Dec 28th, 2025 - Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) — The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year's cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a caravan of robotic lunar landers including Jeff Bezos' new supersized Blue Moon. A supermoon looms on Jan. 3 and an astronomical blue moon is on the books for May. The sun will also generate buzz with a ring-of-fire eclipse at the bottom of the world in February and a total solar eclipse at the top of the world in August. Expect more auroras in unexpected ... [Read More]

Dec 27th, 2025 - Follow Earth on Google For centuries, most scientists have shared the belief that light behaves as both a wave and a particle. This idea, then, became the central component to quantum theory, sprouting the field of science known as quantum mechanics. The double-slit experiment supported the idea, showing bright and dark bands that indicated wave-like interference. But now, a new study suggests that this experiment might not lock us into seeing light as a wave. According to the experts, we can interpret those interference bands using quantum particles alone. The research was led by Gerhard ... [Read More]

Dec 26th, 2025 - Reading time 3 minutes As physicist Cumrun Vafa once told me, puzzles in science often come in pairs , each serving as the other's solution. Basically, you never know what concept in physics might end up useful for explaining unexpected phenomena—especially since there's so much we've yet to understand about the universe. Astrophysicists from the University of British Columbia in Canada believe that could be the case for axions—a hypothetical particle and a leading candidate for dark matter—in relation to white dwarfs. To be clear, the arXiv preprint, which has yet to be ... [Read More]

Dec 26th, 2025 - Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. . A strange looking Southeast Asian cat went missing in Thailand about 30 years ago. The flat-headed cat ( Prionailurus planiceps ) is unmistakable with its long, flattened forehead and short, tubular body. Other odd features include webbed toes for getting around in their preferred habitat of wetlands and peat swamps. Despite their diminutive size (just half the size of a house cat), flat-headed cats rank as apex predators in their boggy ecosystems, feeding on fish, shrimp, and perhaps small birds and rodents.  Nautilus Members enjoy an ... [Read More]

Dec 26th, 2025 - 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. Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early human evolution and dispersal, according to a new study. ... [Read More]

Dec 26th, 2025 - NSLLM bridges LLMs and neuroscience Large language models (LLMs) have become crucial tools in the pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, as the user base expands and the frequency of usage increases, deploying these models incurs significant computational and memory costs, limiting their potential to serve as foundational infrastructure for human society. Moreover, current LLMs generally lack interpretability: their opaque decision-making and optimization processes make it challenging to ensure reliability and fairness in high-risk domains such as healthcare and finance. ... [Read More]

Dec 26th, 2025 - Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, December 26 The Moon passes 4° north of Saturn at 11 P.M. EST, right as the pair is setting along the U.S. East Coast. It's better to observe them earlier in the evening — they are more than 40° high in the southwest around 7 P.M. local time.  The waxing Moon lies to the upper right of Saturn, sandwiched between the giant planet and the Circlet of Pisces. While the Moon itself is in the constellation Pisces, Saturn is just over the border in Aquarius.  Saturn glows at 1st magnitude and should still be an ... [Read More]

Dec 25th, 2025 - Experts and novices alike hunt for specimens that could change our understanding of evolution – and all only a short day trip from Melbourne Between the cliffs and the sea at Jan Juc, on Victoria's Surf Coast, researchers scour the shore platform for evidence of life from 25m years ago, as beachgoers revel in the sand and surf nearby. "You can be there discovering a fossil that might change our understanding of the evolution of life on Earth. And you're sharing it with a family that's just gone down to the beach for the day," says Dr Erich Fitzgerald, senior curator of vertebrate ... [Read More]