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Solar revelations as Comet 3I/ATLAS rapidly brightens, a tiny tyrannosaur prompts T. rex rethink, and the unexpected perks of cussing out your chatbotScience news this week Nov. 1, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
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AI models refuse to shut themselves down when prompted — they might be developing a new 'survival drive,' study claimsSome AI models appear to show a resistance to being shut off. Are they developing a survival drive? Or is it all in how they prioritize tasks?
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James Webb telescope celebrates Halloween with eerie image of a dying sun — it's what our own might look like one dayThis Halloween, the James Webb Space Telescope has served us up a stunning image of the Red Spider Nebula. It could be a glimpse of our solar system will in the distant future.
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A trio of comets, a mysterious glow at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, why time moves faster as we age, and whether we should bring back Neanderthals.Science news this week Oct. 25, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
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Revived permafrost microbes spew CO2, scientists image 'relativity-breaking' illusion, and James Webb telescope spots something 'exciting' blasting from black hole M87*Science news this week Oct. 18, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
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Astronomers close in on comet 3I/ATLAS's origins, a strange gravity anomaly discovered off Africa and AI designs brand-new virusesScience news this week Oct. 11, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
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Groundbreaking image shows two black holes orbiting each other for first timeObservations by a system of radio telescopes have offered the first visual evidence for the existence of black hole pairs. But vital follow-up observations are needed before we know for sure.
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'Harry Potter' materials land three scientists Nobel Prize in chemistrySusumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of metal–organic frameworks."
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Nobel Prize in physics goes to three scientists who discovered bizarre quantum effect on large scalesThe 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit."
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Famed primatologist Jane Goodall dies, Iran sinks at an alarming rate, and scientists create human egg cells from skinScience news this week Oct. 4, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
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A breakthrough cure for Huntington's disease and a fast-growing black hole that breaks physicsScience news this week Sept. 27, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
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'A serious threat': China braces as Super Typhoon Ragasa, this year's strongest storm, nears with winds of up to 177 mphMillions across China are under evacuation or stay-at-home orders as the storm closes in on the country's southern coast.
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'Completely unexplained': James Webb telescope finds strange 'dark beads' in Saturn's atmosphereThe beads appear above a swirling hexagonal jet stream at the gas giant's north pole, and could emerge from interactions between its magnetosphere and atmosphere.
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Science news this week: The world's oldest mummy, and an ant that mates with clones of a distant speciesScience news this week Sept. 20, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
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'We certainly weren't exceptional, but now we're the only ones left': In new PBS series 'Human,' anthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi explores how humans came to dominate EarthInterview In her new show, Ella Al-Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to global hegemony.
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Science news this week: NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars and scientists invent visible time crystalsScience news this week Sept. 13, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
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'Incredibly exciting': NASA claims it's found the 'clearest sign' yet of past life on MarsNASA scientists have found more intriguing details on speckled Martian rocks spotted by the Perseverance rover. But bringing samples back to Earth will be key.
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Scientists create first-ever visible time crystals using light — and they could one day appear on $100 billsThe visible patterns produced by the time crystals could be used for data storage and anti-counterfeiting designs.
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Science news this week: A key Atlantic current nears collapse, the world's biggest iceberg shatters, and mouse brains rewrite neuroscienceScience news this week Sept. 6, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
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Science news this week: A world first pig-to-human lung transplant, and SpaceX’s Starship nails a test flightScience news this week Aug. 30, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
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10th time lucky! SpaceX's Starship nails successful test flight after string of explosive setbacksSpaceX's Starship rocket has finally reversed its fortunes.
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Science news this week: Storms rage on Earth and the sun, and a new moon is spotted around UranusScience news this week Aug. 23, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
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Uranus has a new, hidden moon, James Webb Space Telescope revealsUranus' 29th moon was hidden inside the planet's dark inner rings, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal.
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Scientists transform 'forever chemicals' in water into fluoride with new processExposure to a sunlight-activated catalyst broke down 99% of a forever chemical, leaving behind recyclable fluoride.
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