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Science news this week
 
A space shark, 'royal' auroras and a 'Venusian pearl': See the winners of the 2026 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest
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A Royal Observatory Greenwich contest showcased work from around the night sky and the solar system, with prize-winning photos spanning topics ranging from auroras to planets.
 
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Scientists identify rare genetic mutation that dramatically raises risk of lung cancer in nonsmokers
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A genetic mutation that raises lung cancer risk was much more common among those born in Southeastern states than elsewhere in the U.S.
 
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Fresh findings
 
Scientists name a new cat species for the first time in over a century
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The South American tiger cat is not one species but five distinct species, a new study finds.
 
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Amazing discoveries
 
Newly confirmed 'baby planet' is the youngest alien world scientists have ever discovered
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Astronomers have confirmed a large exoplanet is forming in the cloud of debris around a young star. At less than a million years old, it's the youngest exoplanet found so far.
 
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Life's Little Mysteries
 
Why does blond hair tend to darken with age?
Why does blond hair tend to darken with age?
If your blond preteen seems to be turning into a brunette, you're not imagining things. For some children, hair that starts out platinum blond gradually becomes darker and may end up dark brown, or even black, as they grow. So what causes this change?
 
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1,000-year-old 'snake amulet' featuring a Christian saint and 'Medusa' discovered in Russia
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Archaeologists discovered the two-sided pendant, which features a snake-slaying saint and a snake-haired woman, during an excavation in northwestern Russia.
 
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'At some point we're going to have to react': How El Niño, climate change, and crime are pushing the Amazon rainforest over the brink
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Live Science spoke with Amazon researcher Bernardo Flores about how El Niño could help drive Earth's largest tropical rainforest past a globe-altering tipping point.
 
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Strange science
 
'Predatory behavior': Elite mathematicians clash over OpenAI's 'solution' to million-dollar math problem
'Predatory behavior': Elite mathematicians clash over OpenAI's 'solution' to million-dollar math problem
OpenAI's controversial claim to have cracked the Navier-Stokes existence-and-smoothness problem has sent shock waves through the mathematics community.
 
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Science Spotlight
 
Climate change will harm our health. Here's what could protect us.
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The impacts of climate change on health are becoming clearer. What can we do to respond?
 
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This week on Live Science Pro
 
We're not about to awaken an evil digital god — AI is far more likely to end in a great disappointment
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OPINION | AI is unlikely to launch a Hollywood-style war against us. Rather, the biggest danger of AI is that it will disappoint us, says Andrew Rogoyski.
 
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AI agents resorted to crime and self-destruction to survive in a simulated world — but does this mean they would do the same in the real world?
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ANALYSIS | A unique AI test environment resulted in crimes and self-destruction, and its makers say it's the best way to figure out how AI can behave in the real world.
 
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Was there a 'before' the Big Bang? Jim Al-Khalili on the mind-bogglingness of time
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EXCERPT | In this excerpt from "On Time: The Physics That Makes the Universe Tick," author and theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili examines the possibility of time starting before the Big Bang, with the cosmological theory of eternal inflation.
 
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Something for the weekend
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Photo of the week
 
Peculiar land bridge separates a pair of colorful lakes in Patagonia — Earth from space
Peculiar land bridge separates a pair of colorful lakes in Patagonia &mdash; Earth from space
This eye-catching astronaut photo shows the point where an ancient Patagonian lake has been split by a peculiar land bridge, creating two contrastingly colored bodies of water.
 
Lake Pueyrredón (on the left in the photo) is the Argentine half of a roughly 40-mile-long (65 kilometers) glacial lake, which stretches across the country's border with Chile in Patagonia — a region in South America that is well known for its diverse range of geographic features, including mountains, fjords, deserts and rainforests. The Chilean half of the lake is known as Lake Cochrane (not shown in this image). Both halves hold crystal-clear water that is up to 1,600 feet (500 meters) deep, giving Pueyrredón a deep blue hue when viewed from above.
 
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