By LIVE SCIENCE | | 3/12/2025 12:54 PM

A new study charts the genetics of skin, hair and eye color in Europe over 45,000 years. ... Read full Story

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

Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest human ancestor ever discovered in Western Europe. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | ben.turner@futurenet.com (Ben Turner) | 3/12/2025 11:45 AM

NASA's newly-launched SPHEREx space telescope will offer a complementary 'panoramic' view to the JWST's high resolution infrared snapshots, enabling astronomers to study some of the universe's biggest mysteries. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 3/12/2025 11:44 AM

Our understanding of black holes, time and the mysterious dark energy that dominates the universe could be revolutionized, as new University of Sheffield research helps unravel the mysteries of the cosmos. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 3/12/2025 10:15 AM

Garmin's adventure smartwatch series gets an OLED screen option and more sizes, and we're impressed with the rugged Garmin Instinct 3 smartwatch because of it. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 3/12/2025 9:29 AM

Scientists have found ancient nail tooth shark fossils deep inside Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, revealing new information about a mysterious group of extinct predators. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 3/12/2025 9:00 AM

Scientists have found a way to store hundreds of terabytes of data onto a tiny crystal, with plans to scale this up to a disc-sized device that can be compatible with modern computing. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 3/12/2025 8:00 AM

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may have had a lasting impact on Earth's climate, according to a new study. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 3/12/2025 8:00 AM

No new human cases of avian influenza have been reported, and poultry infections are low so far in March. But infections in cats are continuing, and new research is raising concerns about the virus ... Read full Story

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

Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic red substance that contains mercury. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | emily.cooke@futurenet.com (Emily Cooke) | 3/12/2025 6:00 AM

Using bat poop to fertilize plants like cannabis can sometimes have deadly consequences. A report highlights two fatal cases that affected men in New York. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 3/12/2025 6:00 AM

On COVID’s fifth anniversary, the U.S. is facing an outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas that makes strong public health systems as important as ever. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 3/11/2025 4:58 PM

Density functional theory (DFT) is a cornerstone tool of modern physics, chemistry, and engineering used to explore the behavior of electrons. While essential in modeling systems with many electrons, it suffers from a well-known flaw called self-interaction error. A recent study has identified a new area where a correction for this error breaks down. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | pmsutter@gmail.com (Paul Sutter) | 3/11/2025 4:30 PM

The recent discovery of a stupendously powerful neutrino has left scientists scratching their heads. New research suggests it could be evidence that Stephen Hawking was right about the nature of black holes and the early universe. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 3/11/2025 2:02 PM

An international collaboration headed by researchers in the Department of Physics has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics experiments. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 3/11/2025 2:00 PM

The Garmin Venu 3 is an easygoing fitness watch that now offers ECG readings, an improvement on the Venu 2. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 3/11/2025 1:30 PM

In a scene toward the end of the 2006 film, "X-Men: The Last Stand," a character claps and sends a shock wave that knocks out an opposing army. Sunny Jung, professor of biological and environmental engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was intrigued. "It made me curious about how the wave propagates when we clap our hands," Jung said. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 3/11/2025 1:30 PM

A report from the Natural Resources Defense Council looked at how states balanced transportation needs with climate and equity efforts ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 3/11/2025 1:15 PM

Top advisers in NASA’s Office of the Chief Scientist are among the first to go amid a government-wide downsizing effort ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 3/11/2025 12:44 PM

A new study suggests that water first appeared in the universe just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang — meaning life could have evolved billions of years earlier than previously thought. ... Read full Story