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Why does metal squeak?

Squeaking metal can be grating on the nerves, but it serves an important purpose.

LiveScience · Aug 13, 2024

'This could be the origin of the Atlantis legend': Mountain that sank beneath the waves discovered off Canary Islands

A large seamount with three inactive volcanoes that sank into the ocean millions of years ago off the coast of Lanzarote may have inspired the legend of Atlantis.

LiveScience · Aug 12, 2024

Fossils from Greenland's icy heart reveal it was a green tundra covered in flowers less than 1 million years ago

Greenland was almost completely ice-free at some point in the last one million years, fossilized flowers from a core sample taken from the center of the island reveal.

LiveScience · Aug 11, 2024

Double mastectomies don't increase cancer survival, study suggests

Other types of surgery besides double mastectomies are equally good at lowering death rates in women with cancer in one breast.

LiveScience · Aug 9, 2024

What's the difference between gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria?

There are two main types of bacteria, and these categories reflect the microbes' biology and their vulnerability to different antibiotics.

LiveScience · Aug 9, 2024

Scientists have found a secret 'switch' that lets bacteria resist antibiotics — and it's been evading lab tests for decades

Microbiologists are on a quest to unravel a rare phenomenon involved in antibiotic resistance and how it may change our understanding of infections.

LiveScience · Aug 9, 2024

Scientists drill longest-ever piece of Earth's mantle from underwater mountain near 'Lost City'

Scientists just pulled the longest hunk of Earth's mantle from beneath the ocean.

LiveScience · Aug 8, 2024

Plate tectonics fired up at least 3 billion years ago, study of ancient rocks in Australia indicates

Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known arc-slicing fault in Australia, intensifying the debate over the origins of plate tectonics.

LiveScience · Aug 7, 2024

'A king will die': 4,000-year-old lunar eclipse omen tablets finally deciphered

Tablets added to the British Museum's collection many decades ago have finally been deciphered.

LiveScience · Aug 6, 2024

17th-century pirate 'corsair' shipwreck discovered off Morocco's Barbary Coast

The wreck is the first time the remains of a pirate corsair have been found in the region known as the Barbary Coast.

LiveScience · Aug 5, 2024