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Scientists Sequenced The Genome Of A 700,000-Year-Old Horse
When a horse gallops, there is a moment when all its feet leave the ground — the moment of suspension. Scientists digging for fossils in the permafrost of Canada's Yukon Territory happened across a...
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Your Beach Vacation Could Make You Sick
Peter Lehner, executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.When I started visiting our Santa Monica office,...
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Pristine 1,200-Year-Old Royal Tomb Found In Peru
A rare, undisturbed royal tomb has been unearthed in Peru, revealing the graves of three Wari queens buried alongside gold and silver riches and possible human sacrifices.Though the surrounding site...
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Highly Social Lemur Species Are Smarter Than Their Loner Cousins
Highly social lemurs are better thieves than their less-social cousins.On its surface, this isn’t particularly surprising. The social intelligence hypothesis claims that the evolution of primate...
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Seattle Moves Fireworks Show So Baby Bald Eagles Won't Freak Out
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Just because they're both emblems of American pride doesn't mean fireworks and bald eagles should share the same skyline.The floating launch pad for next week's July Fourth...
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Britain Aims To Create The First 'Three-Parent Baby'
Britain will become the first country in the world to create babies with the DNA of three people under government plans which could see the procedure offered on the NHS by next year.Parents at high...
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What The Night Sky Would Look Like If Other Planets Were As Close As The Moon
Perhaps the hardest thing to wrap one's mind around in astronomy (or in anything, for that matter) is scale: just how big these objects are, how far away they lie, and how long ago they formed.How can...
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The Fascinating Story Of A Woman Who Had Five Orgasms A Day Coming From Her Foot
A 55-year-old woman in the Netherlands visited the doctor with an unusual complaint: She experienced unwanted orgasms that started in her foot, according to a new report of her case.The orgasmic...
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The Color Of Your Silverware Alters The Taste Of Your Food
New research by Oxford University, published today in the journal Flavour, has made headlines on the unlikely subject of cutlery.Experimental psychologists working in the university's cross-modal...
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Baby Dinosaurs 'Crawled Like Toddlers' Before Becoming Two-Legged Adults
Analysis of bones 100 million years old showed baby Psittacosaurus had long arms and short legs, which were used to scuttle around shortly after hatching.The arms grew quickly between the ages of one...
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Living By The Ocean Could Make You Healthier
WASHINGTON — The age-old wisdom that being near the seaside is good for your health may be true, studies suggest.People often focus on the threats the ocean poses to human health, whether it's storms...
View ArticleAn Octopus Hatches Fully Formed, Then Walks Away [VIDEO]
Most octopuses take the million-to-one-odds strategy when it comes to reproduction. They lay thousands—if not tens or hundreds of thousands—of tiny eggs. Out of these hatch bitty proto-octopuses, which...
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Climate-Change Policy In America, Europe, And China
THIS is an unusually busy moment in the unhappy history of efforts to curb climate change. In two weeks at the end of June the world’s three biggest polluters unveiled carbon-reducing measures. In...
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Why The Dodo Bird Went Extinct
The dodo, or Raphus cucullatus if you want to get fancy, is an extinct species of flightless bird that was native to the tiny island nation of Mauritius before it sadly died out. But enough of the...
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What It's Like To Be In Heat So Bad It Makes Your Eyes Hurt
FURNACE CREEK, Calif. (AP) — Associated Press photographer Chris Carlson is no stranger to heat. He grew up just outside Palm Springs, Calif. On Friday, he returned to his desert roots, leaving his...
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Where To See NASA's Space Shuttles This Summer
With the opening of the space shuttle Atlantis' permanent exhibit in Florida on Saturday (June 29), the last of NASA's retired space planes will be officially on display for the public to enjoy, but...
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Americans Are Less Healthy Than They Think
From beer to cronuts, Americans can't get enough if our national obesity problem is any indication. But a new study reveals many of us are in denial about our health—and are actually less healthy than...
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Researchers Can See Through Walls With 'Wi-Vi'
Want Xray vision like the man of steel? A technology that lets you see behind walls could soon be built in to your cell phone.MIT professor Dina Katabi and graduate student Fadel Adib have announced...
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Don't Buy Chinese Make-Up, Says Big-Time Banker's Eco Wife
She has already expressed sympathy for the anti-banking Occupy movement and suggested that global financial institutions are “rotten or inadequate”.Now Diana Carney, the British wife of the new...
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Death Valley Temperatures Hit All-Time High
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A heat wave punishing several Western states brought at least record-tying temperatures to Death Valley and Las Vegas.The mercury rocketed to 128 degrees Sunday in Death Valley...
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