The Premier League's January transfer window opens on New Year's Day with a number of potential moves on the cards.

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Researchers from Seat Pick pulled the most popular songs of the year from the official charts, before running them through an 'annoyingness index'.

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a single system – a rare event that will help elucidate the physics of comp... Read more Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a single system – a rare event that will help elucidate the physics of complex mergers Show less

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a single system – a rare event that will help elucidate the physics of comp... Read more Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a single system – a rare event that will help elucidate the physics of complex mergers Show less

Next head of Cern backs massive replacement for world’s largest machine to investigate mysteries of the universeMark Thomson, a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambr... Read more Next head of Cern backs massive replacement for world’s largest machine to investigate mysteries of the universeMark Thomson, a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge, has landed one of the most coveted jobs in global science. But it is hard not to wonder, when looked at from a certain angle, whether he has taken one for the team.On 1 January, Thomson takes over as the director general of Cern, the multi-Nobel prizewinning nuclear physics laboratory on the outskirts of Geneva. It is here, deep beneath the ground, that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest scientific instrument ever built, recreates conditions that existed microseconds after the big bang. Continue reading... Show less

The challenges and strains have been almost too much to take. But in 2025, words of depth and courage have been an antidote to numbnessI once saw a young glassblower in Istanbul, still new to his c... Read more The challenges and strains have been almost too much to take. But in 2025, words of depth and courage have been an antidote to numbnessI once saw a young glassblower in Istanbul, still new to his craft, shatter a beautiful vase while taking it out of the furnace. The artisan master standing by his side calmly nodded and said something that I still think about. He told him: “You put too much pressure on it, you kept it unbalanced and you forgot that it, too, has a heart.”The year we are leaving behind has been plagued from the start by a series of social, economic, environmental, technological and institutional challenges, all happening with such speed and intensity that we are yet to fully comprehend their impact on our lives, let alone on future generations. As the overwhelming strain of domestic and geopolitical changes continues to build up, I cannot help but remember the man’s words. Too much pressure. Unstable, uncertain and replete with deep inequalities. This could well be the year we forgot that the Earth, too, has a heart. It definitely feels like the year when the world was broken. Continue reading... Show less

Top-performing organizations generate 11 percent of their revenue from customer data monetization—more than five times that of their lower-performing peers. This gap reveals how differently comp... Read more Top-performing organizations generate 11 percent of their revenue from customer data monetization—more than five times that of their lower-performing peers. This gap reveals how differently companies approach the same asset. Show less

Three experts share the science behind taking a dip in cold water—and offer safety tips that any potential plungers should bear in mind

Astronomers combined data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory to create a stunning new image of two merging spiral galaxies