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Fluorescent proteins can be turned into qubits within cells and could give us a deeper understanding of biology at the nanoscale level.

Strange glass strewn across southern Australia appears to be from a mystery asteroid impact 11 million years ago.

Stunning footage of a baby sea urchin has been awarded fifth place in the annual Nikon Small World in Motion video competition.

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new light on human cognition.

Data from ESA's Cryosat-2 satellite has revealed 85 never-before-seen, active subglacial lakes buried beneath Antarctica's ice — 58% more than were previously known.

Springing forward by an hour each March knocks the circadian rhythm out of alignment. A new model of the chronic health impacts argues for scrapping it entirely.

A man underwent one of the first "tooth-in-eye" surgeries ever conducted in Canada. Only a few hundred people have had the surgery, worldwide.

The potential 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of hitting the moon in 2032. In a new paper, scientists probe the logistics of destroying it — possibly with nuclear weapons — before it comes too close.

Archaeologists already knew that adult Maya had tooth inlays, but this is some of the first evidence that children also had tooth bling.