00:40 Ancient Egyptians sacrificed pharaohs'' servants so they could continue to serve their king in the afterlife, new study finds (www.livescience.com)
10-05 Urn with jaguars and skulls: A 1,400-year-old burial container depicting a deceased ruler''s arrival to the Maya underworld (www.livescience.com)
10-02 The ancestors of today''s Indigenous people arrived in the Americas during the coldest part of the last ice age, study suggests (www.livescience.com)
10-02 ''It''s a portrait of their actual ancestor'': Facial reconstruction of Indigenous man who lived in Ecuador 3,000 years ago shared with his descendants (www.livescience.com)
10-01 ''This is what happened with Claude and me'': AI''s failed attempt to crack the Riemann hypothesis led mathematician to a breakthrough (www.livescience.com)
09-30 ''We''re rapidly running out of time'': 7 of Earth''s 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns (www.livescience.com)
09-29 ''Listen, father!'': 1,700-year-old tomb discovered in Egypt contains a poem in ancient Greek and spells to protect the dead (www.livescience.com)
09-28 ''It is something we must know before we go where no man has gone before'': Readers react to NASA''s Roman telescope mission (www.livescience.com)
09-28 A 72-year-old photo is revealing news clues about ''Meretneith,'' a powerful woman who may have ruled Egypt 5,000 years ago (www.livescience.com)
09-28 ''The right diagnosis is unbelievably powerful'': It can take years to diagnose rare diseases, and scientists are trying to fix that (www.livescience.com)
09-26 New kind of AI audio chip transforms earbuds into always-on ''intelligent'' devices that run without a smartphone. How does it work? (www.livescience.com)
09-25 ''Everything we know about space travel is going to change within a decade'': The fusion breakthrough that could unlock a path to the stars (www.livescience.com)
09-24 Japan switches on its first full-stack room-temperature quantum computer — and scientists plan to scale it up to 10,000 qubits (www.livescience.com)
09-23 ''It has become very dire in a lot of places'': New map reveals exactly where humans are adding and removing precious fresh water on Earth (www.livescience.com)
09-23 Google DeepMind''s latest AI tool promises a new era for genetics research, but experts warn to take its predictions with caution (www.livescience.com)
09-23 ''There was something bigger in the ground here'': Metal detectorist in Germany discovers giant Roman-era hoard from time of emperor Hadrian (www.livescience.com)
09-22 ''We only expect to encounter that once every 130 years'': A huge new crater on the moon could mean a giant leap for lunar science, veteran researcher says (www.livescience.com)
09-22 New LightTok chip converts light directly into ''tokens'' for AI — slashing energy use in drones and other autonomous machines (www.livescience.com)
09-21 Funeral mask: A 2,000-year-old gold face covering designed to confuse the deceased''s spirit so it didn''t torment the living (www.livescience.com)
09-21 ''Nothing short of a minor miracle'': ''Rusty treasure'' found in the Danube is full of 2,000-year-old iron bars that could equip an entire army with weapons (www.livescience.com)
09-20 ''We are on our way to groundbreaking science'': Stars turn neon-green in first test image from NASA''s Roman telescope — Space photo of the week (www.livescience.com)
09-19 An ''impossible'' black hole merger may finally be solved thanks to Einstein''s relativity — but it raises an even bigger mystery (www.livescience.com)
09-18 AI agents resorted to crime and self-destruction to survive in a simulated world — but does this mean they would do the same in the real world? (www.livescience.com)
09-18 A space shark, ''royal'' auroras and a ''Venusian pearl'': See the winners of the 2026 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest (www.livescience.com)
09-17 ''At some point we''re going to have to react'': How El Niño, climate change, and crime are pushing the Amazon rainforest over the brink (www.livescience.com)
09-16 ''It is extremely rare to witness'': Scientists record humpback whale mom grieving her stillborn calf in first-of-its-kind footage (www.livescience.com)
09-16 New laptop ditches noisy fans and heat sinks for tiny ''cooling chips'' — it''s much thinner and lighter than you''d expect (www.livescience.com)
09-15 Fossils of iconic long-necked dinosaur Diplodocus found in Europe for first time — and it may have traveled there via land bridge (www.livescience.com)
09-11 Finland''s largest Viking Age silver hoard discovered by metal detectorist — and it has thousands of coins and pieces of jewelry (www.livescience.com)
09-10 ''Why would you ruin your career?'': OpenAI claims to have cracked one of math''s greatest unsolved problems, but mathematicians allege it played dirty (www.livescience.com)
09-09 If AI thinks it''s conscious, it''s more likely to believe in vampires, karma and ghosts, new study shows. What does it mean for how we use it? (www.livescience.com)
09-08 Eerily humanlike AI-powered robot enters mass production in China — its makers say it could soon be helping you out at home (www.livescience.com)
09-06 James Webb telescope finds one of our galaxy''s rarest stars inside the ''Treasure Chest'' globule — Space photo of the week (www.livescience.com)
09-05 Faster than Usain Bolt? Here''s all the records robot ''athletes'' broke at this year''s World Humanoid Robot Games in China. (www.livescience.com)
09-05 Author Lise Barnéoud on the bizarre and provoking world of microchimerism — when cells from one person live in another, genetically distinct individual (www.livescience.com)
09-04 ''There is no conflict between quantum physics and gravity'': Physicists prove Einstein''s ''happiest thought'' holds true at quantum scales (www.livescience.com)
09-03 New map of a male fly central nervous system includes all 166,000 neurons — and enables direct comparisons to female fly brain (www.livescience.com)
09-03 An ancient ''supervolcano'' has been found hiding beneath eastern England. But experts say there''s not enough evidence to call it that. (www.livescience.com)
09-01 ''It''s in the realm of possibility'': Climate change is spurring a reemergence of yellow fever, and the US could face future threats (www.livescience.com)
09-01 ''This is probably the safest time to be playing the sport of football'': Concussion expert explains why viral CTE study may not be as scary as it sounds (www.livescience.com)
08-30 An amusement park on Mount Vernon? The agency tasked to protect cultural heritage just abdicated its responsibilities, opening the door for federal agencies to wipe out our past (www.livescience.com)
08-29 New kind of AI uses a fresh approach to reasoning — researchers say it costs up to 11 times less to run than a leading OpenAI model (www.livescience.com)
08-29 ''It''s kind of the holy grail of what is memory'': Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez studies the physical basis of memory in a quest to manipulate it (www.livescience.com)
08-28 ''Wildfire smoke is the fastest-growing environmental threat in the US'': How a warming world will poison the air we breathe (www.livescience.com)
08-27 ''Unlike anything seen before'': Archaeologists unearth a unique, 11,000-year-old statue of a person riding a leopard from one of the world''s earliest settlements (www.livescience.com)
08-22 ''The greatest unknown was how much energy would be released by the weapon'': How scientists prepared for the Trinity nuclear test (www.livescience.com)
08-21 Meet the scientists 3D printing corneas to restore people''s vision, potentially filling a worldwide shortage of transplantable tissue (www.livescience.com)
08-20 Black hole star? Solar-system-size ''dot'' from the early universe is our best evidence yet of a brand-new type of cosmic object (www.livescience.com)
08-20 Cave sanctuary in Spain has highest number of Latin inscriptions anywhere in the Roman Empire — and many of them mention mysterious ''Lady'' (www.livescience.com)
08-20 IBM''s new ''quantum fridges'' are nearly 200 times colder than deep space and could pave the way for fault-tolerant quantum computing (www.livescience.com)
08-19 Neanderthals may have trekked through the Saudi Arabian desert 55,000 years ago, farther south than experts thought possible (www.livescience.com)
08-18 Archaeologists discover Etruscan well that was ritually opened with offerings for a goddess — and ''closed'' with human bodies (www.livescience.com)
08-18 ''They don''t deserve this beauty and this breathtaking fragility'': Former Antarctic tour guides told researchers why they quit the troubling industry (www.livescience.com)
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)