A colossal dinosaur fossil discovered in southern China is shaking up what paleontologists thought they knew about dinosaur size and evolution. Named Tongnanlong zhimingi, the newly described species may have stretched up to 92 feet (28 meters)…
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Fire-making materials at 400,000-year-old site are the oldest evidence of humans making fire
Fragments of iron pyrite, a rock that can be used with flint to make sparks, were found by a 400,000-year-old hearth in eastern Britain. Image: Jordan Mansfield/Courtesy Pathways to Ancient Britain Project
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers a hot Jupiter exoplanet leaking twin gas tails that defy explanation
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant “hot Jupiter” planet has two staggeringly long tails composed of helium that currently defy explanation. The observations represent the first study of gases…
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Inorganic homologous series forms solids with predictable structures | Research
An unusual new ‘homologous series’ of barium compounds forms a potentially infinite sequence of related structures with predictable unit cells. The US team behind this discovery says that understanding such structure–composition…
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Dutch group discovers ‘light-bending’ material for blue and UV light
11 Dec 2025
2D ferroelectric material “CIPS” can direct blue and ultraviolet light – notably for chip-making applications.
Researchers from TU Delft and Radboud University, both in The Netherlands, have discovered that the…
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Autonomous drifting robot survives under East Antarctic ice shelf to take first-of-its-kind measurements
Aerial view of the Denman Glacier (image credit: Pete Harmsen, AAD) A robotic float has been used to measure the temperature and salinity within a hitherto mysterious realm of the ocean, underneath massive floating ice…
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NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade – Phys.org
- NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade Phys.org
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Chinese Scientists in AI and Deep Sea Named to Nature’s Top 10 List
The scientific journal Nature released its annual list of ten individuals who significantly influenced science in 2025, celebrating pioneering achievements in areas such as artificial intelligence, deep-sea exploration, neuroscience, immunology,…
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Report identifies science objectives of human Mars exploration
WASHINGTON — The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National Academies report concludes.
The report, A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars,…
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