The optical illusion was developed by Mike Pickard and Gurpreet Singh from the University of Sunderland, and was a finalist in the 2019 Illusion of the Year competition From the seemingly endless staircase to ‘The Dress’, many optical illusions have…
The model on the right shows water flow in northern Greenland in the presence of a valley extending under glacial ice. SAN FRANCISCO — Far below the frozen cover of the Greenland ice sheet sprawls miles of bedrock — and…
A close-up view of the wingtip ESM sensors, or electronic support measures, on a U.S. Navy E-6A Mercury aircraft. To create the E-6B, Boeing modified the E-6A, adding various specialized equipment. A U.S. Navy “doomsday” aircraft, meant to survive a…
First place went to this colorful, fluorescent image of a tiny turtle embryo. Technicolor photos of delicate embryos, feathery mosquito headgear, a spider’s facial “hair” and an explosion of light in a frozen water droplet were just a few of…
Google’s Sycamore chip is kept cool inside their quantum cryostat. Google just took a quantum leap in computer science. Using the company’s state-of-the-art quantum computer, called Sycamore, Google has claimed “quantum supremacy” over the most powerful supercomputers in the world…
Seven supersonic jets of plasma collide during an early test firing of the Plasma Liner Experiment. Generating endless energy with zero emissions by just slamming hydrogen atoms together has been somewhat of a pipe dream for decades. Now, scientists may…
The mind-bending calculations required to predict how three heavenly bodies orbit each other have baffled physicists since the time of Sir Isaac Newton. Now artificial intelligence (A.I.) has shown that it can solve the problem in a fraction of the…
The Bloodhound set a top speed of 501 mph in tests in South Africa. An arrow-shaped car designed to reach supersonic speeds — it’s outfitted with a jet engine and its own parachute braking system — just reached 501 mph (806 km/h)…
No, you haven’t been sucked into a low-res video game — the new Tesla Cybertruck just looks like an animated armored vehicle whose pixels are taking a while to render. In September, Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk teased that…
Check out these fun gifts for the curious kids in your life. From STEM toys that promote the inner engineer to hands-on kits to help unlock your child’s creativity, here are some of Live Science’s favorite gift ideas for kids. …
The full-color model is made up of more than 6 million triangular polygons — 2D shapes that are the building blocks of a 3D digital object. When a German museum scanned a remarkable ancient Egyptian sculpture of the queen Nefertiti…
What’s the perfect gift for your favorite science geek? Do they need a levitating moon lamp? A galaxy blanket? Maybe a bracelet of the periodic table? And don’t forget that fashionable nerds can never have too many science themed socks…