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 -- 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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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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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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2,000-year-old Celtic teenager may have been sacrificed and considered 'disposable' By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 29 October 25 - Archaeologists have recovered three unusual burials of Celtic women and girls who may have been sacrificed in England.

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Lab monkeys on the loose in Mississippi don't have herpes, university says. But are they dangerous? By - Patrick Pester - published - 29 October 25 - Authorities have killed several lab monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck in Mississippi. The rhesus macaques were initially thought to be diseased and dangerous, but that's not necessarily the case.

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Gene on the X chromosome may help explain high multiple sclerosis rates in women - By - Zunnash Khan - published - 29 October 25 - A gene on the X chromosome revs up inflammation in the female brain, which may explain why rates of multiple sclerosis are higher in women than in men, scientists suggest.

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Humanoid robots could lift 4,000 times their own weight thanks to breakthrough 'artificial muscle' By - Bobby Hellard - published - 29 October 25 - Researchers have developed a chemical structure for an artificial muscle that can lift up to 4,000 times its weight, and they say it could be used in future humanoid robots.

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Exceptionally rare iron saber, arrowheads and jewelry discovered in seventh-century warrior's tomb in Hungary - By - Tom Metcalfe - published - 29 October 25 - Archaeologists in Hungary have found the 1,300-year-old burial of a warrior who was buried with a rare iron saber.

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Building blocks of life detected in ice outside the Milky Way for first time ever - By - Skyler Ware - published - 28 October 25 - New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around a star outside our galaxy. This cosmic first hints that the stuff of life may be widespread throughout space.

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'Miracle' photo captures Comet Lemmon and meteor seemingly entwined over Earth - By - Brandon Specktor - published - 28 October 25 - An astronomer in Italy caught a fortuitous image of the bright comet Lemmon seemingly entwined with the glowing trail of a "shooting star."

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Watch Air Force fly inside the eye of Hurricane Melissa as experts warn 'storm of the century' will be catastrophic for Jamaica - By - Patrick Pester - published - 28 October 25 - The U.S. Air Force's "Hurricane Hunters" have flown inside the eye of Hurricane Melissa, capturing eerie footage of the historic storm that has caused widespread devastation in Jamaica.

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'Puzzling' object discovered by James Webb telescope may be the earliest known galaxy in the universe - By - Sophie Berdugo - published - 28 October 25 - While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling discoveries" to date.

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New blood test can predict risk of postpartum depression with more than 80% accuracy - By - Michele Cohen Marill, Knowable Magazine - published - 26 October 25 - Scientists are learning more about this leading complication of childbirth. Treatments are improving and doctors can test for biological markers that flag heightened risk.

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'Extremely rare' and 'highly unusual' Roman-era tomb in Germany is completely empty - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 26 October 25 - An unusual stone circle that's likely a tomb is providing archaeologists with more information about life in Roman Bavaria.

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By - Sandee Oster - published - 26 October 25 - Researchers have determined the age and origin of a massive tree that was found at the pre-Columbian city of Cahokia in what is now Illinois.

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Weird symmetry between Earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres appears to be breaking - By - Larissa G. Capella, Eos.org - published - 26 October 25 - The Northern Hemisphere is absorbing more sunlight than the Southern Hemisphere, and clouds can no longer keep the balance.

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'I screamed out of excitement': 2,700-year-old cuneiform text found near Temple Mount - and it reveals the Kingdom of Judah had a late payment to the Assyrians - By - Laura Geggel - published - 25 October 25 - A newfound pottery sherd has cuneiform text from the Assyrian Empire asking the Kingdom of Judah about a late tribute payment.

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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. By - Ben Turner - published - 25 October 25 - Science news this week - Oct. 25, 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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Neanderthals were more susceptible to lead poisoning than humans - which helped us gain an advantage over our cousins, scientists say - By - James Price - published - 25 October 25 - Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million years, but the toxic metal may have actually helped our species to develop language - giving us a key advantage over our Neanderthal cousins, scientists claim.

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