By LIVE SCIENCE | sascha.pare@futurenet.com (Sascha Pare) | 9/12/2024 2:30 PM

A composite image of an annular solar eclipse showing Baily's Beads won top prize at the 2024 Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/12/2024 2:00 PM

Volcanoes spewing carbon dioxide 250 million years ago heated the climate so much that extreme El Niño events became the norm, pushing most life on Earth past its limits. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | ben.turner@futurenet.com (Ben Turner) | 9/12/2024 2:00 PM

In September, a strange nine-day signal rocked our planet and baffled scientists. Now they have finally found the cause. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/12/2024 1:05 PM

Archaeologists think the ancient helmet indicates that Celts settled in the region to protect their supplies of precious amber. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | elise.poore@futurenet.com (Elise Poore) | 9/12/2024 12:44 PM

Detailed 3D images of the first tardigrade fossils ever discovered help scientists predict when tardigrades evolved their near-indestructibility — a trait that might have helped them survive multiple mass extinctions. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | ben.turner@futurenet.com (Ben Turner) | 9/12/2024 12:37 PM

Physicists have created a one dimensional gas out of light particles for the first time. Studying how the photon gas behaves could help researchers discover some yet-unknown quantum optical effects. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 9/12/2024 11:51 AM

Extreme conditions prevail inside stars and planets. The pressure reaches millions of bars, and it can be several million degrees hot. Sophisticated methods make it possible to create such states of matter in the laboratory—albeit only for the blink of an eye and in a tiny volume. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | emily.cooke@futurenet.com (Emily Cooke) | 9/12/2024 11:38 AM

A new tool can reveal whether someone has a "healthy" gut microbiome with a simple score — but how does it work? ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/12/2024 9:31 AM

Wildlife officials in Georgia stumbled across a pair of snakes that had been "expelled" by a larger serpent, only to discover that one of the regurgitated victims was still alive. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/12/2024 9:05 AM

A research consortium plans to revive geoengineering trials of the controversial iron fertilization technique to pull carbon dioxide from the air, despite public backlash ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/12/2024 8:35 AM

The world’s first commercial space walk, by billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis, tested new technology and was practically flawless ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/12/2024 8:00 AM

Mathematician Gauss left behind a trophy case of mathematical achievements to highlight on his tombstone, but above all he wanted a regular heptadecagon etched on it ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/12/2024 7:00 AM

Using the Comstock Act to nationally ban abortion would defy modern public opinion and the law’s historical interpretation, experts say ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/12/2024 7:00 AM

Scientists in the U.S. have created a battery for electric cars that could be safer and offer better performance than the ones we have now thanks to a unique design. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/12/2024 6:45 AM

The security expert who created Have I Been Pwned? shares advice for protecting sensitive data ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | ben.turner@futurenet.com (Ben Turner) | 9/12/2024 6:00 AM

The gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a blue whale, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by 2.6 times the distance between Earth and the moon. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 9/12/2024 4:21 AM

As particle accelerator technology moves into the high-luminosity era, the need for extreme precision and unprecedented collision energy keeps growing. Given also the Laboratory's desire to reduce energy consumption and costs, the design and operation of CERN's accelerators must constantly be refined in order to be as efficient as possible. ... Read full Story

By The Scientist | | 9/12/2024 12:00 AM

By postnatally providing a transcription factor important for brain development, researchers fixed abnormalities generated in utero in mice. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | ben.turner@futurenet.com (Ben Turner) | 9/11/2024 5:26 PM

Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope may reveal a secret merger in our supermassive black hole's past, potentially explaining the cosmic monster's unusual spin. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 9/11/2024 5:12 PM

Scientists at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed an innovative method to realize gravitational wave detection by utilizing Mössbauer resonance. Their findings, recently published in Science Bulletin, highlight a new approach that could revolutionize the study of gravitational waves. ... Read full Story