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)
'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)
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)
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)