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AI web browsers 'aren't ready for the public,' scientists warn as they highlight massive security red flags

By enhancing the functionality of agentic browsers, they have become insecure and could be sharing personal information.

LiveScience · Jul 24

Science word of the day: Parsec

Pronunciation: PAHR'-sek

LiveScience · Jul 24

Fields Medal 2026 winners include mathematician Hong Wang — the third woman to ever win in the award's 90-year history

Hong Wang, a mathematician at New York University, helped solve a decades-old geometry problem and is now the third woman to win math's most prestigious award.

LiveScience · Jul 23

'It was unlike anything I'd witnessed before': Orcas seen headbutting a sunfish so hard that it exploded

In two encounters in the Gulf of California, one orca held a dead sunfish in place while another rammed it at high speed, breaking the carcass into what appear to be bite-sized pieces for younger whales.

LiveScience · Jul 23

'Once we were like you': Striking reconstructions reveal the faces of 16 people from Roman-era Hungary

DNA analysis, 3D-printed skulls and forensic sculpture helped experts recreate people who lived near the ancient Roman frontier city of Aquincum nearly 1,700 years ago.

LiveScience · Jul 22

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft awakens from yearlong hibernation to do unprecedented science beyond Pluto

NASA's record-breaking New Horizons spacecraft has awoken from a 321-day hibernation in "good health" as it resumes unprecedented science at the solar system's edge.

LiveScience · Jul 22

Mice on 'godforsaken' frozen volcanoes eat toxic plants to survive conditions 'not remotely compatible with long-term human survival'

Researchers risked their lives to study Andean leaf-eared mice on the inhospitable peaks of the Puna de Atacama volcanoes in Chile.

LiveScience · Jul 22

Sacrificed Inca children died very differently than we thought, study finds

A new look at three children who died in the Inca human sacrifice ceremony known as Capacocha reveals their last few months and moments.

LiveScience · Jul 22

NASA astronaut shares image of impossible-looking 'hopper' crystal growing on the space station. What is happening?

Astronauts grew a scroll-like crystal aboard the ISS, and its strange shape reveals what happens to ordinary salts once gravity stops running the show.

LiveScience · Jul 22

Science word of the day: Abiogenesis

Pronunciation: Ay-bye-oh-JEN'-ih-sis

LiveScience · Jul 22