AP Top Science News at 5:01 p.m. EDT

Ancient mummy DNA provides scientific evidence that colonization brought smallpox to the AmericasPaxton lawsuit prompts end of federal endangered species protection for Texas lizardWildfires are more extreme in Europe and North America, but global burning is oddly decreasingFauci repeatedly invokes the Fifth Amendment in a contentious Senate committee hearingPrivate mission to rescue NASA's aging telescope runs into its own troubleThe future of the UK's renowned Lovell radio telescope is in question after a funding cutA 7.1 magnitude quake hits Japan's southern Kyushu island killing at least 3Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist behind the 'Body Worlds' exhibition, dies at 81A US-Russian space crew lands safely in Kazakhstan after an 8-month stint on the ISSHeat dome expands across the