The James Webb telescope's 100-hour reexamination of one of Hubble's most iconic extragalactic images reveals extraordinary ...

Thousands of years ago, adults and children left their marks on soft rock surfaces deep in this cave in GunaiKurnai Country.

People report vivid dreams during rapid-eye-movement sleep. But is this sleep stage really the only time we dream?

A new electric motorsport championship is making an ambitious pitch to bring electric engines to the ocean — and Will Smith, LeBron James and Tom Brady are along for the ride.

New excavations in Pompeii's Insula Meridionalis quarter have confirmed long-held suspicions that people returned to the ...

Scientists used IBM's R2 Heron quantum processor to predict the secondary protein structure of a 60-nucleotide-long mRNA ...

Researchers have observed grass eating in wild canines and felines too, which suggests it may be an innate behavior.

This swimming sea cucumber looks like a chicken carcass, eats poop floating in the water and uses defecation as a means of ...

A massive comet trail may have caused climate upheaval on Earth more than 12,000 years ago, sparking the Younger Dryas.

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After using lasers to map the Maya Lowlands, researchers have updated their estimates of the total Maya population during the ...

RNA expert Jeff Coller spoke with Live Science about the future of mRNA vaccines in the United States in the aftermath of ...