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
Stylized masks like this one adorned pre-Inca mummies in Peru hundreds of years ago.
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Can Ozempic prevent or treat cancer? It's way too soon to say, an expert cautions
Excitement around the idea that GLP-1 drugs can prevent cancer is running well ahead of the evidence, an expert…
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'It's absolutely exciting!': Astronomers discover an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone for first time ever
Astronomers have detected helium escaping from the super-Earth LHS 1140 b, providing the strongest evidence yet that a…
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Decorated wild-boar tusk found in Russia may have been medieval warrior's good-luck charm
A 12th-century wild-boar tusk found in Russia may be a warrior's amulet.
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Cells from your mother likely infiltrated your brain in the womb, and they could survive for decades, study reveals
Maternal cells that infiltrate children's brains during pregnancy take on different jobs in the brain and may persist…
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James Webb telescope uses trippy Einstein prediction to probe the farthest reaches of the universe — Space photo of the week
The James Webb telescope peers through a warped bubble of space-time to study galaxies from the first billion years…
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What's the oldest weapon in the world?
There are a few contenders for the world's oldest weapon, and one is over 400,000 years old.
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Not a housekeeper, but a 'vilica': The many responsibilities of Roman-era female farm managers were overlooked by historians
Women on ancient Roman farms were in charge of making wine, oil — and profits. Historians dismissed them as…
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'A dangerous proposition': How AI is warping the social fabric and the ways we collectively imagine the future
In this excerpt from "Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life," author Mona Sloane examines how artificial…
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'Fireball' meteorite that smashed into New Jersey home contains ingredients of life from an ancient proto-planet, study finds
Amino acids and other "pre-biotic" molecules were spotted in a meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024.
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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 18, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you…
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What is the roundest animal?
It's fairly uncommon to find a spherical creature, although they're more common in the sea than on land. So which one…
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'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
RNA can fold into more complex configurations than scientists thought, raising questions about how important these 3D…
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'These are striking forecasts': Super El Niño keeps getting even more likely, and it could bring a humanitarian crisis
Forecasts point to the ongoing El Niño rapidly strengthening to a likely all-time record in the coming months, fueling…
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'Explosive diarrhea' parasite infections in 5 states linked to Taco Bell lettuce; other cases still under investigation
Lettuce served at Taco Bell has been identified as a source of Cyclospora infections affecting people across five…
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'Shared cosmic experience': 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Apophis could be visible to 90% of Earth's population during ultraclose 2029 flyby, new maps reveal
Researchers predict that up to 7.6 billion people will be able to see the potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis fly…
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Heaven Lake: China's deepest lake sits atop a colossal volcano and belongs mostly to North Korea
Heaven Lake is a body of water located 7,200 feet above sea level at the top of a volcano. It is the deepest lake in…
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Did ancient Egyptian princesses use weapons? Controversial study claims they hunted or trained with the military, but not all experts agree.
Nearly 4,000-year-old skeletal remains show that several royal women repeatedly used their upper-body muscles.…
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Ancient chariot emerges among remains of mysterious society that burned down its own buildings and then disappeared
An ancient bronze chariot recently discovered in Spain was used by a culture that mysteriously disappeared from the…
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist and team use Claude AI to solve decades-old math puzzle
A decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio…
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Thousands of liberated Africans died on a remote island after the British Navy freed them. We now know where they came from.
Thousands of enslaved Africans were liberated from slave ships and died on the island of St. Helena around 200 years…
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Oops! Ancient Bronze Age shaman long assumed to be a man was actually a woman, DNA reveals
A DNA analysis of a 4,000-year-old skeleton buried with an elaborate metalworking tool kit near Stonehenge has revealed…
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'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
Joël Lapointe was using Google Maps to plan a camping trail through Quebec's Côte-Nord region when he stumbled across a…
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New 3D silicon chip stacks circuits on top of each other to boost computing power
Researchers have found a way to build a three-layered silicon chip without the chip overheating.
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'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.
Gus, a Tyrannosaurus rex unearthed in South Dakota, just sold for $50 million at auction. But it's unknown if the…
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Robot dog can climb stairs, navigate a forest and bound over logs thanks to new, rapid AI training technique
Researchers used reinforcement learning to train a quadrupedal robot to adapt to different environments using two…
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Orange-lipped monkey that roars and snorts deep in Congo rainforest is new species to science
A striking new monkey species, Colobus congoensis, was discovered deep in the Congo rainforest and has been…
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'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
Scientists made a breakthrough discovery about the physics of Hawking radiation by making a miniature black hole out of…
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We tested Canon’s $10,000 wildlife zoom — can it replace a prime lens?
We spent a week with the Canon RF 100-300mm f/2.8L IS USM lens to find out if it’s really worth the eye-watering price…
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Diagnostic dilemma: Junk-food diet caused a teen's permanent blindness
A teen's nutrient-poor diet led to irreversible vision problems.
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Scientists show that DNA can last for up to 50,000 years in Africa — much longer than previously thought
Researchers extracted DNA from long-dead animals that lived in South Africa during the last ice age, revealing that…
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Scientists are deep-freezing koala eggs and sperm to protect the species from extinction
Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia want to freeze koala sex cells in liquid nitrogen, which could…
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'It affects your daily life suddenly': Sea level researcher explains why once-in-a-century floods could become the new normal
Live Science spoke with sea level expert Sönke Dangendorf about how human-caused sea-level rise is increasing extreme…
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