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Penguin Vessel: 1,600-year-old Nazca depiction of a cold-water Humboldt penguin that lives in tropical Peru

A rare penguin-shaped pot reveals the Nazca's interest in depicting the wildlife around them.

LiveScience · Jul 7, 2025

What color is moonlight?

What color is moonlight typically, and what other colors can moonlight look like from our perspective on Earth?

LiveScience · Jul 7, 2025

Buck Moon 2025: How to spot the year's farthest full moon from the sun

July's full "Buck Moon" will be at its fullest on Thursday, July 10, and will be best seen at moonrise. It is the farthest full moon from the sun all year and one of the lowest in the sky.

LiveScience · Jul 6, 2025

AI chatbots oversimplify scientific studies and gloss over critical details — the newest models are especially guilty

More advanced AI chatbots are more likely to oversimplify complex scientific findings based on the way they interpret the data they are trained on, a new study suggests.

LiveScience · Jul 5, 2025

Why are men taller than women, on average?

We don't know exactly why men are taller than women on average, but we have some genetic clues.

LiveScience · Jul 5, 2025

Scientists transform pee into material fit for medical implants

A new method for chemically altering human urine could be used for producing medical implants and construction materials, scientists claim.

LiveScience · Jul 4, 2025

Oldest wooden tools unearthed in East Asia show that ancient humans made planned trips to dig up edible plants

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments for specific purposes.

LiveScience · Jul 4, 2025

Astronaut snaps giant red 'jellyfish' sprite over North America during upward-shooting lightning event

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured an electrifying image of a giant lightning "sprite" shooting up over Mexico and southern U.S. states. The red "jellyfish" could help researchers learn more about this rare phenomenon.

LiveScience · Jul 4, 2025

Tiwanaku: A little-known pre-Incan civilization that built temples and cities high in the Andes

This ancient city in modern-day Bolivia is almost 13,000 feet above sea level. Only a small portion of the ruins have been excavated.

LiveScience · Jul 4, 2025

Giant radio telescope in the Utah desert could reveal hidden corners of the cosmos — and brand-new physics

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic Array 2000 — could uncover some of the biggest outstanding mysteries in astronomy.

LiveScience · Jul 4, 2025