We look ahead to 18 notable shows and events to look out for in 2026, from drama to sport.

The launch laid "an important foundation for subsequent launches and reliable recovery."

An unlikely partnership could allow Tokyo and Seoul to counter China.

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I went from selling flats in Paris to being alone in a cabin in Guinea looking after primates. It changed my life, but one relationship marked me like no otherIn 2022, I had a job at an estate agents in Paris selling ridiculously expensive flats, and decided I needed to do something more meaningful …

The Marine Biological Association (MBA) is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the Molly Spooner Studentship, a unique opportunity that enables undergraduate university students to experience hands-on marine biological research at the MBA.

National Trust says these are ‘alarm signals we cannot ignore’ as climate breakdown puts pressure on wildlifeExtremes of weather have pushed nature to its limits in 2025, putting wildlife, plants and landscapes under severe pressure, an annual audit of flora and fauna has concluded.Bookended by stor…

The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges and unlock new opportunities. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025 t…

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft lifts off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The aircraft’s first flight marks the start of flight testing for NASA’s Quesst mission, the result of years of design, integration, and ground …

New features enable automatic cost optimization through intelligent storage tiering and simplified table replication across AWS Regions and accounts.

New research shows the disease may one day be reversible.

Looking for the perfect book to curl up with this winter? If you love the ocean, marine life and the stories behind our ocean, these three titles – reviewed in The Marine Biologist magazine – are essential additions to your reading list. Plus, MBA Members enjoy exclusive discounts when purchasing th…

Today’s global coral bleaching events are the worst kind of climate warning.

One man, a serving police officer, escaped the fire but his wife and their two children died in the blaze.

Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.

A response to “Israel’s Vision of Victory”

The group also confirmed the death of former Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar.

Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Changes in polar bear DNA that could help the animals adapt to warmer climates have been detected by researchers, in a study thought to be the first time a statistically significant …

From Donald Trump to DOGE to Chinese hackers, this year the internet's chaos caused outsized real-world harm.

The US escalation against Caracas may be part of a larger realignment for a new world order.

Legislature must ensure legitimacy of study and codify critical requirements and timeline by overriding Governor’s veto
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Legislation would enable factory farm pollution and speed fossil fuel pipeline construction
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"This isn't just waste management, it's resource creation. We're taking what we don't want and turning it into something we do."

The bill would significantly curtail scope of the federal environmental review process.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet Donald Trump in Florida on December 29, with the US president pushing to move to the next stage of his fragile Gaza truce plan. Netanyahu is also expected to try to shift some focus onto Iran, amid reports he will call for more US strikes on t…

Traumatised civilians left in Sudan's El-Fasher after its capture by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are living without water or sanitation, UN aid coordinator Denise Brown told the AFP news agency on Monday, after a small humanitarian team was able to make its first visit there in almost two …

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani loves his Astoria, Queens, neighborhood, and the feeling is mutual. But voters who live near Gracie Mansion, his new home, really wanted his opponent to win.

So, I have some really exciting news – this blog is evolving. After 18 excellent months at WordPress, I am packing up and moving over to ScienceBlogs, a collection of some of the best, er… science blogs on the Interweb. I want to assure current readers that the blog is not going to change, (well, [……

Blue Origin successfully launches its huge New Glenn rocket on Thursday with a pair of Nasa spacecraft destined for Mars. It is only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos's company and Nasa are counting on to ferry people and supplies to the moon. The 321ft (98-meter) New Glenn blasts into…

We all know eating too much sugar is bad for our health – but would we be better off replacing it with artificial sweetener? It’s a question Science Weekly listener Marion posed recently and, as Madeleine Finlay tells Ian Sample, the answer is complicated. She explains what the science says about su…

Astrophysicist Prof Tomonori Totani says research could be crucial breakthrough in search for elusive substanceNearly a century ago, scientists proposed that a mysterious invisible substance they named dark matter clumped around galaxies and formed a cosmic web across the universe.What dark matter i…

Exclusive: Scientists find a way to forecast hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which affects millions worldwideScientists are developing a simple blood test to predict who is most at risk from the world’s most common inherited heart condition.Millions of people worldwide have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy …

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Samsung said that Memories features for Google Photos will be exclusive to its TVs for six months.

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever.

Shares of both Ultragenyx and Mereo BioPharma were seeing record selloffs after disappointing trial results for setrusumab.

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Although the Apple Watch comes with simple built-in productivity apps like Reminders and Calendar, it’s worth exploring some third-party apps that are designed to boost productivity by offering additional functionality.

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Bepi, Mio and MTM’s adventures continue! What have they achieved on their extraordinary journey to Mercury, planet of extremes and mysteries?They haven’t been bored, that’s for sure. They snapped cool photos and collected real science data as they flew past Earth, Venus and M…

Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.

Faint hydrogen signals from the cosmic Dark Ages may soon help determine the mass of dark matter particles. Simulations suggest future Moon-based observatories could distinguish between warm and cold dark matter, providing long-sought answers about the invisible backbone of the Universe.

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have created the first time crystal that humans can actually see, using liquid crystals that swirl into never-ending patterns when illuminated by light. This breakthrough builds on Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek’s 2012 theory of time crystals—structures…

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have uncovered a surprising quantum effect inside an organic material, something once thought impossible outside metals. The team found that a special molecule can turn light into electricity with incredible efficiency, using a hidden quantum behavior unseen…

It has been a year of multiple major conflicts - and there are geopolitical implications of unparalleled importance

An epic, big-screen spectacle that explores the life and music of Elvis Presley.

Mockumentary starring Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk

The upmarket cinema chain faces a leadership shake-up weeks after it cut its revenue forecasts.

Matthew Upham and another man went missing in the sea in Devon on Christmas Day.

Test your memory of 2025 in the second part of our quiz. What happened from April to June?

More support is needed to help people with learning disabilities who want a relationship, experts say.

The Civil Aviation Authority reckons up to half a million people in the UK may be impacted by its new requirements.

Test your memory of 2025 in the final part of our quiz. What happened from October to December?

Who would choose to spend the day watching MPs talking? We spent a day in the visitors' gallery to find out.

The Americast team open the annual end-of-year time capsule.

The biggest events of the year and what it was like on the inside as they happened.

The ceasefire took effect at noon local time (05:00 GMT) on Saturday.

With the Sun still in an active phase there could be more spectacular Northern light displays in the year ahead.

The Coral Adventurer was on its first trip since the death of a passenger when it ran aground on a coral reef off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

Russia has accused Ukraine of targeting a presidential residence, which President Zelensky called "typical Russian lies".

Angela Bushby says her first words to son Karl will be, "what time do you call this?"

Head coach Ruben Amorim says if he had changed Manchester United's formation because of media pressure it would have been "the end" for him.

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…

In a historical milestone, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope witnessed the catastrophic collisions in a nearby planetary system. As they observed the bright star Fomalhaut, scientists saw the impact of massive objects around the star. The Fomalhaut system appears to be in a dynam…

Is it an insect? A strange fossil? An otherworldly eye, or even a walnut? No, it’s an intriguing kind of martian butterfly spotted by ESA’s Mars Express.

The European Space Agency (ESA) reacted promptly to the discovery of comet 3I/ATLAS on 1 July 2025. Soon after they were alerted to its existence by automated detection systems, ESA astronomers began using ground-based telescopes in Hawaii, Chile, and Australia to monitor its progress.Since then, th…

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Meet Envision. Europe’s next mission to Venus. Planned for launch in 2031.Envision will study Venus from its core to its upper atmosphere to reveal more about the planet’s history, geological activity, and climate. It will help us understand why Earth’s closest neighbour – in…

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted an extraordinary blast from a supermassive black hole. In a matter of hours, the gravitational monster whipped up powerful winds, flinging material out into space at eye-watering speeds of 60 000 km per second.

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ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is on an epic eight-year journey to Jupiter. It left Earth in April 2023 and is due to arrive at the gas giant in 2031. 2025 has been another big year for Juice. It made its closest approach to the Sun and flew close by Venus for a gra…

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Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own Solar System form? Thanks to the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope, we're getting a unique peek behind the cosmic curtain into these dusty environments.In this collage, we see the images of 31 baby star systems. Click on the white…

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Smile is a brand-new space mission currently in the making. It will study how Earth responds to the solar wind and solar storms.At the European Space Agency’s technical heart in the Netherlands, engineers have taken Smile through the final steps of testing and past its qualif…

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In its 50th anniversary year, European Space Agency (ESA) Member States have recommitted to space science. A historic budget increase for the Science Programme of 3.5% per year through to 2028, in addition to inflation, will enable some of the most ambitious missions ever, and bolster European leade…

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Iranians are further squeezed every day amid a tanking economy, an energy crisis, water bankruptcy and lethal pollution.

China has begun two days of military exercises around Taiwan, that Beijing says simulate a blockade of key ports.

Trump's meeting with Netanyahu comes after he touted progress in achieving a resolution to Russia's war in Ukraine.

Netanyahu is set to meet the US president again, with past meetings since the Gaza war followed by regional escalation.

Thailand and Cambodia have halted fighting after weeks of clashes along their disputed border.

US president claims widespread and varied emergencies to justify executive authority in first year of second term.

Syrian government troops have been deployed after demonstrations sparked by a mosque explosion led to deadly clashes.

Donald Trump threatened Iran and said “we’ll knock the hell out of them” if Tehran rebuilds its military forces.

A DR Congo fan known as ‘Lumumba’ stood motionless in the stands for the entire match against Senegal at AFCON.

Haybat al-Halbousi, from the Taqaddum (Progress) Party, has been elected as speaker of the new parliament.

Countries meet for a second day of negotiations after a truce agreed on Saturday to halt weeks of fighting.

Speaking alongside Netanyahu, Trump threatens to 'knock' down Iran's attempts to rebuild its nuclear capabilities.