News Archive | July 2026

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July 31st
- 'We are not giving up yet': Private mission to rescue NASA's Swift telescope is spinning out of control, and engineers are racing to fix it
- IBM scientists claim they've achieved 'quantum advantage' — and they've dared others to prove them wrong
- Alzheimer's blood tests are transforming how patients get diagnosed — here's what to know
July 30th
- 'We weren't really looking for' it: Astronomers accidentally discover 2 supernovas that exploded from a single star system in cosmic first
- Scientists discover 2 new 'ghost' lineages that contributed DNA to modern humans
- Scientists put cameras on whale sharks for the first time and saw something they'd never seen before
- 500-year-old Inca mummies prove that European colonists brought devastating smallpox to the Americas
- 40,000-year-old bird figurines the size of a thumbnail discovered in German cave
- A unique antibody system may help explain bats' unusual tolerance of viruses
July 29th
- Lasers reveal hundreds of geoglyphs made by a mysterious civilization in the Amazon rainforest thousands of years ago
- Chinese rocket hit by rare midair lightning strike moments after launch as onlookers gasp in horror (video)
- Antarctica just experienced minus 119 F, Earth's coldest temperature since 2012 — here's why
- New telescope images provide best evidence yet that the bright red star Betelgeuse is actually 2 stars in disguise
- Monkeys have a basic intuition for geometry, study suggests
- Biological 'superspreader' event could be imminent as more than 1,000 ships idle in the Strait of Hormuz, scientists warn
- High-powered lasers can wirelessly charge drones mid-flight
- 'Demon cavefish' discovered under WWII chemical weapons facility in Alabama
- Catch an orange 'Buck Moon' rise tonight before a month of solar and lunar eclipses
July 28th
- Magnitude 6.8 earthquake traps shoppers as mall collapses in Japan —‬ here's why the seismic event was unusual
- A strange string of a dozen galaxies keeps surprising astronomers with its missing dark matter
- Scientists may have found a clue to prevent muscles from aging, study hints
- Killer whales sink another boat off the coast of Spain — why are they still doing this after 6 years?
- Introducing Live Science Pro — a new space to get all the science with none of the distractions
- 'World models' are the future of AI, but how do they work?
July 27th
- Ancient human relative cannibalized both adults and children in a cave in Spain 850,000 years ago, fossils reveal
- 'Feynman and followers, you guys are off': Physicists disprove decades-old Richard Feynman theory on 'silly' sprinklers
- Military's testosterone screening program could lead to overtreatment and side effects, including impaired T production
July 26th
- 2 meteor showers peak on the same night this week ‪—‬ how to get the best views, despite a near-full moon
July 25th
- Archaeologists find 2,800-year-old burial of person clutching sea turtle vessel in El Salvador
- No, OpenAI's models didn't go 'rogue' when they broke into Hugging Face. Here's what really happened.
July 24th
- 1,200-year-old infant burial found near famous Temple of Artemis in Turkey contains twins — one with an unusual extra rib
- Cyclospora parasite outbreak linked to lettuce expands to 9 states, with over 1,900 people sickened
- 6-year-old in China dies after experimental treatment, investigation finds, raising questions about the country's gene therapy regulations
- 'Much more violent than predicted': A chunk of the universe's missing matter was powerfully hurled out of galaxies
- AI web browsers 'aren't ready for the public,' scientists warn as they highlight massive security red flags
July 23rd
- Fields Medal 2026 winners include mathematician Hong Wang — the third woman to ever win in the award's 90-year history
- 'We're trying this out of frustration': Marmots star in OnlyFans account as researchers desperately look for ways to raise funds amid US budget cuts
- 'Extremely rare' Roman military camp found in Slovakia holds hastily buried remains of Marcus Aurelius' soldiers — with some dumped in wells
- Meet Phantom Twist, a stealthy new drone that hides in plain sight by tricking your eyes
- 'It was unlike anything I'd witnessed before': Orcas seen headbutting a sunfish so hard that it exploded
July 22nd
- 'Once we were like you': Striking reconstructions reveal the faces of 16 people from Roman-era Hungary
- NASA's New Horizons spacecraft awakens from yearlong hibernation to do unprecedented science beyond Pluto
- Mice on 'godforsaken' frozen volcanoes eat toxic plants to survive conditions 'not remotely compatible with long-term human survival'
- Sacrificed Inca children died very differently than we thought, study finds
- NASA astronaut shares image of impossible-looking 'hopper' crystal growing on the space station. What is happening?
July 21st
- Greenland meltwater will drive a 'strong weakening, but not a shutdown' of key Atlantic currents, study finds
- Startup's 'oscillator-based' AI technology could be 1,000 times more energy efficient than conventional computing
July 20th
- The bacteria behind gum disease may also harm your heart valves, early research suggests
- Mysterious 'little red dots' at the beginning time may finally have an explanation, thanks to newfound 'little blue companions'
- British vial of smallpox scabs triggered the devastating 1789 outbreak among Indigenous Australians, study finds
July 19th
- '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
July 18th
- '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
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
- 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
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
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
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
July 12th
- 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
July 11th
- 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
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
- New sodium metal battery design charges in just 4 minutes and retains its capacity for years
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
- '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
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
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
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
- James Webb telescope's largest-ever map of the universe unmasks hidden corners
- First experiment to thicken Arctic ice with seawater shows promise — but there's a big catch
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
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
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