We went to Finland to hear about the new ''sand battery'' that will turn stored renewable energy back into power for the electrical grid (www.livescience.com)
Astronauts can face ''nearly lethal doses'' of solar radiation — so why launch Artemis II during the sun''s peak of activity? Space scientist Patricia Reiff explains. (www.livescience.com)
''It blew my mind'': Long-lost ice-age ecosystem, including fossils of lion-size armadillo and giant ground sloth, discovered in Texas ''water cave'' (www.livescience.com)
Quantum computers need just 10,000 qubits — not the millions we assumed — to break the world''s most secure encryption algorithms (www.livescience.com)
Tasmanian tigers discovered in Indigenous rock art in Australia, suggesting these marsupials lived there much longer than thought (www.livescience.com)
Tudor Heart: A Renaissance gold necklace featuring a French-English pun on the love between Henry VIII and his first wife, Katherine of Aragon (www.livescience.com)
AI systems are enabling mass surveillance in the US, and there is no national law that ''meaningfully limits'' the use of this data (www.livescience.com)
Our fossil fuel economy is a house of cards and Trump''s war in Iran is about to topple it. The need for a clean energy transition has never been clearer. (www.livescience.com)
Chinese lander reveals giant ''cavity'' of radiation between Earth and the moon — and it could change how lunar exploration is done (www.livescience.com)
NASA announces ''near‑impossible'' space plans, including 20B moon base and humanity''s first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft (www.livescience.com)
This excellent NordVPN deal knocks up to 77% off the price and comes with a 50 Amazon voucher — perfect if you want to watch nature documentaries on the go (www.livescience.com)
Iran war has already released a staggering amount of CO2 — and the destruction of schools, homes and buildings is the biggest source (www.livescience.com)
AI compressed billions of years of evolution into seconds to create ''Lego-like robots'' that can recover even when they lose limbs (www.livescience.com)
''That''s why there''s 9 billion of us and not 9 billion of some other primate'': Why our ability to adapt is humanity''s ''superpower'' (www.livescience.com)
Monte Verde, one of the earliest Indigenous sites in South America, is much younger than thought, study claims. But others call it ''egregiously poor geological work.'' (www.livescience.com)
Scientists witness birth of one of the universe''s strongest magnets for the first time, thanks to a general relativity ''magic trick'' (www.livescience.com)
Drought paradox study reveals plants around Colorado River turn to groundwater when it gets too hot and dry, reducing flow into the already strained basin (www.livescience.com)
''We got evidence of boars, deer, bears, aurochs'': Ancient DNA reveals sunken realm Doggerland had habitable forests during the last ice age (www.livescience.com)
A single injection of mRNA-like treatment could help heart muscle heal after a heart attack in mice and pigs. Could it work in humans too? (www.livescience.com)
Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius: The only surviving larger-than-life-size statue of a pagan Roman emperor — a rarity that Michelangelo refurbished (www.livescience.com)
The appendix evolved at least 32 times across 361 species, so it''s ''unlikely to be a useless evolutionary accident,'' research finds (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: AMOC''s collapse signal, the sun''s galactic migration, the world''s smallest QR code and oil''s dying days (www.livescience.com)
''It''s nature calling to humans, and humans deciding whether or not to reply'': Why we need to start paying attention to our mutually beneficial relationships with other species (www.livescience.com)
Pre-Inca culture acquired Amazonian parrots from hundreds of miles away to use their feathers to decorate the dead, new analysis reveals (www.livescience.com)
''It could revolutionize, completely, the way we treat depression'': Researchers are exploring promising immune therapy for treating psychiatric symptoms (www.livescience.com)
''The warming trend nearly doubled after 2014'': The rate of global warming has accelerated more in the past decade than ever before (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: Cannibal orcas in Russia, oracle bones that reveal climate disaster in ancient China, humming black holes and a barefoot volcanologist (www.livescience.com)
Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year. What is stopping us from doing it? (www.livescience.com)
''Truly extraordinary'': Mega-laser shooting at us from halfway across the universe is the brightest ''cosmic beacon'' we''ve ever seen (www.livescience.com)
''Seeing how important agriculture was for daily livelihoods, and how uncertain and precarious agriculture had become in these times, it just made me feel very passionate about working on this issue'' (www.livescience.com)
Meet the world''s smallest AI supercomputer — it packs ''doctorate-level intelligence'', its makers say, and can fit into your pocket (www.livescience.com)
Mysterious ''little red dots'' discovered by James Webb telescope may be the first stars in the universe on the verge of collapse (www.livescience.com)
The ''sweet spot'' of overconfidence — project a bit to be perceived as competent, but don''t be ''too seduced,'' a cognitive neuroscientist explains in a Q&A (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: ''Spiderwebs'' on Mars, tigers'' return to Kazakhstan, and 2,000-year-old skull with permanently blackened teeth (www.livescience.com)