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Putting data centres in space isn't going to happen any time soon

The US beat back bird flu in 2025 – but the battle isn’t over

Quantum computers turned out to be more useful than expected in 2025

2025 was the year of online safety laws – but do they work?

High-achieving adults rarely began as child prodigies

Roman soldiers defending Hadrian’s Wall had intestinal parasites

Two asteroids crashed around a nearby star, solving a cosmic mystery

Closure of US institute will do immense harm to climate research

Sitting by a window may improve blood sugar levels for type 2 diabetes

Strange lemon-shaped exoplanet defies the rules of planet formation

Chronic fatigue syndrome seems to have a very strong genetic element

Cosmology’s Great Debate began a century ago – and is still going

Crash clock says satellites in orbit are three days from disaster

Saturn's rings form a giant dusty doughnut encircling the planet

Your period may make sport injuries more severe

The world will soon be losing 3000 glaciers every year

How green hydrogen could power industries from steel-making to farming

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

Mars may once have had a much larger moon

Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer

New antibiotic could stave off drug-resistant gonorrhoea

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

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

Supposedly distinct psychiatric conditions may have same root causes

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

Roman occupation of Britain damaged the population’s health

China's carbon emissions may have started to fall in 2025

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

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

AI firms began to feel the legal wrath of copyright holders in 2025

Comets were on fire this year – for better or worse

People saw a new colour for the first time in 2025

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

Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

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

How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

Chance of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025

The stargazing events to look forward to in 2026

Science still produced many wonders in 2025 despite being under siege

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

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

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

We may finally know what a healthy gut microbiome looks like

Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

Genetic trick to make mosquitoes malaria resistant passes key test

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

What the evolution of tickling tells us about being human

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

Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright

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