Rocket launch costs have dropped 96% since 1960. How low can they go?
The costs of space launch have fallen 96% in the past six decades and have the potential to plummet by nearly as much by...
The hunger-striking engineer demanding education reforms in India
Image source, RTRBySimon FraserAsia digital editor, LondonPublished34 minutes agoSonam Wangchuk is a well-known Indian a...
British vial of smallpox scabs triggered the devastating 1789 outbreak among Indigenous Australians, study finds
It's long been debated what started the devastating 1789 smallpox outbreak among Indigenous Australians. Now, a new mode...
Did Viking 1 find life on Mars 50 years ago? Here's why the debate continues
Did Viking 1 find evidence of life on Mars? Fifty years after the NASA lander touched down, the jury is still out.
'We were genuinely surprised': 'Superworms' can clean extremely delicate skeletons lickety-split, and that's a game changer for museums
Biologists Niloofar Alaei Kakhki and Morteza Monfared tell Live Science how beetle larvae could be repurposed from pet f...
An artificial 'Saturn's ring' of satellites could soon fill the sky, astronomers warn
A bright Saturn's ring of satellites will encircle Earth if plans to launch a million orbiting data centers and tens of ...
Mummy mask with wig: A 1,000-year-old 'false head' found in Peru that was crafted with real human hair and toxic red cinnabar
Stylized masks like this one adorned pre-Inca mummies in Peru hundreds of years ago.
The Best Genetic Risk Tools Don’t Work Equally for Everyone
Genetic prediction models are poised to revolutionize medicine. But because they have been trained on European DNA, they...
Science word of the day: Heliosphere
Science word of the day: HeliospherePronunciation: HEE'-lee-uhs-feerWhat it means: The heliosphere is the region around ...
Fight to save rare ecosystem of chalk streams
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Controversial farm subsidy scheme gets billion pound budget
Image source, Chris Jackson/Getty ImagesImage caption, The announcement was made on the opening day of the Royal Welsh S...
'Hidden time-capsule of UK biodiversity' unlocked
Image source, Royal Agricultural UniversityImage caption, More than 10,000 specimens are held at the Royal Agricultural ...