2,000 years ago in Scotland, people removed a corpse's brain and fashioned the arm bones into tools - A new analysis of 2,000-year-old skeletons found in northern Scotland has revealed an unusual funeral ritual involving the manipulation of dead bodies.

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Flesh-eating screwworm found in Texas cows and dog. Are humans at risk? -- Explainer -- USDA has detected New World screwworm infections in Texas animals, marking the state's first confirmed cases in decades. -- Nicoletta Lanese -- Last updated

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3 new Ebola vaccines are being fast-tracked amid the current outbreak - when could they be ready? -- The Bundibugyo virus driving the current Ebola outbreak has no approved vaccine, but researchers are leveraging decades of vaccine innovation in an effort to change that. -- Jennifer Zieba -- Published

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2 vanished 'super Earths' once orbited near Uranus and Neptune, new study hints -- Our solar system may have hosted up to six giant planets in its first hundred million years, a new study suggests. The findings paint a more crowded picture of the early outer solar system than previously thought. -- Deepa Jain -- Published

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Artemis III crew revealed: NASA announces astronauts for 'one of history's most complex missions' -- NASA's Artemis III crew has been revealed. The astronauts will launch into low Earth orbit next year to test docking with commercial lunar landers being developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin. -- Patrick Pester -- Last updated

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China unveils first-of-its-kind 'dual-core' quantum computer - its makers say it improves stability and efficiency -- A new Chinese quantum computing system pairs two independent neutral-atom arrays in one processor, aiming to boost stability, efficiency and scalability. -- Alan Bradley -- Published

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Ditch full of 7,000-year-old headless human skeletons discovered in Slovakia, baffling archaeologists -- Archaeologists are unsure why people in Stone Age Slovakia removed corpses' heads before burying them in a neighborhood ditch. -- Kristina Killgrove -- Published

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Richard Feynman's forgotten notes on 'the restaurant problem' finally deciphered -- Researchers cracked a 50-year-old math problem scribbled by Richard Feynman over lunch. The equations show that humans are better decision-makers than scientists once thought. -- Larissa G. Capella -- Published

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Thanks to natural selection, Indigenous Andeans may digest potatoes better than anyone else in the world, study finds -- After domesticating potatoes 10,000 years ago, the ancient people of the Andes evolved to have more copies of a key gene involved in digesting starch. -- Sophie Berdugo -- Published

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'A disease anywhere can be a disease everywhere tomorrow morning': Public health expert on Ebola and the threat of future outbreaks -- INTERVIEW -- Live Science spoke with Dr. Ali S. Khan, an epidemiologist and former assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service, about the ongoing Ebola epidemic and the U.S.'s preparedness for future outbreaks. -- Sophie Berdugo -- Published

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Sea ice loss in the Arctic has triggered a critical tipping point that's destroying the food chain -- Researchers say the Arctic Ocean crossed a biological tipping point in 2009, when nitrate levels in the water suddenly started dropping due to a drastic reduction in sea ice extent. -- Sascha Pare -- Published

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Jupiter and Venus conjunction: See two bright planets at the same time this weekend -- A close conjunction of the two brightest planets in the night sky will take place over several evenings, with the best time to look being June 8-11. -- Jamie Carter -- Last updated

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This yeast-based 3D printed biomaterial could one day replace your wallpaper and drapes -- Researchers have made a new biomaterial that has a similar tensile strength as a fruit roll-up and could help reduce waste produced from indoor decor. -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry -- Published

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'Crystals' of space-time could be the origins of rare black holes, theoretical study hints -- By taking general relativity into higher dimensions, a trio of physicists has proven that a mathematical pattern of ripples in space-time geometry could give rise to naked singularities and microscopic black holes. -- Benjamin Skuse -- Published

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Ultra-rare meteorite could be evidence of a lost planet that once orbited near Earth - Space photo of the week -- A rare meteorite found in the Sahara Desert may be evidence of a long-lost "protoplanet" that formed in the early solar system before being destroyed in a colossal collision, a new study suggests -- Jamie Carter -- Published

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Stupid hot: Heat waves cause cognitive changes in animals, making them more aggressive and unable to complete basic tasks -- As temperatures rise, some creatures pick fights while others struggle to learn. The consequences of these behavioral changes may ripple through ecosystems. -- Marta Zaraska -- Published

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Trump administration to remove 900 deep sea monitoring instruments that would have studied the collapsing Atlantic current -- The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade -- Adam Kovac -- Published

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tzi the Iceman yeasts make sourdough, Italian teenagers discover Roman villa under school, Google plans to release 64 million mosquitos, and RIP to NASA's Maven probe -- Science news this week -- June 6, 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 -- Ben Turner -- Published

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World's largest scorpion had 6-inch pincers, and prowled UK land and waters 415 million years ago -- Enigmatic 415 million-year-old fossils belong to a giant scorpion that may have reached lengths of around 3 feet (1 meter), a remarkable body size because most life on land at that time was small. -- Aristos Georgiou -- Published

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Coming El Ni o will be the strongest ever recorded, new forecast predicts -- A June update by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts suggests that the coming weather event will be the strongest ever measured. -- Ben Turner -- Published

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