.killgrove@futurenet.com (Kristina Killgrove) | 7/3/2025 6:00 AM

Workers digging a pipeline in Argentina found the flattened skull of an ancient toddler, raising questions about its asymmetrical shape. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/2/2025 5:00 PM

A clinical trial for semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic, found that it improved blood sugar control in people with type 1 diabetes. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | perri.thaler@futurenet.com (Perri Thaler) | 7/2/2025 4:16 PM

An analysis of ancient animal bones found in Germany suggests that Neanderthals extracted grease from them to gobble up 125,000 years ago. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 7/2/2025 3:13 PM

The motion of snakes has long fascinated humans: they undulate, they sidewind, they crawl, they even fly. ... Read full Story