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Fall stargazing 2026: The best skywatching sights in autumn (and how to see them)
18+ hour, 46+ min ago (1502+ words) As longer nights draw in over the fall, we see the return of some stargazing favorites, including the Andromeda Galaxy, the Pleiades star cluster and the first supermoon of the season. With fall now upon us, many of us will…...
Why do cats lick each other?
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (524+ words) Cats lick each other for multiple reasons, and some are more mysterious than others. In a multicat household, it's common to see one cat licking another. When some people see this behavior, known as allogrooming ("allo" means "another individual"), they…...
A Harvest Moon with 5 planets on the side: September is the best month for stargazing, and this year is extra special
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (361+ words) Generally mild weather and increasing hours of darkness make September a great month for observing, and this year, there's a particularly busy sky. There may be no better month to get outside and look at the stars than September, when…...
Do you think Al could ever become self-aware?
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (290+ words) Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Live Science. Formerly, she was the Content Manager at Space.com and before that the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics research institute. Kenna is also a book author, with her upcoming book…...
If AI thinks it's conscious, it's more likely to believe in vampires, karma and ghosts, new study shows. What does it mean for how we use it?
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (1062+ words) A new study shows that measures to stop AI's claims of consciousness have unintended consequences for non-human entities Removing safety guardrails that stop artificial intelligence (AI) from claiming that it's conscious also makes it more prone to express belief in…...
Where on Earth is safest from global catastrophe?
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (759+ words) Researchers have worked out the safest, most resilient country to be in during an apocalyptic event. In the event of a global catastrophe, such as a nuclear war, an enormous volcanic eruption or large asteroid strike, the best place to…...
How small can a transistor get?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (805+ words) For decades, engineers have been working to create smaller and smaller transistors to fit ever-larger numbers of them onto computer chips, all in the name of greater processing power. Now, in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), that effort has…...
Mathematicians made the world's fairest dice — they're 60-sided and can never end in a tie
1+ week, 1+ day ago (883+ words) A team of mathematicians discovered that five 60-sided dice, arranged with exactly the right numbers, can determine a perfectly fair turn order for any group of players, with zero chance of a tie. There could be no ties and no…...
New AI uses a fresh approach to reasoning that's potentially much cheaper
2+ week, 2+ day ago (648+ words) Scientists say that a new vector-based approach to cognition is dramatically cheaper than standard methods and signal the start of the "post-transformer" era of AI models. A new artificial intelligence (AI) model used a novel approach to AI cognition to…...
'It's kind of the holy grail of what is memory': Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez studies the physical basis of memory in a quest to manipulate it
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1392+ words) Steve Ramirez, a neuroscientist and author of "How to Change a Memory," tells editor Hannah Osborne about the science and ethics of memory manipulation, and the incredible power of our brains to recall our past. Live Science spoke with Ramirez…...