Google''s breakthrough ''Quantum Echoes'' algorithm pushes us closer to useful quantum computing — running 13,000 times faster than on a supercomputer (www.livescience.com)
Quantum computing ''lie detector'' finally proves these machines tap into Einstein''s spooky action at a distance rather than just faking it (www.livescience.com)
''It''s really an extraordinary story,'' historian Steven Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius (www.livescience.com)
Roos Carr figures: Creepy 2,600-year-old carvings with ''removable genitalia'' and eyes that may have symbolized Odin''s soothsayer powers (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: Revived permafrost microbes spew CO2, scientists image object ''moving'' at 99.9% the speed of light, and James Webb telescope spots something exciting blasting from black hole M87* (www.livescience.com)
''Most pristine'' star ever seen discovered at the Milky Way''s edge — and could be a direct descendant of the universe''s first stars (www.livescience.com)
Jane Goodall revolutionized animal research, but her work had some unintended consequences. Here''s what we''ve learned from them. (www.livescience.com)
''Planet Y'' theory hints at hidden Earth-size world lurking in the solar system — and it could be much closer to us than ''Planet Nine'' (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: Astronomers close in on comet 3I/ATLAS''s origins, a strange gravity anomaly discovered off Africa and AI designs brand-new viruses (www.livescience.com)
Robots receive major intelligence boost thanks to Google DeepMind''s ''thinking AI'' — a pair of models that help machines understand the world (www.livescience.com)
Comet 3I/ATLAS is losing water ''like a fire hose'' on full blast, ''rewriting what we thought we knew'' about alien star systems (www.livescience.com)
''The papyrus also recommends putting a clove of garlic in your vagina before bed'': The texts that reveal the baffling healthcare for women in ancient Egypt (www.livescience.com)
''The Big One'' could be even worse than COVID-19. Here''s what epidemiologist Michael Osterholm says we can learn from past pandemics. (www.livescience.com)
Corleck Head: A spooky three-faced Celtic sculpture found on the ''Hill of Death'' in Ireland — and it may have been connected to human sacrifice 1,900 years ago (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: Famed primatologist Jane Goodall dies, Iran sinks at an alarming rate, and scientists create human egg cells from skin (www.livescience.com)
''I honestly am not sure on this at all'': Poll reveals public uncertainty over experimenting on conscious lab-grown ''minibrains'' (www.livescience.com)
Citation cartels, ghost writing and fake peer-review: Fraud is causing a crisis in science — here''s what we need to do to stop it (www.livescience.com)
Science history: Alexander Fleming wakes up to funny mold in his petri dish, and accidentally discovers the first antibiotic — Sept. 28, 1928 (www.livescience.com)
30,000-year-old ''personal toolkit'' found in the Czech Republic provides ''very rare'' glimpse into the life of a Stone Age hunter-gatherer (www.livescience.com)
James Webb Space Telescope reveals thick cosmic dust of Sagittarius B2, the most most enormous star-forming cloud in the Milky Way — Space photo of the week (www.livescience.com)
''If there is a space race, China''s already winning it'': NASA unlikely to bring Mars samples back to Earth before China does, experts say (www.livescience.com)
''Cleopatra''s Final Secret'' documentary reveals hundreds of coins and port found in Egypt. But does that mean Cleopatra was buried there? (www.livescience.com)
''Like trying to see fog in the dark'': How strange pulses of energy are helping scientists build the ultimate map of the universe (www.livescience.com)
''When people gather in groups, bizarre behaviors often emerge'': How the rise of online social networks has catapulted dysfunctional thinking (www.livescience.com)
''We certainly weren''t exceptional, but now we''re the only ones left'': In new PBS series ''Human,'' anthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi explores how humans came to dominate Earth (www.livescience.com)
Skyscraper-size asteroid previously predicted to hit us in 60 years will zoom past Earth on Thursday (Sept. 18) — and you can see it live (www.livescience.com)