Lion''s head pendant: An ancient Egyptian board game piece that was later repurposed into a magical religious object with baboons (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: The latest on the cruise ship hantavirus infections, a shortcut to Mars, and a fast-charging quantum battery (www.livescience.com)
Hantavirus cruise LIVE: World Health Organization hosts briefing as authorities race to track contacts from cruise ship infections (www.livescience.com)
The night sky could get three times brighter as new satellites launch — all but ruining the Vera C. Rubin Observatory''s survey of the universe (www.livescience.com)
Quantum battery charges in a quadrillionth of a second with a laser — larger prototypes could last for years after charging for just a minute (www.livescience.com)
''Food insecurity is no longer just about low-income countries'': Environmental economist explains how climate change is pushing agricultural systems to the brink (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: Risky, lifesaving surgery performed on a baby in the womb, AI agent deletes a company database in 9 seconds, and the universe may end much sooner than expected (www.livescience.com)
''We can no longer ignore diseases in the deep human past'': Malaria influenced early humans'' migrations across Africa, study suggests (www.livescience.com)
Runners have finally completed a sub 2-hour marathon, but another running world record was recently smashed — this time by a humanoid robot. Here''s how. (www.livescience.com)
''It cuts both ways'': Positive tipping points can restore wreaked ecosystems — we just need to trigger them, Earth system scientist Tim Lenton says (www.livescience.com)
''Their greatest challenge since they stared down the asteroid'': Paleontologist Steve Brusatte on why birds are facing their biggest existential threat since the dino-killing asteroid (www.livescience.com)
Drilling has begun at our sacred site Pe'' Sla, setting a dangerous precedent for Indigenous lands across the country. It must be stopped. (www.livescience.com)
''Eventually, it becomes you'': Inventors of new ''living'' knee replacement describe why this tech is desperately needed and how it works (www.livescience.com)
''The push towards renewables is unstoppable because it''s in a country''s self-interest'': Climate scientist Andy Reisinger on Trump, Iran, and the future of Earth (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: Atlantic current edges closer to collapse, scientists make artificial-neuron breakthrough, and a copy of the "Iliad" is found inside an Egyptian mummy (www.livescience.com)
''A completely new reality'': Bolder measures are needed to prevent extreme water shortages in cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas that depend on the Colorado River (www.livescience.com)
''Strong, undeniable public examples of something positive'': Astronaut Chris Hadfield on why Artemis II hit him hard, the importance of spaceflight, and why we need to send a guitar to the moon (www.livescience.com)
Diagnostic dilemma: A teen''s classic diabetes symptoms didn''t improve with treatment — revealing she also had a much rarer syndrome (www.livescience.com)
NASA shuts off another Voyager 1 instrument as humanity''s most distant spacecraft prepares for risky ''Big Bang'' maneuver to save power (www.livescience.com)
''We''re the best servants anyone could dream of!'' AI superintelligence has no need to enslave humans because we''re already bowing to it (www.livescience.com)
Naked mole rats wage bloody wars of succession to choose a new queen — but one colony did something scientists have never seen before (www.livescience.com)
''The chances of you living 50 years are very small'': Theoretical physicist explains why humanity likely won''t survive to see all the forces unified (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: Physicists witness faster-than-light darkness pinpricks, humans are still evolving, and some polar bears are getting fatter than ever (www.livescience.com)
Science history: Doctor autopsies the brain of a man who couldn''t speak — and reveals the seat of spoken language — April 18, 1861 (www.livescience.com)
Anglo-Saxon burial holds an older sister cradling her little brother after they both died 1,400 years ago, possibly of an infectious disease (www.livescience.com)
Colorado River may have pooled and spilled over to form the Grand Canyon, solving a long-standing mystery — but not everyone agrees (www.livescience.com)
Hackers used AI to steal hundreds of millions of Mexican government and private citizen records in one of the largest cybersecurity breaches ever (www.livescience.com)
''Human evolution didn''t slow down; we were just missing the signal'': Large DNA study reveals natural selection led to more redheads and less male-pattern baldness (www.livescience.com)
73 moon landings? NASA''s ''Moon Base User''s Guide'' reveals the agency''s ''most ambitious space project'' will be fraught with challenges (www.livescience.com)
''Oslo patient'' likely cured of HIV after getting stem cell transplant from his brother, who is genetically resistant to the virus (www.livescience.com)
''Human minds shouldn''t have to go through'' this: Artemis II crew recalls unreal moment when Earth disappeared — Space photo of the week (www.livescience.com)
Science news this week: Artemis II splashes down, the world''s fattest parrot bounces back, and the Shroud of Turin is contaminated (www.livescience.com)
There are ''reasons to be confident'' about faulty Artemis II heat shield ahead of 25,000 mph reentry, space expert Ed Macauley says (www.livescience.com)
Science history: Doctor hypothesizes that ''transmissible proteins'' can cause disease, contradicting a ''central dogma'' of molecular biology — April 9, 1982 (www.livescience.com)
''In every continent where humans are present, water bankruptcy is manifesting itself'': Exiled Iranian scientist Kaveh Madani on our desperate need to preserve our most precious resource (www.livescience.com)
''So much magic'': Artemis II shares first images from the far side of the moon, including new ''Earthset'' and total eclipse in space (www.livescience.com)
We went to Finland to hear about the new ''sand battery'' that will turn stored renewable energy back into power for the electrical grid (www.livescience.com)
Astronauts can face ''nearly lethal doses'' of solar radiation — so why launch Artemis II during the sun''s peak of activity? Space scientist Patricia Reiff explains. (www.livescience.com)
''It blew my mind'': Long-lost ice-age ecosystem, including fossils of lion-size armadillo and giant ground sloth, discovered in Texas ''water cave'' (www.livescience.com)
Quantum computers need just 10,000 qubits — not the millions we assumed — to break the world''s most secure encryption algorithms (www.livescience.com)
Tasmanian tigers discovered in Indigenous rock art in Australia, suggesting these marsupials lived there much longer than thought (www.livescience.com)
Tudor Heart: A Renaissance gold necklace featuring a French-English pun on the love between Henry VIII and his first wife, Katherine of Aragon (www.livescience.com)
AI systems are enabling mass surveillance in the US, and there is no national law that ''meaningfully limits'' the use of this data (www.livescience.com)
Our fossil fuel economy is a house of cards and Trump''s war in Iran is about to topple it. The need for a clean energy transition has never been clearer. (www.livescience.com)