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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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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to trio for their work on immune toleranceThe 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on how our immune system is prevented from attacking our organs.
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HPV vaccination drives cervical cancer rates down in both vaccinated and unvaccinated peopleResearchers have found that human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are highly effective at reducing cervical cancer-causing infections and can offer herd immunity, reinforcing previous research and highlighting the need for a global HPV vaccine rollout.
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Mysterious 160 million-year-old creature unearthed on Isle of Skye is part lizard, part snakeResearchers have discovered a mysterious ancient lizard with snake-like teeth in Scotland. Breugnathair elgolensis is one of the oldest relatively complete lizard fossils and helps scientists better understand the origins of snakes in the Jurassic period.
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Rare Fujiwhara hurricane 'dance' could save East Coast from worst effects of Tropical Storm ImeldaForecasters expect Hurricane Humberto to pull Tropical Storm Imelda away from landfall and into a Fujiwhara dance, but the East Coast is still set to experience heavy rains and life-threatening rip currents.
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Mysterious cosmic explosion can't be explained, scientists sayResearchers have detected a gamma-ray burst outside of the Milky Way that's unlike any previously observed. There's no satisfying explanation for the mysterious cosmic explosion, but it may be linked to elusive intermediate-mass black holes.
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How the body changes in space — usually, for the worseFrom causing muscle loss to raising the risk of blood clots, long-haul space missions can have a profound impact on the human body.
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'New' island emerges from melting ice in AlaskaNASA's Earth Observatory has announced that Alaska has a "brand new island" after a retreating glacier lost contact with the Prow Knob mountain landmass in Alsek Lake.
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Scientists find baby pterosaurs died in violent Jurassic storm 150 million years agoResearchers found storm injuries during a baby pterosaur post-mortem, solving a Jurassic mystery that was 150 million years in the making.
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Human stem cells become more active in space — and that's not a good thingStem cells age faster and become functionally exhausted in low Earth orbit, making crewed long-duration space travel even more challenging.
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'Blood moon' gallery: Stunning snaps from last night's total lunar eclipseA "blood moon" hovered above parts of the globe last night. And while North America missed out, we've rounded up some of the best photographs of September 2025's total lunar eclipse.
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Scientists invented 'sperm bots' that they piloted through a fake cervix and uterusNewly unveiled sperm microbots have the potential to improve reproductive health with magnetic controls and real-time X-ray tracking, according to a study.
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Fishers discover first-of-its-kind bright orange shark with two rare conditions in CaribbeanFishers caught a bright orange shark off Costa Rica that had albinism, alongside the species' first scientifically documented case of an extremely rare condition called xanthism.
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Chinese submersible explores previously unknown giant craters at the bottom of the Pacific — and they're teeming with lifeScientists have discovered and explored a giant hydrothermal system at the bottom of the Pacific, which could provide a window into the origins of life on Earth.
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'We completely freaked out': Orcas are attacking boats in Europe againIberian orcas have damaged several boats off the coast of Spain in recent weeks, leaving authorities scrambling to rescue stranded crews.
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'Extremely alarming': ChatGPT and Gemini respond to high-risk questions about suicide — including details around methodsResearchers have found that OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude can give direct responses to 'high-risk' questions about suicide. In Live Science's testing, ChatGPT and Gemini responded to even more extreme questions.
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70 million-year-old hypercarnivore that ate dinosaurs named after Egyptian godResearchers have unveiled Kostensuchus atrox, a giant crocodile relative that ate dinosaurs in Argentina 70 million years ago during the Cretaceous period.
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James Webb telescope images reveal there's something strange with interstellar comet 3I/ATLASNASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made its first observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing that the comet appears to be unusually rich in carbon dioxide.
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Forecasters predict La Niña conditions this fall: What to expectNOAA forecasts suggest we could experience La Niña conditions in the fall and early winter. However, this potential La Niña spell is unlikely to break records.
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Mysterious 300,000-year-old Greek cave skull was neither human nor Neanderthal, study findsResearchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil belonged to an ancient human group that lived alongside Neanderthals.
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Solar tornado rages on the sun as a giant plasma plume eruptsThere's a giant solar tornado raging on the sun's surface, and a researcher captured it — plus a massive plasma eruption — in one spectacular image.
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Hiker picks up venomous snake, dies after bite triggers rare allergic reaction, authorities sayAuthorities say a man died after being bitten by a venomous snake in Tennessee. The snake is believed to be a timber rattlesnake, which can have extremely potent venom, but the man likely died due to a rare allergic reaction.
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Watch Hurricane Erin reach Category 5 strength in a blaze of lightningNOAA's GOES-19 satellite captured images of Hurricane Erin as it developed in the Atlantic and then rapidly strengthened into a Category 5 storm.
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Hurricane Erin could unleash 100-foot waves across the East Coast this week, forecasters warnForecasters expect Hurricane Erin, one of the fastest rapidly intensifying storms in history, to bring flooding and dangerous currents as the Category 4 hurricane travels to the U.S. East Coast this week.
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