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Japan has deployed its military to help deal with a rise in bear attacks, NPR reported<\/a> yesterday (Nov. 6). Bears<\/a> have killed a record-breaking number of people in Japan this year, and there are now almost daily reports of people encountering brown bears and Asiatic black bears, as the animals search for food before hibernation. The Japanese military says that soldiers won’t be shooting bears, but will assist in trapping and logistics.<\/p>\n Japanese authorities have recorded at least 12 fatal bear attacks this year, the highest toll since records began in 2006. Researchers say that climate change is disrupting the bears’ food supply, forcing them to search for food in more populated areas. Japan’s population is also aging, and it has fewer trained hunters than in years past.<\/p>\n For more details on Japan’s bear problem, including how the country is using “Monster wolf” robots to deter predators, check out this visually immersive story<\/a> from Reuters, published last year.<\/p>\n For more about bears in general, check out our Bear news hub.<\/a><\/p>\n 2025-11-07T11:46:42.983Z \n The new digital map of the Roman road network. (Image credit: Itiner-e)<\/p>\n Good morning science fans. Trending news writer Patrick<\/a> here to kick off another day of blog coverage. I want to start with a story about roads. Hear me out.<\/p>\n Researchers have created a new map of the Roman Empire, revealing that the Roman road network was twice as large as previously thought. The researchers made their discovery by looking at smaller, unnamed roads, and not just the main highways to and from the capital.<\/p>\n So how big does the new atlas reveal the Roman Empire to have been around its maximum extent in A.D. 150.? Nearly 186,000 miles (300,000 km), stretching from Europe to the Near East and North Africa.<\/p>\n You can read the full story here<\/a> and explore the map for yourself on Itiner-e<\/a>.<\/p>\n Patrick Pester<\/p>\n Trending News Writer<\/p>\n 2025-11-06T17:56:10.537Z We’re off. Well, Ben, me and the other U.K. team members are off, so we’re bringing today’s blog coverage to a close. Keep an eye on the Live Science homepage for more science news, and we’ll see you tomorrow.<\/p>\n Science joke of the day:<\/p>\n What did the asteroid say when the reporter asked him a question?<\/p>\n \u201cNo comet.\u201d<\/p>\n Source: Reader’s Digest<\/a><\/p>\n Patrick Pester<\/p>\n Trending News Writer<\/p>\n 2025-11-06T17:53:22.482Z Here are a couple more stories we’ve published on Live Science today.<\/p>\n 2025-11-06T17:03:39.658Z \n The Helios quantum computer. (Image credit: Quantinuum)<\/p>\n What do you do after building the world\u2019s most powerful quantum computer<\/a>? Use it to unlock the secrets of room-temperature superconductors<\/a>, of course.<\/p>\n That\u2019s at least the plan according to a fresh announcement by Quantinuum<\/a>, a $10 billion company that claims to have made the world’s most powerful quantum processing unit. Equipped with 98 physical qubits made of barium ions, the machine, called Helios, can supposedly crunch through specialist problems it would take a traditional supercomputer the total wattage of a jet-spewing black hole to solve.<\/p>\n The researchers set Helios to simulate aspects of the Fermi-Hubbard model \u2014 a framework that may yield clues into making room-temperature superconductors a reality.<\/p>\n It could all be revolutionary if it pans out. But stay seated, it definitely isn\u2019t our first rodeo when it comes to superconductor hype<\/a>. (Quantinuum\u2019s setup is, in fairness, incomparably more sophisticated than the DIY setups of LK-99 hobbyists<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Ben Turner<\/p>\n Acting Trending News Editor<\/p>\n 2025-11-06T16:24:04.520Z \n Tipping points could change our planet forever. (Image credit: Narvikk via Getty Images)<\/p>\n The climate change news is coming thick and fast this week as world leaders prepare for the U.N.’s COP30 climate summit starting in Brazil on Monday (Nov. 10).<\/p>\n One of the big topics heading into this year\u2019s summit is tipping points \u2014 potential “points of no return” within key Earth systems beyond which lasting changes to the environment occur.<\/p>\n I’ve put together an explainer with everything you need to know about Earth’s tipping points, which include the collapse of polar ice sheets, thawing of carbon-trapping permafrost and widespread forest dieback.<\/p>\n The thing I found most alarming about tipping points is that, because we can only detect them on longer timeframes, we may have already passed some. But on the bright side, climate scientists maintain that we can still avoid the worst impacts of climate change; we just have to cut emissions \u2014 simple, right?<\/p>\n Check out the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Patrick Pester<\/p>\n Trending News Writer<\/p>\n 2025-11-06T14:48:57.530Z \n The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (Image credit: Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)<\/p>\n Is the artificial intelligence<\/a> boom about to bust? We’ve watched dissent surrounding the technology’s dubious profitability<\/a> percolate from tech bloggers<\/a> through social media all the way up to big news organizations over the past few months, with some analysts warning that a major market correction could be due<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, OpenAI, the tech giant and ChatGPT creator at the center of much of AI’s ballooning investment, has just asked for more than $1tn in loan guarantees from the U.S. government<\/a>.<\/p>\n The astronomical capital<\/a> required to continue scaling up AI models to the level of hypothesized general intelligence<\/a>, alongside the fact that (despite some impressive <\/a>accomplishments<\/a>) they are yet<\/a> to<\/a> match<\/a> the<\/a> hype<\/a>, is causing major market jitters<\/a>. Adding to that is a billion-dollar bet by ‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry against Nvidia and Palantir<\/a>. Do large language models still have some surprises left in the tank? Or should we be loading up the Zeppelin<\/a>?<\/p>\n Ben Turner<\/p>\n Acting Trending News Editor<\/p>\n 2025-11-06T13:35:15.330Z Jensen Huang, CEO of AI chipmaker Nvidia, has told the Financial Times that “China is going to win” the artificial intelligence race. Huang spoke to the newspaper yesterday (Nov. 5) at its Future of AI Summit in London. Nvidia has since released a statement<\/a> in which Huang clarified that it’s “vital” America wins.<\/p>\n A statement from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. pic.twitter.com\/Exwx54OYJVNovember 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n You can read the FT’s reporting here<\/a>, but just to warn you, it is behind a paywall. CNBC\u2019s free-to-view report of his comments is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2025-11-06T12:33:01.580Z It’s a day ending in y and there’s a new image of comet 3I\/ATLAS and more unfounded speculation about why it’s an alien probe circulating online. We’re looking into the image today. In the meantime, here’s some of our recent comet coverage, in case you missed it. The interstellar visitor has just become visible from Earth again<\/a> after zooming behind the sun.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udea8 3I\/ATLAS reportedly captured by R. Naves Observatory in Begur, Spain \u2014 November 5, 2025.If this image is real\u2026 what are we really looking at? Are we doomed? #3IATLAS pic.twitter.com\/Gy096UqjMhNovember 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n 2025-11-06T12:15:59.165Z Gooood morning science fans! Patrick Pester<\/a>, Live Science’s Trending News Writer, back to kick off another day of our live blog coverage. The largest supermoon of the year rose last night, so I thought I’d start by sharing a nice image story. BBC News has a roundup of some stunning lunar snaps taken last night. The November full moon is nicknamed the “Beaver Moon<\/a>” in North America because beavers in the northeastern U.S. and Canada build their winter dams in the light of the full moon this time of year.<\/p>\n Check out BBC News’ moon gallery here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n The Beaver Supermoon rose last night, pictured here in Turkey. (Image credit: Huseyin Demirci\/Anadolu via Getty Images) Patrick Pester<\/p>\n Trending News Writer<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T21:40:25.417Z We’re signing off now, but we’ll be back in the morning with more science news. Thanks for joining us on the Live Science news blog’s first day. Here’s to many more!<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T21:37:18.103Z \n A series of light wavelength observations for WASP-18B, the first alien planet to ever be 3D-mapped. (Image credit: Challener et al. \/ Nature Astronomy)<\/p>\n How do you create the first-ever map of a planet that\u2019s 400 light-years away? You use a really good telescope, let\u2019s say the James Webb Space Telescope<\/a>, that\u2019s so sensitive it can measure the tiny changes in light reflected across a planet\u2019s surface as it’s eclipsed by its star. Then you piece all of those changes together until you create a complete 3D representation.<\/p>\n If it sounds fantastical, it very much is. But scientists actually did it and you can read all about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T20:12:22.751Z \n Archaeologists found a cross-shaped area at the Aguada F\u00e9nix site in Mexico.\u00a0 (Image credit: Takeshi Inomata)<\/p>\n Or perhaps we should hold off on the AI creativity thinkpieces until we find a chatbot that can do this. Archaeologists have published a new study suggesting that Aguada F\u00e9nix, a 3,000-year-old site in what is now southeastern Mexico, was actually a gigantic representation of the Maya people\u2019s cosmology<\/a>.<\/p>\n Working together to build the 5.6 by 4.7 mile (9 by 7.5 kilometer) site may have been a celebrated communal activity, the researchers suggest, similar to the construction of Stonehenge.<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T19:48:54.803Z \n A robot using a typewriter. (Image credit: Getty Images\/Moor Studio)<\/p>\n Us humans are pretty proud of our creativity \u2014 for centuries we\u2019ve cited our ability to make paintings, compose symphonies<\/a>, and write poetry (or nowadays really, really good posts) as the key traits that distinguish us from other animals.<\/p>\n But what happens to that self-applied definition if it turns out that artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) can do all of those things too? And will that day ever come, or are the machines simply parasitizing our creativity? This fascinating Nature news feature sought answers<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T18:55:07.458Z \n The Shenzhou-20 crew \u2014 Wang Jie (left), Chen Zhongrui (center), and Chen Dong (right) \u2014 has been stranded on board the Tiangong space station after their return capsule was hit with space junk. (Image credit: PEDRO PARDO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n Harry Baker<\/a>, one of Live Science’s Senior Staff Writers, has just penned (okay, typed) a story about three Chinese astronauts (taikonauts) who are now stranded in space<\/a> after their return capsule was struck. The culprit? A suspected piece of “space junk” that hit the capsule just hours before its planned departure earlier today, forcing taikonauts Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui and Chen Don to extend their time aboard China’s Tiangong space station.<\/p>\n Officials are still investigating exactly what happened. It’s currently unclear how much damage the debris caused or when the three taikonauts, who have been living on the space station since April 24, will be able to return home.<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T18:29:05.828Z Here’s a roundup of the stories Live Science has published today (so far).<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T17:48:43.805Z \n People cooling off under high sun at a cooling pad in Toronto. (Image credit: Steve Russell\/Toronto Star via Getty Images)<\/p>\n Hi everyone, it’s Patrick<\/a>, Trending News Writer, here taking the blog baton from Ben. One of the big science stories circulating as of yesterday (Nov. 4) is that the United Nations has announced Earth will speed past humanity’s 1.5\u2009degrees Celsius<\/a> (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) climate change target.<\/p>\n The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report found that global average temperatures will likely exceed 1.5 C of warming before 2035, and reiterated calls to slash greenhouse gas<\/a> emissions, which trap heat in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n In 2015, world leaders signed the Paris Agreement<\/a>, an international treaty that promised to limit global warming to preferably below 1.5 C and well below 2 C (3.6 F). The findings of the latest report highlight world leaders’ failure to address climate change, but its findings are not unexpected. Ben covered a report in June that found greenhouse gas emissions could exhaust Earth’s “carbon budget”<\/a> in as little as three years, while last month, I covered a similarly grim report documenting record carbon dioxide (CO2) increases<\/a>.<\/p>\n The new report comes as many world leaders prepare for the U.N.’s COP30 climate summit in Brazil next week \u2014 for reference the Paris Agreement was adopted at COP21. Climate scientists often stress that it’s not too late to reverse course and prevent further warming.<\/p>\n Patrick Pester<\/p>\n Trending News Writer<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T16:24:29.174Z \n A photo of C\/2025 K1 (ATLAS) snapped by astrophotographer\u00a0Dan Bartlett. (Image credit: Dan Bartlett)<\/p>\n We’ve been so engrossed in coverage of 3I\/ATLAS that we nearly failed to note another comet currently in Earth’s skies. This one is called C\/2025 K1 (ATLAS), or the “other ATLAS,” and it survived a near-doomed passage around the sun to emerge as a beautiful golden ribbon<\/a>.<\/p>\n The exact reason for this comet\u2019s gold coloration is unclear, but astronomers think it could have something to do with its relatively low ratio of gas to dust. Studying it could give scientists some more clues into the conditions in the Oort cloud, the mysterious shell of icy objects at the edge of our solar system<\/a> where the comet was born.<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T15:08:33.335Z \n An artist’s impression of a black hole in starry outer space. (Image credit: NASA Goddard)<\/p>\n Ever wondered what it would feel like to get swallowed up inside the crushing gravity of a black hole?<\/p>\n Yeah, I sometimes have bad days too, but that\u2019s rather beside the point for this fascinating excerpt<\/a> from science writer and physicist Jonas Enander\u2019s new book “Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth,<\/a>” which takes us step-by-step through the gory yet fascinating ordeal.<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T14:59:17.165Z \n Isaacman testifying during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing on April 9, 2025 (Image credit: Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n For all those who haven’t left for good because of the spiders, let’s return to space \u2014 well, space policy \u2014 with news that President Trump has renominated Jared Isaacman<\/a> as the new NASA chief.<\/p>\n Isaacman, a billionaire and key Elon Musk<\/a> ally, has been setting Washington abuzz<\/a> all week with a leaked memo<\/a> that outlines plans to outsource some of NASA\u2019s missions and treat the agency like “more of a business,” Politico reports. Trump initially put Isaacman\u2019s name forward to lead the agency in December 2024, but his nomination was abruptly pulled during a public feud with Musk<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T12:41:14.667Z Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that discovered a spider “megacity”<\/a> \u2014 containing over 111,000 arachnids forming a web that may be the largest ever found.<\/p>\n If you didn’t get enough chills and thrills from the Halloween weekend, take a peek at this video of one researcher gently pressing on the spongy web with his bare hand. I’ll keep my desk job, thanks.<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T12:18:57.596Z \n Comet 3I\/ATLAS as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope on July 21, 2025 (Image credit: NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI))<\/p>\n Good morning, science fans. Ben Turner<\/a>, Live Science’s Acting Trending News Editor, here to smash a big bottle of champagne (or in my case a mug of coffee dregs) on the bow of this blog.<\/p>\n Leading our coverage this morning, as they have been all week, are updates on Comet 3I\/ATLAS<\/a>, the fascinating third-ever interstellar visitor to our solar system being tracked by astronomers as it peeks out from behind our sun<\/a>. The comet, which is 7 miles (11 kilometers) wide and traveling at 130,000 mph (210,000 km\/h), has rapidly brightened as it neared our sun<\/a>, changing colors three times<\/a> as it sheds its highly-irradiated coma<\/a>.<\/p>\n Before you ask, no, it’s almost certainly not an alien spaceship<\/a>. But that doesn\u2019t mean the more than 7 billion-year-old object doesn’t have a wealth of secrets to offer us about its distant home star system. We’re working on a trail of exciting updates to this story, so keep comet-ing back.<\/p>\n Social Links Navigation<\/p>\n <\/a>Acting Trending News Editor<\/p>\n 2025-11-03T10:27:41.104Z At Live Science we’re a passionate bunch who love reading the latest research and how new discoveries are changing the world around us. We’re also lucky enough to write and report on it every day.<\/p>\n But we are just a small bunch of humans<\/a>, and to paraphrase the late, great Douglas Adams’ “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” science is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is.<\/p>\n While we cover the most important or interesting topics of the day, there is no way we can report on it all, not even using AI (and we are very clear about how we use it<\/a>. TL;DR \u2014 we don’t).<\/p>\n So rather than letting good news pass both you and us by, why not share it in one place? That way you can let our experienced journalists filter through the noise and bring you the latest science news that matters, wherever it comes from, often with their own spin on things.<\/p>\n Obviously you’ll read the best of Live Science here as soon as it’s published, but that will sit alongside everything else that matters: Whether it’s a scientist voicing their thoughts on a controversial study, another publication’s insight into how health research is being impacted by government policy, or a roundup of the latest science news from across the web.<\/p>\n So remember to stay curious and check back every day for good science.<\/p>\n Social Links Navigation<\/p>\n
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