Dec 12th, 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. Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole whipping up cosmic winds at record speeds. The black hole, located 135 million light-years from Earth in the center of the NGC 3783 spiral galaxy, caught researchers' attention after emitting a huge X-ray flare. As the burst died down, it left winds of more than 37,000 miles per second (60,000 kilometers per second) — one-fifth the ... [Read More]

Dec 11th, 2025 - Google has announced plans to team up with the UK to invite researchers to come up with uses for the tech giant's state-of-the-art quantum chip Willow. It is one of several firms competing to develop a powerful quantum computer - which is seen as an exciting new frontier in the future of computing. Researchers hope they will be able to crack problems in fields such as chemistry and medicine which are impossible for current computers to solve. Professor Paul Stevenson of the University of Surrey - who had no involvement with the agreement - told the BBC it was "great news for UK researchers". ... [Read More]

Dec 11th, 2025 - Follow Earth on Google Coral reefs are under relentless strain. Warming seas, polluted runoff, and heavy fishing are steadily chipping away at their resilience. Coral reefs are undeniably struggling, yet the ways they react and adapt as a connected community remain unexpectedly complex. A new study brings that complexity into view and hints at a strategy that could support their long-term resilience. Advantages for connected reefs Reefs aren't isolated. They exchange larvae , support nearby ecosystems, and move in step as conditions shift. That basic idea becomes striking once you realize ... [Read More]

Dec 11th, 2025 - Mars lacks the plate tectonics that drive Earth's river systems, yet it once hosted massive waterways. We've known for a while that Mars was once a wet world. But there's always been a geological puzzle regarding how and where that water moved. On Earth, rivers are largely driven by plate tectonics. The shifting of our planet's crust builds mountains and basins, creating the slopes necessary for water to flow. Mars, however, never had an active tectonic system like ours. Yet, even without it, the Red Planet managed to sustain impressive waterways. A new study reveals that ancient Martian ... [Read More]

Dec 11th, 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. Scientists say they've developed a breakthrough 3D wiring solution that allows a 100-fold increase in the number of quantum bits (qubits) a quantum computing chip can support. Typical quantum computing processors (QPUs) are built with two-dimensional, horizontal wiring, just like the central processing units (CPUs) in our classical devices. But this traditional wiring limits the number of ... [Read More]

Dec 11th, 2025 - Follow Earth on Google Across multiple sites in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers have identified a relationship between large herbivores and the amount of sodium available in local plants. According to the study, plant sodium availability spans a 1,000-fold range across sub-Saharan Africa for large herbivores such as elephants, giraffes, rhinos. The team compared plant sodium levels with animal counts and with results of fecal analyses. When plants run low, the largest herbivores face shortages that can influence habitat choice and risky travel routes. Salt shapes diet needs of animals Sodium ... [Read More]

Dec 11th, 2025 - Back in the summer this year, scientists were studying unusual objects hovering around Earth. ATLAS, one of the telescopes in NASA's planetary defense network, displayed something that left them scratching their heads. When they first spotted it, the  mysterious interstellar comet was travelling at about 137,000 miles per hour. After getting pulled by Sun's gravity, in October, it sped up at 153,000 miles per hour. Eventually, they realized that the comet, named 3I/ATLAS , was too fast to be bound by the Sun's gravity, and it seemed that it was just passing through our solar system, ... [Read More]

Dec 11th, 2025 - You can now listen to Fox News articles! Swedish archaeologists recently uncovered remnants of a forgotten 16th-century city beneath modern-day Gothenburg. The excavation was conducted by Arkeologerna, a Swedish archaeological consultancy, earlier this autumn. Researchers focused on Olskroken, a district east of central Gothenburg — Sweden's second-largest city after Stockholm. What they found were the remnants of a place called Nya Lödöse, a short-lived town founded by Swedish regent Sten Sture the Elder in 1473. With its strategic location near the North Sea, Nya ... [Read More]