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Astronomers modeled sunspot activity on a nearby red giant star to learn about its chaotic interior.

Hartmut Neven, who leads Google's Quantum AI lab, wants to entangle our brains with quantum processors to test the idea that consciousness involves quantum phenomena

From impressive moon missions to unbelievable auroras, 2024 was a year that got many of us looking up. How well do you remember the year's top space news stories?

A new study reveals that humans think at a rate of 10 bits per second, while sensory systems process a billion bits per second--100 million times faster. This highlights a paradox: why does the brain process thoughts so ...

The hormone estrogen increases binge drinking in females by enhancing activity in neurons within the brain's BNST region. The effect is particularly strong during high-estrogen phases, leading to "front-loading," or rapi...

From a death swirl into Jupiter to "Ghost Riders in the Sky," here are some of the most exciting space missions coming in 2025.

A study of nearly 10,000 adolescents found that those who initiated substance use before age 15 exhibited distinct differences in brain structures compared to their peers. Many of these differences were present before su...

From solar storms to "shooting stars" over Stonehenge, here are our top 10 favorite space photos of 2024 -- and what they told us about our beautiful cosmos.

"After staring at dozens and dozens of image pairs, she found something interesting."

A research team has experimentally calculated the Jones polynomial based on the quantum simulation of braided Majorana zero modes. The research team determined the Jones polynomials of different links through simulating ...

Following successful early demonstrations of linking two quantum computing chips, IBM is aiming to break records for the largest quantum computer yet by combining many of them in parallel

The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere after all, according to new research.

Our hands are mirror images of each other. Unless you flip one hand around, they'll never look the same. Scientists call this chirality, and the mirror-like property is fundamental to all life on Earth. DNA and RNA--life...

Brooks Glycerin 21: the best running shoe Brooks makes

Super-resolution (SR) technology plays a pivotal role in enhancing the quality of images. SR reconstruction aims to generate high-resolution images from low-resolution ones. Traditional methods often result in blurred or...

A trio of physicists from the University of Rennes, Aoyama Gakuin University, and the University of Lyon have discovered, through experimentation, that it is friction between fibers that allows knitted fabrics to take on...

Textile fragments found in a 2800-year-old grave in the Netherlands were once part of a woven dress with a red and blue checked pattern, molecular analysis has revealed

Lab-grown minibrains, remarkable brain scans and psychedelic trips -- take a look back at some of Live Science's most interesting neuroscience stories from 2024.

This wafer-thin wooden tablet from a first-century Roman fort in the U.K. includes a heartfelt birthday party invitation.

Neuroscientists have identified the physical locations where memories are stored in the brain. But would that enable us to retrieve memories from someone who has died?

Our purpose-built "frog saunas" allow amphibians to warm up in winter and bake off chytrid infections. You can even DIY and build a frog sauna for your own backyard with our step-by-step guide.

To be considered active, a volcano must have erupted at some point during the Holocene, but dormant and extinct are a little harder to define.