The South Korean startup Innospace failed during its first orbital launch attempt, which sent five satellites aloft on Dec. 22 from Brazil.

The conventions and rituals that define the way we do politics rapidly eroded this year – setting the UK on a course into the unknownWas this the year that British democracy as we have known it began to turn into something else? Politicians, voters and journalists have made this claim before – when …

Fermin Koop, ZME Sci Among the many things the coronavirus pandemic has affected, our work-life balance has also taken a hit. Most people are simultaneously working from home while doing...

On a misty August morning in Cannon Beach, Oregon, Rebecca McGoldrick’s neon-yellow boots gleam like little lighthouses on the wet sand. Her attention is riveted to a tripod-mounted camera with a...

The MBA recently hosted the internationally-recognised PRIMER and PERMANOVA+ two-week hybrid (in-person and online) course in multivariate analysis, delivered by PRIMER-e.  The MBA is welcoming marine scientists, ecologists, data-analysts and practitioners from around the world to the iconic Laborat…

Science Corporation, founded by Neuralink’s first president, Max Hodak, has unveiled a prototype machine to extend the life of organs for longer periods.

Artificial intelligence chip startup Groq Inc. today announced that Nvidia Corp. will license its technology on a nonexclusive basis. The deal will also see the graphics card maker hire several key Groq employees. They include founding Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Ross and president Sunny Madra.…

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The U.S. is a nation of air-conditioned houses, and this ubiquitous cooling machinery drives an outsize chunk of the country's electrical demand,...

Trump reshaped the industry this year, even as it faced opposition from the United Nations, scientists, and Indigenous peoples.

For nearly a decade, MAGA and Donald Trump were synonymous.Today, the movement's most consequential fights are unfolding beyond the control of its term-limited president — empowering rival factions to shape MAGA in their own image.Why it matters: MAGA entered the year with a sheen of invincibility, …

CBS News pulled a segment on Trump administration deportations of Venezuelan immigrants to an El Salvador prison from "60 Minutes," causing staffers and media onlookers to question whether the decision was politically motivated. Why it matters: The decision comes days after President Trump publicly …

The leaders of Guinea and the Central African Republic aim to consolidate power after Sunday's polls.

Hunt for key terms that define one of the universe's most mind-bending phenomena—from event horizons to singularities.

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The earth around Lake Naivasha, a shallow freshwater basin in south-central Kenya, does not seem to want to lie still.  Ash from nearby Mount Longonot, which erupted as recently as the 1860s, remains in the ground. Obsidian caves and jagged stone towers preside over the steam that spurts out of fiss…

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The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the source of a super-bright flash of light known as a gamma-ray burst, generated by an exploding massive star when the Universe was only 730 million years old. For the first time for such a remote event, the telescope provided a detection of…

The Marine Biological Association (MBA) is pleased to congratulate the winner of 2025’s prestigious MBA prize. Tilly Powell, who recently graduated with a BSc (Hons) Marine Biology, First Class from the University of Plymouth, received the prize for ‘Outstanding Performance on a Marine Biology Progr…

The search engine optimization discipline that has guided web marketing efforts for more than two decades is now being disrupted by generative artificial intelligence systems that deliver direct answers rather than lists of links. The good news is that much of what makes content rank highly on searc…

A record year for mentorship, 187 graduates contributing to the ecosystem, and one engineer’s journey from “I didn’t know about Docker” to Kyverno maintainer. In 2025, the CNCF mentorship programs hit a milestone: 187 successful mentorship...

10 November 2025, video address CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Your Excellencies, distinguished delegates, colleagues and friends, ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the IPCC – I would like to thank you for the invitation to address the opening of the Earth In…

Prevent cloud infrastructure issues before they impact your business with AWS Support plans that combine AI-powered insights with expert guidance, offering faster response times and proactive monitoring across performance, security, and cost dimensions.

New pricing model helps maintain cost efficiency while providing flexibility with database services and deployment options.

Simplify AI experimentation with zero-infrastructure MLflow that launches in minutes, scales automatically, and seamlessly integrates with SageMaker's model customization and pipeline capabilities.

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

A tablet is only as good as its battery, so it's time to start taking better care of it.

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This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image features part of the Badain Jaran Desert in northwestern China.

True to its promise, the European Space Agency’s EarthCARE satellite is now being used to calculate directly how clouds and aerosols influence Earth’s energy balance – the all-important balance that regulates our climate. In doing so, EarthCARE is poised to sharpen the accuracy of climate models, th…

There's been a surge in remittances going back to Honduras amid Trump's immigration crackdown.

A federal judge blocked Trump administration efforts to reallocate Department of Homeland Security counterterrorism and security grants away from states that won't cooperate on the president's immigration enforcement policies.Why it matters: New York's attorney general called the Trump-appointed jud…

You might be shocked at how many 'vampire devices' could be in your home, silently draining power.

The final regulation allows the federal government’s HR agency to delegate its authority to offer recruitment and relocation incentive payments to other agencies.

Drummer Chuck Redd reportedly called off his Christmas Eve performance after a vote by the board to rename the site.

Every day, millions of small-scale fishers set out to sea with simple gear and big purpose. These local fishers sustain coastal communities — casting nets not for large profits, but for meals, livelihoods, and survival. While the definition of a “small-scale fisher” differs across countries, these f…

When we think of snow, we usually think of winter. But did you know that it is always snowing in the ocean? Marine snow isn’t the kind you can sled on — this continuous underwater snowfall sustains life in the deep sea and helps regulate Earth’s climate.  WHAT IS MARINE SNOW? Marine snow is made up …

The signals intelligence titan and combatant command have been without a permanent leader for months since far-right activist Laura Loomer pushed for the firing of Gen. Timothy Haugh in April.

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took off for its historic first flight on Oct. 28, 2025, at 11:14 a.m. EDT from Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The one-of-a-kind aircraft flew for 67 minutes before landing and taxiing to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in …

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On 26–27 November, the ESA Ministerial Council will take place in Bremen, Germany. Key decisions will be made about the future activities of the European Space Agency within the frame of ESA’s Strategy 2040. Toni Tolker-Nielsen outlines how these decisions will shape the futu…

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The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:02 CET (18:02 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar i…

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Looking to watch some of the best Sci-Fi movies and shows ever without having to rely on streaming? Don't skip these out-of-this-world Blu-ray editions.

Spike your eggnog and relax with our list of the finest flicks of the year about invasive AI, soaring superheroes, and Lovecraftian horrors.

Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas.

The microwave-sized sensor detects 'spectral fingerprints' of important minerals.

3I/ATLAS may have moved away from Earth as it makes its way out of the solar system, but this interstellar intruder continues to delight and surprise astronomers.

"Science doesn't always go as planned. In any case, there's a lot of work to be done."

Yuletide season is officially upon us and here's a joyous array of new titles to add to your holiday reading list.

It's the 12 days of Spacemas, fa la la la la la la la la (sorry).

We asked our staff to choose their favorite Space.com stories of 2025. Here's what we got.

Highlights from a cometary trio that captured our imaginations.

Watch those skies! In 2025, quality television really did come from outer space.

An Indian LVM3 rocket successfully launched the massive BlueBird 6 smartphone satellite for AST SpaceMobile to orbit on Tuesday night (Dec. 23).

This low-cost mission is still only getting started, and it's taking bigger risks than typical big-ticket NASA missions.

While space is often referred to as a vacuum, it isn't completely empty.

The night sky is the Christmas gift that just keeps giving.

Early risers across North America and Europe may spot a bright, silent light gliding across the Christmas sky — and it just happens to coincide with an ISS flyby.

Test your cosmic eye: can you match these dazzling nebula images to their names?

After nearly 12 years leading the United Launch Alliance (ULA), its chief Tory Bruno is stepping down from the U.S. rocket launch provider to pursue "another opportunity," the company announced this week.

At some point next month, a handful of volunteers will be injected with two experimental gene therapies as part of an unusual clinical trial. The drugs are potential longevity therapies, says Ivan Morgunov, the CEO of Unlimited Bio, the company behind the trial. His long-term goal: to achieve radica…

It’s getting harder to beat the heat. During the summer of 2025, heat waves knocked out power grids in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Global warming means more people need air-­conditioning, which requires more power and strains grids. But a millennia-old idea (plus 21st-century tech) m…

It’s been a busy and productive year here at MIT Technology Review. We published magazine issues on power, creativity, innovation, bodies, relationships, and security. We hosted 14 exclusive virtual conversations with our editors and outside experts in our subscriber-only series, Roundtables, and he…

Lately, everywhere I scroll, I keep seeing the same fish-eyed CCTV view: a grainy wide shot from the corner of a living room, a driveway at night, an empty grocery store. Then something impossible happens. JD Vance shows up at the doorstep in a crazy outfit. A car folds into itself like paper and dr…

In April 2025, Ronald Deibert left all electronic devices at home in Toronto and boarded a plane. When he landed in Illinois, he took a taxi to a mall and headed directly to the Apple Store to purchase a new laptop and iPhone. He’d wanted to keep the risk of having his personal devices confiscated…

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, summed it up in three words: “This is embarrassing.”   Hassabis was replying on X to an overexcited post by Sébastien Bubeck, a research scientist at the rival firm OpenAI, announcing that two mathematicians had used OpenAI’s latest large language model, GPT-5…

If the past 12 months have taught us anything, it’s that the AI hype train is showing no signs of slowing. It’s hard to believe that at the beginning of the year, DeepSeek had yet to turn the entire industry on its head, Meta was better known for trying (and failing) to make the metaverse…

Climate news hasn’t been great in 2025. Global greenhouse-gas emissions hit record highs (again). This year is set to be either the second or third warmest on record. Climate-fueled disasters like wildfires in California and flooding in Indonesia and Pakistan devastated communities and caused billio…

At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining of the uterus and then grips tight, burrowing in as the first tendrils of a future placenta appear.  This is implantation—the moment that pregnancy officially begins. Only non…

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Glassmaking has dramatically evolved in the thousands of years since ancient artisans crafted their first decorative beads and perfume bottles. But the...

Marina Julienne, CNRS News The concept of an "energy transition" is misleading, states the CNRS science historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. He explains why coal and oil never replaced wood,...

Amanda Baker, Scientific American Have you ever smelled something so familiar that it felt like you were transported back through time into one of your earlier memories? Have freshly baked...

Brian Greene, Smithsonian On October 1984 I arrived at Oxford University, trailing a large steamer trunk containing a couple of changes...

EurekAlert! Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats...

Mark Golden, Stanford A 2022 California law mandates net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 and negative emissions every year thereafter. The state can achieve this but will have to act...

K. Sjogren, SciNordic Danish scientists have solved the quantum mechanics problem that has been teasing them since the 1930s: how to calculate real life behaviour of atoms.The...

Nancy Szokan, WaPo The ancient kings David and 

Robinson & Goddio, The Conv Beneath the shifting waters of Alexandria's eastern harbour, on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, lie the drowned remnants of a once-splendid city - ports, palaces and...

Michael Irving, Sci Alert Medicinal cannabis is increasingly used to treat a...

Dave Levitan, Gravity Gone The Italian oil and gas giant Eni

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Stern, Nguyen, & Mims, Wall Street Journal Year after year, our tech-columnist crew gathers to

Ferris Jabr, Aeon Fay-Wei Li stepped out of his car and looked around. There was not much to see aside from an old wooden fence and a soggy ditch strewn with roadside detritus. Could this...

Ethan Siegel, Starts with a Bang! Observers are the necessary, but unliked, bouncers in the elegant nightclub of ...

UCLA New UCLA research indicates that lost memories can be restored. The findings offer some hope for patients in the early stages of Alzheimerâ??s disease.

Mass Institute of Technology Palladium is one of the keys to jump-starting a hydrogen-based energy economy. The silvery metal is a natural gatekeeper against every gas except hydrogen, which...

Ian O'Neill, D-News As we seek out planets orbiting stars inside their habitable zones, astronomical techniques are becoming so sophisticated that, one day, we may be able to probe the...

by Dylan Jordan, Texas Leaders in Conservation Intern

The land where Trinity River Audubon Center is located has a storied past and inspiring future. It has transformed in many ways, for better...

Thanks to the generosity of many donors, a new owl aviary is taking shape in Maitland! While we have been closed to the public, contractors were hard at work, and we are excited to see the progress...

Editor’s Note: Frank Graham was Audubon magazine’s field editor for 45 years, during which time he skillfully captured the beauty and complexity of subjects from across the natural world. This...

Scrambling with my team to close Audubon’s March-April 2008 issue, we hit a wall. In the dusk of publishing’s golden age, advertising was so strong that we had depleted our entire inventory of...

The end of the year is a natural moment to take stock: What progress have we made? What more can we do for the places we love? For those looking to improve quality of habitat for birds and quality of...

A year ago, Audubon Florida’s Florida Coastal Islands Sanctuaries (FCIS) team completed four breakwater projects across the Tampa Bay region. These breakwaters protect the shorelines of mangrove...

Beach-nesting birds benefited from a combination of storm effects and had a banner nesting year in 2025. Multiple hurricanes and large storms in 2024 rearranged habitat across the Gulf Coast. The...

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An abundance of excitement is brewing at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary as the first phase of our Capital Campaign campus transformation comes to fruition. You may have already...

These days, it’s common knowledge that birds are living dinosaurs. Victorian naturalists proposed the notion after spotting similarities between dinosaur fossils and contemporary bird skeletons...

This summer, more than a dozen Burrowing Owls hatched in an unusual habitat: in plastic underground tunnels within the footprint of a sprawling, 10,000-acre solar energy complex outside of Phoenix...

by Jacky Cruz - Texas Leaders in Conservation Intern

Hello there! My name is Jacqueline Cruz, and I am currently working at the Trinity River Audubon Center as a summer intern. So, what is this...

The sun is just starting to set off the tip of Galinhos, a peninsula in northeast Brazil, and Rafael Revorêdo is holding a beer koozie as he sits in a folding chair with legs that have sunk deep...