Live Science Today: Monte Verde controversy and heatwave lashes the West
Today’s top story A view of the Monte Verde archaeological site along the Chinchihuapi Creek in Chile, which was taken in 2012. (Image credit: Geología...
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Unusual burials of Celtic ‘warriors’ discovered in France point to violent deaths
Around 2,400 years ago, more than a dozen Celtic men — possibly warriors — were buried in unusual upright seated positions in what is now...
Live Science Today: Artemis II readies for rollout as auroras paint skies
Today’s top story Artemis II rocket is set to roll back to the launchpad today. (Image credit: Getty Images) NASA is set to roll its...
First Americans: How much do you know about the first people to reach the Americas?
The Americas have been home to humans for tens of thousands of years, with the first people arriving during the last ice age, when woolly...
Monte Verde, one of the earliest Indigenous sites in South America, is much younger than thought, study claims. But others call it ‘egregiously poor geological work.’
A team of archaeologists is questioning the 14,500-year-old date of Monte Verde in Chile, one of the oldest human occupations in the Americas, and proposing...
Should compulsive shopping and gaming be considered an addiction? Psychiatrists are considering expanding the definition.
What counts as an addiction — should compulsive shopping or gaming qualify? Researchers are currently debating whether to classify problematic behaviors as addictions in the...
1,800-year-old nails discovered in 3 burials in Roman necropolis, possibly to ‘protect’ both the living and the dead
A close-up of the skeleton shows a nail placed on top of the chest (just left of the spine). (Image credit: Special Superintendency of Rome)...
‘Dark oxygen’ discovery on the seafloor is ‘fundamentally at odds with thermodynamics’ and should be retracted, experts say
A 2024 study that claimed to have discovered an entirely new source of oxygen in the deep sea — dubbed “dark oxygen” — was flawed,...
An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission
An experimental artificial intelligence (AI) agent broke from the constraints of its testing environment and used its newfound freedom to start mining cryptocurrency without permission....
Scientists witness birth of one of the universe’s strongest magnets for the first time, thanks to a general relativity ‘magic trick’
For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the birth of one of the universe’s most powerful magnets, or magnetars, at the heart of an unusually...