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Researchers working on China’s fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally accessed a theorized “density-free regime” for fusion…
In a New York operating room one day in October 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified…
Quantum computers are well-matched to solve chemistry problemsMarijan Murat/dpa/Alamy Whether quantum computers can actually solve practical problems is one of…
Winter is hard, and for wildlife in Colorado, it’s even harder. To survive, many species have developed adaptations over hundreds…
It seems the AI hype has turned into an AI bubble. There have been many bubbles before, from the Tulip…
The mRNA cancer vaccines now in development come with large economic benefitsEugene/Getty Images In August 2025, the US cut half…
With five weeks of school summer holidays (that’s around 25 days of weekday activities to organize), being online is a…
QUICK FACTSName: Lchashen wagonWhat it is: An oak wagonWhere it is from: Lchashen village, ArmeniaWhen it was made: Circa 1500…
Mount Etna eruptingEuropean Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery Mount Etna in Sicily is the world’s most active stratovolcano, which is a…
Deep in Iraq’s southern desert, bulldozers and earthmovers spread layers of moist clay over sand dunes as part of a…
Images of faces generated by artificial intelligence (AI) are so realistic that even “super recognizers” — an elite group with…
When numbers get large, things get weirdJezper / Alamy In 2025, the edges of mathematics came a little more sharply…
Altermagnets are a newly recognized class of antiferromagnets whose magnetic structure behaves very differently from what is found in conventional…
Researchers have photographed a rare cat in Thailand that hasn’t been seen in the country for almost 30 years —…
Living things produce “biophotons”Mike_shots/Shutterstock This year, scientists observed an eerie glow emanating from mice that disappears after death, reminiscent of…
Scientists have discovered the single largest dinosaur track site in the world in Carreras Pampa, Torotoro National Park, Bolivia. The…
A distant exoplanet appears to sport a sooty atmosphere that is confusing the scientists who recently spotted it.The Jupiter-size world,…
Blatten in Switzerland was buried by a landslide in May 2025ALEXANDRE AGRUSTI/AFP via Getty Images In May, the village of…
For most, getting into a car is a task that can be done without assistance. Yet for those whose destination…
Scientists have found a new way to manipulate graphene to create a substance with record-breaking energy and power density.When incorporated…
Our successful request for Peter Kyle’s ChatGPT logs stunned observersTada Images/Victoria Jones/Shutterstock When I fired off an email at the…
One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal’s body carries an identical genome…
Here at Live Science, we have created a guide to 22 gifts for nature lovers to give you some ideas…
Millions of chickens have been culled due to the threat of bird fluEmily Elconin/Bloomberg via Getty Images The US experienced…
The gap between rich and poor has reached historic highs. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, released in recent…
If you have teenagers — or were once a teenager yourself — you’ve probably experienced this: Your kid’s jeans fit…
Starcloud wants to build a data centre satellite that is 4 kilometres by 4 kilometresStarcloud Could AI’s insatiable thirst for…
At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, write the authors of a new article…
Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected by astronomers, will make its closest approach to Earth overnight between Thursday…