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Live Science spoke with Nobel prize-winning physicist David Gross, who recently received the $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, about the quest to unite all the forces and ...

A comprehensive new study combines decades of research to reveal that we're missing an essential component in our understanding of how the universe works.

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An ancient-DNA analysis of a rare Anglo-Saxon double burial revealed the people in the grave were brother and sister.

A researcher explains what we know — and what we don't — about the link between loneliness and memory problems.

In a galaxy 500 million light-years away, two supermassive black holes could merge, spreading gravitational waves across the ...

This unique carved altar represents the triumph of light over darkness in ancient Roman religion. When you purchase through ...

A group of hackers used both Claude Code and ChatGPT in a cybersecurity hack that lasted two and a half months. Nine Mexican ...

The first well-observed "civil war" in wild chimpanzees reveals that shifting social ties alone can fracture a group, ...

Scientists discovered that making a very small change to female mice's DNA caused them to develop male reproductive organs.