All content Archive | June 2026

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June 26th
- 'It sounds so impossible': Student studying fungus that makes users hallucinate tiny people may be on the verge of a scientific breakthrough
- Ancient empires quiz: Can you match these lands to the historical powers that ruled them?
- China's top-secret 'dragon' space plane just released another unidentified object over Earth
- AI companies don't want to be legally responsible for their chatbots. US courts should make them.
- Scientists infected a 'vagina on a chip' with gonorrhea — then cured it with a new antibiotic found by AI
- Early Homo sapiens may have lived in rainforests, new clues suggest — and it could overturn our understanding of human evolution
- Socotra Archipelago: The Yemeni islands covered with astonishing cucumber, bottle and dragon's blood trees
- Water shortages could prevent the US from mining more lithium, deepening reliance on foreign imports
- New chip harnesses quantum computing's biggest weakness — and tries to turn it into a strength
June 25th
- Some of the last surviving Neanderthals were remarkably diverse ‪—‬ suggesting inbreeding didn't doom them
- IBM creates world's first sub-1nm computer chip — cramming 100 billion transistors into a tiny fingernail-sized space
- Scientists find thousands of earthquakes in a perfectly straight line in Alaska, revealing a hidden 'microplate'
- NASA rover finds record-breaking trove of complex organic molecules on Mars
- 'You can't patch your way out of it': Cheap AI worm can spread between devices without human guidance — but how did scientists create it?
June 24th
- Satellites reveal Earth has a surprising symmetry in the way it reflects light — and it might be tied to the El Niño cycle
- Water might secretly be a mix of 2 different liquids, scientists say
- China's Einstein Probe detected a mysterious cosmic explosion — and scientists have no idea what caused it
- 'A weird result from an already weird hominin': Archaeologists discover all Homo naledi skeletons found in South African cave are female
- 'Weirdos of the sperm whale world' appear to be evolving 2 different dialects, audio recordings suggest
- Diagnostic dilemma: After taking a medicine for years, a man suddenly had weird changes in his taste that made food disgusting
- 60 million stars: Euclid space telescope snaps the most detailed photo of the Milky Way ever taken
June 23rd
- 'Unequivocal evidence' of Earth's oldest impact crater turns out to be off by half a billion years
- Drug-induced 'brain freeze' may help protect the brain after a stroke, early study suggests
- NASA satellite captures wave of warm water hundreds of miles long that signals a devastatingly strong El Niño
- We've spent decades looking for the wrong type of alien radio signals, new paper claims — and there's an easy way to fix it
- 'If there's any country that will do it, it's China': Why is China diverting some of the world's mightiest rivers thousands of miles?
- 9 of the best technology conspiracy theories
- Bizarre 'bull's-eye' cloud rings appear above erupting volcano on Atlantic island — Earth from space
June 22nd
- One underlying cause of inflammatory bowel disease pinpointed in new study
- Never-before-seen shark that 'walks' on land discovered off Papua New Guinea
- Diagnostic dilemma: Woman's infertility may have been caused by rare semen allergy
- Live Science crossword puzzle #48: Largest fish on Earth — 6 across
- Hanging lamp in the form of a sandaled right foot: A 1,600-year-old bronze lamp with multilayered Christian symbolism
- James Webb telescope detects 'galaxy-killing wind' near the dawn of time — and it could preview the death of the Milky Way
June 21st
- The US just approved bemotrizinol, a sunscreen ingredient long used in Asia and Europe. Here's how it works.
- James Webb telescope finds a cosmic cloud of creation buried in the Sword of Orion — Space photo of the week
- What will the Amazon rainforest look like in 100 years?
June 20th
- 'You kill the bacteria and heal the wound at the same time': Emerging nanotech could be the future of wound healing
- Outdoor cats can be exposed to dangerous germs — here's how to protect you and your pets, according to more than 400 studies
- Science news this week: Goblin shark filmed for first time, California close to a major quake, physicists split photon, and inside China's plans to 'tame nature'
- Diagnostic dilemma: A fish stabs a man through the throat and the base of the skull
- Why does it take our eyes so long to adjust to the dark?
June 19th
- Watch bison herd defend a newborn calf from wolf attack in a primeval Polish forest
- Estrogen levels in both the male and female brain may shape memory's resilience in face of stress
- 'A completely different story': 300 million-year-old fossils reveal the first vertebrate land dwellers weren't what we thought, researchers claim
June 18th
- Denisovan DNA influences the immune systems of modern Oceanians — but researchers aren't sure why
- Wildlife inside Chernobyl exclusion zone acted differently during Russia's invasion, camera traps reveal
- 'Is it really necessary to generate another image?': UN scientist explains how everyday people can limit AI's environmental impact
- Rainforest quiz: Can you sort Earth's largest rainforests from biggest to smallest?
June 17th
- 5,000-year-old 'prototype' Stonehenge aligning with solstices discovered near the famous Stone Age monument
- 'It's a huge deal': Archaeologists discover second cannonball from the Battle of the Alamo, and it was likely fired by Texans
- 'A mixture from zero to infinity': Physicists split apart a photon — and ended up with an improbable swarm of particles
- Oldest known plague victims found in a 5,500-year-old burial ground in Siberia — and many of them were children
- A secretive Chinese probe has just arrived at one of Earth's 'quasi-moons' and will soon attempt a first-of-its-kind landing
- Atlantic 'cold blob' is responsible for shifts in the Indian summer monsoon that threaten over 1 billion people
- 'They reliably chose the statistically more favorable option': A crow researcher explains how these winged geniuses process numbers, and what it could reveal about human math smarts
- 'River in the Sky': China's doomed plan to create a 'cloud seeding corridor' tells us how far the country will go to solve its climate crisis
- Diagnostic dilemma: Viral infection caused woman not to recognize her own father
June 16th
- 5,000-year-old burial of man with battered skull found in kiln in Germany — and he may have been a human sacrifice
- Watch Venus vanish behind the moon in broad daylight today — without any special equipment
- A Texas-size chunk of winter sea ice is missing from Antarctica — and it's probably not coming back
- Wreck of World War II Japanese 'hellship' that sank with more than 1,000 Allied POWs on board discovered off the Philippines
- 'Is having two legs useful' in space?: Astronaut John McFall explains what life in orbit might be like for the first physically disabled person in space
- The world's first nuclear clock just ticked on — and it could help detect a fifth fundamental force of physics
- 'The system is critically stressed': San Andreas and San Jacinto faults scarily close to major earthquake, study finds
- Elusive dwarf fox, feared extinct, photographed for the first time on island off Yucatán
- Earth-based telescope shares image of Artemis II capsule near the moon — one of the farthest photos of humans ever taken
- Indonesia's near-identical, 'Twin Peaks' volcanoes form striking mirror image — Earth from space
- Dangerously hot and humid: Rising temperatures in the US make outdoor exercise hazardous
June 15th
- Lavish Roman villa discovered outside Rome's walls may have been frequented by Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius
- Atacama Desert’s center dried out 20 million years earlier than previously thought — before the Andes formed
- Diagnostic dilemma: Brain scans following a man's hospital visit for leg weakness revealed a surprising finding
- 'Melted in a pot somewhere': Vikings used Islamic silver coins to make their early pennies, study finds
- 'I never thought we'd see one alive': Elusive goblin shark captured on camera for the first time
- 'They are trying to tame nature': China is building the world's biggest dam in an earthquake-prone region of Tibet
- Live Science crossword puzzle #47: The 'unicorn of the sea' — 9 across
- Taming Nature: Inside China's efforts to control the region's water
- Hundreds of hidden earthquakes discovered beneath Antarctica — and they're happening in a very odd location
- An ancient piece of the moon found in Africa hints at a long-ago collision that turned the lunar surface molten
- Mask of Mictlantecuhtli: A 500-year-old mask of the Aztec god of the underworld, who tore apart the dead as they entered his realm
June 14th
- Bow-Wow, Ding-Dong, Pooh-Pooh: Expert explains early theories of how human language evolved — and their silly names
- 'Political motivations' of Inca emperor led to the sacrifice of 3 children on a snow-capped volcano over 500 years ago, study suggests
- Neuroscientists are searching for the 'cellular substrate of loneliness'
- Artemis II crew captures rare double auroras on the dark side of Earth as they zoom toward the moon — Space photo of the week
- Do you really have to wash rice before you cook it?
June 13th
- NASA's experimental X-59 jet breaks sound barrier twice, reaching Mach 1.4 in step toward 'quiet supersonic' technology
- 'This might be the point of no return': Experts on the current measles outbreak and where we go from here
- Science news this week: El Niño arrives, the Artemis III crew are revealed, a 'cold blob' expands across the Atlantic, and a forgotten note from Richard Feynman gets deciphered
- Has all the water on Earth been peed before?
June 12th
- World's rarest great ape decimated by 4 days of extreme rain, with 7% of population lost to cyclone
- 'I was really amazed': On the edge of the Milky Way, a dwarf galaxy is being ripped in half by its big sibling
- These patients' hearts stopped a dozen times a day. An innovative procedure has transformed their lives.
June 11th
- Ancient squirrel poop from Arctic permafrost contains DNA from mammoths, bison, horses and big cats
- Earth's underground fungal network is so massive, it would span 10% of the Milky Way, map reveals
- Century-old tuberculosis vaccine could help treat diabetes, trials hint. How?
- The Milky Way returns: How to take breathtaking photos of our galaxy this summer
- El Niño is officially here, and will be among the strongest ever recorded, NOAA announces
- Complete skin of an adult horse found with 10th-century woman and newborn in rare Siberian burial
June 10th
- Scientists discover 5 million-year-old whale graveyard stretching for hundreds of miles in the Indian Ocean
- Artificial turf contains 400 chemicals tied to cancer and hormone disruption. But is it unsafe?
- Scientists were excited about a blood test for many cancers — but it failed a big trial. Here's what to know.
- This 'crawling' robot rolled around the moon and took a historic photo
- In a first, scientists translated an entire viral genome so a quantum computer could read and analyze it
- 'Geminid Symphony' and 'Galactic Gandalf': See the breathtaking views of our home galaxy from the 2026 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest
- Genetically modified worms can now produce and deliver drugs inside a living body, scientists say
- Mysterious 'cold blob' in the Atlantic is a sign of the Gulf Stream weakening — and that's bad news for the US East Coast
- Scientists discover giant, fan-shaped structure deep beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet
- Diagnostic dilemma: Man who donated his body after death had rare 'triple penis'
June 9th
- 2,000 years ago in Scotland, people removed a corpse's brain and fashioned the arm bones into tools
- 3 new Ebola vaccines are being fast-tracked amid the current outbreak — when could they be ready?
- What is PMOS (formerly PCOS)? What to know about the hormonal syndrome
- 2 long-vanished 'super Earths' once orbited near Neptune in our outer solar system, new study hints
- China unveils first-of-its-kind 'dual-core' quantum computer — its makers say it improves stability and efficiency
- Artemis III crew revealed: NASA announces astronauts for 'one of history's most complex missions'
- Ditch full of 7,000-year-old headless human skeletons discovered in Slovakia, baffling archaeologists
- Trio of drastically different US lakes straddles the border between states — Earth from space
- Physicist Richard Feynman's forgotten notes on 'the restaurant problem' finally deciphered after 50 years
- Doctors need to understand patients' lived experiences to treat them well — but medical schools may stop requiring that training
June 8th
- Thanks to natural selection, Indigenous Andeans may digest potatoes better than anyone else in the world, study finds
- 'A disease anywhere can be a disease everywhere tomorrow morning': Public health expert on Ebola and the threat of future outbreaks
- Sea ice loss in the Arctic has triggered a critical tipping point that's destroying the food chain
- Live Science crossword puzzle #46: Largest desert on Earth — 9 down
- This yeast-based 3D printed biomaterial could one day replace your wallpaper and drapes
- Roman bath clog: The world's oldest shower shoes were found at a fort along Hadrian's Wall
June 7th
- AI could consume up to 3% of world's electricity the UN warns
- 'Crystals' of space-time could be the origins of certain rare black holes, theoretical study hints
- Ultra-rare meteorite could be evidence of a lost planet that once orbited near Earth — Space photo of the week
- What's the deepest cave in the world?
June 6th
- Stupid hot: Heat waves cause cognitive changes in animals, making them more aggressive and unable to complete basic tasks
- Trump administration to remove 900 deep sea monitoring instruments that would have studied the collapsing Atlantic current
- Science news this week: Ötzi the Iceman used to make sourdough, Italian teenagers discover Roman villa under school, Google plans to release 64 million mosquitos, and RIP to NASA's Maven probe
- Why can't we figure out how strong gravity is?
June 5th
- World's largest scorpion had 6-inch pincers, and prowled UK land and waters 415 million years ago
- Coming El Niño will be the strongest ever recorded, new forecast predicts
- NASA astronauts briefly shelter in 'safe haven' procedure following worsening leaks on International Space Station
- Flu drugs might fight cognitive decline seen in HIV, early study hints
- Look up tonight: Jupiter and Venus will almost touch in one of 2026's best skywatching events
- Some 'extinct' volcanoes may just be going through a growth spurt, before they 'wake up in this catastrophic stage,' emerging research suggests
- Scientists race to collect the last seeds from a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct
- 'The best solution is to murder him in his sleep': AI can learn violent tendencies from each other despite zero references to violence in training data
June 4th
- New Velociraptor cousin was a '4-winged' dragon that hunted prey from the trees of ancient China, fossil find hints
- Flesh-eating screwworm found in Texas cows and dog. Are humans at risk?
- Italian teenagers discover 1,800-year-old Roman luxury house underneath their high school gym
- Satellite images reveals mangroves rebounding worldwide — but here's why they could still 'drown'
- James Webb telescope detects most distant dormant black hole, invisible in all wavelengths and weighing as much as 6 billion suns
- Microsoft's latest quantum chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor — but why is it so controversial?
- Mysterious repeating radio signal traced to 'vampire' star that's slowly eating its companion
- First shipwrecks linked to real pirates of the Caribbean found in Bahamas
- Archaeologists study the International Space Station and Everest to figure out 'how humans adapt in this impossible place where we have no business going'
- 'Cannibal' CME from rare 'anti-Hale' sunspot will slam into Earth today, bringing auroras to 23 US states
- Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 70AZ review
June 3rd
- Daddy longlegs may be capturing and devouring frogs in the tropical forests of South America
- Google wants to release 64 million bacteria-riddled mosquitoes across California and Florida. Here's why scientists are enthusiastic.
- 'In an unrecoverable state': NASA confirms MAVEN spacecraft is officially dead after loss of signal behind Mars
- A cheap arthritis drug shows promise treating RSV in early study
- Get the legendary Celestron NexStar 8SE telescope at its lowest price of the year in this early Amazon Prime Day deal
- SIGMA 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG DN OS Sport lens review
- Diagnostic dilemma: Doctors couldn't explain why a boy was bleeding from his eyes, ears and nose
- 'Totally counterintuitive': Scientists accidentally discover magnetic fields around 7 distant planets, opening new window in the search for life
- 'It was very very good': Ötzi the Iceman's body is covered in ancient yeast — and scientists just used it to make a sourdough
June 2nd
- Physicists achieve 'perfect randomness' for the first time ever
- China launches new Long March 12B rocket, reportedly without any safety warning
- SIGMA 60-600mm f/4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sport lens review
- 17,000-year-old stripes of red in a Welsh cave are the oldest rock art in the UK, study finds
- 'Animals were imprisoned in jails where humans were incarcerated': The bizarre trials of the Late Middle Ages — and surprising lack of criminal cats
- Rusty, orange water 'bleeds' across brilliant Bolivian lagoon — Earth from space
June 1st
- NASA confirms meteor exploded over northeastern US with force of 230 tons of TNT
- Astronauts could use lightning-like plasma jets to kill germs on the moon and Mars, demo hints
- First whole-genome sequence of a Greenland shark holds clues to their extreme longevity
- Heading a soccer ball just once is enough to raise levels of proteins associated with brain damage
- Scientists reveal the origin of the Euphrates — a river that fed the 'cradle of civilization'
- Live Science crossword puzzle #45: The tallest waterfall on Earth — 10 across
- Gessel gold hoard: A 3,300-year-old stash of gleaming treasures that's one of the largest Bronze Age hoards from Europe