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People with a rare genetic disorder that damages the amygdala are helping neuroscientists rethink how the brain shapes fear, trust and concern for others

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Scientists are trying to understand Venus' bright surface formations, called coronae, using new 3D maps.

This funerary shroud was made from thousands of multicolored beads and woven to represent a human face and a large scarab beetle.

The largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is heating up.

When running an AI model through a quantum computer, scientists have increased accuracy by only adding a relatively small number of parameters.

Many medieval castles were formidable stone fortifications. Live Science takes a look at six that were never conquered.

Live Science spoke with Alika Maunakea, an Native Hawaiian epigeneticist, about how epigenetics underpins health disparities between Native Hawaiians and others in Hawaii.

China's Tianzhou-10 mission just delivered embryo-like structures made from living stem cells to the Tiangong space station. Experiments could shed light on how radiation and microgravity affect human reproduction.

On its way to a metal asteroid, NASA's Psyche probe tested its cameras as it got a gravity assist from the Red Planet.

It helped to have a number of features to aid survival following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.

Techniques for analyzing DNA have advanced, enabling scientists to better understand disease outbreaks throughout history.

Generative AI is destroying the baseline assumption that photographs bear some causal connection to reality. That's bad news for democracy.

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Experts say the Ebola outbreak raging in Central Africa could be challenging to contain due to ongoing conflict in the region and a lack of vaccines and international aid.

A "foundational" study found that the brains of children with ADHD matured later, but that finding was likely a mirage tied to issues with how the children were followed over time.

Dead seal pups on a Canadian island have been found with mysterious spiral-shaped injuries for years. The wounds were thought to be the work of sharks or boat propellers, but new research confirms a different cause.

A technique that has rewritten the timeline of prehistoric art may be overestimating the ages of cave paintings, some scientists say.