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Experts have unraveled substantial new text from two carbonized Herculaneum scrolls, including what may be a previously unknown work by a Stoic philosopher.

A unique policy in Japan encourages doctors to improve their antibiotic use and thus reduce their contribution to antibiotic resistance. Should the U.S. be taking notes?

China's Line Shine supercomputer is the most powerful in the world and the first the country has hosted since 2017.

A small, bronze sculpture depicting a death scene in the Trojan War once graced an Etruscan box.

June's full Strawberry Moon will be the lowest-hanging and one of the smallest full moons of 2026. It will be at its fullest on Monday night, June 29.

Around 40% of people around the world are avoiding the news. Here's why, according to a psychologist.

When the sun dies, it will become hundreds of times its current size and engulf the innermost planets. Earth may escape this infernal fate, according to state-of-the-art stellar evolution models.

Scientists are exploring new algorithms, hardware and computing methods to lower AI's power demands. Strategic siting of datacenters and other steps to increase green energy use are also key.

Researchers report that younger adults with older‑than‑expected biological ages are more likely to develop early‑onset lung, gastrointestinal and uterine cancers, but more research is needed.

Astronomers and citizen scientists have discovered RAD-BAARG, a radio galaxy with a striking bow-and-arrow shape, offering a rare direct view of a galaxy falling into the environment of a galaxy cluster.

If you push two metal plates together on Earth, nothing happens. In space, they can fuse into one. Here's why.

Large groups have their pros and cons. But a changing climate may push them off balance.

A new podcast from All About History magazine dives into an alternate reality of what may have happened during the famous battles between Carthage and Rome.

June 27, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Thanks to AI, one of the key pillars of scientific evidence — stunning imagery that often defies belief — is crumbling.

The Romans have a reputation for building straight roads — but how did they do it?

Live Science spoke with Colin Domnauer, a PhD student in ethnobiology whose unraveling of a mushroom mystery could reveal a new hallucinogenic compound.

From the Andes to the steppes of Central Asia, great empires have waxed and waned. Can you match each territory to the culture that once ruled it?

The Shenlong, or "divine dragon," space plane just deployed a mysterious payload above our planet. The top-secret spacecraft, which has never been properly photographed, has now released at least nine objects in low Earth orbit.

AI-generated text and chatbots increasingly cause real-world harms. The companies that make them need to be held accountable for those harms.