The United States rejected as “false” a claim by the Washington Free Beacon that it had “walked back” its recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights.“US policy regarding the Golan has not changed, and reports to the contrary are false,” the State Department tweeted under its Near Eastern Affairs account on Friday.It spoke up less than…
As the battle of digital consumer privacy grows more complex and intense, most consumers are shrouded in a fog of war.Mozilla, the nonprofit that operates the Firefox browser, aims to change that with Rally, a new browser extension designed to democratize internet research and expand consumer awareness of how data is collected and used by…
Home News This illustration shows what “Dragon man” may have looked like during his lifetime at least 146,000 years ago. (Image credit: Chuang Zhao) The skull of an ancient human discovered in northeastern China may belong to a previously unknown human species that scientists have dubbed Homo longi, or “Dragon Man,” three new studies report.Dragon…
Home News (Image credit: Diana Whitcroft for Live Science.) This Friday (June 25), we will explore the wondrous world of constellations in our new kids video series: Summer School with Live Science.In this week’s installment, Live Science producer, Diana Whitcroft, will teach you how to construct a constellation projector using simple materials found in just…
Home News This image created with satellite data shows extreme heat in the Southwest on June 15, 2021. The region has been facing heat waves and drought going into the summer. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC. Story by…
Home News Original excavation photograph of Tsukumo No. 24. (Image credit: Courtesy of the Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Kyoto University) About 3,000 years ago, a shark fatally mauled a man in waters near western Japan. The encounter left a map of horrific scars spread across the man’s skeleton, and parts of his body were never…
Home News The Cape honeybee worker has been shown to clone itself millions of times. (Image credit: Shutterstock) When hives of the African lowland honeybee (Apis mellifera scutella) collapse, they do so because of an invisible inner threat: the growing, immortal clone army of a rival bee subspecies.That army is possible because the female workers…
In mid-June, China launched a manned spacecraft that successfully docked with the previously launched 54-foot-long (17-meter-long) core module of its new Tiangong space station, and delivered the first trio of astronauts who’ll spend the next three months there, working on getting the station running. It was the third in a series of 11 space missions…
Just before 2 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time June 24, the Champlain Towers South Tower in Surfside, Florida, partially collapsed.The 12-story building with 136 apartments was built in 1981 on reclaimed wetlands. More than 55 apartments have been destroyed. At least four people are confirmed dead — and more than 150 people remain unaccounted for. Many others…
Here’s the story of how a pair of central Asian reptiles made spacefaring history.On May 25, 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy took the podium at a joint session of Congress and said, “I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on…
