In this excerpt from "Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life," author Mona Sloane examines how artificial intelligence is reconfiguring our understandin...
Amino acids and other "pre-biotic" molecules were spotted in a meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024.
July 18, 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
It's fairly uncommon to find a spherical creature, although they're more common in the sea than on land. So which one is the roundest?
What does 'neuroplasticity' mean?
Forecasts suggest the weather could turn more changeable during late July and August but the risk of heatwaves remains.
India's first space-tech unicorn Skyroot Aerospace is set to launch Vikram-1 on Saturday.
Maricopa County in Arizona has some of the hottest temperatures, but it has reduced the number of heat-related deaths.
Under the proposals, the EU plans to relax its emissions trading system to give companies more time to reduce their carbon output.
RNA can fold into more complex configurations than scientists thought, raising questions about how important these 3D structures were when life on Earth began.
Canadian leader Mark Carney says both countries have a responsibility to fight climate change.
The Perseid meteor shower will light up the night sky over the next five weeks.
Forecasts point to the ongoing El Niño rapidly strengthening to a likely all-time record in the coming months, fueling temperature rises and extreme weather.
Lettuce served at Taco Bell has been identified as a source of Cyclospora infections affecting people across five states.
It is the longest dry spell in 30 years for parts of England as the UK heatwave reaches 14 days.
Researchers predict that up to 7.6 billion people will be able to see the potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis fly past Earth on April 13, 2029. The skyscrape...
Researchers have found an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star with an atmosphere.
Heaven Lake is a body of water located 7,200 feet above sea level at the top of a volcano. It is the deepest lake in China as well as the highest and largest cr...
Simon King looks at the threats posed to airline operations by hotter weather and rising sea levels.
The Mangalitsa-cross pigs on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour will eventually grow to about 180kg.
West Cumbria Rivers Trust says eel numbers have fallen by 90% in the last 30 years.
Curlew Country is hoping to improve the birds' chances by making sure they get the best start.
Nearly 4,000-year-old skeletal remains show that several royal women repeatedly used their upper-body muscles. Researchers link those changes to archery and wea...
All UK nations have experienced recent heatwave conditions but in southern England, the heatwave has now continued for 13 days. Sarah Keith-Lucas looks at how u...
The Environment Agency has rated Cullercoat's water quality as "poor" since 2018.
An ancient bronze chariot recently discovered in Spain was used by a culture that mysteriously disappeared from the archaeological record.
A decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and collaborator Francesco Zamponi h...
Thousands of enslaved Africans were liberated from slave ships and died on the island of St. Helena around 200 years ago. A new chemical analysis has revealed t...
A DNA analysis of a 4,000-year-old skeleton buried with an elaborate metalworking tool kit near Stonehenge has revealed that the individual, long assumed to be ...
Joël Lapointe was using Google Maps to plan a camping trail through Quebec's Côte-Nord region when he stumbled across a large indentation. Now, scientists hav...
The deluge prompted evacuations and water rescues in the same region where 25 children and two counsellors at Camp Mystic died in flooding in 2025.
July has been very dry so when will it rain again in the UK?
Wildfires in Ontario have blanketed US and Canadian cities with dangerous smoke.
What’s the point of having a treaty banning nukes in space if we can’t spot them?
What’s the point of having a treaty banning nukes in space if we can’t spot them?
A stretch of sand dunes will receive the highest statutory protections as a national nature reserve.
New monkey species hailed as 'amazing discovery' by conservationist.
A monkey found in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been confirmed as a new specie.
Sarah Keith-Lucas details five things you need to know about how the UK climate has changed.
A grey squirrel control officer says there is no other option to trapping and killing the greys after a number of cases of squirrelpox were confirmed in the Bor...
Researchers have found a way to build a three-layered silicon chip without the chip overheating.
Gus, a Tyrannosaurus rex unearthed in South Dakota, just sold for $50 million at auction. But it's unknown if the specimen will ever be made available to scienc...
Temperatures are set to fall by several degrees in some areas, including parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England.
Researchers used reinforcement learning to train a quadrupedal robot to adapt to different environments using two different pre-learned gaits.
A striking new monkey species, Colobus congoensis, was discovered deep in the Congo rainforest and has been scientifically described for the first time.
Scientists made a breakthrough discovery about the physics of Hawking radiation by making a miniature black hole out of light in the laboratory.
The crew was rescued after the close call. Meanwhile, wildfires in Canada have left Toronto under a haze and sent smoke drifting towards several major US cities...
We spent a week with the Canon RF 100-300mm f/2.8L IS USM lens to find out if it’s really worth the eye-watering price tag.
Two capybara pups have been born at Longleat in Wiltshire and are exploring their new home.
The baby vicuna - the smallest member of the camel family - is settling in well at the Highland site.
The latest report on the UK's climate warns cold mountainous areas are also being lost.
A teen's nutrient-poor diet led to irreversible vision problems.
Tobacco companies have fallen back on tried-and-tested marketing practices to encourage nicotine pouch use among teenagers.
More than eight million households have been placed under hosepipe bans - which has raised questions about how effectively water resources are being managed.
As temperatures rise, scientists are investigating whether a changing Atlantic could bring more volatile weather to the UK
Researchers extracted DNA from long-dead animals that lived in South Africa during the last ice age, revealing that genetic material lasts longer in hot climate...
Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia want to freeze koala sex cells in liquid nitrogen, which could preserve the DNA for decades until we ne...
The Soyuz spacecraft will carry Nasa astronaut Anil Menon and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina to the ISS for an eight-month mission.
A Warwick University team, working with US astronomers, find four, previously hidden, white dwarf stars.
Live Science spoke with sea level expert Sönke Dangendorf about how human-caused sea-level rise is increasing extreme water levels, as once-in-a-century floodi...
This 2011 astronaut photo captured one of NASA's iconic space shuttles passing between Earth and the International Space Station for the very last time.
Archaeologists were surprised to find evidence of shackles in a pre-Roman settlement in France.
Erythrulose, a sugar found in raspberries, was spotted in a gas and dust cloud near the center of the Milky Way.
This bronze helmet has been decorated with ancient deities from a civilization that flourished before the Persian Empire took over the area that is now Iran.
Artemis II lead communications officer Chris White describes the tensest and most shocking moments of the historic moon mission, as seen from his desk at missio...
When managing your money, take a chatbot's ‘confidence’ with a grain of salt
Archaeologists have found 18 tombs at an ancient Egyptian site by the Mediterranean coast of Egypt.
The Venezuelan earthquake doublet is a stark reminder that multi-fault systems may pose greater destructive power than some seismic models predict.
A JWST image of the nearby Centaurus A galaxy reveals star dust, collision scars and the fingerprint of a black hole.
Albert Einstein is regarded as a genius, but even he admitted that his work wasn't perfect. So what did he get wrong?
El Niño transforms tropical forests from carbon sinks to sources. 2026 could be the worst year yet.
"A lot of the book was actually me floundering around, failing to complete the projects or figuring out what I was doing wrong," author Sam Kean says about his ...
In his new book, "Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations," science writer S...
Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions. Scientists warn that it's fueling a ...
July 11, 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
A man went to the emergency room after being in and out of hospitals for a month, and doctors found a surprising explanation for his illness.
From phones to electric vehicles, some batteries take an hour to charge, while others can take up to half a day.
In an unexpected discovery, researchers found that three medieval Swedish cemeteries held children buried with unrelated adults.
A new set of upgrades to the International Space Station’s Cold Atom Laboratory is allowing NASA to probe quantum mechanics at the coldest possible temperatur...
Chinese researchers say they have overcome one of the trickiest problems of battery chemistry by developing a special gel.
Canon's newest release is a triumph for wildlife photographers who want a reliable, fast camera capable of producing beautiful images without having to go pro.
A 15-year study suggests that long-term malaria control may depend as much on protecting environments as it does on sustaining public health programs.
A rare coin from the reign of Magnus Barefoot — sometimes called Norway's last Viking king, was mistaken for a button before researchers realized it was the f...
Researchers say they have created a synthetic cell-like system that can grow and divide.
The latest cutting-edge research on show at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.
The fossil, collected in Antarctica in 1985, is part of the tail of a beast called a Titanosaur.
Argentinian geologist Eduardo Olivero became the first scientist to find the remains of a dinosaur in Antarctica in 1986.
Is it time to start considering solar geoengineering to help us combat extreme heat?
The structure consisted of two posts that lined up with the solstices 5,000 years ago.
The question of how important making our electricity clean is to going green is coming under increasing scrutiny
BBC Science Editor Rebecca Morelle reflects on how it felt to watch history being made.
As the astronauts pass behind the Moon they will experience a moment of silence and solitude as communication with the Earth is blocked.
Britain is preparing to cancel its contribution to one of the Large Hadron Collider's next major upgrades.
For many, the idea of soulmates still shapes how love is understood.
Many clinical trials to test the use of psychedelic medicines for conditions such as depression have been underway since 2022 - with surprising results
