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Mathematicians spent 2025 exploring the edge of mathematics

When numbers get large, things get weird Jezper / Alamy In 2025, the edges of mathematics came a little more

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More than 100 moons were discovered in our own solar system in 2025

Uranus’s new moon, S/2025 U1, was spotted using the James Webb Space Telescope NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/M. El Moutamid (SwRI)/M. Hedman (University of

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Putting data centres in space isn’t going to happen any time soon

Starcloud wants to build a data centre satellite that is 4 kilometres by 4 kilometres Starcloud Could AI’s insatiable thirst

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Sitting by a window may improve blood sugar levels for type 2 diabetes

Here’s another reason to fight for a window seat: it may help regulate your blood sugar levels Anton Dios/Shutterstock Many

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How green hydrogen could power industries from steel-making to farming

Green hydrogen has many possible uses Bernat Armangue/Associated Press/Alamy Hydrogen, the most abundant element, gives off energy when combined with

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Mars may once have had a much larger moon

The Gale crater on Mars ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy A Mars crater may have once contained water that sloshed back and

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The surprising longevity lessons from the world’s oldest animal

DGDImages / Alamy Stock Photo I was wondering, as I began working on this story, whether to eat my subject

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Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life

Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third known visitor to our solar system from elsewhere International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist; J.

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Forming moon may have taken three big impacts early in Earth’s history

The moon may have had a more complicated birth than we thought NASA/NOAA Multiple impacts on Earth might better explain

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Ancient humans took two routes to Australia 60,000 years ago

Ancient humans took two distinct routes to what is now Australia Helen Farr and Erich Fisher When and how ancient