Jan 14th, 2026 - It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new observations revealed. Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter New observations of a strange galaxy show it was slowly starved to death by its own black hole . Two telescopes ... [Read More]

Jan 13th, 2026 - Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. . T he ancient Romans took bathing seriously—it was a crucial facet of their daily lives, and people from a range of social rungs enjoyed dips in public baths. Romans seem to have taken sanitation inspiration from the Greeks, who washed up in athletic facilities and public baths.  Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. To learn about the transition from Greek to Roman bathing practices, researchers looked to the remains of the ancient city of Pompeii in what's now Italy. The Greeks called Pompeii home for centuries until the ... [Read More]

Jan 13th, 2026 - When thinking of Mars , a big, red, and dry landscape comes to mind. The image hardly ever consists of a water body, even though the planet is known to contain them. Recent findings may have found new leads hinting at the presence of an ancient ocean on the Red planet. Researchers at Rice University used a climate model redesigned for Mars, though a tool called Proxy System Modeling, to understand if lakes could thrive on the planet. The findings, published in  AGU Advances , showed that areas near Mars' equator, like Gale Crater, could have contained lakes beneath a thin seasonal ice ... [Read More]

Jan 13th, 2026 - If 3I/ATLAS wasn't enough of an excitement, our solar system has recently welcomed a new comet visitor. However, like 3I/ATLAS, it hasn't arrived here from an interstellar home , but from a thick bubble of gas and icy pieces that envelops our solar system. Scientists have named it C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS). Swinging around 215 million miles away from Earth, somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the icy visitor is being revered with the honorary title of the "Great Comet of the Year" for its potential to become the brightest comet of the year, per TheSkyLive . Scientists don't yet ... [Read More]

Jan 13th, 2026 - Eastern region on high alert as authorities try to track animal tearing through villages in Jharkand after apparently becoming separated from herd Forest officials in India are on the hunt for an elephant that has killed more 20 people in a days-long rampage through the eastern state of Jharkand. Since the beginning of January, 22 people have been killed by a single-tusked elephant that has been tearing through forests and villages in West Singhbhum district of Jharkand. The attacks have mainly taken place at night as the elephant has entered small villages. The first victim was a ... [Read More]

Jan 13th, 2026 - The upcoming astronomical spectacle has been deemed the "eclipse of the century" because it is supposed to be the longest total solar eclipse until after 2100. At its peak, its totality will "last 6 minutes and 23 seconds, close to the maximum possible on Earth," said Forbes . This is "long enough to see the sun's corona," which is "visible to the naked eye only during totality in exquisite detail." Comparatively, the total solar eclipse in April 2024 lasted 4 minutes and 28 seconds at its peak. moon completely covers the sun, plunging the world into brief darkness. This happens because the ... [Read More]

Jan 12th, 2026 - D-Wave Quantum . D-Wave published a press release on Jan. 6 announcing that it had achieved a new breakthrough in scalable on-chip cryogenic control of qubits. The development suggests that the cryogenic control technologies used for its annealing approach to quantum computing could have other useful applications for other quantum-computing methodologies. The next day, the company announced that it was acquiring Quantum Circuits in a $550 million deal. The acquisition is expected to close later this month. Rosenblatt's analysts think that the acquisition of Quantum Circuits was a strong move ... [Read More]

Jan 12th, 2026 - Environment and social structures seem to play an important role. Biologists tend to look at the animal kingdom and try to categorize things in an organized fashion. But nature has a way of defying our neat little categories. Take something as common as same-sex sexual behavior. It shows up in species from swans to elephants and from spiders to dolphins. Of course, it also shows up in humans. But why? Why does evolution, which selects for reproductive success , keep producing sexual behavior that doesn't lead to offspring? This was exactly the motivation for the new study. "We wanted to ... [Read More]