Scientists have created the smallest QR code in the world, measuring just 3.07 × 10⁻⁹ square inches (1.98 square micrometers). It can preserve data for thousands of years and it's so small that you ...

A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these celestial objects less random.

Live Science spoke with the scientists behind an upcoming clinical trial testing an immune therapy for depression.

Two researchers discuss how ancient DNA is used to track how people moved and lived during Britain's bronze age.

The spider-shaped sword ornament was created in Ghana in the 19th century and was passed down in a Texas family for ...

A new vehicle is the first mass-produced passenger EV with a viable sodium-based alternative to conventional lithium-ion ...

Many types of body modification date back hundreds or thousands of years, revealing our ancient ancestors were not that ...

In the study, published Friday (March 6) in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, researchers used statistical evidence to demonstrate accelerated warming in the past decade, ...

Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant "megamaser" to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward ...

Scientists at Nankai University, Tianjin, developed a high-energy, solid-state battery system that they claim has already ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to why.

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, are still alive in Papuan Indonesia.