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'There are no easy answers here': New study forecasts a dire dip in food production if key Atlantic currents collapse - Researchers have examined how weakening currents in the Atlantic Ocean could impact global agriculture - and the results are concerning.

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The Moon -- When does September's full Harvest Moon rise? -- When does the next full moon rise? Find out exactly when to see the full moons of 2026, including the full "Harvest Moon" in September. -- Jamie Carter -- Last updated

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Extraterrestrial Life -- Fragments of ancient alien tech may litter the moon - and scientists have a plan to find them -- Researchers propose that tiny technological remnants left over from extinct alien civilizations could have landed on the moon after traveling through interstellar space. It may not take long to find them, the team claims. -- Harry Baker -- Published

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Space Photo of the Week -- Haunting Hubble 'bubble' image captures cosmic cycle of destruction and creation -- 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. -- Jamie Carter -- Published

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Venus -- Why is Venus hotter than Mercury, when Mercury is closer to the sun? -- 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. -- Olivia Maule -- Published

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Vikings -- Finland's largest Viking Age silver hoard discovered by metal detectorist - and it has thousands of coins and pieces of jewelry -- The largest Viking Age silver hoard ever found in Finland was unearthed by a metal detectorist north of Helsinki. -- Tom Metcalfe

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Human Evolution -- Enigmatic Denisovans lived by cave in what is now China for 100,000 years, rare fossils and handcrafted tools reveal -- Anthropologists have discovered the first-ever Denisovan arm bone in a cave in southwest China, which also held thousands of prehistoric animal bones and stone tools. -- Kristina Killgrove

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Astonishing Artifacts -- Guldh j folding chair: The only completely preserved chair from Bronze Age Europe -- The remarkably preserved wooden folding chair was likely a status symbol and was found in the grave of a Bronze Age chieftain. -- Kristina Killgrove

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Ancient Egyptians -- Ancient Egyptian tomb holding the king's 'keeper of secrets' unearthed at Saqqara -- The tomb of a pyramid-age official has been found at Saqqara in Egypt. -- Owen Jarus

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Science Spotlight -- Infectious diseases will seed new ground as the planet warms - here's where they'll spread -- Climate change will increase our exposure to myriad infections, from tick-borne diseases to drug-resistant bacterial infections. -- Stephanie Pappas

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Book excerpt -- How the grassroots climate movement took off in the US -- In this excerpt from "The Carbon Wave," author Leah Stokes explores the lead-up to that moment and the wave of environmental action that followed. -- Leah Stokes

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Planet Earth -- Where on Earth is safest from global catastrophe? -- Researchers have worked out the safest, most resilient country to be in during an apocalyptic event. -- Sarah Wild

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Climate change -- Arctic warming fuels 2 distinct climate regimes in Siberia that could wake up a methane 'sleeping giant' -- New research finds that western Siberia is becoming wetter as the world warms, while eastern Siberia seems to be getting drier. And both these conditions are fueling a rise in methane emissions, spelling trouble for the climate. -- Sascha Pare

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Cancer -- AI trained to 'think' like human pathologists may be better at spotting cancer -- Researchers trained AI on how expert pathologists look for signs of cancer in patient samples, improving the algorithm's effectiveness. -- Niba @NotesByNiba

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Neuroscience -- Brain shrinkage tied to aging 'pauses' as a woman nears menopause, study finds -- A new study looked at gray matter in the brain during puberty, pregnancy and menopause, finding distinct changes at different life stages. -- Theresa Sullivan Barger

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Interview -- 'Every time it gets excited - boom - it collapses': How dogs with narcolepsy helped scientists understand the disorder -- Live Science spoke with Dr. Emmanuel Mignot, director of the Stanford Center for Narcolepsy and co-winner of a coveted Lasker Award. -- Nicoletta Lanese

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Diagnostic Dilemma -- Fisher's colon punctured by eel that snuck in through his rectum -- A man's intestines were perforated in an "exceedingly rare" medical case involving a live eel. -- Mindy Weisberger

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Life's Little Mysteries -- Why do cats lick each other? -- Cats lick each other for multiple reasons, and some are more mysterious than others. -- Clarissa Brincat

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Extinct species -- 'Oddly shaped rock' unearthed in California turns out to be 'immaculate' mastodon molar -- A field survey in San Mateo County, California, has revealed the fossilized tooth of an adult Pacific mastodon, an ice-age giant that was probably native to the West Coast. -- Sascha Pare

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Aquatic Animals -- Sunken WWII hospital ship colonized by devil firefish and rare monk seals -- A shipwreck off the coast of Albania has attracted both invasive species and provided a home for endangered ones, leading researchers to weigh the risks and benefits of these wrecks for local ecosystems. -- Robyn White

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Sharks -- Ancient shark 'graveyard' uncovered in Egyptian desert -- Fossilized teeth from at least seven shark species have been discovered in the Egyptian desert, hinting at its complex, watery past. -- Pandora Dewan

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Life's Little Mysteries -- Do other animals call each other by name? -- Research in dolphins, elephants, parrots and primates suggests animals may call each other by name, but scientists are divided on how to define the behavior. -- Olivia Ferrari

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Poll -- 'Maybe that is how Transformers started': Readers react to the possibility of AI becoming self-aware -- Could AI become conscious? Live Science readers revealed their thoughts about this technological possibility. -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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Poll -- Do you think Al could ever become self-aware? -- A new study looks at "consciousness steering" in AI, but could this technology actually achieve this level of self-awareness in the first place? -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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Analysis -- Google scientists removed a critical 'consciousness safeguard' from AI in new study. What happened next? -- A new study shows that measures to stop AI's claims of consciousness have unintended consequences for non-human entities. -- Adam Shepherd

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Robotics -- Eerily humanlike AI-powered robot enters mass production in China - its makers say it could soon be helping you out at home -- Xpeng's engineers have designed a humanoid robot that they say is the first in the world that will walk itself off the production line. -- Keumars Afifi-Sabet

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Electronic Engineering -- 'Extreme' transistor can withstand heat of more than 1,000 degrees F - priming it for use in Venus-bound probes -- A new silicon carbide transistor is designed to avoid low controllability and current leakage, which typically become problematic at high temperatures. -- Fiona Jackson

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Life's Little Mysteries -- Science questions, answered

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Diagnostic dilemma -- Unusual case reports from the medical literature

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Astonishing artifacts -- A glimpse into how people lived in the past

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Space photo of the week -- Extraordinary images of our sublime universe

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Earth from space -- Incredible images of our planet from above

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Physics & Mathematics -- Scientists used a powerful laser to melt diamonds ‪-‬ and solved a decades-old mystery -- 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. -- Damien Pine

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Mathematics -- Mathematicians say these 60-sided dice are the fairest in the world -- A team of mathematicians discovered that five 60-sided dice, arranged with exactly the right numbers, can determine a perfectly fair turn order for any group of players, with zero chance of a tie. -- Larissa G. Capella

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Quantum Physics -- Physicists put Einstein's 'happiest thought' to the test in an experiment that unites relativity and quantum mechanics -- Physicists have proven a 100-year-old prediction of relativity by showing that Einstein's equivalence principle holds at quantum scales. -- Andrey Feldman

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Life's Little Mysteries -- How many cosmic particles are passing through your body at any moment? -- While Earth's atmosphere protects us from harmful cosmic rays, other cosmic particles are passing through us every second. -- Charles Q. Choi

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Life's Little Mysteries -- Does water drain in different directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres? -- Earth's rotation can influence a draining vortex. So does that mean water in a drain spirals in opposite directions in different parts of the world? -- Benjamin Plackett

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Genetics -- 1 million people's genes reveal the heritability of the Big Five personality traits - and it's complicated -- RJ Mackenzie

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Mercury -- Mercury is shrinking more than we thought - and it's hiding the evidence from us -- Elizabeth Howell

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Artificial Intelligence -- Powerful new AI model will map the moon's surface in more detail than ever, NASA and IBM scientists say -- Alan Bradley

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Space -- A Harvest Moon with 5 planets on the side: Why September is the best month all year for stargazing -- Jamie Carter

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Health -- 'America's Nobel' prizes go to sleep and hemophilia researchers, and to Michael J. Fox for Parkinson's advocacy -- Nicoletta Lanese

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Squids -- Watch the first-ever footage of a rare deep-sea squid in the northeastern Pacific -- Patrick Pester

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Explainer -- Did OpenAI really crack one of math's hardest unsolved problems -‬ and did it play fair to get there? -- Larissa G. Capella

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Weather -- Record-breaking rain in California was caused by abnormally high temperatures on the other side of the world, study finds -- Sascha Pare

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Archaeology -- World's oldest evidence of habitual drug use traced back 25,000 years to Indonesia -- Tom Metcalfe

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