08-17 1,700-year-old church discovered under a lake in Turkey may be the location of the First Council of Nicaea — but other experts disagree (www.livescience.com)
08-16 ''There''s a sense that these algorithms are objective and they get to know you'': How social media warps our understanding of healthcare (www.livescience.com)
08-15 ''A fine line between reducing stigma and trivialising conditions'': Social media, self-diagnosis and the glamorization of ADHD (www.livescience.com)
08-14 ''The lance head was still inside the pelvis:'' Mass grave found in Austria may hold casualties of unknown ancient Roman battle (www.livescience.com)
08-14 ''If this is the new normal, then we are in very deep trouble'': Brazil''s drying aquifers could have ripple effects across the world (www.livescience.com)
08-14 ''They basically used these dried-up wells just to throw people in'': 43 skeletons found in Roman-era well may be evidence of deadly plague (www.livescience.com)
08-12 ''No longer will anything seem impossible or marvellous'': How an ''immoral, foul-mouthed and violent man'' wrote the first eyewitness account of a total solar eclipse (www.livescience.com)
08-12 Diagnostic dilemma: Doctors performed surgery to remove a mass in a woman''s gut — and a bug-like creature immediately jumped out (www.livescience.com)
08-12 New AI chip mimics the human brain''s capacity for split-second motor control — it solved problems using 10,000 times fewer calculations (www.livescience.com)
08-11 ''Like a jail door slamming'': Male sperm whales'' mysterious rhythmic clanging is the loudest communication sound of any animal (www.livescience.com)
08-11 ''They would come in with a chord change'': Composer Jim Nollman has collaborated with turkeys, kangaroo rats and whales. Now he''s dropping ''Orcas'' Greatest Hits.'' (www.livescience.com)
08-09 ''His urine goes on tour around Europe, showing the kings and queens this glowing pee'': The weird world of alchemy before chemistry (www.livescience.com)
08-08 ''These were harder than any other blades, cut sharper and cost more'': How ancient Sri Lankans created steel of legends by harnessing monsoons (www.livescience.com)
08-07 ''It would be a disaster'': Ammunition for war and surging water withdrawals are putting the Caspian Sea on the brink of collapse (www.livescience.com)
08-06 Engineers build world''s first portable diamond-powered quantum computer — it works at room temperature and can be plugged into an outlet (www.livescience.com)
08-06 ''It''s incredibly rare to see a moment like this in the ocean'': Camera drone captures moment humpback whale gives birth off Australian coast (www.livescience.com)
08-05 Half of the world''s dams could be ''functionally inoperable'' by 2060 from being flooded with sediment — and the American West is a major hotspot (www.livescience.com)
08-05 ''Darwin’s hypothesis provided an important inspiration'': Scientists bolster 150-year-old Darwinian theory with a carnivorous plant in China (www.livescience.com)
08-04 ''Even when knowledge improves, emotional anxiety does not easily disappear'': Pediatrician Dr. Masahiko Sakamoto on educating parents about childhood illnesses (www.livescience.com)
08-03 Did fungi give mammals an evolutionary edge after the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit? New evidence revives a provocative hypothesis (www.livescience.com)
08-02 ''We''re a bit late on the case, but we are on the case'': Author Fred Pearce on the rise of renewables, a defused population bomb, and letting nature find its own way (www.livescience.com)
08-02 ''The apparent chaos of the Anthropocene is turbocharging evolution itself'': Plants are finding ways to survive and thrive in the climate crisis — if we let them (www.livescience.com)
08-01 Total eclipse, shooting stars, and the Milky Way: Why Aug. 12 could be the greatest single day and night for skywatching for years (www.livescience.com)
08-01 Science news this week: Secret lives of whale sharks revealed, Earth''s coldest temperature registered, and Amazonian geoglyphs show clues to lost civilization (www.livescience.com)
08-01 ''We are not giving up yet'': Private mission to rescue NASA''s Swift telescope is spinning out of control, and engineers are racing to fix it (www.livescience.com)
07-30 Biological ''superspreader'' event could be imminent as more than 1,000 ships idle in the Strait of Hormuz, scientists warn (www.livescience.com)
07-29 ''Not alike any we''ve ever seen before'': Three of the 12 galaxies in this cosmic string are missing a crucial component of the universe (www.livescience.com)
07-27 ''Feynman and followers, you guys are off'': Physicists disprove decades-old Richard Feynman theory on ''silly'' sprinklers (www.livescience.com)
07-27 Relief fragment with vanquished enemies: A 3,400-year-old depiction of an Egyptian pharaoh crushing western Asian soldiers under his royal chariot (www.livescience.com)
07-26 Humanity''s first look at the surface of Mars shared on 50th anniversary of historic NASA landing — Space photo of the week (www.livescience.com)
07-25 6-year-old in China dies after experimental treatment, investigation finds, raising questions about the country''s gene therapy regulations (www.livescience.com)
07-24 ''Rescheduling'' cannabis would ease restrictions on science, opening the door to the largest investment in cannabis research we''ve seen to date (www.livescience.com)
07-23 ''We''re trying this out of frustration'': Marmots star in OnlyFans account as researchers desperately look for ways to raise funds amid US budget cuts (www.livescience.com)
07-23 ''Extremely rare'' Roman military camp found in Slovakia holds hastily buried remains of Marcus Aurelius'' soldiers — with some dumped in wells (www.livescience.com)
07-23 Mice on ''godforsaken'' frozen volcanoes eat toxic plants to survive conditions ''not remotely compatible with long-term human survival'' (www.livescience.com)
07-22 ''It''s a really poor quality of life'': Once a ''miracle in the desert,'' California''s Salton Sea now spreads toxic dust on vulnerable communities (www.livescience.com)
07-21 Mysterious ''little red dots'' at the beginning time may finally have an explanation, thanks to newfound ''little blue companions'' (www.livescience.com)
07-20 ''We were genuinely surprised'': ''Superworms'' can clean extremely delicate skeletons lickety-split, and that''s a game changer for museums (www.livescience.com)
07-20 Mummy mask with wig: A 1,000-year-old ''false head'' found in Peru that was crafted with real human hair and toxic red cinnabar (www.livescience.com)
07-19 ''It''s absolutely exciting!'': Astronomers discover an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone for first time ever (www.livescience.com)
07-19 James Webb telescope uses trippy Einstein prediction to probe the farthest reaches of the universe — Space photo of the week (www.livescience.com)
07-18 Not a housekeeper, but a ''vilica'': The many responsibilities of Roman-era female farm managers were overlooked by historians (www.livescience.com)
07-18 ''Fireball'' meteorite that smashed into New Jersey home contains ingredients of life from an ancient proto-planet, study finds (www.livescience.com)
07-18 Science news this week: Gold tongues discovered in tombs, sugar found in space, a new monkey identified in the Congolian rainforest, and ancient impact crater ''geoguessed'' by an amateur astronomer (www.livescience.com)
07-18 ''RNA can do things which we have never seen before'': New study challenges assumptions about what RNA was up to at the dawn of life (www.livescience.com)
07-17 ''Shared cosmic experience'': ''Potentially hazardous'' asteroid Apophis could be visible to 90% of Earth''s population during ultraclose 2029 flyby, new maps reveal (www.livescience.com)
07-17 Did ancient Egyptian princesses use weapons? Controversial study claims they hunted or trained with the military, but not all experts agree. (www.livescience.com)
07-17 Thousands of liberated Africans died on a remote island after the British Navy freed them. We now know where they came from. (www.livescience.com)
07-17 ''This was one of the most arduous expeditions I''ve ever done'': Scientists confirm that 15-mile-wide pit found on Google Maps is ancient meteor crater (www.livescience.com)
07-16 ''Another dinosaur has entered the luxury collectibles market'': Gus the T. rex just sold for 50 million. Here''s what its loss means to science. (www.livescience.com)
07-16 ''Smaller than the tiniest scale in nature'': Physicists made a black hole out of light and used it to test Stephen Hawking''s elusive radiation theory (www.livescience.com)
07-14 ''It affects your daily life suddenly'': Sea level researcher explains why once-in-a-century floods could become the new normal (www.livescience.com)
07-13 Sweet! Sugar found in raspberries discovered near the Milky Way''s center, hinting that life''s ingredients are common in space (www.livescience.com)
07-13 ''The moon looked wrong'': Artemis II mission controller Chris White on taking historic lunar flyby photos from 250,000 miles away (www.livescience.com)
07-11 ''He looked like Ramses the Great'': How experimental archaeologists used ancient techniques to mummify a modern-day person (www.livescience.com)
07-11 ''Some people called it horrifying'': ''Dinner with King Tut'' author on using Egyptian mummification techniques on a modern-day human body (www.livescience.com)
07-11 Science news this week: Time emerges inside a mini-universe, scientists thicken Arctic ice, and one of the oldest graves of a free Black person in the US found (www.livescience.com)
07-11 Diagnostic dilemma: An 83-year-old man went to the hospital because of very itchy skin. It turned out he had a rare form of syphilis. (www.livescience.com)
07-11 Medieval babies and adults buried together in Sweden were not related, archaeologists discover — raising big questions about early Christian burial practices (www.livescience.com)
07-10 Malaria had nearly been eliminated around a giant dam in the Amazon — but then it came roaring back. Experts just discovered why. (www.livescience.com)
07-10 Dirty ''button'' unearthed by metal detectorist turns out to be a rare 900-year-old coin from Norway''s last Viking king, Magnus Barefoot (www.livescience.com)
07-10 ''800 seconds for a sick visit'': Some factors driving antibiotic resistance have nothing to do with biology, says medical sociologist Julia Szymczak (www.livescience.com)
07-10 ''Complex numbers are not needed for quantum mechanics'': Physicists develop quantum model that uses only ''real'' numbers for first time ever (www.livescience.com)
07-08 ''Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping'': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a ''mini-universe'' in his lab (www.livescience.com)
07-07 ''A new way to study the edge of a black hole'': Physicists just got the closest-ever look at a black hole''s event horizon (www.livescience.com)
07-04 Science news this week: James Webb telescope finds a never-before-seen substance, China''s ''Great Green Wall'' grows faster than natural trees, and a Medici murder mystery is solved (www.livescience.com)
07-04 Diminutive species ''the Hobbit'' did not hunt or control fire, deepening the mystery of its ancestry, dwarf elephant bones reveal (www.livescience.com)
07-03 ''It''s more than a hope, it''s a guarantee'': The Vera C. Rubin Observatory''s 10-year movie of the universe is about to ''blow our minds,'' chief scientist Tony Tyson says (www.livescience.com)
07-01 Scientists propose launching a giant ''airbag'' into space to protect us from solar superstorms — and experts say it''s ''quite feasible'' (www.livescience.com)
07-01 66 billion trees have been planted in China''s Great Green Wall — and they appear to be growing faster than natural forests (www.livescience.com)