News Archive | March 2026

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March 31st
- '80% chance of a go,' launch weather officer says at NASA's Artemis II prelaunch conference
- 'It blew my mind': Long-lost ice-age ecosystem, including fossils of lion-size armadillo and giant ground sloth, discovered in Texas 'water cave'
- China's huge push to reduce air pollution had an unexpected consequence in the Arctic
- Scientists have discovered an 'Achilles' heel' in deadly superbugs
- Quantum computers need just 10,000 qubits — not the millions we assumed — to break the world's most secure encryption algorithms
- Artemis II timeline: 12 key steps that will take NASA astronauts to the moon and back
- 'We go for all of humanity': Artemis II rocket lifts off to the moon — look back at our live coverage
- Scientists discover potentially huge freshwater reservoir hidden beneath Great Salt Lake
March 30th
- Tasmanian tigers discovered in Indigenous rock art in Australia, suggesting these marsupials lived there much longer than thought
- 'Something really big is going to happen': NASA's historic Artemis II mission approved for April 1 launch
- Pig semen component could deliver chemotherapy to hard-to-reach eye cancer, mouse study suggests
- 'We are getting very, very close': NASA makes final Artemis II preparations as expectation grows for Wednesday launch
- Farthest, fastest and most diverse: 6 major records the Artemis II astronauts will smash as NASA returns to the moon
March 29th
- Saturn's chaotic atmosphere revealed in most comprehensive view yet by James Webb and Hubble telescopes
March 28th
- A gut microbe linked to the Mediterranean diet boosts muscle strength in mice
- Science news this week: NASA announces nuclear rocket, space reproduction proves difficult, and why weed gives people the munchies
- How to catch the full 'Pink Moon' in April followed by a 'Blue Moon' in May
March 27th
- Mystery medical episode that left astronaut unable to speak shows one of NASA's biggest risks as moon missions ramp up
- Synesthesia isn't just in your mind. The body reacts as if the colors were real.
- Live Science Today: Jaw-dropping first glimpse of sperm whale birth and how NASA is turning astronauts into test subjects
- 'Major disruption in Neanderthal history': 65,000 years ago, all Neanderthals in Europe died out except for one lineage
March 26th
- 2 Neanderthals present at same Siberian cave 10,000 years apart were distant relatives, 110,000-year-old bone reveals
- 18 million-year-old fossils of ape found in Africa, but in an unexpected place
- Astronauts may struggle to reproduce in outer space, study suggests — what does that mean for the future of space colonization?
- Brain aging results from a loss of control over how genes are regulated, mouse study suggests
- Live Science Today: Meta and Google fined for causing social media addiction and how dogs were our friends for millennia
- Roman mosaic shows topless woman battling leopard in arena, study finds
- 1,000-year-old altar and human sacrifices from Toltec Empire discovered in Mexico
March 25th
- Chinese lander reveals giant 'cavity' of radiation between Earth and the moon — and it could change how lunar exploration is done
- NASA announces 'near‑impossible' space plans, including $20B moon base and humanity's first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft
- Is the metaverse finally dead and buried? What's really going on with the embattled idea of living in virtual worlds.
- Critically endangered hare spotted in surprising location for the first time in 40 years — but it was already dead
- Scientists are racing to save Australia's 'zombie tree' from a fast-spreading fungal disease
- Live Science Today: NASA announces $20 billion moonbase as unprecedented wildfires spread
- NASA rover discovers first ruby-like crystals on Mars
March 24th
- Drought could fuel the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs as climate change worsens, new research suggests
- Massive Iron Age hoards discovered in England may be from funeral of powerful Celtic queen
- Cannonball-size meteorite crashes through roof of Texas home as multiple 'fireballs' rain down on the US
- Iran war has already released a staggering amount of CO2 — and the destruction of schools, homes and buildings is the biggest source
- An anomaly in Mars' mantle could trigger volcanoes to erupt — and may be causing the whole planet to spin faster
- AI compressed billions of years of evolution into seconds to create 'Lego-like robots' that can recover even when they lose limbs
- Live Science Today: Jensen Huang AGI claim and major leap to reanimation after death
March 23rd
- Chemistry student develops clear polish that turns your fingernail into a touch-screen stylus
- Russian rocket en route to ISS suffers major antenna glitch, triggering remote-control astronaut 'backup plan'
- Antarctica could warm 1.4 times faster than the rest of the Southern Hemisphere in the coming decades, study finds
- Watch sperm whale headbutt another for no apparent reason
- Live Science Today: Earth hits record energy imbalance, Hawaii floods and NASA prepares for Artemis II launch
- Viruses in the gut may help prevent blood sugar spikes, mouse study hints
- A new twist on matter? Strange 'Half-Mӧbius' molecule has rare properties chemists have never seen before
March 22nd
- A secret weapon to fight carbon emissions was just discovered: Beavers
March 21st
- Physicists created an electron 'catapult' that moves particles at 'extraordinary' speed
- Science news this week: Super El Niño looms, an Acropolis marble fragment resurfaces, and a pure hexagonal diamond is born
March 20th
- Cannonball dating to the Alamo battle unearthed 1 day before 190th anniversary of the conflict that killed Davy Crockett
- NASA's Artemis II rocket rolls to launch pad in final bid to meet April deadline
- Human-driven climate change is slowing Earth's rotation at a rate not seen in 3.6 million years
- Live Science Today: Monte Verde controversy and heatwave lashes the West
- The first flying taxis could start operating in 2026 — will this new form of transport actually take off?
- Unusual burials of Celtic 'warriors' discovered in France point to violent deaths
March 19th
- Should compulsive shopping and gaming be considered an addiction? Psychiatrists are considering expanding the definition.
- Monte Verde, one of the earliest Indigenous sites in South America, is much younger than thought, study claims. But others call it 'egregiously poor geological work.'
- 1,800-year-old nails discovered in 3 burials in Roman necropolis, possibly to 'protect' both the living and the dead
- 'Dark oxygen' discovery on the seafloor is 'fundamentally at odds with thermodynamics' and should be retracted, experts say
- An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission
- Scientists witness birth of one of the universe's strongest magnets for the first time, thanks to a general relativity 'magic trick'
- Live Science Today: Artemis II readies for rollout as auroras paint skies
- Divers find marble treasure from Athens' Acropolis in Lord Elgin's shipwrecked brig at the bottom of the Aegean Sea
- All 5 'letters' of DNA found on an asteroid speeding through our solar system. What do they tell us about the origins of life?
March 18th
- Artemis II: NASA is preparing for a return to the moon, but why is it going back?
- Iran war could push global food insecurity to record levels, leaving 363 million people hungry
- Dark message warning enemy to 'learn your lesson' found inscribed on 2,000-year-old sling bullet from ancient Holy Land
- Drought paradox study reveals plants around Colorado River turn to groundwater when it gets too hot and dry, reducing flow into the already strained basin
- Rare 'daytime fireball' meteor creates powerful sonic boom as 7-ton space rock explodes above eastern US
- New AI image generator runs using 10 times fewer steps than today's best models — and it's coming to smartphones and laptops
- Live Science Today: Meningitis is back and Iran war fertilizer shock
March 17th
- Brazil's underprotected Cerrado savanna stores a staggering amount of carbon, study finds
- Colorectal cancer is now the most common cause of cancer deaths in the US for people under 50
- 'We got evidence of boars, deer, bears, aurochs': Ancient DNA reveals sunken realm Doggerland had habitable forests during the last ice age
- Live Science Today: Super El Niño looms and Starlink hits 10,000 satellites in orbit
March 16th
- 'Super El Niño' could push global temperatures to unprecedented highs, forecasters say
- A single injection of mRNA-like treatment healed heart muscle after a heart attack in mice and pigs. Could it work in humans too?
- Live Science Today: 'Hexagonal' diamonds and fish scale down
March 15th
- In physics first, Chinese scientists create rare 'hexagonal diamond' that's harder than natural diamond
March 14th
- Pi has been calculated to trillions of digits ‪—‬ is that completely irrational?
- Roman military fort discovered in Scotland far north of Hadrian's Wall
- Science news this week: AMOC's collapse signal, the sun's galactic migration, the world's smallest QR code and oil's dying days
- Reading AI summaries makes people more likely to buy something — despite alarming 60% hallucination rate
March 13th
- Microplastics that accumulate in the body may 'clog up' immune cells
- 'A collision within a collision': Neutron star merger hiding in mini-galaxy could answer 2 big astrophysics questions
- What's the biggest bottleneck to building better AI? It's no longer the lack of computing resources — it's generating enough energy to feed it
- 1,900-year-old double Scythian burial in Ukraine contains toxic red mineral
March 12th
- Exceptionally rare sighting of planets colliding may shed light on the crash that formed the moon
- Children wearing bronze 'warrior' belts discovered in 2,500-year-old cemetery in Italy
- 'Blackwater' lakes and rivers in the Congo Basin are now emitting ancient carbon into the atmosphere
- Scientists use 'negative light' to send secret messages hidden inside heat
- 'Interstellar messenger' 3I/ATLAS could be nearly as old as the universe itself, James Webb telescope observations reveal
- Bonobos are just as aggressive as chimps, but there's a key difference — the female bonobos
- Early warning indicator hidden within the Gulf Stream could signal the collapse of key Atlantic currents, study finds
- AI hallucinations work both ways, study shows — using chatbots can amplify and reinforce our own delusions
- Meet Sky Dragon, the giant 10-person 'flying taxi' that just passed its first flight test in China
- A 'mass migration' of stars from the Milky Way's center could explain why there's life in our solar system
March 11th
- 'Rectal garlic insertion for immune support': Medical chatbots confidently give disastrously misguided advice, experts say
- Russian Revolution gold coin hoard worth over $500,000 discovered during house construction
- Europe's oldest handgun may date to 14th-century siege at German castle
- Scientists squished microbes into a steel 'sandwich' — and made a profound discovery about life in space
- Man in Czech Republic accidentally finds Bronze Age spearhead mold in his backyard
- Universe-shaking collision of black hole and neutron star could upend our understanding of monster cosmic mergers
March 10th
- Vernal equinox 2026: When is the first day of spring?
- 1,300-pound spacecraft will crash to Earth today following intense solar activity, NASA warns
- Pre-Inca culture acquired Amazonian parrots from hundreds of miles away to use their feathers to decorate the dead, new analysis reveals
- Single protein could dramatically alter trajectory of Alzheimer's disease
- Falling meteorite smashes hole in roof of German house after spectacular 'fireball' explosion over Europe
March 9th
- Exotic prime numbers could be hiding inside black holes
- 2,000-year-old Phoenician coin was used as bus fare in England, but 'how it got there will always be a mystery'
- In people with epilepsy, sleeping after a seizure may trigger more seizures
- California's wildfire season is shifting, with more blazes after the traditional high-risk window, study finds
- World's smallest QR code can store data for thousands of years ‪—‬ but you need an electron microscope to see it
March 8th
- Scientists tracked faint signals from the stars — and may have turned up hundreds of undiscovered planets
- Humans are being replaced by machines in the food supply chain — and it's leading to truckloads of waste
March 7th
- Enormous 3D map of the universe shows brilliant 'sea of light' near the cosmic dawn
- 'The warming trend nearly doubled after 2014': The rate of global warming has accelerated more in the past decade than ever before
- Anthropic collides with the Pentagon over AI safety — here's everything you need to know
- Science news this week: Cannibal orcas in Russia, oracle bones that reveal climate disaster in ancient China, humming black holes and a barefoot volcanologist
March 6th
- 'Cikai Korran came here and saw': Visitors from India graffitied dozens of Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago
- Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year. What is stopping us from doing it?
- Scientists find 2 marsupial species, thought to have gone extinct 6,000 years ago, living in the forests of New Guinea
- 'Striking' footage captures the moment a red fox preys on a wolf pup — a behavior never seen on film before
- China puts a sodium-ion battery into an EV for the first time — it can drive 248 miles on a single charge
March 5th
- 'City killer' asteroid will narrowly miss the moon, James Webb Telescope reveals
- Groundbreaking new drug shows promise for treating children with a devastating form of epilepsy
- Scientists taught robots to swim through mazes using Einstein's relativity
- The sword in the sea: How one lucky graduate student found his second Crusader sword while taking a swim off Israel's coast
- Sodium-ion batteries are getting ready for prime time. How can they improve EVs?
- Chinese EV maker claims it's engineered the world’s first semi-solid-state EV battery with huge 620-mile range
- Climate disasters caused societal upheaval 3,000 years ago in China, study of 'oracle bones' hints
- Can you tie a knot in four dimensions? A mathematician explains
March 4th
- 'Truly extraordinary': Mega-laser shooting at us from halfway across the universe is the brightest 'cosmic beacon' we've ever seen
- Chewed-up orca fins on Russian beach point to cannibalism, and scientists say it may explain why some pods are so tight-knit
- NASA fixes Artemis II rocket for April launch to take astronauts around moon
- Birds are declining faster and faster in 3 US hotspots, new study finds
- Meet the world's smallest AI supercomputer — it packs 'doctorate-level intelligence', its makers say, and can fit into your pocket
- When was the last time Antarctica was ice-free?
- Prehistoric water-dwelling weirdo with sideways teeth and a twisted jaw was already a 'living fossil' 275 million years ago
March 3rd
- Mysterious 'little red dots' discovered by James Webb telescope may be the first stars in the universe on the verge of collapse
- Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary
- 'Collective hum' of black holes could mend our broken understanding of the universe, physicists say
- Gold coin discovered by a metal detectorist in the UK may have been dropped by a Viking invader from the Great Heathen Army
- 'Blood moon' total lunar eclipse dazzles millions around the world (photos)
- Every ant is a queen in this parasitic species — and they reproduce by cloning themselves and hijacking other ant colonies
- Vanuatu's 'barefoot volcanologist' stands at ash- and sulfur-spewing Mount Yasur in award-winning photograph
March 1st
- Ancient Greek mystery cult priestesses may have chemically tweaked fungus to induce psychedelic hallucinations
- March could be the best month for the northern lights for nearly a decade — if the sun stays active