Giant sunspot that triggered recent solar ''superstorm'' shot out nearly 1,000 flares and a secret X-rated explosion, record-breaking study reveals (www.livescience.com)
Science history: Sophie Germain, first woman to win France''s prestigious ''Grand Mathematics Prize'' is snubbed when tickets to award ceremony are ''lost in the mail'' — Jan. 9, 1816 (www.livescience.com)
1.5 million-year-old Homo erectus face was just reconstructed — and its mix of old and new traits is complicating the picture of human evolution (www.livescience.com)
Science history: Anthropologist sees the face of the ''Taung Child'' — and proves that Africa was the cradle of humanity — Dec. 23, 1924 (www.livescience.com)
Snakes'' mind-bending ''heat vision'' inspires scientists to build a 4K imaging system that could one day fit into your smartphone (www.livescience.com)
''This has re-written our understanding of Roman concrete manufacture'': Abandoned Pompeii worksite reveal how self-healing concrete was made (www.livescience.com)
Science history: Norwegian explorer wins the treacherous race to the South Pole, while British rival perishes along with his crew — Dec. 14, 1911 (www.livescience.com)
New ''DNA cassette tape'' can store up to 1.5 million times more data than a smartphone — and the data can last 20,000 years if frozen (www.livescience.com)
''They had not been seen ever before'': Romans made liquid gypsum paste and smeared it over the dead before burial, leaving fingerprints behind, new research finds (www.livescience.com)
''It is the most exciting discovery in my 40-year career'': Archaeologists uncover evidence that Neanderthals made fire 400,000 years ago in England (www.livescience.com)
Science history: Female chemist initially barred from research helps helps develop drug for remarkable-but-short-lived recovery in children with leukemia — Dec. 6, 1954 (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: A human population isolated for 100,000 years, the biggest spinning structure in the universe, and a pit full of skulls (www.livescience.com)
''Intelligence comes at a price, and for many species, the benefits just aren''t worth it'': A neuroscientist''s take on how human intellect evolved (www.livescience.com)
''An extreme end of human genetic variation'': Ancient humans were isolated in southern Africa for nearly 100,000 years, and their genetics are stunningly different (www.livescience.com)
Your AI-generated image of a cat riding a banana exists because of children clawing through the dirt for toxic elements. Is it really worth it? (www.livescience.com)