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British vial of smallpox scabs triggered the devastating 1789 outbreak among Indigenous Australians, study finds

It's long been debated what started the devastating 1789 smallpox outbreak among Indigenous Australians. Now, a new modeling study has the likely answer.

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Mummy mask with wig: A 1,000-year-old 'false head' found in Peru that was crafted with real human hair and toxic red cinnabar

Stylized masks like this one adorned pre-Inca mummies in Peru hundreds of years ago.

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Science word of the day: Heliosphere

Pronunciation: HEE'-lee-uhs-feer

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'It's absolutely exciting!': Astronomers discover an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone for first time ever

Astronomers have detected helium escaping from the super-Earth LHS 1140 b, providing the strongest evidence yet that a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone has retained an atmosphere for billions of years.

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Decorated wild-boar tusk found in Russia may have been medieval warrior's good-luck charm

A 12th-century wild-boar tusk found in Russia may be a warrior's amulet.

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Cells from your mother likely infiltrated your brain in the womb, and they could survive for decades, study reveals

Maternal cells that infiltrate children's brains during pregnancy take on different jobs in the brain and may persist into old age.

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James Webb telescope uses trippy Einstein prediction to probe the farthest reaches of the universe — Space photo of the week

The James Webb telescope peers through a warped bubble of space-time to study galaxies from the first billion years after the Big Bang.

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Science word of the day: Autotroph

Pronunciation: AW'-tuh-trohf

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'Fireball' meteorite that smashed into New Jersey home contains ingredients of life from an ancient proto-planet, study finds

Amino acids and other "pre-biotic" molecules were spotted in a meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024.

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Science news this week: Gold tongues discovered in tombs, sugar found in space, a new monkey identified in the Congolian rainforest, and ancient impact crater 'geoguessed' by an amateur astronomer

July 18, 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

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Science word of the day: Neuroplasticity

What does 'neuroplasticity' mean?

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'RNA can do things which we have never seen before': New study challenges assumptions about what RNA was up to at the dawn of life

RNA can fold into more complex configurations than scientists thought, raising questions about how important these 3D structures were when life on Earth began.

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'These are striking forecasts': Super El Niño keeps getting even more likely, and it could bring a humanitarian crisis

Forecasts point to the ongoing El Niño rapidly strengthening to a likely all-time record in the coming months, fueling temperature rises and extreme weather.

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'Explosive diarrhea' parasite infections in 5 states linked to Taco Bell lettuce; other cases still under investigation

Lettuce served at Taco Bell has been identified as a source of Cyclospora infections affecting people across five states.

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'Shared cosmic experience': 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Apophis could be visible to 90% of Earth's population during ultraclose 2029 flyby, new maps reveal

Researchers predict that up to 7.6 billion people will be able to see the potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis fly past Earth on April 13, 2029. The skyscraper-size space rock will come closer than some satellites, making it clearly visible to the naked eye.

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Did ancient Egyptian princesses use weapons? Controversial study claims they hunted or trained with the military, but not all experts agree.

Nearly 4,000-year-old skeletal remains show that several royal women repeatedly used their upper-body muscles. Researchers link those changes to archery and weapon training, but outside experts urge caution.

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Ancient chariot emerges among remains of mysterious society that burned down its own buildings and then disappeared

An ancient bronze chariot recently discovered in Spain was used by a culture that mysteriously disappeared from the archaeological record.

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist and team use Claude AI to solve decades-old math puzzle

A decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and collaborator Francesco Zamponi have finally cracked the case — not with a radical new theory, but with the help of the generative AI Claude.

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Thousands of liberated Africans died on a remote island after the British Navy freed them. We now know where they came from.

Thousands of enslaved Africans were liberated from slave ships and died on the island of St. Helena around 200 years ago. A new chemical analysis has revealed their tragic stories.

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Oops! Ancient Bronze Age shaman long assumed to be a man was actually a woman, DNA reveals

A DNA analysis of a 4,000-year-old skeleton buried with an elaborate metalworking tool kit near Stonehenge has revealed that the individual, long assumed to be a male shaman, was actually a woman.

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'This was one of the most arduous expeditions I've ever done': Scientists confirm that 15-mile-wide pit found on Google Maps is ancient meteor crater

Joël Lapointe was using Google Maps to plan a camping trail through Quebec's Côte-Nord region when he stumbled across a large indentation. Now, scientists have confirmed that the pit was indeed a meteor impact crater that dates back roughly 390 million years.

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New 3D silicon chip stacks circuits on top of each other to boost computing power

Researchers have found a way to build a three-layered silicon chip without the chip overheating.

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Orange-lipped monkey that roars and snorts deep in Congo rainforest is new species to science

A striking new monkey species, Colobus congoensis, was discovered deep in the Congo rainforest and has been scientifically described for the first time.

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Robot dog can climb stairs, navigate a forest and bound over logs thanks to new, rapid AI training technique

Researchers used reinforcement learning to train a quadrupedal robot to adapt to different environments using two different pre-learned gaits.

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'Smaller than the tiniest scale in nature': Physicists made a black hole out of light and used it to test Stephen Hawking's elusive radiation theory

Scientists made a breakthrough discovery about the physics of Hawking radiation by making a miniature black hole out of light in the laboratory.

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