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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered a supernova erupting just 1.1 billion years after the Big Bang.

Deep inside a high-altitude Chinese cave, scientists discovered a ghostly, eyeless freshwater snail that has evolved to live entirely in darkness, marking the first recorded discovery of its kind in China. Named after a ...

A sarcophagus in Westminster Abbey with Roman and Anglo-Saxon decorations baffled archaeologists, but now a 150-year-old mystery has finally been solved.

Researchers propose a new subtype of depression linked to body-clock patterns.

Tesla just demonstrated a type of hover car. Live Science asks its readers whether they believe this type of technology will be widely available in five years.

A study by DZNE finds that healthy eating is associated with slower biological aging-and that there is more than one way to eat healthily. The researchers examined ten dietary patterns considered healthy, including the M...

The treatment delivers a light-sensitive algae protein to the retina. Paired with special goggles, it can restore limited vision and lasts for years. The post Blind Patients Recover Partial Vision in Gene Therapy Trial a...

The fault that triggered a massive earthquake in Myanmar last year is tilted much like California's San Andreas, which can influence how much shaking takes place and where.

Generative AI can create masterpieces in seconds, but a new analysis reveals it breaks the crucial link between making art and personal growth. Hebrew University's Amit Zoran argues that the future of creativity belo...

Transmitting electricity without losing any energy may sound impossible, yet this is precisely the promise of superconductivity. For nearly 40 years, scientists have been working to understand materials that exhibit this...

New results from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) provide strong evidence that smashing oxygen nuclei together at nearly the speed of light generates a quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a type of...

Non-invasive focused ultrasound targeting the globus pallidus interna safely eases delusions in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.

Direct analysis of living human hippocampal tissue reveals that an overabundance of abnormal immature astroglia tracks with poorer fluid intelligence. The discovery identifies non-neuronal support cells as a novel therap...

Pregnant women who develop restless legs syndrome during their third trimester face three times the risk of perinatal depression compared to those without the sleep movement disorder. A study of over 2,400 mothers highli...

Experts argue that the mysterious Voynich manuscript was incorrectly bound - a discovery that "moves the ball" in finally deciphering the 15th-century document.

Most conventional methods of ultrafast photography use evenly spaced intervals in which images are taken, but new developments have shown how much can be left out of the story, especially when multiple timescales are inv...

Male mosquitoes infected with a parasite have been released in Barcelona to reduce the number of mosquitoes that can transmit infections such as dengue

Simon Baron-Cohens influential research helped pin autism as a particularly male condition. As studies increasingly broaden our view of autism, has his perspective changed?

Simon Baron-Cohens influential research helped pin autism as a particularly male condition. As studies increasingly broaden our view of autism, has his perspective changed?

There is a growing backlash against the way AI companies have gone about tackling mathematical problems - and now some mathematicians are opting to avoid AI altogether

In a new pilot study, 10 minutes of transcranial ultrasound stimulation reduced patients' delusion severity, scientists report.

Light is one of the most powerful tools scientists have for probing matter. By interacting with electrons, light reveals how atoms, molecules and materials are structured and how they evolve in time. Highly energetic ult...