Science News

Why do we keep making the same choices even when better options are available? Researchers found that simply repeating a decision can reshape what we prefer, causing familiar choices to feel better than alternatives. Ins...

How Komatsu machines help build Atlassian Williams F1 Teams FW48

AI has helped scientists measure the brains hidden cleaning system, revealing that fluid moves rapidly around its outer spaces but about 50 times more slowly through deep tissue. The discovery could eventually help resea...

From Baily's Beads, a bright-pink prominence to awe-struck eclipse-watchers from across the European continent, check out these stunning images from yesterday's total solar eclipse.

See the first images of totality over Spain from the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse. A bright-pink prominence makes a cameo appearance.

A new study shows that octopuses act differently around territorial fish species, displaying a unique body pattern.

Pushing a pram while running may reduce the force produced with each foot strike, decreasing the risk of injuries

Feedback is a little nonplussed by an experiment that involved wearing (or not wearing) compressing shapewear, and then playing cards

The Killings at Parrish Station is a terrifying cosmic horror six-parter, which starts back in 1987 when two detectives find mangled bodies at an outback radio research station. TV columnist Bethan Ackerley is a big fan

Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles

OpenAI and its competitors want to dictate the role that artificial intelligence will play in our society - it's time to take back control of the narrative

One reader explains how the moons drift will lead to longer (and warmer) days

Our readers do the maths on what one of their mothers calls the family forest

Researchers continue to rage against the dumb-dodo myth with more evidence that the iconic flightless bird was smarter than early accounts suggest - and might have even been nocturnal.

Are you watching the solar eclipse and Perseid meteor shower tonight? Live Science readers reveal their thoughts about tonight's stargazing phenomena

In this excerpt from the book "Solar Eclipses" by William Sheehan, we learn of how an ancient Greek poet, who wrote a series of scurrilous songs and deserted the field of battle, became a hero among eclipse-watch...

Katalysts LINK spacecraft might still be able to save NASAs ailing Swift telescope from doom, despite a significant mishap

Our sun is capable of storms far bigger than weve ever recorded. Studying the worlds oldest trees suggests we could be due one of these gargantuan events soon

Signals ride on waves of one kind or another: light, sound, radio. But new carriers are needed to relay information in next-generation devices. Disturbances or waves in magnetic materials called magnons could be an effic...

A magnetoelastic tent concept could one day turn wind, movement and fabric flexing into usable electricity.

Douglas Hofstadters weighty tome, an exploration of mathematics, music and the mind, runs to almost 800 pages - but is worth the effort, finds Gerardo Bandera