Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Diamonds may be the strongest known natural material, but researchers have just created some stiff competition.By firing a dime-sized graphite disk at a wall at 15,000 mph (24,100 km/h), scientists momentarily created a hexagonal diamond that is both stiffer and stronger than the natural, cubic kind. Hexagonal diamonds, also known as Lonsdaleite diamonds, are a special type of diamond with arranged in a hexagonal pattern. Formed when graphite is exposed to...…Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Diamonds may be the strongest known natural material, but researchers have just created some stiff competition.By firing a dime-sized graphite disk at a wall at 15,000 mph (24,100 km/h), scientists momentarily created a hexagonal diamond that is both stiffer and stronger than the natural, cubic kind. Hexagonal diamonds, also known as Lonsdaleite diamonds, are a special type of diamond with arranged in a hexagonal pattern. Formed when graphite is exposed to...WW…

Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .A man who lived in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas sometime between 1,000 and 1,400 years ago may have died from a horrible case of constipation, according to a study of his mummified remains. And during the painful months just prior to his death, he ate mainly grasshoppers, the study researchers found. Apparently, Chagas disease, which is caused by a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi, had blocked up the man's . That blockage caused his colon to swell...…Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .A man who lived in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas sometime between 1,000 and 1,400 years ago may have died from a horrible case of constipation, according to a study of his mummified remains. And during the painful months just prior to his death, he ate mainly grasshoppers, the study researchers found. Apparently, Chagas disease, which is caused by a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi, had blocked up the man's . That blockage caused his colon to swell...WW…

Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .The fossils of a newly discovered cousin — a vicious, meat-eating dinosaur with serrated teeth and a monstrous face that scientists are calling the "reaper of death," has been discovered in Alberta, Canada. At 79.5 million years old, Thanatotheristes degrootorum is the oldest known named tyrannosaur on record from northern North America, a region that includes Canada and the northern part of the western United States, said researchers of a new study on the...…Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .The fossils of a newly discovered cousin — a vicious, meat-eating dinosaur with serrated teeth and a monstrous face that scientists are calling the "reaper of death," has been discovered in Alberta, Canada. At 79.5 million years old, Thanatotheristes degrootorum is the oldest known named tyrannosaur on record from northern North America, a region that includes Canada and the northern part of the western United States, said researchers of a new study on the...WW…

Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Wildfires are burning the West Coast, hurricanes are flooding the Southeast — and some of those storms are rising from the dead. "Zombie storms," which regain strength after initially petering out, are the newest addition to the year 2020. And these undead weather anomalies are becoming more common thanks to ."Because 2020, we now have Zombie Tropical Storms. Welcome back to the land of the living, Tropical Storm #Paulette," the National Weather Service on...…Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Wildfires are burning the West Coast, hurricanes are flooding the Southeast — and some of those storms are rising from the dead. "Zombie storms," which regain strength after initially petering out, are the newest addition to the year 2020. And these undead weather anomalies are becoming more common thanks to ."Because 2020, we now have Zombie Tropical Storms. Welcome back to the land of the living, Tropical Storm #Paulette," the National Weather Service on...WW…

Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .A team of physicists has made what might be the first-ever detection of an axion.Axions are unconfirmed, hypothetical ultralight particles from beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, which describes the behavior of . Theoretical physicists first proposed the existence of axions in the 1970s in order to resolve problems in the math governing the , which binds particles called quarks together. But axions have since become a popular explanation for , the...…Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .A team of physicists has made what might be the first-ever detection of an axion.Axions are unconfirmed, hypothetical ultralight particles from beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, which describes the behavior of . Theoretical physicists first proposed the existence of axions in the 1970s in order to resolve problems in the math governing the , which binds particles called quarks together. But axions have since become a popular explanation for , the...WW…

Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Two new satellite images remind us that Earth's ice sheets are losing so much mass it's becoming obvious from space.In the vivid new maps published as part of an April 30 study in the journal, researchers illustrated 16 years of ice loss in and as seen by a laser-emitting NASA satellite. The images paint a picture of rapid melt around the coasts of both regions (shown in red and purple in the maps), far outweighing modest ice-mass gains (shown in light blue) farther...…Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Two new satellite images remind us that Earth's ice sheets are losing so much mass it's becoming obvious from space.In the vivid new maps published as part of an April 30 study in the journal, researchers illustrated 16 years of ice loss in and as seen by a laser-emitting NASA satellite. The images paint a picture of rapid melt around the coasts of both regions (shown in red and purple in the maps), far outweighing modest ice-mass gains (shown in light blue) farther...WW…

Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .is an enormous magnet, its iron-rich core creating a shield of that envelopes the planet —— well, almost. A "dent" in this magnetic field known as the South Atlantic Anomaly allows charged particles from the sun to dip closer to the planet in an area over South America and the Southern Atlantic Ocean. These particles, at the very least, can mess with instruments up in space. So NASA scientists and other researchers have no choice but to adapt to this hiccup in...…Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .is an enormous magnet, its iron-rich core creating a shield of that envelopes the planet —— well, almost. A "dent" in this magnetic field known as the South Atlantic Anomaly allows charged particles from the sun to dip closer to the planet in an area over South America and the Southern Atlantic Ocean. These particles, at the very least, can mess with instruments up in space. So NASA scientists and other researchers have no choice but to adapt to this hiccup in...WW…

TrendingLive Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow) among human cells (pink). This virus was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (Color has been added to the image to better show the virus and its environment.)(Image: © NIAID-RML)On Thursday (Feb. 13), the Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases revealed some of the first images of SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that has sickened over 60,000...…TrendingLive Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow) among human cells (pink). This virus was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (Color has been added to the image to better show the virus and its environment.)(Image: © NIAID-RML)On Thursday (Feb. 13), the Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases revealed some of the first images of SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that has sickened over 60,000...WW…

Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .A rare daytime fireball triggered a loud sonic boom across parts of the United Kingdom and France over the weekend.The sonic boom occurred at 2:50 p.m. local time on Saturday (March 20) and was reportedly heard in southwest England, Wales and northern France, . At first, most people assumed that the noise was the result of fighter jets, but the Ministry of Defence quikcly announced that this couldn't have been the case, .However, a handful of people on Twitter said...…Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .A rare daytime fireball triggered a loud sonic boom across parts of the United Kingdom and France over the weekend.The sonic boom occurred at 2:50 p.m. local time on Saturday (March 20) and was reportedly heard in southwest England, Wales and northern France, . At first, most people assumed that the noise was the result of fighter jets, but the Ministry of Defence quikcly announced that this couldn't have been the case, .However, a handful of people on Twitter said...WW…

Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .A year in space is no walk in the park. Just ask , the American astronaut who spent a year on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015.His long-term stay in space changed , he lost bone density, and he still had sore feet .But it's a whole other thing to survive in the naked space outside the protection of the ISS, where UV radiation, vacuum, huge temperature fluctuations, and microgravity are all imminent threats.So, it's quite a feat that a...…Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .A year in space is no walk in the park. Just ask , the American astronaut who spent a year on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015.His long-term stay in space changed , he lost bone density, and he still had sore feet .But it's a whole other thing to survive in the naked space outside the protection of the ISS, where UV radiation, vacuum, huge temperature fluctuations, and microgravity are all imminent threats.So, it's quite a feat that a...WW…