Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from LiveScience

Urfa Man: An 11,500-year-old life-size statue of a man holding his penis

Discovered in a city in southern Turkey, this life-size male statue may represent an important deceased ancestor.

LiveScience

A new twist on matter? Strange 'Half-Mӧbius' molecule has rare properties chemists have never seen before

Chemists created a strange "half-Mӧbius" molecule, where electrons twist freely out of place to make a continuously looping surface.

LiveScience

A secret weapon to fight carbon emissions was just discovered: Beavers

A new study in Switzerland finds that beaver-built wetlands can trap and store large amounts of carbon, offering a low-cost boost for restoration and climate resilience.

LiveScience

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Rare star spotted in its original galaxy could answer a key question about the ingredients of life: Space photo of the week

The ancient and rare star PicII-503 is helping astronomers understand how carbon became so abundant in the universe.

LiveScience

Why do animals have different pupil shapes?

Pupil shapes vary widely across the animal kingdom, from the W-shaped pupils of cuttlefish to the bar-like pupils of goats. But why are animal pupils shaped so differently?

LiveScience

Physicists created an electron 'catapult' that moves particles at 'extraordinary' speed

Using a new method, physicists found a way to "catapult" electrons across solar materials in quadrillionths of a second.

LiveScience

Science news this week: Super El Niño looms, an Acropolis marble fragment resurfaces, and a pure hexagonal diamond is born

March 21, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

LiveScience

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Why are humans the only species with a chin?

Potential explanations abound, yet recent research has shed new light on the question.

LiveScience

Cannonball dating to the Alamo battle unearthed 1 day before 190th anniversary of the conflict that killed Davy Crockett

An intact bronze cannonball unearthed near the Alamo was likely used in the 1836 battle between Mexico and the Republic of Texas.

LiveScience

NASA's Artemis II rocket rolls to launch pad in final bid to meet April deadline

A series of leaks means the coming launch window will be NASA's final attempt to meet its April mission deadline.

LiveScience

Human-driven climate change is slowing Earth's rotation at a rate not seen in 3.6 million years

Today's sea level rise is significant enough to slow the rotation of the planet by just over a millisecond per century.

LiveScience

Unusual burials of Celtic 'warriors' discovered in France point to violent deaths

Archaeologists have unearthed a Celtic cemetery in France that holds 18 unusual seated burials.

LiveScience

Monte Verde, one of the earliest Indigenous sites in South America, is much younger than thought, study claims. But others call it 'egregiously poor geological work.'

A new analysis of archaeological layers at Monte Verde in Chile suggests that people lived there 4,200 years ago, not 14,500 years ago as originally proposed. But many experts point to errors in the methods.

LiveScience

1,800-year-old nails discovered in 3 burials in Roman necropolis, possibly to 'protect' both the living and the dead

Archaeologists excavating in Rome's Ostiense necropolis found three skeletons with iron nails on their chests, hinting at a ritual to prevent restless spirits.

LiveScience

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

LiveScience

'Dark oxygen' discovery on the seafloor is 'fundamentally at odds with thermodynamics' and should be retracted, experts say

In a recent opinion article, marine scientists and electrochemists listed a number of reasons why it's unlikely that metallic nodules on the deep seafloor could produce oxygen in total darkness.

LiveScience

An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission

Researchers discovered that an AI agent roamed beyond its parameters, creating backdoors in IT infrastructure.

LiveScience

Scientists witness birth of one of the universe's strongest magnets for the first time, thanks to a general relativity 'magic trick'

Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born inside the extreme stellar explosion.

LiveScience

Divers find marble treasure from Athens' Acropolis in Lord Elgin's shipwrecked brig at the bottom of the Aegean Sea

Divers investigating a shipwrecked brig once owned by Lord Elgin have discovered an overlooked piece of marble from the Acropolis in Athens.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

LiveScience

All 5 'letters' of DNA found on an asteroid speeding through our solar system. What do they tell us about the origins of life?

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA, suggesting these ingredients of life may be common in the solar system.

LiveScience

Artemis II: NASA is preparing for a return to the moon, but why is it going back?

NASA's Artemis II mission is sending humans back to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era. Here are the reasons why the U.S. wants to return.

LiveScience

Iran war could push global food insecurity to record levels, leaving 363 million people hungry

Analysis from the United Nations World Food Programme suggests that if the war in Iran continues until June, an additional 45 million people will be without enough food.

LiveScience

Dark message warning enemy to 'learn your lesson' found inscribed on 2,000-year-old sling bullet from ancient Holy Land

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old lead bullet in the Holy Land with a darkly sarcastic inscription in Greek.

LiveScience

Drought paradox study reveals plants around Colorado River turn to groundwater when it gets too hot and dry, reducing flow into the already strained basin

Vegetation draws on groundwater during dry summers, leaving less water for the river and, ultimately, people.

LiveScience

Rare 'daytime fireball' meteor creates powerful sonic boom as 7-ton space rock explodes above eastern US

A fridge-size space rock spectacularly broke apart over Ohio at 40,000 mph, creating a loud boom and a "fireball" that shone in the bright blue daytime sky. The rare sight, which exploded with the equivalent force of 250 tons of TNT, was also seen from space.

LiveScience

New AI image generator runs using 10 times fewer steps than today's best models — and it's coming to smartphones and laptops

Researchers have developed an AI image generator that produces images in just four steps, rather than dozens. This could bring fast, private image generation directly to consumer devices.

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

NASA Kennedy Space Center

91 stories

Stability AI

63 stories

Colorado State University

54 stories

AMS

47 stories

Southern Methodist University

41 stories

ETH Zurich

37 stories

the University of Surrey

36 stories

the University of Gothenburg

16 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.