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India's space agency has paused launches and begun work on ventilators and hand sanitizer in the face of coronavirus, according to local media reports....

Some citizen science projects can be done during quarantine...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will be joined by an experimental helicopter that is completing prelaunch testing....

Researchers led by biomedical engineers at Tufts University invented a microfluidic chip containing cardiac cells that is capable of mimicking hypoxic conditions following a heart attack—specifically when an artery is blocked in the heart and then u...

A team of researchers from China, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands has found a way to use chemical boundary engineering to create steel that is strong and flexible without the need for high carbon content. In their paper published in the journal Science...

In recent years, brown fat has garnered increasing attention as the so-called good fat that can protect against obesity and associated health risks, like cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Brown fat is located in small pockets throughout the body and he...

Sometimes referred to as the "the Methuselah of freshwater fish," sturgeons and their close relatives are very old from an evolutionary point of view. Fossils indicate that sturgeons date back 250 million years and have changed very little during ...

Lab-grown 'meat' often uses gelatin produced in slaughterhouses to give artificial beef a meat-like texture but substituting soya protein can achieve that without killing animals...

The more we look at Mars, the more signs of ancient water we find. Now a study suggests that the Red Planet could have been home to hot springs...

Who'd have thought we'd ever be confined to watching television for days on end? Since that's the case and there's an awful lot of TV to choose from, we bring you a round-up of the very sci-fi that currently available to watch on Netflix...

Four women already using a brain implant for their epilepsy have been able to turn their thoughts into words with the help of a mind-reading artificial intelligence...

"A Very Strange Planet" Tiny Zigzag Reveals a Secret Buried in Uranus Voyager 2 Data Irreversibility of Time "Hidden in the Basic Laws of Nature" Supermassive Black Holes "Could Actually Be Enigmatic Dark Energy Objects" "Wreak...

Scientists have taken a step forward in their ability to decode what a person is saying just by looking at their brainwaves when they speak....

Nervous consumers hoard groceries and restaurants go take-out, while unemployment skyrockets and food pantries suffer. But solutions exist....

A new batch of these ostentatiously coloured and popular arachnids is described in Australia....

"Our Earth and the air we breathe have changed drastically since Earth formed 4.5 billions years ago," said Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy and director of the Carl Sagan Institute about a new study that created five models repr...

In Jessica Barnes' palm is an ancient, coin-sized mosaic of glass, minerals and rocks as thick as a strand of wool fiber. It is a slice of Martian meteorite, known as Northwest Africa 7034 or Black Beauty, that was formed when a huge impact cemented t...

While some are relying on friends and neighbors to help them get groceries, the poor may need to put themselves at risk for COVID-19 by venturing out on public transportation to get supplies. Depending on where they live, they may trust no one else to hel...

While they can't pick out precise numbers, animals can comprehend that more is, well, more. From birds to bees and wolves to frogs, animals use numbers to hunt, find a mate, return to their home, and more—and researchers believe that this abilit...

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One of the most sweeping analyses of animals using numbers has revealed it's a widespread—and likely vital—skill in nature....

In a new report published on Science, Zhenyi Ni and a research team in applied physical sciences, mechanical and materials engineering and computer and energy engineering in the U.S. profiled spatial and energetic distributions of trap states or defects i...

They make sauerkraut sour, turn milk into yogurt and cheese, and give rye bread its intensive flavour: bacteria that ferment nutrients instead of using oxygen to extract their energy. Acetobacterium woodii (short: A. woodii) is one of these anaerobic livi...

Carbonyl sulfide is a naturally occurring gas that can help scientists understand how much carbon dioxide plants take out of the atmosphere for photosynthesis....

International research led by the University of St Andrews reveals the first direct measurement of the force cancer cells can apply when they invade, giving insights that may lead to possible future cancer treatments....

UNSW material scientists have shed new light on a promising new way to store and process information in computers and electronic devices that could significantly cut down the energy required to maintain our digital lifestyles....

Outdoor access may be limited these days, but there are still some things you can do....

Stratolaunch, the company founded by the late billionaire Paul Allen as an air-launch company, announced March 30 it is developing a reusable hypersonic vehicle designed to be launched from the company's giant aircraft. SpaceNews.com...

Using the Subaru telescope, astronomers from Taiwan have conducted spectroscopic observations of a high-redshift quasar designated PSO J006.1240+39.2219. Results of these observations, presented in a paper published March 19 on the arXiv pre-print server,...

Their male colleagues are the problem when they should be allies...

In this episode of Life's Little Mysteries, we'll take a closer look a scientific mystery that's a favorite topic here at Live Science: aliens....

Hippos that once resided in Pablo Escobar's private zoo are now thriving and multiplying in the wild, performing an ecological role that has been vacant for millennia....

Here's the latest data on where the contagion is spreading and which countries have the most cases....

Two women have spent the winter on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard to collect data for climate scientists around the world....

A 5,000-year-old cultic area dedicated to a Mesopotamian warrior god has been discovered in an ancient city in Iraq....

Years of underfunding and a crucial laboratory mistake led to weeks of delay—and the virus's undetected spread....

Rumors abound that the next live-action...

Get familiar with two space-related citizen-science projects that could fend off boredom and cabin fever while you stay home during the pandemic....

A next-generation crew spacecraft that China is preparing for a flight test this spring appears to be capable of docking with the International Space Station....

Any device that sends out a Wi-Fi signal also emits terahertz waves —electromagnetic waves with a frequency somewhere between microwaves and infrared light. These high-frequency radiation waves, known as "T-rays," are also produced by almost...

The path of a light beam is bent by the presence of mass, as explained by General Relativity. A massive body can therefore act like a lens—a so called "gravitational lens"—to distort the image of an object seen behind it. Microlensing ...

An international team with the participation of Prof. Dr. Michael Kues from the Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD at Leibniz University Hannover has developed a new method for generating quantum-entangled photons in a spectral range of light that was previou...

The modules that the major space agencies plan to erect on the moon could incorporate an element contributed by the human colonizers themselves: the urea in their pee. European researchers have found that it could be used as a plasticizer for concrete use...

Shipping boxes of dirty diapers across the country seems inefficient and unnecessary....

Limited budgets will force NASA to delay implementation of one major recommendation from an Earth science decadal survey for a smaller class of missions. SpaceNews.com...

To remain active in frigid environments, the bald notothen drastically adjusts oxygen in its blood...

Pathogenic fungi pose a huge and growing threat to global food security....

The latest volume of Einstein's papers covers the infancy of quantum mechanics and new challenges to the theory of relativity....

After a major loss, a writer finds hope amid Buddhist customs, beautiful mountains, and the beliefs of a mad monk....