Black eyes, orbital fractures and retinal detachment: Pickleball-related eye injuries are on the rise in the US - By - Nicoletta Lanese - published - 16 October 25 - A new analysis suggests the rate of pickleball-related eye injuries has increased dramatically in the U.S. as the sport gains popularity.

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Record-breaking 'dark object' found hiding within a warped 'Einstein ring' 10 billion light-years away - By - Harry Baker - published - 16 October 25 - Researchers have found a suspected clump of dark matter lurking within the luminous halo of a well-known "Einstein ring." The mysterious object, the smallest of its kind ever seen, could help shed light on the universe's missing matter.

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'Most pristine' star ever seen discovered at the Milky Way's edge - and could be a direct descendant of the universe's first stars - By - Harry Baker - published - 16 October 25 - Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in a star. It is likely a direct descendant of one of the universe's first stars.

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Toyota to launch world's first EV with a solid-state battery by 2027 - they're expected to last longer and charge faster - By - Skyler Ware - published - 16 October 25 - New solid-state batteries will be made from a new "highly durable" cathode material and will power a car for much longer than conventional EV batteries.

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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 -- 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 -- 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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Arts & Entertainment -- Live Science crossword puzzle #11: Giant cloud at the edge of the solar system - 7 across

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'This moves the timeline forward significantly': Quantum computing breakthrough could slash pesky errors by up to 100 times - By - Owen Hughes - published - 17 October 25 - Researchers used a new technique called algorithmic fault tolerance (AFT) to cut the time and computational cost of quantum error correction by up to 100 times in simulations of neutral-atom architecture.

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Orionids 2025: Meteor shower caused by Halley's Comet peaks as two new comets cross the sky - By - Jamie Carter - published - 17 October 25 - Comets Lemmon and SWAN will be at their brightest just as the annual Orionid meteor shower produced by Halley's Comet reaches its peak.

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CO2 levels reach record new high, locking in more global warming - By - Patrick Pester - published - 16 October 25 - Greenhouse gas concentrations increased by a record amount in 2024 as more carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide became locked in Earth's atmosphere, a World Meteorological Organization report finds.

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Astronomers close in on signal from Epoch of Reionization - By - Sharmila Kuthunur - published - 16 October 25 - A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

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An Iranian volcano appears to have woken up - 700,000 years after its last eruption - By - Stephanie Pappas - published - 16 October 25 - Taftan volcano near the border of Pakistan has shown signs of unrest in recent years.

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5,000-year-old skeleton masks and skull cups made from human bones discovered in China - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 16 October 25 - Archaeologists in China found a collection of human bones that showed signs of being "worked" like any other natural material.

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Stalagmites adhere to a single mathematical rule, scientists discover - By - Skyler Ware - published - 16 October 25 - Scientists discover all stalagmites growing from cave floors follow a mathematical rule that explains how these mineral formations develop into different shapes.

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We were wrong about how the moon's largest and oldest crater formed - and that's great news for NASA's next lunar landing - By - Harry Baker - published - 15 October 25 - A new study has revealed that our understanding of the South Pole-Aitken basin was quite literally back-to-front, meaning astronauts on NASA's future Artemis III mission may be able to collect valuable samples of ancient radioactive material, known as KREEP.

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Astronomers spot the most powerful and distant 'odd radio circle' ever seen - By - Joanna Thompson - published - 14 October 25 - With help from citizen scientists, astronomers have found the most powerful and distant "odd radio circle" ever detected.

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