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2025 news review

From the US war on science to a brand-new colour, read New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ’s selection of the biggest science and technology news stories and most stunning images of 2025
Archaeopteryx. Artwork of the prehistoric feathered reptile Archaeopteryx which lived around 150 million years ago. Discovered in 1861 in southern Germany, it was the first feathered fossil specimen ever found. Despite possessing bird-like feathers, wings and a wishbone, Archaeopteryx also had sharp teeth, finger digits and a bony tail similar to non-bird predatory dinosaurs. This species and numerous other feathered fossils support the theory that modern day birds evolved from prehistoric theropod dinosaurs.

Life

New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ recommends a brilliant take on the evolution of birds

Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, finds Michael Marshall

Culture

Backrooms A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Comment

Sci-fi horror film Backrooms is a triumph for its 20-year-old director

Culture

Art and nature come together in stunning new Henry Moore exhibition

Comment

Art and nature come together in stunning new Henry Moore exhibition

Culture

CXP17N Giant Anatomical Man model outside the Tate Modern London promoting Damient Hurst

Health

New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ recommends a deep dive into our organs by Giulia Enders

Culture

The book jacket of Togetherness by Rowan Hooper

Life

New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

Culture

The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch

Life

The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch

Culture

Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab

Comment

Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab

Culture

From images taken by NASA spacecrafts, this picture mosaic was created of six of the planets in our solar system and the Earth's moon. In the foreground is the Earth rising over the lunar surface with the sun flare at the edge of Earth. Venus is the first planet above the moon, and at the top left to right are the planets Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Photo credits are as follows: Earth - Apollo 17; Lunar Surface - Apollo 8; Sun - Apollo 12; Venus - Pioneer Venus; Jupiter - Voyager I; Mercury - Mariner 10; Saturn - Pioneer 11.

Space

What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot

Culture

Pierre Huyghe

Comment

New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ recommends the quantum soundscape of Liminals

Culture

Moises Arias

Comment

Return of Fallout, Paradise and Silo fuels passion for bunker sci-fi

Post-apocalyptic bunker sci-fi is huge this year as TV front-runners Fallout, Paradise and Silo return. Bethan Ackerley asks whether this is a signal we’ve given up on our real world, or if there is hidden hope

Culture

Mind

What to read this week: Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick

Culture

Space

A new 'brief history' of the universe paints a wide picture

Culture

Society

Can we battle the downsides of a rule-based world, asks a new book

Culture

Comment

Alex Garland’s The Bone Temple is brutal, brilliant - and mind-blowing

Culture

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