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Some Arctic warming ‘irreversible’ even if we cut atmospheric CO2

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Mars may once have had a much larger moon

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Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer

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New antibiotic could stave off drug-resistant gonorrhoea

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Disney and OpenAI have made a surprise deal – what happens next?

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Killer whales and dolphins are ‘being friends’ to hunt salmon together

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Supposedly distinct psychiatric conditions may have same root causes

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Earth and solar system may have been shaped by nearby exploding star

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Roman occupation of Britain damaged the population’s health

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This year we were drowning in a sea of slick, nonsensical AI slop

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De-extinction was big news in 2025 – but didn't live up to the hype

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Comets were on fire this year – for better or worse

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk put science on the chopping block in 2025

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Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

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The potential of GLP-1 drugs to transform medicine exploded in 2025

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How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

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How I learned to keep my brain in better repair this year

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Can you work out what these enigmatic close-up photos are of?

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Best acronym? Best use of AI? We present our end-of-year awards

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We may finally know what a healthy gut microbiome looks like

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Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

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Genetic trick to make mosquitoes malaria resistant passes key test

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Oldest evidence of fire-lighting comes from early humans in Britain

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What the evolution of tickling tells us about being human

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Australia's social media ban faces challenges and criticism on day one

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Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright

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Did ancient humans start farming so they could drink more beer?

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Dinosaurs like Diplodocus may have been as colourful as birds

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2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution

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The surprising longevity lessons from the world’s oldest animal

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Pompeii building site reveals how the Romans made concrete

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Timing cancer drug delivery around our body clock may boost survival

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The audacious quest to light up the sky with artificial auroras

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We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers

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2025 is the second-hottest year since records began

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Odd elements in supernova blast might have implications for alien life

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How worried should you be about spending too much time on your phone?

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What the family drama of interbreeding polar and grizzly bears reveals

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Extreme heat hampers children’s early learning

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Too busy to meditate? Microdosing mindfulness has big health benefits

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Are we living in a simulation? This experiment could tell us

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Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life

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Tattooing may trigger localised damage to the immune system

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Hunter-gatherer groups are much less egalitarian than they seem

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Hunter-gather groups are much less egalitarian than they seem

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The 33 best books, films, games and TV to entertain you this Christmas

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Our pick of the 33 best science books, films, games and TV of all time

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Quantum experiment settles a century-old row between Einstein and Bohr

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How Australian teens are planning to get around their social media ban

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AI can influence voters' minds. What does that mean for democracy?

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