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Today's biggest science news: James Webb sees earliest supernova | Monogamy 'league table' | Comet 3I/ATLAS X-ray - By - Patrick Pester, Tia Ghose - last updated - 10 December 25 - Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.

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Amazon rainforest is transitioning to a 'hypertropical' climate - and trees won't survive that for long - By - Sascha Pare - published - 10 December 25 - The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could increase to 150 days per year by 2100.

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Scientists create new solid-state sodium-ion battery - they say it'll make EVs cheaper and safer - By - Rory Bathgate - published - 10 December 25 - A new sodium-ion battery offers a cheaper and safer alternative to conventional lithium-ion systems, scientists say, paving the way for more sustainable EVs.

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'It is the most exciting discovery in my 40-year career': Archaeologists uncover evidence that Neanderthals made fire 400,000 years ago in England - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 10 December 25 - Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology - and it was created by Neanderthals in England more than 400,000 years ago.

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Russia's Bezymianny volcano blew itself apart 69 years ago. It's now almost completely regrown. By - Stephanie Pappas - published - 10 December 25 - A 1956 eruption collapsed much of the Bezymianny volcano in Kamchatka, Russia, but frequent eruptions since - including a large event in November - means it has now almost completely regrown.

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This bright star will soon die in a nuclear explosion - and could be visible in Earth's daytime skies - By - Ivan Farkas - published - 9 December 25 - The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 years. When it explodes, it could be visible to the naked eye even in sunlit skies.

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'It is simply too hot to handle': 2024 was Arab region's hottest year on record, first-of-its-kind climate report reveals - By - Skyler Ware - published - 9 December 25 - The Arab region just had its hottest year on record, a new climate report reveals.

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Widespread cold virus you've never heard of may play key role in bladder cancer - By - Jennifer Zieba - published - 9 December 25 - Scientists uncovered how childhood BK virus infections may set off cancer-causing mutations decades later: by activating a host immune system enzyme that attacks DNA.

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Lost Indigenous settlements described by Jamestown colonist John Smith finally found - By - Tom Metcalfe - published - 7 December 25 - Excavations along the Rappahannock River in Virginia have revealed the likely spot of Indigenous villages once described by John Smith.

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2,400-year-old 'sacrificial complex' uncovered in Russia is the richest site of its kind ever discovered - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 7 December 25 - The "sacrificial complex" contained hundreds of bits of horse bridles and bronze beads, revealing a new aspect of ancient nomadic peoples' funeral rituals.

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Ethereal structure in the sky rivals 'Pillars of Creation' - Space photo of the week - By - Jamie Carter - published - 7 December 25 - The twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory mark 25 years of discovery as students name distant nebula Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lan.

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New 3I/ATLAS images show the comet getting active ahead of close encounter with Earth - By - Brandon Specktor - published - 6 December 25 - NASA and ESA both shared new images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS this week, as the agencies gear up for the mysterious object's closest approach to Earth on Dec. 19.

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Unusual, 1,400-year-old cube-shaped human skull unearthed in Mexico - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 6 December 25 - Archaeologists discovered an unusually flat-topped skull at a pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican site.

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1,800-year-old 'piggy banks' full of Roman-era coins unearthed in French village - By - Marjanko Pilekić published - 6 December 25 - An excavation in a small French village reveals three jars with thousands of Roman coins.

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