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Oops! Ancient Bronze Age shaman long assumed to be a man was actually a woman, DNA reveals - A DNA analysis of a 4,000-year-old skeleton buried with an elaborate metalworking tool kit near Stonehenge has revealed that the individual, long assumed to be a male shaman, was actually a woman.

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'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. -- Gus, a Tyrannosaurus rex unearthed in South Dakota, just sold for $50 million at auction. But it's unknown if the specimen will ever be made available to science.

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New 3D silicon chip stacks circuits on top of each other to boost computing power -- Researchers have found a way to build a three-layered silicon chip without the chip overheating.

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'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 -- Jo l Lapointe was using Google Maps to plan a camping trail through Quebec's C te-Nord region when he stumbled across a large indentation. Now, scientists have confirmed that the pit was indeed a meteor impact crater that dates back roughly 390 million years.

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Ancient chariot emerges among remains of mysterious society that burned down its own buildings and then disappeared -- An ancient bronze chariot recently discovered in Spain was used by a culture that mysteriously disappeared from the archaeological record. -- Margherita Bassi

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist and team use Claude AI to solve decades-old math puzzle -- A decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and collaborator Francesco Zamponi have finally cracked the case - not with a radical new theory, but with the help of the generative AI Claude. -- Benjamin Skuse

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Thousands of liberated Africans died on a remote island after the British Navy freed them. We now know where they came from. -- Thousands of enslaved Africans were liberated from slave ships and died on the island of St. Helena around 200 years ago. A new chemical analysis has revealed their tragic stories. -- Owen Jarus

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Orange-lipped monkey that roars and snorts deep in Congo rainforest is new species to science -- A striking new monkey species, Colobus congoensis, was discovered deep in the Congo rainforest and has been scientifically described for the first time. -- Chris Simms

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Interview -- 'The moon looked wrong': Artemis II mission controller Chris White tells the story behind NASA's historic photos -- Artemis II lead communications officer Chris White describes the tensest and most shocking moments of the historic moon mission, as seen from his desk at mission control in Houston. -- Brandon Specktor

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Space Photo of the Week -- James Webb telescope captures never-before-seen glimpse of 'Centaur' galaxy's battle wounds - Space photo of the week -- A JWST image of the nearby Centaurus A galaxy reveals star dust, collision scars and the fingerprint of a black hole. -- Jamie Carter

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The Milky Way may be wider, heavier, and more lopsided than we realized -- New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought. The findings may require experts to revise estimates of the total size of our home galaxy. -- Harry Baker

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Secretive Chinese probe snaps first photo of Earth's mysterious 'quasi-moon' - and it may pose a big problem -- China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has captured the first close-up photo of one of Earth's "quasi-moons," Kamo'oalewa. However, the image and the timing of its release suggest that it may be harder for the probe to collect samples from the space rock than originally planned. -- Harry Baker

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Astonishing Artifacts - Elamite helmet with divine figures: A warrior king's 3,500-year-old bronze armor depicting a raptor and gold-plated gods - This bronze helmet has been decorated with ancient deities from a civilization that flourished before the Persian Empire took over the area that is now Iran. By - Kristina Killgrove - Published - 13 July 26

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'It affects your daily life suddenly': Sea level researcher explains why once-in-a-century floods could become the new normal -- Live Science spoke with sea level expert S nke Dangendorf about how human-caused sea-level rise is increasing extreme water levels, as once-in-a-century flooding events become decadal. -- Patrick Pester

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Earth from space -- This 2011 astronaut photo captured one of NASA's iconic space shuttles passing between Earth and the International Space Station for the very last time. -- Harry Baker

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Tropical forests stop absorbing carbon dioxide during El Ni o events. This year could be the worst. -- El Ni o transforms tropical forests from carbon sinks to sources. 2026 could be the worst year yet. -- Amy Bennett

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Diagnostic Dilemma -- Junk-food diet caused a teen's permanent blindness -- A teen's nutrient-poor diet led to irreversible vision problems. -- Mindy Weisberger -- Published

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Opinion -- Tobacco companies are pushing nicotine pouches on teens - and we need to act now to stop them -- Tobacco companies have fallen back on tried-and-tested marketing practices to encourage nicotine pouch use among teenagers. -- Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD -- Published

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Science crossword -- Live Science crossword puzzle #52: The moon's other name - 2 down -- Test your knowledge on all things science with our weekly, free crossword puzzle! -- Harry Baker -- Last updated

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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. -- A man went to the emergency room after being in and out of hospitals for a month, and doctors found a surprising explanation for his illness. -- Sophie Berdugo -- Published

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Malaria had nearly been eliminated around a giant dam in the Amazon - but then it came roaring back. Experts just discovered why. -- A 15-year study suggests that long-term malaria control may depend as much on protecting environments as it does on sustaining public health programs. -- Olivia Maule -- Published

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Antarctica's first dinosaur fossil belonged to a group of the largest land animals ever -- Researchers have identified the first-ever dinosaur fossil discovered on Antarctica, revealing it belonged to a titanosaur. -- Patrick Pester

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Life's Little Mysteries - 70 mind-blowing science facts about our incredible world - If you're looking for weird facts about animals, gross human body facts or just something a bit random, get ready to geek out with these fascinating bits of trivia. By - Laura Geggel - Last updated - 30 June 26

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Robot dog can climb stairs, navigate a forest and bound over logs thanks to new, rapid AI training technique -- Researchers used reinforcement learning to train a quadrupedal robot to adapt to different environments using two different pre-learned gaits. -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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AI is giving people bad money advice. Here's what I worry about most, as a finance professor. -- When managing your money, take a chatbot's 'confidence' with a grain of salt -- Pawan Jain

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Life's Little Mysteries - Does fast charging damage your battery more than regular charging? From phones to electric vehicles, some batteries take an hour to charge, while others can take up to half a day. By - Kenna Hughes-Castleberry - Published - 11 July 26

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New sodium metal battery design charges in just 4 minutes and retains its capacity for years -- Chinese researchers say they have overcome one of the trickiest problems of battery chemistry by developing a special gel. -- Rory Bathgate

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Scientists build tiny 'diving suit' for cockroaches, turning them into search-and-rescue cyborgs -- Researchers in Singapore and Japan have built a waterproof shell for cyborg cockroaches that could be deployed in disaster zones to investigate flooded areas. -- Sascha Pare

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Life's Little Mysteries -- Science questions, answered

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Space photo of the week -- Extraordinary images of our sublime universe

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Diagnostic dilemma -- Unusual case reports from the medical literature

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Incredible places -- A window onto extraordinary landscapes on Earth

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Astonishing artifacts -- A glimpse into how people lived in the past

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Earth from space -- Incredible images of our planet from above

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Life's Little Mysteries -- Was Einstein wrong about anything? -- Albert Einstein is regarded as a genius, but even he admitted that his work wasn't perfect. So what did he get wrong? -- Ashley Hamer Pritchard

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Science news this week -- A mini-universe recreates time, arctic ice gets thickened, one of the oldest graves of a free Black person in the US found, and the first photo from a secretive Chinese mission to a quasi moon. -- July 11, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend -- Ben Turner

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NASA is creating a fifth state of matter on the ISS following upgrades to mini-fridge-sized quantum lab -- A new set of upgrades to the International Space Station's Cold Atom Laboratory is allowing NASA to probe quantum mechanics at the coldest possible temperatures while in zero gravity. -- Alex Keshavarzi

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Physicists develop the first working model of quantum mechanics using only 'real' numbers -- Physicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard theory, resolving a question that's simmered since the field began. -- Larissa G. Capella

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Physicists made a black hole out of light and used it to test Stephen Hawking's elusive radiation theory -- Andrey Feldman -- Published

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How wildfire smoke harms the body, and how to protect yourself -- Emily Cooke -- Last updated

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Viruses, Infections & Disease

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Scientists show that DNA can last for up to 50,000 years in Africa ‪-‬ much longer than previously thought -- Kristina Killgrove -- Published

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Scientists are deep-freezing koala eggs and sperm to protect the species from extinction -- Sascha Pare -- Published

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5 'extremely rare' iron shackles discovered in France highlight Celtic slave trade 2,300 years ago -- Kristina Killgrove -- Published

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Sugar found in raspberries discovered near the center of the Milky Way -- Elizabeth Howell -- Published

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18 ancient Egyptian tombs with dozens of gold 'tongues' discovered along the Mediterranean coast -- Owen Jarus -- Published

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Analysis - Venezuela's devastating 'earthquake doublet' holds a warning for California's San Andreas Fault - By - Maria de los Angeles Orfila - Published - 12 July 26

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Songbirds are in crisis as trappers and smugglers force them into lucrative bird-singing competitions -- Sandy Ong -- Published

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