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It’s time for the UK side of Live Science to retire for the day. Keep your eyes on the site for one more 3I\/ATLAS update coming soon. And until tomorrow!<\/p>\n
2025-11-11T18:07:11.167Z \n Interstellar Comet 3I\/ATLAS as imaged from Manciano, Italy on Nov. 11. (Image credit: Gianluca Masi, Virtual Telescope Project)<\/p>\n Has 3I\/ATLAS exploded after a fatal near-encounter with our sun? Not at all, Patrick<\/a> learned today. But that won’t stop some claiming otherwise. With the comet’s closest point to Earth coming on Dec 19. we’re readying ourselves for a long end to the year.<\/p>\n Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2025-11-11T16:21:28.508Z \n An artist’s illustration of a torus. (Image credit: Marilyn Perkins; Contains assets from Doni Purba and Pazhyna via Getty Images)<\/p>\n On this day 22 years ago, a Russian mathematician uploaded a scientific paper to a public server that quickly sent the world loopy.<\/p>\n His name was Gigori Perlman, and the paper he submitted was the first of three that solved the Poincar\u00e9 conjecture \u2014 a famously-intractable hypothesis made by Henri Poincar\u00e9 nearly a century before.<\/p>\n Perlman\u2019s contribution proved essential for topology, the mathematical study of shapes, and earned him the prestigious Fields Medal and the Clay Millenium math prize.<\/p>\n Yet he turned both down, and seemingly left the field permanently due to his disillusionment with the vanity of his fellow mathematicians. When a reporter attempted to contact him in 2010 he responded: “You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms.”<\/p>\n You can read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2025-11-11T15:31:55.197Z \n Emissions from a city power plant during sunrise. (Image credit: ldphotoro<\/a> | Shutterstock<\/a>)<\/p>\n Climate deliberations continue at this year\u2019s COP 30 conference in Belem, Brazil, in spite of some notable absences<\/a> that include President Donald Trump. Here\u2019s a breakdown from Carbon Brief on what each country\u2019s negotiators are angling for<\/a> at the conference.<\/p>\n If all the legal wranglings over the fate of our planet<\/a> feel a little dispiriting, here\u2019s a shot of good news: China, the world\u2019s biggest polluter, has seen its CO2 emissions flat or falling over the past 18 months<\/a>, meaning it could hit its emissions peak far ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n 2025-11-11T15:26:30.428Z \n The Leonid meteor shower falls over European ruins. (Image credit: Getty)<\/p>\n Save all your wishes for next week, when the Leonid meteor shower peaks.<\/p>\n The annual flurry of shooting stars will appear in the early hours of Monday (Nov. 17), and is produced by tiny particles from the Comet 55P\/Tempel-Tuttle that burn up in Earth’s atmosphere to make meteors.<\/p>\n This year could offer one of the best viewing windows for the fast-moving shower, owing to a nearly moonless night.<\/p>\n You can read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ben Turner<\/p>\n Acting Trending News Editor<\/p>\n 2025-11-11T15:00:53.688Z Here’s a roundup of the stories Live Science has published today (so far).<\/p>\n \u2014For the first time, physicists peer inside the nucleus of a molecule using electrons as a probe<\/a><\/p>\n Researchers have studied how magnetism is distributed within a radioactive nucleus for the first time by poking around inside a rare molecule.<\/p>\n \u2014This week’s Leonid meteor shower could be one of the best in years. Here’s why.<\/a><\/p>\n Let’s get ready for meteors!<\/p>\n \u2014Scientists create world’s first microwave-powered computer chip \u2014 it’s much faster and consumes less power than conventional CPUs<\/a><\/p>\n A new kind of processor that uses microwaves instead of conventional circuitry. Fancy!<\/p>\n \u2014Prehistoric Jomon people in Japan had ‘little to no’ DNA from the mysterious Denisovans, study finds<\/a><\/p>\n The Jomon people of prehistoric Japan had lowest levels of Denisovan DNA of all ancient and modern East Asian people. Find out what that means.<\/p>\n Patrick Pester<\/p>\n Trending News Writer <\/p>\n 2025-11-11T13:31:49.196Z \n An image of a coronal mass ejection erupting from the sun. (Image credit: NASA Goddard)<\/p>\n What\u2019s more exciting than one coronal mass ejection? One eating the other, of course.<\/p>\n Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large, fast-moving clouds of magnetized plasma that occasionally get spat out into space by the sun alongside solar flares<\/a> \u2014 powerful explosions on our star\u2019s surface triggered when solar magnetic loops snap in half like an overstretched elastic band.<\/p>\n A cannibal CME is created when one CME is followed, and swallowed, by a second faster one to create a single, massive wave of plasma.<\/p>\n That\u2019s what could happen this Wednesday (Nov. 12) according to Spaceweather.com<\/a>, as two CMEs are on their way to Earth right now. They will likely bring a strong geomagnetic storm and auroras above our skies.<\/p>\n 2025-11-11T12:01:09.689Z \n A visualization from space of the Gulf Stream as it unfurls across the North Atlantic Ocean. (Image credit: NASA\/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio)<\/p>\n It\u2019s a simple rule that as you get further away from the equator, your climate gets colder.<\/p>\n Yet not everywhere follows this trend. Take Western Europe for example: New York City and Madrid lie along roughly the same latitude, yet Madrid\u2019s average January temperatures are ten degrees Fahrenheit (5.6 Celsius) hotter than those of the Big Apple.<\/p>\n So what gives? The answer lies in a web of warm ocean currents called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) that sustains Europe\u2019s high temperatures, yet is showing troubling signs of weakening and even collapse<\/a> sometime this century.<\/p>\n You can read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2025-11-11T11:39:03.248Z \n An orbital diagram showing the new comet C\/2025 V1 (Borisov) at its closest point to Earth on Tuesday (Nov. 11) (Image credit: NASA\/JPL)<\/p>\n Good morning, science fans! We\u2019re back again with fresh comet news, this time relating to a new space snowball. Before you ask, it\u2019s not Comet 3I\/ATLAS<\/a> (although we are working on an update on that too).<\/p>\n Called C\/2025 V1 (Borisov), this new comet has a high eccentricity, a vanishing tail<\/a> and is due its closest flyby of Earth today. Unlike 3I\/ATLAS, C\/2025 V1 does not come from interstellar space, but is believed to originate from the Oort cloud \u2014 the icy sphere of debris that surrounds our solar system.<\/p>\n You can read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ben Turner<\/p>\n Acting Trending News Editor<\/p>\n 2025-11-10T19:20:14.271Z It’s curtains for us again on the UK side, but stick with our US colleagues for all your science news stories. See you tomorrow!<\/p>\n Ben Turner<\/p>\n Acting Trending News Editor<\/p>\n 2025-11-10T19:16:43.434Z \n A young child with measles. (Image credit: Shutterstock)<\/p>\n Hi everyone, it’s Nicoletta<\/a>, Live Science’s Health Editor, here with an update that Canada has just lost its measles elimination status. Measles has been spreading consistently in Canada for over a year, resulting in the announcement made today by health officials.<\/p>\n Measles can be deadly: it kills between 1 and 3 out of every 1,000 children infected. But even those who survive the infection can suffer long-term consequences, from “immune amnesia<\/a>” to permanent brain damage to a rare progressive condition<\/a> that puts them into a coma from which they never awake.<\/p>\n The good thing is that we have extremely effective vaccines for measles that prevent both the infection itself and its dangerous knock-on effects. The bad thing is that rates of routine measles vaccinations are trending down, and as a predictable consequence, cases of measles are going up.<\/p>\n Canada’s announcement is a reflection of this global trend, which is being driven both by rising anti-vaccine sentiment<\/a> and by disruptions to routine childhood vaccination triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, among other factors. The United States has also seen persistent declines in routine vaccination in recent years, and in turn, large outbreaks of measles, raising questions about the stability of its own measles elimination status.<\/p>\n At the end of the day, the takeaway is that measles is a highly preventable illness that causes a great deal of suffering when it’s allowed to take hold. The measles vaccine represents a triumph of medical science that helped drive down the staggering rate of child death<\/a> that existed prior to its introduction. Declines in measles vaccination signal a return to a time when a lot more kids died in early childhood than do today \u2014 and that, in a word, is concerning.<\/p>\n Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Nicoletta Lanese<\/p>\n Health Editor<\/p>\n 2025-11-10T18:41:58.721Z \n An orbital diagram showing the new comet C\/2025 V1 (Borisov) at its closest point to Earth on Tuesday (Nov. 11) (Image credit: NASA\/JPL)<\/p>\n Hello! Senior Staff Writer Harry Baker<\/a> here. I’ve been covering the infamous alien comet 3I\/ATLAS a lot since it was first discovered in early July<\/a>, so I was surprised to hear of a new “almost interstellar object” that is due to make its closest approach to Earth tomorrow (Nov. 11), especially when some people were speculating that it could be an alien probe.<\/p>\n For the record, this newly discovered comet, dubbed C\/2025 V1 (Borisov), is definitely NOT an interstellar object (ISO). But it does share a few similarities with 3I\/ATLAS, including a high eccentricity and a vanishing tail<\/a>. As for it being an alien spacecraft, even renowned alien-hunter Avi Loeb \u2014 who has been promoting this theory for months<\/a> \u2014 says that it is unlikely.<\/p>\n And in a completely unrelated coincidence, the new comet was discovered by Gennadiy Borisov, who also discovered the second-ever ISO and 3I\/ATLAS’s predecessor “Comet Borisov” in 2019.<\/p>\n Check out the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Harry Baker<\/p>\n Senior Staff Writer<\/p>\n 2025-11-10T17:35:06.901Z \n A far-infrared image from the Herschel Space Observatory overlaid with optical data from Euclid. (Image credit: Ryley Hill, University of British Columbia, European Space Agency)<\/p>\n It\u2019s good to be in something from the ground floor, but humanity may have come too late for that<\/a>. Or that\u2019s at least the latest from the Euclid and Herschel telescopes, which have found that star formation has already peaked in our cosmos.<\/p>\n By taking the most comprehensive temperature reading of our universe yet, the space telescopes revealed that galaxies have grown slightly cooler as their star formation rates eased off over the past 10 billion years.<\/p>\n That means that our universe is on course to becoming totally quenched. But before any of us spiral into existential crisis, it won\u2019t be for an unimaginably long time. In the meantime, we can all get therapy, or maybe just feed the ducks<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2025-11-10T16:44:49.390Z \n A blurry image of Comet 3I\/ATLAS as it zooms through space. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI))<\/p>\n Seems like pretty much everyone wants fresh updates on Comet 3I\/ATLAS<\/a> these days.<\/p>\n Our solar system\u2019s third-ever recorded interstellar visitor<\/a> is fascinating \u2014 at more than 7 billion years old it\u2019s so irradiated<\/a> that we may never be able to pin down exactly where it came from. But the question on everyone\u2019s lips, and in our inboxes, is whether or not it\u2019s an alien probe.<\/p>\n I\u2019d really love to tell you otherwise, but the answer from most scientists is no, almost definitely not.<\/p>\n You don\u2019t have to take that from me, though. Here’s an article by radio astronomer Laura Driessen<\/a> on why extraterrestrial speculation is the least interesting question about this truly strange comet.<\/p>\n You can give the story a read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ben Turner<\/p>\n Acting Trending News Editor<\/p>\n 2025-11-10T16:12:20.385Z \n The Leaders’ Round Table to launch the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) on November 6, 2025. (Image credit: Pablo Porciuncula\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n The opening ceremony of COP30 has wrapped up in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil. You can watch it here<\/a>. It wasn’t like an Olympic opening ceremony or anything like that \u2014 not one singing headless Marie Antoinette<\/a> in sight. Still, there were a couple of impassioned speeches and traditional musical performances.<\/p>\n Most importantly, this year\u2019s major climate conference is officially underway. Simon Stiell, the UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, highlighted the progress humanity had made since the signing of the Paris Agreement<\/a> 10 years ago at COP21, during which world leaders promised to limit global warming to preferably below 1.5\u2009degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) and well below 2 C (3.6 F). However, as the UN announced last week, we’re still expected to overshoot the 1.5 C target<\/a>.<\/p>\n “We must move much, much, faster on both reductions of emissions and strengthening resilience,” Stiell said. “The science is clear: we can and must bring temperatures back down to 1.5C after any temporary overshoot. Lamenting is not a strategy. We need solutions.”<\/p>\n Stiell will be looking for countries to collaborate on those solutions this week, but as Ben noted this morning, many leaders are no-showing<\/a> this year’s conference. Among the notable absentees are President Donald Trump, China’s Xi Jinping and India’s Narendra Modi \u2014 the heads of the three biggest emitting countries.<\/p>\n 2025-11-10T15:21:56.557Z Here’s a roundup of the stories Live Science published over the weekend, minus the ones we’ve discussed here.<\/p>\n \u2014Ram-shaped teapot from ancient Canaanite cult discovered near ancient city of Armageddon<\/a><\/p>\n A very interesting teapot.<\/p>\n \u2014Antibiotic found hiding in plain sight could treat dangerous infections, early study find<\/a><\/p>\n Scientists have discovered a new antibiotic compound that shows promising activity against drug-resistant infections, so that’s good.<\/p>\n \u2014NASA\u2019s ultraquiet supersonic ‘flying swordfish’ makes history with first test flight<\/a><\/p>\n NASA has unveiled an experimental supersonic plane that looks like a swordfish. Swordfish are among the fastest animals in the ocean<\/a>, but their commonly cited swimming speeds are very unreliable. NASA’s new plane reached a top speed of about 240 miles per hour (386 kilometers per hour).<\/p>\n \u2014Bizarre robotic chair concept looks like a crab and can carry you around the house \u2014 it can even help you into your car<\/a><\/p>\n A terrifying, but potentially very useful, walking chair.<\/p>\n \u2014How to watch ‘Kingdom’ \u2014 TV and streaming details for David Attenborough’s new BBC series<\/a><\/p>\n New nature series narrated by the 99-year-old Sir David Attenborough.<\/p>\n Patrick Pester<\/p>\n Trending News Writer<\/p>\n 2025-11-10T14:01:18.860Z \n An aerial photo of the “band of holes” in southern Peru. (Image credit: J.L. Bongers; Antiquity Publications Ltd;\u00a0CC BY 4.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n Some 5,200 holes sit in ordered grids along southern Peru\u2019s Serpent Mountain, many of them dating back more than a thousand years. So what could explain them? Long-forgotten rituals? Fog capture technology? Human sacrifices? Aliens?<\/p>\n A new suggestion made by archaeologists posits that the real answer isn\u2019t quite that exciting (although it\u2019s still pretty cool): The holes were likely used as accountancy tools in barter markets for goods along trade routes.<\/p>\n You can read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2025-11-10T13:58:30.102Z \n The Pyramid of Menkaure on the Giza plateau. (Image credit: Joanot via Getty Images)<\/p>\n Two voids found on the eastern side of Egypt\u2019s Pyramid of Menkaure could point to a second entrance to the ancient tomb, tests that used electrical currents and ultrasonic waves have hinted.<\/p>\n You can check out the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2025-11-10T13:23:04.157Z We can\u2019t always bring you breaking science news as it happens \u2014 sometimes our loved ones, days off and sleep schedules get in the way. Here\u2019s some of the biggest science news that happened over the weekend:<\/p>\n A powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake<\/a> rattled the northern coast of Japan on Sunday (Nov. 9). Thankfully, there have been no immediate reports of injuries or damage, no abnormalities at the two nuclear power plants in the area, and a tsunami warning following the quake was downgraded.Health officials are investigating 13 cases of infant botulism across 10 states linked to a recalled baby formula<\/a>.Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket was scheduled for launch on Sunday (Nov. 9) but it has been delayed until Wednesday<\/a> (Nov. 12) due to poor weather conditions. The launch will be the first big test for the rocket\u2019s first NASA mission<\/a>, and a statement of intent for the company\u2019s founder Jeff Bezos against competitor SpaceX.<\/p>\n 2025-11-10T13:13:45.553Z \n A rhesus macaque photographed in India. (Image credit: McDonald Wildlife Photography Inc. via Getty Images)<\/p>\n Two weeks ago, Patrick<\/a> covered news of several lab monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck<\/a> in Mississippi that were allegedly diseased and dangerous.<\/p>\n On Friday night, we finally got news<\/a> that the last of these monkeys has been tracked down following a report from a resident whose dog alerted her to its presence<\/a>. Five of the escaped rhesus macaques were sadly killed by police, yet authorities say that this monkey was “successfully recovered.”<\/p>\n 2025-11-10T13:12:29.397Z \n COP30 is getting under way, and it promises to be more contentious than ever. (Image credit: Shutterstock)<\/p>\n Good morning, science fans! Ben<\/a> here, back for another round of updates on the latest science updates from around the world.<\/p>\n While we’re speaking of the pale blue dot<\/a> that we call home, it’s in a spot of trouble due to human-caused climate change<\/a>, as it speeds toward near-certain overshoot<\/a> of climatic guard-rails set by 2015’s Paris Agreement<\/a>. That’s why delegations from 194 countries are meeting in Brazil for the UN’s COP30 conference, making yet another attempt to forge better plans to stay within the agreement’s limits and phase out fossil fuels.<\/p>\n This year’s conference promises to be particularly contentious<\/a>, with many leaders being no-shows<\/a> and the Trump administration having exited the process entirely.<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nCanada loses its measles elimination status<\/p>\n![\"Young](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/XRpTfuRSojdUsPfKxAbEL7.jpg\")
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\nNew ‘almost interstellar’ comet approaches Earth<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ejNtNQxL6D4N3chXfethnP.jpg\")
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\nMysterious Andean holes explained<\/p>\n![\"An](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MCdKbGnGJnQU23ZPFdiK6b.png\")
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