We Could Detect Extraterrestrials Because They May Glow, Scientists Say By Yasemin Saplakoglu Whole planets may be covered with glowing red, blue and green life-forms.
We May Finally Know Where Vicious 'Black Widow' Pulsars Come From By Rafi Letzter These little "redback" and "black widow" stars have intensely magnetic poles, which could help explain how they eat their twins.
Teen Has 3-Pound Hair Ball Removed from Her Stomach By Rachael Rettner A teen girl in India who secretly ate her own hair ended up having a giant hairball removed from her stomach.
Why Are Dozens of US Teens Getting Sick After Vaping? By Yasemin Saplakoglu The illnesses left nearly 100 people hospitalized.
New US Space Command Will Launch Next Week, VP Pence Says By Hanneke Weitering The United States Space Command will officially be up and running by the end of the month, Vice President Mike Pence said today (Aug. 20) at a meeting of the National Space Council.
What Is the Universe Made of? By Mindy Weisberger What are the building blocks of everything that makes up the universe, and where did it all come from?
Smoke from Burning Amazon Turns São Paulo Afternoon into Midnight By Laura Geggel There's so much smoke from wildfires in the Amazon rainforest that São Paulo plunged into darkness on Monday afternoon (Aug. 19), with day turning into night.
Eerie 'Fire Cloud' Floats Like Alien Structure Over Washington By Mindy Weisberger A photographer on a NASA airplane captured a rare and spectacular shot when flying through a fire cloud, a type of thunderhead that forms above a wildfire's smoke plume.
We Could Detect Extraterrestrials Because They May Glow, Scientists Say By Yasemin Saplakoglu Whole planets may be covered with glowing red, blue and green life-forms.
We May Finally Know Where Vicious 'Black Widow' Pulsars Come From By Rafi Letzter These little "redback" and "black widow" stars have intensely magnetic poles, which could help explain how they eat their twins.
Toothless Druid Woman's Face Comes Alive in Wax, Wrinkles and All By Laura Geggel A toothless skull was all that researchers had of one of Scotland's oldest known Druids, but now they have something more: a wax re-creation of her face.
Hidden 'Jurassic World' of Volcanoes Uncovered in Australia By Mindy Weisberger About 100 volcanoes dating to the Jurassic era were recently discovered buried under the basins of central Australia.
Teen Has 3-Pound Hair Ball Removed from Her Stomach By Rachael Rettner A teen girl in India who secretly ate her own hair ended up having a giant hairball removed from her stomach.
Vaping May Create Toxic Chemicals That Damage Your Blood Vessels By Yasemin Saplakoglu Here’s another reason vaping may not be good for you.
Men Are Being Warned Not to Eat Lichen Touted as 'Natural Viagra' By Rachael Rettner Experts in New Zealand are warning men not to consume a type of lichen that's been touted as a natural treatment for erectile dysfunction.
Thousands of Tarantulas Are About to Set Off on Their Annual Migration in Colorado By Mindy Weisberger In southeastern Colorado, male Oklahoma brown tarantulas will soon begin their annual migration to reach the prairies where female spiders live.
Newly Discovered 'Monster' Penguin Was As Tall As an Adult Human By Laura Geggel Fish swam for their lives when they encountered a forbidding, ancient "monster" penguin that would have towered over today's largest penguin.
Scientists Figure Out Why There Are Black Squirrels All Over the United States By Rafi Letzter A team of biologists from the United Kingdom thinks that they've decoded the mystery of all the gray squirrels running around the United States with black fur.
'Terminator' Android Preaches Buddhist Wisdom at Ancient Japanese Temple By Tom Metcalfe This android preaches Buddhist wisdom from the heart.
How a Silent Cosmos Led Humans to Fear the Worst By Thomas Moynihan If all aliens have gone extinct, what does the future hold for humanity?
Too Much Karaoke Sent a Man to the Hospital with a Collapsed Lung By Mindy Weisberger A man in China sang karaoke for so long and with such intensity that he suffered a collapsed lung.
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week By Live Science Staff Here are the most interesting, amazing and unusual things that happened in the world of science this week. A recap of Live Science's best.
Amazing Images: The Best Science Photos of the Week By Livescience.com Here are the stories behind the most amazing images in the world of science this week. A recap of the coolest photos featured on Live Science.
Firearms Are 2nd-Leading Cause of Death in Kids and Teens By Marc A Zimmerman, Rebecca Cunningham Here are the facts on the U.S. children and teens killed by guns.
Was Deadly Explosion Off the Arctic Coast the Result of a Nuclear-Powered Russian Weapon? By Edd Gent An explosion off Russia's Arctic coast has led to speculation that the incident resulted from a failed test of a nuclear-powered cruise missile. Do the details add up?
'Mad' Flat-Earther's Steam Rocket Launch Grounded by Bad Water Heater Bought on Craigslist By Chelsea Gohd "Mad" Mike Hughes will have to wait until this weekend to launch after having issues with the water heater for his steam-powered rocket.
