Live Science Scientists zoom in on HIV inside a test tube, find critical steps in infection Live Science - Nicoletta Lanese Scientists have finally recreated the initial steps of HIV infection in a test tube, offering an incredibly zoomed-in view of the virus in action. The …
Live ScienceScience 2 women earn Chemistry Nobel Prize for gene-editing tool CRISPR Live Science - Nicoletta Lanese The 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry went to two women who developed a gene-editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9, which snips DNA like a pair of molecular …
Live ScienceTechnology XPrize launches $5 million competition for better COVID-19 tests Live Science - Rachael Rettner The competition will last six months, with winners announced in early 2021. A new XPrize competition calls on the "world's brightest minds" to develop …
Live Science Nikola Tesla vs. Thomas Edison: Who Was the Better Inventor? Live Science - Tia Ghose Nikola Tesla would have celebrated his 164th birthday today (July 10). The Serbian-American scientist was a brilliant and eccentric genius whose …
Live ScienceScience Completely New Form of Gold Created Live Science - Yasemin Saplakoglu Under extreme conditions, gold rearranges its atoms and forms a previously unknown structure. And when the pressures were pushed to the equivalent of …
Live Science This Mathematician's 'Mysterious' New Method Just Solved a 30-Year-Old Problem Live Science - Rafi Letzter A mathematician has solved a 30-year-old problem at the boundary between mathematics and computer science. He used an innovative, elegant proof that …
Live ScienceU.S. Dept. of Defense 'Talking Lasers' That Beam Messages into Your Head Could Be Here in 5 Years, Pentagon Says Live Science - Brandon Specktor As a part of a military initiative called the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWP), the project aims to create laser weapons that can …
Live ScienceMagnetism In a Lab Accident, Scientists Create the First-Ever Permanently Magnetic Liquid Live Science - Yasemin Saplakoglu For the first time, scientists have created a permanently magnetic liquid. These liquid droplets can morph into various shapes and be externally …
Live Science 'Spooky' Quantum Entanglement Finally Captured in Stunning Photo Live Science - Yasemin Saplakoglu Scientists just captured the first-ever photo of the phenomenon dubbed "spooky action at a distance" by Albert Einstein. That phenomenon, called …
Live Science 5G Network: How It Works, and Is It Dangerous? Live Science - Tim Childers The fifth generation of cellular technology, 5G, is the next leap in speed for wireless devices. This speed includes both the rate mobile users can …
Live Science A Sunken Soviet Sub Is Raising the Radioactivity of the Norwegian Sea 800,000-Fold. But Don't Worry. Live Science - Laura Geggel A Cold War Soviet nuclear submarine met disaster 30 years ago when it sank in the Norwegian Sea, leading to the deaths of 42 sailors. But instead of …
Live Science Space Archaeology Is a Thing. And It Involves Lasers and Spy Satellites Live Science - Mindy Weisberger What does it take to be a space archaeologist? No, you don't need a rocket or a spacesuit. However, lasers are sometimes involved. And infrared …
Live ScienceUranium Here's What It Really Means That Iran Enriched Uranium to 4.5% Live Science - Rafi Letzter Iran claims it has enriched uranium to 4.5%, breaking the limit of 3.67% set during the 2015 nuclear deal. The move was a response to the U.S. …
Live Science Book Excerpt: 'Archaeology From Space' Live Science - Mindy Weisberger Archaeologist Sarah Parcak studies lost cities of the ancient world. But unlike the fictional archaeologist Indiana Jones — and generations of …
Live Science Mysterious X-37B Military Space Plane Caught on Camera (Photo) space.com - Leonard David Skywatcher and satellite tracker Ralf Vandebergh of the Netherlands recently caught a rare glimpse of the U.S. Air Force's secretive X-37B space …
Live Science Why Blue Fireworks Are So Rare Live Science - Paul E. Smith In the earliest days of the United States, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail about the celebration of independence, "It ought to be solemnized …
Live Science Atomic Clocks Explained: NASA Set To Launch a Deep Space Timekeeper Monday space.com - Kasandra Brabaw Update, June 24 at 9:20 p.m. EDT: SpaceX has announced they are now targeting a 2:30 a.m. EDT (0630 GMT) launch time, three hours into their original …
Live Science Cells Shimmer Like a Thousand Ice Cream Sprinkles in Gorgeous New 'DNA Microscope' Images Live Science - Laura Geggel What looks like a kaleidoscope of glowing ice cream sprinkles or a cross between a nebula and a 1980s dance party is actually something even more …
Live Science Forget Moore's Law — Quantum Computers Are Improving According to a Spooky 'Doubly Exponential Rate' Live Science - Tia Ghose The era of quantum supremacy is nigh. Quantum computers, which make calculations with entangled particles, or qubits, are poised to overtake their …
Live Science AI Listened to People's Voices. Then It Generated Their Faces. Live Science - Mindy Weisberger Have you ever constructed a mental image of a person you've never seen, based solely on their voice? Artificial intelligence (AI) can now do that, …
Live ScienceCryptography What Is Cryptography? Live Science - Nicoletta Lanese Since ancient times, people have relied on cryptography, the art of writing and solving coded messages, to keep their secrets secure. In the fifth …
Live ScienceChernobyl There Are Still 10 Chernobyl-Style Reactors Operating Across Russia. How Do We Know They're Safe? Live Science - Stephanie Pappas Editor's Note: This story was updated on Monday, June 10 at 4:45 p.m. E.D.T. In the new HBO miniseries "Chernobyl," Russian scientists uncover the …
Live ScienceAviation This 'Doomsday Plane' Can Survive a Nuclear Attack Live Science - Yasemin Saplakoglu The U.S. Air Force's E-4B, otherwise known as the "doomsday plane" may be able to withstand the force of a nuclear detonation. This mostly windowless …
Live Science The Tendency for Order to Emerge from Chaos Was Hidden in the Most Fundamental Equations of Fluid Mechanics Live Science - Yasemin Saplakoglu While order often devolves to chaos, sometimes the reverse is true. Turbulent fluid, for example, has a tendency to spontaneously form a tidy …
Live ScienceMathematics Mathematicians Edge Closer to Solving a 'Million Dollar' Math Problem Live Science - Rafi Letzter Did a team of mathematicians just take a big step toward answering a 160-year-old, million-dollar question in mathematics? Maybe. The crew did solve a …
Live Science This Animated Mona Lisa Was Created by AI, and It Is Terrifying Live Science - Mindy Weisberger The enigmatic, painted smile of the "Mona Lisa" is known around the world, but that famous face recently displayed a startling new range of …
Live Science Did Scientists Just Break the Record for Highest-Temperature Superconductor? Maybe. Live Science - Yasemin Saplakoglu A superconductor lets electricity flow through it perfectly, without losing any of it. Now, scientists have discovered a superconducting material that …
Live ScienceDARPA The Government Is Serious About Creating Mind-Controlled Weapons Live Science - Edd Gent DARPA, the Department of Defense's research arm, is paying scientists to invent ways to instantly read soldiers' minds using tools like genetic …
Live Science Startup Hermeus Wants to Build a Hypersonic Jet That Flies at 5 Times the Speed of Sound space.com - Doris Elin Urrutia A U.S. venture-capital firm recently led a round of seed investment for Hermeus Corp., a new startup looking to develop a hypersonic aircraft. Hermeus …
