Nov 18th, 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. An astrophotographer has snapped a stunning shot of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS photobombing a distant galaxy in the night sky. The remarkable image, which also captured the comet's multiple tails, is a reminder of the object's otherworldly nature — but that doesn't mean it was made by aliens, the photographer insists. Satoru Murata, a New Mexico-based photographer who has ... [Read More]

Nov 18th, 2025 - The two-tonne head of a whale that died after stranding in Cornwall has been excavated in a 10-hour mission, five years after its burial. As the local community had previously attempted to rescue the fin whale in 2020 , a decision was made to keep part of it so it could eventually be displayed as a memorial. Scientist Robbie McDonald said he buried the skull on University of Exeter land in Falmouth to help prepare the bones for study and display, as it is the most natural way to clean them. "Hopefully we can learn something about the marine environment that it came from but ultimately it ... [Read More]

Nov 17th, 2025 - By studying more than 10,000 necropsies, researchers now know how much plastic it takes to kill seabirds, sea turtles, and marine mammals, and the lethal dose is much smaller than you might think. Their new study titled "A quantitative risk assessment framework for mortality due to macroplastic ingestion in seabirds, marine mammals, and sea turtles" is in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Led by Ocean Conservancy researchers, the paper is the most comprehensive study yet to quantify the extent to which a range of plastic types—from soft, flexible plastics like bags ... [Read More]

Nov 17th, 2025 - A 12,000-year-old clay figurine unearthed in northern Israel, depicting a woman and a goose, is the earliest known human-animal interaction figurine. Found at the Late Natufian site of Nahal Ein Gev II, the piece predates the Neolithic and signals a turning point in artistic and spiritual expression. Combining naturalism, light manipulation, and symbolic imagination, it reveals how early communities used art to explore the relationship between humans and the natural world. At a prehistoric village overlooking the Sea of Galilee, archaeologists led by Dr. Laurent Davin have uncovered a clay ... [Read More]

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 - After a wolf dragged a crab trap out of water to get a snack, some scientists said the behavior revealed their ability to use tools. Where temperate rainforest meets the Pacific Ocean near Bella Bella, British Columbia, the Heiltsuk, a Canadian First Nation whose name is often rendered as Haíɫzaqv, have worked to contain a European green crab problem in their territory. In 2021, the nation's Guardian program, which stewards the nation's traditional lands and waters, began setting traps to remove this invasive species. But the traps, simple circular, netted frames baited with ... [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 17th, 2025 - Quantum Advances Are Outpacing Global Readiness, Cybersecurity Leaders Warn Security executives are warning that the global cybersecurity industry is running out of time to prepare for the next major technology shift: Q-Day. Q-Day - the long-predicted date that quantum computers will be capable of easily breaking current public encryption methods - could be 10 years away, though some experts are now predicting Q-Day could come as soon as 2030. Governments around the world are laying out plans to move to post-quantum encryption, but some fear that key sectors including banking, healthcare and ... [Read More]