Nov 17th, 2025 - Follow Earth on Google Astronomers have been chasing this mystery for decades: Can stars, other than our Sun, shoot off massive eruptions of plasma that could wipe out nearby planets' atmospheres? The answer is now a clear yes. For the first time ever, scientists have caught a coronal mass ejection (CME) exploding off a distant star. A CME is a huge burst of charged material that can speed through space at millions of miles per hour. We know our Sun throws these out all the time. They're what cause things like the Northern Lights . But they also mess with satellites and power grids. This ... [Read More]

Nov 17th, 2025 - just might present such an opportunity today. Here are two quantum computing stocks that could make you a millionaire. Let's start with what I call an "swing-for-the-fence" quantum computing stock: IonQ IonQ specializes in the trapped-ion quantum computing approach. With this method, the company traps ionized ytterbium (a rare-earth metal) ions in 3D space and arranges them into a linear chain. IonQ can then create logical gates using qubits (the basic unit of information in quantum computing) to make quantum computers. The trapped-ion architecture offers several IonQ's roadmap could make it ... [Read More]

Nov 16th, 2025 - In southeast Queensland, roughly 250 kilometers from Brisbane, lies the tiny town of Murgon. Located on Wakka Wakka Country, it's home to about 2,000 people—and one of the in the world. From the 55 million-year-old clays there, paleontologists have unearthed a range of precious fossils over several decades. These include the world's oldest fossil songbirds, the only known fossils of salamanders in Australia and the oldest fossil marsupial remains in Australia. And the site continues to serve up ancient treasures. In a new , published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , my ... [Read More]

Nov 16th, 2025 - Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) has become a major point of interest for astronomers following a series of rapid changes observed in recent weeks. First detected in May 2025, the comet moved steadily towards its perihelion in early October, then began displaying fluctuations in brightness and visible shape that hinted at underlying instability. Researchers have continued to track these developments closely, as they offer insights into how newly arriving long-period comets behave when exposed to strong solar radiation and gravitational forces. The behaviour of C/2025 K1 is scientifically significant ... [Read More]

Nov 16th, 2025 - Sunday, November 16, 2025 Quantum-Resilient Security: Preparing for Quantum Era The world is moving closer and closer to quantum computing. It is gradually becoming a reality and said to redefine the way we understand data, encryption as well as digital safety. The technology holds immense promises of accelerating breakthroughs in science and business. However, it simultaneously also comes with challenges and one to take a note is cybersecurity threats. The current cryptographic infrastructure is built on classical computing limits and could crumble once quantum machines reach to its full ... [Read More]

Nov 15th, 2025 - Highlands, North Carolina  — In the North Carolina town of Highlands, about 20 feet below ground in a goldmine from the 1800s, there is a race against time to save a bat population whose numbers are being decimated by a disease known as white-nose syndrome. North Carolina's tricolored bats are unstable, among several species of bats quickly dying off in the dark. The bats eat the same bugs that kill crops, meaning they play a critical role in the ecosystem. "As bat populations are declining, we see that there's a greater need for use of pesticides," said Rada Petrick, a bat expert ... [Read More]

Nov 15th, 2025 - Africa CDC says at least nine cases have been detected of Ebola-like illness, which kills up to 80% of those infected Ethiopia has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the south of the country, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said. The Marburg virus is one of the deadliest known pathogens. Like Ebola, it causes severe bleeding, fever, vomiting and diarrhoea and has a 21-day incubation period. Also like Ebola, it is transmitted via contact with body fluids and has a fatality rate of between 25% and 80%. The head of the World Health ... [Read More]

Nov 15th, 2025 - Ancient Maya monument discovery rewrites the history books For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with strong hierarchies (kings, priests, and planners) could organize massive construction projects. But recent discoveries in the Maya region are rewriting that script. Archaeologists previously pictured early Maya life as simple and small-scale: people making pottery, living in scattered villages from 1000 to 700 BCE. They thought big cities developed much later. But that old story began to crack when ... [Read More]