Feb 10th, 2026 - 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. ! , Earn Your First Badge Keep earning badges See what you've unlocked. Members Exclusive Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Get the Live Science Newsletter Get the world's most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox. By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy ... [Read More]

Feb 10th, 2026 - University of Cambridge In a huge global study led by University of Cambridge researchers, a single group of bacteria - named CAG-170 - has repeatedly shown up in high numbers in the gut microbiomes of healthy people. CAG-170 is a group of gut bacteria known only from their genetic fingerprints - scientists have never been able to grow most of them in the lab. Using diverse computational approaches, the team looked for CAG-170's genetic fingerprint in gut microbiome samples from over 11,000 people across 39 countries. They found the level of CAG-170 present was consistently higher in healthy ... [Read More]

Feb 9th, 2026 - Key Takeaways: Elon Musk announced that SpaceX will prioritize building a city on the Moon before building on Mars. The reason is speed: a trip to the Moon will take 2 days, while a trip to Mars will take 6 months. SpaceX plans to land an unscrewed ship on the Moon before March 2027, this will adjust with goals of the government. Elon Musk changed his timeline. For years, he promised that humans can live on Mars. Today, he announced a major focus. SpaceX will first focus on building a self-growing city on the Moon. Musk explained the logic that  it is because of speed. A trip to Mars is ... [Read More]

Feb 9th, 2026 - Any large company has its fair share of controversial decisions that its fans call out, but despite being the biggest gaming platform in the world today, Valve just continues to make the right decisions for Steam and doesn't leave much to be desired. The year 2025 was a profitable one for this product line, and 2026 is looking to be even more eventful. " video. These include Valve's new PC-console hybrid, a new V.R. headset with Foveated Streaming, and a brand-new Steam controller featuring dual touchpads. It's not all good news, though; Steam is also stopping support for older Windows ... [Read More]

Feb 9th, 2026 - It's much bigger than what we see on Earth. In some ways, Venus is very much like Earth: it's a rocky planet with a comparable size, density, and bulk composition. But Venus is a nightmare; the air is a thick soup of CO2, and the surface temperature is hot enough to melt lead. This exceptionally thick atmosphere also makes Venus much harder to study directly. We knew Venus had volcanoes because the surface is scarred with thousands of ancient flows. However, the "plumbing" of that volcanism was impossible to detect. Until now. In a new study published in Nature Communications , researchers ... [Read More]

Feb 9th, 2026 - In nanoscale particle research, precise control and separation have long been a bottleneck in biotechnology. Researchers at the University of Oulu have now developed a new method that improves particle separation and purification. The promising technique could be applied, for example, in cancer research. Separating nanosized particles remains a persistent challenge in biotechnology. Once particle size drops below a few hundred nanometres, their behaviour becomes dominated by diffusion – the random walk of particles. This weakens the forces used to guide them, causing separation ... [Read More]

Feb 9th, 2026 - On the outskirts of western England, inside the storybook town of Cheshire, lately the zookeeper Katie Kelton from the Bug Team has been busy chopping lettuce, sweet potatoes, and carrots, not to prepare a party buffet, but to feed some tiny button-sized creatures resting and reproducing in plastic trays. Dubbed Bermuda snails ( Poecilozonites bermudensis ), these teeny spiral-shelled creatures were once thought to be lost forever from the North Atlantic Archipelago. In 2014, a flicker of hope emerged. In a damp and overgrown alleyway in Hamilton, some of these snails were spotted clinging ... [Read More]

Feb 9th, 2026 - If you haven't really looked, your company is both secure and hacked at the same time — and dashboards alone won't tell you which. Most security leaders quietly live with a paradox they rarely name out loud. Until you truly look inside the box of your environment, your organization is both secure and compromised. The dashboards might be green and the audit reports reassuring, but the uncomfortable reality is that you do not know your actual state until you observe it directly and often. Meeting the cat — a paradox with teeth Many readers will have heard of Schrödinger's cat ... [Read More]