All content Archive | July 2026

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July 20th
- British vial of smallpox scabs triggered the devastating 1789 outbreak among Indigenous Australians, study finds
- 'We were genuinely surprised': 'Superworms' can clean extremely delicate skeletons lickety-split, and that's a game changer for museums
- Mummy mask with wig: A 1,000-year-old 'false head' found in Peru that was crafted with real human hair and toxic red cinnabar
- Live Science crossword puzzle #52: The moon's other name — 2 down
- Science word of the day: Heliosphere
July 19th
- Can Ozempic prevent or treat cancer? It's way too soon to say, an expert cautions
- 'It's absolutely exciting!': Astronomers discover an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone for first time ever
- Decorated wild-boar tusk found in Russia may have been medieval warrior's good-luck charm
- Cells from your mother likely infiltrated your brain in the womb, and they could survive for decades, study reveals
- James Webb telescope uses trippy Einstein prediction to probe the farthest reaches of the universe — Space photo of the week
- What's the oldest weapon in the world?
- Science word of the day: Autotroph
July 18th
- Not a housekeeper, but a 'vilica': The many responsibilities of Roman-era female farm managers were overlooked by historians
- 'A dangerous proposition': How AI is warping the social fabric and the ways we collectively imagine the future
- 'Fireball' meteorite that smashed into New Jersey home contains ingredients of life from an ancient proto-planet, study finds
- Science news this week: Gold tongues discovered in tombs, sugar found in space, a new monkey identified in the Congolian rainforest, and ancient impact crater 'geoguessed' by an amateur astronomer
- What is the roundest animal?
- Science word of the day: Neuroplasticity
July 17th
- 'RNA can do things which we have never seen before': New study challenges assumptions about what RNA was up to at the dawn of life
- 'These are striking forecasts': Super El Niño keeps getting even more likely, and it could bring a humanitarian crisis
- 'Explosive diarrhea' parasite infections in 5 states linked to Taco Bell lettuce; other cases still under investigation
- 'Shared cosmic experience': 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Apophis could be visible to 90% of Earth's population during ultraclose 2029 flyby, new maps reveal
- Heaven Lake: China's deepest lake sits atop a colossal volcano and belongs mostly to North Korea
- Did ancient Egyptian princesses use weapons? Controversial study claims they hunted or trained with the military, but not all experts agree.
July 16th
- Ancient chariot emerges among remains of mysterious society that burned down its own buildings and then disappeared
- Nobel Prize-winning physicist and team use Claude AI to solve decades-old math puzzle
- Thousands of liberated Africans died on a remote island after the British Navy freed them. We now know where they came from.
- Oops! Ancient Bronze Age shaman long assumed to be a man was actually a woman, DNA reveals
- '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
- New 3D silicon chip stacks circuits on top of each other to boost computing power
- '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.
July 15th
- Robot dog can climb stairs, navigate a forest and bound over logs thanks to new, rapid AI training technique
- Orange-lipped monkey that roars and snorts deep in Congo rainforest is new species to science
- 'Smaller than the tiniest scale in nature': Physicists made a black hole out of light and used it to test Stephen Hawking's elusive radiation theory
- We tested Canon’s $10,000 wildlife zoom — can it replace a prime lens?
- Diagnostic dilemma: Junk-food diet caused a teen's permanent blindness
- Tobacco companies are pushing nicotine pouches on teens — and we need to act now to stop them
July 14th
- Scientists show that DNA can last for up to 50,000 years in Africa ‪—‬ much longer than previously thought
- Scientists are deep-freezing koala eggs and sperm to protect the species from extinction
- 'It affects your daily life suddenly': Sea level researcher explains why once-in-a-century floods could become the new normal
- Space shuttle photobombs Earth for the final time, 15 years ago — Earth from space
July 13th
- 5 'extremely rare' iron shackles discovered in France highlight Celtic slave trade 2,300 years ago
- Sweet! Sugar found in raspberries was discovered near the Milky Way's center, hinting that life's ingredients are common in space
- Live Science crossword puzzle #51: Largest rodent on Earth — 4 down
- Elamite helmet with divine figures: A warrior king's 3,500-year-old bronze armor depicting a raptor and gold-plated gods
July 12th
- 'The moon looked wrong': Artemis II mission controller Chris White on taking historic lunar flyby photos from 250,000 miles away
- AI is giving people bad money advice. Here's what I worry about most, as a finance professor.
- 18 ancient Egyptian tombs with dozens of gold 'tongues' discovered along the Mediterranean coast
- Venezuela's devastating 'earthquake doublet' holds a warning for California's San Andreas Fault
- James Webb telescope captures never-before-seen glimpse of 'Centaur' galaxy's battle wounds — Space photo of the week
- Was Einstein wrong about anything?
July 11th
- Tropical forests stop absorbing carbon dioxide during El Niño events. This year could be the worst.
- 'Some people called it horrifying': 'Dinner with King Tut' author on using Egyptian mummification techniques on a modern-day human body
- 'He looked like Ramses the Great': How experimental archaeologists used ancient techniques to mummify a modern-day person
- Songbirds are in crisis as trappers and smugglers force them into lucrative bird-singing competitions
- Science news this week: Time emerges inside a mini-universe, scientists thicken Arctic ice, and mouse study hints at why we lack memories from infancy
- 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.
- Does fast charging damage your battery more than regular charging?
July 10th
- Medieval babies and adults buried together in Sweden were not related, archaeologists discover — raising big questions about early Christian burial practices
- NASA is creating a fifth state of matter on the ISS, thanks to an upgrade to a mini-fridge-sized quantum lab
- 'A silent pandemic': How Japan is curbing antibiotic resistance, $5 at a time
- New sodium metal battery design charges in just 4 minutes and retains its capacity for years
- Canon EOS R6 III review: A wildlife wonder
July 9th
- Malaria had nearly been eliminated around a giant dam in the Amazon — but then it came roaring back. Experts just discovered why.
- Dirty 'button' unearthed by metal detectorist turns out to be a rare 900-year-old coin from Norway's last Viking king, Magnus Barefoot
- '800 seconds for a sick visit': Some factors driving antibiotic resistance have nothing to do with biology, says medical sociologist Julia Szymczak
- 'Complex numbers are not needed for quantum mechanics': Physicists develop quantum model that uses only 'real' numbers for first time ever
- 'Astronomers have to revise estimates': The Milky Way may be larger, heavier and more lopsided than we realized
- Scientists build tiny 'diving suit' for cockroaches, turning them into search-and-rescue cyborgs
- Quantum computing wielded to create extremely rare material critical to nuclear fusion
- New robotic heart mimics common, mysterious condition to help researchers study it
- 'Explosive diarrhea' parasite infections confirmed in hundreds of people across US, with 1,251 in Michigan alone
- Extreme heat waves are making our cities buckle. Investing in urban nature is no longer optional.
July 8th
- 100,000 years ago, one of the earliest Homo sapiens outside Africa was stabbed in the face, analysis finds
- We remember little to nothing of early childhood — and a recent mouse study may help explain why
- Secretive Chinese probe snaps first photo of Earth's mysterious 'quasi-moon' — and it may pose a big problem
- Diagnostic dilemma: A woman heard voices for years — but not because of psychosis
July 7th
- 'One of the oldest gravestones of a free Black person in America' discovered in Boston
- 6,000-year-old broken ribs discovered in Syria may be one of the oldest known cases of child abuse in the world
- 'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab
- 2,500-year-old tomb of a 'warrior prince' with chariot and helmet discovered on Italy's Adriatic coast
- Euclid telescope discovers the 2 most ancient monster black holes in the universe ‪—‬ each brighter than a trillion suns
- Colorful 'painting-like' ripples cover an ancient seafloor structure in the Bahamas — Earth from space
July 6th
- Scientists just created the most lifelike cell ever made in a lab — here's what it could accomplish
- Neanderthals and modern humans may have shared culture 59,000 years ago in Turkey, study finds
- Heart issues tied to 'microdamage' in the brain might raise risk of memory loss, study hints
- 'What we found was striking': Physicists detect new kind of gravitational wave signal from a black hole's event horizon
- Diagnostic dilemma: Huge mass in woman's stomach was likely caused by Ozempic-style drug — and dissolved with diet soda
- Live Science crossword puzzle #50: Longest-serving president in US history — 1 across
- James Webb telescope's largest-ever map of the universe unmasks hidden corners
- The Stargazer: A 5,000-year-old marble statuette of a Stone Age woman looking skyward
- First experiment to thicken Arctic ice with seawater shows promise — but there's a big catch
July 5th
- Superintelligent AI in space could explain the Fermi Paradox
- NASA celebrates America's 250th birthday with red, white and blue snaps of the cosmos — Space photo of the week
- Has there ever been a period in human history without war?
July 4th
- The US is hooked on unregulated peptides. But are they effective, or even safe?
- Science news this week: James Webb telescope finds a never-before-seen substance, China's 'Great Green Wall' grows faster than natural trees, and a Medici murder mystery is solved
- Alien life on nearby 'super Earth' much likelier than we thought, study claims
- Are CAPTCHAs obsolete in the age of AI?
July 3rd
- Diminutive species 'the Hobbit' did not hunt or control fire, deepening the mystery of its ancestry, dwarf elephant bones reveal
- Elite families ruled nomadic Scythian society 2,500 years ago, DNA analysis reveals
- 'Machine-gun sun' could bring auroras to more than a dozen states this Independence Day weekend
- 'It's more than a hope, it's a guarantee': The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 10-year movie of the universe is about to 'blow our minds,' chief scientist Tony Tyson says
July 2nd
- Hubble telescope spots 'impossible' light from a galaxy that shouldn't have been visible
- The hantavirus outbreak is over, WHO declares
- 'Uncharted territory': Record-high ocean temperatures confirmed for June as El Niño strengthens its grip
- James Webb telescope may have discovered a mysterious, never-before-seen substance on Pluto and Titan
- Ancient ring discovered underground in Scotland could be a Stonehenge-like monument
- 11-year-old boy in Canada dies from rabies after waking up with a bat on his face
- NASA mission to rescue a space telescope plummeting to Earth launches into orbit
July 1st
- Ancient-DNA analysis solves 500-year-old mystery of what killed 2 Medici brothers
- Antarctica's first dinosaur fossil belonged to a group of the largest land animals ever
- Scientists propose launching a giant 'airbag' into space to protect us from solar superstorms ‪— and experts say it's 'quite feasible'
- Study suggests life on Earth has around 1.8 billion years left — but the biosphere might evolve to survive even longer
- Dead-end bitcoin mining wastes as much energy as Switzerland's entire hydropower generation capacity
- Diagnostic dilemma: Improper use of a massage gun tore holes in a man's retinas