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A runaway black hole, a human ancestor discovered in Casablanca cave, and vaccine schedule slashedScience news this week Jan. 10, 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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Japan laser weapon trial, comet 3I/ATLAS bids farewell, and AI solves 'impossible' math problemsScience news this week Dec. 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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That was the week in science: Farewell comet 3I/ATLAS | Starlink tumbles from orbit | AI’s giant carbon footprintLIVE Friday, Dec. 19, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
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That was the week in science: Vaccine skeptics get hep B win | Comet 3I/ATLAS surprises | 'Cold Supermoon' picturesLive blog Friday, Dec. 5, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
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An enigmatic human relative, dark matter discovery and mysterious lights in the sky during nuclear weapons testsScience news this week Nov. 29, 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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That was the week in science: Soyuz launch pad seriously damaged | 'Holy Grail' of shipwrecks | Interstellar object dangersLive blog Friday, Nov. 28, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
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Turmoil at the CDC, NASA's comet 3I/ATLAS image release, and the insect apocalypse.Science news this week Nov. 22, 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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That was the week in science: CDC in turmoil | Moss survives space | Comet 3I/ATLAS imagesLive blog Friday, Nov. 21, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
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Powerful solar storms, exploding comets and pigs from hellScience news this week Nov. 15, 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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That was the week in science: New Glenn launch | China's astronauts return | 'Other' ATLAS explodesLive blog Friday, Nov. 14, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
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New image of 'other comet ATLAS' reveals it's breaking apart ahead of close approach to Earth
New images show that comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) has fragmented after passing its closest point to the sun, ahead of its close approach to Earth later this month. This is not the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.
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'Stranded' astronauts aboard Chinese space station are preparing to come home — but no date has been announcedThree astronauts remain stuck on China's Tiangong space station after errant debris struck their return capsule last week. But their return vessel has already arrived, meaning a flight home will come sooner rather than later.
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Thinking chimps and color-changing cometsScience news this week Nov. 8, 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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That was the week in science: Comet 3I/ATLAS glows green | Roman roads | Bear attacksLive blog Monday, Nov. 3 to Friday, Nov. 7, 2025: The week's biggest discoveries and breakthroughs that made headlines.
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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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