06-15 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)
06-14 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)
06-14 Artemis II crew captures rare double auroras on the dark side of Earth as they zoom toward the moon — Space photo of the week (www.livescience.com)
06-13 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)
06-11 ''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)
06-10 Mysterious ''cold blob'' in the Atlantic is a sign of the Gulf Stream weakening — and that''s bad news for the US East Coast (www.livescience.com)
06-09 ''A disease anywhere can be a disease everywhere tomorrow morning'': Public health expert on Ebola and the threat of future outbreaks (www.livescience.com)
06-08 Doctors need to understand patients'' lived experiences to treat them well — but medical schools may stop requiring that training (www.livescience.com)
06-06 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)
06-05 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)
06-05 ''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)
06-05 James Webb telescope detects most distant dormant black hole, invisible in all wavelengths and weighing as much as 6 billion suns (www.livescience.com)
06-05 Microsoft''s new quantum chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor — but why is this new chip so controversial? (www.livescience.com)
06-04 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)
06-04 Google wants to release 64 million bacteria-riddled mosquitoes across California and Florida. Here’s why scientists are enthusiastic. (www.livescience.com)
06-03 ''Totally counterintuitive'': Scientists accidentally discover magnetic fields around 7 distant planets, opening new window in the search for life (www.livescience.com)
06-03 ''It was very very good'': Ötzi the Iceman''s body is covered in ancient yeast — and scientists just used it to make a sourdough (www.livescience.com)
06-02 ''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)
05-30 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)
05-30 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)
05-30 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)
05-29 War has brought Iran''s water crisis to a breaking point: ''Things will collapse unless there is meaningful structural change'' (www.livescience.com)
05-29 ''Very rough day'': Blue Origin''s New Glenn rocket explodes in gigantic fireball, days after being selected for NASA moon missions (www.livescience.com)
05-28 ''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)
05-28 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)
05-27 ''They are leaking radio waves, just like we are'': Radio astronomer explains how intelligent aliens could contact Earth without even trying (www.livescience.com)
05-25 Scientists trained an AI model using an IBM quantum computer — and it answered questions correctly that the base model couldn''t (www.livescience.com)
05-24 ''We can identify these really early, before the clinical diagnosis'': Epigenetic markers may help explain why Native Hawaiians are aging faster (www.livescience.com)
05-23 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)
05-22 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)
05-22 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)
05-21 Great Pyramid of Giza is remarkably resilient to earthquakes — and it''s due to the ancient Egyptians'' ''extraordinary'' engineering knowledge (www.livescience.com)
05-21 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)
05-20 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)
05-20 ''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)
05-19 950-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)
05-16 8-year-old African American boy from Colonial Maryland found buried with white Colonists, and it''s unclear if he was enslaved (www.livescience.com)
05-16 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)
05-16 ''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)
05-15 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)
05-14 ''We''re less prepared for contagious pathogens'': The US has degraded its ability to track and squash outbreaks, Emory epidemiologist says (www.livescience.com)
05-13 Physicists find evidence that the universe isn''t perfectly uniform — potentially unraveling a 100-year-old model of cosmology (www.livescience.com)
05-12 ''Speculation'' and ''egregious failure'': 30 researchers publish scathing critiques of study that questioned date of early human occupation of Monte Verde in Chile (www.livescience.com)
05-11 Lion''s head pendant: An ancient Egyptian board game piece that was later repurposed into a magical religious object with baboons (www.livescience.com)
05-09 Science news this week: The latest on the cruise ship hantavirus infections, a shortcut to Mars, and a fast-charging quantum battery (www.livescience.com)
05-07 Hantavirus cruise LIVE: World Health Organization hosts briefing as authorities race to track contacts from cruise ship infections (www.livescience.com)
05-07 The night sky could get three times brighter as new satellites launch — all but ruining the Vera C. Rubin Observatory''s survey of the universe (www.livescience.com)
05-06 Quantum battery charges in a quadrillionth of a second with a laser — larger prototypes could last for years after charging for just a minute (www.livescience.com)
05-06 ''Food insecurity is no longer just about low-income countries'': Environmental economist explains how climate change is pushing agricultural systems to the brink (www.livescience.com)
05-02 Science news this week: Risky, lifesaving surgery performed on a baby in the womb, AI agent deletes a company database in 9 seconds, and the universe may end much sooner than expected (www.livescience.com)
04-30 ''The detectors never stopped beeping!'' Nearly 3,000 coins discovered in field are Norway''s largest Viking hoard on record (www.livescience.com)
04-30 ''We can no longer ignore diseases in the deep human past'': Malaria influenced early humans'' migrations across Africa, study suggests (www.livescience.com)
04-30 Runners have finally completed a sub 2-hour marathon, but another running world record was recently smashed — this time by a humanoid robot. Here''s how. (www.livescience.com)
04-29 ''Lifelong monogamy'' and ''half orphans'': DNA analysis reveals clues about life on the Roman frontier after the fall of Rome (www.livescience.com)
04-29 ''It cuts both ways'': Positive tipping points can restore wreaked ecosystems — we just need to trigger them, Earth system scientist Tim Lenton says (www.livescience.com)