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Latest science news Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.

By Andrey Feldman published
In 2023, scientists detected the gravitational waves from a black hole collision that seemed impossible. New research finally explains how this "forbidden" black hole came to be, and what it can teach us about these extreme objects.

By Harry Baker published
The Shenzhou-21 crew has been marooned on China's Tiangong space station after three of their colleagues were brought back to Earth in the wrong spacecraft. For now, the astronauts have no safe way of returning home.

By Skyler Ware published
Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered the "City of Seven Ravines," a vast Bronze Age "proto-city" with metalworking, dwellings and a large building.

By Kristina Killgrove published
An analysis of the only intact Neanderthal inner nose bones known to exist reveals that our ancient cousins' enormous noses did not evolve to withstand harsh climates.

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By Anna Gora published
Reviews This air purifier's air-cleaning performance gets top marks, but we think it lacks modern looks and fancy features.

By Chris Simms published
A sneaky spray of chemicals makes ant workers turn on their own mother — the queen — so a parasitic invader can take over the colony herself.

By Harry Baker last updated
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By Kit Yates published
Opinion How bad-faith arguments sow doubt by weaponizing scientific humility.

By Kit Yates published
Opinion Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming a system to gain academic acclaim through deceit, dishonesty and false representation.

By Larissa G. Capella published
A novel experiment has revealed a phenomenon called the Bohr–Weisskopf effect in a pear-shaped nucleus in a molecule for the first time.

By Tia Ghose published
Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

By Mason Wakley published
Scientists have used a novel method to create sustainable, rainbow-colored fibers using bacteria in the lab.
By Tia Ghose published
Over a feverish 10-day period, scientists synthesized and described a new class of carbon molecules, called buckminster fullerenes, after the iconic 20th-century inventor.

By Kimberley Lane last updated
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