New image of 'other comet ATLAS' reveals it's breaking apart ahead of close approach to Earth - By - Ben Turner - published - 13 November 25 - New images show that comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) has fragmented after passing its closest point to the sun, ahead of its close approach to Earth later this month. This is not the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.

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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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Space -- Astronomers close in on comet 3I/ATLAS's origins, a strange gravity anomaly discovered off Africa and AI designs brand-new viruses

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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 -- Revived permafrost microbes spew CO2, scientists image 'relativity-breaking' illusion, and James Webb telescope spots something 'exciting' blasting from black hole M87*

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Space -- Solar revelations as Comet 3I/ATLAS rapidly brightens, a tiny tyrannosaur prompts T. rex rethink, and the unexpected perks of cussing out your chatbot

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

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Space -- Thinking chimps and color-changing comets

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Space -- A trio of comets, a mysterious glow at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, why time moves faster as we age, and whether we should bring back Neanderthals.

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Arts & Entertainment -- Live Science crossword puzzle #18: First human-made satellite in space - 11 across

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Arts & Entertainment -- Live Science crossword puzzle #17: Multiple realities stacked on top of one another - 5 down

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

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New drug could prevent diabetes complications not fixed with blood sugar control, study hints - By - Nicoletta Lanese - published - 15 November 25 - An experimental drug compound could be a promising treatment for harmful diabetes complications, per a new study in lab mice and human cells.

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Powerful solar storms, exploding comets and pigs from hell - By - Ben Turner - published - 15 November 25 - Science news this week - Nov. 15, 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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New Glenn launch | China's astronauts return | 'Other' ATLAS explodes - By - Ben Turner, Patrick Pester, Tia Ghose, Alexander McNamara - last updated - 14 November 25 - Latest science news - Friday, Nov. 14, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.

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Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface - By - Harry Baker - published - 14 November 25 - Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has snapped a striking shot of a skydiving YouTuber perfectly aligned with the fiery surface of the sun. The unlikely image, dubbed "The Fall of Icarus," required meticulous planning to pull off.

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Giant North American 'hell pigs' could crunch bones like lions 30 million years ago, tooth analysis reveals - By - Patrick Pester - published - 14 November 25 - Archaeotherium, or North American "hell pigs," had different feeding strategies depending on their size, according to preliminary research presented at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2025 annual meeting.

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Eruptions of ocean volcanoes may be the echoes of ancient continental breakups - By - Elise Poore - published - 14 November 25 - Waves in Earth's mantle created by the rifting of continents may peel the planet's crust from below, feeding volcanoes in the middle of the ocean.

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2 million black 'streaks' on Mars finally have an explanation, solving 50-year mystery - By - Harry Baker - published - 13 November 25 - A new analysis of data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals that the majority of the Red Planet's dark "slope streaks" did not form as most researchers previously assumed.

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Blue Origin New Glenn rocket: New launch window for historic Mars mission after solar storm delay - By - Elizabeth Howell - last updated - 13 November 25 - Twin Mars spacecraft were due to launch on Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket on Nov. 12, but an active sun prompted NASA to delay its mission until Thursday (Nov. 13).

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Medieval Hungarian duke was murdered in a brutal and coordinated attack, forensic analysis reveals

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Scientists invent way to use E. coli to create and dye rainbow-colored fabric in the lab

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What's the darkest place in the solar system? What about the universe?

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Quantum computing will make cryptography obsolete. But computer scientists are working to make them unhackable.

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