30,000-year-old bone found in French cave reveals vast genetic connections between people of Eastern and Western Europe during the Stone Age (www.livescience.com)
''A potential glimpse into the future'': Climate change has triggered ''permafrost landslides'' with house-size blocks of ice in Canada (www.livescience.com)
''The Russians were the problem in the end'': Sailor Matt Rutherford on being intercepted by the FSB while attempting to circumnavigate the Arctic Ocean solo (www.livescience.com)
''It makes me feel that we can do a lot about it'': ESA official shares striking satellite snap of Europe''s record-breaking summer heat waves (www.livescience.com)
''We used to go to the climate conferences together. We are not anymore'': ESA official Simonetta Cheli tells us how the political landscape for Earth observation is changing (www.livescience.com)
''Cute demo, but totally impractical'': Experts are skeptical that Tesla''s ''rocket'' Roadster could actually work in the real world (www.livescience.com)
''Birdman'' copper plate: A 700-year-old depiction of a Native American warrior that may be a woman holding a weapon and a severed head (www.livescience.com)
''A uniquely direct route that might cause damage'': Scientists uncover link between air pollution and eye diseases like glaucoma (www.livescience.com)
''They cannot compete with the prices that fish factories will pay'': How demand for fish meal takes priority over feeding people (www.livescience.com)
One of America''s biggest meteor craters is 100 million years younger than we thought — and coincided with a global extinction event (www.livescience.com)
''The back of her head had been removed by a single blow from a sharp blade'': Archaeological clues are revealing the horrific lives and deaths of the people enslaved by Vikings (www.livescience.com)
''It gives us a glimpse of a different kind of Viking life'': Archaeologist Neil Price on the sea-kings, sorcerers and Sámi who lived during the Viking Age (www.livescience.com)
''It could have been a very different history'': Researchers are finally starting to pin down how many Indigenous people were living in the Americas when Columbus arrived (www.livescience.com)
''News reports tweaked the science to speak to contemporary anxieties'': How Neanderthal extinction is a projection of our own, modern fears (www.livescience.com)
Photojournalist Steve Winter on his iconic Hollywood puma image, the illegal tiger trade and having a black panther knock on his door (www.livescience.com)
''She knew she had something really important on her hands'': Rosalind Franklin figured out DNA''s helical structure before Watson and Crick, study suggests (www.livescience.com)
''It''s a portrait of their actual ancestor'': Facial reconstruction of Indigenous man who lived in Ecuador 3,000 years ago shared with his descendants (www.livescience.com)
''This is what happened with Claude and me'': AI''s failed attempt to crack the Riemann hypothesis led mathematician to a breakthrough (www.livescience.com)
''We''re rapidly running out of time'': 7 of Earth''s 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns (www.livescience.com)
''The right diagnosis is unbelievably powerful'': It can take years to diagnose rare diseases, and scientists are trying to fix that (www.livescience.com)
New kind of AI audio chip transforms earbuds into always-on ''intelligent'' devices that run without a smartphone. How does it work? (www.livescience.com)
''Everything we know about space travel is going to change within a decade'': The fusion breakthrough that could unlock a path to the stars (www.livescience.com)
''It has become very dire in a lot of places'': New map reveals exactly where humans are adding and removing precious fresh water on Earth (www.livescience.com)
Google DeepMind''s latest AI tool promises a new era for genetics research, but experts warn to take its predictions with caution (www.livescience.com)
''There was something bigger in the ground here'': Metal detectorist in Germany discovers giant Roman-era hoard from time of emperor Hadrian (www.livescience.com)
''We only expect to encounter that once every 130 years'': A huge new crater on the moon could mean a giant leap for lunar science, veteran researcher says (www.livescience.com)
''Nothing short of a minor miracle'': ''Rusty treasure'' found in the Danube is full of 2,000-year-old iron bars that could equip an entire army with weapons (www.livescience.com)
''We are on our way to groundbreaking science'': Stars turn neon-green in first test image from NASA''s Roman telescope — Space photo of the week (www.livescience.com)
An ''impossible'' black hole merger may finally be solved thanks to Einstein''s relativity — but it raises an even bigger mystery (www.livescience.com)
AI agents resorted to crime and self-destruction to survive in a simulated world — but does this mean they would do the same in the real world? (www.livescience.com)
A space shark, ''royal'' auroras and a ''Venusian pearl'': See the winners of the 2026 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest (www.livescience.com)
''At some point we''re going to have to react'': How El Niño, climate change, and crime are pushing the Amazon rainforest over the brink (www.livescience.com)
''It is extremely rare to witness'': Scientists record humpback whale mom grieving her stillborn calf in first-of-its-kind footage (www.livescience.com)
Fossils of iconic long-necked dinosaur Diplodocus found in Europe for first time — and it may have traveled there via land bridge (www.livescience.com)
''Why would you ruin your career?'': OpenAI claims to have cracked one of math''s greatest unsolved problems, but mathematicians allege it played dirty (www.livescience.com)