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

'It's hard not to believe he saw something': Historian Greg Eghigian on how UFOs took over the world

An artist's impression of UFOs appearing over a small town.

LiveScience

Moon landing quiz: How quickly can you name all 12 Apollo astronauts that walked on the moon?

An astronaut walks on the moon with a rover behind them

LiveScience

Ozempic-like drugs may treat alcohol addiction, study finds

A study using Swedish patient data found anti-obesity drugs were linked with fewer hospitalizations related to alcohol use, adding to a body of work suggesting these drugs could potentially be used to manage addiction.

LiveScience

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

How much can your stomach expand after a big meal?

The stomach can grow in size after you eat, but by how much?

LiveScience

Gigantic 'spiderwebs' on Mars are the next big target for NASA's Curiosity rover, agency reveals

Curiosity has just finished the latest leg of its 12-year Mars mission and will now set out to explore miles of web-like surface features left behind by ancient water on the Red Planet. The zig-zagging rocks could also provide clues about whether Mars once harbored extraterrestrial life.

LiveScience

Anglo-Saxons plagiarized a Roman coin — and it's full of typos

The pagan Anglo-Saxons copied a gold Roman coin with Christian imagery, but they didn't do a very good job.

LiveScience

Dramatic NASA images reveal lava coursing near Iceland's Blue Lagoon

A lava stream from a volcanic eruption in West Iceland is brighter than the lights of the city's nearby capital, new infrared images show.

LiveScience

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

Black Friday 2024 camera deals live: Plus, savings on telescopes, binoculars and stargazing accessories

The best bargains as they happen. Great deals from Nikon, Canon, Sony, Celestron and many more.

LiveScience

Hailin impact crater: China's newly discovered meteor pit born from a 'nuclear explosion level' event

The Hailin impact crater is a newly-discovered scar in the mountains of Northeast China left behind by a meteor impact, but geologists aren't sure exactly when this happened.

LiveScience

Meet 'Blackbird': A flying taxi that spins and moves in any direction thanks to new propulsion system

CycloTech's all-electric flying vehicle is capable of controlled descents even in stormy weather with motors similar to those used for tug boats.

LiveScience

The shape of light: Scientists reveal image of an individual photon for 1st time ever

Using a groundbreaking new technique, researchers have unveiled the first detailed image of a photon — a single particle of light — ever taken.

LiveScience

Fat cells have a 'memory' of obesity, study finds

Most people who lose weight through dieting will see it creep back up, leading to a cycle of "yo-yo dieting" that's hard on the body. A new study suggests fat cells keep a memory of previous weight gain, which may help to explain why this happens.

LiveScience

How many blood types are there?

Red blood cells are complex — there's much more to blood types than A, B and O.

LiveScience

Orca gang develops brutal hunting strategy to take on the world's largest shark — 'This is a fascinating behaviour'

The orca attacks appear to be led by a large adult male, suggesting that he may be leading the charge on this predatory behavior.

LiveScience

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

LiveScience

1.5 million-year-old footprints reveal our Homo erectus ancestors lived with a 2nd proto-human species

A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a now-extinct bipedal hominin, Paranthropus boisei, 1.5 million years ago.

LiveScience

'Fireball' meteor discovered hours before exploding above Niagara Falls was the smallest asteroid ever seen

An asteroid that fell to Earth and exploded above Canada in 2022 was only around 20 inches wide — the smallest space rock ever properly measured, researchers say.

LiveScience

'Baby' exoplanet, equivalent to 2-week-old infant, is the youngest alien world ever spotted — and it's orbiting a wonky star

A new study has identified an exoplanet that is just 3 million years old — around 1,500 times younger than Earth — alongside a misaligned protoplanetary disk that researchers cannot explain.

LiveScience

Coins worth over $1 million recovered from 1715 Spanish treasure shipwrecks in Florida

Authorities in Florida have recovered 37 coins worth over $1 million stolen from an 18th-century Spanish shipwreck.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

LiveScience

Constellations quiz: Can you name all the animals, objects and mythological figures hiding in the night sky?

Think you know your constellations? See how many star groups you can name in 10 minutes and try to top the leaderboard.

LiveScience

Stone man disease: A rare condition that causes a person to grow a second skeleton

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is an extremely rare congenital condition that causes the body to grow a second skeleton, rendering patients immobile.

LiveScience

Equator quiz: Can you name the 13 countries that sit on Earth's central line?

There are 13 countries that sit on Earth's equator. Can you get them all in 5 minutes? If so, how fast can you do it?

LiveScience

Thanksgiving auroras? Solar storm likely to hit Earth on Thursday and Friday, NOAA warns

An outburst of solar energy looks primed to hit Earth on Thursday, potentially bringing auroras to the northern U.S. on Thanksgiving and Black Friday.

LiveScience

Astronauts baffled by 'unexpected odor' leaking from Russian spacecraft docked at ISS

Russian cosmonauts aboard the ISS were forced to seal a hatch and don protective equipment after the arrival of a cargo vessel brought with it a bizarre smell.

LiveScience

Samples of 'alien' asteroid Ryugu are crawling with life — from Earth

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But they almost certainly came from Earth.

LiveScience

NASA spots 'flame-throwing Guitar Nebula' shredding antimatter along a cosmic string

New images show the rapidly rotating pulsar of the "Guitar Nebula" shooting out a gigantic cosmic plume of plasma, X-rays and supercharged particles spinning along a magnetic field line in interstellar space.

1 … 13 14 15 16

People

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

Organisations

the University of Birmingham

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.