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Grab a Lifetime of Award-Winning Fitness Training for $150

by Entrepreneur Store on January 15, 2026 at 5:00 pm

The Jillian Michaels App offers personalized workouts, meal plans, expert coaching and more.

Learning How to Follow Makes You a Better Leader. Here’s How — and When — to Step Back.

by Simin Cai, Ph.D. on January 15, 2026 at 5:00 pm

There’s a time for stepping up and a time for stepping back and supporting.

McDonald’s CEO Predicts These 3 Food Trends Will Blow Up In 2026

by Jonathan Small on January 15, 2026 at 4:29 pm

Chris Kempczinski nailed his 2025 predictions. Now he’s forecasting what will shape the food industry this year.

This Is the No. 1 Thing 1,300 Business Leaders Are Worried About Right Now

by Jonathan Small on January 15, 2026 at 3:29 pm

A World Economic Forum survey shows a surprising shift in what’s keeping executives up at night.

How I Raised $1 Million in Just 6 Weeks — and What I Learned Along the Way

by Alex Levkin on January 15, 2026 at 3:00 pm

Fundraising, when done right, becomes the fastest way to evolve your narrative, your model and your strategy.

The Government Is Taking Up Too Much of Our Focus — Here’s Why

by Dustin Lemick on January 15, 2026 at 2:30 pm

When you fixate on every government policy shift, you risk losing focus on long-term vision and growth by reacting to noise instead of leading with intention.

If You Skip Doing Even One of These 3 Things, Your Business Will Never Grow

by Cynthia Kay on January 15, 2026 at 2:00 pm

Focus on these three things to take your business to the next level.

Is Your Lunch Break Now Run by AI? How Corporate-Mandated Wellness Is a Slippery Slope to Mandatory Meal Plans

by Sabeer Nelli on January 15, 2026 at 1:00 pm

With 87% of companies already tracking employee wellness data and AI layoffs creating desperate workers, this dystopian scenario might be closer than you think.

Forget the Startup Grind — Millennials Are Taking a Shortcut to Business Ownership

by Jessica Fialkovich on January 14, 2026 at 11:00 pm

Buying an existing business and stepping into its leadership has become a popular way to get a foot in the door to ownership.

How to Deploy AI in Your Organization While Still Teaching People to Think

by Adam Cohen on January 14, 2026 at 9:30 pm

AI can boost productivity fast, but it can also quietly erode judgment if leaders automate the very work that teaches people how to think.

How This Founder Turned Hustle and Live Events Into a Celebrity Matchmaking Engine

by Leo Zevin on January 14, 2026 at 8:00 pm

From early hustles to multimillion-dollar deals, Bettie Levy built a company linking global brands with cultural icons.

I’m an Introvert Who Made 6 Figures Online Without Becoming an Influencer. These 3 Secrets Helped Me Succeed.

by Megan Spencer on January 14, 2026 at 7:00 pm

Here are three things you need to make money online as a content creator — without a following.

What Mentorship Taught Me About Credibility, Timing and Trust

by Jack Cline on January 14, 2026 at 6:30 pm

Here’s how mentorship shapes credibility, momentum and long-term impact for leaders who want to build trust.

The Top 10 Podcasts Entrepreneurs Should Be Listening to — and They’re Not About Business

by Roy Dekel on January 14, 2026 at 6:00 pm

The most successful entrepreneurs aren’t listening to business podcasts. They’re listening to shows about biology, stress, sleep and cognitive performance.

Apple Just Made Video and Music Editing Way More Affordable — But There’s a Catch

by Jonathan Small on January 14, 2026 at 5:00 pm

The new Creator Studio slashes the cost of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro, but only if you’re willing to pay for a monthly subscription.

Scientists watch microscopic plant ‘mouths’ breathing in real time with palm-sized tool

on January 15, 2026 at 12:25 pm

Scientists say their Stomata In-Sight tool can observe plants “breathe,” which could be used to bioengineer crops that require less water, making them potentially more resilient to climate change.

NASA astronauts back on Earth after unprecedented medical emergency on ISS

on January 15, 2026 at 12:06 pm

The SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon spacecraft splashed down this morning as four astronauts completed an unprecedented medical evacuation of the International Space Station (ISS).

Chinese scientists unveil reliable lunar clock that accounts for Einstein’s relativity

on January 15, 2026 at 10:00 am

A new software package detailed by Chinese scientists promises to tell what time it is on the moon, accounting for effects of relativity.

Black hole butterflies? James Webb telescope spots dozens of black hole ‘cocoons’ in early universe.

on January 14, 2026 at 5:04 pm

The gaseous cocoons surrounding “little red dots” hint at their true nature, a new James Webb telescope study hints.

Woolly rhino flesh pulled from ancient wolf stomach gives clues to ice age giant’s extinction

by kkillgrove@livescience.com (Kristina Killgrove) on January 14, 2026 at 5:01 pm

More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino’s DNA to figure out why it went extinct.

‘One of those rare ‘wow’ moments’: Zombie star near Earth has a rainbow shockwave that ‘shouldn’t be there’

on January 14, 2026 at 4:41 pm

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like “bow shock” as it zooms through the Milky Way. The cosmic zombie is also ripping apart its partner star like a black hole.

18 of Earth’s biggest river deltas — including the Nile and Amazon — are sinking faster than global sea levels are rising

by sascha.pare@futurenet.com (Sascha Pare) on January 14, 2026 at 4:15 pm

Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests. This exacerbates the risk of catastrophic coastal flooding and land loss.

Strange, ‘starved’ galaxy died ‘a death of 1,000 cuts’ in the ancient universe, JWST reveals

on January 14, 2026 at 3:08 pm

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new observations revealed.

MIT’s chip stacking breakthrough could cut energy use in power-hungry AI processes

on January 14, 2026 at 2:30 pm

Data doesn’t have to travel as far or waste as much energy when the memory and logic components are closer together.

How to watch ‘Pole to Pole with Will Smith’ — TV and streaming details as Oscar-winning actor blends adventure and scientific discovery

on January 14, 2026 at 2:14 pm

The actor embarks on a “thrilling adventure” across seven expeditions — here’s how to watch “Pole to Pole with Will Smith” online from anywhere.

Most complete Homo habilis skeleton ever found dates to more than 2 million years ago and retains ‘Lucy’-like features

by kkillgrove@livescience.com (Kristina Killgrove) on January 14, 2026 at 12:00 pm

Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2 million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis.

Diagnostic dilemma: A man’s sudden seizures were set off by sudoku

on January 14, 2026 at 11:00 am

In the weeks following a ski accident, a German man experienced seizures when he completed sudoku puzzles.

Some objects we thought were planets may actually be tiny black holes from the dawn of time

by pmsutter@gmail.com (Paul Sutter) on January 14, 2026 at 11:00 am

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren’t planets at all, but tiny black holes in disguise?

Largest crowd-sourced hunt for alien intelligence reveals 12 billion ‘signals of interest’ in collapsed Arecibo Observatory data

on January 13, 2026 at 9:58 pm

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 ‘signals of interest’ with the world’s largest radio telescope.

Mega-iceberg A23a, formerly the world’s largest, turns into bright ‘blue mush’ as it finally dies after 40 years at sea

on January 13, 2026 at 5:35 pm

New satellite photos reveal that one of the world’s largest and longest-lived icebergs, A23a, has developed vibrant blue striations on its surface. The striking snaps hint that the “megaberg” will soon disappear forever, ending a surprisingly eventful four-decade-long saga.

Artemis 2 mission update: Rollout imminent as NASA prepares first crewed Artemis mission to the moon

on January 13, 2026 at 5:15 pm

NASA’s Artemis 2 rollout could be as early as this weekend as the space agency makes final preparations for its first crewed Artemis moon mission.

Parkfield, San Andreas, and the quest for a ‘crystal ball’ for predicting earthquakes before they happen

on January 13, 2026 at 4:22 pm

A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major seismic experiment in the 1980s and 90s. But the quake ended up being 11 years late. In this excerpt from “When Worlds Quake,” geophysicist Hrvoje Tkalčić looks at why predicting earthquakes is so difficult.

Ötzi the Iceman mummy carried a high-risk strain of HPV, research finds

on January 13, 2026 at 1:00 pm

Two renowned prehistoric individuals were likely infected with a human papillomavirus that has been linked to several cancers.

Is there such a thing as ‘too much’ protein?

on January 13, 2026 at 12:00 pm

Daily protein requirements vary a bit person to person, but some evidence suggests consuming high amounts of protein could do more harm than good. Live Science spoke to experts to learn more.

Ethereal ice structures swirl alongside Chicago during extreme cold snap fueled by polar vortex — Earth from space

on January 13, 2026 at 8:00 am

A 2025 satellite image shows a series of ghostly ice swirls sculpted on the surface of Lake Michigan by strong winds during an extreme cold snap that covered Chicago in a blanket of snow.

How Dark Asteroids Die

by Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick) on January 15, 2026 at 4:13 pm

Back in the earlier days of the internet, there was a viral video from a creator called Bill Wurtz called “the history of the entire world, i guess” which spawned a number of memorable memes, some of which are still in use to this day. One of those was a clip from the video where Wurtz states “The Sun is a deadly laser.” Apparently, that was more true than even he knew, as a new paper from Georgios Tsirvouils of the Luleå University of Technology in Sweden and his co-authors have shown experimental evidence that the Sun’s laser-like radiation is likely responsible for the death of a vast majority of closely-orbiting asteroids.

Unmasking the Sun’s Hidden Gamma Ray Factory

by Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark) on January 15, 2026 at 11:02 am

Scientists have finally identified where some of the most powerful radiation bursts from solar flares originate, solving a mystery that has puzzled solar physicists for decades. Researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology traced intense gamma rays back to a previously unknown population of particles supercharged to millions of electron volts in the Sun’s atmosphere, revealing the mechanism behind these strange signals.

A New Atlas of the Milky Way’s Ghost Particles

by Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark) on January 15, 2026 at 10:45 am

Every second, a trillion ghost particles stream through your body unnoticed, invisible messengers carrying secrets from the hearts of distant stars. Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen have now mapped exactly where these neutrinos originate across our Milky Way Galaxy and how many reach Earth, creating the most comprehensive picture yet of these elusive particles.

Two New Exoplanets And The Need For New Habitable Zone Definitions

by Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive) on January 14, 2026 at 7:50 pm

How solid is our understanding of exoplanet habitability? Are the ideas of an Optimistic Habitable Zone and a Conservative Habitable Zone sufficient to advance our understanding? New research introduces an expanded exoplanet ‘temperate zone,’ highlighting planets that are amenable to atmospheric study by the JWST.

Solving the Mystery of Blue Flashes

by Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark) on January 14, 2026 at 5:36 pm

Brief, brilliant flashes of blue light occasionally appear across the universe, burning hundreds of times brighter than ordinary supernovae before fading within days. Astronomers have puzzled over these luminous fast blue optical transients for years, unable to determine whether they were unusual stellar explosions or something else entirely. Observations of AT 2024wpp, the brightest example ever detected, have finally solved the mystery.

NASA Bids Farewell to Historic Test Stands That Built the Space Age

by Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark) on January 14, 2026 at 5:21 pm

Two towering buildings that helped launch humanity’s greatest space achievements came down on January 10 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre in Alabama. The Dynamic Test Stand and the T-tower, both designated National Historic Landmarks, played crucial roles in developing the Saturn V rockets that carried Apollo astronauts to the Moon and the Space Shuttle that defined an era of spaceflight. Their carefully orchestrated demolition marks a transformation, as NASA clears the way for a modernised infrastructure ready to support the next generation of space exploration.

A Supernova That Shouldn’t Exist

by Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark) on January 14, 2026 at 4:44 pm

For decades, astronomers believed that the most massive stars in the universe lived fast and died quietly, collapsing directly into black holes without the spectacular fireworks of a supernova explosion. That understanding has been dramatically overturned by observations of SN 2022esa, a peculiar supernova that erupted from an incomprehensibly massive star and is now destined to become a black hole binary system.

To Study the Moon’s Ancient Ice, We First Have to Pollute It

by Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick) on January 14, 2026 at 3:24 pm

There is a fundamental tension in space exploration that has created ongoing debates for decades. By creating the infrastructure we need to explore other worlds, we damage them in some way, making them either less scientifically interesting or less “pristine,” which some would argue, in itself, is a bad thing. A new paper available in JGR Planets, from Francisca Paiva, a physicist at Instituto Superior Técnico, and Silvio Sinibaldi, the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) planetary protection officer, argues that, in the Moon’s case at least, the problem is even worse than we originally thought.

Peering Below Callisto’s Icy Crust with ALMA

by Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/laurencetognetti) on January 14, 2026 at 2:38 pm

What exists beneath the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon, Callisto? This is what a recent study accepted by The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the subsurface composition of Callisto, which is Jupiter’s outermost Galilean satellite. This study has the potential to help scientists better understand the interior composition of Callisto, which is hypothesized to possess a subsurface liquid water ocean, and develop new techniques for exploring planetary subsurface environments.

Follow SpaceX’s Returning Crew-11 Mission Wednesday Night

by David Dickinson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/david-dickinson) on January 14, 2026 at 1:56 pm

In a historic first, an unspecified medical issue is prompting an early return from the International Space Station on Wednesday night, January 14th. And while the return will be featured live online from undocking to splashdown, if skies are clear, you might just be able to see the pair crossing the night sky tonight, shortly after undocking.

The Surprising Heat of Early Clusters

by Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark) on January 14, 2026 at 12:13 am

Astronomers using ALMA have detected the earliest hot galaxy cluster atmosphere ever observed, revealing a massive reservoir of superheated gas in the infant cluster SPT2349-56 just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang. The gas is far hotter and more pressurised than current theories predicted for such a young system, forcing scientists to completely rethink how galaxy clusters evolved in the early universe. This discovery suggests that violent processes like supermassive black hole outbursts and intense starbursts heated these cluster atmospheres much earlier and more efficiently than anyone expected, fundamentally challenging our understanding of how the universe’s largest structures formed.

How Black Holes Slowly Starve Galaxies

by Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark) on January 14, 2026 at 12:03 am

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA have discovered one of the oldest ‘dead’ galaxies in the universe, revealing that supermassive black holes can kill galaxies through slow starvation rather than violent destruction. The galaxy, nicknamed ‘Pablo’s Galaxy’, formed most of its 200 billion solar masses of stars between 12.5 and 11.5 billion years ago before abruptly stopping, not because its black hole blew away all the gas in one catastrophic event, but because it repeatedly heated incoming material over multiple cycles, preventing fresh fuel from ever replenishing the galaxy’s star forming reserves.

When Baby Stars Throw Tantrums

by Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark) on January 13, 2026 at 11:45 pm

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning new image of HH 80/81, a pair of objects created when supersonic jets from a newborn star slam into previously expelled gas clouds, heating them to extreme levels. These jets, powered by a protostar 20 times more massive than our Sun, stretch over 32 light years through space and travel at speeds exceeding 1,000 kilometres per second, making them the fastest outflows ever recorded from a young star.

Young Stellar Objects Are Prominent In A New Hubble Image

by Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive) on January 13, 2026 at 9:36 pm

A disparate collection of young stellar objects bejewels a cosmic panorama in the star-forming region NGC 1333 in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. To the left, an actively forming star called a protostar casts its glow on the surrounding gas and dust, creating a reflection nebula. Two dark stripes on opposite sides

Siwarha’s Wake Gives it Away at Betelgeuse

by Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/cc-petersen) on January 13, 2026 at 8:57 pm

Betelgeuse is the star that everybody can’t wait to see blow up, preferably sooner than later. That’s because it’s a red supergiant on the verge of becoming a supernova and there hasn’t been one explode this close in recorded human history. It’s been changing its brightness and showing strange surface behavior, which is why astronomers track its activity closely. Are these changes due to its aging process? Do they mean it’s about to blow up? Probably not.

New Evidence That An Ancient Martian Ocean Covered Half The Planet

by Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive) on January 13, 2026 at 7:15 pm

Mars Was Half Covered by an Ocean susannakohler33808 Mon, 01/12/2026 – 12:00 Mars Was Half Covered by an Ocean https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2026/media_releases_2026/mars_was_half_covered_by_an_ocean/index_eng.html

Can Philanthropy Fast-Track a Flagship Telescope?

by Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick) on January 13, 2026 at 3:06 pm

New Space is a term now commonly used around the rocketry and satellite industries to indicate a new, speed focused model of development that takes its cue from the Silicon Valley mindset of “move fast and (hopefully don’t) break things.” Given that several of the founders of rocketry and satellite companies have a Silicon Valley background, that probably shouldn’t be a surprise, but the mindset has resulted in an exponential growth in the number of satellites in orbit, and also an exponential decrease in the cost of getting them to orbit. A new paper, recently published in pre-print form in arXiv from researchers at Schmidt Sciences and a variety of research institutes, lays out plans for the Lazuli Space Observatory, which hopes to apply that same mindset to flagship-level space observatory missions.

When Martian Winds Become Sandblasters

by Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark) on January 13, 2026 at 1:04 pm

Mars Express has captured stunning images of wind sculpted terrain near the planet’s equator, revealing how Martian winds act as a sandblaster across geological timescales. The spacecraft’s high resolution camera spotted amazing ridges called yardangs, features carved by sand carrying winds that extend tens of kilometres across the surface. These dramatic erosional features share the landscape with impact craters and ancient lava flows, creating a fusion of three different geological forces that together tell the story of Mars’s violent and dynamic past.

The Hidden Lives of the Universe’s Ultramassive Galaxies

by Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark) on January 13, 2026 at 12:43 pm

Astronomers have revealed a surprising diversity in the evolutionary paths of the universe’s most massive galaxies. Using multi-wavelength observations combining Keck Observatory spectroscopy with far infrared and radio data, researchers found that less than two billion years after the Big Bang, some ultramassive galaxies had already shut down star formation and shed their dust, while others continued building stars behind thick dusty veils.

The Galaxy’s Most Common Planets Have a Strange Childhood

by Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark) on January 13, 2026 at 10:10 am

Astronomers have discovered a crucial missing link in understanding how the Galaxy’s most common planets form. By studying four young, extraordinarily puffy planets orbiting a 20 million year old star, researchers have captured a rare snapshot of worlds actively transforming into super Earths and sub Neptunes. This discovery reveals that the universe’s most successful planets start as bloated giants before shrinking dramatically over billions of years, fundamentally changing our understanding of how planetary systems evolve.

Taylor Sheridan’s New Historical Western—All the ‘Empire’ Details

by cmosness on January 15, 2026 at 12:30 am

A new Taylor Sheridan historical Western drama? Count us in! That’s right, the beloved Yellowstone writer and creator is working on yet another project, and this one is going to be extremely different from anything he’s done thus far. To learn all the details on the new Sheridan show Empire of the Summer Moon, keep

‘Landman’ Guest Stars Reveal Why They Joined Taylor Sheridan’s Hit Show

by cmosness on January 14, 2026 at 11:30 pm

Taylor Sheridan’s hit Texas drama Landman might be centered around the dramatic Norris family, but that hasn’t stopped some of the side characters from truly shining. And to make matters even better, several of those characters were played by stars themselves! Below, we break down the top Landman guest stars and share how they really

I Had Double Vision for a Year After Nearly Going Blind—Now I Can Finally See Again

by cmosness on January 14, 2026 at 10:00 pm

In August 2024, at just 24 years old, I experienced sudden retinal detachment and almost went fully blind in my right eye. While I was incredibly grateful for the surgery that saved my sight, the procedure left me with another issue: double vision. And it could only be fixed with not one, but two surgeries.

Where Is Monica in ‘Marshals’? Fans Fear the Worst for Kayce’s Wife

by Raquel Lekic on January 14, 2026 at 9:28 pm

When Yellowstone concluded back in 2024, fans were sad to say goodbye to the Duttons and the folks that made the Yellowstone Ranch what it was—but thanks to Taylor Sheridan’s endless creativity, most of their stories didn’t end there. With countless spinoffs in the works, the one we’re perhaps most excited about is Marshals, which

Medicare Lab Test Costs Changing Soon—What Seniors Need To Know Now

by cmosness on January 14, 2026 at 9:06 pm

At the end of January, Medicare users are going to face a major shakeup. Starting February 1, Americans on the government-funded health insurance program are expected to feel the effects of reduced reimbursement rates for many of their routine diagnostic tests. Below, we share everything you need to know about this important healthcare update, including how

What’s the Best Statin for Women? A Doctor Says Ask These 2 Questions First

by kmastrocola on January 14, 2026 at 9:00 pm

Statins are the go-to medications for lowering “bad” LDL cholesterol, reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and improving long-term heart health. But is there such a thing as the best statin for women? We asked a top cardiologist for the nuanced answer—and key factors to consider when deciding which statin is right for you. Why

Bath & Body Works Spring 2026 Candle Collection

by Julianne MacNeill on January 14, 2026 at 8:25 pm

It may be the dead of winter—and stores are still loaded with holiday candles and scents—but Bath & Body Works is already gearing up for warm, sunny days with the release of their spring candle collection. Learn about the spring 2026 candle line and find out what scents you can expect to see everywhere in the

Chocolate Bar Recall: Check Your Pantry for This Mint Flavor

by Raquel Lekic on January 14, 2026 at 7:11 pm

If you like to indulge in a little bit of chocolate every now and then—and who doesn’t?—there’s urgent news you need to know. The FDA has just announced a nationwide recall of a popular chocolate bar due to potential salmonella contamination—putting consumers at risk. Before you indulge, check your pantry: Spring & Mulberry’s Mint Leaf

Getting in Your Own Way? Discover Empowering Ways to Stop Self-Sabotage

by Anya Jaremko-Greenwold on January 14, 2026 at 6:30 pm

Avoid self-sabotage and restore your confidence!

Reese Witherspoon Scam Targets Fans—Here’s What to Know

by strotter on January 14, 2026 at 5:33 pm

Receiving a private message on social media from your favorite celebrity would undoubtedly be a dream come true for many. But here’s what scammers are counting on: That excitement can cloud our judgment. Bad actors are pretending to be beloved stars like Reese Witherspoon to trick unsuspecting fans. The actress recently took to social media