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Surgery -- Science news this week: NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars and scientists invent visible time crystals

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Surgery -- Science news this week: A key Atlantic current nears collapse, the world's biggest iceberg shatters, and mouse brains rewrite neuroscience

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Archaeology -- Science news this week: The world's oldest mummy, and an ant that mates with clones of a distant species

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Planet Earth -- Science news this week: A 400-year trip to Alpha Centauri and the malevolent AI that may make us consider it

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Planet Earth -- Science news this week: Black holes galore and blue whales that still sing

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Health -- A breakthrough cure for Huntington's disease and a fast-growing black hole that breaks physics

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Animals -- Famed primatologist Jane Goodall dies, Iran sinks at an alarming rate, and scientists create human egg cells from skin

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Planet Earth -- 'Anti-aging' magic mushrooms and record-breaking internet speeds

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Planet Earth -- Science news this week: Storms rage on Earth and the sun, and a new moon is spotted around Uranus

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Animals -- Wolves help restore trees in Yellowstone and the largest interstellar object ever seen

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Arts & Entertainment -- Live Science crossword puzzle #2: Pigment in plants where photosynthesis occurs - 13 across

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Arts & Entertainment -- Live Science crossword puzzle #7: NASA mission that redirected an asteroid - 8 across

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Surgery -- Science news this week: A world first pig-to-human lung transplant, and SpaceX's Starship nails a test flight

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Arts & Entertainment -- Live Science crossword puzzle #6: Planet with a 'Great Red Spot' - 6 down

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Mysterious chunks of DNA called 'inocles' could be hiding in your mouth - By - Jennifer Zieba - published - 13 October 25 - Researchers have discovered giant DNA structures in oral bacteria, and data hint they could influence the function of your immune system.

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Link between Cascadia and San Andreas Fault earthquakes discovered 30 years after lost vessel stumbled across key data - By - Stephanie Pappas - published - 13 October 25 - Geological records hint that earthquakes at the Cascadia subduction zone might trigger the San Andreas Fault.

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AI reveals hidden 'ring fault' that is unleashing earthquakes at Italy's Campi Flegrei volcano - By - Sascha Pare - published - 13 October 25 - A new AI tool reveals that Campi Flegrei experienced more than 54,000 earthquakes between 2022 and 2025. By mapping these events, researchers discovered a huge, crisp, ring-shaped fault.

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'Planet Y' theory hints at hidden Earth-size world lurking in the solar system - and it could be much closer to us than 'Planet Nine' By - Harry Baker - published - 13 October 25 - A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for almost a decade. However, the evidence for this newly theorized world is "not definitive."

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What is type 5 diabetes? Newly recognized form of the disease gets name - By - Clarissa Brincat - published - 13 October 25 - First spotted decades ago but largely forgotten, a newly named form of diabetes stems from undernutrition and is thought to affect millions.

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Scientists 'reawaken' ancient microbes from permafrost - and discover they start churning out CO2 soon after - By - Sascha Pare - published - 13 October 25 - Researchers incubated permafrost samples from Alaska at different temperatures and found that microbes from the last ice age can reactivate and resume breaking down carbon.

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Physicists capture rare illusion of an object moving at 99.9% the speed of light - By - Larissa G. Capella - published - 12 October 25 - For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like - an optical illusion called the Terrell-Penrose effect.

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Hidden, supercharged 'thermostat' may cause Earth to overcorrect for climate change - By - Sascha Pare - published - 11 October 25 - Rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may trigger a series of geological and biological processes that could ensure the next ice age arrives on time instead of being delayed, researchers say.

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Astronomers close in on comet 3I/ATLAS's origins, a strange gravity anomaly discovered off Africa and AI designs brand-new viruses - By - Ben Turner - published - 11 October 25 - Science news this week - Oct. 11, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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Einstein's relativity could rewrite a major rule about what types of planets are habitable - By - Paul Sutter - published - 11 October 25 - Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for Einstein's general relativity may rewrite that rule.

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China issues new pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions - is it now a global leader in climate action? By - Elise Poore - published - 10 October 25 - China has committed to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035 - but is this going to cut it? Tell us what you think.

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Ancient Roman tombstone found beneath undergrowth in New Orleans yard - By - Tom Metcalfe - published - 9 October 25 - A New Orleans couple doing yard work behind their house unexpectedly found a Roman headstone of a solider who died 1,900 years ago.

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