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Memory Loss Reversed, ‘Coral’ on Mars, and a Tiny Killer Whale: Science News Roundup (Aug 12–13, 2025)

Memory Loss Reversed, ‘Coral’ on Mars, and a Tiny Killer Whale: Science News Roundup (Aug 12–13, 2025)

On its 4,608th Martian sol, NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a 5-cm coral-shaped rock nicknamed Paposo in Gale Crater, suggesting ancient liquid water in Mars’ history. A global river study radiocarbon-dating CO2 from over 700 rivers found that about 60% of river-emitted carbon comes from ancient carbon stores. The same study estimates plants and soils may be absorbing roughly 1 gigaton of CO2 per year to offset these ancient carbon releases. By 2080, rising seas could inundate Easter Island’s Moai at Ahu Tongariki and up to 51 other cultural sites, risking UNESCO World Heritage status. Janjucetus dullardi, a 2-meter-long, sharp-toothed Oligocene
13 August 2025
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Space Marvels, Climate Alarms & Medical Milestones: Major Science News (Aug 11–12, 2025)

Space Marvels, Climate Alarms & Medical Milestones: Major Science News (Aug 11–12, 2025)

Space & Astronomy Climate & Environment Medicine & Health Physics & Materials Science Technology & Innovation Sources: This report is based on science news and press releases from Aug. 11–12, 2025 (and surrounding dates) by reputable outlets and institutions, including Nature nature.com unr.edu, Scientific American scientificamerican.com, ScienceDaily sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com, NASA science.nasa.gov, Reuters reuters.com, Euronews/AP euronews.com, university press releases unr.edu psu.edu, and others. Each story’s details and expert quotes are drawn from the primary sources cited above. All facts are verified and presented as reported in those sources, covering major scientific developments announced on the given dates.
12 August 2025
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Breakthroughs, Blunders, and the Bizarre: The Biggest Science Stories You Missed This Weekend

Breakthroughs, Blunders, and the Bizarre: The Biggest Science Stories You Missed This Weekend

Space Climate & Environment Health & Medicine Technology & AI OpenAI Unleashes GPT-5: A major leap in artificial intelligence made headlines as OpenAI officially released GPT-5, the newest version of the AI model behind ChatGPT. Launched on Thursday and rolled out globally, GPT-5 is being touted as a significant upgrade in reasoning and expertise. The model has 700 million+ users via ChatGPT, and aims directly at business and professional applications. OpenAI says GPT-5 can “instantaneously” generate working software code, solve advanced math problems, and provide expert-level answers on a wide range of subjects – a notable jump toward AI that
10 August 2025
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From “Smart” Healing Gel to Alpha Centauri’s New Planet: Science Breakthroughs You Can’t Miss (Aug 8–9, 2025)

From “Smart” Healing Gel to Alpha Centauri’s New Planet: Science Breakthroughs You Can’t Miss (Aug 8–9, 2025)

In preclinical tests on diabetic mice, a single application of a hydrogel-based “smart” wound dressing achieved 90% wound closure in 12 days by silencing thrombospondin-1 with microRNA-loaded extracellular vesicles. The James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI directly imaged a gas-giant planet roughly the mass of Saturn orbiting Alpha Centauri A at about 2 AU, about 4 light-years from Earth. If confirmed, this would be the closest exoplanet ever directly imaged to Earth. As of August 7, 2025, NOAA forecast a 50% above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season with 13–18 named storms and 5–9 hurricanes by November. France’s southern wildfires became the largest
9 August 2025
Astounding August Science Breakthroughs: Exoplanet Next Door, AI Milestone, Climate Alarms & More

Astounding August Science Breakthroughs: Exoplanet Next Door, AI Milestone, Climate Alarms & More

A Saturn-mass exoplanet candidate orbiting Alpha Centauri A at about 1–2 AU was directly imaged by JWST, potentially the closest directly imaged planet to its star at roughly 4 light-years from Earth. OpenAI released GPT-5 to about 700 million ChatGPT users, delivering significantly improved reasoning, problem-solving, domain expertise, and on-demand software coding with an enterprise focus. Italy’s Space Agency will have Italian scientific payloads aboard SpaceX’s Starship on its first Mars-bound missions, with Starship standing about 123 meters tall and a June engine test having ended in an explosion. On August 7, 2025, a solar storm consisting of M-class flares
8 August 2025
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Space Race Heats Up – Major Launches, Lunar Breakthroughs, and Billion-Dollar Deals (7–8 Aug 2025)

Space Race Heats Up – Major Launches, Lunar Breakthroughs, and Billion-Dollar Deals (7–8 Aug 2025)

Crew-10, comprising NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA’s Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos’ Kirill Peskov, is targeting undocking on Aug 8, 2025, with splashdown off the California coast on Aug 9, 2025, marking the first crewed California splashdown under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program after a five-month science mission. China completed the first full-scale test of its crewed lunar lander ‘Lanyue’ at a Hebei facility, validating its ascent and descent engines for a 2030 crewed lunar mission and bolstering plans for a joint International Lunar Research Station with Russia by 2035. ULA’s Vulcan rocket is slated to perform its first
8 August 2025
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You Won’t Believe Where the Next Total Solar Eclipse Will Happen – Upcoming Solar Eclipses from 2025 Onward

You Won’t Believe Where the Next Total Solar Eclipse Will Happen – Upcoming Solar Eclipses from 2025 Onward

September 21, 2025 – Partial Solar Eclipse visible mainly from the Southern Hemisphere, with up to 80% Sun obscured over the South Pacific, including Fiji, Tahiti, New Zealand, and parts of Antarctica. February 17, 2026 – Annular “ring of fire” over Antarctica, with annularity lasting about 2 minutes at maximum, while a partial eclipse will be visible across southern South America, southern Africa, and surrounding oceans. August 12, 2026 – Total Solar Eclipse crossing Greenland, Iceland, and northern Spain (plus a small corner of Portugal) with totality up to about 2 minutes 18 seconds. February 6, 2027 – Annular Solar
2 August 2025
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Quantum in Orbit, 100K-Qubit Ambitions & More – Quantum Computing Roundup (July 30–31, 2025)

Quantum in Orbit, 100K-Qubit Ambitions & More – Quantum Computing Roundup (July 30–31, 2025)

The first quantum computer in space is now operational in Earth orbit, launched on June 23 as a compact photonic device about 3 liters in volume that consumes roughly 10 watts, led by Philip Walther of the University of Vienna. On July 30, D-Wave Quantum unveiled a plan to scale to 100,000 qubits through advanced cryogenic packaging leveraging NASA JPL know-how to interconnect multiple chips for fluxonium-based gate-model qubits and next-generation annealers. IonQ and Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrated a hybrid quantum-classical approach to unit commitment for a power grid, using IonQ’s 36-qubit Forte ion-trap system to schedule 26 generators
31 July 2025
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Space Race Heats Up: Big Launches, Bold Missions & Surprising Discoveries (July 30–31, 2025)

Space Race Heats Up: Big Launches, Bold Missions & Surprising Discoveries (July 30–31, 2025)

NISAR was launched on July 30, 2025, by ISRO and NASA using a GSLV rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 5:40 p.m. IST, costing $1.5 billion, with dual L-band and S-band radars to map the entire planet every 12 days. The NISAR mission will provide freely available data to aid global climate and disaster monitoring and is described as a pathfinder for U.S.-India space cooperation. China launched the sixth batch of Guowang low-Earth broadband satellites on July 30 with a Long March 8A from the new Hainan commercial spaceport, as part of a planned 13,000-satellite constellation. SpaceX launched 19
31 July 2025
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SpaceX Launch, Artemis Accords & a ‘5-Hour Year’ Planet: Space Roundup (July 23–24, 2025)

SpaceX Launch, Artemis Accords & a ‘5-Hour Year’ Planet: Space Roundup (July 23–24, 2025)

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched NASA’s TRACERS mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base on July 23 at 2:13 p.m. EDT. The Falcon 9 first stage was on its 16th flight and performed a pinpoint landing at Vandenberg, marking SpaceX’s 479th booster recovery. TRACERS, Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, consists of two 200-kg satellites to study magnetic reconnection in Earth’s magnetosphere. Five small rideshare satellites accompanied TRACERS carrying experiments such as next-generation communication terminals and Earth radiation budget sensors. In the U.S., House appropriators on July 23 directed NASA to study alternatives to the SLS’s planned Exploration Upper Stage for
24 July 2025
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Revolutionary Medical Breakthroughs of July 2025: Life-Changing Drugs, Diagnostic Wonders & Public Health Milestones

Revolutionary Medical Breakthroughs of July 2025: Life-Changing Drugs, Diagnostic Wonders & Public Health Milestones

On July 2, 2025, the FDA granted accelerated approval to linvoseltamab (Lynozyfic), a BCMA-targeting bispecific antibody, for adults with heavily pretreated relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, after trials showed a 70% response rate. Also on July 2, 2025, the FDA approved sunvozertinib (Zegfrovy) as the first targeted oral therapy for advanced NSCLC with EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations following chemotherapy. In July 2025, the FDA granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) plus pertuzumab for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer. Relutrigine (PRAX-562) received FDA Breakthrough Therapy designation for two rare pediatric epileptic encephalopathies (SCN2A and SCN8A) after a Phase 2 study showed
22 July 2025
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Science Breakthroughs That Shocked the World: July 20–21, 2025 Roundup

Science Breakthroughs That Shocked the World: July 20–21, 2025 Roundup

China is building a laser-driven fusion facility in Mianyang that is about 50% larger than the U.S. National Ignition Facility. Physicists detected an ultra-faint magnetic signal in gold and copper using a blue laser, confirming a phenomenon theorized for more than 150 years. Astronomers observed the earliest stage of planet formation around newborn star HOPS-315 with the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA, seeing hot, crystallizing minerals in its disk. The icy body 2023 KQ14, a sednoid beyond Pluto, has an orbit that challenges the Planet Nine hypothesis and may reflect ancient perturbations by a rogue planet. A Duke University–led
21 July 2025
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Stock Market Today

RELX share price slides again as AI fears linger, results next week in focus

RELX share price slides again as AI fears linger, results next week in focus

7 February 2026
RELX closed down 4.6% at 2,145 pence in London on Friday, capping a volatile week ahead of its Feb. 12 full-year results. The company bought back 465,361 shares even as selling continued amid investor concerns over AI risks and pricing power. Peers Wolters Kluwer and Thomson Reuters also faced pressure. Markets await RELX’s outlook for 2026 trading.
Rio Tinto stock jumps as Glencore mega-merger is shelved; what to watch next week

Rio Tinto stock jumps as Glencore mega-merger is shelved; what to watch next week

7 February 2026
Rio Tinto’s U.S. shares closed up 2.5% at $93.37 Friday after the company ruled out a merger with Glencore, triggering a six-month “no-bid” lockout under UK takeover rules. Both companies cited disagreements over valuation. Attention now turns to Rio’s Feb. 19 results and iron ore prices, which fell below $100 a tonne amid weak Chinese demand.
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