All content Archive | September 2026

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September 27th
- A giant cosmic 'fart' is making a wobbling zombie star repeatedly flash us, 'groundbreaking' observations reveal
- James Webb telescope shares one of its biggest images ever, with record-breaking stars hiding in the dust — Space photo of the week
- What is the closest any object has gotten to the sun?
September 26th
- 'Call it Genghis Khan's final victory': Why the tomb of the 'Disturber of the Universe' remains hidden after 800 years
- The full 'Harvest Moon' rises with Saturn this weekend — here's how to get the best views
- Why does lithium work against bipolar disorder?
September 25th
- NASA teases new PRIMA telescope that could peer even deeper into the infrared universe than the James Webb Space Telescope
- New kind of AI audio chip transforms earbuds into always-on 'intelligent' devices that run without a smartphone. How does it work?
- 'Everything we know about space travel is going to change within a decade': The fusion breakthrough that could unlock a path to the stars
- Best binoculars 2026: The ultimate buying guide for birdwatching, stargazing and more
- 'If you do want to be a criminal, there is no better place to do it': Author Rose George dives into the dark depths of the fishing industry
September 24th
- Archaeologists discover 'tomb of the very highest rank' in 2,700-year-old Etruscan cemetery
- Rare armored dinosaur found in Japan may have ancestors that migrated across a land bridge 100 million years ago
- Could Comet 3I/ATLAS teach us about life beyond Earth? Scientists say the story's not over yet.
- Japan switches on its first full-stack room-temperature quantum computer — and scientists plan to scale it up to 10,000 qubits
September 23rd
- Hurricane Polo exploded in intensity in just 24 hours. Is the 'super' El Niño to blame?
- Earth's first bats didn't come from where we thought, landmark genetic study reveals
- Missing Celtic fort annihilated by Julius Caesar finally found under Paris hospital
- Astronomers detected radio signals coming from an exoplanet for the first time. Spoiler alert: It's not aliens.
- '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
- Google DeepMind's latest AI tool promises a new era for genetics research, but experts warn to take its predictions with caution
- 3,000-year-old burial of ancient Egyptian horse found — and a nearby stone carving depicts a captured prisoner
- Earth's crust is 'unzipping' beneath Italy — and that could explain most of the earthquakes in the region
- Alien sunsets, stone spiderwebs and mysterious doors: Curiosity's top 10 photos after 5,000 days on Mars
- Diagnostic dilemma: Weird spikes poking through a teen's eyelid turned out to be a wayward tooth
- The hunt for extraterrestrial life is fundamentally flawed. But there's a fix.
September 22nd
- 'There was something bigger in the ground here': Metal detectorist in Germany discovers giant Roman-era hoard from time of emperor Hadrian
- 'We have found traces of peace, thousands of years old': Fragment of world's oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey
- Newfound 'fire amoeba from the Cascades' sets record for the hottest temperature complex life can survive at
- Vera Rubin Observatory detects one of the smallest and faintest satellite galaxies ever seen ‪—‬ before the telescope's mission even began
- US heading for unprecedented El Niño winter: Here's what to expect
- Scientists identify 'sweet spot' for early stage of life on Earth that preceded LUCA, the ancestor of all living things
- Giant caves beneath sinkhole reveal origin of mystery trenches that score Australia's Nullarbor Plain
- Nearly 2,400-year-old school where Aristotle taught Alexander the Great discovered in Greece
- '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
- 14th-century woman in China lost her nose to amputation — likely as punishment for stealing or adultery
- A surprising slab of salt shines at the summit of the Sahara's tallest peak — Earth from space
- New LightTok chip converts light directly into 'tokens' for AI — slashing energy use in drones and other autonomous machines
September 21st
- What are you most excited for NASA's Roman Space Telescope to find?
- Spaceflight may harm the reproductive system of astronauts' kids and grandkids, early mouse study suggests
- Scientists made a paper battery you can swallow to power internal medical devices
- One of the longest-running meteor showers of the year has begun: How to get the best views of the Southern Taurids
- Funeral mask: A 2,000-year-old gold face covering designed to confuse the deceased's spirit so it didn't torment the living
- Live Science crossword puzzle #61: Largest living land animals — 4 across
- The devastating Nepal floods highlighted the danger of glaciers. Here's where the next disaster may occur.
September 20th
- 'Nothing short of a minor miracle': 'Rusty treasure' found in the Danube is full of 2,200-year-old iron bars that could equip an entire army with weapons
- '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
- Did the Vikings really shoot fiery arrows at funeral boats?
September 19th
- Scientists build a DNA computer that can perform calculations in a drop of water
- An 'impossible' black hole merger may finally be solved thanks to Einstein's relativity — but it raises an even bigger mystery
- Why does blond hair tend to darken with age?
September 18th
- 'Of course I am worried': Live Science readers react to US weapons in space
- Climate change will harm our health. Here's what could protect us.
- 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?
September 17th
- A space shark, 'royal' auroras and a 'Venusian pearl': See the winners of the 2026 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest
- Scientists identify rare genetic mutation that dramatically raises risk of lung cancer in nonsmokers
- Newly confirmed 'baby planet' is the youngest alien world scientists have ever discovered
- 'Predatory behavior': Elite mathematicians clash over OpenAI's 'solution' to million-dollar math problem
- Scientists name a new cat species for the first time in over a century
- 1,000-year-old 'snake amulet' featuring a Christian saint and 'Medusa' discovered in Russia
- '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
September 16th
- 1,700-year-old fragment of the 'Odyssey' discovered in Dutch library
- New trick could reveal text on 2,000-year-old scrolls charred by eruption of Mount Vesuvius
- Scientists finally figured out the temperature of T. rex's blood ‪— and it was as hot as ours
- Was there a 'before' the Big Bang? Jim Al-Khalili on the mind-bogglingness of time
- Scientists shrank mice's brains and replaced the missing tissue with human 'organoids'
- 'It is extremely rare to witness': Scientists record humpback whale mom grieving her stillborn calf in first-of-its-kind footage
- Diagnostic dilemma: A man's sudden fainting episodes landed him in the hospital — and a hair dye was to blame
- New laptop ditches noisy fans and heat sinks for tiny 'cooling chips' — it's much thinner and lighter than you'd expect
September 15th
- Strange 'centaur' object between Saturn and Uranus has mysterious, changing rings, James Webb telescope study hints
- We're not about to awaken an evil digital god — AI is far more likely to end in a great disappointment
- Are you worried about the US deploying weapons in space?
- 'Maybe robots can maintain houseplants': Readers react to letting humanoid robots take over their housework
- Did 'all roads lead to Rome'? New study finds other cities in the empire were better connected.
- Fossils of iconic long-necked dinosaur Diplodocus found in Europe for first time — and it may have traveled there via land bridge
- 'That could push them over the edge': How climate change could fuel impulsive behavior
- Peculiar land bridge separates a pair of colorful lakes in Patagonia — Earth from space
September 14th
- South American 'Pompeii': Volcanic eruption 22 million years ago preserved a snapshot of the Andes forming
- We now have an incredibly detailed map to help predict which areas of LA are the most at risk from 'The Big One'
- Ancestral commemorative head: A 500-year-old brass bust depicting an African king
- Live Science crossword puzzle #60: British monarch who ruled for 70 years — 3 down
- Does estrogen protect against dementia? And if so, who should take it?
September 13th
- Fall stargazing 2026: The best skywatching sights in autumn (and how to see them)
- Haunting Hubble telescope image captures cosmic cycle of destruction and creation —‬ Space photo of the week
- Why do cats lick each other?
September 12th
- Scientists got diamond's melting point wrong by more than 1,000 degrees, crushing new laser experiment reveals
- AI trained to 'think' like human pathologists may be better at spotting cancer
- Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ review
- Why is Venus hotter than Mercury, when Mercury is closer to the sun?
September 11th
- 'Oddly shaped rock' unearthed in California turns out to be 'immaculate' mastodon molar
- 'There are no easy answers here': New study forecasts a dire dip in food production if key Atlantic currents collapse
- 'Maybe that is how Transformers started': Readers react to the possibility of AI becoming self-aware
- Microscopic fragments of ancient alien tech may litter the moon — and scientists have a plan to find them
- Swarovski CL Companion compact binocular review
- Brain shrinkage tied to aging 'pauses' as a woman nears menopause, study finds
- Finland's largest Viking Age silver hoard discovered by metal detectorist — and it has thousands of coins and pieces of jewelry
- 'Every time it gets excited — boom — it collapses': How dogs with narcolepsy helped scientists understand the disorder
September 10th
- Infectious diseases will seed new ground as the planet warms — here's where they'll spread
- 1 million people's genes reveal the heritability of the Big Five personality traits — and it's complicated
- Mercury may have shrunk much more than we thought, new study hints
- Powerful new AI model will map the moon's surface in more detail than ever, NASA and IBM scientists say
- Canon RF 20mm f/1.4L VCM review: Wide, bright and built for the dark
- A Harvest Moon with 5 planets on the side: September is the best month for stargazing, ‪and this year is extra special
September 9th
- 'America's Nobel' prizes go to sleep and hemophilia researchers, and to Michael J. Fox for Parkinson's advocacy
- Watch the first-ever footage of a rare deep-sea squid in the northeastern Pacific
- 'Why would you ruin your career?': OpenAI claims to have cracked one of math's greatest unsolved problems, but mathematicians allege it played dirty
- Record-breaking rain in California was caused by abnormally high temperatures on the other side of the world, study finds
- World's oldest evidence of habitual drug use traced back 25,000 years to Indonesia
- See the highest-resolution footage of a black hole jet ever taken, thanks to AI and 27 years of observations
- Do you think Al could ever become self-aware?
- Enigmatic Denisovans lived by cave in what is now China for 100,000 years, rare fossils and handcrafted tools reveal
- The moon may have formed in just 5 hours, new simulations suggest
- Diagnostic dilemma: Fisher's colon punctured by eel that snuck in through his rectum
- 'Drops in the ocean can make waves': How the grassroots climate movement took off in the US
September 8th
- Google scientists removed a critical 'consciousness safeguard' from AI in new study. What happened next?
- Where on Earth is safest from global catastrophe?
- Arctic warming fuels 2 distinct climate regimes in Siberia that could wake up a methane 'sleeping giant'
- 25 years ago, a NASA astronaut captured this haunting photo of the 9/11 attacks — Earth from space
- Eerily humanlike AI-powered robot enters mass production in China — its makers say it could soon be helping you out at home
September 7th
- US military confirms weapons in orbit: Why a space 'arms race' could be extremely hard to stop
- Guldhøj folding chair: The only completely preserved chair from Bronze Age Europe
- Live Science crossword puzzle #59: The current geological era — 6 across
September 6th
- Ancient Egyptian tomb holding the king's 'keeper of secrets' unearthed at Saqqara
- AI's water use is a problem, but shifting from electricity to solar or wind power could help
- Stunning Roman-era mosaic discovered in Turkey features 'Emerald' the cat and 'Ocean' the dog
- 'Extreme' transistor can withstand heat of more than 1,000 degrees F — priming it for use in Venus-bound probes
- James Webb telescope finds one of our galaxy's rarest stars inside the 'Treasure Chest' globule — Space photo of the week
- How small can a transistor get?
September 5th
- Mathematicians say these 60-sided dice are the fairest in the world. Designing them took 15 years.
- Faster than Usain Bolt? Here's all the records robot 'athletes' broke at this year's World Humanoid Robot Games in China.
- Excavation in Poland reveals Stone Age man buried with decapitated heads and a tooth necklace
- How did the Romans build their towering aqueducts?
- Author Lise Barnéoud on the bizarre and provoking world of microchimerism — when cells from one person live in another, genetically distinct individual
September 4th
- Blue Origin rocket explosion sent sound waves 1,000 miles across the US, report finds
- 3,200-year-old inscription may point to a long-lost ancient Egyptian city from the time of Ramesses II
- Aging doesn't look the same for everyone at the molecular level — it's 'individualized and context-dependent'
- Burning up — How can we adapt to a warming world?
- 'A worrying snapshot': Satellite image shows large patches of open water less than 40 miles from the North Pole
September 3rd
- Psilocybin may protect against a common, debilitating side effect of chemotherapy, early study finds
- Hubble confirms mysterious, 10-sided cloud is growing over Saturn's south pole
- Lavish private bath used by Roman emperor and 'high-status residents' discovered at imperial palace in Serbia
- 'There is no conflict between quantum physics and gravity': Physicists prove Einstein's 'happiest thought' holds true at quantum scales
- 'The apple you eat isn't the apple your granddaughter will eat': What's on the menu in a warming world?
- New map of a male fly central nervous system includes all 166,000 neurons — and enables direct comparisons to female fly brain
- An ancient 'supervolcano' has been found hiding beneath eastern England. But experts say there's not enough evidence to call it that.
- China reaches solar energy milestone — what does this mean for the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter?
September 2nd
- 1,600-year-old skeleton found in a giant jar in Bulgaria may belong to Roman who hid there to escape enemy attack
- Diagnostic dilemma: A woman got a lung transplant — and ended up with a peanut allergy, too
- Sunken WWII hospital ship colonized by devil firefish and rare monk seals
- Nobody is preparing for the worst day in history
September 1st
- 'Biggest surprise of my life': Homeowner discovers Denmark's largest Viking Age silver hoard in their backyard
- Is the NFL doing enough to protect athletes from head injuries?
- Man rummaging in a Polish junkyard finds a 1,800-year-old shield holding the cremated remains of a Vandal warrior
- ZWO Seestar S50 Pro smart telescope review
- Ghostly green lakes merge in Australian outback after 2 years of heavy rain — Earth from space
- Live Science crossword puzzle #58: Dinosaur with 3 horns — 10 across
- 'It's in the realm of possibility': Climate change is spurring a reemergence of yellow fever, and the US could face future threats