'Links with the British royal family would eventually prove crucial': How DNA solved the 70-year mystery of what happened to the executed members of the last Russian imperial family (www.livescience.com)
'Godless' founder of utilitarianism had severe dental problems and was in 'excruciating pain,' CT scans of his severed head reveal (www.livescience.com)
'Everything we did started coming back to the mitochondria': How replacing cells' 'powerhouses' could revolutionize transplant surgery and treat kids with devastating diseases (www.livescience.com)
'The possibilities are truly breathtaking': NASA's Roman Space Telescope will take better images and last longer than experts predicted (www.livescience.com)
'The first species we might be able to communicate with, interact with vocally, might be a bird': An animal researcher explains how she decoded birdsong (www.livescience.com)
'We’re looking at how a bear sees the world': From forest trails to 'Sims for Bears', researchers are learning how grizzlies navigate a fragmented wilderness (www.livescience.com)
'Now you actually have a blood test': Psychiatry's bible, the DSM, is getting upgraded to include biological markers. A psychiatrist explains what that means for mental health. (www.livescience.com)
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)
'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)
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)