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Last Cyber Monday deals 2024: Final deals still live on health & fitness gear, optics and science kits

By Anna Gora, Kimberley Lane, Jase Parnell-Brookes, Keumars Afifi-Sabet last updated

Deal Cyber Monday 2024 is over but we've checked and there are still discounts on air purifiers, electric toothbrushes, rowing machines, telescopes, binoculars, microscopes, cameras and more.

Deal
Portrait of a Mathematician by Mary Beale, oil on canvas, c.1680. The portrait is now believed to be of the 17th century English scientist, Robert Hooke (1635-1703).

32 important scientists you've probably never heard of

By Tom Metcalfe published

These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine.

Archaeology
Joseph Dituri sits infront of an undersea window holding bags of biological samples he collected from himself

Meet 'Dr. Deep Sea,' the scientist who broke the record for the longest time living underwater

By Harry Baker published

Joseph Dituri, who recently broke the record for the longest time spent living underwater, tells Live Science what he has learned during his time beneath the waves.

Rivers & Oceans
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AI chatbot ChatGPT can't create convincing scientific papers… yet

By Harry Baker published

A computer model created by researchers can detect ChatGPT-generated fake studies more than 99% of the time, a new study shows.

Artificial Intelligence
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Science news this week: Sinking cities and tree of life mysteries

By Alexander McNamara published

May 27, 2023: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news over the past few days, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Planet Earth
Composite of a simulation of an enormous solar flare and coronal mass ejection (CME) blasting out of the sun and an artist's interpretation of what Tyrannosaurus rex may have looked like.

Science news this week: The spark of life in space and 1.7 billion T. rexes

By Alexander McNamara published

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news over the past few days, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Space
Jane Goodall with a chimpanzee

25 amazing women in science and math

By Tom Garlinghouse last updated

From the first woman to win a Nobel Prize to the discoverer of jumping genes, here are some of the women who have made major contributions to science and mathematics.

Human Behavior
An artist's illustration of Orion reentering the Earth's atmosphere.

What will NASA's Artemis I mission teach us?

By Brandon Specktor last updated

Launching the world's most powerful rocket is just the beginning.

Space Exploration
An illustration of a young planet forming from rocky asteroids. Some pieces careen off into the atmosphere of the local star.

Crushed-up planets around dead stars could rewrite the history of the solar system

By Brandon Specktor published

A new study of white dwarfs with "polluted" atmospheres is causing scientists to rethink how and when planets form.

Planets
A composite image showing the 58 galaxies clustered together in the "zone of avoidance" behind the Milky Way.

Scientists discover massive 'extragalactic structure' behind the Milky Way

By Brandon Specktor published

An uncharted region of space known as the "zone of avoidance" lurks behind the Milky Way's center – and astronomers just found an enormous, multi-galaxy structure there.

Space
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