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Archaeology -- Did modern humans wipe out the Neanderthals? New evidence may finally provide answers.

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Planets -- How long do most planets last?

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Human Evolution -- What are ghost lineages, remnants of the past that still exist in our DNA today?

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Planet Earth -- China turns desert into carbon sink, a viking giant in a mass grave, real-life inception, and a Valentine's gift idea from nature

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Human Evolution -- 10 things we learned about Neanderthals in 2025

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Arts & Entertainment -- Live Science crossword puzzle #31: First person to walk on the moon - 11 across

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Arts & Entertainment -- Daily sudoku: Take a break with this classic numbers puzzle

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Neanderthals -- 'More Neanderthal than human': How DNA from our long-lost ancestors affects our health today

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Animals -- 50 mind-blowing science facts about our incredible world

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Geology -- Scientist accidentally stumbles across bizarre ancient 'wrinkle structures' in Morocco that shouldn't be there

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Human Evolution -- 10 things we learned about our human ancestors in 2025

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Human Evolution -- Human origins quiz: How well do you know the story of humanity?

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Particle Physics -- Historic search for 'huge missing piece' of the universe reveals new secrets of particle physics

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Human Behavior -- Trump 2.0 is dismantling American science. Here's what's at stake, according to researchers.

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Scientists may have seen a star collapse directly into a black hole without exploding first - By - Evan Gough - published - 21 February 26 - A new study looked at how a massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy disappeared due to the formation of a black hole

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'The limits of human longevity have still not been reached,' study suggests - By - Florian Bonnet, Carlo Giovanni Camarda, France Mesle, Josselin Thuilliez - published - 21 February 26 - A new study, analyzing 450 regions in western Europe, focused on where the oldest people end up residing across the continent.

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'Thermodynamic computer' can mimic AI neural networks - using orders of magnitude less energy to generate images - By - Anna Demming - published - 21 February 26 - Researchers generated images from noise, using orders of magnitude less energy than current generative AI models require.

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Scientists propose new plan to 'catch' comet 3I/ATLAS - but we have to act fast - By - Matthew Williams - published - 21 February 26 - A new study explores the challenges of catching interstellar comets like comet 3I/ATLAS

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Emerging embryo-selection technologies are currently 'little more than snake oil.' But someday, they could widen social inequities. By - Daphne O. Martschenko, Sam Trejo - published - 21 February 26 - Book - In the book "What We Inherit," experts unpack long-standing myths about genes and how those myths could shape public opinion around emerging embryo-selection technologies.

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China's kung fu robots, physicists' re-creation of the Big Bang soup, a teenager buried with her father's bones on her chest, and mathmeticians puzzle over AI taking their jobs. By - Ben Turner - published - 21 February 26 - Science news this week - Feb. 21, 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.

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2,000-year-old skulls reveal people in ancient Vietnam permanently blackened their teeth - a stylish practice that persists today - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 21 February 26 - In a study of 2,000-year-old skulls from Vietnam, archaeologists discovered that iron was the primary component that dyed teeth black.

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'Proof by intimidation': AI is confidently solving 'impossible' math problems. But can it convince the world's top mathematicians? By - Kit Yates - published - 20 February 26 - AI could soon spew out hundreds of mathematical proofs that look "right" but contain hidden flaws, or proofs so complex we can't verify them. How will we know if they're right?

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In a 'race against time,' archaeologists uncovered Roman-era footprints from a Scottish beach before the tide washed them away - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 19 February 26 - Archaeologists raced against the tide to record a unique set of footprints made 2,000 years ago on a Scottish beach.

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95 million-year-old Spinosaurus had a scimitar-shaped head crest and waded through the Sahara's rivers like a 'hell heron' By - Kenna Hughes-Castleberry - published - 19 February 26 - Researchers have identified a new Spinosaurus species with a blade-like crest in Niger, changing our understanding of dinosaur evolution and behavior.

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Solar flares may be triggering earthquakes, controversial study claims - By - Kenna Hughes-Castleberry - published - 19 February 26 - Researchers have proposed that changes in Earth's ionosphere could trigger electrical forces that nudge fragile areas of the crust into creating an earthquake.

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Saturn's largest moon may actually be 2 moons in 1 - and helped birth the planet's iconic rings - By - Harry Baker - published - 19 February 26 - A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed into each other. This hypothesis could also help to solve several other mysteries surrounding other moons and the planet's iconic rings.

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