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'Artificial intelligence' myths have existed for centuries – from the ancient Greeks to a pope’s chatbot

'Artificial intelligence' myths have existed for centuries — from the ancient Greeks to a pope's chatbot

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Enough fresh water is lost from continents each year to meet the needs of 280 million people. Here's how we can combat that.

Earth's continents are losing 4 Olympic swimming pools' worth of fresh water every second, with dire consequences for jobs, food security and water availability.

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Trump 2.0 is dismantling American science. Here's what's at stake, according to researchers.

U.S.-based researchers detail how their work has been disrupted by funding cuts and policy changes ushered by the second Trump administration.

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10 things we learned about Neanderthals in 2025

Findings about our extinct relatives, the Neanderthals, continue to surprise us, especially those from 2025.

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Did reintroducing Wolves to Yellowstone really cause an ecological cascade?

Previous research on the effect of wolves on the food web has been criticized, raising questions about the predator’s role in the Yellowstone ecosystem.

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Scientists are developing a 'self-driving' device that helps patients recover from heart attacks

Live Science spoke with Dr. Joe Alexander of NTT Research about "digital twins" and the development of an autonomous device for acute cardiac care.

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This new DNA storage system can fit 10 billion songs in a liter of liquid — but challenges remain for the unusual storage format

The new storage system could hold family photos, cultural artifacts and the master versions of digital artworks, movies, manuscripts and music for thousands of years, scientists say.

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See the exact point where a glacier, a lake and a river 'touch' in Argentina — Earth from space

A 2021 astronaut photo shows a triple valley system in Argentina's Los Glaciares National Park where a massive climate-resilient glacier, a pristine turquoise lake and a murky green "river" come together at a single point.

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A fentanyl vaccine enters human trials in 2026 — here's how it works

A vaccine in development would be the first proactive treatment for overdose and fentanyl addiction, if approved.

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'Putting the servers in orbit is a stupid idea': Could data centers in space help avoid an AI energy crisis? Experts are torn.

Google’s proposal to explore space-based AI infrastructure raises fundamental questions about energy, physics and feasibility – and whether Earth has really run out of options.

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'Stop and re-check everything': Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA's cleanrooms

Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA cleanrooms, revealing surprisingly resilient microbes with potential uses in biotechnology and medicine.

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Lchashen wagon: A 3,500-year-old covered wagon that transported a deceased chief to the next world

This 3,500-year-old covered wagon is the best-preserved example in the world of this ancient form of wheeled transport.

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Science history: Richard Feynman gives a fun little lecture — and dreams up an entirely new field of physics — Dec. 29, 1959

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest scale. It would precede the field of nanotechnology by decades.

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Year in review: The standout health stories of 2025, from measles outbreaks to AI-made viruses

Catch up on the latest trends in health news in this roundup of long-reads compiled by Live Science's health channel editor.

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Stunning array of 400 rings in a 'reflection' nebula solves a 30-year-old star-formation mystery — Space photo of the week

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively expel, surrounding material.

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James Webb telescope spies a monstrous molecular cloud shrouded in mystery — Space photo of the week

In this James Webb telescope image, the gigantic molecular cloud near our galaxy's center appears as a canvas of pink and purple clouds set against a shadowy backdrop.

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How many holes does the human body have?

You might think that the human body has many holes, but that number shrinks when you stop to consider what counts as a hole.

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AI is getting better and better at generating faces — but you can train to spot the fakes

Even the most skilled face recognizers are duped by AI-generated faces, a new study finds. But they can improve with training.

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6 'lost' cities archaeologists have never found

Scholars know of some important ancient cities from texts, but they haven't been able to find them.

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Tooth-in-eye surgery, 'blood chimerism,' and a pregnancy from oral sex: 12 wild medical cases we covered in 2025

Here are a dozen strange and interesting tales from the medical literature.

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Is the sun really a dwarf star?

Our sun is huge, at least compared to Earth and the other planets. So is it really a dwarf?

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Science history: Dian Fossey found murdered, after decades protecting gorillas that she loved — Dec. 27, 1985

Dian Fossey was a zoologist who spent decades studying the elusive mountain gorillas of Congo and Rwanda before she was murdered.

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Spinosaurus relative longer than a pickup truck stalked Thailand's rivers 125 million years ago

A large fish-eating dinosaur died beside a river 125 million years ago in Cretaceous Thailand. Now, the remains of this ancient predator are helping researchers better understand Asia's enigmatic spinosaurids.

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New electrochemical method splits water with electricity to produce hydrogen fuel — and cuts energy costs in the process

Scientists adapted a method that can produce double the amount of hydrogen when splitting water molecules with electricity.

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Uranus and Neptune may be 'rock giants,' not 'ice giants,' new model of their cores suggests

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

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