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Gun violence is a uniquely American epidemic, according to Dr. Selwyn Rogers Jr., the founding director of the University of Chicago Medicine Trauma Center.Rogers helped found the trauma center in…
Science word of the day: AllelePronunciation: Ah-LEEL’What it means: Genes contain the instructions for the various proteins that determine traits, such as eye color or blood type. An allele is…
A powerful earthquake struck southwestern Japan Tuesday afternoon local time, collapsing part of a shopping mall, toppling a stone wall at the centuries-old Kumamoto Castle, and sending more than 150,000…
In a string of a dozen small galaxies hung in the sky like a row of cosmic fairy lights, astronomers have discovered a small, ghostly galaxy without any dark matter.…
Scientists may have found a way to rejuvenate key cells that help rebuild muscle in the body and thus preserve muscle into old age, they report in a new mouse…
A pod of killer whales has sunk another yacht off northwestern Spain, reinforcing a bizarre pattern of vessel encounters that has stretched on for more than six years along the…
We’ve all heard of the fearsome megalodon, the largest known shark to have ever lived, but how about its predecessors, contemporaries and successors? Shark Week premiere “Jurassic Sharks” uses CGI…
For over 20 years, Live Science has been committed to bringing you the latest breakthroughs and incredible discoveries with clarity, authority and good humor (when appropriate, of course). In that…
Aug. 12, 2026, promises to be a big day for anyone interested in the sky. By day, a solar eclipse will be visible across parts of North America and Europe.…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Murgha Kibzai, Sulaiman Range, Pakistan [30.739354851, 69.50804296]What’s in the photo? Folded layers of rock left over from an ancient continental collisionWhich satellite took the photo? NASA’s…