''This was one of the most arduous expeditions I''ve ever done'': Scientists confirm that 15-mile-wide pit found on Google Maps is ancient meteor crater (www.livescience.com)
''Another dinosaur has entered the luxury collectibles market'': Gus the T. rex just sold for 50 million. Here''s what its loss means to science. (www.livescience.com)
''Smaller than the tiniest scale in nature'': Physicists made a black hole out of light and used it to test Stephen Hawking''s elusive radiation theory (www.livescience.com)
''The moon looked wrong'': Artemis II mission controller Chris White on taking historic lunar flyby photos from 250,000 miles away (www.livescience.com)
''Some people called it horrifying'': ''Dinner with King Tut'' author on using Egyptian mummification techniques on a modern-day human body (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: Time emerges inside a mini-universe, scientists thicken Arctic ice, and one of the oldest graves of a free Black person in the US found (www.livescience.com)
Diagnostic dilemma: An 83-year-old man went to the hospital because of very itchy skin. It turned out he had a rare form of syphilis. (www.livescience.com)
Medieval babies and adults buried together in Sweden were not related, archaeologists discover — raising big questions about early Christian burial practices (www.livescience.com)
Malaria had nearly been eliminated around a giant dam in the Amazon — but then it came roaring back. Experts just discovered why. (www.livescience.com)
Dirty ''button'' unearthed by metal detectorist turns out to be a rare 900-year-old coin from Norway''s last Viking king, Magnus Barefoot (www.livescience.com)
''800 seconds for a sick visit'': Some factors driving antibiotic resistance have nothing to do with biology, says medical sociologist Julia Szymczak (www.livescience.com)
''Complex numbers are not needed for quantum mechanics'': Physicists develop quantum model that uses only ''real'' numbers for first time ever (www.livescience.com)
''Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping'': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a ''mini-universe'' in his lab (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: James Webb telescope finds a never-before-seen substance, China''s ''Great Green Wall'' grows faster than natural trees, and a Medici murder mystery is solved (www.livescience.com)
Diminutive species ''the Hobbit'' did not hunt or control fire, deepening the mystery of its ancestry, dwarf elephant bones reveal (www.livescience.com)
''It''s more than a hope, it''s a guarantee'': The Vera C. Rubin Observatory''s 10-year movie of the universe is about to ''blow our minds,'' chief scientist Tony Tyson says (www.livescience.com)
Scientists propose launching a giant ''airbag'' into space to protect us from solar superstorms — and experts say it''s ''quite feasible'' (www.livescience.com)
''The Romans were probably never going to go away'': In new ''Almost History'' podcast, listen to how history might have played out if Carthage had defeated the Roman Republic (www.livescience.com)
''It sounds so impossible'': Student studying fungus that makes users hallucinate tiny people may be on the verge of a scientific breakthrough (www.livescience.com)
''You can''t patch your way out of it'': Cheap AI worm can spread between devices without human guidance — but how did scientists create it? (www.livescience.com)
''A weird result from an already weird hominin'': Archaeologists discover all Homo naledi skeletons found in South African cave are female (www.livescience.com)
''If there''s any country that will do it, it''s China'': Why is China diverting some of the world''s mightiest rivers thousands of miles? (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: Goblin shark filmed for first time, California close to a major quake, physicists split photon, and inside China''s plans to ''tame nature'' (www.livescience.com)
''A completely different story'': 300 million-year-old fossils reveal the first vertebrate land dwellers weren''t what we thought, researchers claim (www.livescience.com)
''Is it really necessary to generate another image?'': UN scientist explains how everyday people can limit AI''s environmental impact (www.livescience.com)
''This was a pioneering achievement'': Stone Age people put up posts to observe the solstices near Stonehenge long before the stones of sacred site were placed (www.livescience.com)
''They reliably chose the statistically more favorable option'': A crow researcher explains how these winged geniuses process numbers, and what it could reveal about human math smarts (www.livescience.com)
''River in the Sky'': China''s doomed plan to create a ''cloud seeding corridor'' tells us how far the country will go to solve its climate crisis (www.livescience.com)
''Is having two legs useful'' in space?: Astronaut John McFall explains what life in orbit might be like for the first physically disabled person in space (www.livescience.com)
Mask of Mictlantecuhtli: A 500-year-old mask of the Aztec god of the underworld, who tore apart the dead as they entered his realm (www.livescience.com)
Famous child mummies in Andes may belong to kids who were sacrificed to ''ritually anchor'' the Inca''s presence as their empire expanded (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: El Niño arrives, the Artemis III crew are revealed, a ''cold blob'' expands across the Atlantic, and a forgotten note from Richard Feynman gets deciphered (www.livescience.com)
''Geminid Symphony'' and ''Galactic Gandalf'': See the breathtaking views of our home galaxy from the 2026 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest (www.livescience.com)
''A disease anywhere can be a disease everywhere tomorrow morning'': Public health expert on Ebola and the threat of future outbreaks (www.livescience.com)
Doctors need to understand patients'' lived experiences to treat them well — but medical schools may stop requiring that training (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: Ötzi the Iceman used to make sourdough, Italian teenagers discover Roman villa under school, Google plans to release 64 million mosquitos, and RIP to NASA''s Maven probe (www.livescience.com)
Some ''extinct'' volcanoes may just be going through a growth spurt, before they ''wake up in this catastrophic stage,'' emerging research suggests (www.livescience.com)
''The best solution is to murder him in his sleep'': AI can learn violent tendencies from each other despite zero references to violence in training data (www.livescience.com)
James Webb telescope detects most distant dormant black hole, invisible in all wavelengths and weighing as much as 6 billion suns (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists study the International Space Station and Everest to figure out ''how humans adapt in this impossible place where we have no business going'' (www.livescience.com)
Google wants to release 64 million bacteria-riddled mosquitoes across California and Florida. Here’s why scientists are enthusiastic. (www.livescience.com)
''Totally counterintuitive'': Scientists accidentally discover magnetic fields around 7 distant planets, opening new window in the search for life (www.livescience.com)
''Animals were imprisoned in jails where humans were incarcerated'': The bizarre trials of the Late Middle Ages — and surprising lack of criminal cats (www.livescience.com)
New device could make processors run 1,000 times faster without additional waste heat — scientists say it could reduce data center energy demands (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: Exploding rocket overshadows NASA''s next steps to the moon, ''Doomsday Glacier'' faces big loss, quantum computer AI hybrid shows impressive results, and war deepens Iran''s water crisis (www.livescience.com)
Skeletal remains of Queen Elisenda, one of the most powerful rulers in medieval Europe, unearthed in Barcelona — along with several others who bore unexplained stab wounds (www.livescience.com)
''Very rough day'': Blue Origin''s New Glenn rocket explodes in gigantic fireball, days after being selected for NASA moon missions (www.livescience.com)