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)
04-29 ''Their greatest challenge since they stared down the asteroid'': Paleontologist Steve Brusatte on why birds are facing their biggest existential threat since the dino-killing asteroid (www.livescience.com)
04-29 Drilling has begun at our sacred site Pe'' Sla, setting a dangerous precedent for Indigenous lands across the country. It must be stopped. (www.livescience.com)
04-28 ''He began to cry, and almost fell to the floor'': The fluffy fossil that finally showed the world that birds are dinosaurs (www.livescience.com)
04-27 How everything you do is being monitored in an AI-fuelled ''surveillance capitalism system'' that''s ramping up aggressively (www.livescience.com)
04-27 Mystery of golden orb found in depths of ocean off Alaska finally solved: ''Everyone was like, What the heck? What is that?'' (www.livescience.com)
04-26 Astronomers just mapped one of the largest structures in the universe, long hidden behind the Milky Way''s ''Zone of Avoidance'' (www.livescience.com)
04-25 ''Eventually, it becomes you'': Inventors of new ''living'' knee replacement describe why this tech is desperately needed and how it works (www.livescience.com)
04-25 ''The push towards renewables is unstoppable because it''s in a country''s self-interest'': Climate scientist Andy Reisinger on Trump, Iran, and the future of Earth (www.livescience.com)
04-25 Science news this week: Atlantic current edges closer to collapse, scientists make artificial-neuron breakthrough, and a copy of the "Iliad" is found inside an Egyptian mummy (www.livescience.com)
04-24 ''A completely new reality'': Bolder measures are needed to prevent extreme water shortages in cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas that depend on the Colorado River (www.livescience.com)
04-24 ''Strong, undeniable public examples of something positive'': Astronaut Chris Hadfield on why Artemis II hit him hard, the importance of spaceflight, and why we need to send a guitar to the moon (www.livescience.com)
04-22 Diagnostic dilemma: A teen''s classic diabetes symptoms didn''t improve with treatment — revealing she also had a much rarer syndrome (www.livescience.com)
04-22 NASA shuts off another Voyager 1 instrument as humanity''s most distant spacecraft prepares for risky ''Big Bang'' maneuver to save power (www.livescience.com)
04-21 ''We''re the best servants anyone could dream of!'' AI superintelligence has no need to enslave humans because we''re already bowing to it (www.livescience.com)
04-19 Naked mole rats wage bloody wars of succession to choose a new queen — but one colony did something scientists have never seen before (www.livescience.com)
04-19 ''The chances of you living 50 years are very small'': Theoretical physicist explains why humanity likely won''t survive to see all the forces unified (www.livescience.com)
04-19 Largest-ever 3D map of the universe shows 47 million galaxies, from the Milky Way to ''cosmic noon'' — Space photo of the week (www.livescience.com)
04-18 Science news this week: Physicists witness faster-than-light darkness pinpricks, humans are still evolving, and some polar bears are getting fatter than ever (www.livescience.com)
04-18 Science history: Doctor autopsies the brain of a man who couldn''t speak — and reveals the seat of spoken language — April 18, 1861 (www.livescience.com)
04-17 Anglo-Saxon burial holds an older sister cradling her little brother after they both died 1,400 years ago, possibly of an infectious disease (www.livescience.com)
04-17 Colorado River may have pooled and spilled over to form the Grand Canyon, solving a long-standing mystery — but not everyone agrees (www.livescience.com)
04-16 Hackers used AI to steal hundreds of millions of Mexican government and private citizen records in one of the largest cybersecurity breaches ever (www.livescience.com)
04-16 ''Something''s missing'': Most thorough-ever study of the cosmos proves we still can''t explain how the universe is expanding (www.livescience.com)
04-16 ''Human evolution didn''t slow down; we were just missing the signal'': Large DNA study reveals natural selection led to more redheads and less male-pattern baldness (www.livescience.com)
04-15 73 moon landings? NASA''s ''Moon Base User''s Guide'' reveals the agency''s ''most ambitious space project'' will be fraught with challenges (www.livescience.com)
04-14 Physicists just witnessed pinpricks of darkness moving faster than the speed of light — without breaking the laws of relativity (www.livescience.com)
04-14 ''Oslo patient'' likely cured of HIV after getting stem cell transplant from his brother, who is genetically resistant to the virus (www.livescience.com)
04-12 ''Human minds shouldn''t have to go through'' this: Artemis II crew recalls unreal moment when Earth disappeared — Space photo of the week (www.livescience.com)
04-11 Science news this week: Artemis II splashes down, the world''s fattest parrot bounces back, and the Shroud of Turin is contaminated (www.livescience.com)
04-11 There are ''reasons to be confident'' about faulty Artemis II heat shield ahead of 25,000 mph reentry, space expert Ed Macauley says (www.livescience.com)
04-09 Science history: Doctor hypothesizes that ''transmissible proteins'' can cause disease, contradicting a ''central dogma'' of molecular biology — April 9, 1982 (www.livescience.com)
04-08 ''In every continent where humans are present, water bankruptcy is manifesting itself'': Exiled Iranian scientist Kaveh Madani on our desperate need to preserve our most precious resource (www.livescience.com)
04-08 ''So much magic'': Artemis II shares first images from the far side of the moon, including new ''Earthset'' and total eclipse in space (www.livescience.com)
04-06 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)
04-05 NASA telescope uncovers new mystery in supernova first spotted by Chinese astronomers 2,000 years ago — Space photo of the week (www.livescience.com)
04-05 Fossil site in China reveals bevy of complex creatures lived prior to the Cambrian explosion, including a ''Dune''-like sandworm (www.livescience.com)
04-02 Chinese satellite with robotic ''octopus arm'' passes key refueling test in orbit — making longer-lived space assets more likely (www.livescience.com)
04-02 ''Not how you build a digital mind'': How reasoning failures are preventing AI models from achieving human-level intelligence (www.livescience.com)