Amazing Images: The Best Science Photos of the Week By Livescience.com Each week we find the most interesting and informative articles we can and along the way we uncover amazing and cool images. Here you'll discover 10 incredible photos and the stories behind…

Atheris is a genus of venomous vipers known as bush vipers. They are found in tropical subsaharan Africa (excluding southern Africa). Many species have isolated and fragmented distributions due to their confinement to rain forests. Original Photo credit:…

Scientists have found a drug that regenerates teeth, and it could reduce the need for fillings

This Young Woman Suffers From A Rare Condition Called 'Sleeping Beauty Syndrome,' And It's Exactly What You Think

Dwykaselachus oosthuizeni: Permian Fossil Reveals Origins of Chimaeras CT scans of the fossilized skull of Dwykaselachus oosthuizeni — a shark-like fish that lived during the Permian period, around 280 million years ago — reveal the origin of chimaeras, a…

In the 1950s, the National Park Service wanted to cover the Delicate Arch in a clear plastic coating. Why the plastic coating?

Natural brain-information interfaces: Recommending information by relevance inferred from human brain signals

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After A Million Years, An Ancient 'Hero Bug' Emerged From This Cave, And It Might Change Everything

This could be the best explanation yet for that baffling 'alien megastructure' star

As the element that makes up 75 percent of all the mass in the Universe, and more than 90 percent of all the atoms, we’re all pretty well acquainted with hydrogen.  But the simplest and most abundant element in the Universe still has some tricks up its sleeve…

For the first time, physicists have cooled a mechanical object to a temperature colder than previously thought possible, taking it below the so-called "quantum limit" and bending the laws of physics. Using a new technique, the team managed to chill a microscopic…

What is human consciousness and where does it come from? Throughout the ages, some of our greatest minds have probed this question, and struggled to find answers. Today, different disciplines offer varying definitions. One theory says it is meta-cognition…

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Save the Date: 5 Years from Now, Scientists Expect an Explosive Red Nova In 2008, V1309 Scorpii, a binary, or double-star, system, produced a spectacular red nova when its pair of stars merged. When two stars come together this way, the resulting explosion…