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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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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 entertained over the weekend

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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 structures were when life on Earth began.

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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 past Earth on April 13, 2029. The skyscraper-size space rock will come closer than some satellites, making it clearly visible to the naked eye.

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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. Researchers link those changes to archery and weapon training, but outside experts urge caution.

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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 Parisi and collaborator Francesco Zamponi have finally cracked the case — not with a radical new theory, but with the help of the generative AI Claude.

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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 ago. A new chemical analysis has revealed their tragic stories.

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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 large indentation. Now, scientists have confirmed that the pit was indeed a meteor impact crater that dates back roughly 390 million years.

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New orange-lipped monkey found: Scientists identify Colobus congoensis, a species that roars & snorts loudly in the Congo rainforest

Orange-lipped monkey: Scientists have identified a new species of monkey with striking orange lips in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The rare primate discovery is being hailed as one of the most significant African monkey finds in decades. Named Colobus congoensis, the species was found…

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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 scientifically described for the first time.

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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 water levels, as once-in-a-century flooding events become decadal.

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Space jam: 'Raspberry sugar' discovered near the centre of the Milky Way; what scientists say about life's building blocks forming before planets existed

A sugar molecule found in raspberries has been detected near the Milky Way's center. This marks the first time the molecule has been identified beyond our Solar System. Researchers identified erythrulose in a giant cloud of gas and dust. The findings suggest essential ingredients for life may be common across…

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Sweet! Sugar found in raspberries was discovered near the Milky Way's center, hinting that life's ingredients are common in space

Erythrulose, a sugar found in raspberries, was spotted in a gas and dust cloud near the center of the Milky Way.

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18 ancient Egyptian tombs with dozens of gold 'tongues' discovered along the Mediterranean coast

Archaeologists have found 18 tombs at an ancient Egyptian site by the Mediterranean coast of Egypt.

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Science news this week: Time emerges inside a mini-universe, scientists thicken Arctic ice, and one of the oldest graves of a free Black person in the US found

July 11, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend

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Quantum computing wielded to create extremely rare material critical to nuclear fusion

Nuclear fusion inches closer after scientists combine supercomputing, AI and quantum computing to blueprint a way to create more tritium.

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We remember little to nothing of early childhood — and a recent mouse study may help explain why

Early in life, neural networks in the brain's memory center are highly connected, and they are only later refined into precise systems, a mouse study finds.

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Secretive Chinese probe snaps first photo of Earth's mysterious 'quasi-moon' — and it may pose a big problem

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has captured the first close-up photo of one of Earth's "quasi-moons," Kamo'oalewa. However, the image and the timing of its release suggest that it may be harder for the probe to collect samples from the space rock than originally planned.

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'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab

By ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system.

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Heart issues tied to 'microdamage' in the brain might raise risk of memory loss, study hints

When the heart's pumping function gets weaker, areas of the brain linked to memory show early signs of damage, a study finds.

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First experiment to thicken Arctic ice with seawater shows promise — but there's a big catch

Researchers recently performed the first scientific test of sea ice thickening in the field, but there remains a big question mark over how scalable this method is.

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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

July 4, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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Diminutive species 'the Hobbit' did not hunt or control fire, deepening the mystery of its ancestry, dwarf elephant bones reveal

The extinct human species Homo floresiensis was a scavenger, not a hunter, an analysis of fossil animal bones reveals.

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Study suggests life on Earth has around 1.8 billion years left — but the biosphere might evolve to survive even longer

Using complex climate models, researchers have pinned down the point at which life will no longer be able to survive on Earth.

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Rise in cancer in younger adults may be explained by faster 'biological aging,' early study hints

Researchers report that younger adults with older‑than‑expected biological ages are more likely to develop early‑onset lung, gastrointestinal and uterine cancers, but more research is needed.

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