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Star that seemed to vanish more than 130 years ago...
In 1892, astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard thought he saw a bright star near Venus, but then it vani...
Physicists stirred up controversy with scientific ...
Cacio e pepe pasta and boiled eggs were the subjects of meticulous studies aiming to help cooks achi...
The century-long hunt for the gigantic meteorite t...
A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed a...
The cassette tape made a comeback in 2025 thanks t...
With a storage capacity of 36 petabytes, a DNA-based cassette tape can hold every song every recorde...
A controversial experiment threatened to kill the ...
A photon was apparently detected in two places at once in a twist on the classic double-slit experim...
Benefits of mRNA cancer vaccines could exceed $75 ...
An analysis of ongoing trials suggests that mRNA cancer vaccines have the potential to deliver healt...
Mathematicians unified key laws of physics in 2025...
It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling p...
Low on energy? A new understanding of rest could h...
There is a state of relaxation that few of us spend much time in, but which comes with profound well...
The best and most ridiculous robots of 2025 in pic...
Some of the world's most advanced robots showed off their skills at tech shows and sporting events, ...
Inside world's ultimate X-ray machine before it be...
The Linac Coherent Light Source in California has been firing record-breaking X-ray pulses for years...
Microsoft made a splash with a controversial quant...
The Majorana 1 quantum computer was hailed as a significant breakthrough by Microsoft, but critics s...
Human-plant hybrid cells reveal truth about dark D...
It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plan...
Gene-edited babies are the future – but these CRIS...
Three start-ups are aiming to create gene-edited babies. Columnist Michael Le Page has no doubt that...
Mathematicians spent 2025 exploring the edge of ma...
Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of ...
2025's best photos of the natural world, from volc...
A village buried by a landslide, the world’s largest tidal bore and the aftermath of ferocious storm...
Was 2025 the year we found signs of past life on M...
Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they...
'Spectacular' progress has been made towards usefu...
At the Q2B Silicon Valley conference, scientific and business leaders of the quantum computing indus...
A ghostly glow was seen emanating from living thin...
The detection of mercurial particles of light emanating from mice led to a flurry of interest in bio...
