Nov 14th, 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 at IBM have created two new quantum processing units (QPUs) that they say will take them a step closer to achieving quantum advantage by next year — and a fully fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029. The first processor, called IBM Quantum Nighthawk, is a 120-qubit chip that can process quantum calculations that are 30% more complex than anything the company's previous ... [Read More]

Nov 14th, 2025 - This summer a team of archaeologists resumed their work on a site dating back to around 600BC, known for its three well-preserved Doric temples This summer, the Italian archaeologist Tiziana D'Angelo had a lot on her plate. As the director of the Parchi archeologici di Paestum e Velia, the dual archaeological sites that lie south of Italy's Amalfi Coast, D'Angelo had begun overseeing the long-planned excavation of a recently discovered ancient Greek sanctuary. At the same time she was also devising the reinstallation of the Paestum site's elegant 20th-century museum building, ... [Read More]

Nov 13th, 2025 - Follow Earth on Google A sweeping new global analysis finds a striking pattern: the more visually appealing a bird is, the more likely it is to end up in the wildlife trade. By examining records for 9,228 species – from city marketplaces to international supply chains – researchers uncovered the strongest link in the live pet trade, where bright colors and striking plumage often translate directly into demand. That matters because trade pressure can push rare, slow-breeding, or culturally prized species toward decline. The pattern shows up across continents and market types, ... [Read More]

Nov 13th, 2025 - After months of investigation, researchers confirmed that a New Jersey man died of a tickborne allergy called alpha-gal syndrome after eating a hamburger. A 47-year-old airline pilot from New Jersey is the first person known to have died from alpha-gal syndrome , a red meat allergy caused by a tick bite. Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine publicly reported the cause of death Wednesday after months of investigation. Their findings were published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice . The man's death had previously been seen as a mystery, ... [Read More]

Nov 13th, 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. The "other" Comet ATLAS has fragmented, transforming into a cloud of debris that's streaming into space, new observations have revealed. The comet, called C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) , was discovered in May by astronomers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and passed perihelion, or closest point to the sun, on Oct. 8. It has no relation to the famous interstellar comet ... [Read More]

Nov 13th, 2025 - Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great Dane, corgi to greyhound, pug to German shepherd. In fact, the domestic dog , Canis familiaris, shows more variation in its physical features than any other mammalian species on Earth. Conventional wisdom holds that this extreme variation is the result of humans intensively breeding dogs for particular traits over the past 200 years or so. Now a new analysis of modern and ancient dog and wolf skulls has upended this idea, revealing a far earlier origin for dog diversity. Archaeologists have long ... [Read More]

Nov 13th, 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. Millions of mysterious black streaks littered across the surface of Mars have puzzled scientists for decades, but now researchers may finally have a proper explanation. The new theory also explains why it has taken so long to solve this particular problem. Martian "slope streaks" are dark albedo features that cover the slopes of topographical features across the Red Planet. They were ... [Read More]

Nov 12th, 2025 - Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. . A race against the clock to coordinate an intergovernmental effort to reposition imaging hardware atop a mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert sounds like something out of a spy thriller. But the reason for the rush was even more dramatic—the explosive death of a massive star and a rapidly closing window to observe it. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. On April 10, 2024, astronomers detected supernova SN 2024ggi a mere 22 light-years away, and Yi Yang, an assistant professor at Tsinghua University in China, quickly contacted the ... [Read More]