April 12, 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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“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” With a sly grin that I’d soon come to recognize, Paul Ginsparg quoted Michael Corleone from The Godfather. Ginsparg, a physics ...

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are vital to national economies. However, despite ongoing efforts, women and girls still encounter barriers which limit their ...

In a featured article published in Frontiers in Science, Prof Bob Hancock (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) with researchers from leading Canadian institutions describe how a bioinformatic ...

The first post (left) shows an alleged letter by Trump to the Philippines with the Washington Post masthead expressing sympathy to the Philippines. The second post (right) shows a pubmat with a story ...

The steady torrent of spaghetti science helps to demonstrate that deep questions lurk in our ordinary routines, and that there are plenty of hungry physicists who can't stop asking them.

Plus, his contributions to the popularization of science cement his legacy for generations to come. Hawking began his research career in the 1960s, well before his diagnosis with ALS (amyotrophic ...