''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)
''It''s being promoted like there''s absolutely no risk'': Why some experts say melatonin should be considered a drug rather than a supplement (www.livescience.com)
The ''Doomsday Glacier'' is poised to lose its ice shelf this year. An Antarctic researcher explains what that means for global sea levels (www.livescience.com)
''They are leaking radio waves, just like we are'': Radio astronomer explains how intelligent aliens could contact Earth without even trying (www.livescience.com)
''We can identify these really early, before the clinical diagnosis'': Epigenetic markers may help explain why Native Hawaiians are aging faster (www.livescience.com)
AI-generated images are making it impossible to distinguish truth from fiction. We need laws and AI watermarks to protect our shared reality. (www.livescience.com)
Can AI really simulate human thinking? Research casts doubt on an influential study, suggesting an advanced model was just really good at memorizing patterns. (www.livescience.com)
One of Neptune''s 16 moons is not like the others, James Webb telescope finds — and it could be key to fully understanding the solar system (www.livescience.com)
Great Pyramid of Giza is remarkably resilient to earthquakes — and it''s due to the ancient Egyptians'' ''extraordinary'' engineering knowledge (www.livescience.com)
How can we prevent AI models from cannibalizing themselves when human-generated data runs out? Scientists say they''ve found the answer. (www.livescience.com)
China installs world''s largest floating wind turbine in deep water test — it generates enough energy to power 4,200 homes annually (www.livescience.com)
''The system is likely to reach a breaking point'': Major Italian volcano is speeding toward a transition, and a major eruption could be on the way (www.livescience.com)
950-year-old burial of a pet dingo is first clear archaeological evidence of humans ritually ''feeding'' a grave anywhere in the world (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: PCOS has a new name, Neanderthals were the world''s oldest dentists, and the first nuclear bomb explosion spawned an ''alien'' crystal (www.livescience.com)
''The biggest El Niño event since the 1870s'': ''Super'' El Niño is now the most likely scenario by the end of this year — and the humanitarian cost could be huge (www.livescience.com)
Antarctica’s sudden sea ice loss is one of the most extreme and confusing events in the modern climate record. Scientists now know why it''s happening. (www.livescience.com)
''We''re less prepared for contagious pathogens'': The US has degraded its ability to track and squash outbreaks, Emory epidemiologist says (www.livescience.com)