IBM's question-answering whiz, the Watson computer system, is digging into aerospace research and data to help NASA answer questions on the frontier of spaceflight science and make crucial decisions in the moment during air travel.
More than 400 ancient texts have been saved at the Mar Behnam monastery, a place that ISIS had occupied for more than two years.
A few weeks before the Islamic State group (also called ISIS) occupied the Mar Behnam monastery, a young priest hid more than 400 ancient texts behind a makeshift wall. Here's a look at the monastery and texts.
At your next doctor's exam, one thing will be certain: Your physician won't be using powdered medical gloves.
Is the U.S. in for a bitterly cold winter or a bearable one? It all depends on where you live, according to a three-month outlook published by the U.S. Climate Prediction Center.
Petrified lightning could provide insight into how much energy is produced during these shocking strikes.
In August 2015, lava flows were captured by the Remotely Operated Vehicle Jason during the Axial Expedition 2015.
Scientists now think that a a weird sound that was recorded in the Mariana Trench in the Western Pacific Ocean may be that of a minke whale, a type of baleen whale.
A physicist tries to figure out if it's possible to build Star Wars' Death Star, the moon-size space station with a weapon powerful enough to destroy a planet.
Around the deepest parts of the ocean, scientists eavesdropped on whale conversations.
Hairy-chested crabs and alien-looking worms festoon mineral chimneys along the seafloor, nourished by the sizzling-hot fluids gushing out from these "spires." Check out these amazing photos of the deep-sea animals.
Surprising connections emerge between the world's undersea vents, including the Jabberwocky vent.
The Yosemite Valley's beautiful landscape of promontories, sheer walls, domes and waterfalls create some of the most scenic views anywhere in North America.
Six people in Colorado recently became infected with a "nightmare" superbug that until now, has mostly been limited to people in hospitals.
Earthquake cloaks, made up of thousands of precisely drilled boreholes, could potentially deflect seismic waves from expensive infrastructure.
Music icon Jimi Hendrix is famous for his many songs, including "Purple Haze" and "The Wind Cries Mary," but now he'll also be remembered for an entirely different reason: Botanists have named a newfound species of rare, flowery succulent after him.
From navigating turbulence, to sleeping midflight, to soaring without a sound, animals' flight adaptations are helping scientists design better flying robots.
MEL Chemistry is a next-generation series of chemistry experiments that arrive in the mail every month. Live Science's Mindy Weisberger explains and performs an experiment from the kit.
