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Why it is important to make space for solitude over the festive season

Mind

Why it is important to make space for solitude over the festive season

The festive season is a period of social connection for many of us, but alone time can be equally enriching, says Thuy-vy Nguyen, principal investigator of the Solitude Lab

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New Year's resolutions work better if you know what to measure

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New Year's resolutions work better if you know what to measure

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An X-ray skull with coloured brain and neurons

Mind

What I’ll be doing to help detox my brain in the new year

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Technology

Quantum computers turned out to be more useful than expected in 2025

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Space

Cosmology’s Great Debate began a century ago – and is still going

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Screengrab of SORA 2 generated image featuring Sam Altman, referencing Skibidi Toilet

Technology

This year we were drowning in a sea of slick, nonsensical AI slop

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3D6BBB4 Comet Lemmon photographed from northern Italy on 26th October 2025.

Space

Comets were on fire this year – for better or worse

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Protesters gather during a ???Rally for Science,??? against cuts to science and research funding outside the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington DC, on Friday, March 7, 2025. Elon Musk???s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the Trump Administration have severely cut funding for disease and biomedical research amidst emerging threats to public health. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Sipa USA)

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Science still produced many wonders in 2025 despite being under siege

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T0DKNR Lake Atitlan Guatemala

Health

How I learned to keep my brain in better repair this year

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Humans

2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool making, this year has given us a clearer picture of how and why humans evolved to be so different from other primates

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Life

Could the super-rich be cloning themselves? And why would they?

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Health

Human challenge trials have never been more popular

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Life

Stop treating your pet like a fur baby – you're damaging its health

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Physics

Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real

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