''Plastics are there and seem to be getting worse'': Viral study of microplastics in human brains shows worrisome trend, but has flaws (www.livescience.com)
Quantum simulation breakthrough will lead to ''discoveries impossible in today''s fastest supercomputers,'' Google scientists claim (www.livescience.com)
Earth grew an extra, never-before-seen ''radiation belt'' after last year''s supercharged solar storm — and it''s probably still there (www.livescience.com)
''I encountered the terror of never finding anything'': The hollowness of AI art proves machines can never emulate genuine human intelligence (www.livescience.com)
''Bull''s-eye!'' Hubble telescope spots record-shattering 9-ring galaxy — and the cosmic ''dart'' that smashed through its center (www.livescience.com)
''Impossible'' black holes detected by James Webb telescope may finally have an explanation — if this ultra-rare form of matter exists (www.livescience.com)
''We''ve just seen earthquake after earthquake after earthquake'': Santorini earthquake swarm intensifies but likely won''t trigger volcano (www.livescience.com)
Supermassive black holes in ''little red dot'' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don''t know why (www.livescience.com)
''Herculean'' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create (www.livescience.com)
World''s fastest supercomputer ''El Capitan'' goes online — it will be used to secure the U.S. nuclear stockpile and in other classified research (www.livescience.com)