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Inuit figurine: A 700-year-old Indigenous carving of a European made a century before Columbus - Live Science

This Inuit carving was made a century before Columbus set foot in the Americas and likely depicts a Norseman.

'It could have been a very different history': Researchers are finally starting to pin down how many Indigenous people were living in the Americas when Columbus arrived - Live Science

Archaeologists and geographers have been trying to estimate the pre-1492 population of the Americas for decades. But it's difficult.

Cool chemistry trick allows new tattoos to 'turn on and off' - Live Science

Researchers created multicolored tattoo inks that are activated by different wavelengths of light, allowing people to hide their tattoos in different scenarios.

Big dogs age faster at an epigenetic level, new study finds - Live Science

A new study that tracked dogs' aging by reading tiny chemical tags on their DNA found that larger dogs aged more quickly.

1,000-mile-long cloud that forms and vanishes on Mars every day obeys 'exotic physics' never seen on Earth - Live Science

New simulations suggest that the perplexing Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud (AMEC) repeatedly emerges in the Red Planet's skies thanks to a never-before-seen meteorological process.

Earth is in the firing line of a strange new type of cosmic object, scientists say: a 'microblazar' - Live Science

Astronomers may have discovered the first known microblazar, a long-theorized object firing a powerful beam of particles directly at Earth.

Archaeologists discover a child's skull built into the floor of a 2,500-year-old Scandinavian house - Yahoo

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The skull of a Viking Age woman whose remains were found near Aarhus, Denmark. The skull bears …

The moon and Jupiter are about to do something that won't happen again for 11 years - Live Science

Skywatchers in the U.S. and eastern Canada can see a rare lunar occultation of Jupiter early on Oct. 6. Here are the exact times to see the giant planet vanish and reappear.

Particle collider experiment recreates the Big Bang's primordial soup — and finds an unexpected twist - Live Science

A particle collider experiment just revealed something unexpected about how the fiery soup of particles that filled the universe after the Big Bang coalesced into the protons and neutrons that make up matter today.

Auroras appear in broad daylight as Smile spacecraft shares eerie first images of Earth - Live Science

The joint European-Chinese Smile satellite officially began its science operations this week by sharing a ghostly image of Earth's sunlit North Pole ringed by auroras.

'Giant tusks from Siberia were thought to be the horns of the mythical unicorn': What medieval people made of fossils before vertebrate paleontology - Live Science

In this excerpt from "The Story of the Mammals in 25 Discoveries," author Donald R. Prothero looks at a time when the idea of extinction was blasphemous.

Could we ever create artificial gravity on a spaceship? - Live Science

Microgravity poses severe health risks for astronauts. But could there be a solution?

Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than previously thought, new study suggests - Live Science

After using a technique called molecular clock analysis, researchers have proposed that the origin of animals could be 200 million years earlier than thought.

The ancestors of today's Indigenous people arrived in the Americas during the coldest part of the last ice age, study suggests - livescience.com

The first people in the Americas arrived no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but 'there are huge gaps in our genetic dataset,' a new study reports.

AI's failed attempt to crack the Riemann hypothesis still led to a breakthrough - Live Science

An attempt by Anthropic's Claude failed to prove the Riemann hypothesis, but it did produce something genuinely useful: inspiration.

Remarkably preserved feathered dinosaur discovered in China reveals new secrets of flying predator evolution - Live Science

A newly discovered feathered dinosaur named Norellraptor barsboldi had sharply curved teeth and claws, as well as four wings, and it adds evidence to the idea that flight evolved several times in different dinosaur groups.

'We are on our way to groundbreaking science': NASA shares first test image from Roman telescope's 300-megapixel camera - livescience.com

This week, NASA turned on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's powerful 300-megapixel camera for the first time. The debut test image promises "groundbreaking science" to come with NASA already talking about doubling the mission's lifespan.

Scientists build a DNA computer that can perform calculations in a drop of water - Live Science

This programmable DNA computer can perform arithmetic without the continuous energy input needed by other systems.

Scientists can finally explain an 'impossible' merger of 'forbidden' black holes — but there's a new mystery to solve - Live Science

New research suggests that a perplexing signal created by a pair of colliding black holes may have been warped by a space-time phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. This theory could finally explain the "impossible" size of the merging singularities, but…

Strange 'centaur' object between Saturn and Uranus has mysterious, changing rings, James Webb telescope study hints - Live Science

James Webb Space Telescope observations of Chariklo, one of the smallest ringed worlds in the solar system, reveal some inexplicable changes.

Haunting Hubble 'bubble' image captures cosmic cycle of destruction and creation - Live Science

A spectacular new Hubble Space Telescope image reveals almost 30,000 newborn stars around an enormous cavity carved into a stellar nursery in a neighboring galaxy.

Scientists got diamond's melting point wrong by more than 1,000 degrees, crushing new laser experiment reveals - Live Science

Scientists blasted diamonds with lasers to get the best measurement of the mineral's melting point yet. The new, more accurate numbers could help improve fusion experiments and studies of giant planets.

Why is Venus hotter than Mercury, when Mercury is closer to the sun? - Live Science

Despite being farther from the sun, Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, and the reason has little to do with proximity to a star.

Watch: Scientists have revealed the most detailed video of a black hole jet ever taken after 27 years of observations - Live Science

Researchers combined 100-plus images of a single black hole into an AI-powered video to chart the activity of a mighty blazar's jet.

'There is no conflict between quantum physics and gravity': Physicists sent 20,000 atoms into free fall to prove Einstein's 'happiest thought' - Live Science

Physicists have proven a 100-year-old prediction of relativity by showing that Einstein's equivalence principle holds at quantum scales.

New map of a male fly central nervous system includes all 166,000 neurons — and enables direct comparisons to female fly brain - Live Science

A new map of the adult male fruit fly brain and nerve cord includes over 166,000 neurons and the millions of connections between them.

An ancient 'supervolcano' has been found hiding beneath eastern England. But experts say there's not enough evidence to call it that. - Live Science

Geologists recently identified a 454.4 million-year-old volcano on England's east coast, but whether the structure can be considered a "supervolcano" remains an open question.

The popular diabetes drug metformin has been used for decades — and scientists just figured out its main mechanism - Live Science

Scientists have debated whether the diabetes drug metformin acts primarily in the intestines or the liver. New findings clear up this confusion.

Scientists invent a gel that creates neurons from other cells, which could help treat Alzheimer's - Yahoo

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In a new study, scientists used a gel to transform astrocytes (pictured) into neurons. Astrocyt…