The James Webb telescope peers through a warped bubble of space-time to study galaxies from the first billion years after the Big Bang.

Maternal cells that infiltrate children's brains during pregnancy take on different jobs in the brain and may persist into old age.

A 12th-century wild-boar tusk found in Russia may be a warrior's amulet.

Astronomers have detected helium escaping from the super-Earth LHS 1140 b, providing the strongest evidence yet that a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone has retained an atmosphere for billions of years.

Excitement around the idea that GLP-1 drugs can prevent cancer is running well ahead of the evidence, an expert explains.

A woman's abdominal discomfort turned out to be caused by a build up of food in her stomach. And the treatment involved diet soda.

Physicists isolated the 'last sound' of an enormous black hole collision, providing an unprecedented glimpse of the region next to the event horizon.

When the heart's pumping function gets weaker, areas of the brain linked to memory show early signs of damage, a study finds.

Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same hunting strategies and symbolic traditions even without overlapping at the site, suggesting they may have shared information.

SpudCell is a new cell-like platform that can feed, grow and divide like a normal cell — but it's not yet a perfect re-creation of the real thing.

The Romans have a reputation for building straight roads — but how did they do it?

Thanks to AI, one of the key pillars of scientific evidence — stunning imagery that often defies belief — is crumbling.

June 27, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

To sift through 6 million molecules in pursuit of new gonorrhea treatments, researchers trained AI to select the best drug candidate and then tested it in a «vagina on a chip.»

AI-generated text and chatbots increasingly cause real-world harms. The companies that make them need to be held accountable for those harms.

The Shenlong, or «divine dragon,» space plane just deployed a mysterious payload above our planet. The top-secret spacecraft, which has never been properly photographed, has now released at least nine objects in low Earth orbit.

From the Andes to the steppes of Central Asia, great empires have waxed and waned. Can you match each territory to the culture that once ruled it?

Live Science spoke with Colin Domnauer, a PhD student in ethnobiology whose unraveling of a mushroom mystery could reveal a new hallucinogenic compound.

A new quantum computing chip turns destructive noise into a programmable feature, helping scientists study signal loss and error correction to build more effective systems in the future.

Most proposed lithium mines in the U.S. overlap with drought-prone regions — including in Nevada, Arizona and California — and there may not be enough water to support them.