02-23 ''Some of them have accuracy that''s close to zero'': Experts unpack the promise and pitfalls of genetic tests aimed at consumers (www.livescience.com)
02-21 Emerging embryo-selection technologies are currently ''little more than snake oil.'' But someday, they could widen social inequities. (www.livescience.com)
02-21 Science news this week: China''s AI kung fu robots, physicists'' re-creation of the Big Bang soup, and a teenager buried with her father''s bones on her chest (www.livescience.com)
02-21 2,000-year-old skulls reveal people in ancient Vietnam permanently blackened their teeth — a stylish practice that persists today (www.livescience.com)
02-21 Ancient ''Asgard'' microbe may have used oxygen long before it was plentiful on Earth, offering new clue to origins of complex life (www.livescience.com)
02-21 A coffin holding a dead ''princess'' fell from an eroded cliff over 100 years ago — archaeologists just solved a major mystery about her (www.livescience.com)
02-21 ''Proof by intimidation'': AI is confidently solving ''impossible'' math problems. But can it convince the world''s top mathematicians? (www.livescience.com)
02-20 In a ''race against time,'' archaeologists uncovered Roman-era footprints from a Scottish beach before the tide washed them away (www.livescience.com)
02-20 95 million-year-old Spinosaurus had a scimitar-shaped head crest and waded through the Sahara''s rivers like a ''hell heron'' (www.livescience.com)
02-19 ''Absolute surprise'': Homo erectus skulls found in China are almost 1.8 million years old — the oldest evidence of the ancient human relatives in East Asia (www.livescience.com)
02-18 Missing megaflood: How did the Mediterranean transform from a salt-filled bowl to a deep sea if it wasn''t a cataclysmic deluge? (www.livescience.com)
02-17 Hidden beauty of Zimbabwe''s 2.5 billion-year-old ''geological marvel'' revealed in striking astronaut photo — Earth from space (www.livescience.com)
02-16 Tumaco-Tolita Seated Elder: This 2,000-year-old depiction of an aged man with wrinkles struck fear in people because it held ''the power'' (www.livescience.com)
02-15 ''The brain consistently moved upward and backward'': Astronauts'' brains physically shift in their heads during spaceflight (www.livescience.com)
02-15 Ancient rock art depicting hunters and geometric shapes discovered in Egypt''s Sinai Desert — and it spans a period of 10,000 years (www.livescience.com)
02-14 Science news this week: China turns a desert into a carbon sink, a Viking Age grave holds a giant who had brain surgery, real-life inception, and a last-minute Valentine''s gift idea from nature (www.livescience.com)
02-14 Trump is bringing car pollution and other greenhouse gases back to America''s skies. Here are the health risks we all face from climate change. (www.livescience.com)
02-13 ''It''s telling us there''s something big going on'': Unprecedented spike in atmospheric methane during the COVID-19 pandemic has a troubling explanation (www.livescience.com)
02-13 Capture 2026''s space and astronomy highlights with one of our favorite astrophotography cameras — the Sony Alpha 7 IV has 20% off at Amazon (www.livescience.com)
02-10 Viking Age mass grave holds mysterious mix of dismembered human remains and complete skeletons, including a ''giant'' who''d had brain surgery (www.livescience.com)
02-10 Impossibly powerful ''ghost particle'' that slammed into Earth may have come from an exploding black hole — and it could upend both particle physics and cosmology (www.livescience.com)
02-08 ''Maybe they''re waiting for something that only happens thousands of years later'': The hidden life ''sleeping'' deep beneath Earth for millions of years (www.livescience.com)
02-08 Science history: ''Father of modern genetics'' describes his experiments with pea plants — and proves that heredity is transmitted in discrete units — Feb. 8, 1865 (www.livescience.com)
02-08 Anglo-Saxon children discovered buried with warrior gear in UK — perhaps as a nod to ''the men these children might have become'' (www.livescience.com)
02-07 ''There''s no reason to ban us from playing'': Analysis debunks notion that transgender women have inherent physical advantages in sports (www.livescience.com)
02-06 7,500-year-old deer skull headdress discovered in Germany indicates hunter-gatherers shared sacred items and ideas with region''s first farmers (www.livescience.com)
02-04 A deer carrying the rotting head of its vanquished foe and a playful lynx shortlisted for Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People''s Choice Award (www.livescience.com)
02-03 Physicists push thousands of atoms to a ''Schrödinger''s cat'' state — bringing the quantum world closer to reality than ever before (www.livescience.com)
02-02 The Colorado River''s largest tributary flows ''uphill'' for over 100 miles — and geologists may finally have an explanation for it (www.livescience.com)
02-02 ''It''s similar to how Google can map your home without your consent'': Why using aerial lasers to map an archaeology site should have Indigenous partnership (www.livescience.com)
01-31 Science news this week: ''Cloud People'' tomb found in Mexico, pancreatic cancer breakthrough, and the AI swarms poised to take over social media (www.livescience.com)
01-31 ''Part of the evolutionary fabric of our societies'': Same-sex sexual behavior in primates may be a survival strategy, study finds (www.livescience.com)
01-31 More than 43,000 years ago, Neanderthals spent centuries collecting animal skulls in a cave; but archaeologists aren''t sure why (www.livescience.com)
01-30 ''Previously unimaginable'': James Webb telescope breaks own record again, discovering farthest known galaxy in the universe (www.livescience.com)
01-29 Drones could achieve ''infinite flight'' after engineers create laser-based wireless power system that charges them from the ground (www.livescience.com)
01-29 Next-generation AI ''swarms'' will invade social media by mimicking human behavior and harassing real users, researchers warn (www.livescience.com)
01-28 Days numbered for ''risky'' lithium-ion batteries, scientists say, after fast-charging breakthrough in sodium-ion alternative (www.livescience.com)
01-28 ''The dream has come true'': Standard model of cosmology holds up in massive 6-year study of the universe — with one big caveat (www.livescience.com)
01-28 Creepy humanoid robot face learned to move its lips more accurately by staring at itself in the mirror, then watching YouTube (www.livescience.com)
01-24 AI can develop ''personality'' spontaneously with minimal prompting, research shows. What does that mean for how we use it? (www.livescience.com)
01-24 Science news this week: The world''s oldest rock art, giant freshwater reservoir found off the East Coast, and the biggest solar radiation storm in decades (www.livescience.com)
01-24 ''A real revolution'': The James Webb telescope is upending our understanding of the biggest, oldest black holes in the universe (www.livescience.com)
01-23 Stream Will Smith''s Pole to Pole and many more nature and science documentaries with a 33% saving in this limited-time Disney deal (www.livescience.com)
01-23 Arctic blast will bring ''life-threatening'' temperatures and dump snow on 150 million Americans. But will it make the trees explode? (www.livescience.com)
01-22 Scientists may be approaching a ''fundamental breakthrough in cosmology and particle physics'', if dark matter and ''ghost particles'' can interact (www.livescience.com)
01-22 Enormous freshwater reservoir discovered off the East Coast may be 20,000 years old and big enough to supply NYC for 800 years (www.livescience.com)
01-20 1,700-year-old Roman marching camps discovered in Germany — along with a multitude of artifacts like coins and the remnants of shoes (www.livescience.com)